Pri­vacy Policy

1. An over­view of data pro­tec­tion

Gene­ral infor­ma­tion

The fol­lo­wing infor­ma­tion will pro­vide you with an easy to navi­gate over­view of what will hap­pen with your per­so­nal data when you visit this web­site. The term “per­so­nal data” com­pri­ses all data that can be used to per­so­nally iden­tify you. For detailed infor­ma­tion about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recor­ding on this web­site

Who is the respon­si­ble party for the recor­ding of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­trol­ler”)?

The data on this web­site is pro­ces­sed by the ope­ra­tor of the web­site, whose cont­act infor­ma­tion is available under sec­tion “Infor­ma­tion about the respon­si­ble party (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­vacy Policy.

How do we record your data?

We coll­ect your data as a result of your sha­ring of your data with us. This may, for ins­tance be infor­ma­tion you enter into our cont­act form.

Other data shall be recor­ded by our IT sys­tems auto­ma­ti­cally or after you con­sent to its recor­ding during your web­site visit. This data com­pri­ses pri­ma­rily tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion (e.g., web brow­ser, ope­ra­ting sys­tem, or time the site was acces­sed). This infor­ma­tion is recor­ded auto­ma­ti­cally when you access this web­site.

What are the pur­po­ses we use your data for?

A por­tion of the infor­ma­tion is gene­ra­ted to gua­ran­tee the error free pro­vi­sion of the web­site. Other data may be used to ana­lyze your user pat­terns.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­tion is con­cer­ned?

You have the right to receive infor­ma­tion about the source, reci­pi­ents, and pur­po­ses of your archi­ved per­so­nal data at any time wit­hout having to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied or era­di­ca­ted. If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, you have the option to revoke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future data pro­ces­sing. Moreo­ver, you have the right to demand that the pro­ces­sing of your data be rest­ric­ted under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sing agency.

Please do not hesi­tate to cont­act us at any time if you have ques­ti­ons about this or any other data pro­tec­tion rela­ted issues.

Ana­ly­sis tools and tools pro­vi­ded by third par­ties

There is a pos­si­bi­lity that your brow­sing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cally ana­ly­zed when your visit this web­site. Such ana­ly­ses are per­for­med pri­ma­rily with what we refer to as ana­ly­sis pro­grams.

For detailed infor­ma­tion about these ana­ly­sis pro­grams please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion below.

2. Hos­ting and Con­tent Deli­very Net­works (CDN)

We are hos­ting the con­tent of our web­site at the fol­lo­wing pro­vi­der:

Exter­nal Hos­ting

This web­site is hos­ted extern­ally. Per­so­nal data coll­ec­ted on this web­site are stored on the ser­vers of the host. These may include, but are not limi­ted to, IP addres­ses, cont­act requests, meta­data and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons, con­tract infor­ma­tion, cont­act infor­ma­tion, names, web page access, and other data gene­ra­ted through a web site.

The exter­nal hos­ting ser­ves the pur­pose of ful­fil­ling the con­tract with our poten­tial and exis­ting cus­to­mers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the inte­rest of secure, fast, and effi­ci­ent pro­vi­sion of our online ser­vices by a pro­fes­sio­nal pro­vi­der (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If appro­priate con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user's end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TTDSG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Our host(s) will only pro­cess your data to the ext­ent neces­sary to ful­fil its per­for­mance obli­ga­ti­ons and to fol­low our ins­truc­tions with respect to such data.

We are using the fol­lo­wing host(s):

webgo GmbH
Hei­den­kamps­weg 81
20097 Ham­burg

Cloud­flare

We use the “Cloud­flare” ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Cloud­flare Inc., 101 Town­send St., San Fran­cisco, CA 94107, USA. (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “Cloud­flare”).

Cloud­flare offers a con­tent deli­very net­work with DNS that is available world­wide. As a result, the infor­ma­tion trans­fer that occurs bet­ween your brow­ser and our web­site is tech­ni­cally rou­ted via Cloudflare’s net­work. This enables Cloud­flare to ana­lyze data tran­sac­tions bet­ween your brow­ser and our web­site and to work as a fil­ter bet­ween our ser­vers and poten­ti­ally mali­cious data traf­fic from the Inter­net. In this con­text, Cloud­flare may also use coo­kies or other tech­no­lo­gies deployed to reco­gnize Inter­net users, which shall, howe­ver, only be used for the her­ein descri­bed pur­pose.

The use of Cloud­flare is based on our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in a pro­vi­sion of our web­site offe­rings that is as error free and secure as pos­si­ble (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

For more infor­ma­tion on Cloudflare’s secu­rity pre­cau­ti­ons and data pri­vacy poli­cies, please fol­low this link: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­vacy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

3. Gene­ral infor­ma­tion and man­da­tory infor­ma­tion

Data pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your per­so­nal data as con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion and in com­pli­ance with the sta­tu­tory data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion.

When­ever you use this web­site, a variety of per­so­nal infor­ma­tion will be coll­ec­ted. Per­so­nal data com­pri­ses data that can be used to per­so­nally iden­tify you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion explains which data we coll­ect as well as the pur­po­ses we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­pose the infor­ma­tion is coll­ec­ted.

We here­with advise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the Inter­net (i.e., through e-mail com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons) may be prone to secu­rity gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­ple­tely pro­tect data against third-party access.

Infor­ma­tion about the respon­si­ble party (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)

The data pro­ces­sing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

HESCH Indus­trie-Elek­tro­nik GmbH
Bosch­straße 8
D-31535 Neu­stadt

Phone: +49 5032 9535-0
E-mail: [email protected]

The con­trol­ler is the natu­ral per­son or legal entity that sin­gle-han­dedly or jointly with others makes decis­i­ons as to the pur­po­ses of and resour­ces for the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g., names, e-mail addres­ses, etc.).

Sto­rage dura­tion

Unless a more spe­ci­fic sto­rage period has been spe­ci­fied in this pri­vacy policy, your per­so­nal data will remain with us until the pur­pose for which it was coll­ec­ted no lon­ger applies. If you assert a jus­ti­fied request for dele­tion or revoke your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing, your data will be dele­ted, unless we have other legally per­mis­si­ble reasons for sto­ring your per­so­nal data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law reten­tion peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the dele­tion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

Gene­ral infor­ma­tion on the legal basis for the data pro­ces­sing on this web­site

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, we pro­cess your per­so­nal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if spe­cial cate­go­ries of data are pro­ces­sed accor­ding to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of expli­cit con­sent to the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to third count­ries, the data pro­ces­sing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have con­sen­ted to the sto­rage of coo­kies or to the access to infor­ma­tion in your end device (e.g., via device fin­ger­prin­ting), the data pro­ces­sing is addi­tio­nally based on § 25 (1) TTDSG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time. If your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-con­trac­tual mea­su­res, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Fur­ther­more, if your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a legal obli­ga­tion, we pro­cess it on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the data pro­ces­sing may be car­ried out on the basis of our legi­ti­mate inte­rest accor­ding to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Infor­ma­tion on the rele­vant legal basis in each indi­vi­dual case is pro­vi­ded in the fol­lo­wing para­graphs of this pri­vacy policy.

Desi­gna­tion of a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer

We have appoin­ted a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer.

ER Secure GmbH
In der Kna­ckenau 4
82031 Grün­wald

Phone: +49 5032 9535-0
E-mail: [email protected]

Infor­ma­tion on data trans­fer to the USA and other non-EU count­ries

Among other things, we use tools of com­pa­nies domic­i­led in the United Sta­tes or other from a data pro­tec­tion per­spec­tive non-secure non-EU count­ries. If these tools are active, your per­so­nal data may poten­ti­ally be trans­fer­red to these non-EU count­ries and may be pro­ces­sed there. We must point out that in these count­ries, a data pro­tec­tion level that is com­pa­ra­ble to that in the EU can­not be gua­ran­teed. For ins­tance, U.S. enter­pri­ses are under a man­date to release per­so­nal data to the secu­rity agen­cies and you as the data sub­ject do not have any liti­ga­tion opti­ons to defend yours­elf in court. Hence, it can­not be ruled out that U.S. agen­cies (e.g., the Secret Ser­vice) may pro­cess, ana­lyze, and per­ma­nently archive your per­so­nal data for sur­veil­lance pur­po­ses. We have no con­trol over these pro­ces­sing acti­vi­ties.

Revo­ca­tion of your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of data

A wide range of data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revoke at any time any con­sent you have alre­ady given us. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occur­red prior to your revo­ca­tion.

Right to object to the coll­ec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to object to direct adver­ti­sing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR UNIQUE SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. TO DETERMINE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PROCESSING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CONSULT THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PRESENT COMPELLING PROTECTION WORTHY GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING IS THE CLAIMING, EXERCISING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS AFFILIATED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sory agency

In the event of vio­la­ti­ons of the GDPR, data sub­jects are entit­led to log a com­plaint with a super­vi­sory agency, in par­ti­cu­lar in the mem­ber state where they usually main­tain their domic­ile, place of work or at the place where the alle­ged vio­la­tion occur­red. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any other admi­nis­tra­tive or court pro­cee­dings available as legal recour­ses.

Right to data por­ta­bi­lity

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we auto­ma­ti­cally pro­cess on the basis of your con­sent or in order to ful­fil a con­tract be han­ded over to you or a third party in a com­monly used, machine rea­da­ble for­mat. If you should demand the direct trans­fer of the data to ano­ther con­trol­ler, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cally fea­si­ble.

Infor­ma­tion about, rec­ti­fi­ca­tion and era­di­ca­tion of data

Within the scope of the appli­ca­ble sta­tu­tory pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right to at any time demand infor­ma­tion about your archi­ved per­so­nal data, their source and reci­pi­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­ces­sing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or era­di­ca­ted. If you have ques­ti­ons about this sub­ject mat­ter or any other ques­ti­ons about per­so­nal data, please do not hesi­tate to cont­act us at any time.

Right to demand pro­ces­sing rest­ric­tions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­tion of rest­ric­tions as far as the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data is con­cer­ned. To do so, you may cont­act us at any time. The right to demand rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing applies in the fol­lo­wing cases:

• In the event that you should dis­pute the cor­rect­ness of your data archi­ved by us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this inves­ti­ga­tion is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we rest­rict the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.
• If the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data was/is con­duc­ted in an unlawful man­ner, you have the option to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your data in lieu of deman­ding the era­di­ca­tion of this data.
• If we do not need your per­so­nal data any lon­ger and you need it to exer­cise, defend or claim legal entit­le­ments, you have the right to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data ins­tead of its era­di­ca­tion.
• If you have rai­sed an objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weig­hed against each other. As long as it has not been deter­mi­ned whose inte­rests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.

If you have rest­ric­ted the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data, these data – with the excep­tion of their archi­ving – may be pro­ces­sed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to claim, exer­cise or defend legal entit­le­ments or to pro­tect the rights of other natu­ral per­sons or legal enti­ties or for important public inte­rest reasons cited by the Euro­pean Union or a mem­ber state of the EU.

SSL and/or TLS encryp­tion

For secu­rity reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as purchase orders or inqui­ries you sub­mit to us as the web­site ope­ra­tor, this web­site uses eit­her an SSL or a TLS encryp­tion pro­gram. You can reco­gnize an encrypted con­nec­tion by che­cking whe­ther the address line of the brow­ser swit­ches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the brow­ser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryp­tion is acti­va­ted, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third par­ties.

Encrypted pay­ment tran­sac­tions on this web­site

If you are under an obli­ga­tion to share your pay­ment infor­ma­tion (e.g. account num­ber if you give us the aut­ho­rity to debit your bank account) with us after you have ente­red into a fee-based con­tract with us, this infor­ma­tion is requi­red to pro­cess pay­ments.

Pay­ment tran­sac­tions using com­mon modes of pay­ing (Visa/MasterCard, debit to your bank account) are pro­ces­sed exclu­si­vely via encrypted SSL or TLS con­nec­tions. You can reco­gnize an encrypted con­nec­tion by che­cking whe­ther the address line of the brow­ser swit­ches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the brow­ser line.

If the com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us is encrypted, third par­ties will not be able to read the pay­ment infor­ma­tion you share with us.

Rejec­tion of unso­li­ci­ted e-mails

We here­with object to the use of cont­act infor­ma­tion published in con­junc­tion with the man­da­tory infor­ma­tion to be pro­vi­ded in our Site Notice to send us pro­mo­tio­nal and infor­ma­tion mate­rial that we have not expressly reques­ted. The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages reserve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unso­li­ci­ted sen­ding of pro­mo­tio­nal infor­ma­tion, for ins­tance via SPAM mes­sa­ges.

4. Recor­ding of data on this web­site

Coo­kies

Our web­sites and pages use what the indus­try refers to as “coo­kies.” Coo­kies are small data packa­ges that do not cause any damage to your device. They are eit­her stored tem­po­r­a­rily for the dura­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion coo­kies) or they are per­ma­nently archi­ved on your device (per­ma­nent coo­kies). Ses­sion coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cally dele­ted once you ter­mi­nate your visit. Per­ma­nent coo­kies remain archi­ved on your device until you actively delete them, or they are auto­ma­ti­cally era­di­ca­ted by your web brow­ser.

In some cases, it is pos­si­ble that third-party coo­kies are stored on your device once you enter our site (third-party coo­kies). These coo­kies enable you or us to take advan­tage of cer­tain ser­vices offe­red by the third party (e.g., coo­kies for the pro­ces­sing of pay­ment ser­vices).

Coo­kies have a variety of func­tions. Many coo­kies are tech­ni­cally essen­tial since cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the absence of the coo­kies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of videos). The pur­pose of other coo­kies may be the ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns or the dis­play of pro­mo­tio­nal mes­sa­ges.

Coo­kies, which are requi­red for the per­for­mance of elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­tion tran­sac­tions, or for the pro­vi­sion of cer­tain func­tions you want to use (e.g., for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or those that are neces­sary for the opti­miza­tion (requi­red coo­kies) of the web­site (e.g., coo­kies that pro­vide mea­sura­ble insights into the web audi­ence), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless a dif­fe­rent legal basis is cited. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the sto­rage of requi­red coo­kies to ensure the tech­ni­cally error free and opti­mi­zed pro­vi­sion of the operator’s ser­vices. If your con­sent to the sto­rage of the coo­kies and simi­lar reco­gni­tion tech­no­lo­gies has been reques­ted, pro­ces­sing occurs exclu­si­vely on the basis of the con­sent obtai­ned (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG); this con­sent may be revo­ked at any time.

You have the option to set up your brow­ser in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any time coo­kies are pla­ced and to per­mit the accep­tance of coo­kies only in spe­ci­fic cases. You may also exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain cases or in gene­ral or acti­vate the delete func­tion for the auto­ma­tic era­di­ca­tion of coo­kies when the brow­ser clo­ses. If coo­kies are deac­ti­va­ted, the func­tions of this web­site may be limi­ted.

In the event that third-party coo­kies are used or if coo­kies are used for ana­ly­ti­cal pur­po­ses, we will sepa­ra­tely notify you in con­junc­tion with this Data Pro­tec­tion Policy and, if appli­ca­ble, ask for your con­sent.

Con­sent with Borlabs Coo­kie

Our web­site uses the Borlabs con­sent tech­no­logy to obtain your con­sent to the sto­rage of cer­tain coo­kies in your brow­ser or for the use of cer­tain tech­no­lo­gies and for their data pri­vacy pro­tec­tion com­pli­ant docu­men­ta­tion. The pro­vi­der of this tech­no­logy is Borlabs GmbH, Rüben­kamp 32, 22305 Ham­burg, Ger­many (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as Borlabs).

When­ever you visit our web­site, a Borlabs coo­kie will be stored in your brow­ser, which archi­ves any decla­ra­ti­ons or revo­ca­ti­ons of con­sent you have ente­red. These data are not shared with the pro­vi­der of the Borlabs tech­no­logy.

The recor­ded data shall remain archi­ved until you ask us to era­di­cate them, delete the Borlabs coo­kie on your own or the pur­pose of sto­ring the data no lon­ger exists. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to any reten­tion obli­ga­ti­ons man­da­ted by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data pro­ces­sing poli­cies, please visit https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/

We use the Borlabs coo­kie con­sent tech­no­logy to obtain the decla­ra­ti­ons of con­sent man­da­ted by law for the use of coo­kies. The legal basis for the use of such coo­kies is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.

Ser­ver log files

The pro­vi­der of this web­site and its pages auto­ma­ti­cally coll­ects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-cal­led ser­ver log files, which your brow­ser com­mu­ni­ca­tes to us auto­ma­ti­cally. The infor­ma­tion com­pri­ses:

• The type and ver­sion of brow­ser used
• The used ope­ra­ting sys­tem
• Refer­rer URL
• The host­name of the acces­sing com­pu­ter
• The time of the ser­ver inquiry
• The IP address

This data is not mer­ged with other data sources.

This data is recor­ded on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the tech­ni­cally error free depic­tion and the opti­miza­tion of the operator’s web­site. In order to achieve this, ser­ver log files must be recor­ded.

Cont­act form

If you sub­mit inqui­ries to us via our cont­act form, the infor­ma­tion pro­vi­ded in the cont­act form as well as any cont­act infor­ma­tion pro­vi­ded the­r­ein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have fur­ther ques­ti­ons. We will not share this infor­ma­tion wit­hout your con­sent.

The pro­ces­sing of these data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if your request is rela­ted to the exe­cu­tion of a con­tract or if it is neces­sary to carry out pre-con­trac­tual mea­su­res. In all other cases the pro­ces­sing is based on our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the effec­tive pro­ces­sing of the requests addres­sed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been reques­ted; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The infor­ma­tion you have ente­red into the cont­act form shall remain with us until you ask us to era­di­cate the data, revoke your con­sent to the archi­ving of data or if the pur­pose for which the infor­ma­tion is being archi­ved no lon­ger exists (e.g., after we have con­cluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to any man­da­tory legal pro­vi­si­ons, in par­ti­cu­lar reten­tion peri­ods.

Request by e-mail, tele­phone, or fax

If you cont­act us by e-mail, tele­phone or fax, your request, inclu­ding all resul­ting per­so­nal data (name, request) will be stored and pro­ces­sed by us for the pur­pose of pro­ces­sing your request. We do not pass these data on wit­hout your con­sent.

These data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is rela­ted to the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or is requi­red for the per­for­mance of pre-con­trac­tual mea­su­res. In all other cases, the data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the effec­tive hand­ling of inqui­ries sub­mit­ted to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if it has been obtai­ned; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data sent by you to us via cont­act requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­pose for the data sto­rage lap­ses (e.g. after com­ple­tion of your request). Man­da­tory sta­tu­tory pro­vi­si­ons - in par­ti­cu­lar sta­tu­tory reten­tion peri­ods - remain unaf­fec­ted.

Use of Chat­bots

We use chat­bots to com­mu­ni­cate with you. Chat­bots have the capa­bi­lity to respond to your ques­ti­ons and other ent­ries wit­hout the assis­tance of humans. To do this, chat­bots ana­lyze your ent­ries and other data to give matching respon­ses (e.g., names, email addres­ses and other cont­act infor­ma­tion, cus­to­mer num­bers and other iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, orders, and chat pro­gres­ses). The chat­bot can also regis­ter your IP address, log files, loca­tion infor­ma­tion and other meta data. The data is archi­ved on the ser­vers of the chat­bot pro­vi­der.

It is pos­si­ble to gene­rate user pro­files based on the recor­ded data. Moreo­ver, the data can be used to dis­play inte­rest-rela­ted adver­ti­sing if the other legal requi­re­ments are met (in par­ti­cu­lar if con­sent has been obtai­ned). Moreo­ver, it is pos­si­ble to link chat­bots to ana­ly­ti­cal and adver­ti­sing tools.

The recor­ded data can also be used to improve our chat­bots and their response pat­terns (machine lear­ning).

We or the chat­bot ope­ra­tor retain the data you enter until you ask us to delete it, revoke your con­sent to archive it or if the pur­pose for the data sto­rage is no lon­ger in effect (e.g., once your inquiry has been fully pro­ces­sed). This does not affect man­da­tory sta­tu­tory pro­vi­si­ons – in par­ti­cu­lar, reten­tion time frames.

The legal basis for the use of chat­bots is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if the chat­bot is used to nego­tiate a con­tract or in con­junc­tion with the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract. If appro­priate con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TTDSG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time. In all other cases, the use is based on our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the most effec­tive cli­ent com­mu­ni­ca­tion pos­si­ble (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Regis­tra­tion on this web­site

You have the option to regis­ter on this web­site to be able to use addi­tio­nal web­site func­tions. We shall use the data you enter only for the pur­pose of using the respec­tive offer or ser­vice you have regis­tered for. The requi­red infor­ma­tion we request at the time of regis­tra­tion must be ente­red in full. Other­wise, we shall reject the regis­tra­tion.

To notify you of any important chan­ges to the scope of our port­fo­lio or in the event of tech­ni­cal modi­fi­ca­ti­ons, we shall use the e-mail address pro­vi­ded during the regis­tra­tion pro­cess.

We shall pro­cess the data ente­red during the regis­tra­tion pro­cess on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

The data recor­ded during the regis­tra­tion pro­cess shall be stored by us as long as you are regis­tered on this web­site. Sub­se­quently, such data shall be dele­ted. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to man­da­tory sta­tu­tory reten­tion obli­ga­ti­ons.

5. Ana­ly­sis tools and adver­ti­sing

Google Tag Mana­ger

We use the Google Tag Mana­ger. The pro­vi­der is Google Ire­land Limi­ted, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land

The Google Tag Mana­ger is a tool that allows us to inte­grate track­ing or sta­tis­ti­cal tools and other tech­no­lo­gies on our web­site. The Google Tag Mana­ger its­elf does not create any user pro­files, does not store coo­kies, and does not carry out any inde­pen­dent ana­ly­ses. It only mana­ges and runs the tools inte­gra­ted via it. Howe­ver, the Google Tag Mana­ger does coll­ect your IP address, which may also be trans­fer­red to Google’s parent com­pany in the United Sta­tes.

The Google Tag Mana­ger is used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the quick and uncom­pli­ca­ted inte­gra­tion and admi­nis­tra­tion of various tools on his web­site. If appro­priate con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TTDSG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Google Ana­ly­tics

This web­site uses func­tions of the web ana­ly­sis ser­vice Google Ana­ly­tics. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Google Ire­land Limi­ted (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

Google Ana­ly­tics enables the web­site ope­ra­tor to ana­lyze the beha­vior pat­terns of web­site visi­tors. To that end, the web­site ope­ra­tor recei­ves a variety of user data, such as pages acces­sed, time spent on the page, the uti­li­zed ope­ra­ting sys­tem and the user’s ori­gin. This data is sum­ma­ri­zed in a user-ID and assi­gned to the respec­tive end device of the web­site visi­tor.

Fur­ther­more, Google Ana­ly­tics allows us to record your mouse and scroll move­ments and clicks, among other things. Google Ana­ly­tics uses various mode­ling approa­ches to aug­ment the coll­ec­ted data sets and uses machine lear­ning tech­no­lo­gies in data ana­ly­sis.

Google Ana­ly­tics uses tech­no­lo­gies that make the reco­gni­tion of the user for the pur­pose of ana­ly­zing the user beha­vior pat­terns (e.g., coo­kies or device fin­ger­prin­ting). The web­site use infor­ma­tion recor­ded by Google is, as a rule trans­fer­red to a Google ser­ver in the United Sta­tes, where it is stored.

The use of these ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your con­sent at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

Brow­ser plug-in

You can pre­vent the recor­ding and pro­ces­sing of your data by Google by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plugin available under the fol­lo­wing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For more infor­ma­tion about the hand­ling of user data by Google Ana­ly­tics, please con­sult Google’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Con­tract data pro­ces­sing

We have exe­cu­ted a con­tract data pro­ces­sing agree­ment with Google and are imple­men­ting the strin­gent pro­vi­si­ons of the Ger­man data pro­tec­tion agen­cies to the ful­lest when using Google Ana­ly­tics.

Google Ads

The web­site ope­ra­tor uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online pro­mo­tio­nal pro­gram of Google Ire­land Limi­ted (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

Google Ads enables us to dis­play ads in the Google search engine or on third-party web­sites, if the user enters cer­tain search terms into Google (key­word tar­ge­ting). It is also pos­si­ble to place tar­ge­ted ads based on the user data Google has in its pos­ses­sion (e.g., loca­tion data and inte­rests; tar­get group tar­ge­ting). As the web­site ope­ra­tor, we can ana­lyze these data quan­ti­ta­tively, for ins­tance by ana­ly­zing which search terms resul­ted in the dis­play of our ads and how many ads led to respec­tive clicks.

The use of these ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your con­sent at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

Google Ads Remar­ke­ting

This web­site uses the func­tions of Google Ads Remar­ke­ting. The pro­vi­der of these solu­ti­ons is Google Ire­land Limi­ted (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

With Google Ads Remar­ke­ting, we can assign peo­ple who inter­act with our online offe­ring to spe­ci­fic tar­get groups in order to sub­se­quently dis­play inte­rest-based adver­ti­sing to them in the Google adver­ti­sing net­work (remar­ke­ting or retar­ge­ting).

Moreo­ver, it is pos­si­ble to link the adver­ti­sing tar­get groups gene­ra­ted with Google Ads Remar­ke­ting to device encom­pas­sing func­tions of Google. This makes it pos­si­ble to dis­play inte­rest-based cus­to­mi­zed adver­ti­sing mes­sa­ges, depen­ding on your prior usage and brow­sing pat­terns on a device (e.g., cell phone) in a man­ner tail­o­red to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g., tablet or PC).

If you have a Google account, you have the option to object to per­so­na­li­zed adver­ti­sing under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

The use of these ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your con­sent at any time.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and the per­ti­nent data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons, please con­sult the Data Pri­vacy Poli­cies of Google at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

For­ma­tion of Tar­get Groups with Cus­to­mer Recon­ci­lia­tion

For the for­ma­tion of tar­get groups, we use, among other things, the Google Ads Remar­ke­ting cus­to­mer recon­ci­lia­tion fea­ture. To achieve this, we trans­fer cer­tain cus­to­mer data (e.g., email addres­ses) from our cus­to­mer lists to Google. If the respec­tive cus­to­mers are Google users and are log­ged into their Google accounts, matching adver­ti­sing mes­sa­ges within the Google net­work (e.g., You­Tube, Gmail or in a search engine) are dis­played for them to view.

Google Con­ver­sion-Track­ing

This web­site uses Google Con­ver­sion Track­ing. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Google Ire­land Limi­ted (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

With the assis­tance of Google Con­ver­sion Track­ing, we are in a posi­tion to reco­gnize whe­ther the user has com­ple­ted cer­tain actions. For ins­tance, we can ana­lyze the how fre­quently which but­tons on our web­site have been cli­cked and which pro­ducts are reviewed or purcha­sed with par­ti­cu­lar fre­quency. The pur­pose of this infor­ma­tion is to com­pile con­ver­sion sta­tis­tics. We learn how many users have cli­cked on our ads and which actions they have com­ple­ted. We do not receive any infor­ma­tion that would allow us to per­so­nally iden­tify the users. Google as such uses coo­kies or com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­tion tech­no­lo­gies for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pur­po­ses.

The use of these ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your con­sent at any time.

For more infor­ma­tion about Google Con­ver­sion Track­ing, please review Google’s data pro­tec­tion policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

6. News­let­ter

News­let­ter data

If you would like to receive the news­let­ter offe­red on the web­site, we require an e-mail address from you as well as infor­ma­tion that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address pro­vi­ded and that you agree to receive the news­let­ter. Fur­ther data is not coll­ec­ted or only on a vol­un­t­ary basis. For the hand­ling of the news­let­ter, we use news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­ders, which are descri­bed below.

Cle­ver­Reach

This web­site uses Cle­ver­Reach for the sen­ding of news­let­ters. The pro­vi­der is the Cle­ver­Reach GmbH & Co. KG, Schaf­jü­cken­weg 2, 26180 Ras­tede, Ger­many (her­ein­af­ter “Cle­ver­Reach”). Cle­ver­Reach is a ser­vice that can be used to orga­nize and ana­lyze the sen­ding of news­let­ters. The data you have ente­red for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to our news­let­ter (e.g., e-mail address) are stored on ser­vers of Cle­ver­Reach in Ger­many or in Ire­land.

News­let­ters we send out via Cle­ver­Reach allow us to ana­lyze the user pat­terns of our news­let­ter reci­pi­ents. Among other things, in con­junc­tion with this, it is pos­si­ble how many reci­pi­ents actually ope­ned the news­let­ter e-mail and how often which link inside the news­let­ter has been cli­cked. With the assis­tance of a tool cal­led Con­ver­sion Track­ing, we can also deter­mine whe­ther an action that has been pre­de­fi­ned in the news­let­ter actually occur­red after the link was cli­cked (e.g., purchase of a pro­duct on this web­site). For more infor­ma­tion on the data ana­ly­sis ser­vices by Cle­ver­Reach news­let­ters, please go to: https://www.cleverreach.com/en/features/reporting-tracking/.

The data is pro­ces­sed based on your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke any con­sent you have given at any time by unsub­scrib­ing from the news­let­ter. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to the lawful­ness of any data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions that have taken place prior to your revo­ca­tion.

If you do not want to per­mit an ana­ly­sis by Cle­ver­Reach, you must unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter. We pro­vide a link for you to do this in every news­let­ter mes­sage.

The data depo­si­ted with us for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter will be stored by us until you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­der and dele­ted from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list after you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter. Data stored for other pur­po­ses with us remain unaf­fec­ted.

After you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list, your e-mail address may be stored by us or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­der in a black­list, if such action is neces­sary to pre­vent future mai­lings. The data from the black­list is used only for this pur­pose and not mer­ged with other data. This ser­ves both your inte­rest and our inte­rest in com­ply­ing with the legal requi­re­ments when sen­ding news­let­ters (legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The sto­rage in the black­list is inde­fi­nite. You may object to the sto­rage if your inte­rests out­weigh our legi­ti­mate inte­rest.

For more details, please con­sult the Data Pro­tec­tion Pro­vi­si­ons of Cle­ver­Reach at: https://www.cleverreach.com/en/privacy-policy/.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­vacy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

7. Plug-ins and Tools

You­Tube with expan­ded data pro­tec­tion inte­gra­tion

Our web­site embeds videos of the web­site You­Tube. The web­site ope­ra­tor is Google Ire­land Limi­ted (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

We use You­Tube in the expan­ded data pro­tec­tion mode. Accor­ding to You­Tube, this mode ensu­res that You­Tube does not store any infor­ma­tion about visi­tors to this web­site before they watch the video. Nevert­hel­ess, this does not neces­s­a­rily mean that the sha­ring of data with You­Tube part­ners can be ruled out as a result of the expan­ded data pro­tec­tion mode. For ins­tance, regard­less of whe­ther you are wat­ching a video, You­Tube will always estab­lish a con­nec­tion with the Google Dou­ble­Click net­work.

As soon as you start to play a You­Tube video on this web­site, a con­nec­tion to YouTube’s ser­vers will be estab­lished. As a result, the You­Tube ser­ver will be noti­fied, which of our pages you have visi­ted. If you are log­ged into your You­Tube account while you visit our site, you enable You­Tube to directly allo­cate your brow­sing pat­terns to your per­so­nal pro­file. You have the option to pre­vent this by log­ging out of your You­Tube account.

Fur­ther­more, after you have star­ted to play a video, You­Tube will be able to place various coo­kies on your device or com­pa­ra­ble tech­no­lo­gies for reco­gni­tion (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting). In this way You­Tube will be able to obtain infor­ma­tion about this website’s visi­tors. Among other things, this infor­ma­tion will be used to gene­rate video sta­tis­tics with the aim of impro­ving the user fri­end­li­ness of the site and to pre­vent attempts to com­mit fraud.

Under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, addi­tio­nal data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions may be trig­ge­red after you have star­ted to play a You­Tube video, which are bey­ond our con­trol.

The use of You­Tube is based on our inte­rest in pre­sen­ting our online con­tent in an appe­al­ing man­ner. Pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this is a legi­ti­mate inte­rest. If appro­priate con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TTDSG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

For more infor­ma­tion on how You­Tube hand­les user data, please con­sult the You­Tube Data Pri­vacy Policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Google Fonts (local embed­ding)

This web­site uses so-cal­led Google Fonts pro­vi­ded by Google to ensure the uni­form use of fonts on this site. These Google fonts are locally instal­led so that a con­nec­tion to Google’s ser­vers will not be estab­lished in con­junc­tion with this appli­ca­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion on Google Fonts, please fol­low this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and con­sult Google’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Font Awe­some (local embed­ding)

This web­site uses Font Awe­some to ensure the uni­form use of fonts on this site. Font Awe­some is locally instal­led so that a con­nec­tion to Fon­ti­cons, Inc.’s ser­vers will not be estab­lished in con­junc­tion with this appli­ca­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion on Font Awe­some, please and con­sult the Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion for Font Awe­some under: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

iThe­mes Secu­rity

We have inte­gra­ted iThe­mes Secu­rity into this web­site. The pro­vi­der is iThe­mes Media LLC, 1720 South Kelly Ave­nue Edmond, OK 73013, USA (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “iThe­mes Secu­rity”).

iThe­mes Secu­rity pro­tects our web­site against unde­si­ra­ble access or mali­cious cyber-attacks. For this pur­pose, iThe­mes Secu­rity records, among other things, your IP address, the time, and source of login attempts and log files (e.g., the uti­li­zed brow­ser). iThe­mes Secu­rity is instal­led locally on our ser­vers.

iThe­mes Secu­rity trans­mits IP addres­ses of recur­ring atta­ckers to a cen­tral data­base of iThe­mes in the US (Net­work Brute Force Pro­tec­tion) to pre­vent such attacks in the future.

The use of iThe­mes Secu­rity is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in pro­tec­ting its web­site opti­mally against cyber-attacks. If appro­priate con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TTDSG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Ninja Fire­wall

We have inte­gra­ted Ninja Fire­wall on this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Nin­Tech­Net Limi­ted, Unit 1603, 16th Floor, The L. Plaza 367 - 375 Queen‘s Road Cen­tral Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “Ninja Fire­wall”).

Ninja Fire­wall pro­tects our web­site against unde­si­ra­ble access or mali­cious cyber-attacks. For this pur­pose, Ninja Fire­wall coll­ects IP address, request, refer­rer, and the time of page access. Ninja Fire­wall is instal­led locally on our ser­vers and does not trans­mit any per­so­nal data to the pro­vi­der of the tool or other third par­ties.

We have enab­led IP anony­miza­tion for Ninja Fire­wall, so that the tool only coll­ects the IP address in a shor­tened form.

The use of Ninja Fire­wall is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the most effec­tive pro­tec­tion of his web­site against cyber­at­tacks.

8. eCom­merce and pay­ment ser­vice pro­vi­ders

Pro­ces­sing of Cus­to­mer and Con­tract Data

We coll­ect, pro­cess, and use per­so­nal cus­to­mer and con­tract data for the estab­lish­ment, con­tent arran­ge­ment and modi­fi­ca­tion of our con­trac­tual rela­ti­onships. Data with per­so­nal refe­ren­ces to the use of this web­site (usage data) will be coll­ec­ted, pro­ces­sed, and used only if this is neces­sary to enable the user to use our ser­vices or requi­red for bil­ling pur­po­ses. The legal basis for these pro­ces­ses is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

The coll­ec­ted cus­to­mer data shall be dele­ted upon com­ple­tion of the order or ter­mi­na­tion of the busi­ness rela­ti­onship and upon expi­ra­tion of any exis­ting sta­tu­tory archi­ving peri­ods. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to any sta­tu­tory archi­ving peri­ods.

Our social media appearan­ces

Data pro­ces­sing through social net­works

We main­tain publicly available pro­files in social net­works. The indi­vi­dual social net­works we use can be found below.

Social net­works such as Face­book, Twit­ter etc. can gene­rally ana­lyze your user beha­vior com­pre­hen­si­vely if you visit their web­site or a web­site with inte­gra­ted social media con­tent (e.g., like but­tons or ban­ner ads). When you visit our social media pages, num­e­rous data pro­tec­tion-rele­vant pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons are trig­ge­red. In detail:

If you are log­ged in to your social media account and visit our social media page, the ope­ra­tor of the social media por­tal can assign this visit to your user account. Under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, your per­so­nal data may also be recor­ded if you are not log­ged in or do not have an account with the respec­tive social media por­tal. In this case, this data is coll­ec­ted, for exam­ple, via coo­kies stored on your device or by recor­ding your IP address.

Using the data coll­ec­ted in this way, the ope­ra­tors of the social media por­tals can create user pro­files in which their pre­fe­ren­ces and inte­rests are stored. This way you can see inte­rest-based adver­ti­sing inside and out­side of your social media pre­sence. If you have an account with the social net­work, inte­rest-based adver­ti­sing can be dis­played on any device you are log­ged in to or have log­ged in to.

Please also note that we can­not retrace all pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons on the social media por­tals. Depen­ding on the pro­vi­der, addi­tio­nal pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons may the­r­e­fore be car­ried out by the ope­ra­tors of the social media por­tals. Details can be found in the terms of use and pri­vacy policy of the respec­tive social media por­tals.

Legal basis

Our social media appearan­ces should ensure the widest pos­si­ble pre­sence on the Inter­net. This is a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The ana­ly­sis pro­ces­ses initia­ted by the social net­works may be based on diver­gent legal bases to be spe­ci­fied by the ope­ra­tors of the social net­works (e.g., con­sent within the mea­ning of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).

Respon­si­bi­lity and asser­tion of rights

If you visit one of our social media sites (e.g., Face­book), we, tog­e­ther with the ope­ra­tor of the social media plat­form, are respon­si­ble for the data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons trig­ge­red during this visit. You can in prin­ci­ple pro­tect your rights (infor­ma­tion, cor­rec­tion, dele­tion, limi­ta­tion of pro­ces­sing, data por­ta­bi­lity and com­plaint) vis-à-vis us as well as vis-à-vis the ope­ra­tor of the respec­tive social media por­tal (e.g., Face­book).

Please note that despite the shared respon­si­bi­lity with the social media por­tal ope­ra­tors, we do not have full influence on the data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons of the social media por­tals. Our opti­ons are deter­mi­ned by the com­pany policy of the respec­tive pro­vi­der.

Sto­rage time

The data coll­ec­ted directly from us via the social media pre­sence will be dele­ted from our sys­tems as soon as you ask us to delete it, you revoke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­pose for the data sto­rage lap­ses. Stored coo­kies remain on your device until you delete them. Man­da­tory sta­tu­tory pro­vi­si­ons - in par­ti­cu­lar, reten­tion peri­ods - remain unaf­fec­ted.

We have no con­trol over the sto­rage dura­tion of your data that are stored by the social net­work ope­ra­tors for their own pur­po­ses. For details, please cont­act the social net­work ope­ra­tors directly (e.g., in their pri­vacy policy, see below).

Indi­vi­dual social net­works

Lin­ke­dIn

We have a Lin­ke­dIn pro­file. The pro­vi­der is the Lin­ke­dIn Ire­land Unli­mi­ted Com­pany, Wil­ton Plaza, Wil­ton Place, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land. Lin­ke­dIn uses adver­ti­sing coo­kies.

If you want to disable Lin­ke­dIn adver­ti­sing coo­kies, please use the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa and https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs.

For details on how they handle your per­so­nal infor­ma­tion, please refer to LinkedIn's pri­vacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.