Privacy Policy

We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enter­prise. Data protec­tion is of a partic­u­larly high priority for the manage­ment of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH. The use of the Internet pages of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH is possible without any indi­ca­tion of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enter­prise services via our website, processing of personal data could become neces­sary. If the processing of personal data is neces­sary and there is no statu­tory basis for such processing, we gener­ally obtain consent from the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e‑mail address, or tele­phone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protec­tion Regu­la­tion (GDPR), and in accor­dance with the country-specific data protec­tion regu­la­tions applic­able to the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH. By means of this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion, our enter­prise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Further­more, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion, of the rights to which they are entitled.

As the controller, the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH has imple­mented numerous tech­nical and orga­ni­za­tional measures to ensure the most complete protec­tion of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data trans­mis­sions may in prin­ciple have secu­rity gaps, so absolute protec­tion may not be guar­an­teed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alter­na­tive means, e.g. by telephone.

1. Definitions

The data protec­tion decla­ra­tion of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH is based on the terms used by the Euro­pean legis­lator for the adop­tion of the General Data Protec­tion Regu­la­tion (GDPR). Our data protec­tion decla­ra­tion should be legible and under­stand­able for the general public, as well as our customers and busi­ness part­ners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the termi­nology used.

In this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion, we use, inter alia, the following terms:

• a)    Personal data

  Personal data means any infor­ma­tion relating to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able natural person (“data subject”). An iden­ti­fi­able natural person is one who can be iden­ti­fied, directly or indi­rectly, in partic­ular by refer­ence to an iden­ti­fier such as a name, an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion number, loca­tion data, an online iden­ti­fier or to one or more factors specific to the phys­ical, phys­i­o­log­ical, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social iden­tity of that natural person.

• b) Data subject

  Data subject is any iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller respon­sible for the processing.

• c)    Processing

  Processing is any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by auto­mated means, such as collec­tion, recording, organ­i­sa­tion, struc­turing, storage, adap­ta­tion or alter­ation, retrieval, consul­ta­tion, use, disclo­sure by trans­mis­sion, dissem­i­na­tion or other­wise making avail­able, align­ment or combi­na­tion, restric­tion, erasure or destruction.

• d)    Restriction of processing

  Restric­tion of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

• e)    Profiling

  Profiling means any form of auto­mated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to eval­uate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in partic­ular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s perfor­mance at work, economic situ­a­tion, health, personal pref­er­ences, inter­ests, reli­a­bility, behav­iour, loca­tion or movements.

• f)     Pseudonymisation

  Pseu­do­nymi­sa­tion is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attrib­uted to a specific data subject without the use of addi­tional infor­ma­tion, provided that such addi­tional infor­ma­tion is kept sepa­rately and is subject to tech­nical and organ­i­sa­tional measures to ensure that the personal data are not attrib­uted to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able natural person.

• g)    Controller or controller responsible for the processing

  Controller or controller respon­sible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, deter­mines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are deter­mined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomi­na­tion may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

• h)    Processor

  Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

• i)      Recipient

  Recip­ient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public author­i­ties which may receive personal data in the frame­work of a partic­ular inquiry in accor­dance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recip­i­ents; the processing of those data by those public author­i­ties shall be in compli­ance with the applic­able data protec­tion rules according to the purposes of the processing.

• j)      Third party

  Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are autho­rised to process personal data.

• k)    Consent

  Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unam­biguous indi­ca­tion of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a state­ment or by a clear affir­ma­tive action, signi­fies agree­ment to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. Name and Address of the controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protec­tion Regu­la­tion (GDPR), other data protec­tion laws applic­able in Member states of the Euro­pean Union and other provi­sions related to data protec­tion is:

Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH
Am Schwa­nensee 11
D‑35423 Lich

Tel.: +49 6404 90798 20

Email: info@vesch-technologies.com

Website: www.vesch-technologies.com

3. Cookies

The Internet pages of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.

Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique iden­ti­fier of the cookie. It consists of a char­acter string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differ­en­tiate the indi­vidual browser of the dats subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recog­nized and iden­ti­fied using the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the infor­ma­tion and offers on our website can be opti­mized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previ­ously mentioned, to recog­nize our website users. The purpose of this recog­ni­tion is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shop­ping cart in an online shop. The online store remem­bers the arti­cles that a customer has placed in the virtual shop­ping cart via a cookie.

The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corre­sponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus perma­nently deny the setting of cookies. Further­more, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other soft­ware programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deac­ti­vates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all func­tions of our website may be entirely usable.

4. Collection of general data and information

The website of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH collects a series of general data and infor­ma­tion when a data subject or auto­mated system calls up the website. This general data and infor­ma­tion are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the oper­ating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called refer­rers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and infor­ma­tion that may be used in the event of attacks on our infor­ma­tion tech­nology systems.

When using these general data and infor­ma­tion, the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH does not draw any conclu­sions about the data subject. Rather, this infor­ma­tion is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) opti­mize the content of our website as well as its adver­tise­ment, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our infor­ma­tion tech­nology systems and website tech­nology, and (4) provide law enforce­ment author­i­ties with the infor­ma­tion neces­sary for crim­inal pros­e­cu­tion in case of a cyber-attack. There­fore, the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH analyzes anony­mously collected data and infor­ma­tion statis­ti­cally, with the aim of increasing the data protec­tion and data secu­rity of our enter­prise, and to ensure an optimal level of protec­tion for the personal data we process. The anony­mous data of the server log files are stored sepa­rately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Contact possibility via the website

The website of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH contains infor­ma­tion that enables a quick elec­tronic contact to our enter­prise, as well as direct commu­ni­ca­tion with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called elec­tronic mail (e‑mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e‑mail or via a contact form, the personal data trans­mitted by the data subject are auto­mat­i­cally stored. Such personal data trans­mitted on a volun­tary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

6. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data

The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period neces­sary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator or other legis­la­tors in laws or regu­la­tions to which the controller is subject to.

If the storage purpose is not applic­able, or if a storage period prescribed by the Euro­pean legis­lator or another compe­tent legis­lator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accor­dance with legal requirements.

7. Rights of the data subject

• a) Right of confirmation

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to obtain from the controller the confir­ma­tion as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of confir­ma­tion, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

• b) Right of access

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to obtain from the controller free infor­ma­tion about his or her personal data stored at any time and a copy of this infor­ma­tion. Further­more, the Euro­pean direc­tives and regu­la­tions grant the data subject access to the following information:

  • the purposes of the processing;
  • the cate­gories of personal data concerned;
  • the recip­i­ents or cate­gories of recip­i­ents to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in partic­ular recip­i­ents in third coun­tries or inter­na­tional organisations;
  • where possible, the envis­aged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to deter­mine that period;
  • the exis­tence of the right to request from the controller recti­fi­ca­tion or erasure of personal data, or restric­tion of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing;
  • the exis­tence of the right to lodge a complaint with a super­vi­sory authority;
  • where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any avail­able infor­ma­tion as to their source;
  • the exis­tence of auto­mated deci­sion-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, mean­ingful infor­ma­tion about the logic involved, as well as the signif­i­cance and envis­aged conse­quences of such processing for the data subject.

  Further­more, the data subject shall have a right to obtain infor­ma­tion as to whether personal data are trans­ferred to a third country or to an inter­na­tional organ­i­sa­tion. Where this is the case, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appro­priate safe­guards relating to the transfer.

  If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

• c) Right to rectification

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to obtain from the controller without undue delay the recti­fi­ca­tion of inac­cu­rate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incom­plete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supple­men­tary statement.

  If a data subject wishes to exer­cise this right to recti­fi­ca­tion, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

• d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay, and the controller shall have the oblig­a­tion to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary:

  • The personal data are no longer neces­sary in rela­tion to the purposes for which they were collected or other­wise processed.
  • The data subject with­draws consent to which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
  • The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no over­riding legit­i­mate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
  • The personal data have been unlaw­fully processed.
  • The personal data must be erased for compli­ance with a legal oblig­a­tion in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
  • The personal data have been collected in rela­tion to the offer of infor­ma­tion society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

  If one of the afore­men­tioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.

  Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of avail­able tech­nology and the cost of imple­men­ta­tion, shall take reason­able steps, including tech­nical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or repli­ca­tion of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH will arrange the neces­sary measures in indi­vidual cases.

• e) Right of restriction of processing

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to obtain from the controller restric­tion of processing where one of the following applies:

  • The accu­racy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accu­racy of the personal data.
  • The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restric­tion of their use instead.
  • The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims.
  • The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the veri­fi­ca­tion whether the legit­i­mate grounds of the controller over­ride those of the data subject.

  If one of the afore­men­tioned condi­tions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restric­tion of the processing of personal data stored by the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH will arrange the restric­tion of the processing.

• f) Right to data portability

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a struc­tured, commonly used and machine-read­able format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by auto­mated means, as long as the processing is not neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exer­cise of offi­cial authority vested in the controller.

  Further­more, in exer­cising his or her right to data porta­bility pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have personal data trans­mitted directly from one controller to another, where tech­ni­cally feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and free­doms of others.

  In order to assert the right to data porta­bility, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH.

• g) Right to object

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to object, on grounds relating to his or her partic­ular situ­a­tion, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

  The Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objec­tion, unless we can demon­strate compelling legit­i­mate grounds for the processing which over­ride the inter­ests, rights and free­doms of the data subject, or for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims.

  If the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

  In addi­tion, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her partic­ular situ­a­tion, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH for scien­tific or histor­ical research purposes, or for statis­tical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

  In order to exer­cise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH. In addi­tion, the data subject is free in the context of the use of infor­ma­tion society services, and notwith­standing Direc­tive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by auto­mated means using tech­nical specifications.

• h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator not to be subject to a deci­sion based solely on auto­mated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or simi­larly signif­i­cantly affects him or her, as long as the deci­sion (1) is not is neces­sary for entering into, or the perfor­mance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not autho­rised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suit­able measures to safe­guard the data subject’s rights and free­doms and legit­i­mate inter­ests, or (3) is not based on the data subject’s explicit consent.

  If the deci­sion (1) is neces­sary for entering into, or the perfor­mance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH shall imple­ment suit­able measures to safe­guard the data subject’s rights and free­doms and legit­i­mate inter­ests, at least the right to obtain human inter­ven­tion on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.

  If the data subject wishes to exer­cise the rights concerning auto­mated indi­vidual deci­sion-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH.

• i) Right to withdraw data protection consent

  Each data subject shall have the right granted by the Euro­pean legis­lator to with­draw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time.

  If the data subject wishes to exer­cise the right to with­draw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Vesch Tech­nolo­gies GmbH.

8. Data protection for applications and the application procedures

The data controller shall collect and process the personal data of appli­cants for the purpose of the processing of the appli­ca­tion proce­dure. The processing may also be carried out elec­tron­i­cally. This is the case, in partic­ular, if an appli­cant submits corre­sponding appli­ca­tion docu­ments by e‑mail or by means of a web form on the website to the controller. If the data controller concludes an employ­ment contract with an appli­cant, the submitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employ­ment rela­tion­ship in compli­ance with legal require­ments. If no employ­ment contract is concluded with the appli­cant by the controller, the appli­ca­tion docu­ments shall be auto­mat­i­cally erased two months after noti­fi­ca­tion of the refusal deci­sion, provided that no other legit­i­mate inter­ests of the controller are opposed to the erasure. Other legit­i­mate interest in this rela­tion is, e.g. a burden of proof in a proce­dure under the General Equal Treat­ment Act (AGG).

9. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)

On this website, the controller has inte­grated the compo­nent of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer func­tion). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collec­tion, gath­ering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visi­tors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what dura­tion a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the opti­miza­tion of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.

The oper­ator of the Google Analytics compo­nent is Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Pkwy, Moun­tain View, CA 94043–1351, United States.

For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the appli­ca­tion “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this appli­ca­tion the IP address of the Internet connec­tion of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the Euro­pean Union or another Contracting State to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Economic Area.

The purpose of the Google Analytics compo­nent is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and infor­ma­tion, inter alia, to eval­uate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activ­i­ties on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us.

Google Analytics places a cookie on the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject. The defi­n­i­tion of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the indi­vidual pages of this Internet site, which is oper­ated by the controller and into which a Google Analytics compo­nent was inte­grated, the Internet browser on the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject will auto­mat­i­cally submit data through the Google Analytics compo­nent for the purpose of online adver­tising and the settle­ment of commis­sions to Google. During the course of this tech­nical proce­dure, the enter­prise Google gains knowl­edge of personal infor­ma­tion, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, inter alia, to under­stand the origin of visi­tors and clicks, and subse­quently create commis­sion settlements.

The cookie is used to store personal infor­ma­tion, such as the access time, the loca­tion from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits of our website by the data subject. With each visit to our Internet site, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be trans­mitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the tech­nical proce­dure to third parties.

The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corre­sponding adjust­ment of the web browser used and thus perma­nently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjust­ment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject. In addi­tion, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other soft­ware programs.

In addi­tion, the data subject has the possi­bility of objecting to a collec­tion of data that are gener­ated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must down­load a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and infor­ma­tion about the visits of Internet pages may not be trans­mitted to Google Analytics. The instal­la­tion of the browser add-ons is consid­ered an objec­tion by Google. If the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must rein­stall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was unin­stalled by the data subject or any other person who is attrib­ut­able to their sphere of compe­tence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the rein­stal­la­tion or reac­ti­va­tion of the browser add-ons.

Further infor­ma­tion and the applic­able data protec­tion provi­sions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.

10. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn

The controller has inte­grated compo­nents of the LinkedIn Corpo­ra­tion on this website. LinkedIn is a web-based social network that enables users with existing busi­ness contacts to connect and to make new busi­ness contacts. Over 400 million regis­tered people in more than 200 coun­tries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is currently the largest plat­form for busi­ness contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world.

The oper­ating company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corpo­ra­tion, 2029 Stierlin Court Moun­tain View, CA 94043, UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vidual pages of this Internet site, which is oper­ated by the controller and on which a LinkedIn compo­nent (LinkedIn plug-in) was inte­grated, the Internet browser on the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject is auto­mat­i­cally prompted to the down­load of a display of the corre­sponding LinkedIn compo­nent of LinkedIn. Further infor­ma­tion about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this tech­nical proce­dure, LinkedIn gains knowl­edge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This infor­ma­tion is collected through the LinkedIn compo­nent and asso­ci­ated with the respec­tive LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the LinkedIn buttons inte­grated on our website, then LinkedIn assigns this infor­ma­tion to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

LinkedIn receives infor­ma­tion via the LinkedIn compo­nent that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regard­less of whether the person clicks on the LinkedIn button or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to LinkedIn is not desir­able for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our website is made.

LinkedIn provides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possi­bility to unsub­scribe from e‑mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affil­i­ates such as Eire, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applic­able privacy policy for LinkedIn is avail­able under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is avail­able under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.

11. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter

On this website, the controller has inte­grated compo­nents of Twitter. Twitter is a multi­lin­gual, publicly-acces­sible microblog­ging service on which users may publish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’ e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 char­ac­ters. These short messages are avail­able for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respec­tive user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user’s tweets. Further­more, Twitter allows you to address a wide audi­ence via hash­tags, links or retweets.

The oper­ating company of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vidual pages of this Internet site, which is oper­ated by the controller and on which a Twitter compo­nent (Twitter button) was inte­grated, the Internet browser on the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject is auto­mat­i­cally prompted to down­load a display of the corre­sponding Twitter compo­nent of Twitter. Further infor­ma­tion about the Twitter buttons is avail­able under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. During the course of this tech­nical proce­dure, Twitter gains knowl­edge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the inte­gra­tion of the Twitter compo­nent is a retrans­mis­sion of the contents of this website to allow our users to intro­duce this web page to the digital world and increase our visitor numbers.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Twitter, Twitter detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Internet site which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This infor­ma­tion is collected through the Twitter compo­nent and asso­ci­ated with the respec­tive Twitter account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Twitter buttons inte­grated on our website, then Twitter assigns this infor­ma­tion to the personal Twitter user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

Twitter receives infor­ma­tion via the Twitter compo­nent that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in on Twitter at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regard­less of whether the person clicks on the Twitter compo­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to Twitter is not desir­able for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Twitter account before a call-up to our website is made.

The applic­able data protec­tion provi­sions of Twitter may be accessed under https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.

12. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Xing

On this website, the controller has inte­grated compo­nents of XING. XING is an Internet-based social network that enables users to connect with existing busi­ness contacts and to create new busi­ness contacts. The indi­vidual users can create a personal profile of them­selves at XING. Compa­nies may, e.g. create company profiles or publish jobs on XING.

The oper­ating company of XING is XING SE, Damm­torstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vidual pages of this Internet site, which is oper­ated by the controller and on which a XING compo­nent (XING plug-in) was inte­grated, the Internet browser on the infor­ma­tion tech­nology system of the data subject is auto­mat­i­cally prompted to down­load a display of the corre­sponding XING compo­nent of XING. Further infor­ma­tion about the XING plug-in the may be accessed under https://dev.xing.com/plugins. During the course of this tech­nical proce­dure, XING gains knowl­edge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in at the same time on XING, XING detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This infor­ma­tion is collected through the XING compo­nent and asso­ci­ated with the respec­tive XING account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on the XING button inte­grated on our Internet site, e.g. the “Share”-button, then XING assigns this infor­ma­tion to the personal XING user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.

XING receives infor­ma­tion via the XING compo­nent that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at XING at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regard­less of whether the person clicks on the XING compo­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to XING is not desir­able for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their XING account before a call-up to our website is made.

The data protec­tion provi­sions published by XING, which is avail­able under https://www.xing.com/privacy, provide infor­ma­tion on the collec­tion, processing and use of personal data by XING. In addi­tion, XING has published privacy notices for the XING share button under https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

13. Legal basis for the processing

Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing oper­a­tions for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing oper­a­tions are neces­sary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing oper­a­tions which are neces­sary for carrying out pre-contrac­tual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our prod­ucts or services. Is our company subject to a legal oblig­a­tion by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfill­ment of tax oblig­a­tions, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR.

In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be neces­sary to protect the vital inter­ests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insur­ance data or other vital infor­ma­tion would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR.

Finally, processing oper­a­tions could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing oper­a­tions which are not covered by any of the above­men­tioned legal grounds, if processing is neces­sary for the purposes of the legit­i­mate inter­ests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such inter­ests are over­ridden by the inter­ests or funda­mental rights and free­doms of the data subject which require protec­tion of personal data. Such processing oper­a­tions are partic­u­larly permis­sible because they have been specif­i­cally mentioned by the Euro­pean legis­lator. He consid­ered that a legit­i­mate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).

14. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party

Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legit­i­mate interest is to carry out our busi­ness in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the shareholders.

15. Period for which the personal data will be stored

The criteria used to deter­mine the period of storage of personal data is the respec­tive statu­tory reten­tion period. After expi­ra­tion of that period, the corre­sponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer neces­sary for the fulfill­ment of the contract or the initi­a­tion of a contract.

16. Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; Requirement necessary to enter into a contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data

We clarify that the provi­sion of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regu­la­tions) or can also result from contrac­tual provi­sions (e.g. infor­ma­tion on the contrac­tual partner).

Some­times it may be neces­sary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subse­quently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provi­sion of the personal data would have the conse­quence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded.

Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clar­i­fies to the data subject whether the provi­sion of the personal data is required by law or contract or is neces­sary for the conclu­sion of the contract, whether there is an oblig­a­tion to provide the personal data and the conse­quences of non-provi­sion of the personal data.

17. Existence of automated decision-making

As a respon­sible company, we do not use auto­matic deci­sion-making or profiling.

This Privacy Policy has been gener­ated by the Privacy Policy Gener­ator of the German Asso­ci­a­tion for Data Protec­tion that was devel­oped in coop­er­a­tion with  Privacy Lawyers from WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, Cologne.