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

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

Externes 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):
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co.​KG
Königs­berger Str. 4 - 6, 32339 Es­pelkamp

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:

Franz Schnei­der Brakel GmbH + Co KG
Nieheimer Straße 38
33034 Brakel

Phone: 05272-6080
E-mail: info@​fsb.​de

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.

Se­cur­Con GmbH & Co. KG
Lud­wigstraße 12
58638 Iser­lohn

Phone: 02371-2196531
E-mail: info@​securcon.​de

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 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.

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.

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) 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.

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

Consent with Usercentrics


This website uses the consent tech­nol­ogy of User­centrics to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your device or for the use of spe­cific tech­nolo­gies, and to doc­u­ment the former in a data pro­tec­tion com­pli­ant manner. The party of­fer­ing this tech­nol­ogy is User­centrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 München, Germany, website: https://​usercentrics.​com/​ (here­inafter re­ferred to as “User­centrics”).

When­ever you visit our website, the fol­low­ing per­sonal data will be trans­ferred to User­centrics:
• Your de­c­la­ra­tion(s) of consent or your re­vo­ca­tion of your de­c­la­ra­tion(s) of consent
• Your IP address • In­for­ma­tion about your browser
• In­for­ma­tion about your device
• The date and time you visited our website

More­over, User­centrics shall store a cookie in your browser to be able to al­lo­cate your de­c­la­ra­tion(s) of consent or any re­vo­ca­tions of the former. The data that are recorded in this manner shall be stored until you ask us to erad­i­cate them, delete the User­centrics cookie or until the purpose for archiv­ing the data no longer exists. This shall be without prej­u­dice to any manda­tory legal re­ten­tion periods. User­centrics uses cookies to obtain the de­c­la­ra­tions of consent man­dated by law. The legal basis for the use of spe­cific tech­nolo­gies is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.

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.

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.

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. Social media

Facebook


We have in­te­grated el­e­ments of the social network Face­book on this website. The provider of this service is Meta Plat­forms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. Ac­cord­ing to Face­book’s state­ment the col­lected data will be trans­ferred to the USA and other third-party coun­tries too. An overview of the Face­book social media el­e­ments is avail­able under the fol­low­ing link:
https://​developers.​facebook.​com/​docs/​plugins/.​

If the social media element has been ac­ti­vated, a direct con­nec­tion between your device and the Face­book server will be es­tab­lished. As a result, Face­book will receive in­for­ma­tion con­firm­ing your visit to this website with your IP address. If you click on the Face­book Like button while you are logged into your Face­book account, you can link content of this website to your Face­book profile. Con­se­quently, Face­book will be able to al­lo­cate your visit to this website to your user account. We have to em­pha­size that we as the provider of the website do not receive any in­for­ma­tion on the content of the trans­ferred data and its use by Face­book. For more in­for­ma­tion, please consult the Data Privacy Policy of Face­book at:
https://​de-de.​facebook.​com/​privacy/​explanation.​

If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in making our in­for­ma­tion as com­pre­hen­sively visible as pos­si­ble on social media. Insofar as per­sonal data is col­lected on our website with the help of the tool de­scribed here and for­warded to Face­book, we and Meta Plat­forms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly re­spon­si­ble for this data pro­cess­ing (Art. 26 DSGVO). The joint re­spon­si­bil­ity is limited ex­clu­sively to the col­lec­tion of the data and its for­ward­ing to Face­book. The pro­cess­ing by Face­book that takes place after the onward trans­fer is not part of the joint re­spon­si­bil­ity. The oblig­a­tions in­cum­bent on us jointly have been set out in a joint pro­cess­ing agree­ment. The wording of the agree­ment can be found under:
https://​www.​facebook.​com/​legal/​controller_​addendum.​

Ac­cord­ing to this agree­ment, we are re­spon­si­ble for pro­vid­ing the privacy in­for­ma­tion when using the Face­book tool and for the pri­vacy-se­cure im­ple­men­ta­tion of the tool on our website. Face­book is re­spon­si­ble for the data se­cu­rity of Face­book prod­ucts. You can assert data subject rights (e.g., re­quests for in­for­ma­tion) re­gard­ing data processed by Face­book di­rectly with Face­book. If you assert the data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Face­book.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clauses (SCC) of the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here:
https://​www.​facebook.​com/​legal/​EU_​data_​transfer_​addendum, https://​de-de.​facebook.​com/​help/​566994660333381 and https://​www.​facebook.​com/​policy.​php.​

Twitter


We have in­te­grated func­tions of the social media plat­form Twitter into this website. These func­tions are pro­vided by Twitter In­ter­na­tional Company, One Cum­ber­land Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.

If the social media element has been ac­ti­vated, a direct con­nec­tion between your device and Twitter’s server will be es­tab­lished. As a result, Twitter will receive in­for­ma­tion on your visit to this website. While you use Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” func­tion, web­sites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and dis­closed to other users. We must point out, that we, the providers of the website and its pages do not know any­thing about the content of the data trans­ferred and the use of this in­for­ma­tion by Twitter. For more details, please consult Twitter’s Data Privacy De­c­la­ra­tion at: https://​twitter.​com/​en/​privacy.​

If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in making our in­for­ma­tion as com­pre­hen­sively visible as pos­si­ble on social media.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clauses (SCC) of the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here:
https://​gdpr.​twitter.​com/​en/​controller-to-controller-transfers.​html.​

You have the option to reset your data pro­tec­tion set­tings on Twitter under the account set­tings at:
https://​twitter.​com/​account/​settings.​

Instagram


We have in­te­grated func­tions of the public media plat­form In­sta­gram into this website. These func­tions are being offered by Meta Plat­forms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If the social media element has been ac­ti­vated, a direct con­nec­tion between your device and In­sta­gram’s server will be es­tab­lished. As a result, In­sta­gram will receive in­for­ma­tion on your visit to this website. If you are logged into your In­sta­gram account, you may click the In­sta­gram button to link con­tents from this website to your In­sta­gram profile. This enables In­sta­gram to al­lo­cate your visit to this website to your user account. We have to point out that we as the provider of the website and its pages do not have any knowl­edge of the content of the data trans­ferred and its use by In­sta­gram.

If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in making our in­for­ma­tion as com­pre­hen­sively visible as pos­si­ble on social media.

Insofar as per­sonal data is col­lected on our website with the help of the tool de­scribed here and for­warded to Face­book or In­sta­gram, we and Meta Plat­forms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly re­spon­si­ble for this data pro­cess­ing (Art. 26 DSGVO). The joint re­spon­si­bil­ity is limited ex­clu­sively to the col­lec­tion of the data and its for­ward­ing to Face­book or In­sta­gram. The pro­cess­ing by Face­book or In­sta­gram that takes place after the onward trans­fer is not part of the joint re­spon­si­bil­ity. The oblig­a­tions in­cum­bent on us jointly have been set out in a joint pro­cess­ing agree­ment. The wording of the agree­ment can be found under:
https://​www.​facebook.​com/​legal/​controller_​addendum.​

Ac­cord­ing to this agree­ment, we are re­spon­si­ble for pro­vid­ing the privacy in­for­ma­tion when using the Face­book or In­sta­gram tool and for the pri­vacy-se­cure im­ple­men­ta­tion of the tool on our website. Face­book is re­spon­si­ble for the data se­cu­rity of Face­book or In­sta­gram prod­ucts. You can assert data subject rights (e.g., re­quests for in­for­ma­tion) re­gard­ing data processed by Face­book or In­sta­gram di­rectly with Face­book. If you assert the data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Face­book.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tual Clauses (SCC) of the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here:
https://​www.​facebook.​com/​legal/​EU_​data_​transfer_​addendum, https://​help.​instagram.​com/​519522125107875 and https://​de-de.​facebook.​com/​help/​566994660333381.​

For more in­for­ma­tion on this subject, please consult In­sta­gram’s Data Privacy De­c­la­ra­tion at:
https://​instagram.​com/​about/​legal/​privacy/​

LinkedIn


This website uses el­e­ments of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Ireland Un­lim­ited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Any time you access a page of this website that con­tains el­e­ments of LinkedIn, a con­nec­tion to LinkedIn’s servers is es­tab­lished. LinkedIn is no­ti­fied that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn’s “Rec­om­mend” button and are logged into your LinkedIn account at the time, LinkedIn will be in a po­si­tion to al­lo­cate your visit to this website to your user account. We have to point out that we as the provider of the web­sites do not have any knowl­edge of the content of the trans­ferred data and its use by LinkedIn.

If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in making our in­for­ma­tion as com­pre­hen­sively visible as pos­si­ble on social media.

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/​help/​linkedin/​answer/​62538/​datenubertragung-aus-dereu-dem-ewr-und-derschweiz?​lang=en.​

For further in­for­ma­tion on this subject, please consult LinkedIn’s Data Privacy De­c­la­ra­tion at:
https://​www.​linkedin.​com/​legal/​privacy-policy

XING


This website uses el­e­ments of the XING network. The provider is the New Work SE, Damm­torstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

Any time one of our sites/pages that con­tains el­e­ments of XING is ac­cessed, a con­nec­tion with XING’s servers is es­tab­lished. As far as we know, this does not result in the archiv­ing of any per­sonal data. In par­tic­u­lar, the service does not store any IP ad­dresses or analyze user pat­terns.

If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in making our in­for­ma­tion as com­pre­hen­sively visible as pos­si­ble on social media.

For more in­for­ma­tion on data pro­tec­tion and the XING share button please consult the Data Pro­tec­tion De­c­la­ra­tion of Xing at:
https://​www.​xing.​com/​app/​share?​op=data_​protection.​

Pinterest


We use el­e­ments of the social network Pin­ter­est on this website. The network is op­er­ated by Pin­ter­est Europe Ltd., Palmer­ston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.

If you access a site or page that con­tains such an element, your browser will es­tab­lish a direct con­nec­tion with Pin­ter­est’s servers. During this process, the social media element trans­fers log data to Pin­ter­est’s servers in the United States. The log data may pos­si­bly include your IP address, the address of the web­sites you visited, which also contain Pin­ter­est func­tions. The in­for­ma­tion also in­cludes the type and set­tings of your browser, the data and time of the inquiry, how you use Pin­ter­est and cookies.

If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in making our in­for­ma­tion as com­pre­hen­sively visible as pos­si­ble on social media.

For more in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing the purpose, scope and con­tinue pro­cess­ing and use of the data by Pin­ter­est as well as your af­fil­i­ated rights and options to protect your private in­for­ma­tion, please consult the data privacy in­for­ma­tion of Pin­ter­est at:
https://​about.​pinterest.​com/​en/​privacy-policy

6. 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 as­signed to the re­spec­tive end device of the user. An as­sign­ment to a user-ID does not take place.

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/​

IP anonymiza­tion

On this website, we have ac­ti­vated the IP anonymiza­tion func­tion. 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.

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.

Facebook Conversion API


We have in­te­grated Face­book Con­ver­sion API into this website. The provider of this service is Meta Plat­forms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. However, based on the in­for­ma­tion pro­vided by Face­book, the recorded data is also trans­mit­ted to the United States and other Non-EU and Non-EEZ coun­tries.

Face­book Con­ver­sion API enables us to record the in­ter­ac­tions of our website vis­i­tors with our website and to share this in­for­ma­tion with Face­book to improve the pro­mo­tional per­for­mance with Face­book.

To do this, in par­tic­u­lar the time you ac­cessed the site, the website you ac­cessed, your IP address and your user agent, as well as, if ap­plic­a­ble, other spe­cific data (e.g., pur­chased prod­ucts, value of the shop­ping cart and cur­rency) are tracked. For a com­plete overview of the tracked data, please visit:
https://​developers.​facebook.​com/​docs/​marketing-api/​conversions-api/​parameters.​

The use of this service occurs on the basis of your consent pur­suant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Sect. 1 TTDSG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

If per­sonal data is col­lected on our website with the as­sis­tance of the tool de­scribed herein and if it is shared with Face­book, we and Meta Plat­forms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland shall be jointly re­spon­si­ble for the pro­cess­ing of your data, i.e., we are the data con­trollers (Art. 26 GDPR). This shared re­spon­si­bil­ity is limited ex­clu­sively to the record­ing of your data and its sharing with Face­book. The pro­cess­ing that occurs after the data has been shared with Face­book is not part of this shared re­spon­si­bil­ity. The oblig­a­tions we share re­spon­si­bil­ity for have been doc­u­mented in an agree­ment on joint pro­cess­ing. The con­crete wording of this agree­ment can be found at:
https://​www.​facebook.​com/​legal/​controller_​addendum

Ac­cord­ing to this agree­ment, we are re­spon­si­ble for the pro­vi­sion of the data pro­tec­tion in­for­ma­tion when using the Face­book tool and for the data pro­tec­tion law com­pli­ant secure im­ple­men­ta­tion of the tool on our website. Face­book is liable for the data se­cu­rity of Face­book prod­ucts. You may request in­for­ma­tion on your rights as a data subject (e.g., request for in­for­ma­tion) related to the data processed by Face­book di­rectly from Face­book. If you claim any data subject rights with us, we are re­quired to forward your request to Face­book.

The trans­fer of data to the United States is based on the stan­dard con­tract clauses of the EU com­mis­sion. For details please visit:
https://​www.​facebook.​com/​legal/​EU_​data_​transfer_​addendum and https://​dede.​facebook.​com/​help/​56699466033338

In Face­book’s data privacy policy, you will find ad­di­tional in­for­ma­tion per­tain­ing to the pro­tec­tion of your privacy:
https://​de-de.​facebook.​com/​about/​privacy/​

Pinterest-Tag


We have in­te­grated Pin­ter­est-Tag into this website. The provider is Pin­ter­est Europe Ltd., Palmer­ston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.

The purpose of Pin­ter­est-Tag is to record certain actions you perform on our website. Sub­se­quently, the data can be used to display pro­mo­tions to you that meet your in­ter­ests on our website or on another Pin­ter­est-Tag website.

For this purpose, Pin­ter­est-Tag records, among other things, a Tag ID, your lo­ca­tion, and the re­fer­rer URL. Fur­ther­more, action spe­cific data, such as the order value, ordered quan­tity, order number, the cat­e­gory of the pur­chased item and video views may be recorded.

Pin­ter­est-Tag uses tech­nolo­gies that make the recog­ni­tion of the user across sites pos­si­ble, so that the user pat­terns can be an­a­lyzed (e.g., cookies or device fin­ger­print­ing). If your ap­proval (consent) has been ob­tained the use of the above­men­tioned service shall occur on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TTDSG (German Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Act). Such consent may be revoked at any time. If your consent was not ob­tained, the use of the service will occur on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; the website op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in en­sur­ing the maximum ef­fec­tive­ness of the op­er­a­tor’s mar­ket­ing ac­tiv­i­ties. Pin­ter­est is an en­ter­prise that does busi­ness around the globe, so that data may also be trans­mit­ted into the United States. Based on Pin­ter­est’s state­ments, this data trans­mis­sion is based on the stan­dard con­trac­tual clauses of the EU Com­mis­sions. For details please visit: https://​policy.​pinterest.​com/​de/​privacy-policy.​

For more Pin­ter­est-Tag in­for­ma­tion please visit:
https://​help.​pinterest.​com/​de/​business/​article/​track-conversions-with-pinterest-tag

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. Newsletter

Newsletter data


If you would like to sub­scribe to the newslet­ter offered on this website, we will need from you an e-mail address as well as in­for­ma­tion that allow us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address pro­vided and consent to the receipt of the newslet­ter. No further data shall be col­lected or shall be col­lected only on a vol­un­tary basis. We shall use such data only for the sending of the re­quested in­for­ma­tion and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The pro­cess­ing of the in­for­ma­tion entered into the newslet­ter sub­scrip­tion form shall occur ex­clu­sively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke the consent you have given to the archiv­ing of data, the e-mail address, and the use of this in­for­ma­tion for the sending of the newslet­ter at any time, for in­stance by click­ing on the “Un­sub­scribe” link in the newslet­ter. This shall be without prej­u­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data pro­cess­ing trans­ac­tions that have taken place to date.

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 or after the purpose has ceased to apply. We reserve the right to delete or block e-mail ad­dresses from our newslet­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion list at our own dis­cre­tion within the scope of our le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in ac­cor­dance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. 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.

8. 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

Vimeo Without Tracking (Do-Not-Track)


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

When­ever you visit one of our pages fea­tur­ing Vimeo videos, a con­nec­tion with the servers of Vimeo is es­tab­lished. In con­junc­tion with this, the Vimeo server re­ceives in­for­ma­tion about which of our sites you have visited. Vimeo also re­ceives your IP address. However, we have set up Vimeo in such a way that Vimeo cannot track your user ac­tiv­i­ties and does not place any cookies.

We use Vimeo to make our online pre­sen­ta­tion at­trac­tive for you. This is a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est on our part pur­suant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If a re­spec­tive de­c­la­ra­tion of consent was re­quested (e.g. con­cern­ing the storage of cookies), pro­cess­ing shall occur ex­clu­sively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; the given consent may 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 the han­dling of user data, please consult Vimeo’s data privacy policy at:
https://​vimeo.​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.

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) 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.

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.​

Google reCAPTCHA


We use “Google re­CAPTCHA” (here­inafter re­ferred to as “re­CAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of re­CAPTCHA is to de­ter­mine whether data entered on this website (e.g., in­for­ma­tion entered into a contact form) is being pro­vided by a human user or by an au­to­mated program. To de­ter­mine this, re­CAPTCHA an­a­lyzes the be­hav­ior of the website vis­i­tors based on a variety of pa­ra­me­ters. This analy­sis is trig­gered au­to­mat­i­cally as soon as the website visitor enters the site. For this analy­sis, re­CAPTCHA eval­u­ates a variety of data (e.g., IP address, time the website visitor spent on the site or cursor move­ments ini­ti­ated by the user). The data tracked during such analy­ses are for­warded to Google.

re­CAPTCHA analy­ses run en­tirely in the back­ground. Website vis­i­tors are not alerted that an analy­sis is un­der­way.

Data are stored and an­a­lyzed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in the pro­tec­tion of the op­er­a­tor’s web­sites against abusive au­to­mated spying and against SPAM. 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 about Google re­CAPTCHA please refer to the Google Data Privacy De­c­la­ra­tion and Terms Of Use under the fol­low­ing links:
https://​policies.​google.​com/​privacy?​hl=en and https://​policies.​google.​com/​terms?​hl=en

9. 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.

10. 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.