Privacy

We use various cookies and pixels.

“Cookies” are small text files that are sent by our web server to your device to store certain information (e.g. identification features). “Pixels” are graphic files embedded on the website that perform corresponding functions. Cookies and pixels are used to store user information during or after a visit to an online offering. There are various types of cookies and pixels.

We provide you with a comprehensive overview of which providers on our pages set which cookies and pixels for what purposes, under Cookies & Tracking

Generally, we use the cookies and pixels shown to achieve the purposes outlined in the Cookies & Tracking section. For each of these purposes, we have thoroughly weighed and assessed whether it is in our legitimate business interest. If we can affirm this, the legal basis for the use of cookies and pixels etc. is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR, as far as they have personal reference. If you have given us your consent to use cookies and similar technologies based on a notice (e.g. “cookie banner”) provided by us on the website, we will use them based on § 25 para. TTDSG. 1 lit. a GDPR Para. 1 a GDPR.

For certain cookies and similar technologies, we do not require consent, as they are strictly necessary according to § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TTDSG to provide our services to you. In addition, for individual processing purposes that are independent of end device access, we have thoroughly weighed and reviewed whether consent is required and/or whether further data processing is in our legitimate business interest. If we can affirm this, the legal basis is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR, as far as they have personal reference.

You can revoke your consent to cookies, pixels, and similar technologies at any time and object to processing based on legitimate interests. This setting can be made at Cookies & Tracking .

You can also object to processing based on legitimate interest by disabling the storage of cookies in your browser settings or configuring your browser to notify you when cookies are intended to be stored.

For the full functionality of our website, it is necessary for technical reasons to allow the required cookies and processing operations in full; we do not use cookies that are not necessary for providing our services without your consent.

You can find further information on how to block cookies on the help pages of your internet browser.

Windows Internet Explorer

https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/hub/ 4337664/microsoft-edge-help 

Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/de/products/firefox. 

Internet Explorer™:

http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies 

Chrome™:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647 

Firefox™:

https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Opera™:

https://help.opera.c4.3 ConsentBaom/de/latest/web-preferences/

In some cases, after such revocation or objection, a new cookie (opt-out cookie) is stored on your web browser. This instructs third parties not to collect data from your browser and prevents the delivery of advertising to you.

An objection or revocation does not affect the legality of the data.

4.3 Consent-Banner

We use the services of CookieYes Limited, 3 Warren Yard Warren Park, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes, MK12 5NW, United Kingdom, to display a consent banner when you visit our website, through which you can receive information about the cookies and pixels used, give your consent to their use, or object to their use: Cookies & Tracking

If you confirm or refuse the use of certain offers via our consent banner, we store this information on your end device through a consent cookie In addition, when the consent banner is displayed, a connection is established with the servers of CookieYes Limited to obtain your consents and other declarations. The consent cookie has a lifespan of 1 year, unless you delete the consent cookie earlier.

The setting of cookies is absolutely necessary for the provision of our website (§  25 para . 2 no . 2 TTDSG); further data processing is in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR). (Art. 6  para. 1 f GDPR).

Data from you, especially your IP address, is also transmitted to CookieYes in the United Kingdom for the connection These data transfers are secured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission pursuant to  Art. 45 GDPR.

4.4 Adobe-Analytics

We use Adobe Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as “Adobe Analytics”). We have obligated Adobe Analytics to handle your data in compliance with data protection regulations through a data processing agreement.

Adobe Analytics uses “cookies” that are stored on your device and enable an analysis of your usage of our website The cookie set by Adobe has a runtime of 24 months. The information generated and collected about your usage through the cookie is usually transferred to an Adobe Analytics server in the USA, where it is evaluated and stored. We have enabled IP anonymization for this online offering, meaning that your IP address is immediately shortened by Adobe, usually within member states of the European Union and other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full transfer of the IP address to the Adobe Analytics server in the USA and its subsequent shortening there only occurs in exceptional cases. An adequate level of data protection is ensured in the USA because we have concluded the current standard contract clauses published by the European Commission with Adobe.

When the information generated by the cookie regarding your usage of the online offering is transmitted to an Adobe server, the IP address is anonymized before geolocation and replaced by a generic IP address before storage, as ensured by the settings.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Adobe Analytics is not merged with other Adobe data.

Adobe will use this information to evaluate the usage of the online offering by users and to compile reports on activities This occurs both at the level of the preceding cookie banner and afterward during your visit to our online offerings. This includes the use of an A/B testing tool to continuously improve our offerings.

We only activate Adobe Analytics with your consent. The legal basis is § 25 Para. 1 TTDSG in conjunction with Art. 6 Para. 1 a GDPR. Analyzing the usage of our online offerings helps us to continuously improve them.

You can revoke your consent at any time for the future. Go to Cookies & Tracking to find a comprehensive overview of which providers set cookies and pixels for what purposes on our pages. There you will also find information on how to revoke your consent.

Alternatively, you can also set your opt-out preference here:

www.adobe.com/de/privacy/opt-out.html

Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, Dublin, Irland provides further information at https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html

https://www.adobe.com/privacy/eu-dpa.html

https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy.html

4.5 Social Media Presence

We maintain our own presence on various social media platforms, specifically on Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. This allows us to also interact with you there and use the respective platforms’ offers for social interaction.

We use usage evaluations (“Page Insights”) provided by LinkedIn to continuously improve our LinkedIn presence. To generate these Page Insights, your personal data, especially your IP address, as well as possibly your profession, country, activity sector, seniority, company size, and employment status are processed when you visit our LinkedIn presence. In this case, we are jointly responsible for the data processing. We have concluded an agreement with LinkedIn that transparently regulates the obligation sharing (Art. 26 GDPR). The essential content of this agreement is that LinkedIn is primarily responsible for the visitor data processing and fulfills all relevant obligations of the GDPR regarding the processing of visitor data (including, but not limited to, fulfilling the rights of data subjects). Below, we show you where you can find further information on data processing at LinkedIn.

We have no influence on what personal data Meta collects via Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google via YouTube and how they handle this data. We are also not aware of this. Please note that these providers are located outside the EU and your data is therefore likely to be transmitted to third countries where an adequate level of data protection may not necessarily be ensured. You can find more information on how your data is handled from the respective third-party providers:

Instagram: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland, Data Policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect

Cookie informations: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370/,

Terms of use: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870/

LinkedIn: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland,

Data Policy:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy,

User agreement:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement?trk=homepage-basic_footer-user-agreement,

Cookie-guidelines:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=hb_ft_cookie,

Joint Controllership Agreement:

https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum

YouTube: Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Datenschutzerklärung:

https://policies.google.com/privacy,

Privacy policy: https://www.youtube.com/intl/de/yt/about/policies/#community-guidelines

Terms of use:

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice

The parent companies of the platform providers are based in the USA. To the extent that personal data is transmitted there, we ensure an adequate level of data protection or only transmit data there with your consent.

Through our social media offerings, we enable you to receive even more attractive offers from us on other channels and to communicate directly with these offers and their users. The use of social media offerings is therefore in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR); in addition, you have actively decided to use the social media offerings (Art. 6 para. 1 a GDPR) The evaluation of the usage data transmitted to us via Meta and LinkedIn is also in our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR). The provision of usage data via Meta and LinkedIn is done in anonymized form.

You can revoke your consent at any time and object to further data processing by no longer using the social media offerings and using the respective revocation options of the platform providers under the contacts given above. An objection or revocation does not affect the legality of the data.

4.6 Social Plugins

We have integrated the following plugins on our website:

Instagram Plugin of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland

Data Policy:

https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect

LinkedIn Plugin der LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2

Data Policy:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy

Youtube Plugin of Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland

Data Policy:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

We link to our presence on the mentioned platforms using the plugins. By clicking on the links, you will be redirected to these platforms. Our presence on Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube allows us to interact with you and publish news. The plugins are integrated in a deactivated state. This means that no information concerning you will be forwarded to Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube during a visit to our website without any further action on your part.

If you activate a link by clicking on it, you will be redirected to the respective platform. Information will be transferred and possibly also stored. This can also result in the transfer of data to third countries, in particular to the USA, where there may be no data protection level comparable to the European standard and where you may not have any data subject rights or legal remedies against the processing of your data. Please only click on the links if you agree to data transfer to third countries, especially to the USA.

When you click on the Instagram plugin, this action may be published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts. The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights and settings options for the protection of your personal data can be found in the providers’ privacy policies (see above).

4.7 Google Maps

Our website uses Google Maps with your consent to interactively display our location. Google Maps is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited. We will only display Google Maps if you explicitly confirm this by clicking on the hidden map. If you click on the map, your personal data (IP address, the address of the website from which you are using Google Maps, and the date and time of your visit to the relevant website) will be transmitted to Google.

We actively use Google Maps only with your consent (Art. 6 para 1 a, Art. 49 para.  1 a GDPR). You can revoke the further processing for the future at any time by deleting your browsing history, so that the confirmation given is no longer recorded.

Your IP address transmitted to Google in case of consent is usually transferred to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. We have no influence on this data transfer after activating Google Maps. In the USA, there is no data protection level equivalent to the high European data protection standard. Your data may be subject to access by authorities for control and monitoring purposes, against which no effective legal remedies or data subject rights can be enforced.

Information of the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland,

Data Policy:

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

4.8 Plugins

4.8.1 WPML

We use the WPML plugin of OnTheGoSystems Limited, 22/F 3 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (hereinafter referred as: WPML). WPML is a multilingual plugin for WordPress. We use WPML to display our website in various languages. When you visit our website, WPML stores a cookie on your device to save the language setting you have chosen. This may result in the processing of personal data by WPML, particularly user activity (specifically which pages have been visited and which elements have been clicked on) as well as device and browser information (particularly the IP address and information about the operating system).

For further information on data collection and storage by WPML, please visit:

Privacy Policy and GDPR Compliance

You can prevent the collection and processing of your personal data by WPML by preventing the storage of third-party cookies on your computer, using the “Do Not Track” function of a supporting browser, deactivating the execution of script code in your browser, or installing a script blocker such as NoScriptwww.noscript.net) or Ghostery (www.ghostery.com) in your browser. Further information on options for objection and removal vis-à-vis WPML can be found at: https://wpml.org/documentation/privacy-policy-and-gdpr-compliance

4.8.2 Wordfence

Wordfence Security is a service provided by Defiant Inc., 800 5th Ave., Suite 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Defiant”), which is used to secure this website. The use of Wordfence Security is based on our legitimate interests in a secure and protected web presence. Our website uses Wordfence Security to protect against viruses and malware and to defend against attacks by criminals. The plugin sets cookies to determine whether the website is actually being visited by a person or a robot. To protect against so-called brute-force attacks (numerous automated login attempts from the same identity) or hacker comment spam, IP addresses are stored on the Wordfence servers. IP addresses classified as harmless are added to a white list. Wordfence Security secures this website and also protects visitors to the website from viruses and malware. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR (Art. 6 Abs. 1 f GDPR). The Live Traffic View option of the plugin is reduced to security-relevant listing. Defiant stores your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes pursued. Further information on data processing by Defiant can be found at: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/.

We have integrated Defiant in compliance with data protection regulations as part of a data processing agreement. When using Wordfence Security, your personal data may be transferred to the USA. In this case, the data transfer is legally secured using the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission (Art. 46 para. 2 c GDPR).

5. Contact (E-Mail, contact form, phone, or letter)

You can contact us via email, an online contact form, phone, letter, or any other means. We only collect personal data if you provide it to us voluntarily. On our website, there is a contact form available for electronic communication.

If you use this form to make an inquiry, the data entered in the input mask that is required to process the contact request (e.g., marked with “*”) will be transmitted to us and stored. Alternatively, you can contact us via the provided email address. In this case, the personal data transmitted with the email will be stored, or in the case of a letter or phone call, the user’s provided data.

Alternatively, you can contact us via the provided email address. In this case, the personal data transmitted with the email will be stored, or in the case of a letter or phone call, the user’s provided data. When making phone inquiries, your data is also processed through a speech dialog system, which we will inform you about separately if necessary.

The data is only used for the purpose for which you provided it (e.g., processing inquiries, customer management, etc.). We do not share your data with third parties unless it is necessary to process your request. In some cases, we work with service providers to process contact requests, whom we integrate and control in a privacy-compliant manner. In this case, we will share the data you provide with our service providers. We will delete the data you provide us after processing your request unless legal retention obligations or rights require longer storage.

The legal basis for processing personal data required for processing contact requests is our legitimate interest in processing your request (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR). The legitimate interest arises specifically from the fact that we can only carry out the desired action (e.g., answering inquiries) through appropriate data processing. If you provide additional data beyond what is necessary, this is done explicitly on a voluntary basis and with your consent. The legal basis for processing this data is then Art. 6 para. Para. 1 a GDPR. If the contact aims at concluding a contract, the legal basis for processing is Art.6 para 1 b GDPR.

6. Apllications

Please do not send us any applications for advertised positions at an affiliated company. Applications for vacant positions within our group should always be addressed to the advertising company, whose address is also stated in the job advertisement.

If you still send us an application for a position at an affiliated company, we will immediately forward this application to the respective company and then delete your application, unless there are legal retention obligations (in which case we will delete your data after the expiry of these retention periods). This serves an efficient management of applications within our group and is therefore in our legitimate interest, as you also have an interest in your application being sent to the place where the selection process is conducted (Art. (Art. 6  para. 1 f GDPR). You can object to this for the future for special reasons (Art. 21 GDPR); you can find more information about your right to object in the section on your rights.

7. External links or hyperlinks to websites of other providers

Our website contains external links or hyperlinks to websites of other providers. These links are separate from our own content. The content on these external sites is neither created nor influenced by us.

When you click on an external link or hyperlink, you will be redirected from our website to the website of the external provider. In this case, we cannot guarantee the confidential handling of your data or compliance with data protection regulations by these external providers. The responsibility for this lies solely with the respective provider.

If we become aware of illegal content on external links or hyperlinks available on our website, we will remove the affected links immediately. For corresponding information, please contact us using the contact information given above.

8. Your Rights

If and to the extent that we process personal data from you, you have specific data subject rights under data protection law against us. We will promptly and free of charge fulfill the rights to which you are entitled. Please contact us or our data protection officer at the contact details provided at the beginning for this purpose. You can request information at any time about the personal data we have stored about you. Upon request, we will be happy to inform you about the data stored about your person (Art. 15 GDPR, § 34 BDSG). In addition, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR, § 35 BDSG), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), objection (Art. 21 GDPR), and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) if the legal requirements are met.

You can also object to further processing of your data if we process your data due to a legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR); however, a special reason is required for this if we do not process your data for advertising purposes.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data from the time of receipt during the subsequent review and, in the event of a legitimate objection, delete it from our active databases upon completion of the review, and only note in an advertising block file that you do not wish to be contacted by us (§ 36 BDSG, Art. 21 GDPR).

You can revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR) at any time. We will not process your personal data any further and will delete it, unless there is a legal permission for further processing.

An objection or revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of data in the past.

If you believe that data processing violates data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority of your choice (Art. 77 GDPR, § 19 BDSG). This also includes the supervisory authority responsible for us. An overview of the data protection supervisory authorities in Germany can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_linksnode.html;jsessionid=5617A5C91354ED5A908DBDDE5423356D.1_cid354

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy within the framework of the applicable data protection regulations.