Privacy statement

The web­site of the PeCon GmbH col­lects a series of gen­er­al data and infor­ma­tion when a data sub­ject or auto­mat­ed sys­tem calls up the web­site. This gen­er­al data and infor­ma­tion are stored in the serv­er log files. Col­lect­ed may be (1) the brows­er types and ver­sions used, (2) the oper­at­ing sys­tem used by the access­ing sys­tem, (3) the web­site from which an access­ing sys­tem reach­es our web­site (so-called refer­rers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Inter­net site, (6) an Inter­net pro­to­col address (IP address), (7) the Inter­net ser­vice provider of the access­ing sys­tem, and (8) any other sim­i­lar data and infor­ma­tion that may be used in the event of attacks on our infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy systems.

When using these gen­er­al data and infor­ma­tion, the PeCon GmbH does not draw any con­clu­sions about the data sub­ject. Rather, this infor­ma­tion is need­ed to (1) deliv­er the con­tent of our web­site cor­rect­ly, (2) opti­mize the con­tent of our web­site as well as its adver­tise­ment, (3) ensure the long-term via­bil­i­ty of our infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tems and web­site tech­nol­o­gy, and (4) pro­vide law enforce­ment author­i­ties with the infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary for crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion in case of a cyber-attack. There­fore, the PeCon GmbH ana­lyzes anony­mous­ly col­lect­ed data and infor­ma­tion sta­tis­ti­cal­ly, with the aim of increas­ing the data pro­tec­tion and data secu­ri­ty of our enter­prise, and to ensure an opti­mal level of pro­tec­tion for the per­son­al data we process. The anony­mous data of the serv­er log files are stored sep­a­rate­ly from all per­son­al data pro­vid­ed by a data subject.

The web­site of the PeCon GmbH con­tains infor­ma­tion that enables a quick elec­tron­ic con­tact to our enter­prise, as well as direct com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us, which also includes a gen­er­al address of the so-called elec­tron­ic mail (e-mail address). If a data sub­ject con­tacts the con­troller by e-mail or via a con­tact form, the per­son­al data trans­mit­ted by the data sub­ject are auto­mat­i­cal­ly stored. Such per­son­al data trans­mit­ted on a vol­un­tary basis by a data sub­ject to the data con­troller are stored for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing or con­tact­ing the data sub­ject. There is no trans­fer of this per­son­al data to third parties.

The data con­troller shall process and store the per­son­al data of the data sub­ject only for the peri­od nec­es­sary to achieve the pur­pose of stor­age, or as far as this is grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor or other leg­is­la­tors in laws or reg­u­la­tions to which the con­troller is sub­ject to.

If the stor­age pur­pose is not applic­a­ble, or if a stor­age peri­od pre­scribed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor or anoth­er com­pe­tent leg­is­la­tor expires, the per­son­al data are rou­tine­ly blocked or erased in accor­dance with legal requirements.

a) Right of confirmation

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to obtain from the con­troller the con­fir­ma­tion as to whether or not per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her are being processed. If a data sub­ject wish­es to avail him­self of this right of con­fir­ma­tion, he or she may, at any time, con­tact any employ­ee of the controller.

b) Right of access

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to obtain from the con­troller free infor­ma­tion about his or her per­son­al data stored at any time and a copy of this infor­ma­tion. Fur­ther­more, the Euro­pean direc­tives and reg­u­la­tions grant the data sub­ject access to the fol­low­ing information:

• the pur­pos­es of the processing;
• the cat­e­gories of per­son­al data concerned;
• the recip­i­ents or cat­e­gories of recip­i­ents to whom the per­son­al data have been or will be dis­closed, in par­tic­u­lar recip­i­ents in third coun­tries or inter­na­tion­al organisations;
• where pos­si­ble, the envis­aged peri­od for which the per­son­al data will be stored, or, if not pos­si­ble, the cri­te­ria used to deter­mine that period;
• the exis­tence of the right to request from the con­troller rec­ti­fi­ca­tion or era­sure of per­son­al data, or restric­tion of pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data con­cern­ing the data sub­ject, or to object to such processing;
• the exis­tence of the right to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry authority;
• where the per­son­al data are not col­lect­ed from the data sub­ject, any avail­able infor­ma­tion as to their source;
• the exis­tence of auto­mat­ed decision-making, includ­ing pro­fil­ing, referred to in Arti­cle 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, mean­ing­ful infor­ma­tion about the logic involved, as well as the sig­nif­i­cance and envis­aged con­se­quences of such pro­cess­ing for the data subject.

Fur­ther­more, the data sub­ject shall have a right to obtain infor­ma­tion as to whether per­son­al data are trans­ferred to a third coun­try or to an inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tion. Where this is the case, the data sub­ject shall have the right to be informed of the appro­pri­ate safe­guards relat­ing to the transfer.

If a data sub­ject wish­es to avail him­self of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, con­tact any employ­ee of the controller.

c) Right to rectification

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to obtain from the con­troller with­out undue delay the rec­ti­fi­ca­tion of inac­cu­rate per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her. Tak­ing into account the pur­pos­es of the pro­cess­ing, the data sub­ject shall have the right to have incom­plete per­son­al data com­plet­ed, includ­ing by means of pro­vid­ing a sup­ple­men­tary statement.

If a data sub­ject wish­es to exer­cise this right to rec­ti­fi­ca­tion, he or she may, at any time, con­tact any employ­ee of the controller.

d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to obtain from the con­troller the era­sure of per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her with­out undue delay, and the con­troller shall have the oblig­a­tion to erase per­son­al data with­out undue delay where one of the fol­low­ing grounds applies, as long as the pro­cess­ing is not necessary:

• The per­son­al data are no longer nec­es­sary in rela­tion to the pur­pos­es for which they were col­lect­ed or oth­er­wise processed.
• The data sub­ject with­draws con­sent to which the pro­cess­ing is based accord­ing to point (a) of Arti­cle 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Arti­cle 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
• The data sub­ject objects to the pro­cess­ing pur­suant to Arti­cle 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no over­rid­ing legit­i­mate grounds for the pro­cess­ing, or the data sub­ject objects to the pro­cess­ing pur­suant to Arti­cle 21(2) of the GDPR.
• The per­son­al data have been unlaw­ful­ly processed.
• The per­son­al data must be erased for com­pli­ance with a legal oblig­a­tion in Union or Mem­ber State law to which the con­troller is subject.
• The per­son­al data have been col­lect­ed in rela­tion to the offer of infor­ma­tion soci­ety ser­vices referred to in Arti­cle 8(1) of the GDPR.

If one of the afore­men­tioned rea­sons applies, and a data sub­ject wish­es to request the era­sure of per­son­al data stored by the PeCon GmbH, he or she may, at any time, con­tact any employ­ee of the con­troller. An employ­ee of PeCon GmbH shall prompt­ly ensure that the era­sure request is com­plied with immediately.

Where the con­troller has made per­son­al data pub­lic and is oblig­ed pur­suant to Arti­cle 17(1) to erase the per­son­al data, the con­troller, tak­ing account of avail­able tech­nol­o­gy and the cost of imple­men­ta­tion, shall take rea­son­able steps, includ­ing tech­ni­cal mea­sures, to inform other con­trollers pro­cess­ing the per­son­al data that the data sub­ject has request­ed era­sure by such con­trollers of any links to, or copy or repli­ca­tion of, those per­son­al data, as far as pro­cess­ing is not required. An employ­ees of the PeCon GmbH will arrange the nec­es­sary mea­sures in indi­vid­ual cases.

e) Right of restriction of processing

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to obtain from the con­troller restric­tion of pro­cess­ing where one of the fol­low­ing applies:

• The accu­ra­cy of the per­son­al data is con­test­ed by the data sub­ject, for a peri­od enabling the con­troller to ver­i­fy the accu­ra­cy of the per­son­al data.
• The pro­cess­ing is unlaw­ful and the data sub­ject oppos­es the era­sure of the per­son­al data and requests instead the restric­tion of their use instead.
• The con­troller no longer needs the per­son­al data for the pur­pos­es of the pro­cess­ing, but they are required by the data sub­ject for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims.
• The data sub­ject has object­ed to pro­cess­ing pur­suant to Arti­cle 21(1) of the GDPR pend­ing the ver­i­fi­ca­tion whether the legit­i­mate grounds of the con­troller over­ride those of the data subject.

If one of the afore­men­tioned con­di­tions is met, and a data sub­ject wish­es to request the restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data stored by the PeCon GmbH, he or she may at any time con­tact any employ­ee of the con­troller. The employ­ee of the PeCon GmbH will arrange the restric­tion of the processing.

f) Right to data portability

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor, to receive the per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her, which was pro­vid­ed to a con­troller, in a struc­tured, com­mon­ly used and machine-readable for­mat. He or she shall have the right to trans­mit those data to anoth­er con­troller with­out hin­drance from the con­troller to which the per­son­al data have been pro­vid­ed, as long as the pro­cess­ing is based on con­sent pur­suant to point (a) of Arti­cle 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Arti­cle 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a con­tract pur­suant to point (b) of Arti­cle 6(1) of the GDPR, and the pro­cess­ing is car­ried out by auto­mat­ed means, as long as the pro­cess­ing is not nec­es­sary for the per­for­mance of a task car­ried out in the pub­lic inter­est or in the exer­cise of offi­cial author­i­ty vest­ed in the controller.

Fur­ther­more, in exer­cis­ing his or her right to data porta­bil­i­ty pur­suant to Arti­cle 20(1) of the GDPR, the data sub­ject shall have the right to have per­son­al data trans­mit­ted direct­ly from one con­troller to anoth­er, where tech­ni­cal­ly fea­si­ble and when doing so does not adverse­ly affect the rights and free­doms of others.

In order to assert the right to data porta­bil­i­ty, the data sub­ject may at any time con­tact any employ­ee of the PeCon GmbH.

g) Right to object

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to object, on grounds relat­ing to his or her par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion, at any time, to pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Arti­cle 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to pro­fil­ing based on these provisions.

The PeCon GmbH shall no longer process the per­son­al data in the event of the objec­tion, unless we can demon­strate com­pelling legit­i­mate grounds for the pro­cess­ing which over­ride the inter­ests, rights and free­doms of the data sub­ject, or for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims.

If the PeCon GmbH process­es per­son­al data for direct mar­ket­ing pur­pos­es, the data sub­ject shall have the right to object at any time to pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her for such mar­ket­ing. This applies to pro­fil­ing to the extent that it is relat­ed to such direct mar­ket­ing. If the data sub­ject objects to the PeCon GmbH to the pro­cess­ing for direct mar­ket­ing pur­pos­es, the PeCon GmbH will no longer process the per­son­al data for these purposes.

In addi­tion, the data sub­ject has the right, on grounds relat­ing to his or her par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion, to object to pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data con­cern­ing him or her by the PeCon GmbH for sci­en­tif­ic or his­tor­i­cal research pur­pos­es, or for sta­tis­ti­cal pur­pos­es pur­suant to Arti­cle 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary for the per­for­mance of a task car­ried out for rea­sons of pub­lic interest.

In order to exer­cise the right to object, the data sub­ject may con­tact any employ­ee of the PeCon GmbH. In addi­tion, the data sub­ject is free in the con­text of the use of infor­ma­tion soci­ety ser­vices, and notwith­stand­ing Direc­tive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by auto­mat­ed means using tech­ni­cal specifications.

h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor not to be sub­ject to a deci­sion based sole­ly on auto­mat­ed pro­cess­ing, includ­ing pro­fil­ing, which pro­duces legal effects con­cern­ing him or her, or sim­i­lar­ly sig­nif­i­cant­ly affects him or her, as long as the deci­sion (1) is not is nec­es­sary for enter­ing into, or the per­for­mance of, a con­tract between the data sub­ject and a data con­troller, or (2) is not autho­rised by Union or Mem­ber State law to which the con­troller is sub­ject and which also lays down suit­able mea­sures to safe­guard the data subject’s rights and free­doms and legit­i­mate inter­ests, or (3) is not based on the data subject’s explic­it consent.

If the deci­sion (1) is nec­es­sary for enter­ing into, or the per­for­mance of, a con­tract between the data sub­ject and a data con­troller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explic­it con­sent, the PeCon GmbH shall imple­ment suit­able mea­sures to safe­guard the data subject’s rights and free­doms and legit­i­mate inter­ests, at least the right to obtain human inter­ven­tion on the part of the con­troller, to express his or her point of view and con­test the decision.

If the data sub­ject wish­es to exer­cise the rights con­cern­ing auto­mat­ed indi­vid­ual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, con­tact any employ­ee of the PeCon GmbH.

i) Right to withdraw data protection consent

Each data sub­ject shall have the right grant­ed by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor to with­draw his or her con­sent to pro­cess­ing of his or her per­son­al data at any time.

If the data sub­ject wish­es to exer­cise the right to with­draw the con­sent, he or she may, at any time, con­tact any employ­ee of the PeCon GmbH.

The data con­troller shall col­lect and process the per­son­al data of appli­cants for the pur­pose of the pro­cess­ing of the appli­ca­tion pro­ce­dure. The pro­cess­ing may also be car­ried out elec­tron­i­cal­ly. This is the case, in par­tic­u­lar, if an appli­cant sub­mits cor­re­spond­ing appli­ca­tion doc­u­ments by e-mail. If the data con­troller con­cludes an employ­ment con­tract with an appli­cant, the sub­mit­ted data will be stored for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing the employ­ment rela­tion­ship in com­pli­ance with legal require­ments. If no employ­ment con­tract is con­clud­ed with the appli­cant by the con­troller, the appli­ca­tion doc­u­ments shall be auto­mat­i­cal­ly erased two months after noti­fi­ca­tion of the refusal deci­sion, pro­vid­ed that no other legit­i­mate inter­ests of the con­troller are opposed to the era­sure. Other legit­i­mate inter­est in this rela­tion is, e.g. a bur­den of proof in a pro­ce­dure under the Gen­er­al Equal Treat­ment Act (AGG).

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of the enter­prise Face­book. Face­book is a social network.

A social net­work is a place for social meet­ings on the Inter­net, an online com­mu­ni­ty, which usu­al­ly allows users to com­mu­ni­cate with each other and inter­act in a vir­tu­al space. A social net­work may serve as a plat­form for the exchange of opin­ions and expe­ri­ences, or enable the Inter­net com­mu­ni­ty to pro­vide per­son­al or business-related infor­ma­tion. Face­book allows social net­work users to include the cre­ation of pri­vate pro­files, upload pho­tos, and net­work through friend requests.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of Face­book is Face­book, Inc., 1 Hack­er Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, Unit­ed States. If a per­son lives out­side of the Unit­ed States or Cana­da, the con­troller is the Face­book Ire­land Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Har­bour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net web­site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and into which a Face­book com­po­nent (Face­book plug-ins) was inte­grat­ed, the web brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to down­load dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing Face­book com­po­nent from Face­book through the Face­book com­po­nent. An overview of all the Face­book Plug-ins may be accessed under https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, Face­book is made aware of what spe­cif­ic sub-site of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on Face­book, Face­book detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-site of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the Face­book com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive Face­book account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the Face­book but­tons inte­grat­ed into our web­site, e.g. the “Like” but­ton, or if the data sub­ject sub­mits a com­ment, then Face­book match­es this infor­ma­tion with the per­son­al Face­book user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

Face­book always receives, through the Face­book com­po­nent, infor­ma­tion about a visit to our web­site by the data sub­ject, when­ev­er the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on Face­book dur­ing the time of the call-up to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the data sub­ject clicks on the Face­book com­po­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to Face­book is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she may pre­vent this by log­ging off from their Face­book account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

The data pro­tec­tion guide­line pub­lished by Face­book, which is avail­able at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, pro­vides infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion, pro­cess­ing and use of per­son­al data by Face­book. In addi­tion, it is explained there what set­ting options Face­book offers to pro­tect the pri­va­cy of the data sub­ject. In addi­tion, dif­fer­ent con­fig­u­ra­tion options are made avail­able to allow the elim­i­na­tion of data trans­mis­sion to Face­book. These appli­ca­tions may be used by the data sub­ject to elim­i­nate a data trans­mis­sion to Facebook.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed the com­po­nent of Google Ana­lyt­ics (with the anonymiz­er func­tion). Google Ana­lyt­ics is a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice. Web ana­lyt­ics is the col­lec­tion, gath­er­ing, and analy­sis of data about the behav­ior of vis­i­tors to web­sites. A web analy­sis ser­vice col­lects, inter alia, data about the web­site from which a per­son has come (the so-called refer­rer), which sub-pages were vis­it­ed, or how often and for what dura­tion a sub-page was viewed. Web ana­lyt­ics are main­ly used for the opti­miza­tion of a web­site and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analy­sis of Inter­net advertising.

The oper­a­tor of the Google Ana­lyt­ics com­po­nent is Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Pkwy, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 – 1351, Unit­ed States.

For the web ana­lyt­ics through Google Ana­lyt­ics the con­troller uses the appli­ca­tion “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this appli­ca­tion the IP address of the Inter­net con­nec­tion of the data sub­ject is abridged by Google and anonymised when access­ing our web­sites from a Mem­ber State of the Euro­pean Union or anoth­er Con­tract­ing State to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area.

The pur­pose of the Google Ana­lyt­ics com­po­nent is to ana­lyze the traf­fic on our web­site. Google uses the col­lect­ed data and infor­ma­tion, inter alia, to eval­u­ate the use of our web­site and to pro­vide online reports, which show the activ­i­ties on our web­sites, and to pro­vide other ser­vices con­cern­ing the use of our Inter­net site for us.

Google Ana­lyt­ics places a cook­ie on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject. The def­i­n­i­tion of cook­ies is explained above. With the set­ting of the cook­ie, Google is enabled to ana­lyze the use of our web­site. With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and into which a Google Ana­lyt­ics com­po­nent was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject will auto­mat­i­cal­ly sub­mit data through the Google Ana­lyt­ics com­po­nent for the pur­pose of online adver­tis­ing and the set­tle­ment of com­mis­sions to Google. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, the enter­prise Google gains knowl­edge of per­son­al infor­ma­tion, such as the IP address of the data sub­ject, which serves Google, inter alia, to under­stand the ori­gin of vis­i­tors and clicks, and sub­se­quent­ly cre­ate com­mis­sion settlements.

The cook­ie is used to store per­son­al infor­ma­tion, such as the access time, the loca­tion from which the access was made, and the fre­quen­cy of vis­its of our web­site by the data sub­ject. With each visit to our Inter­net site, such per­son­al data, includ­ing the IP address of the Inter­net access used by the data sub­ject, will be trans­mit­ted to Google in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca. These per­son­al data are stored by Google in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca. Google may pass these per­son­al data col­lect­ed through the tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure to third parties.

The data sub­ject may, as stat­ed above, pre­vent the set­ting of cook­ies through our web­site at any time by means of a cor­re­spond­ing adjust­ment of the web brows­er used and thus per­ma­nent­ly deny the set­ting of cook­ies. Such an adjust­ment to the Inter­net brows­er used would also pre­vent Google Ana­lyt­ics from set­ting a cook­ie on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject. In addi­tion, cook­ies already in use by Google Ana­lyt­ics may be delet­ed at any time via a web brows­er or other soft­ware programs.

In addi­tion, the data sub­ject has the pos­si­bil­i­ty of object­ing to a col­lec­tion of data that are gen­er­at­ed by Google Ana­lyt­ics, which is relat­ed to the use of this web­site, as well as the pro­cess­ing of this data by Google and the chance to pre­clude any such. For this pur­pose, the data sub­ject must down­load a brows­er add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. Alter­na­tive­ly a click on this link installs the opt-out cook­ie that pre­vents col­lec­tion of data by Google Ana­lyt­ics JavaScript. The brows­er add-on tells Google Ana­lyt­ics through a JavaScript, that any data and infor­ma­tion about the vis­its of Inter­net pages may not be trans­mit­ted to Google Ana­lyt­ics. The instal­la­tion of the brows­er add-ons is con­sid­ered an objec­tion by Google. If the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is later delet­ed, for­mat­ted, or newly installed, then the data sub­ject must rein­stall the brows­er add-ons to dis­able Google Ana­lyt­ics. If the brows­er add-on was unin­stalled by the data sub­ject or any other per­son who is attrib­ut­able to their sphere of com­pe­tence, or is dis­abled, it is pos­si­ble to exe­cute the rein­stal­la­tion or reac­ti­va­tion of the brows­er add-ons.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion and the applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Ana­lyt­ics is fur­ther explained under the fol­low­ing Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed the Google+ but­ton as a com­po­nent. Google+ is a so-called social net­work. A social net­work is a social meet­ing place on the Inter­net, an online com­mu­ni­ty, which usu­al­ly allows users to com­mu­ni­cate with each other and inter­act in a vir­tu­al space. A social net­work may serve as a plat­form for the exchange of opin­ions and expe­ri­ences, or enable the Inter­net com­mu­ni­ty to pro­vide per­son­al or business-related infor­ma­tion. Google+ allows users of the social net­work to include the cre­ation of pri­vate pro­files, upload pho­tos and net­work through friend requests.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Pkwy, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 – 1351, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this web­site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a Google+ but­ton has been inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject auto­mat­i­cal­ly down­loads a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing Google+ but­ton of Google through the respec­tive Google+ but­ton com­po­nent. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, Google is made aware of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. More detailed infor­ma­tion about Google+ is avail­able under https://developers.google.com/+/.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google rec­og­nizes with each call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject and for the entire dura­tion of his or her stay on our Inter­net site, which spe­cif­ic sub-pages of our Inter­net page were vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the Google+ but­ton and Google match­es this with the respec­tive Google+ account asso­ci­at­ed with the data subject.

If the data sub­ject clicks on the Google+ but­ton inte­grat­ed on our web­site and thus gives a Google+ 1 rec­om­men­da­tion, then Google assigns this infor­ma­tion to the per­son­al Google+ user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data. Google stores the Google+ 1 rec­om­men­da­tion of the data sub­ject, mak­ing it pub­licly avail­able in accor­dance with the terms and con­di­tions accept­ed by the data sub­ject in this regard. Sub­se­quent­ly, a Google+ 1 rec­om­men­da­tion given by the data sub­ject on this web­site togeth­er with other per­son­al data, such as the Google+ account name used by the data sub­ject and the stored photo, is stored and processed on other Google ser­vices, such as search-engine results of the Google search engine, the Google account of the data sub­ject or in other places, e.g. on Inter­net pages, or in rela­tion to adver­tise­ments. Google is also able to link the visit to this web­site with other per­son­al data stored on Google. Google fur­ther records this per­son­al infor­ma­tion with the pur­pose of improv­ing or opti­miz­ing the var­i­ous Google services.

Through the Google+ but­ton, Google receives infor­ma­tion that the data sub­ject vis­it­ed our web­site, if the data sub­ject at the time of the call-up to our web­site is logged in to Google+. This occurs regard­less of whether the data sub­ject clicks or doesn’t click on the Google+ button.

If the data sub­ject does not wish to trans­mit per­son­al data to Google, he or she may pre­vent such trans­mis­sion by log­ging out of his Google+ account before call­ing up our website.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion and the data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. More ref­er­ences from Google about the Google+ 1 but­ton may be obtained under https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of the ser­vice Insta­gram. Insta­gram is a ser­vice that may be qual­i­fied as an audio­vi­su­al plat­form, which allows users to share pho­tos and videos, as well as dis­sem­i­nate such data in other social networks.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of the ser­vices offered by Insta­gram is Insta­gram LLC, 1 Hack­er Way, Build­ing 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which an Insta­gram com­po­nent (Insta but­ton) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to the down­load of a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing Insta­gram com­po­nent of Insta­gram. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, Insta­gram becomes aware of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on Insta­gram, Insta­gram detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the Insta­gram com­po­nent and is asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive Insta­gram account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the Insta­gram but­tons inte­grat­ed on our web­site, then Insta­gram match­es this infor­ma­tion with the per­son­al Insta­gram user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

Insta­gram receives infor­ma­tion via the Insta­gram com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in at Insta­gram at the time of the call to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the Insta­gram but­ton or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to Insta­gram is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she can pre­vent this by log­ging off from their Insta­gram account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion and the applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions of Insta­gram may be retrieved under https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

The con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of the LinkedIn Cor­po­ra­tion on this web­site. LinkedIn is a web-based social net­work that enables users with exist­ing busi­ness con­tacts to con­nect and to make new busi­ness con­tacts. Over 400 mil­lion reg­is­tered peo­ple in more than 200 coun­tries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is 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, UNITED STATES. For pri­va­cy mat­ters out­side of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ire­land, Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ire­land, is responsible.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a LinkedIn com­po­nent (LinkedIn plug-in) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to the down­load of a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing LinkedIn com­po­nent of LinkedIn. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, LinkedIn gains knowl­edge of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the LinkedIn com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive LinkedIn account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the LinkedIn but­tons inte­grat­ed on our web­site, then LinkedIn assigns this infor­ma­tion to the per­son­al LinkedIn user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

LinkedIn receives infor­ma­tion via the LinkedIn com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the LinkedIn but­ton or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to LinkedIn is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she may pre­vent this by log­ging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

LinkedIn pro­vides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the pos­si­bil­i­ty to unsub­scribe from e-mail mes­sages, SMS mes­sages and tar­get­ed ads, as well as the abil­i­ty to man­age ad set­tings. LinkedIn also uses affil­i­ates such as Eire, Google Ana­lyt­ics, BlueKai, Dou­bleClick, Nielsen, Com­score, Elo­qua, and Lotame. The set­ting of such cook­ies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applic­a­ble pri­va­cy pol­i­cy for LinkedIn is avail­able under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cook­ie Pol­i­cy is avail­able under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of MySpace LLC. MySpace is a so-called social net­work. A social net­work is an Inter­net social meet­ing place, an online com­mu­ni­ty that allows users to com­mu­ni­cate and inter­act with each other in a vir­tu­al space. A social net­work can serve as a plat­form for the exchange of opin­ions and expe­ri­ences or allow the Inter­net com­mu­ni­ty to pro­vide per­son­al or company-related infor­ma­tion. MySpace allows users of the social net­work to cre­ate free blogs or groups of users, includ­ing pho­tos and videos.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of MySpace is MySpace LLC, 8391 Bev­er­ly Blvd., #349, Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia 90048, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a MySpace com­po­nent (MySpace plug-in) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to the down­load through the respec­tive MySpace com­po­nent a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing MySpace com­po­nent of MySpace. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about MySpace is avail­able under https://myspace.com. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, MySpace gains knowl­edge of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site is vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on MySpace, MySpace detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the MySpace com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive MySpace account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the MySpace but­tons, inte­grat­ed on our web­site, then MySpace assigns this infor­ma­tion with the per­son­al MySpace user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

MySpace receives infor­ma­tion via the MySpace com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in at MySpace at the time of the call to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the MySpace com­po­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to MySpace is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she may pre­vent this by log­ging off from their MySpace account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

The data pro­tec­tion guide­line pub­lished by MySpace, which is avail­able under https://myspace.com/pages/privacy, pro­vides infor­ma­tion on the col­lec­tion, pro­cess­ing and use of per­son­al data by MySpace.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of Pin­ter­est Inc. Pin­ter­est is a so-called social net­work. A social net­work is an Inter­net social meet­ing place, an online com­mu­ni­ty that allows users to com­mu­ni­cate and inter­act with each other in a vir­tu­al space. A social net­work may serve as a plat­form for the exchange of opin­ions and expe­ri­ences, or allow the Inter­net com­mu­ni­ty to pro­vide per­son­al or company-related infor­ma­tion. Pin­ter­est enables the users of the social net­work to pub­lish, inter alia, pic­ture col­lec­tions and indi­vid­ual pic­tures as well as descrip­tions on vir­tu­al pin­boards (so-called pins), which can then be shared by other user’s (so-called re-pins) or com­ment­ed on.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of Pin­ter­est is Pin­ter­est Inc., 808 Bran­nan Street, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a Pin­ter­est com­po­nent (Pin­ter­est plug-in) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to down­load through the respec­tive Pin­ter­est com­po­nent a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing Pin­ter­est com­po­nent. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on Pin­ter­est is avail­able under https://pinterest.com/. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, Pin­ter­est gains knowl­edge of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site is vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on Pin­ter­est, Pin­ter­est detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the Pin­ter­est com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive Pin­ter­est account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the Pin­ter­est but­tons, inte­grat­ed on our web­site, then Pin­ter­est assigns this infor­ma­tion to the per­son­al Pin­ter­est user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

Pin­ter­est receives infor­ma­tion via the Pin­ter­est com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in at Pin­ter­est at the time of the call-up to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the Pin­ter­est com­po­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to Pin­ter­est is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she may pre­vent this by log­ging off from their Pin­ter­est account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

The data pro­tec­tion guide­line pub­lished by Pin­ter­est, which is avail­able under https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy, pro­vides infor­ma­tion on the col­lec­tion, pro­cess­ing and use of per­son­al data by Pinterest.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of Tum­blr. Tum­blr is a plat­form that allows users to cre­ate and run a blog. A blog is a web-based, gen­er­al­ly publicly-accessible por­tal on which one or more peo­ple called blog­gers or web blog­gers may post arti­cles or write down thoughts in so-called blog­posts. For exam­ple, in a Tum­blr blog the user can pub­lish text, images, links, and videos, and spread them in the dig­i­tal space. Fur­ther­more, Tum­blr users may import con­tent from other web­sites into their own blog.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of Tum­blr is Tum­blr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10010, UNITED STATES.

Through each call to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a Tum­blr com­po­nent (Tum­blr but­ton) has been inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject caus­es auto­mat­i­cal­ly the down­load of a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing Tum­blr com­po­nent of Tum­blr. Learn more about the Tumblr-buttons that are avail­able under https://www.tumblr.com/buttons. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, Tum­blr becomes aware of what con­crete sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. The pur­pose of the inte­gra­tion of the Tum­blr com­po­nent is a retrans­mis­sion of the con­tents of this web­site to allow our users to intro­duce this web page to the dig­i­tal world and to increase our vis­i­tor numbers.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at Tum­blr, Tum­blr detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the Tum­blr com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive Tum­blr account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the Tum­blr but­tons, inte­grat­ed on our web­site, then Tum­blr assigns this infor­ma­tion to the per­son­al Tum­blr user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

Tum­blr receives infor­ma­tion via the Tum­blr com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in at Tum­blr at the time of the call-up to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the Tum­blr com­po­nent or not. If such a trans­fer of infor­ma­tion to Tum­blr is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she may pre­vent this by log­ging off from their Tum­blr account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

The applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions of Tum­blr may be accessed under https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of Twit­ter. Twit­ter is a mul­ti­lin­gual, publicly-accessible microblog­ging ser­vice on which users may pub­lish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’ e.g. short mes­sages, which are lim­it­ed to 280 char­ac­ters. These short mes­sages are avail­able for every­one, includ­ing those who are not logged on to Twit­ter. The tweets are also dis­played to so-called fol­low­ers of the respec­tive user. Fol­low­ers are other Twit­ter users who fol­low a user’s tweets. Fur­ther­more, Twit­ter allows you to address a wide audi­ence via hash­tags, links or retweets.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of Twit­ter is Twit­ter, Inc., 1355 Mar­ket Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a Twit­ter com­po­nent (Twit­ter but­ton) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to down­load a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing Twit­ter com­po­nent of Twit­ter. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the Twit­ter but­tons is avail­able under https://about.twitter.com/de/resources/buttons. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, Twit­ter gains knowl­edge of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. The pur­pose of the inte­gra­tion of the Twit­ter com­po­nent is a retrans­mis­sion of the con­tents of this web­site to allow our users to intro­duce this web page to the dig­i­tal world and increase our vis­i­tor numbers.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on Twit­ter, Twit­ter detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the Twit­ter com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive Twit­ter account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on one of the Twit­ter but­tons inte­grat­ed on our web­site, then Twit­ter assigns this infor­ma­tion to the per­son­al Twit­ter user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

Twit­ter receives infor­ma­tion via the Twit­ter com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in on Twit­ter at the time of the call-up to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the Twit­ter com­po­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to Twit­ter is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she may pre­vent this by log­ging off from their Twit­ter account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

The applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions of Twit­ter may be accessed under https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of XING. XING is an Internet-based social net­work that enables users to con­nect with exist­ing busi­ness con­tacts and to cre­ate new busi­ness con­tacts. The indi­vid­ual users can cre­ate a per­son­al pro­file of them­selves at XING. Com­pa­nies may, e.g. cre­ate com­pa­ny pro­files or pub­lish jobs on XING.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of XING is XING SE, Damm­torstraße 30, 20354 Ham­burg, Germany.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a XING com­po­nent (XING plug-in) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to down­load a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing XING com­po­nent of XING. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the XING plug-in the may be accessed under https://dev.xing.com/plugins. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, XING gains knowl­edge of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in at the same time on XING, XING detects with every call-up to our web­site by the data sub­ject — and for the entire dura­tion of their stay on our Inter­net site — which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net page was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed through the XING com­po­nent and asso­ci­at­ed with the respec­tive XING account of the data sub­ject. If the data sub­ject clicks on the XING but­ton inte­grat­ed on our Inter­net site, e.g. the “Share”-button, then XING assigns this infor­ma­tion to the per­son­al XING user account of the data sub­ject and stores the per­son­al data.

XING receives infor­ma­tion via the XING com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, pro­vid­ed that the data sub­ject is logged in at XING at the time of the call to our web­site. This occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on the XING com­po­nent or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to XING is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, then he or she can pre­vent this by log­ging off from their XING account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

The data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions pub­lished by XING, which is avail­able under https://www.xing.com/privacy, pro­vide infor­ma­tion on the col­lec­tion, pro­cess­ing and use of per­son­al data by XING. In addi­tion, XING has pub­lished pri­va­cy notices for the XING share but­ton under https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

On this web­site, the con­troller has inte­grat­ed com­po­nents of YouTube. YouTube is an Inter­net video por­tal that enables video pub­lish­ers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also pro­vides free view­ing, review and com­ment­ing on them. YouTube allows you to pub­lish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broad­casts, as well as music videos, trail­ers, and videos made by users via the Inter­net portal.

The oper­at­ing com­pa­ny of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a sub­sidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Pkwy, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 – 1351, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the indi­vid­ual pages of this Inter­net site, which is oper­at­ed by the con­troller and on which a YouTube com­po­nent (YouTube video) was inte­grat­ed, the Inter­net brows­er on the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem of the data sub­ject is auto­mat­i­cal­ly prompt­ed to down­load a dis­play of the cor­re­spond­ing YouTube com­po­nent. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. Dur­ing the course of this tech­ni­cal pro­ce­dure, YouTube and Google gain knowl­edge of what spe­cif­ic sub-page of our web­site was vis­it­ed by the data subject.

If the data sub­ject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube rec­og­nizes with each call-up to a sub-page that con­tains a YouTube video, which spe­cif­ic sub-page of our Inter­net site was vis­it­ed by the data sub­ject. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respec­tive YouTube account of the data subject.

YouTube and Google will receive infor­ma­tion through the YouTube com­po­nent that the data sub­ject has vis­it­ed our web­site, if the data sub­ject at the time of the call to our web­site is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regard­less of whether the per­son clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a trans­mis­sion of this infor­ma­tion to YouTube and Google is not desir­able for the data sub­ject, the deliv­ery may be pre­vent­ed if the data sub­ject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our web­site is made.

YouTube’s data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions, avail­able at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, pro­vide infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion, pro­cess­ing and use of per­son­al data by YouTube and Google.

Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for pro­cess­ing oper­a­tions for which we obtain con­sent for a spe­cif­ic pro­cess­ing pur­pose. If the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data is nec­es­sary for the per­for­mance of a con­tract to which the data sub­ject is party, as is the case, for exam­ple, when pro­cess­ing oper­a­tions are nec­es­sary for the sup­ply of goods or to pro­vide any other ser­vice, the pro­cess­ing is based on Arti­cle 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such pro­cess­ing oper­a­tions which are nec­es­sary for car­ry­ing out pre-contractual mea­sures, for exam­ple in the case of inquiries con­cern­ing our pro­ducts or ser­vices. Is our com­pa­ny sub­ject to a legal oblig­a­tion by which pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data is required, such as for the ful­fill­ment of tax oblig­a­tions, the pro­cess­ing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR.

In rare cases, the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data may be nec­es­sary to pro­tect the vital inter­ests of the data sub­ject or of anoth­er nat­ur­al per­son. This would be the case, for exam­ple, if a vis­i­tor were injured in our com­pa­ny and his name, age, health insur­ance data or other vital infor­ma­tion would have to be passed on to a doc­tor, hos­pi­tal or other third party. Then the pro­cess­ing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR.

Final­ly, pro­cess­ing oper­a­tions could be based on Arti­cle 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for pro­cess­ing oper­a­tions which are not cov­ered by any of the above­men­tioned legal grounds, if pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary for the pur­pos­es of the legit­i­mate inter­ests pur­sued by our com­pa­ny or by a third party, except where such inter­ests are over­rid­den by the inter­ests or fun­da­men­tal rights and free­doms of the data sub­ject which require pro­tec­tion of per­son­al data. Such pro­cess­ing oper­a­tions are par­tic­u­lar­ly per­mis­si­ble because they have been specif­i­cal­ly men­tioned by the Euro­pean leg­is­la­tor. He con­sid­ered that a legit­i­mate inter­est could be assumed if the data sub­ject is a client of the con­troller (Recital 47 Sen­tence 2 GDPR).

Where the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data is based on Arti­cle 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legit­i­mate inter­est is to carry out our busi­ness in favor of the well-being of all our employ­ees and the shareholders.

The cri­te­ria used to deter­mine the peri­od of stor­age of per­son­al data is the respec­tive statu­to­ry reten­tion peri­od. After expi­ra­tion of that peri­od, the cor­re­spond­ing data is rou­tine­ly delet­ed, as long as it is no longer nec­es­sary for the ful­fill­ment of the con­tract or the ini­ti­a­tion of a contract.

We clar­i­fy that the pro­vi­sion of per­son­al data is part­ly required by law (e.g. tax reg­u­la­tions) or can also result from con­trac­tu­al pro­vi­sions (e.g. infor­ma­tion on the con­trac­tu­al partner).

Some­times it may be nec­es­sary to con­clude a con­tract that the data sub­ject pro­vides us with per­son­al data, which must sub­se­quent­ly be processed by us. The data sub­ject is, for exam­ple, oblig­ed to pro­vide us with per­son­al data when our com­pa­ny signs a con­tract with him or her. The non-provision of the per­son­al data would have the con­se­quence that the con­tract with the data sub­ject could not be concluded.

Before per­son­al data is pro­vid­ed by the data sub­ject, the data sub­ject must con­tact any employ­ee. The employ­ee clar­i­fies to the data sub­ject whether the pro­vi­sion of the per­son­al data is required by law or con­tract or is nec­es­sary for the con­clu­sion of the con­tract, whether there is an oblig­a­tion to pro­vide the per­son­al data and the con­se­quences of non-provision of the per­son­al data.

As a respon­si­ble com­pa­ny, we do not use auto­mat­ic decision-making or profiling.