Privacy Policy

Name and contact details of the controller as well as operational data protection officer

This data privacy statement shall apply to data processing activities by the following controller:

Subject matter of data protection

The subject matter of data protection is personal data. This means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). These include e.g. information such as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number. Specific information on the personal data processed by us can be found below in detail in the data processing operations listed.

Collection and storage of personal data as well as the nature and purpose of their processing

3.1 — When visiting the website

When calling our website, the browser used on your end device will automatically send information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is recorded without any action on your end and stored until automated erasure after 180 days:

• internet protocol address of the requesting computer
• date and time of the access
• name and URL of the file retrieved
• website from which the access takes place (referrer URL)
• website that is called via our website
• browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider

The data mentioned are processed by us for the following purposes:

• ensuring smooth establishment of the website’s connection
• ensuring comfortable use of our website
• evaluation of system safety and stability, as well as
• other administrative purposes

The legal basis for data processing activities shall be Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interests follow from the purposes listed above for data collection. In no case shall we use any collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

Furthermore, we use cookies when you visit our website. More detailed explanations on this can be found in section 5 of this data privacy statement.

3.2 — Email contact

If there are any questions, we offer the option to contact us via the provided email address. In such a case, your personal data transmitted in the email will be stored. Data processing activities for the purpose of contacting is according to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If the contact is targeted at conclusion of a contract, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR shall be an additional legal basis for processing. The personal data collected by us shall be erased after completion of the request submitted by you.

3.3 — Careers

You can request us to delete all the data we hold on you at any time. Once your data has been deleted, we no longer hold a record of you. We will only retain your data for 12–18 months, after this your data will be deleted.

Passing on data

We shall only pass on your personal data to third parties (recipients) if we are entitled to do so under the provisions of data protection law. Below we inform you about the circumstances in which this may be the case. We can pass on your personal data to third parties (recipients), if:

• you have explicitly given consent to such for one or more specific purposes (Article 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR);
• processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR);
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(1)(c) GDPR);
• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of personal data (Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR).

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser will create automatically and that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device, contain no viruses, Trojans or other harmful software.

The cookie is used to store information that results from the respective context of the specifically used end device. However, this shall not mean that we directly gain knowledge of your identity this way.

Use of cookies serves to make use of our offer more pleasant for you. We use session cookies in order to recognise that you have visited individual pages of our website before. They will be deleted automatically after you leave our website.

Furthermore, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a certain specified period. When you visit our website again in order to use our services, it will be automatically recognised that you have visited us before and which input and settings you have made so that you will not have to enter them again. On the other hand, we use cookies in order to statistically record use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer to you. These cookies enable us to recognise that you have visited us before if you visit our website again. These cookies are deleted automatically after 365 days in each case.

The data processed by cookies are required for the purpose of maintaining our legitimate interests and those of third parties according to Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may, however, configure your browser so that no cookies will be stored on your computer or that you will always be informed before a new cookie is set up. Complete deactivation of cookies may, however, render you unable to use all functions of our website.

Rights of the data subject

You have the right:

• to demand information in accordance with Article 15 GDPR regarding the processing of your personal data by us. In particular, you may request information on the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipient to whom your data have been or are disclosed, the envisaged storage period, the existence of the right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the right to lodge a complaint, the source of your data to the extent that these were not collected at our site, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and any meaningful information on its details;
• in accordance with Article 16 GDPR, to obtain the rectification of any inaccurate personal data stored by us or completion of such data without undue delay;
• in accordance with Article 17 GDPR, to obtain the erasure of your personal data stored by us, to the extent that processing is not required for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• in accordance with Article 18 GDPR, to obtain the restriction of processing of your personal data, to the extent that the accuracy of the data is contested by you, processing is unlawful, but you oppose erasure and we no longer need the personal data, but you still require them for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 GDPR;
• in accordance with Article 20 GDPR, to demand to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to demand transmission to another controller;
• in accordance with Article 7(3) GDPR, to withdraw your consent once given to us towards us at any time. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing activities that were based on this consent in future; and
• in accordance with Article 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Usually, you may contact the supervisory authority at your habitual residence or place of work or our registered office for this. A list of the EU data protection authorities is available at ec.europa.eu.

Right to object

As far as your personal data are processed based on legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object to processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 21 GDPR, to the extent that there are grounds relating to your particular situation or the objection is targeted against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object that will be implemented by us without any indication of a particular situation.

Further information

In accordance with Art. 13(2)(e) GDPR we would like to inform you about the following: the provision of personal data is neither a statutory nor contractual requirement, nor a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. There are no consequences resulting from failure to provide such data.

In accordance with Art. 13(2)(f) GDPR we would like to inform you about the following: we do not process your personal data for the purpose of automated decision-making.

Data security

Within the website visit, we use the common SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in conjunction with the respective highest encryption level your browser supports. This usually is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we will use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether an individual website of our internet offer is transmitted encrypted or not is evident by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the status bar of your browser.

Apart from this, we use appropriate technical and organisational security measures in order to protect your data from accidental or wilful manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures will be improved continually according to the technological developments.

Topicality and changes of this data privacy statement

This data privacy statement is currently valid as of July 2021.

Further development of our website and offers through it, or changed statutory or authority specifications, may require changes to this data privacy statement. You may call and print the respective current data privacy statement at any time on the website.