PRIVACY NOTICE
We will inform you below in accordance with the legal requirements of data protection law
(especially according to BDSG nF and the European data protection basic regulation 'DS-GVO')
about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data by our
Company. This privacy policy also applies to our websites and social media
profiles. Regarding the definition of terms such as "personal data" or
"Processing" we refer to Art. 4 DS-GVO.
Name and contact details of the person responsible
Our responsible person (hereinafter "responsible person") within the meaning of Art. 4 no. 7 GDPR is:
Volker Müller (Imprint)
Types of data, purposes of processing and categories of data subjects
Below we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and processing
and use of personal data.
1. Types of data we process
Usage data (access times, websites visited, etc.), inventory data (name, address, etc.),
Contact data (telephone number, e-mail, fax etc.), content data (text entries, videos, photos
etc.), communication data (IP address etc.),
2. Purposes of processing according to Art. 13 Para. 1 c) GDPR
Evidence purposes / preservation of evidence, website technically and economically optimize, light
Allowing access to the website, fulfillment of contractual obligations, contact
in the event of legal complaints by third parties, fulfillment of statutory retention requirements,
Optimization and statistical evaluation of our services, commercial use of the
Support website, improve user experience, make website user-friendly,
Economic operation of advertising and website, marketing / sales / advertising,
Creation of statistics, determination of copy probability of texts, avoidance of
SPAM and abuse, handling an application process, customer service and
Customer care, handling contact requests, websites with functions and content
provide, security measures, uninterrupted, secure operation of our
site.
3. Categories of data subjects according to Art. 13 Para. 1 e) GDPR
Visitors/users of the website, interested parties, applicants,
The persons concerned are referred to collectively as "users".
Legal bases for the processing of personal data
Below we inform you about the legal basis of the processing
personal data:
1.When we have obtained your consent for the processing of personal data
Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis.
2. Is the processing to fulfill a contract or to carry out pre-contractual
If measures are required that are taken at your request, Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b)
GDPR legal basis.
3.Is the processing necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we
are subject to (e.g. legal storage obligations), Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c) GDPR
GMO legal basis.
4. Is the processing necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or
to protect another natural person, Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter d) GDPR
legal basis.
5. Is the processing to safeguard our or the legitimate interests of a third party
necessary and outweigh your interests or fundamental rights and
fundamental freedoms, Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f) GDPR is the legal basis.
Disclosure of personal data to third parties and processors
In principle, we do not pass on any data to third parties without your consent. Should this
However, if this is the case, the disclosure will be made on the basis of the above
Legal bases, e.g. when passing on data to online payment providers
performance of a contract or due to a court order or due to a legal obligation
Obligation to release the data for the purpose of criminal prosecution, for
security or to enforce intellectual property rights.
We also use processors (external service providers, e.g. for web hosting of our
websites and databases) to process your data. If under a
Agreement on order processing passed on to the order processor data
are always done in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. We choose ours
Processors carefully, check them regularly and have us
Have the right to issue instructions regarding the data. In addition, they have to
processors have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures
and comply with the data protection regulations according to BDSG nF and DS-GVO
Data transfer to third countries
With the adoption of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
a uniform basis for data protection in Europe was created. your data
are therefore mainly processed by companies for the DS-GVO application
finds. Should the processing by third party services outside the European Union
or the European Economic Area, these must be the special ones
Meet the requirements of Art. 44 et seq. GDPR. That means the processing is done
due to special guarantees, such as those officially recognized by the EU Commission
Determination of a data protection level corresponding to the EU or official compliance
recognized special contractual obligations, the so-called
“Standard Contractual Clauses”. For US companies, submission to the so-called
"Privacy Shield", the data protection agreement between the EU and the USA, this
Requirements.
Deletion of data and storage period
Except as expressly provided in this Privacy Policy, your
personal data deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose for storage no longer applies,
unless their continued storage is required for evidentiary purposes or is related to this
conflict with statutory retention requirements. This includes, for example, commercial law
Retention obligations for business letters according to § 257 Para. 1 HGB (6 years) as well
Tax law storage obligations according to § 147 paragraph 1 AO of receipts (10 years).
If the prescribed retention period expires, it will be blocked or deleted
Your data, unless the storage is still necessary for the conclusion of a contract or for
performance required.
Existence of automated decision-making
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.
Provision of our website and creation of log files
1. If you only use our website for informational purposes (i.e. no registration and
no other transmission of information), we only collect the
personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you our
If you want to view the website, we collect the following data: • IP address;
• User's internet service provider;
• date and time of retrieval;
• browser type;
• language and browser version;
• content of the call;
• time zone;
• Access Status/HTTP Status Code;
• amount of data;
• websites from which the request comes;
• Operating system.
A storage of this data together with other personal data of you
does not take place.
2. This data serves the purpose of user-friendly, functional and secure
Delivery of our website to you with functions and content and their optimization
and statistical evaluation.
3. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in the above purposes
Interest in data processing according to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f) GDPR.
4. For security reasons, we store this data in server log files for the duration of the storage
of 70 days. After this period, they will be automatically deleted, unless we
need to keep them for evidence purposes in the event of attacks on the server infrastructure
or other violations of law.
cookies
1. We use so-called cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are small
Text files that your Internet browser stores and saves on your computer. If you
When you visit our website again, these cookies provide information to you automatically
to recognize. The information obtained in this way serves the purpose of our web offers
to optimize it technically and economically and give you easier and safer access
to allow access to our website. We will inform you about this when you visit our website
by referring to our privacy policy on the use of cookies
for the aforementioned purposes and how you object to them or their storage
can prevent ("opt-out"). Our website uses session cookies, persistent cookies
and third-party cookies:
• Session cookies: We use so-called cookies to recognize multiple uses
of an offer by the same user (e.g. if you have logged in to determine
your login status). When you visit our site again, these cookies
information to automatically recognize you. The information thus obtained
serve to optimize our offers and give you easier access to our
allow page. If you close the browser or log out, the
Session cookies deleted.
• Persistent cookies: These are automatically deleted after a specified period,
which may differ depending on the cookie. In the security settings of your browser
you can delete the cookies at any time.
• Cookies from third parties (third-party cookies): According to your wishes
You can configure your browser settings and e.g. B. The Acceptance of Third-Party
Reject cookies or all cookies. However, we would like to point out at this point that
You may then not be able to use all the functions of this website. Read more
these cookies in the respective data protection declarations for the third-party providers.
2. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence Letter b) GDPR if the cookies
for contract initiation, for example, when placing orders and otherwise we have a
legitimate interest in the effective functionality of the website, so that in this case Art. 6
Paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR is the legal basis.
3.Objection and "Opt-Out": You can save cookies on your hard drive
generally prevent by selecting “do not accept cookies” in your browser settings
Select. However, this can result in a functional restriction of our offers. she
You can opt out of the use of cookies from third-party providers for advertising purposes via a so-called "opt-
out" via this American website (https://optout.aboutads.info) or this European one
website (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/).
Online payment provider
1. When paying by "Paypal", billing takes place via PayPal (Europe) S.àr.l. et Cie,
SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg, Web: paypal.de,
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
Hereinafter referred to as "Online Calculator". The online calculators collect, store and
process the usage and billing data from you for determination and
Billing for the service you have used. The at the online
Data entered by billing agents will only be processed by them and by them
saved. If the online biller does not pay the usage fees or only partially
or the online biller can collect this due to a complaint from you
refrained, the usage data from the online billing to the person responsible
passed on and, if necessary, blocked by the person responsible. same for
also if, for example, a credit card company charges you for a transaction
responsible reversed.
2. The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph S. 1 lit. b) GDPR, since the processing is necessary to fulfill a
contract by the person responsible is required. In addition, external online
Settlement on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f) GDPR for legitimate interests
used by the person responsible to offer you the safest, simplest and most varied
to offer payment options.
3. With regard to the storage period, revocation, information and data subject rights
we refer to the above data protection declarations of the online billing companies.
Use of blog functions / comments
1.You can post publicly on our blog, which contains posts related to topics on our website
make comments. You can use a pseudonym instead of a real name. Her
The contribution will then be published under the pseudonym. The e-mail address is
Mandatory, all other information is voluntary.
2. When you post a comment, we save your IP address with the date and
Time, which we delete after 70 days. The storage serves the legitimate interest
the defense against claims by third parties when publishing illegal content
or untrue content by you. We store your e-mail address for the purpose of
Contacting you if third parties should legally object to your comments.
3. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. b) and f) GDPR.
4.We do not review your comments before publishing. In case of complaints
Third parties, we reserve the right to delete your comments. We give them
Data will not be passed on to third parties unless it is necessary to pursue our claims
or there is a legal obligation (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1. lit. c) DS-GVO).
5. The data will be deleted as soon as they are necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were collected or
the execution of the contract is no longer necessary because the contract has ended.
use of our forum
1. A prerequisite for using the forum is registration via the corresponding
online form. You can read the forum without registration and in the case of
Register to publish posts and topics under a pseudonym. There is none
compulsory real name Received after registration via the online form in the forum
You have been sent a confirmation email to verify your data, with which you can
You can confirm registration with a mouse click (“double opt-in procedure”). With the
Activation of your account by the person responsible, comes the free of charge
Forum usage contract (conclusion of contract). If you do not register by
If you click the mouse button, your registration will be deleted from us within 24 hours.
2. If we have activated your account, we will also save it until you cancel
all activities in the forum, especially your public topics, with your login data
and posts, your profile information, your private messages, your signature, your account
Wall and your reputation to run the forum. We store at your
Publishing new topics and posts Your IP address with date and time, which
we delete after 70 days. The storage serves the legitimate interest of
Defense against the claims of third parties in the publication of illegal
or untrue content by you. We store your email address and name for this purpose
contacting you if third parties should legally object to your content.
3. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. b) and f) GDPR.
4.If your forum account is deleted, your forum posts and topics will remain
visible to all readers and can be found via search engines and are marked "guest"
marked. All other data will be deleted. If you also delete your
forum posts and topics, you must do so before deleting the account
Notify the person responsible using the above contact details. After deleting the account
it is no longer possible to allocate and delete the contributions.
YouTube videos
1. We have YouTube videos from youtube.com on our website using the embedded
Function integrated so that they can be called up directly on our website. YouTube
belongs to Google Ireland Limited, Register No.: 368047, Gordon House, Barrow Street,
Dublin 4, Ireland. We have the videos in the so-called "extended data protection mode"
integrated without the usage behavior being recorded with cookies in order to
personalize video playback. Instead, the video recommendations are based on that
currently playing video. Videos recorded in privacy-enhanced mode in a
embedded player does not affect which videos are played
be recommended to you on YouTube. When starting a video (click on the video) receives
YouTube the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website
to have. The data obtained is transferred to the USA and stored there. This
also takes place without a user account with Google. You should be logged into your Google account
be, Google can assign the above data to your account. If you don't want this,
you have to log out of your Google account. Google creates from such data
user profiles and uses this data for the purpose of advertising, market research or
Optimizing its websites.
2. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in the above purposes
Interest in data processing according to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f) GDPR.
3. You have the right to object to the creation of user profiles by Google.
Therefore, please contact Google directly via the address below
Data protection. You can object to the opt-out of advertising cookies
here in your Google account:
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
4. In the YouTube Terms of Use at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms and in
Google's advertising privacy policy
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads for more information
Use of Google cookies and their advertising technologies, storage period,
Anonymization, location data, how it works and your rights. General
Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
5.Google is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-
US framework) and therefore obliged to comply with European data protection law.
Google ReCAPTCHA
1. We have the anti-spam function "reCAPTCHA" from "Google" on our website
(Google Ireland Limited, Registration No.: 368047, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4,
Ireland) integrated. By using "reCAPTCHA" in our forms, we can
Determine whether the input was made by a machine (robot) or a human. at
the use of the service can include your IP address and any other data required for this
Google servers in the USA will be transferred.
2.The purpose of processing this data is to avoid spam and abuse as well
our economic interest in optimizing our website.
3. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in the above purposes
Interest in data processing according to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f) GDPR.
4.Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement
(https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework). This will ensure that
European data protection law is complied with.
5. For more information about Google ReCAPTCHA, see
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ and in Google’s privacy policy at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy .
Presence on social media
1. We maintain profiles or fan pages in social media in order to communicate with the people there
to communicate with connected and registered users and to learn about our products,
to inform offers and services. The US providers are according to the so-called privacy
Shield certified and thus obliged to comply with European data protection. In the
Use and access of our profile in the respective network by you apply
respective data protection information and terms of use of the respective network.
2. We process your data that you send us via these networks in order to communicate with you
communicate and to reply to your messages there.
3. The legal basis for processing the personal data is ours
legitimate interest in communicating with users and our public image
for the purpose of advertising in accordance with Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. As far as you the person responsible
of the social network consent to the processing of your personal data
have granted, the legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a) and Article 7 GDPR.
4. The data protection notices, information options and objection options (opt-
Out) of the respective networks can be found here:
• Facebook (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2,
Ireland) Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, Opt-Out:
https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com, Privacy
Shield:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active .
• XING (XING AG, Dammtorstrasse 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany) -
Privacy Policy/ Opt-Out: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.
Data protection for applications and in the application process
1. Applications sent electronically or by post to the person responsible
are sent electronically for the purpose of processing the application process
or processed manually.
2. We expressly point out that application documents with "special
Categories of personal data" according to Art. 9 DS-GVO (e.g. a photo, which
reveals your ethnic origin, religion or marital status).
With the exception of a possible severe disability, which you are free to choose
want to disclose are undesirable. You should submit your application without this data
Submit. This has no effect on your chances of applying.
3. The legal basis for processing is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b) GDPR and Article 26
BDSG nF
4. After completion of the application process, an employment relationship with the applicant /
received by the applicant, the applicant data will be processed, taking into account the relevant
data protection regulations saved. Will be sent to you after completion of the application process
If no position is offered, your application letter and documents will be sent 6
Deleted months after the rejection was sent in order to avoid any claims and obligations to provide evidence
to be able to suffice according to AGG.
rights of the data subject
1.Objection or revocation against the processing of your data
Insofar as the processing is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a), Art. 7 DS-
GMO is based, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. the
the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation
not affected by this.
Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests
pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR, you can object to the
insert processing. This is the case if the processing is not particularly necessary
Performance of a contract with you is required, which is what we do at the following
Description of the functions is shown. When exercising such an objection
we ask you to explain the reasons why we do not like your personal data
should process carried out by us. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine it
the situation and will either stop or adapt the data processing or you
show our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we carry out the processing
continue.
You can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and marketing purposes
Object to data analysis at any time. You can exercise your right to object free of charge.
You can inform us about your objection to advertising using the following contact details:
2. Right to information
You have the right to information about your personal data stored by us
Art. 15 GDPR. This includes in particular information about the processing purposes,
the category of personal data, the categories of recipients
which your data was or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the origin
their data, unless they were collected directly from you.
3.Right to Rectification
You have the right to have incorrect data corrected or correct data completed
according to Art. 16 GDPR.
4.Right to Erasure
You have the right to have your data stored by us deleted in accordance with Art. 17 DS-GVO,
unless statutory or contractual retention periods or other statutory
Obligations or rights to further storage conflict with this.
5. Right to Restriction
You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data
To request data if one of the requirements in Article 18 (1) lit. a) to d) GDPR
is satisfied:
• If you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period
which enables the person responsible to ensure the accuracy of the personal data
check over;
• the processing is unlawful and you request the erasure of the personal data
reject and instead restrict the use of the personal data
to demand;
• the person responsible does not use the personal data for the purposes of processing
longer, but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defense of
legal claims need, or
• if you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 Para. 1 DS-GVO
have and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate reasons for the person responsible
Your reasons prevail.
6.Right to Data Portability
You have a right to data portability under Art. 20 GDPR, which means that you
the personal data we have stored about you in a structured,
common and machine-readable format or the transmission to a
can demand from other responsible persons.
7.Right to Complain
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Usually you can
for this to the supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, your
workplace or location of the alleged violation.
data security
To protect any personal data transmitted to us and to
to ensure that the data protection regulations of us, but also of our external
service providers are complied with, we have appropriate technical and organizational measures
security measures taken. Therefore, among other things, all data between your
Browser and our server encrypted via a secure SSL connection.
Status: 06/19/2019