Privacy Statement

We are pleased that you are visiting our website. It is very important to us that your personal information is protected and safeguarded when you are using our website. Therefore, this document intends to inform you about which of your personal data is collected by us when you are visiting our website and about the purposes for which this data is used by us.

This Privacy Statement applies to the Internet offering of EWS Weigele GmbH & Co KG, which is accessible under the www.ews-tools.de domain and the diverse subdomains (“Our Website”).

Data Controller

The controller of the processing of personal data within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

EWS Weigele GmbH & Co KG

Data Protection Officer

Galileo DS Consulting GmbH

Galileiplatz 1, 81679 München (Germany)

rme@galileo-ds.de

This Privacy Statement meets the legal requirements regarding transparency in the processing of personal data which includes all information referring to an identified or identifiable individual, such as information like your name, your age, your address, your telephone number, your date of birth, your email address, your IP address, or your user behavior when visiting a website. Information that cannot be related to your person (or can be related only with disproportionate effort), e.g. because data is anonymized, does not constitute personal data. The processing of personal data (e.g.: collection, retrieval, use, storage or transmission) always requires a legal basis and a defined purpose.

Stored personal data will be deleted once the purpose of the processing has been achieved and there are no legitimate reasons for a further storage of the data. We will inform you within the individual processing operations about the specific retention periods and criteria for the storage. Regardless of this, we will store your personal data in individual cases for asserting, exercising, or defending legal rights and on the basis of statutory retention requirements.

We will only transfer personal data collected on Our Website to third parties where this is necessary to fulfill the purposes and is, in the individual case, covered by the legal basis (e.g.: given consent or protection of legitimate interests). Moreover, in the individual case, we will transfer personal data to third parties where this serves to assert, exercise or defend legal rights. Possible recipients in this case may include prosecution authorities, lawyers, auditors, courts, etc.

Insofar as we use service providers for the operation of Our Website who process personal data as commissioned processors on our behalf as defined in Art. 28 of the GDPR, such processor may be recipients of your personal data sein. For detailed information on the use of processors and web services, see the overview of the individual processing operations.

Cookies are small text files sent by us to and stored in the browser of your device in the context of your visit to Our Website. As an alternative to the use of cookies, information can also be stored in the local storage of your browser. Some functions of Our Website cannot be offered without the use of cookies or the local storage (technically necessary cookies). Other cookies, however, allow us to run various analyses, so that we are able, for example, to recognize the browser used by you when you visit Our Website again and transmit various information to us (non-essential cookies). Using cookies, we can, among other things, design our Internet offering to be more user-friendly and effectively, for example by tracing your use of Our Website and determining your preferred settings (e.g.: country and language settings). Third parties processing information through cookies, will collect the information directly through your browser. Cookies will not damage your device, as they cannot execute programs and cannot contain viruses.

You will ne informed about the services for which we use cookies in the individual processing operations. For detailed information about the cookies used, see the chapter on cookie settings of this Privacy Statement.

Under the statutory provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), as a data subject you have the following rights:

• Right to information under Art. 15 of the GDPR and Section 34 of the BDSG about the stored data relating to your person in the form of meaningful details of the processing as well as a copy of your data.
• Right to correction under Art. 16 of the GDPR of inaccurate or incomplete data that we have stored.
• Right to deletion under Art. 17 of the GDPR of the data stored by us, provided that the processing is not required to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to comply with a legal obligation, to meet the public interest, or to assert, exercise, or defend legal rights.
• Right to limitation of the processing under Art. 18 of the GDPR, if the accuracy of the data is contested, the processing is unlawful, we no longer require the stored data, and you refuse the deletion of the data, as you need it to assert, exercise, or defend legal rights or as you have objected to the processing under Art. 21 of the GDPR.
• Right to data portability under Art. 20 of the GDPR, if you have provided personal data to us within the scope of a consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR or on the basis of a contract under Art. 6(1) lit. b of the GDPR, and this data was processed by us using automated procedures. You will receive your data in a structured, common and machine-readable format, or we will transfer the data directly to another data controller, as far as this is technically feasible.
• Right to object under Art. 21 of the GDPR to the processing of your personal data, if this processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1) lit. e, f of the GDPR and there are reasons for the objection arising from your specific situation, or if the objection is directed against direct advertising. The right to object does not exist, if overriding, compelling, legitimate reasons for the processing are proven, or if the processing is carried out to assert, exercise or defend legal rights. To the extent that the right to object does not exist regarding individual processing operations, this is indicated with such operations.
• Right to revoke under Art. 7(3) of the GDPR of the consent given by you with effect for the future.
• Right to complain under Art. 77 of the GDPR to a supervisory authority, if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR. As a rule, you may contact the supervisory authority of your usual residence, place of work or our headquarters.

Below, we inform your about the individua processing operations, the scope and purpose of the data processing, the legal basis, the obligation to provide your data and the applicable retention period. An automated decision in the individual case, including a profiling, does not take place.

When you access and use Our Website, we will collect the personal data that is automatically transmitted by your browser to our server. The following information will be stored temporarily in a so-called logfile:

• IP address of the enquiring computer
• Date and time of the access
• Name and URL of the file retrieved
• Website from which Our Website was accessed (referrer URL)
• Browser used and, where applicable, the operating system of your computer, as well as the name of your access provider

Our Website is not hosted by ourselves, but by a service provider who processes the aforementioned data for the purpose of the provision of the Website on our behalf under Art. 28 of the GDPR.

The processing is carried out to safeguard our overriding legitimate interest in displaying Our Website and ensuring the security and stability on the basis of Art. 6(1) lit. f of the GDPR. The collection of the data and its storage in logfiles is essential for the operation of the Website. A right to object to the processing does not exist due to the exception under Art. 21(1) of the GDPR. To the extent that the further storage of the logfiles is prescribed by law, the processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1) lit. c of the GDPR. Although there is no statutory or contractual obligation to provide personal data, the access to Our Website is technically not possible without the provision of the data.

The aforementioned data will be stored for the duration of the display of the Website and for technical reasons for a maximum of 7 days beyond.

On Our Website we provide you with a form to you allowing you to contact us. The information collected via mandatory fields is required for processing the request. Furthermore, you can voluntarily provide additional information that in your view is necessary for processing the contact request.

When you use the contact form, personal data will not be transferred to third parties.

The processing of your data provided in our contact form is carried out for the purpose of communicating with you and processing your request on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR. If your request refers to an existing contractual relationship with us, the processing is carried out for the purpose of performing the contract on the basis of Art. 6(1) lit. b of the GDPR. You are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide your data; however, we cannot process your request without your provision of the information in the required fields. If you do not want to provide this data, please contact us by other means.

If you use the contact form on the basis of your consent, we will store the data collected of each request for the duration of three years from the date on which your request has been processed or until you revoke your consent.

If you use the contact form in the context of a contractual relationship, we will store the data collected of each request for the duration of three years from the end of the contractual relationship.

We will collect and process the personal data of candidates, with the appropriate data processing also being carried out by electronic means, for example where candidates transmit to us application documents by email or via a web form available on Our Website. On Our Website, we provide you with the opportunity to transmit applications for advertised vacancies by email.

Any storage of your data in a database of candidates beyond the current application procedure is likewise carried out only subject to your prior separate consent.

The processing of your data in connection with your application is carried out for the purpose of processing your application and deciding on the creation of an employment relationship on the basis of § 26 of the BDSG. In the event of a transfer of your application documents to third parties, in particular to our affiliated companies, and the storage of your data beyond the current application procedure, the processing of your data is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. a of the GDPR. You are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide your data; however, we cannot process your application without your provision of the information.

We will store the data collected for the duration of six months from the date when the position is filled.

If you, on Our Website, subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your email address and store this information together with the date of your subscription and your IP address. You will the receive an email in which you have to confirm the subscription to the newsletter (double opt-in). If you fail to confirm the subscription within 24 hours, the subscription will automatically expire, and the data will not be processed for the dispatch of the newsletter.

For the dispatch of the newsletter, we use the service of a service provider who processes your personal data on our behalf under Art. 28 of the GDPR. Your data will not be transferred to third parties to third parties.

We will process your data for the purpose of the dispatch of the newsletter on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR. By unsubscribing from the newsletter, you may at any time cancel the subscription with effect for the future under Art. 7(3) of the GDPR. You are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide your data; however, we cannot dispatch the newsletter to you without the provision of your data.

After you have subscribed to the newsletter, we will store the data for a maximum of 24 hours until you confirm the subscription. Following your successful confirmation, we will store your data until you revoke your consent (unsubscription from the newsletter) and for technical reasons for a maximum of 7 days beyond.

To make the use of Our Website more convenient, you have the option to register a user account. The information collected in the required fields during the registration is essential for providing access to the account. Furthermore, you may voluntarily provide additional information for complementary (convenience) functions.

When you register a user account, no transfer of your personal data is carried out beyond the provision of the Website (see above).

We will process your data for the purpose of providing a user account for the performance of a contract with you under Art. 6(1) lit. b of the GDPR. You are under a contractual obligation to provide your data, as far as this information is required to identify your person and to perform the contract on our part. You are under no legal obligation to provide the data. However, your provision of this information is essential for the registration of a user account and thus for the conclusion of the contract.

Furthermore, the processing of additional information voluntarily entered for the purpose of providing further (convenience) functions is carried out on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR. In the user account, you may at any time deactivate the functions / delete the data voluntarily entered and thus revoke your consent with effect for the future under Art. 7(3) of the GDPR.

We will store your personal data as part of the provision of the user account for the duration of the contractual relationship. After the end of the contract / deletion of the user account, a further storage of your data is carried out only insofar as there a statutory retention obligations (e.g. under the tax law and commercial law).

Additional information provided to us by you on the basis of your consent will be stored only until you revoke your consent by deactivating the functions / deleting the data, otherwise until the end of the contract governing the provision of the user account.

In the context of the order processing, we will collect your personal data entered for the registration of a customer account, where you can select whether you want to order as a guest or want to register a permanent user account. The information collected in the required fields during the registration is in both cases identical and is essential for the processing of the order in the online shop. When you register a permanent user account, we will collect a password defined by yourself in addition. Furthermore, you can voluntarily provide additional information that in your view is necessary for processing the order.

A transfer of your personal data to third parties (e.g.: shipping providers / forwarding agent) and processors under Art. 28 of the GDPR is only carried out as far as this transfer is necessary for processing the order.

We will process your personal data for the purpose of registering a customer account for the performance of a contract with you under Art. 6(1) lit. b of the GDPR. You are under a contractual obligation to provide your data, where the data relates to the required fields, as this information is required to identify your person and to perform the contract on our part. You are under no legal obligation to provide the data. However, your provision of this information is essential for the order in our online shop and thus for the conclusion of the contract. You are under no obligation to provide the additional information voluntarily entered. Orders can be placed in our online shop also without the disclosure of the optional details.

The complementary processing of your password for the registration of the permanent user account is carried out for the purpose of providing a customer account and presenting your previous purchases as well as storing of your purchase-related data (e.g.: storage of billing address, different delivery addresses) on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR. By deleting your customer account, you may at any time revoke your consent with effect for the future under Art. 7(3) of the GDPR.

If you order as a guest, we will store your personal data until the processing of your order has been completed (end of the contract). In the case of registration of a permanent customer account, we will store the purchase-related data beyond the end of the contract until you revoke your consent (deletion of the customer account). In both cases, a further storage of your data is carried out only insofar as there a statutory retention obligations (e.g. under the tax law and commercial law).

On the networks mentioned below, we maintain so-called fan pages/accounts, or channels providing you with information and offers within social networks as well and offering to you further options to contact us and to enquire about our offers. In the following, we inform you about which of your data is processed by us or the respective social network in connection with the access to and the use of our fan pages/accounts.

If you contact us by Messenger or Direct Message via the respective social network, we will usually process your username used to contact us and may store further data provided by you as far as this is required to process/answer your request.

The legal basis is established by Art. 6(1) sentence 1 f) of the GDPR (processing is required to safeguard legitimate interests of the controller).

Insights features automatically provide us with statistics on our accounts. The statistics include, among other things, the total number of page views, Like data, Information on page activities and interactions, coverages, video views as well information on the proportion of men/women among our fans/followers.

The statistics only contain data that is aggregated cannot be related to individual persons. Hence, you cannot be identified by us via this data.

To view the contents of our fan pages/accounts, you need not be a member of the respective social network; thus, a user account for the social network is not required.

However, please note that the social networks, when accessed, collect and store data also from website visitors without user account (e.g.: technical data enabling the operator to display the website to you) and use cookies and similar technologies, over which we have no control. For details in this respect, go to the privacy policy of the respective social network (see the corresponding links above),

If you want to interact with the contents in our fan pages/accounts, e.g. to comment, share or like our postings/contributions, and/or to contact us via Messenger functions, a prior registration with the respective social network and the provision of personal data is required.

We have no control over the data processing by the social networks in the context of the use by you. To our knowledge, your data will be stored and processed in particular in connection with the provision of the services of the respective social network, furthermore for analyzing the user behavior (using cookies, pixel/web beacons and similar technologies) according to which advertising based on your interests is played off both inside and outside of the respective social network. It cannot be excluded in this connection that your data will be stored by the social networks also outside the EU/EEA and will be transferred to third parties.

Information, including but not limited to the precise scope and purposes of the processing of your personal data, the retention period/deletion as well as policies for the use of cookies and similar technologies in the context of the registration and use of the social networks are available in the privacy policy / cookie policy of the social networks, where you can also find information about your rights and options to object.

When you visit our Facebook page, Facebook (Meta) will collect data such as your IP address and further information available in the form of cookies on your PC. This information is used to provide to us as the operator of the Facebook pages statistical information about the use of the Facebook page. More information is provided by Facebook under the following link: https://facebook.com/help/pages/insights.

The statistical information submitted to us does not enable to draw conclusions about individual users. We draw on this information only for the purposes of addressing the interests of our users, continuously improving our online presence and ensuring the quality of this presence.

We will collect your data through our fan page for the sole purpose of realizing a possible provision of your data, if you communicate and interact with us This collection usually includes your name, message contents, comment contents, and the profile information provided by you “to the public”.

The processing of your personal data for our aforementioned purposes is carried out on the basis of our legitimate commercial and communicative interest in the offer of an information and communication channel under Art. 6(1) f) of the GDPR. If you as a user have given your consent towards the respective provider of the social network for the data processing, the legal basis of the processing is provided by Art. 6(1) a), Art. 7 of the GDPR.

Due to the fact that the actual data processing is carried out by the provider of the social network, we can merely access your data stored by us. It is only the provider of the social network is legitimized to fully access your data. Therefore, only this provider can directly take and implement measures to fulfill your user rights (request for information, request for deletion, objection, etc.). Hence, the assertion of corresponding rights is carried out most effectively directly against such provider.

We and Facebook are jointly responsible for the personal contents of the fan page. Data subjects claim their rights to Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. and to us.

The primary responsibility for the processing of Insights data rests under the GDPR with Facebook, and Facebook fulfills all obligations arising from the GDPR regarding the processing of Insights data. Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. provides the essential details of the Insights page supplement to the data subjects.

We do not make any decisions regarding the processing of Insights data and the retention period of cookies on user devices.

Further information is directly available from Facebook (supplementary agreement with Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

More information, including about the exact scope and the purposes of the processing of your personal data, the retention period / deletion as well as guidelines for the use of cookies and similar technologies in connection with the registration and use can be found in the Privacy Policy / Cookie Policy of Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0

https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies

LinkedIn is a social network of LinkedIn Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A., which allows to create private and professional profiles of individuals and company profiles. Within the social network, users can maintain their existing contacts and establish new contacts. Companies and other organizations can create profiles to which photos and other company information are uploaded for the purpose of presenting themselves as an employer and recruiting staff. Other LinkedIn users can access this information and write their own articles and share these contents with other users. The focus of the network lies on the professional exchange of expert information with people having the same professional interests.

When you use or visit the network, LinkedIn will automatically collect data from you, e.g.: username, job title and IP address. This is done using various tracking technologies. LinkedIn provides to users on the basis of the data collected.

We will collect your data through our company profile for the sole purpose of realizing a possible provision of your data, if you communicate and interact with us This collection usually includes your name, message contents, comment contents, and the profile information provided by you “to the public”.

The processing of your personal data for our aforementioned purposes is carried out on the basis of our legitimate commercial and communicative interest in the offer of an information and communication channel under Art. 6(1) f) of the GDPR. If you as a user have given your consent towards the respective provider of the social network for the data processing, the legal basis of the processing is provided by Art. 6(1) a), Art. 7 of the GDPR.

Due to the fact that the actual data processing is carried out by the provider of the social network, we can merely access your data stored by us. It is only the provider of the social network is legitimized to fully access your data. Therefore, only this provider can directly take and implement measures to fulfill your user rights (request for information, request for deletion, objection, etc.). Hence, the assertion of corresponding rights is carried out most effectively directly against such provider.

We and LinkedIn are jointly responsible for the personal contents of our company profile. Data subjects claim their rights to LinkedIn and to us.

We do not make any decisions regarding the data collected on the page of LinkedIn using tracking technologies.

Further information about LinkedIn is available under: https://about.linkedin.com.

For further information about the privacy policy of LinkedIn go to: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Further information about the retention period / deletion as well as guidelines for the use of cookies and similar technologies in connection with the registration and use at LinkedIn can be found under: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-cookie-policy.

XING is social network of XING SE based in Hamburg (Germany) which allows the creation of private and professional profiles. Within the social network, users can maintain their existing contacts and establish new contacts. Companies can create profiles to which photos and other company information are uploaded. Other

XING users can access this information and write their own articles and share these contents with other users.

The focus lies on the professional exchange of expert information with people having the same professional interests. Furthermore, XING is often used by companies and other organizations for the purpose of recruiting staff presenting themselves as an interesting employer.

For more information about XING go to: https://corporate.xing.com/de/unternehmen/

For more information about XING’s private policy go to: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

We do not collect and process any personal data through our XING company page.

We use Meta Pixel from Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, to create so-called custom audiences, that is segmenting user groups of our online offering, determining conversion rates which is subsequently optimized. This is done in particular whenever you interact with advertisements that we have placed with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited.

Meta Pixel is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

We intend to transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular to the U.S.A. The data transfer the U.S.A. is carried out under Art. 45(1) of the GDPR on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. The participating US companies and/or their US subcontractors have been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF).

In cases where there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission (including any US companies that are not certified under the EU-U.S. DPF), we have agreed other suitable guaranties within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR with the recipients of the data. These are – unless otherwise stated – Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU Commission according to the Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. A copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses is available under https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.

Moreover, we will obtain your consent under Art. 49(1) sentence 1 lit. a of the GDPR prior to such transfer to third countries, which consent is given by you via the Consent Manager (or via other forms, registrations, etc.). Please note that data transfers to third countries may involve specific unknown risks (e.g.: data processing by security authorities of the third country, the exact scope and implications of which are not known to us, over which we have no control and about which you may not become aware).

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. For further information see the Privacy Statement for Meta Pixel: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

We use Google Analytics from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, as analytics service for the statistical evaluation of our online offering; this analysis includes, among other data, the number of calls-up of our online offering, visited subpages and the length of stay of visitors.

Google Analytics uses cookies and other browser technologies to analyze the user behavior and to recognize users. This information is used, among other things, to compile reports on the activity of the website.

Google Analytics is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

We intend to transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular to the U.S.A. The data transfer the U.S.A. is carried out under Art. 45(1) of the GDPR on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. The participating US companies and/or their US subcontractors have been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF).

In cases where there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission (including any US companies that are not certified under the EU-U.S. DPF), we have agreed other suitable guaranties within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR with the recipients of the data. These are – unless otherwise stated – Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU Commission according to the Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. A copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses is available under https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.

Moreover, we will obtain your consent under Art. 49(1) sentence 1 lit. a of the GDPR prior to such transfer to third countries, which consent is given by you via the Consent Manager (or via other forms, registrations, etc.). Please note that data transfers to third countries may involve specific unknown risks (e.g.: data processing by security authorities of the third country, the exact scope and implications of which are not known to us, over which we have no control and about which you may not become aware).

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by Google Ireland Limited. For further information see the Privacy Statement for Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

We use the Google Tag Manager from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, allowing us to administer website tags via a user interface and enabling us to manage the exact integration of services on Our Website.

This allows us to flexibly integrate additional services in order to evaluate the access to Our Website by the users.

Google Tag Manager is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

We intend to transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular to the U.S.A. The data transfer the U.S.A. is carried out under Art. 45(1) of the GDPR on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. The participating US companies and/or their US subcontractors have been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF).

In cases where there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission (including any US companies that are not certified under the EU-U.S. DPF), we have agreed other suitable guaranties within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR with the recipients of the data. These are – unless otherwise stated – Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU Commission according to the Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. A copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses is available under https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.

Moreover, we will obtain your consent under Art. 49(1) sentence 1 lit. a of the GDPR prior to such transfer to third countries, which consent is given by you via the Consent Manager (or via other forms, registrations, etc.). Please note that data transfers to third countries may involve specific unknown risks (e.g.: data processing by security authorities of the third country, the exact scope and implications of which are not known to us, over which we have no control and about which you may not become aware).

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by Google Ireland Limited. For further information see the Privacy Statement for Google Tag Manager: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/.

On Our Website, we have integrated components from Google reCAPTCHA, which is service from Google Ireland Limited allowing us to distinguish whether a contact request originates from an individual or happens in a automated manner by means of a program. whenever you access such content, you establish a connection to servers of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, whereby your IP address and, where applicable, browser data such as your user agent is transmitted. Moreover, Google reCAPTCHA records the length of stay and mouse movements of the user in order to distinguish automated requests from human requests. This data is exclusively processed for the above purposes and for maintaining the security and functionality of Google reCAPTCHA.

Google reCAPTCHA is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

We intend to transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular to the U.S.A. The data transfer the U.S.A. is carried out under Art. 45(1) of the GDPR on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. The participating US companies and/or their US subcontractors have been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF).

In cases where there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission (including any US companies that are not certified under the EU-U.S. DPF), we have agreed other suitable guaranties within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR with the recipients of the data. These are – unless otherwise stated – Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU Commission according to the Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. A copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses is available under https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.

Moreover, we will obtain your consent under Art. 49(1) sentence 1 lit. a of the GDPR prior to such transfer to third countries, which consent is given by you via the Consent Manager (or via other forms, registrations, etc.). Please note that data transfers to third countries may involve specific unknown risks (e.g.: data processing by security authorities of the third country, the exact scope and implications of which are not known to us, over which we have no control and about which you may not become aware).

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by Google Ireland Limited. For further information see the Privacy Statement for Google reCAPTCHA: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

On Our Website, we have integrated LinkedIn Ads, which is a service from LinkedIn Corporation, which displays targeted advertisement to users. LinkedIn Ads uses cookies and other browser-technologies to analyze the user behavior and to recognize users. LinkedIn Ads collects information about the visitor behavior on different websites. This information is used to optimize the relevance of the advertising. Moreover, LinkedIn Ads delivers targeted advertising on the basis of behavior profiles and geographic location. Your IP address and further identification features such as your user agent are transferred to the provider. In this case, your data is transferred to the operator of LinkedIn Ads, which is LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.

Web tracking technologies are used to create pseudonymized user profiles. These profiles cannot be amalgamated with you as an individual but are used, for example, for segmentation when displaying advertisements.

LinkedIn Ads is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

We intend to transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular to the U.S.A. The data transfer the U.S.A. is carried out under Art. 45(1) of the GDPR on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. The participating US companies and/or their US subcontractors have been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF).

In cases where there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission (including any US companies that are not certified under the EU-U.S. DPF), we have agreed other suitable guaranties within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR with the recipients of the data. These are – unless otherwise stated – Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU Commission according to the Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. A copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses is available under https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.

Moreover, we will obtain your consent under Art. 49(1) sentence 1 lit. a of the GDPR prior to such transfer to third countries, which consent is given by you via the Consent Manager (or via other forms, registrations, etc.). Please note that data transfers to third countries may involve specific unknown risks (e.g.: data processing by security authorities of the third country, the exact scope and implications of which are not known to us, over which we have no control and about which you may not become aware).

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by LinkedIn Corporation. For further information see the Privacy Statement for LinkedIn Ads: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy.

We use LinkedIn Insight Tag from LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A., to create target groups, to segment visitor groups of our online offering, to determine conversion rates which is subsequently optimized. This is done in particular whenever you interact with advertisements that we have placed with LinkedIn Corporation. In this context, LinkedIn Corporation provides retargeting of website visitors to display targeted advertising outside of Our Website.

LinkedIn Insight Tag collects data of the visitors of Our Website, including URL, referrer-URL, IP address, device and browser properties (user agent) as well as time stamps. This data is used to present anonymized reports about the target group of the website and advertisement performance.

LinkedIn Insight Tag is used on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1) lit. a of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

We intend to transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular to the U.S.A. The data transfer the U.S.A. is carried out under Art. 45(1) of the GDPR on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. The participating US companies and/or their US subcontractors have been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF).

In cases where there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission (including any US companies that are not certified under the EU-U.S. DPF), we have agreed other suitable guaranties within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR with the recipients of the data. These are – unless otherwise stated – Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU Commission according to the Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. A copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses is available under https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.

Moreover, we will obtain your consent under Art. 49(1) sentence 1 lit. a. of the GDPR prior to such transfer to third countries, which consent is given by you via the Consent Manager (or via other forms, registrations, etc.). Please note that data transfers to third countries may involve specific unknown risks (e.g.: data processing by security authorities of the third country, the exact scope and implications of which are not known to us, over which we have no control and about which you may not become aware).

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by LinkedIn Corporation. For further information see the Privacy Statement for LinkedIn Insight-Tag: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

On Our Website, we have integrated Usercentrics, which is a consent solution from Usercentrics GmbH, Rosental 4, 80331 Munich, Germany, serving to obtain and document the consent to the storage of cookies. Usercentrics uses cookies or other web technologies to recognize users and to store the consent given or revoked.

The service is used on the basis of the statutorily prescribed consent to the use of cookies under Art. 6(1) lit. c. of the GDPR.

The specific retention period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us but is determined by Usercentrics GmbH. For further information see the Privacy Statement for Usercentrics: https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/.

As of: 17 January 2025