Privacy

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Our company applies Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR as legal basis for processing procedures for which we obtain the consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is required to perform a contract to which the data subject is a party, as e.g., in cases of processing procedures required for the delivery of goods or the provision of any other service or return service, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1)(1)(b) GDPR. The same is applicable to such processing procedures required for the performance of pre-contractual measures such as in cases of requests regarding our products or services. If our company is subject to a legal obligation requiring the processing of personal data such as e.g., the satisfaction of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1)(1)(c) GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may become required to protect vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, Art. 6 (1)(1)(d) GDPR. Finally, processing procedures could as well be based on Art. 6 (1)(1)(f) GDPR. Processing procedures that are not covered by any of the aforementioned legal bases rest on this legal basis if processing is required to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party, unless the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of the data subject prevail.
There will not be any transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than the ones listed below. We transfer your personal data to third parties only if you gave your express consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR, the transfer is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worth being protected in the avoidance of the transfer of your data in case that there is a legal obligation to carry out the transfer pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(1)(c) GDPR as well as that this is legally permitted and required for the transaction of contractual relationships with you pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(1)(b) GDPR.
_ga | Google Analytics | Is used to distinguish users. | 14 months | Cookie |
_gac_ | Google Analytics | Contains campaign-related information for the user. If you connected your Google Analytics and your Google Ads accounts, the conversion tags of the Google Ads website read this cookie, unless you log off. | 90 days | Cookie |
_gat | Google Analytics | Is used to reduce the request rate. If Google Analytics is provided via the Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be identified as _dc_gtm_*. | 1 minute | Cookie |
_gid | Google Analytics | Is used to distinguish users. | 1 day | Cookie |
ga_client_id | Google Analytics | Same value as in _ga, stored parallel in the local storage as backup | 14 months | LocalStorage |
_et_coid | etracker | eTracker Analytics: Stores information of how visitors use our website | 2 years | Cookie |
VISITOR_INFO_LIVE | YouTube | YouTube video | 6 months | Cookie |
YSC | YouTube | YouTube video session administration | Session | Cookie |
OGP | Google Maps | Used by Google to activate and track Google Maps | 1 year | Cookie |
_gaexp | elobau | Level measurement | 2.4 months | Cookie |
_gaexp_rc | elobau | Level measurement | 10 sec | Cookie |
If you send us your requests using the contact form, we will store and process your data provided in the contact form, including the contact data indicated there, on our systems for the processing of the request, and to be able to answer follow-up questions, if any. Your data will be used for the specific purpose of answering and processing your question on an exclusive basis. In this context, data processing is made pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR based on your voluntarily given consent. You may object to this procedure at any time (right of withdrawal).
We operate an application portal run by way of the persis (https://www.persis.de) system. Persis has its place of business in Germany. All data are processed on servers in Germany.
In the portal, you are asked to provide the following personal data as mandatory information: title, first name, second name, street address, postal code, place and country, telephone number and email address for contacting. To be able to process the application, you have to submit a curriculum vitae. This is a minimum requirement to allow the processing of your application. All other data is voluntary information. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(1)(b) GDPR
Recipients or categories of recipients of personal data: human resources department as well as direct supervisor of the job you applied for, executive board. There will be no transfer of data to third parties, except our service providers in connection with the processing. As a candidate, you will receive information pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR on the use of data in the application process.
We use various products of the company Google Ireland Ltd.; Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which are described in more detail as follows.
As it cannot be excluded that Google processes personal data at their headquarters in the USA too, we approached both the company proper and our appropriate supervisory authority with the aim of enabling data transfer to the USA in conformity with the law.
For the time being, the data transfer is at least partially still based on the EU-US Privacy Shield. On 5 August 2020, however, Google communicated that they intended to prepare standard contract clauses in conformity with data protection law.
For the current state of affairs, please consult Google’s privacy information: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de#infosharing
Our website uses the Google Analytics analysis service. This web analysis service is operated by the company Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter: Google). We use Google Analytics to evaluate your use of our website and to prepare reports on user activities. This analysis tool works based on cookies. A cookie is a text file transmitted to and stored on the user’s hard drive on the occasion of the visit of a website to enable an analysis of your use of the website. As a rule, the information stored by the cookie is transferred to and stored on a server of Google in the USA. In the process of IP anonymisation, your IP address is previously truncated by Google in a member state of the EU or another contracting state of the European Economic Area. On our instructions, Google will use the transferred information to prepare a report on the use of the website. We entered into a contract with Google based on a template of the supervisory authorities. If you want to prevent the use of cookies, you may do so locally by changing your settings of the browser used on your computer (e.g. Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox etc.) i.e., the programme to open and show websites. Moreover, you may prevent the collection and processing of your data by Goole’s cookie by downloading and installing a browser plugin offered by Google, which can be found following this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
You can prevent the recording by Google Analytics by clicking the link below. Then, a so-called opt-out cookie will be placed preventing the future recording of your data when you visit this website:
For more information on the terms of use and data privacy of Google and Google Analytics, please follow this link http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html as well as: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR. Consent via the consent banner.
Information on cookies:
Categorisation for consent: Marketing
Cookies used (lifetime in brackets): _ga (2 years), _gid (1 day), _gat_UA-* (1 minute),_utma (2 years), _utmb (30 minutes), _utmc (session), _utmt (10 minutes), _utmz (6 months)
We use the Google Tag Manager of the company Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). The Google Tag Manager is a cookie-free domain and does not record any personal data. The tool makes sure that other components are triggered, which in their turn could record data, as the case may be. The Google Tag Manager does not access such data. In case of deactivation on domain level or on cookie level, this will maintain its effect on all tracking tags implemented together with the Google Tag Manager.
We use the remarketing function of the company Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). The purpose of this function is to show visitors of the website interest-related ads in the context of the Google advertising network Double Click. To that end, the browser of the website visitor stores cookies that enable the recognition of the visitor once he/she views websites that are part of Google’s advertising network. Then, ads can be presented to the visitor on those websites relating to contents the visitor viewed previously on websites using the Google remarketing function.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR. Consent via the consent banner (activation by Google Analytics).
We use the marketing function “Google Safeframe” of the company Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Safeframe stores and processes information about your user behaviour on our website. To that end, Google Safeframe uses cookies, among other things, i.e., small text files stored locally in the buffer memory of your web browser on your terminal device enabling us to conduct an analysis of your use of our website.
We use Google Safeframe for marketing and optimisation purposes, in particular, to analyse the use of our website and to improve individual functions and offers as well as the user experience on a continuous basis. By way of the statistical evaluation of the user behaviour, we can improve our offer and present it in a more interesting arrangement for you as the user.
For more information on the third-party provider concerning data protection, please consult the following website: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de
The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR. Consent via the consent banner (activation by Google Analytics).
On this website, referrals to third-party websites are offered in the form of links. They include but are not limited to, our Facebook site, our profiles in XING, LinkedIn and Instagram, as well as our YouTube channel.
Data will be transferred to the link destination only when you click any of the links. This is a technical requirement. The technical data include, but are not limited to: your IP address, the time at which you clicked the link, the page where you clicked the link, information on your web browser. If you do not wish the transfer of such data to the link destination, do not click the link.
This website uses SSL encryption (Secure Socket Layer) for the transfer of data of your browser to our server and to servers providing the files we incorporate on our website.
SSL is used to transfer data in an encrypted condition. The data cannot be altered and the sender can be identified.
You can recognise the existence of the SSL encryption if there is the prefix “https” in front of the website address you call up in the browser.
Some of the pages or articles come with a voluntary comment function for users wishing to communicate their opinion about the respective page or an article. After a positive review, the comment is released and appears for the public on the page where the comment was submitted. There is no entitlement to release of a comment. The commenting person has to indicate a name, which can be a pseudonym. Likewise, the commenting person has to indicate an email address. This is required to inform him/her in respect of the status of his/her comment and also in particular if he/she asked a question in the comment and waits for an answer. That email address is not disclosed to the public, is not passed on to third parties, and is not evaluated manually. The IP address of the commenting person is stored in anonymised form only. The comment is stored on a permanent basis until you (or an administrator) erase(s) it. The email address indicated for the comment is stored for the only purpose of informing you in case of an answer to your comment. Any additional data provided in connection with the comment will be published with the comment. If you are requested to provide a name, you may choose to use a pseudonym.
The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. In submitting the voluntary comment, you give us your consent to publication.
We incorporate YouTube videos on our website, which are stored on the servers of the provider YouTube and which can be played from our website based on an embedding feature. The embedding of the videos is made with an activated option for extended data protection settings.
If you did not give your consent to the use of the YouTube videos in the consent banner and if you try to view a YouTube video, you will be redirected to the consent banner for your release.
If you have given your consent to the use of the YouTube videos in the consent banner, YouTube/Google will receive the information that you accessed the corresponding website of our online offer. In the process, YouTube cookies and DoubleClick cookies will be stored on your computer and data could be transferred to Google Inc., Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, as the YouTube operator.
According to the current status, when playing videos stored on YouTube, at least the following data will be transferred to Google Inc. as the YouTube operator and operator of the DoubleClick network: IP address and cookie, the specific address of the page accessed on our website, system date and time of access, identifier of your browser.
The transfer of such data is made irrespective of whether you have a Google user account that you used to log in or whether you do not have any user account. If you are logged in as mentioned above, Google could assign such data directly to your account. If do not wish the assignment to your profile, you have to log out prior to activating the play button for the video.
YouTube or Google Inc., respectively, store such data as user profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or adequate configuration of their websites. Such an evaluation is made in particular (also for users not logged in) in order to present adequate advertising and to inform other users of your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of such user profiles; if you wish to exercise this right, you have to contact Google as the operator of YouTube.
For more information on the purpose and volume of the collection of data and their processing by Google, please consult this website: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de#infosharing
The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR. Consent via the consent banner.
We use external fonts of the company Monotype, 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801 and Monotype GmbH, Werner-Reimers-Strasse 2–4, 61352 Bad Homburg (Monotype). The incorporation of these web fonts is made by way of a server call, which is generally a server of Monotype in the European Union. In doing so, information is transferred to the server as to which of our websites you visited. This is required for invoicing (licence model). The collected data are used for invoicing purposes only and will not be passed on to any third party. For more information, please consult the data protection information of Monotype, which you can access here: https://www.monotype.com/legal/privacy-policy
The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1)(1)(f) GDPR. Legitimate interest of the website operator.
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We secure our website and other IT systems by way of adequate technical and organisational measures against loss, destruction, unauthorised access, unauthorised alteration or unauthorised distribution of your data. In practice, however, absolute protection against all risks is not possible in every case despite the highest level of caution. Due to the fact that in communications via email we cannot guarantee complete data security, we recommend sending confidential information by post.
We use WordPress as the content management system for our website. WordPress uses functional (necessary) cookies to ensure the login process for editors and administrators.
In particular, in case of the attempt of logging in to the administration surface of WordPress, a cookie is placed known as wordpress_test_cookie. That cookie is used for the active session only and is erased once you close the browser.
The cookie is not used to evaluate users.
The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest: ensuring the login process).
If required, please obtain information about this Data Protection Information, in particular, if you disclose personal data.
Revision of: 13 September 2020
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