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Privacy Notice

Information about the processing of your data

In accordance with Art. 12 of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the GDPR), we are obliged to inform you about the processing of your data when you use our website. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and this privacy policy informs you about the details of the processing of your data and about your legal rights in this regard.

We reserve the right to adapt the privacy policy with future effect, in particular in the event of further development of the website, the use of new technologies or changes to the legal bases or the corresponding case law.

We recommend that you read this privacy policy from time to time and take a printout or a copy for your documents.

Definitions

In the following, website means all of the controller’s pages at www.botiss-campus.com;
personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. A person is identifiable if they can be identified, either directly or indirectly, in particular by means of assignment to an identifier such as a name, to an identification number, to location data, to an online identifier or to one or more special features that are an expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Personal data is therefore, for example, a person’s name, email address and telephone number, but may also include information about preferences, hobbies and memberships;
processing means operations or sets of operations carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures in connection with personal data, such as the collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment, combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
pseudonymisation means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person;
consent means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes in a particular case by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
Google means Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; reachable in the European Union at: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

Scope

This privacy policy applies to all pages at www.botiss-campus.com. It does not cover any linked websites of other providers.

Responsible provider

The following party is responsible for the processing of personal data within the scope of this privacy policy:

botiss biomaterials GmbH
Hauptstr. 28
15806 Zossen
Germany
info@botiss.com

Questions about data protection

If you have any questions about data protection with regard to our company or our website, you can contact our data protection officer:

Damir Tadic
Damir.tadic@botiss.com

Security

We have taken comprehensive technical and organisational precautions to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, abuse, loss and other external disruption. To this end, we regularly review our security measures and adapt them to current standards.

Your rights

You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you that you can assert against us:

right of access (Art. 15 GDPR),
right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR),
right to withdraw your consent (Art. 7(3) GDPR),
right to receive the data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format (“data portability”) and the right to transfer the data to another controller, if the prerequisites of Art. 20(1) (a), (b) GDPR are fulfilled (Art. 20 GDPR)

You can assert your rights by informing us using the contact details specified under ‘Responsible provider’ above or by contacting the data protection officer designated by us.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data (Art. 77 GDPR).

Use of the website, access data

In principle, you can use our website for purely informational purposes without disclosing your identity. When you access the individual pages of the website in this sense, this only results in access data being transferred to our web hosting service so that the website can be displayed to you. This is the following data:

browser type/browser version
operating system used
language and version of the browser software
hostname of the accessing device
IP address
website from which the request comes
content of the request (specific page)
date and time of the server request
access status/HTTP status code
referrer URL (website visited before)
volume of data transferred
time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Temporary processing of the IP address by the system is necessary to make it technically possible to deliver the website to your device. This requires processing of your IP address for the duration of the session. The legal basis of such processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

The access data is not used to identify individual users and is not combined with other data sources. The access data is deleted when it is no longer required for achieving the purpose of its processing. In the case of recording the data to provide the website, this is the case when you end your visit to the website.

IP addresses are stored in log files to ensure the functionality of the website. In addition, the data serves us to optimise the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. No evaluation of the data for marketing purposes takes place in this context either. In principle, data is deleted after seven days at the latest; further processing is possible in individual cases. In this case, the IP address is deleted or so transformed that an assignment of the retrieving client is no longer possible.

The recording of data for the provision of the website and the processing of data in log files is an absolute necessity for the operation of the website. You may object to the processing. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). In the event that your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or point out to you the compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we will continue processing.

Cookies

In addition to the aforementioned access data, so-called cookies are stored in the internet browser of the device you use to access the website. These are small text files with a sequence of numbers that are stored locally in the cache of the browser used. Cookies do not become part of the device system and cannot execute programs. They serve to make our website user-friendly. The use of cookies may be technically necessary or may occur for other purposes (e.g. analysis/evaluation of website use).

a) Technically necessary cookies

Some elements of our website require that the retrieving browser can be identified even after a page change. This involves processing the following data in the cookies:

language settings
items in shopping basket
login information

The user data collected by technically necessary cookies is not processed to create user profiles. We also use session cookies, which store a session ID that can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. Session cookies are required for using the website. In particular, they enable us to recognise the device used when you return to the website. If you have an account with us, we use this cookie to recognise you on subsequent visits to the website; otherwise you would have to log in again each time you visited. The legal basis of this processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. We use session cookies to make using our website more attractive and effective. Session cookies are deleted as soon as you log out or close your browser.

Most browsers are preset to automatically accept cookies. You can object to the processing of your data by cookies. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). In the event that your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or point out to you the compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we will continue processing.

You can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, it may no longer be possible to use the full functionality of the website.

b) Technically non-essential cookies

In addition, we also use cookies on the website which enable an analysis of users’ surfing behaviour. For example, this involves processing the following data in the cookies:

entered search terms
frequency of page views
use of website functions

These cookies are used to make using the website more efficient and attractive. The legal basis of this processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. The technically non-essential cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.

You can object to the processing of your data by cookies. If you do not wish to use cookies, you have the option of changing your browser settings in order to generally or selectively block the placement of cookies or remove stored cookies. You can also have the corresponding information displayed before a cookie is placed. If you change the browser settings for the use of cookies or disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

Where we integrate cookies from third-party providers into our website, we point this out to you separately below.

Contacting our company

When contacting our company, e.g. by email or using the contact form on the website, we will process the personal data provided by you so that we can respond to your enquiry.

In order for us to process enquiries submitted via the contact form on the website, it is essential that you provide a valid email address. At the moment when you submit the message to us, the following data will also be processed:

IP address
date/time of registration

The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR and Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR, if the contact is made with the intention of concluding a contract.

Processing the personal data from the form allows us alone to process the contact you make with us. Where you contact us by email, this also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in the processing of the data. The other personal data processed during the submission process serves to prevent any misuse of the contact form and to ensure the security of our information technology systems.

The data will not be transmitted to third parties in this context. The data is only processed in order to process the conversation. As soon as processing is no longer necessary, we delete the data generated in this context or, if statutory retention obligations apply, restrict processing of the data.

You have the possibility to object to the processing of your personal data for contact requests at any time. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). In particular, you have a right of objection if processing is not necessary to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the previous description of the functions. In such a case, it may not be possible to continue processing the request. In the event that your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or point out to you the compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we will continue processing.

Processing and transmission of personal data for contractual purposes

We process your personal data if and to the extent necessary for the initiation, creation, execution and/or termination of a legal transaction with our company. The legal basis for this results from Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR.

Once the purpose has been achieved (e.g. contract processing), the personal data will be blocked for further processing or erased, unless we are entitled to retain the data for a longer period and process it as required in the respective context on the basis of a consent granted by you (e.g. consent to the processing of your email address for sending promotional emails), a contractual agreement, a statutory authorisation (e.g. authorisation to send direct advertising) or on the basis of justified interests (e.g. retention for asserting claims).

Your personal data will be passed on if

it is necessary for the creation, execution or termination of legal transactions with our company (e.g. when transmitting data to a payment service provider/a shipping company to process a contract with you) (Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR), or
a subcontractor or party we use to perform our obligations, which we use exclusively within the framework of providing the offers or services requested by you, needs this data (unless you are expressly informed otherwise, such auxiliary parties are only entitled to process the data insofar as this is necessary for the provision of the offer or service), or
there is an enforceable official order (Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(c) GDPR) or
there is an enforceable court order (Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(c) GDPR) or
we are legally obliged to do so (Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(c) GDPR) or
the processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person (Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(d) GDPR) or
we are authorised or even obliged to pursue overriding legitimate interests (Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR).

Your personal data will not be transmitted to other persons, companies or bodies unless you have effectively consented to such transmission. The legal basis of the processing is then Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(a) GDPR.

Registration/password-protected area on the website

If you wish to use the password-protected area of our website, you must register by providing the following information:

email address
name
address
password chosen by you

Furthermore, the following data is processed at the time of registration:

IP address
date/time of registration

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for achieving the purpose of its processing. This is the case for the data collected during the registration process if the registration on the website is cancelled or modified.

The following functions are available to you in the password-protected area:

edit your profile data
view past orders/bookings
manage, change or cancel your newsletter subscription
upload case images

If you use the password-protected area of the website, e.g. to edit your profile data or to view orders and bookings made, we also process the data about your person required for the initiation or fulfilment of the contract, in particular address data and information about the payment method. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR. The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for achieving the purpose of its processing or as soon as there are no legitimate interests preventing its erasure. Due to mandatory commercial and tax regulations, we are obliged to keep your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. After two years after termination of the contract, we will restrict the processing and reduce the processing to compliance with our existing legal obligations.

If you provided further data voluntarily (e.g. about interests, sizes, age, gender, children, preferences, wish list), we process your data which is not necessary for the initiation or fulfilment of a contract, for as long as you use the password-protected area and if you do not delete it yourself beforehand. Our aim in this respect is to optimise the use of the website for you as a user. The legal basis for this is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

You can object to the processing of the information provided by you voluntarily. Your right of objection exists when you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR).

You can manage, change or delete your voluntary information yourself at any time in the password-protected area. You are free to take measures in accordance with the ‘Your rights’ section, although if you do have any complaints we request that you first contact our company.

Registering for events

On the website, you can register as a guest or speaker for events organised by our company or events our company will attend. The basis for processing your data for participation in events is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR. The processing is necessary for the creation, execution or termination of legal transactions with our company (e.g. also when transmitting data to a payment service provider/a shipping company to process a contract with you).

Among other information, in the registration form you are required to specify your name, your company and your email address. The purpose of the processing is to foster contacts and to improve our corporate image and our public relations work. If you have expressed your interest in a personal appointment, your data will also be processed for preparing and carrying out the appointment.

Your data will be passed on to third parties (e.g. payment service provider, shipping company and the organiser) for the purpose of payment processing, dispatch of event documents and registering the event with the organiser. A deliberate transfer of your personal data to a so-called third country is not planned.

As soon as storage is no longer necessary, we delete the data generated in this context or, if statutory retention obligations apply, restrict processing of the data.

Comment feature on the website

You can leave comments on the website.

When you post, we process the following personal data:

Username

You do not have to enter a real name and are free to use the feature pseudonymously.

Furthermore, the following data is processed at the time of posting:

IP address
date/time of post

When your post is published, we will only publish the name/pseudonym you told us, and not the email address you provided. Your post will not be checked by us before publication. We reserve the right to remove posts at any time if they are found to be unlawful.

If necessary, we process your email address and your name/pseudonym in order to be able to determine whether the content shared in the post is genuine. Furthermore, we would like to be able to contact you if someone else objects to your post on the website, and to defend ourselves against complaints or claims that may be brought against us as a result of your post.

For this purpose, we also process your IP address. We delete the IP address after 1 week. We will process your email address as long as the post continues to exist on the website or we are involved with the post in the context of a legal dispute.

If you or we delete your post, we process the email address, the name provided and other voluntary information up to the expiry of the statutory limitation periods for the aforementioned reasons of prevention and defence, but restrict the processing of this data after six months.

We do not pass the data on to third parties, unless we are obliged to do so by law or by official or judicial order or transmission is necessary for the enforcement of our legitimate interests. The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

You can object to the processing of the data you provided if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR).

You can have us delete your post at any time. You are free to take measures in accordance with the ‘Your rights’ section, although if you do have any complaints we request that you first contact our company.

Email marketing

Newsletter

You have the possibility to subscribe to our email newsletter on the website, which we use to inform you regularly about the following content:

updates and information about our portfolio
information about company events
third-party offers and information, provided you have consented to this

In order to receive the newsletter, you need to give us the following personal data.

recipient (name or pseudonym)
valid email address
country

To subscribe to our email newsletter, please use the double opt-in process. Once you have entered the data marked as mandatory, we will send you an email to the email address you have provided, in which we ask you to expressly confirm your subscription to the newsletter (by clicking on a confirmation link). This is how we ensure that you really want to receive our email newsletter. If no confirmation takes place within 24 hours, we block the information transferred to us and delete it automatically after one month at the latest.

Furthermore, the following data is processed at the time of subscription:

IP address
date/time of registration for the newsletter
time when you click on the confirmation link

We process your IP address, the time of registration for the newsletter and the time of your confirmation in order to document your newsletter registration and to prevent abuse of your personal data. The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. We process this data until two years after termination of the contract. If registration for the newsletter takes place and it is unrelated to the conclusion of a contract, we process this data until two years after termination of the usage. We delete this data when the newsletter subscription ends.

After your confirmation, we will process the email address and name/pseudonym of the recipient concerned for the purpose of sending our email newsletter. The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(a) GDPR. We delete this data when you unsubscribe from the newsletter.

You can withdraw your consent to the processing of your email address for receiving the newsletter at any time, either by sending us a message (see the contact details under ‘Responsible provider’) or by clicking directly on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing that has occurred based on the consent up until the point of your withdrawal (Art. 13(2)(c) GDPR).

We would like to point out that we analyse your user behaviour in relation to the sending of our newsletter. For this analysis, the emails sent out contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which display single-pixel image files that are embedded in our website. For analysis purposes, we link the data mentioned under ‘Access data’ and the web beacons with your email address and an individual ID. Links received in the newsletter also contain this ID.

We use the data collected in this way to create a user profile in order to tailor the newsletter to your individual interests. Here we record when you read our newsletters, which links you click on in them and draw conclusions about your personal interests. We link this data to actions you perform on our website. The information is processed for as long as you have subscribed to the newsletter. Once you unsubscribe, we process the data for purely statistical purposes and anonymously.

Our intention here is to analyse the use of and to optimise the email advertising we send you. The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

You can object to this tracking at any time by clicking on the separate unsubscribe link provided in each newsletter or by informing us using the contact details provided under ‘Responsible provider’.

Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR).

You can also prevent tracking by disabling the display of images in your email client by default. This will mean that the newsletter will not be displayed completely and you may not be able to use all functions. If you choose to display the images manually, the above tracking will take place.

MailChimp email marketing service

We use the email marketing service MailChimp, provided by Rocket Science Group, LLC (675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA, web: https://mailchimp.com/; hereinafter referred to as “MailChimp”).

If you have registered for the newsletter, the data provided during registration will be stored and processed on MailChimp’s servers in the USA. MailChimp processes this information for sending and analysing the newsletters on our behalf. MailChimp newsletters contain what are known as web beacons, which are pixel-sized files that are retrieved from the MailChimp server when the newsletter is opened. In the context of the retrieval, technical information, such as the browser used, time of the page retrieval and IP address, is collected. This information is processed to analyse and technically improve the services. Furthermore, it is analysed whether newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked on by the reader. This information can theoretically be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, neither we nor MailChimp have any intention of monitoring individual recipients; the analysis of the information mentioned serves rather to recognise the reading habits of the recipients so as to better adapt and distribute our newsletter content accordingly. The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. We have no knowledge of how long MailChimp stores data and have no way of influencing this.

You can object to the processing in the future at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the end of the newsletter.

This will simultaneously end the processing of data for you being sent the newsletter and for statistical analysis. It is not possible to object to the distribution via MailChimp or the statistical evaluation separately.

Alternatively, you can object at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ (for the European Union area).

Furthermore, MailChimp has informed us that it may use the transferred data to optimise or improve its own services, e.g. to technically optimise the sending and presentation of newsletters. According to its own declarations, MailChimp neither processes the data in order to write to you with its own advertising nor transmits the data to third parties.

As the recipient of the newsletter, you may be redirected to the MailChimp website, for example if there are problems displaying the newsletter in your email client and you follow the link contained in the newsletter to retrieve the newsletter online. In this context, we would like to point out that further analysis services and cookies may be used on the MailChimp website, which may process your personal data on behalf of MailChimp. We have no influence on this processing.

MailChimp is certified under Privacy Shield, the US-EU data protection agreement, and is thus committed to complying with the European Union’s data protection regulations. Please refer to MailChimp’s privacy policy for more information: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Free webinars

In principle, the webinars available on our website are offered to you free of charge. However, we can only offer you webinars on special topics free of charge if you subscribe to our newsletter. You can recognise them by the registration form after you click on the respective video. Once you have registered with your name, email address and country, we will regularly send you information about recent publications, products, and upcoming training events (such as webinars) by email. For further information, in particular on the double opt-in procedure, how long we store your data, and our newsletter marketing service, please refer to the section “Newsletter registration”.

The legal basis of this processing is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1) Sentence (1)(a) GDPR.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us using the contact details provided under “Controller” or clicking on the unsubscribe link included in every newsletter. Please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your withdrawal.

If you found out about our free webinars through one of our social media lead ads on Facebook and registered for our newsletter there, then Facebook will also receive the data you entered. More information on this is available in Facebook’s privacy policy.

We will only share your data with our distribution partners in your country if you have given us your consent for this. If this is the case, then our distribution partner may also contact you by email to inform you about current products. The overview will show you which of our distribution partners is responsible in your country.

The legal basis of this processing is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1) Sentence (1)(a) GDPR.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us using the contact details provided under “Controller”.

Payment service providers (PSPs)

PayPal

On our website we give you the option of paying via PayPal. This payment service is provided by PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as “PayPal”).

If you choose to pay via PayPal, the payment details you enter will be transferred to PayPal. The transfer of your data to PayPal is performed on the basis of Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR (processing for the performance of a contract). We have no knowledge of how long PayPal stores data and have no way of influencing this.

Transmission of personal data for credit card payments

In principle, your personal data is only passed on to the extent necessary for the execution of the contract. Specifically for payment processing, we transmit the payment data required for this to the bank commissioned with the payment or, if applicable, to the payment and invoicing service provider commissioned by us.

The processing is performed on the basis of Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(b) GDPR (processing for the performance of a contract). The data required for payment processing is transmitted securely using SSL encryption and processed exclusively for payment processing. As soon as storage is no longer necessary, we delete the data generated in this context or, if statutory retention obligations apply, restrict processing of the data.

Transmission of personal data in cases of purchase on account

In the case of payment on account, we reserve the right to forward the data you provide when booking to external companies (e.g. Verband der Vereine Creditreform e.V., Hellersbergstraße 12, 41460 Neuss) in order to carry out a credit check.

This data is passed on on the basis of Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR, as purchase on account requires us to effect prior performance and bear the risk of default. As soon as storage is no longer necessary, we delete the data generated in this context or, if statutory retention obligations apply, restrict processing of the data.

You can object to this processing at any time, but may then not be able to use the ‘purchase on account’ payment method. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR).

Transmission of personal data for purposes of enforcing rights/ascertaining an address/debt collection

In the event of non-payment, we reserve the right to pass on the data provided at the time of booking to a lawyer and/or to external companies (e.g. Verband der Vereine Creditreform e.V., Hellersbergstraße 12, 41460 Neuss, Germany) if we have a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR in order to ascertain an address and/or enforce our rights.

In addition, we may pass on your information if this is necessary to protect our rights, as well as the rights of our affiliates, our cooperation partners, our employees and/or users of our website. Under no circumstances will we sell or rent your data to third parties. Such a transmission of your data would be based on Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

As soon as storage is no longer necessary, we delete the data generated in this context or, if statutory retention obligations apply, restrict processing of the data.

You have the possibility to object to the processing of your data at any time. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). In particular, you have a right of objection if processing is not necessary to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the previous description of the functions. In the event that your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or point out to you the compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we will continue processing.

Hosting

We use external hosting services for the provision of the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage resources and database services, security and technical maintenance services. This involves processing all data necessary for the operation and use of our website.

We use external hosting services to run this website. By using external hosting services, we aim to make the provision of our website efficient and secure. The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

The recording of data for the provision and use of the website and the processing of data using external web hosting services is an absolute necessity for the operation of the website. You may object to the processing. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). In the event that your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or point out to you the compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we will continue processing.

Integration of third-party content

The website integrates third-party content such as videos, maps, RSS feeds and graphics from other websites. This integration always requires that the providers of this content (“third-party providers”) perceive the IP addresses of users. This is because without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to the browser of the respective user. As such, the IP address is required to display this content.

We endeavour to only use content from third-party providers who process the IP address solely for delivering the content. We do however have no influence over whether the third-party providers process the IP addresses, e.g. for statistical purposes. If we are aware of such activity, we inform you of this in the following.

Some of the third parties may process data outside the European Union.

You can object by installing a JavaScript blocker such as the browser plug-in NoScript (www.noscript.net) or disabling JavaScript in your browser. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). This may however result in functional restrictions on the website.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks, e.g. to social networks such as Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Google+, allow you as a user of certain social networks to create links from our website on your social network profiles in order to bookmark them or share them with your social network contacts.

Bookmarks on our website can be recognised by the corresponding icons (e.g. “f”, “g+”) at the bottom of the page. When you open a page of our website, the bookmarks may place cookies on your device/in your browser, which are small text files with a sequence of numbers that make it possible to recognise the browser. If you are simultaneously logged in to one of the relevant social networks, this allows the operator of that social network to track which pages you visit, unless you have disabled the acceptance and storage of cookies in your browser settings. When you use bookmarks, information is sent to the respective social network.

We neither check nor can we be held responsible for comments or activities of persons who use bookmarks for this purpose. Persons who share our content via bookmarks are not entitled to speak for us and our website or to give such an impression vis-à-vis third parties.

The legal basis for the use of the bookmarks is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. We have no knowledge of how the operators of social networks further process data or how long they store it, and nor do we have any way of influencing this.

You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, although you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right. There are also various ways in which you can prevent the creation of user profiles and thus make use of your right to object:

by setting your browser software accordingly; in particular, disabling third-party cookies means that you will not receive any ads from third-party providers;
by disabling interest-based ads from providers who are part of the “About Ads” self-regulation initiative via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices; please note that this setting will be erased if you erase your cookies.

YouTube videos

Our website uses plug-ins from the video platform YouTube.de/YouTube.com, a service whose provider – represented by Google – is YouTube LLC (headquartered at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA; “YouTube”). The plug-ins allow us to embed visual content (“Videos”) on this website that we have published on Youtube.de/Youtube.com.

The videos are all embedded in ‘extended privacy mode’, which means that no data about you as a user will be transferred to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos is the following data transferred. We have no influence on this data transfer.

By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have retrieved the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under ‘Access data’ is submitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account that you are logged in with or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish for this data to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and processes it for purposes of advertising, market research and/or the demand-oriented design of its website. Such analysis takes place in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

You have the right to object to the processing, although you must contact YouTube to exercise this right. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). You can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, it may no longer be possible to use the full functionality of the website.

For more information about the purpose and scope of processing by YouTube, please refer to its privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.

Vimeo

We use plug-ins from Vimeo to integrate videos on our website. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. The plug-ins allow us to embed visual content (“Videos”) on this website which we have published on www.vimeo.com.

If you visit one of our web pages with the Vimeo plug-in, this establishes a connection to the Vimeo servers. In this way, the Vimeo server is notified of which web page you have visited. If you are simultaneously logged in as a member of Vimeo, Vimeo will associate this information with your personal user account When using the plug-in, e.g. playing a video by pressing the play button, this information is also assigned to your user account. Vimeo stores your data as usage profiles and processes it for purposes of advertising, market research and/or the demand-oriented design of its website. Such analysis takes place in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website.

The legal basis of the processing is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. The processing serves to make our website more attractive and to offer you additional services. We have no knowledge of how long Vimeo stores data and have no way of influencing this. We have concluded ‘standard contractual clauses’ with Vimeo in order to obligate Vimeo to maintain an appropriate level of data protection.

You have the right to object to the processing, although you must contact Vimeo to exercise this right. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). You can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, it may no longer be possible to use the full functionality of the website.

For further details about this data processing and information about data protection at Vimeo, please refer to: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Getty Images

Our website uses plug-ins from the image agency Getty Images, which offers pictures and other image material. The Getty Images components are provided by Getty Images International, 1st Floor, The Herbert Building, The Park, Carrickmines, Dublin 18, Ireland (“Getty Images”).

Getty Images allows us to embed stock images using an embed code, e.g. text, video or image data provided by an external website. Your IP address is transferred to Getty Images for the technical implementation of the embed code. In addition, Getty Images processes information about our website, the type of browser used, the browser language, and the time and length of access. Getty Images may also record information about your use of our website (e.g. access to subpages and clicks on links) and other interactions attributable to you while visiting our website. Getty Images also processes your personal data in the USA and has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. For further information about the current privacy policy at Getty Images, please refer to http://www.gettyimages.de/enterprise/privacy-policy.

You have the right to object to the processing, although you must contact Getty Images to exercise this right. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). You can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, it may no longer be possible to use the full functionality of the website.

Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia)

Our website uses plug-ins from the image agency Adobe Stock, which offers pictures and other image material. The Adobe Stock components are provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd., 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland (“Adobe Stock”).

Adobe Stock allows us to embed stock images using an embed code, e.g. text, video or image data provided by an external website. Your IP address is transferred to Adobe Stock for the technical implementation of the embed code. In addition, Adobe Stock processes information about our website, the type of browser used, the browser language, and the time and length of access. Adobe Stock may also record information about your use of our website (e.g. access to subpages and clicks on links) and other interactions attributable to you while visiting our website. Adobe Stock also processes your personal data in the USA and has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. For further information about the current privacy policy at Adobe Stock, please refer to https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html.

You have the right to object to the processing, although you must contact Adobe Stock to exercise this right. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). You can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, it may no longer be possible to use the full functionality of the website.

Google Maps

This website also uses the Google Maps service from Google to display maps or sections of maps, thus enabling you to conveniently use the map function on the website.

By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have retrieved the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under ‘Access data’ is transferred to Google. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in with or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish for this data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button.

Google stores your data as usage profiles and processes it for purposes of advertising, market research and/or the demand-oriented design of its website. Such analysis takes place in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website.

For more information about the purpose and scope of processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights in this regard and settings options to protect your privacy: http://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. For more information about the Google Maps terms of use, please refer to https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

You have the right to object to the processing, although you must contact Google to exercise this right. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). You can disable or restrict the transfer of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are disabled for our website, it may no longer be possible to use the full functionality of the website.

Services for statistical, analysis and marketing purposes

We use services from third parties for statistical, analysis and marketing purposes. This enables us to offer you a user-friendly, optimised experience when visiting the website. The third-party providers use cookies to control their services (see ‘Cookies’ above). Unless otherwise explained below, this does not involve the processing of personal data.

Some of the third-party providers offer users the option of directly objecting to the use of the respective feature, e.g. by placing an opt-out cookie.

If you activate such an opt-out cookie, the third-party provider will no longer process data about your usage behaviour in the future. It is also possible to merely object individually to a partial selection of external services. If you change the browser or device used or delete all cookies, you will be required to set the opt-out cookie again.

Furthermore, you can also object directly to the use of cookies via the opt-out platform of the organisation Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft e.V. (BVDW) at http://www.meine-cookies.org/cookies_verwalten/praeferenzmanager.html or via the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). As regards objecting to data processing for direct marketing purposes, you have a general right of objection without giving reasons (Art. 21(2) GDPR). More information about usage-based advertising and opt-out options can also be viewed via the following link: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/.

In the following, we inform you about the services from external providers currently in use on our website, about the purpose and scope of the respective processing in each case, and about how you can object.

Google Analytics

In order to tailor our website perfectly to your interests, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service from Google. Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’ (see ‘Cookies’ above), which are stored on your device to enable the analysis of how you use the website. The information generated in this way about your use of this website is transferred to and stored by Google on a server in the USA.

However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, then within European Union Member States or in other member states of the European Economic Area Google will shorten your IP address before transferring it. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports for us on website activity, and providing us with other services relating to website usage and internet usage.

Google will not associate your browser’s IP address transmitted for Google Analytics purposes with any other data held by Google.

This website uses Google Analytics with the “_anonymizeIp()” extension. As a result, IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, meaning that any association with individual persons can be ruled out. As far as the data collected about you relates to you personally, that relation is therefore excluded immediately and the personal data thus erased without delay.

We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics help us to improve our website and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis of the processing by Google Analytics is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. The Analytics cookies are deleted after 14 months at the latest.

You have the right to object. You can prevent the storage of cookies using the corresponding settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). As regards objecting to data processing for direct marketing purposes, you have a general right of objection without giving reasons (Art. 21(2) GDPR). Furthermore, you can prevent the recording of data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) and its processing by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For more information about the third-party provider Google, please refer to:

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, http://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.

Social network plug-ins

Social network plug-ins are integrated into our website. These are provided by the following providers:

Facebook (the provider is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, email: impressum-support@support.facebook.com, data protection information at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation; http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications and http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#everyoneinfo. Facebook has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework; hereinafter: “Facebook”);
Google (see ‘Definitions’, https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=en. Google has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework);
LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View CA 94043 (http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework);
Pinterest, Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA (data protection information at: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy).

The plug-ins can be recognised on our website by the aforementioned lettering or by small stylised symbols.

We offer you the possibility to communicate directly with the provider of the plug-in via the button. Only if you click on the marked field and thereby activate it does the plug-in provider receive the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under ‘Access data’ is submitted.

In the case of Facebook and XING, according to the respective providers’ own information, IP addresses in Germany are anonymised immediately after their collection. By activating the plug-in, personal data about you is therefore transferred to the respective plug-in provider and processed there (in the USA in the case of US providers). Since the plug-in provider collects data via cookies in particular, we recommend that before clicking on the greyed-out box you delete all cookies using your browser’s security settings.

We have no influence on the data collected and processing procedures, and nor are we aware of the full scope of data processing, the purposes of processing, or the storage periods. We also have no information about the erasure of the data collected by the plug-in provider.

The plug-in provider stores the data collected about you as usage profiles and processes this for purposes of advertising, market research and/or the demand-oriented design of its website. Such analysis takes place in particular (including for users who are not logged in) to display demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website.

The legal basis of the use of the plug-ins is Art. 6(1) Sentence 1(f) GDPR. Through the plug-ins we offer you the possibility to interact with social networks and other users, so that we can improve our website and make it more interesting for you as a user.

You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, although you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right. Your right of objection exists if you have reasons arising from your particular situation, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or, moreover, the processing serves to establish and exercise or defend against legal claims (Art. 21(1) GDPR). As regards objecting to data processing for direct marketing purposes, you have a general right of objection without giving reasons (Art. 21(2) GDPR). There are also various ways in which you can prevent the creation of user profiles and thus make use of your right to object:

by setting your browser software accordingly; in particular, disabling third-party cookies means that you will not receive any ads from third-party providers;
by disabling interest-based ads from providers who are part of the “About Ads” self-regulation initiative via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices; please note that this setting will be erased if you erase your cookies.

The data is transferred regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in there. If you are logged in with the plug-in provider, the data about you collected by us will be directly assigned to your existing account with that plug-in provider. If you click or tap on the activated button and, for example, share a link to the page, the plug-in provider will also store this information in your user account and share it publicly with your contacts.

After using a social network, we recommend that you log out regularly, especially however before activating the button, as in this way you can avoid being assigned to your profile with the respective plug-in provider.

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