Privacy Policy

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. If con­tracts can be con­cluded or initia­ted via the web­site, the trans­mit­ted data will also be pro­ces­sed for con­tract offers, orders or other order enquiries.

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

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

IONOS

The pro­vi­der is the IONOS SE, Elgen­dor­fer Str. 57, 56410 Mon­ta­baur, Ger­ma­ny (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as: IONOS). When­ever you visit our web­site, IONOS records various log­files along with your IP addres­ses. For details, plea­se con­sult the data pri­va­cy poli­cy of IONOS: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy.

We use IONOS on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. Our com­pa­ny has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in pre­sen­ting a web­site that is as depen­da­ble as pos­si­ble. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

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:

Hein­rich Kopp GmbH, Alzen­au­er Stras­se 68–70, 63796 Kahl
Regis­ter­ge­richt Aschaf­fen­burg: HRB 1228
Ver­tre­ten durch die Geschäftsführer:
Ste­phan Dörr­schuck und Mar­kus Hornung

Pho­ne: +49 (6188) 400
E‑mail: vertrieb@kopp.eu

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) TDDDG. 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)© 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.

AB-Data Pro­tect UG (haf­tungs­be­schränkt)
Dr. Micha­el Krebs
Froh­sinn­stra­ße 15
63739 Aschaffenburg

Pho­ne: +49 (0) 6021 30880
E‑mail: kopp@ab-data-pro.de

Information on the data transfer to third-party countries that are not secure under data protection law and the transfer to US companies that are not DPF-certified

We use, among other tech­no­lo­gies, tools from com­pa­nies loca­ted in third-par­ty count­ries that are not safe under data pro­tec­tion law, as well as US tools who­se pro­vi­ders are not cer­ti­fied under the EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work (DPF). If the­se tools are enab­led, your per­so­nal data may be trans­fer­red to and pro­ces­sed in the­se count­ries. We would like you to note that no level of data pro­tec­tion com­pa­ra­ble to that in the EU can be gua­ran­teed in third count­ries that are inse­cu­re in terms of data pro­tec­tion law.

We would like to point out that the US, as a secu­re third-par­ty coun­try, gene­ral­ly has a level of data pro­tec­tion com­pa­ra­ble to that of the EU. Data trans­fer to the US is the­r­e­fo­re per­mit­ted if the reci­pi­ent is cer­ti­fied under the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF) or has appro­pria­te addi­tio­nal assu­ran­ces. Infor­ma­ti­on on trans­fers to third-par­ty count­ries, inclu­ding the data reci­pi­ents, can be found in this Pri­va­cy Policy.

Recipients of personal data

In the scope of our busi­ness acti­vi­ties, we coope­ra­te with various exter­nal par­ties. In some cases, this also requi­res the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to the­se exter­nal par­ties. We only dis­c­lo­se per­so­nal data to exter­nal par­ties if this is requi­red as part of the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract, if we are legal­ly obli­ga­ted to do so (e.g., dis­clo­sure of data to tax aut­ho­ri­ties), if we have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the dis­clo­sure pur­su­ant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, or if ano­ther legal basis per­mits the dis­clo­sure of this data. When using pro­ces­sors, we only dis­c­lo­se per­so­nal data of our cus­to­mers on the basis of a valid con­tract on data pro­ces­sing. In the case of joint pro­ces­sing, a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment is concluded.

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 have data that we pro­cess auto­ma­ti­cal­ly on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract han­ded over to you or to a third par­ty in a com­mon, 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 demand infor­ma­ti­on about your archi­ved per­so­nal data, their source and reci­pi­ents as well as the pur­po­se of the pro­ces­sing of your data at any time. 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 ins­tead 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.

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.

Coo­kies can be issued by us (first-par­ty coo­kies) or by third-par­ty com­pa­nies (so-cal­led third-par­ty coo­kies). Third-par­ty coo­kies enable the inte­gra­ti­on of cer­tain ser­vices of third-par­ty com­pa­nies into web­sites (e.g., coo­kies for hand­ling pay­ment services).

Coo­kies have a varie­ty of func­tions. Many coo­kies are tech­ni­cal­ly essen­ti­al sin­ce cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the absence of the­se coo­kies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of vide­os). Other coo­kies may be used to ana­ly­ze user beha­vi­or or for pro­mo­tio­nal purposes.

Coo­kies, which are requi­red for the per­for­mance of elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on tran­sac­tions, 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, the pro­ces­sing occurs exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of the con­sent obtai­ned (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG); 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.

Which coo­kies and ser­vices are used on this web­site can be found in this pri­va­cy policy.

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)© 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.

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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

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) TDDDG. 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/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

IP anonymization

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics IP anony­miza­ti­on is acti­ve. As a result, your IP address will be abbre­via­ted by Goog­le within the mem­ber sta­tes of the Euro­pean Uni­on or in other sta­tes that have rati­fied the Con­ven­ti­on on the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area pri­or to its trans­mis­si­on to the United Sta­tes. The full IP address will be trans­mit­ted to one of Google’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes and abbre­via­ted the­re only in excep­tio­nal cases. On behalf of the ope­ra­tor of this web­site, Goog­le shall use this infor­ma­ti­on to ana­ly­ze your use of this web­site to gene­ra­te reports on web­site acti­vi­ties and to ren­der other ser­vices to the ope­ra­tor of this web­site that are rela­ted to the use of the web­site and the Inter­net. The IP address trans­mit­ted in con­junc­tion with Goog­le Ana­ly­tics from your brow­ser shall not be mer­ged with other data in Google’s possession.

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.

IONOS Web Analytics

This web­site uses IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics ana­ly­sis ser­vices. The pro­vi­der of the­se ser­vices is 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgen­dor­fer Stra­ße 57, 56410 Mon­ta­baur, Ger­ma­ny. In con­junc­tion with the per­for­mance of ana­ly­ses by IONOS, it is pos­si­ble to e.g., ana­ly­ze the num­ber of visi­tors and their beha­vi­or pat­terns during visits (e.g., num­ber of pages acces­sed, dura­ti­on of their visits to the web­site, per­cen­ta­ge of abor­ted visits), visi­tor ori­g­ins (i.e., from which site does the visi­tor arri­ve at our site), visi­tor loca­ti­ons as well as tech­ni­cal data (brow­ser and ses­si­on of ope­ra­ting sys­tem used). For the­se pur­po­ses, IONOS archi­ves in par­ti­cu­lar the fol­lo­wing data:

  • Refer­rer (pre­vious­ly visi­ted website)
  • Acces­sed page on the web­site or file
  • Brow­ser type and brow­ser version
  • Used ope­ra­ting system
  • Type of device used
  • Web­site access time
  • Anony­mi­zed IP address (used only to deter­mi­ne the access location)

Accor­ding to IONOS, the data recor­ded are com­ple­te­ly anony­mi­zed so they can­not be tra­cked back to indi­vi­du­als. IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics does not archi­ve cookies.

The data are stored and ana­ly­zed pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns to opti­mi­ze both, the operator’s web pre­sen­ta­ti­on as well as the operator’s pro­mo­tio­nal acti­vi­ties. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

For more infor­ma­ti­on affi­lia­ted with the recor­ding and pro­ces­sing of data by IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics, plea­se click on the fol­lo­wing link of the data poli­cy decla­ra­ti­on: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/datenschutzerklaerung/.

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.

WP Statistics

This web­site uses the WP Sta­tis­tics ana­ly­sis tool to eva­lua­te visi­tor acces­ses sta­tis­ti­cal­ly. The pro­vi­der is Vero­nalabs, Tata­ri 64, 10134, Tal­linn, Esto­nia (https://veronalabs.com).

WP Sta­tis­tics can be used to ana­ly­ze the use of our web­site. In doing so, WP Sta­tis­tics records, among other things, log files (IP address, refer­rer, brow­ser used, ori­gin of the user, search engi­ne used) and actions that the web­site visi­tors have taken on the site (e.g. clicks and views).

The data coll­ec­ted with WP Sta­tis­tics is stored exclu­si­ve­ly on our own server.

The use of this ana­ly­sis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the anony­mi­zed ana­ly­sis of user beha­vi­or in order to opti­mi­ze both our web­sites and our adver­ti­sing. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

IP anonymization

We use WP Sta­tis­tics with anony­mi­zed IP. Your IP address is shor­ten­ed so that it can no lon­ger be direct­ly assi­gned to you.

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.

Brevo

This web­site uses Bre­vo for the sen­ding of news­let­ters. The pro­vi­der is the Sen­din­blue GmbH, Köpe­ni­cker Stra­ße 126, 10179 Ber­lin, Germany.

Bre­vo ser­vices can, among other things, be used to orga­ni­ze and ana­ly­ze the sen­ding of news­let­ters. The data you enter for the pur­po­se of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter are archi­ved on ser­vers of Sen­din­blue GmbH in Germany.

Data analysis by Brevo

Bre­vo enables us to ana­ly­ze our news­let­ter cam­paigns. For ins­tance, it allows us to see whe­ther a news­let­ter mes­sa­ge has been ope­ned and, if so, which links may have been cli­cked. This enables us to deter­mi­ne, which links drew an extra­or­di­na­ry num­ber of clicks.

Moreo­ver, we are also able to see whe­ther once the e‑mail was ope­ned or a link was cli­cked, any pre­vious­ly defi­ned actions were taken (con­ver­si­on rate). This allows us to deter­mi­ne whe­ther you have made a purcha­se after cli­cking on the newsletter.

Bre­vo also enables us to divi­de the sub­scri­bers to our news­let­ter into various cate­go­ries (i.e., to “clus­ter” reci­pi­ents). For ins­tance, news­let­ter reci­pi­ents can be cate­go­ri­zed based on age, gen­der, or place of resi­dence. This enables us to tail­or our news­let­ter more effec­tively to the needs of the respec­ti­ve tar­get groups.

If you do not want to per­mit an ana­ly­sis by Bre­vo, you must unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter. We pro­vi­de a link for you to do this in every news­let­ter mes­sa­ge. Moreo­ver, you can also unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter right on the website.

For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on on the func­tions of Bre­vo plea­se fol­low this link: https://www.brevo.com/de/newsletter-software/.

Legal basis

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.

Storage period

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 Regu­la­ti­ons of Bre­vo at: https://www.brevo.com/de/datenschutz-uebersicht/ and https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/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.

7. Plug-ins and Tools

YouTube

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

If you visit a page on this web­site into which a You­Tube has been embedded, a con­nec­tion with YouTube’s ser­vers will be estab­lished. As a result, the You­Tube ser­ver will be noti­fied, which of our pages you have visited.

Fur­ther­mo­re, 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. Fur­ther­mo­re, the data coll­ec­ted will be pro­ces­sed in the Goog­le adver­ti­sing network.

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.

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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. 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.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

Vimeo

This web­site uses plug-ins of the video por­tal Vimeo. The pro­vi­der is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of the pages on our web­site into which a Vimeo video has been inte­gra­ted, a con­nec­tion to Vimeo’s ser­vers will be estab­lished. As a con­se­quence, the Vimeo ser­ver will recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on as to which of our pages you have visi­ted. Moreo­ver, Vimeo will recei­ve your IP address. This will also hap­pen if you are not log­ged into Vimeo or do not have an account with Vimeo. The infor­ma­ti­on recor­ded by Vimeo will be trans­mit­ted to Vimeo’s ser­ver in the United States.

If you are log­ged into your Vimeo account, you enable Vimeo to direct­ly allo­ca­te your brow­sing pat­terns to your per­so­nal pro­fi­le. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your Vimeo account.

Vimeo uses coo­kies or com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) to reco­gni­ze web­site visitors.

The use of Vimeo 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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on and, accor­ding to Vimeo, on “legi­ti­ma­te busi­ness inte­rests”. Details can be found here: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on how Vimeo hand­les user data, plea­se con­sult the Vimeo Data Pri­va­cy Poli­cy under: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5711.

Google Fonts

To ensu­re that fonts used on this web­site are uni­form, this web­site uses so-cal­led Goog­le Fonts pro­vi­ded by Goog­le. When you access a page on our web­site, your brow­ser will load the requi­red fonts into your brow­ser cache to cor­rect­ly dis­play text and fonts.

To do this, the brow­ser you use will have to estab­lish a con­nec­tion with Google’s ser­vers. As a result, Goog­le will learn that your IP address was used to access this web­site. The use of Goog­le Fonts is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in a uni­form pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the font on the operator’s 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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

If your brow­ser should not sup­port Goog­le Fonts, a stan­dard font instal­led on your com­pu­ter will be used.

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.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

Font Awesome

This page uses Font Awe­so­me for the uni­form repre­sen­ta­ti­on of fonts and sym­bols. Pro­vi­der is Fon­ti­cons, Inc. 6 Por­ter Road Apart­ment 3R, Cam­bridge, Mas­sa­chu­setts, USA.

When you call up a page, your brow­ser loads the requi­red fonts into its brow­ser cache to dis­play texts, fonts, and sym­bols cor­rect­ly. For this pur­po­se, the brow­ser you use must con­nect to the ser­vers of Font Awe­so­me. This allows Font Awe­so­me to know that your IP address has been used to access this web­site. The use of Font Awe­so­me is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the uni­form pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the type­face on our 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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

If your brow­ser does not sup­port Font Awe­so­me, a stan­dard font from your com­pu­ter will be used.

Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on about Font Awe­so­me can be found in the Font Awe­so­me pri­va­cy poli­cy at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

Google Maps

This web­site uses the map­ping ser­vice Goog­le Maps. The pro­vi­der is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land. With the means of this ser­vice, we can inte­gra­te map mate­ri­al on our website.

To enable the use of the Goog­le Maps fea­tures, your IP address must be stored. As a rule, this infor­ma­ti­on is trans­fer­red to one of Google’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes, whe­re it is archi­ved. The ope­ra­tor of this web­site has no con­trol over the data trans­fer. In case Goog­le Maps has been acti­va­ted, Goog­le has the opti­on to use Goog­le Fonts for the pur­po­se of the uni­form depic­tion of fonts. When you access Goog­le Maps, your brow­ser will load the requi­red web fonts into your brow­ser cache, to cor­rect­ly dis­play text and fonts.

We use Goog­le Maps to pre­sent our online con­tent in an appe­al­ing man­ner and to make the loca­ti­ons dis­c­lo­sed on our web­site easy to find. This con­sti­tu­tes a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest as defi­ned in 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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked 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/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on the hand­ling of user data, plea­se review Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

SolidWP

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

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

The use of SolidWP 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) TDDDG, 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 TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

8. Custom Services

Handling applicant data

We offer web­site visi­tors the oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit job appli­ca­ti­ons to us (e.g., via e‑mail, via pos­tal ser­vices on by sub­mit­ting the online job appli­ca­ti­on form). Below, we will brief you on the scope, pur­po­se and use of the per­so­nal data coll­ec­ted from you in con­junc­tion with the appli­ca­ti­on pro­cess. We assu­re you that the coll­ec­tion, pro­ces­sing, and use of your data will occur in com­pli­ance with the appli­ca­ble data pri­va­cy rights and all other sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons and that your data will always be trea­ted as strict­ly confidential.

Scope and purpose of the collection of data

If you sub­mit a job appli­ca­ti­on to us, we will pro­cess any affi­lia­ted per­so­nal data (e.g., cont­act and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons data, appli­ca­ti­on docu­ments, notes taken during job inter­views, etc.), if they are requi­red to make a decis­i­on con­cer­ning the estab­lish­ment or an employ­ment rela­ti­onship. The legal grounds for the afo­re­men­tio­ned are § 26 BDSG accor­ding to Ger­man Law (Nego­tia­ti­on of an Employ­ment Rela­ti­onship), Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (Gene­ral Con­tract Nego­tia­ti­ons) and – pro­vi­ded you have given us your con­sent – Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revo­ke any con­sent given at any time. Within our com­pa­ny, your per­so­nal data will only be shared with indi­vi­du­als who are invol­ved in the pro­ces­sing of your job application.

If your job appli­ca­ti­on should result in your recruit­ment, the data you have sub­mit­ted will be archi­ved on the grounds of § 26 BDSG and Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for the pur­po­se of imple­men­ting the employ­ment rela­ti­onship in our data pro­ces­sing system.

Data Archiving Period

If we are unable to make you a job offer or you reject a job offer or with­draw your appli­ca­ti­on, we reser­ve the right to retain the data you have sub­mit­ted on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) for up to 6 months from the end of the appli­ca­ti­on pro­ce­du­re (rejec­tion or with­dra­wal of the appli­ca­ti­on). After­wards the data will be dele­ted, and the phy­si­cal appli­ca­ti­on docu­ments will be des­troy­ed. The sto­rage ser­ves in par­ti­cu­lar as evi­dence in the event of a legal dis­pu­te. If it is evi­dent that the data will be requi­red after the expiry of the 6‑month peri­od (e.g., due to an impen­ding or pen­ding legal dis­pu­te), dele­ti­on will only take place when the pur­po­se for fur­ther sto­rage no lon­ger applies.

Lon­ger sto­rage may also take place if you have given your agree­ment (Artic­le 6(1)(a) GDPR) or if sta­tu­to­ry data reten­ti­on requi­re­ments pre­clude the deletion.

Admission to the applicant pool

If we do not make you a job offer, you may be able to join our appli­cant pool. In case of admis­si­on, all docu­ments and infor­ma­ti­on from the appli­ca­ti­on will be trans­fer­red to the appli­cant pool in order to cont­act you in case of sui­ta­ble vacancies.

Admis­si­on to the appli­cant pool is based exclu­si­ve­ly on your express agree­ment (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The sub­mis­si­on agree­ment is vol­un­t­a­ry and has no rela­ti­on to the ongo­ing appli­ca­ti­on pro­ce­du­re. The affec­ted per­son can revo­ke his agree­ment at any time. In this case, the data from the appli­cant pool will be irre­vo­ca­bly dele­ted, pro­vi­ded the­re are no legal reasons for storage.

The data from the appli­cant pool will be irre­vo­ca­bly dele­ted no later than two years after con­sent has been granted.