Privacy statementStand 7/2022

We are very pleased about your interest in our company. Data protection has a high status for the management of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG. Using the websites of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co KG is generally possible without stating any personal data. In case that a person concerned would like to make use of our company’s special services via our web site, the processing of personal data, however, might be necessary. If the processing of personal data is required, and there is no legal basis existing for such processing, we generally obtain the consent of the person concerned.

The processing of personal data, for example of the name, address, e-mail-address or telephone number of a concerned person is carried out always in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in compliance with the country-specific data regulations applicable to Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG. By means of this privacy statement, we would like to inform the public about type, extent, and purpose of the personal data collected, used, and processed by our company. Moreover, the persons concerned are informed about their rights by this privacy statement.

Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG as party responsible for the processing, has taken numerous technical and organizational measures, in order to ensure a most complete protection possible of the personal data processed via this website. However, web based data transmissions may, generally, have security holes, so that an absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, each person concerned is free to communicate all personal data with us in another way, for example by phone.

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The privacy statement of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG is based on the definitions used by the European Directives- and Regulation Giver when adopting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our Privacy Statement should be easy to read and easy to understand for the public as well as for our customers and business partners. In order to guarantee this we would like to explain in advance the definitions used.

In this Privacy Statement we use, amongst others, the following definitions:

a) Personal data
Personal data are all information referring to an identified or identifiable natural persons (in the following “person concerned”).Identifiable is a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, especially by means of assignment to an identifier such as a name, to an identification number, location data, online identification or to one or several special characteristics, which are expression of the physical, psychological, genetic, psychical, economic, cultural, or social identity of this natural person.

b) Person concerned
Person concerned is each identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data are processed by the party responsible for the processing.

c) Processing
Processing is each operation or series of operations carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures in connection with personal data such as the collecting, recording, the organization, the arranging, storing, adapting or changing, the reading out, the query, the using, the disclosure by transmission, distribution or another form of providing, the adjustment or the linking, the limitation, deletion or the elimination.

d) Limitation of Processing
Limitation of processing is the marking of personal data stored with the objective to limit their future processing.

e) Profiling
Profiling is each kind of automated processing of personal data, which means, that these personal data are used, to evaluate certain personal aspects referring to a natural person, especially to analyze or forecast aspects concerning the job performance, economic state, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, residence, change of location

f) Pseudonymization
Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in a way that the personal data cannot be assigned anymore to a specific person concerned without additional information, provided that these additional information are stored separately, and are subject to technical and organizational measures, which guarantee, that the personal data cannot be related to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Responsible or responsible for the processing
Responsible or responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, authority, institution or another body deciding alone or with others on the purposes and means of personal data processing. If the purposes of this processing are given by EU law or by the law of the member states , the responsible or respectively certain criteria of their classification are provided acc. to EU law or to law of the member states.

h) Data processor
Data processor is a natural or legal person, authority, institution, or another body, who processes personal data by order of the responsible.

i) Recipient
Recipient is a natural or legal person, authority, institution, or another body, where personal data are disclosed, irrespectively of whether they are considered as Third Party or not. Authorities who possibly receive personal data acc. to EU law or law of the member states in the context of a certain analyze request, are not considered as recipients.

j) Third Party
Third party is a natural or legal person, authority, institution or another body excepted the person concerned, the responsible, the data processor and the persons who are authorized to process personal data under the direct responsibility of the responsible or the data processor.

k) Consent
Consent is every unmistakably expressed statement of intent, voluntarily made by the person concerned for the certain case in informed way, in the form of a statement or by another clearly confirming act, by which the person concerned makes clear that he/she agrees to the processing of the relevant personal data.

Responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection regulations applicable to the member states of the European Union, and other provisions with the character of data protection is:

Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG
Hauptstraße 76
37083 Göttingen
Germany
Tel.: +49 551 79001 0
info@thiesclima.com
www.thiesclima.com

The Data Protection Supervisor of the party responsibly for the processing is:

Stefan Burghardt
RKM Data GmbH
Geiststraße 3
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Tel.: 0551-30571011
info@rkm-data.de
www.rkm-data.de

Each person concerned may contact directly our Data Protection Supervisor anytime for all questions and suggestions concerning data protection.

The websites of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG are using cookies. Cookies are text filed which are archived, and stored via a web browser on a computer system.

Numerous websites and servers are using cookies. Many cookies do contain a so-called cookie-ID. A cookie-ID is a clear identification of the cookie. It consists of a character string, by which the websites, and servers can be related to the concrete web browser, where the cookie was stored. This enables the visited websites and servers to distinguish the individual browser of the person concerned from other web browsers containing other cookies. A certain web browser can be recognized and identified via the unique cookie-ID.

By using cookies Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG is able to provide user-friendly services to the users of this website, which would not be possible without cookie-setting.

By means of a cookie the information and offers on our website can be optimized in the interest of the user. As already mentioned, cookies allow us to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to facilitate the use of our website. The user of a website that uses cookies, for example, does not have to enter his/her access data each time he/she visits the website, as this is taken by the website, and the cookie stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of an online shop cart. The online shop remembers via cookies the articles that a customer put into the virtual shopping cart.

The person concerned can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of respective setting of the used web browser, and thus can permanently object to the setting of cookies. Moreover, set cookies can be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs. This is possible with all common web browsers. If the person concerned deactivates the setting of cookies in the used web browser, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

With each visit by a person concerned or an automated system the website of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co KG collects a lot of general data and information. These general data and information are stored in the log files of the server. The following information might be collected: the (1) browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which the accessing system gets to our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub websites, which are controlled via an accessing system on our website, (5) date and time of access to our website, (6) an internet protocol address (IP-address), (7) the internet service provider of the accessing system and (8) other similar date and information, serving the danger defense in case of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using these general data and information Adolf Thies GmbH 6 Co. KG do not draw any conclusion about the person concerned. Rather, this information is used to (1) deliver the contents of our website correctly, (2) to optimize the contents of our website as well as the promotion for it, (3) to guarantee the permanent effectiveness of our information technology systems, and the technology of our website as well as (4) to provide the law enforcement authorities with information which are necessary for the criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. These anonymously collected data and information are therefore analyzed on the one hand statistically, and also with the objection to increase the data protection and data safety in our company, in order to guarantee, in the end, an optimal level of protection for the personal data processed by us. The anonymous data of the server logfiles are stored separately from all personal data stated by the person concerned.

The data subject has the option of registering on the website of the controller by providing personal data. Which personal data is transmitted to the person responsible for processing results from the respective input mask used for registration. The personal data entered by the person concerned are collected and stored exclusively for internal use by the person responsible for processing and for their own purposes. The person responsible for processing can arrange for the data to be passed on to one or more processors, for example a parcel service provider, who also uses the personal data exclusively for internal use attributable to the person responsible for processing.

By registering on the website of the person responsible for processing, the IP address assigned to the person concerned by the Internet service provider (ISP), the date and time of registration are also stored. This data is stored against the background that this is the only way to prevent misuse of our services and, if necessary, to enable crimes that have been committed to be investigated. In this respect, the storage of this data is necessary to protect the person responsible for processing. In principle, this data will not be passed on to third parties unless there is a legal obligation to pass it on or the passing on is for criminal prosecution.

The registration of the data subject, with the voluntary provision of personal data, enables the data controller to offer the data subject content or services that, due to the nature of the matter, can only be offered to registered users. These are e.g. B. Operating instructions, certificates or other technical information about our products.

Registered persons are free to change the personal data provided during registration at any time or to have it completely deleted from the database of the person responsible for processing.

The person responsible for processing shall provide any data subject with information at any time upon request as to which personal data is stored about the data subject. Furthermore, the person responsible for processing corrects or deletes personal data at the request or notice of the person concerned, provided that there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary. All of the employees of the person responsible for processing are available to the person concerned as contact persons in this context.

The Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG informs its customers and business partners regularly by means of a newsletter about company offers and news. The Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG newsletter can only be received by the data subject if (1) the data subject has a valid e-mail address and (2) the data subject already exists as a customer or as business partner is stored in the systems used.

Customers and business partners can be informed by e-mail if this is necessary for the operation of the newsletter service or for the customer or business partner relationship, as is the case e.g. This could be the case, for example, in the event of changes to the newsletter offer or changes to the technical conditions. The CRM system used by Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG and, in some cases, the CleverReach newsletter software are used to send the newsletter.

The personal data collected as part of the newsletter service will not be passed on to third parties. The person concerned can object to the sending of our newsletter at any time for the future. The consent to the storage of personal data that the person concerned has given us for sending the newsletter can also be revoked at any time. A revocation of consent that has already been given can be sent informally to the contact details listed above or a corresponding link is included in every newsletter.

The newsletters of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG contain so-called web beacons. A web beacon is a miniature art design, embedded in such e-mails which are sent in HTML format in order to allow a logfile recording, and a logfile analysis. This allows a statistical analysis on the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded web beacons, Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG can realize if and when an e-mail was opened by the person concerned, and which link, embedded in the e-mail, was called by the person concerned.

Such personal data collected via the web beacons embedded in the newsletters, are stored and analyzed by the party responsible for the processing, in order to optimize the newsletter dispatch and to better adapt the contents of future newsletters to the interests of the person concerned. These personal data are not transferred to a Third Party. Persons concerned are entitled, at any time, to revoke the respective consent given separately via the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation the party responsible for the processing will delete these personal data. Unsubscribing from receiving a newsletter means automatically a revocation for Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG.

Due to legal regulations, the website of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG contains information allowing a quick electronic contact to our company as well as an immediate communication with us, which comprises also a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail-address). Provided that a person concerned makes contact to the party responsible for the processing by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the person concerned are stored automatically. Such personal data transmitted by a person concerned on voluntary basis to the party responsible for the processing are stored for the purpose of processing and making contact to the person concerned. These personal data are not transferred to a Third Party.

The party responsible processes and stores personal data of the person concerned only for the period required for achieving the purpose of storing, or if this is provided by the European directive- and regulation giver, or by another legislator in laws and regulations to which the party responsible for the processing is subject.

If the storing purpose is omitted or a storing period, required by the European directive- and regulation giver or another responsible legislator, expires, the personal data are blocked or deleted as a matter of routine and acc. to the legal regulations.

a) Right to confirmation
Each person concerned has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to request a confirmation from the party responsible for the processing of whether respective personal data are processed . In case that a person concerned would like to claim this right to confirmation, this person may contact an employee of the party responsible for the processing at any time.

b) Right to information
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to receive free information at any time from the party responsible for the processing on the personal data stored about this person, and to get a copy of this information. Moreover, the European directive- and regulation giver has granted the following information to the person concerned:

• the purpose of processing
• the category of personal data which are processed
• recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed or will be disclosed still, especially with recipients in Third Countries or with international organizations.
• if possible, the scheduled period, for which the personal data are stored, or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this period.
• the existence of a right to correction or deletion of the respective personal data, or to restriction of processing by the responsible or a right to objection against this processing
• the existence of a right to appeal to a supervisory authority
• in case that the personal data are not collected from the person concerned: all information available on the origin of the data
• the existing of automated decision-making including profiling acc. to article 22 paragraphs 1 and 4 DS-GVO (GDPR) and — at least in these cases — meaningful Information on the logic involved as well as on the scope, and intended effect of such processing for the person concerned.

Moreover, the person concerned has the right to information about whether personal data have been transmitted to a Third Country or an international organization. If this is the case, the person concerned has, furthermore, the right to information on suitable guarantees in the context of the transmission.
In case that a person concerned would like to claim this right to information, he/she may contact an employee of the party responsible for the processing at any time.

c) Right to correction
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to require immediate correction of respective incorrect personal data. Moreover, the person concerned has the right, considering the purpose of processing, to request the completion of incomplete personal data - also by means of a supplementary statement.

In case that a person concerned would like to claim this right to correction he/she may contact an employee of the party responsible for the processing at any time

d) Right to deletion (right to be forgotten)
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to require immediate deletion of the respective personal data from the party responsible, as far as one of the following reasons applies, and a processing is not necessary:

• The personal data have been collected for such purposes or been processed otherwise for which they are no longer necessary.
• The person concerned revokes the consent, on which die processing acc. to article 6, paragraph 1 letter a DS-GVO (GDPR) or article 9, paragraph 2 letter a DS-GVO (GDPR) was based, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
• The person concerned objects to the processing acc. to article 21, paragraph 1 DS-GVO (GDPR), and there are no priority legitimate reasons for the processing, or the person concerned objects to the processing acc. to article 21, paragraph 2 DS-GVO (GDPR).
• The personal data have been processes unlawfully.
• The deletion of personal data is required to fulfill a legal obligation acc. to European Union law or the law of member states, to which the person responsible is subject.
• The personal data have been collected in relation to the offered services of the information society acc. to article 8. paragraph 1 DS-GVO (GDPR).

As far as one of the above-mentioned reasons applies, and the person concerned would like to arrange deletion of the personal data, stored with Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG, he/she may contact an employee of the party responsible for the processing at any time. This employee will make sure that the requested deletion is carried out immediately.

In case that the personal data have been disclosed by Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG, and our company is obliged to delete the personal data as party responsible acc. to article 17, paragraph 1 DS-GVO (GDPR), Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG will take appropriate measures, also of technical kind, considering available technologies and implementation costs, in order to inform other parties responsible for the data processing, who are processing the disclosed personal data, that the person concerned has requested from these other parties responsible for the data processing the deletion of all links to the personal data or of copies or replications of the personal data, as far as the processing is not necessary. The employee of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG will arrange the necessary in individual cases.

e) Right to Limitation of Processing
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to request from the party responsible the limitation of processing, provided that one of the following conditions is given:

• The person concerned denies the correctness of the personal data for a period which allows the party responsible to check the correctness of the personal data.
• The processing is unlawful, the person concerned refuses a deletion of the personal data, and, instead, requests the limitation of using the personal data.
• The personal data are no longer necessary for the party responsible for the purpose of processing, the person concerned, however, requires them for assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
• The person concerned objects against the processing acc. to article 21, paragraph 1 DS-GVO (GDPR), and it is not clear yet whether the legitimate reasons of the party responsible prevail over those of the person concerned

As far as one of the above-mentioned conditions is given, and a person concerned would like to request the limitation of the personal data, stored with Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG, this person may contact an employee of the party responsible for the processing at any time. The employee will arrange the limitation of processing.

f) Right to Data Transferability
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to receive the respective personal data, provided by the person concerned to a party responsible, in structured, common, and machine-readable format. The person, moreover, has the right to transmit the personal data to another party responsible without being hampered by the responsible to whom the personal data were provided, as far as the processing is based on the consent acc. to article 6 paragraph 1 letter a DS-GVO (GDPR) or article 9 paragraph 2 letter a DS-GVO (GDPR) or on a contract acc. to article 6 paragraph 1 letter b DS-GVO (GDPR), and the processing is carried out by means of automated procedures, as far as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task, is not in the public interest or is carried out in the exercise of public authority, delegated to the party responsible.

With exercising the right to data transferability acc. to article 20, paragraph 1 DS-GVO (GDPR) the person concerned has, furthermore, the right to require, that the personal data are transmitted directly from one party responsible to the other one, provided that this is technically possible and that no rights and liberties of other persons are impaired.
For enforcement of the right to data transferability the person concerned may contact anytime an employee of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG.

g) The right to objection
Due to reasons, arising from the special situation, each person concerned by the processing of the personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to object anytime against the processing of respective personal data, which is carried out on the basis of article 6 paragraph 1, letter e or f DS-GVO (GDPR). This applies also to a profiling based on these regulations.

Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG do no longer process the personal data in case of objection, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing, which prevail over the interests, rights and liberties of the person concerned, or the processing serves for enforcement, exercise or defense of legal claims.

In case that Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG process the personal data to operate direct mail, the person concerned has the right, at any time, to object against processing of the personal data for the purpose of such advertising . This applies also to the profiling, as far as it is related to such direct mail. If the person concerned objects towards Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG against the processing for the purpose of direct mail, Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG will no longer process the personal data for this purpose.

Due to reasons, arising from the special situation, the person concerned has, furthermore, the right to object against the respective processing of personal data that is carried out by Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG for the purpose of scientific and historical research, or for statistical purposes acc. to article 89, paragraph 1 DS-GVO (GDPR), unless such processing is necessary for performing a task in the public interest.

For exercising the right to object the person concerned may contact any employee of Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG or another employee. In the context of using the services of the information society, the person concerned is free to exercise the right to object by means of an automated procedure, were technical specifications are used, regardless of the directive 2002/58/EG.

h) Automated Decisions in individual case including profiling
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, not to be subjected exclusively to a decision, basing on an automated processing – including profiling, a decision that has legal effect on the person or considerable impairment, as far as the decision (1) is not required for the completion or fulfillment of a contract between the person concerned and the party responsible, or (2) allowed on the basis of legislations of the European Union or the member states, to which the party responsible is subject, and these legislations comprise appropriate measures to safeguard the rights and liberties as well as the legitimate interests of the person concerned, or (3) Is made with explicit consent of the person concerned.

If the decision (1) is necessary for the completion or the fulfillment of a contract between the person concerned and the party responsible or (2) is made with explicit consent of the person concerned, Adolf Thies GmbH & Co. KG will take appropriate measures to safeguard the rights and liberties as well as the legitimate interests of the person concerned, that includes at least the right to obtaining the intervention of a person on the part of the party responsible, to presentation of the own point of view, and to contestation of the decision.

In case that the person concerned would like to assert rights relating to automated decisions, he/she may turn, anytime, to an employee of the party responsible for the processing.

i) Right to revocation of a data protection consent
Each person concerned by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive- and regulation giver, to revoke, at any time, a consent for the processing of personal data.

In case that the person concerned would like to assert the right to revocation of a consent, this person may turn, at any time, to an employee of the party responsible for the processing.

The party responsible for the processing collects and processes personal data from applicants for the purpose of handling the respective application procedure. The processing may be done also electronically. This is the case especially when an applicant transmits respective application documents electronically to the party responsible for the processing, for example by e-mail or via a web form. In case that the party responsible for the processing concludes an employment contract with an applicant, the transmitted data are stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship, considering the legal regulations. In case that no employment contract is concluded between the party responsible and the applicant, the application documents will be deleted automatically two months after announcement of the rejection decision, as far as no legitimate interest of the party responsible contradicts a deletion. Another legitimate interest in this sense is, for example, a burden of proof in a process acc. to the General Equality Law (AGG).

The person responsible for processing operates a Facebook fan page. There is currently no direct integration of the company Facebook into this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is a social meeting place operated on the Internet, an online community that usually allows users to communicate and interact with each other in virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences or enables the internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Facebook allows social network users to, among other things, create private profiles, upload photos and network via friend request.

The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. The controller of personal data where a data subject lives outside the USA or Canada is Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the data controller is called up and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically caused by the respective Facebook component to download a representation of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. A complete overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_EN . Within the scope of this technical procedure, Facebook receives information about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognises which specific sub-page of our website the data subject is visiting each time the data subject calls up our website and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject activates one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example the "Like" button, or if the data subject posts a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores this personal data

Facebook always receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Facebook, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her Facebook account before accessing our website.

The data policy published by Facebook, which can be accessed at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/ , provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains which setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, various applications are available that make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can be used by the data subject to suppress data transmission to Facebook.

The person responsible for processing operates a YouTube channel. There is currently no direct integration of the company YouTube on this website.
LinkedIn is an Internet-based social network that allows users to connect with existing business contacts and to make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people use LinkedIn in more than 200 countries. This makes LinkedIn 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, USA. For data protection issues outside the USA, LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.

With each individual call-up of our website that is equipped with a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in), this component causes the browser used by the person concerned to download a corresponding representation of the component from LinkedIn. Further information on LinkedIn plug-ins can be found at https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins . Within the scope of this technical procedure, LinkedIn receives information about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to LinkedIn at the same time, LinkedIn recognises which specific subpage of our website the data subject is visiting with each call-up of our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the LinkedIn component and assigned by LinkedIn to the respective LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject activates a LinkedIn button integrated on our website, LinkedIn assigns this information to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores this personal data.

LinkedIn always receives information via the LinkedIn component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into LinkedIn at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the LinkedIn component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to LinkedIn, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her LinkedIn account before accessing our website.

LinkedIn offers the ability to unsubscribe from email messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as manage ad settings at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls . LinkedIn also uses partners such as Quantcast, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua and Lotame, which may set cookies. Such cookies can be rejected at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy . LinkedInʻs applicable privacy policy is available at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy . LinkedInʻs cookie policy is available at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy .

Article 6 I letter a DS-GVO (GDPR) is the legal basis of our company for processing operations, for which we obtain a consent for a certain processing purpose. In case that the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfil a contract, of which the person concerned is a contract party, as this is the case, for example, with the processing operations, required for delivery of goods or provision of other services or return services, the processing is based on art. 6 I letter b DS-GVO (GDPR). The same applies for such processing operations required for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, such as in cases of inquiries on our products or services. In case that our company is subject to a legal obligation that requires processing of personal data, such as to fulfil tax obligations, the processing is based on art. 6 I letter c DS-GVO (GDPR). In rare cases the processing of personal data could be necessary to protect vital interests of the person concerned or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company, and thereupon, we would have to transmit the visitor’s name, age, health insurance data or other vital information to a doctor, a hospital or other Third Parties. In this case the processing would be based on art. 6 I letter d DS-GVO (GDPR). Ultimately, these processing operations could be based on art. 6 I letter f DS-GVO (GDPR). This legal foundation is the basis of processing operations, which are not covered by one of the aforementioned legal foundations, if the processing is required to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a Third Party, unless the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedom of the person concerned prevail. Such processing operations are particularly allowed because they were especially mentioned by the European law giver. They took the view that a legitimate interest could be assumed, in case that the person concerned is a customer of the party responsible (recital 47 sentence 2 DS-GVO ).

If the processing of personal data is based on article 6 I letter f DS-GVO (GDPR) it is our legitimate interest to carry out our business in the favor of the well-being of all our employees and our shareholders.

The criterion for the period of storing personal data is the respective legal retention period. After expiration of this period the respective data are routinely deleted, unless they are required to fulfil the contract or for contract initiation.

We clarify, that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (for ex. tax regulations) or may also result from contractual regulations (for ex. information about the contracting party). Occasionally, it might be required for the conclusion of a contract, that a person concerned provides personal data, which have to be processed by our company subsequently. The person concerned, for example, is obliged to provide us with personal data in case of concluding a contract with our company. If the personal data are not provided a contract with the person concerned could not be concluded. Before providing personal data the person concerned has to contact one of our employees. Our employee will clarify, on individual cases, with the person concerned, whether the provision of personal data is required by law or contract, or is necessary for the conclusion of contract, whether there is an obligation to provide personal data, and what are the consequences of non-provisioning personal data.

As a responsible company, we refrain from automatic decision-making or profiling.

This website uses a proprietary CMS statistics plugin. For this purpose, a session cookie is stored on the userʻs PC (only temporarily until the end of the browser session). Hereby, all collected data are saved completely on our providerʻs web server. The accessed data includes: Name of the visited website, language version, downloads, date and time of the visit, browser type including version, the userʻs operating system, system information such as display resolution and colours, country of origin, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address (anonymized), and the requesting provider. However, the recorded data are only used for statistical evaluation for the purpose of operation, safety, and optimization of the contents.

Deviations can result due to possible registration and login to our password-protected area. Here, page calls and downloads are assigned to the userʻs account, as these data represent a justified interest for proof of special requests for content (e.g. when registering for an event or similar).

In case of unusual page calls (e.g. non-existent pages or parameters), additional logfile information (incl. non-anonymized IP address) is saved for safety reasons (e.g. to investigate malicious attacks, misuse, or fraudulent activities) for the maximum duration of one month, after which the data are deleted. Data that must be stored as evidence for a longer period, i.e. until final clarification of the incident, are excluded from deletion after one month.

User data is stored in accordance with Art. 6, Sect. 1, Subsect. f) of the GDPR. For the purpose of increasing and optimizing the contents, the website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user activities, and this represents no risk for the rights and freedoms of the data subject.

This website uses "fonts.com"“, a typeface service provided by Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (fonts.com). Every time this website is called, files are loaded from a "fonts.com" server for to the display of texts in a certain font. Whenever you visit this website, the anonymous IP 0.0.0.0 is transmitted, but not your IP address. Consequently, no personal data of the website visitor is collected. For more information please visit font.comʻs privacy statement under https://www.monotype.com/legal/privacy-policy.