1. An over­view of data protection

Gene­ral information

We take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data and com­pli­ance with the legal pro­vi­si­ons on data pro­tec­tion very seriously. In the fol­lowing, we would like to inform you — also in accordance with the EU Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “GDPR”) — about how your per­so­nal data is pro­ces­sed and what rights you have when you visit our web­site and/or pre­sen­ces in social media. “Per­so­nal data” is any data with which you can be per­so­nally identified.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on data pro­tec­tion (for example for cus­to­mers and sup­pliers or the app­li­ca­tion pro­cess) can also be found at https://www.vonrollgroup.com/en/legal-information/.

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 Notice.

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 Pri­vacy Notice below.

 

2. Hos­ting and Con­tent Deli­very Net­works (CDN)

Exter­nal Hosting

This web­site is hos­ted by an exter­nal ser­vice pro­vi­der (host). 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 host is used for the pur­pose of ful­fil­ling the con­tract with our poten­tial and exis­ting cus­to­mers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the inte­rest of secure, fast, and effi­ci­ent pro­vi­sion of our online ser­vices by a pro­fes­sio­nal pro­vi­der (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

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

 

3. Gene­ral infor­ma­tion and man­da­tory information

Data pro­tec­tion

We handle your per­so­nal data as con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion and in com­pli­ance with the sta­tu­tory data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this Pri­vacy Notice.

Whenever you use this web­site, a variety of per­so­nal infor­ma­tion will be collec­ted. This Pri­vacy Notice 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:

Von Roll Manage­ment AG
Pass­wangs­trasse 20
4226 Breitenbach
Schweiz

E‑Mail: dataprotection@vonroll.com

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.).

If for a web­site or social media pre­sence ano­t­her Von Roll Group com­pany than Von Roll Manage­ment AG is expressly indi­ca­ted as the respon­si­ble pro­vi­der (please refer to the pro­vi­der infor­ma­tion of the web­site or social media pre­sence in ques­tion), this com­pany is also the respon­si­ble data pro­ces­sing controller.

Sto­rage duration

Unless a more spe­ci­fic sto­rage period has been spe­ci­fied in this Pri­vacy Notice, 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.

Infor­ma­tion on data trans­fer to the USA

Our web­site uses, in par­ti­cu­lar, tools from com­pa­nies based in the USA. When these tools are active, your per­so­nal infor­ma­tion may be trans­fer­red to the US ser­vers of these com­pa­nies. We must point out that the USA is not a safe third coun­try wit­hin the mea­ning of EU data pro­tec­tion law. US com­pa­nies are requi­red to release per­so­nal data to secu­rity aut­ho­ri­ties without you as the data sub­ject being able to take legal action against this. The pos­si­bi­lity can­not the­re­fore be exclu­ded that US aut­ho­ri­ties (e.g. secret ser­vices) may pro­cess, eva­luate, and per­ma­nently store your data on US ser­vers for moni­to­ring pur­po­ses.  We have no influ­ence over these pro­ces­sing activities.

Revo­ca­tion of your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of data

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

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

In the event that data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of art. 6 sect. 1 lit. E or f gdpr, you have the right to at any time object to the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data based on grounds ari­sing from your uni­que situa­tion. This also app­lies to any pro­filing based on these pro­vi­si­ons. To deter­mine the legal basis, on which any pro­ces­sing of data is based, please con­sult this pri­vacy notice. If you log an objec­tion, we will no lon­ger pro­cess your affec­ted per­so­nal data, unless we are in a posi­tion to pre­sent com­pel­ling pro­tec­tion worthy grounds for the pro­ces­sing of your data, that out­weigh your inte­rests, rights and free­doms or if the pur­pose of the pro­ces­sing is the clai­ming, exer­cis­ing or defence of legal enti­t­le­ments (objec­tion pur­suant to art. 21 sect. 1 gdpr).
If your per­so­nal data is being pro­ces­sed in order to engage in direct adver­ti­sing, you have the right to at any time object to the pro­ces­sing of your affec­ted per­so­nal data for the pur­po­ses of such adver­ti­sing. This also app­lies to pro­filing to the extent that it is affi­lia­ted with such direct adver­ti­sing. If you object, your per­so­nal data will sub­se­quently no lon­ger be used for direct adver­ti­sing pur­po­ses (objec­tion pur­suant to art. 21 sect. 2 gdpr).

Right to log a com­p­laint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sory agency

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

Right to data portability

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

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For secu­rity rea­sons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as 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.

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 Sect. 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.

Rejec­tion of unso­li­ci­ted e‑mails

We here­with object to the use of con­tact infor­ma­tion publis­hed on our web­site to send us pro­mo­tio­nal and infor­ma­tion mate­rial that we have not expressly reques­ted. The ope­ra­tor 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 web­site uses so cal­led “coo­kies.” Coo­kies are small text files that do not cause any damage to your device. They are eit­her stored tem­pora­rily for the dura­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion coo­kies) or they are per­ma­nently archi­ved on your device (per­ma­nent coo­kies). Ses­sion coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cally dele­ted once you ter­mi­nate your visit. Per­ma­nent coo­kies remain archi­ved on your device until you actively delete them, or they are auto­ma­ti­cally era­di­ca­ted by your web browser.

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

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

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

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

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

Change Coo­kie Settings

Ser­ver log files

The pro­vi­der of this web­site 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 Sect. 1 lit. 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 para. 1 lit. 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 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been requested.

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 Sect. 1 lit. 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 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR) if it has been obtained.

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

 

5. Ana­ly­sis tools and advertising

Google 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. Google may con­so­li­date these data in a pro­file that is allo­ca­ted to the respec­tive user or the user’s device.

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.

This ana­ly­sis tool is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of this web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns to opti­mize both, the ser­vices offe­red online and the operator’s adver­ti­sing acti­vi­ties. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has been reques­ted (e.g., an agree­ment to the sto­rage of coo­kies), the pro­ces­sing takes place exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment 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/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 pri­vacy notice 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.

Archi­ving period

Data on the user or inci­dent level stored by Google lin­ked to coo­kies, user IDs or adver­ti­sing IDs (e.g., Dou­ble­Click coo­kies, Android adver­ti­sing ID) will be anony­mi­zed or dele­ted after 14 month. For details, please click the fol­lowing link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en

 

6. News­let­ter

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 Sect. 1 lit. 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.

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 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 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The sto­rage in the black­list is inde­fi­nite. You may object to the sto­rage if your inte­rests out­weigh our legi­ti­mate interest.

 

7. Plug-ins and tools

You­Tube with expan­ded data pro­tec­tion integration

Our web­site embeds videos of the video por­tal You­Tube. The ope­ra­tor of You­Tube 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 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a legi­ti­mate inte­rest. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing takes place exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be revo­ked at any time.

For more infor­ma­tion on how You­Tube hand­les user data, please con­sult the You­Tube pri­vacy notice 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 Sect. 1 lit. 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 a respec­tive decla­ra­tion of con­sent has been obtai­ned, the data will be pro­ces­sed exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a DGDPR. Any such con­sent may 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.

 

8. Our social media presences

Data pro­ces­sing through social media

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

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

In detail:

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

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

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

Legal basis

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

Respon­si­bi­lity and asser­tion of rights

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

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

Sto­rage time

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

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

Indi­vi­dual social networks

Twit­ter

We use the short mes­sage ser­vice Twit­ter. The pro­vi­der is Twit­ter Inter­na­tio­nal Com­pany, One Cum­ber­land Place, Fenian Street, Dub­lin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.

You can cus­to­mize your Twit­ter pri­vacy set­tings in your user account. Click on the fol­lowing link and log in: https://twitter.com/personalization.

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.

For details, see the Twit­ter pri­vacy notice: https://twitter.com/privacy.

Insta­gram

The pro­vi­der is Insta­gram Inc., 1601 Wil­low Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.

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 details on how they handle your per­so­nal infor­ma­tion, see the Insta­gram pri­vacy notice: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.

XING / kununu

The pro­vi­der is New Work SE, Damm­tor­straße 30, 20354 Ham­burg, Ger­many. Details on their hand­ling of your per­so­nal data can be found in the XING pri­vacy notice: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

Lin­kedIn

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

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

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

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

Vimeo

The pro­vi­der is Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York 10011, USA.

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.

Details on how they handle your per­so­nal data can be found in the Vimeo pri­vacy notice: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

You­Tube

The pro­vi­der is Google Ire­land Limi­ted, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land. Details on how they handle your per­so­nal data can be found in the You­Tube pri­vacy notice: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.