Privacy policy

1. An overview of data protection 

General information

The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit this website. The term “personal data” comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recording on this website

Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e., the “controller”)?

The data on this website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact information is available under section “Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the GDPR)” in this Privacy Policy.

How do we record your data?

We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into our contact form.

Other data shall be recorded by our IT systems automatically or after you consent to its recording during your website visit. This data comprises primarily technical information (e.g., web browser, operating system, or time the site was accessed). This information is recorded automatically when you access this website.

What are the purposes we use your data for?

A portion of the information is generated to guarantee the error free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your information is concerned?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients, and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified or eradicated. If you have consented to data processing, you have the option to revoke this consent at any time, which shall affect all future data processing. Moreover, you have the right to demand that the processing of your data be restricted under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising agency.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues.

Analysis tools and tools provided by third parties

There is a possibility that your browsing patterns will be statistically analyzed when your visit this website. Such analyses are performed primarily with what we refer to as analysis programs.

For detailed information about these analysis programs please consult our Data Protection Declaration below.

2. Hosting 

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a web site.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar the consent includes the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user's end device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.

We are using the following host:

deepblue networks AG
Schützenstraße 21
22761 Hamburg

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of our website visitors only based on our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General information and mandatory information  

Data protection

The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection Declaration.

Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. This Data Protection Declaration explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is collected.

We herewith advise you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e., through e-mail communications) may be prone to security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third-party access.

Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the GDPR)

The data processing controller on this website is:

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz
Scharnhorststr. 34-37
10115 Berlin
Postanschrift: 11019 Berlin

Phone: 030-18 615-0
E-mail: info(at)bmwk.bund.de

The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-handedly or jointly with others makes decisions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g., names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Storage duration

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for which it was collected no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial law retention periods); in the latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

General information on the legal basis for the data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if special categories of data are processed according to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data processing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to the access to information in your end device (e.g., via device fingerprinting), the data processing is additionally based on § 25 (1) TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the fulfillment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Furthermore, if your data is required for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, we process it on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Furthermore, the data processing may be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Information on the relevant legal basis in each individual case is provided in the following paragraphs of this privacy policy.

Designation of a data protection officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Beauftragte für den Datenschutz im BMWK
Scharnhorststr. 34-37
10115 Berlin

Phone: 030-18 615-0
E-mail: datenschutzbeauftragte@bmwk.bund.de

Information on data transfer to the USA and other non-EU countries

Among other things, we use tools of companies domiciled in the United States or other from a data protection perspective non-secure non-EU countries. If these tools are active, your personal data may potentially be transferred to these non-EU countries and may be processed there. We must point out that in these countries, a data protection level that is comparable to that in the EU cannot be guaranteed. For instance, U.S. enterprises are under a mandate to release personal data to the security agencies and you as the data subject do not have any litigation options to defend yourself in court. Hence, it cannot be ruled out that U.S. agencies (e.g., the Secret Service) may process, analyze, and permanently archive your personal data for surveillance purposes. We have no control over these processing activities.

Revocation of your consent to the processing of data

A wide range of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases; right to object to direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

In the event that data are processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your personal data based on grounds arising from your unique situation. This also applies to any profiling based on these provisions. To determine the legal basis, on which any processing of data is based, please consult this data protection declaration. If you log an objection, we will no longer process your affected personal data, unless we are in a position to present compelling protection worthy grounds for the processing of your data, that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or if the purpose of the processing is the claiming, exercising or defence of legal entitlements (objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR).

If your personal data is being processed in order to engage in direct advertising, you have the right to object to the processing of your affected personal data for the purposes of such advertising at any time. This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is affiliated with such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a complaint with the competent supervisory agency

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint with a supervisory agency, in particular in the member state where they usually maintain their domicile, place of work or at the place where the alleged violation occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regardless of any other administrative or court proceedings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we automatically process on the basis of your consent or in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third party in a commonly used, machine readable format. If you should demand the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done only if it is technically feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption program. You can recognize an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information about, rectification and eradication of data

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any time demand information about your archived personal data, their source and recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rectified or eradicated. If you have questions about this subject matter or any other questions about personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.

Right to demand processing restrictions

You have the right to demand the imposition of restrictions as far as the processing of your personal data is concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time. The right to demand restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

  • In the event that you should dispute the correctness of your data archived by us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this investigation is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you have the option to demand the restriction of the processing of your data in lieu of demanding the eradication of this data.
  • If we do not need your personal data any longer and you need it to exercise, defend or claim legal entitlements, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of its eradication.
  • If you have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with the exception of their archiving – may be processed only subject to your consent or to claim, exercise or defend legal entitlements or to protect the rights of other natural persons or legal entities or for important public interest reasons cited by the European Union or a member state of the EU.

Rejection of unsolicited e-mails

We herewith object to the use of contact information published in conjunction with the mandatory information to be provided in our Site Notice to send us promotional and information material that we have not expressly requested. The operators of this website and its pages reserve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of promotional information, for instance via SPAM messages

4. Recording of data on this website 

Cookies

Our websites and pages use what the industry refers to as “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that do not cause any damage to your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or they are permanently archived on your device (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted once you terminate your visit. Permanent cookies remain archived on your device until you actively delete them, or they are automatically eradicated by your web browser.

In some cases, it is possible that third-party cookies are stored on your device once you enter our site (third-party cookies). These cookies enable you or us to take advantage of certain services offered by the third party (e.g., cookies for the processing of payment services).

Cookies have a variety of functions. Many cookies are technically essential since certain website functions would not work in the absence of the cookies (e.g., the shopping cart function or the display of videos). The purpose of other cookies may be the analysis of user patterns or the display of promotional messages.

Cookies, which are required for the performance of electronic communication transactions, or for the provision of certain functions you want to use (e.g., for the shopping cart function) or those that are necessary for the optimization (required cookies) of the website (e.g., cookies that provide measurable insights into the web audience), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless a different legal basis is cited. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the storage of required cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimized provision of the operator’s services. If your consent to the storage of the cookies and similar recognition technologies has been requested, processing occurs exclusively on the basis of the consent obtained (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG); this consent may be revoked at any time.

You have the option to set up your browser in such a manner that you will be notified any time cookies are placed and to permit the acceptance of cookies only in specific cases. You may also exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general or activate the delete function for the automatic eradication of cookies when the browser closes. If cookies are deactivated, the functions of this website may be limited.

In the event that third-party cookies are used or if cookies are used for analytical purposes, we will separately notify you in conjunction with this Data Protection Policy and, if applicable, ask for your consent.

Consent with Usercentrics

This website uses the consent technology of Usercentrics to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your device or for the use of specific technologies, and to document the former in a data protection compliant manner. The party offering this technology is Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 München, Germany, website: usercentrics.com (hereinafter referred to as “Usercentrics”).

Whenever you visit our website, the following personal data will be transferred to Usercentrics:

  • Your declaration(s) of consent or your revocation of your declaration(s) of consent
  • Your IP address
  • Information about your browser
  • Information about your device
  • The date and time you visited our website

Moreover, Usercentrics shall store a cookie in your browser to be able to allocate your declaration(s) of consent or any revocations of the former. The data that are recorded in this manner shall be stored until you ask us to eradicate them, delete the Usercentrics cookie or until the purpose for archiving the data no longer exists. This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal retention periods.

Usercentrics uses cookies to obtain the declarations of consent mandated by law. The legal basis for the use of specific technologies is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of our website visitors only based on our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Server log files

The provider of this website and its pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser communicates to us automatically. The information comprises:

  • The type and version of browser used
  • The used operating system
  • Referrer URL
  • The hostname of the accessing computer
  • The time of the server inquiry
  • The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

Contact form

You can contact us using either a contact form provided on our website or by email using the email address provided on our website.

If you contact us using the contact form, the data you enter in the input mask will be sent to us and saved when you send them. The following data will be saved:

  • User’s email address
  • User’s name
  • Country of origin
  • Subject
  • Free text box for the message
  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Date and time when the contact was accepted
  • Optional: Degree/professional qualification
  • Optional: Current profession
  • Optional: Age
  • Optional: Gender

Before you send the completed contract form, your consent to our processing the data is obtained, and reference is made to this privacy policy.

The information you have entered into the contact form shall remain with us until you ask us to eradicate the data, revoke your consent to the archiving of data, 14 days are over or if the purpose for which the information is being archived no longer exists (e.g., after we have concluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal provisions, in particular retention periods.

Request by e-mail, telephone, or fax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your request, including all resulting personal data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass these data on without your consent.

These data are processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is required for the performance of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the data are processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in the effective handling of inquiries submitted to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if it has been obtained; the consent can be revoked at any time.

The data sent by you to us via contact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after completion of your request). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular statutory retention periods - remain unaffected.

5. Social Media

Social media links

Displaying icons from social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. on our websites does not induce automatic transfer of your personal data. Therefore, these services are integrated via web links to avoid involuntary automatic data transfer to social media providers. According to the Data Protection Law, we are not jointly responsible for your data being processed for purposes specified by said providers.

We are present on various social media platforms to represent ourselves, to provide information, to interact with the respective users and to communicate with them.

When visiting our online profiles and websites, we do not directly process data of users. However, the respective provider processes personal data of users. In addition, processing of personal data on our end may happen, when visiting our websites and profiles. This may be the case when the user actively reaches out by posting comments, for example. This especially concerns the respective username and the content published on the user’s account.
Furthermore, the users’ data sourced from social media is generally processed for market research and advertising purposes. This way, user profiles can be created via analysing user behaviour and interests derived from their behaviour, for example. The user profiles can then be used to place advertisement banners within and outside social media that might correspond to the users’ interests. For these purposes, cookies are generally saved on the users’ computers, storing information on user behaviour and user interests. In addition, data may be saved in the user profiles independently of the devices used by the users (especially if the users have an account on the respective platforms and are logged in to them). When visiting our online profiles and websites, you are using the respective service and its functionalities on your own responsibility. We generally cannot influence the type and extend of data processed by the respective service, the type of data processing, data usage or the transfer of data to third parties.

The processing of personal data by us is based on our legitimate interest regarding the representation of our company toward third parties as well as the effective exchange with users of our online profiles and websites (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

If you visit our Facebook page, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland processes your personal data pursuant to their privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

If you visit our page on X (formerly Twitter), the service provider is X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland is responsible for processing data of persons living outside the United States. You can find information on what data is processed by X and for what purposes they are used in X’s privacy policy: https://x.com/en/privacy.

Instagram is a Facebook product provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland (hereinafter: “Facebook”). You can find information on data processing by Facebook in Instagram’s privacy policy by clicking on the following link: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy.

LinkedIn is provided by der LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. Their privacy policy is available under www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. You can opt out of LinkedIn advertising cookies by clicking on the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guestcontrols/retargeting-opt-out.

YouTube is a video platform. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Detailed information on their handling of personal data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can independently adapt your Google privacy settings in your user account. Please find more detailed information by clicking on the following link: https://safety.google/intl/en/privacy/privacy-controls/.

6. Analysis tools and advertising

This website uses functions of the Google Consent Mode in its basic version. This service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The Google Consent Mode allows us to ask for and manage your permission for different Google services. In this context, the only data transferred to Google are those you have given consent for. In its basic mode, this means that without your explicitly given consent, no personalised advertisements will be displayed. The following data are collected in this case: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/security/concepts/consent-mode?hl=de

Using the service is essential in the conetxt of using Google services, because it evaluates if you do consent to the processing of personal data via these Google services, or not. The processing of data occurs on the basis of our legitimate interest according to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. However, your consent has been given voluntarily according to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Section 25 (1) of the Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act [TTDSG]. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Data transmission to the Unites States of America is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/

Google Tag Manager

We use the Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. 

The Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows us to integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. The Google Tag Manager itself does not create any user profiles, does not store cookies, and does not carry out any independent analyses. It only manages and runs the tools integrated via it. However, the Google Tag Manager does collect your IP address, which may also be transferred to Google’s parent company in the United States.

In the context of using the Google Consent Mode in its basic mode, the usage of the Google Tag Manager is compulsory. Processing occurs on the basis of our legitimate interest according to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyze the behavior patterns of website visitors. To that end, the website operator receives a variety of user data, such as pages accessed, time spent on the page, the utilized operating system and the user’s origin. This data is summarized in a user-ID and assigned to the respective end device of the website visitor.

Furthermore, Google Analytics allows us to record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Google Analytics uses various modeling approaches to augment the collected data sets and uses machine learning technologies in data analysis.

Google Analytics uses technologies that make the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing the user behavior patterns (e.g., cookies or device fingerprinting). The website use information recorded by Google is, as a rule transferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored.

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://business.safety.google/adscontrollerterms/sccs/ 

IP anonymization

On this website, we have activated the IP anonymization function. As a result, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states that have ratified the Convention on the European Economic Area prior to its transmission to the United States. The full IP address will be transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the United States and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google shall use this information to analyze your use of this website to generate reports on website activities and to render other services to the operator of this website that are related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted in conjunction with Google Analytics from your browser shall not be merged with other data in Google’s possession.

Browser plug-in

You can prevent the recording and processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For more information about the handling of user data by Google Analytics, please consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Demographic parameters provided by Google Analytics

This website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics, to be able to display to the website visitor compatible ads within the Google advertising network. This allows reports to be created that contain information about the age, gender, and interests of the website visitors. The sources of this information are interest-related advertising by Google as well as visitor data obtained from third-party providers. This data cannot be allocated to a specific individual. You have the option to deactivate this function at any time by making pertinent settings changes for advertising in your Google account or you can generally prohibit the recording of your data by Google Analytics as explained in section “Objection to the recording of data”.

Contract data processing

We have executed a contract data processing agreement with Google and are implementing the stringent provisions of the German data protection agencies to the fullest when using Google Analytics.

Google-Signals

We use Google Signals. Whenever you visit our website, Google Analytics records, among other things, your location, the progression of your search and YouTube progression as well as demographic data (site visitor data). This data may be used for customized advertising with the assistance of Google Signal. If you have a Google account, your site visitor information will be linked to your Google account by Google Signal and used to send you customized promotional messages. The data is also used to compile anonymized statistics of our users’ online patterns.

Matomo

This website uses the open-source web analysis service Matomo. Matomo uses technologies that make it possible to recognize the user across multiple pages with the aim of analyzing the user patterns (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information recorded by Matomo about the use of this website will be stored on our server. Prior to archiving, the IP address will first be anonymized.

Through Matomo, we are able to collect and analyze data on the use of our website-by-website visitors. This enables us to find out, for instance, when which page views occurred and from which region they came. In addition, we collect various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browser, and operating system used) and can measure whether our website visitors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.).

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns, in order to optimize the operator’s web offerings and advertising. This consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymization

For analysis with Matomo we use IP anonymization. Your IP address is shortened before the analysis, so that it is no longer clearly assignable to you.

 

Analysis without cookies

We have configured Matomo in such a way that Matomo will not store cookies in your browser.


Hosting

We host Matomo with the following third-party provider:

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Medien GmbH
Postfach 10 18 63, 50458 Köln
Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 21, 50668 Köln
Telefon +49 221 4981-0
Telefax +49 221 4981-99263
iwmedien@iwkoeln.de

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of our website visitors only based on our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Google Ads

The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online promotional program of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Ads enables us to display ads in the Google search engine or on third-party websites, if the user enters certain search terms into Google (keyword targeting). It is also possible to place targeted ads based on the user data Google has in its possession (e.g., location data and interests; target group targeting). As the website operator, we can analyze these data quantitatively, for instance by analyzing which search terms resulted in the display of our ads and how many ads led to respective clicks.

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://business.safety.google/adscontrollerterms/sccs/ 

Google Remarketing

This website uses the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing. The provider of these solutions is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Remarketing analyzes your user patterns on our website (e.g., clicks on specific products), to allocate a certain advertising target groups to you and to subsequently display matching online offers to you when you visit other online offers (remarketing or retargeting).

Moreover, it is possible to link the advertising target groups generated with Google Remarketing to device encompassing functions of Google. This makes it possible to display interest-based customized advertising messages, depending on your prior usage and browsing patterns on a device (e.g., cell phone) in a manner tailored to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g., tablet or PC).

If you have a Google account, you have the option to object to personalized advertising under the following link: https://adssettings.google.com/anonymous?hl=de 

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

For further information and the pertinent data protection regulations, please consult the Data Privacy Policies of Google at: policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Google Conversion-Tracking

This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

With the assistance of Google Conversion Tracking, we are in a position to recognize whether the user has completed certain actions. For instance, we can analyze the how frequently which buttons on our website have been clicked and which products are reviewed or purchased with particular frequency. The purpose of this information is to compile conversion statistics. We learn how many users have clicked on our ads and which actions they have completed. We do not receive any information that would allow us to personally identify the users. Google as such uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies for identification purposes.

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

For more information about Google Conversion Tracking, please review Google’s data protection policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en 

7. Newsletter

Newsletter data

It is possible to subscribe to our free newsletters on our website, a jobs newsletter with vacancies in Germany for qualified personnel and/or a general website newsletter. When you subscribe to the newsletter, the data from the input mask are sent to us. You must enter your email address to subscribe for the newsletter. Furthermore, the following data are collected during the subscription process:

JOBS NEWSLETTER

  • Email address
  • Date and time of registration

Double opt-in procedure 

To ensure that the registration actually came from you and that you agree to receiving the information, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure (double approval of use). After you have signed up, you will receive a confirmation email at the email address you provided. Your registration only becomes effective when you click on the confirmation link in this e-mail. 

Deletion in case of non-confirmation: 
If you do not confirm the confirmation e-mail within seven days, your registration will be automatically deleted. In this case, the data you provide will no longer be used and will be removed from our database immediately.

 

GENERAL NEWSLETTER

  • Email address
  • IP address of the requesting computer
  • Date and time of registration

Only your email address is essential for us to send you the newsletter.

Use of service provider CleverReach

We work with service provider CleverReach for sending our GENERAL newsletter. We have concluded a contract with CleverReach for commissioned data processing services and implement the stringent specifications set out by the German data protection authorities in our use of CleverReach.

We use the so-called double opt-in method for subscribing to our newsletter. This means that after you have subscribed, we send an email to the specified email address in which we ask you for confirmation that you would like us to send you the newsletter. Furthermore, we save the IP addresses you use and the times of the subscription and confirmation. The aim of this is to provide evidence of your subscription and to enable us to investigate any possible abuse of your personal data.

The service provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede. CleverReach is a service which enables the sending of newsletters to be organised and analysed. The data you enter to subscribe to the newsletter are saved on CleverReach’s servers in Germany and Ireland. Our newsletters sent with CleverReach enable us to analyse the behaviour of newsletter subscribers. We can analyse, for example, how many subscribers have opened the newsletter and how often the links in the newsletter have been clicked. Using so-called conversion tracking, we can also analyse whether a pre-defined action has taken place after a link in the newsletter has been clicked. Further information about data analysis by CleverReach newsletters is available at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/ 

CleverReach’s privacy policy is available at https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/ 

The legal basis for processing the data after a user has subscribed to the newsletter is the user’s consent under Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR.

The data you send to us for the purposes of subscribing to the newsletter are used by us to send you the newsletter and, if you unsubscribe from the newsletter, they will be erased both from our servers and CleverReach’s servers one week after your erasure request has been confirmed. Data saved by us for other purposes will not be affected by this. Further details about CleverReach’s privacy policy are available at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/ 

You can revoke your consent at any time by unsubscribing from the JOBS newsletter and/or the GENERAL newsletter. The legality of any data processing operations, which have already been performed, will not be affected by this revocation. If you do not wish to allow any analysis by CleverReach relating to the general newsletter, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a link for this purpose in every newsletter. You can also unsubscribe from the JOBS newsletter by sending an email to news-make-it@wkoeln.de

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of our website visitors only based on our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

 

8. Plug-ins and Tools 

YouTube with expanded data protection integration

Our website embeds videos of the website YouTube. The website operator is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in the expanded data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. Nevertheless, this does not necessarily mean that the sharing of data with YouTube partners can be ruled out as a result of the expanded data protection mode. For instance, regardless of whether you are watching a video, YouTube will always establish a connection with the Google DoubleClick network.

As soon as you start to play a YouTube video on this website, a connection to YouTube’s servers will be established. As a result, the YouTube server will be notified, which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account while you visit our site, you enable YouTube to directly allocate your browsing patterns to your personal profile. You have the option to prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, after you have started to play a video, YouTube will be able to place various cookies on your device or comparable technologies for recognition (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way YouTube will be able to obtain information about this website’s visitors. Among other things, this information will be used to generate video statistics with the aim of improving the user friendliness of the site and to prevent attempts to commit fraud.

Under certain circumstances, additional data processing transactions may be triggered after you have started to play a YouTube video, which are beyond our control.

The use of YouTube is based on our interest in presenting our online content in an appealing manner. Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this is a legitimate interest.

For more information on how YouTube handles user data, please consult the YouTube Data Privacy Policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en


OpenStreetMap

We are using the mapping service provided by OpenStreetMap (OSM).

We host OpenStreetMap on the server of the following provider:

Mapbox, Inc
740 15th Street NW, 5th Floor
Washington DC 20005
privacy@mapbox.com


We use OpenStreetMap with the objective of ensuring the attractive presentation of our online offers and to make it easy for visitors to find the locations we specify on our website. This establishes legitimate grounds as defined in Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.


Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to determine whether data entered on this website (e.g., information entered into a contact form) is being provided by a human user or by an automated program. To determine this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitors based on a variety of parameters. This analysis is triggered automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the site. For this analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates a variety of data (e.g., IP address, time the website visitor spent on the site or cursor movements initiated by the user). The data tracked during such analyses are forwarded to Google.

reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not alerted that an analysis is underway.

Data are stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the protection of the operator’s websites against abusive automated spying and against SPAM.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA please refer to the Google Data Privacy Declaration and Terms Of Use under the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en


Google Translate

This website uses functions of the translation service Google Translate. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Translate enables you to automatically translate an entire page from our job board.

The information collected by Google about the use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

This processing takes place on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.
 

9. Webinars 

We use the tool “Zoom” to organise telephone conferences, online meetings, video conferences and/or webinars (hereinafter: “online meetings”). “Zoom” is a service provided by Zoom Video Communications, Inc. whose headquarters are in the USA.

If you are participating in our webinars, your personal data is saved of Zoom’s servers for the purpose of conducting the event. This includes the following data:

  • Information on the user: first name, surname, phone number (optional), email address, password (if single sign on is not used), profile picture (optional), department (optional)
  • Meeting meta data: topic, description (optional), participant IP addresses, device/hardware information
  • If the meeting is recorded (optional): MP4 file of all video, audio and presentation recordings, M4A file of all audio recordings, text file of the online meeting chat.
  • If you join the meeting by phone: information ion the incoming and outgoing phone number, country name, start and end time. If need be, further connection data such as the IP address of the device may be saved.
  • Text, audio and video data: you may have the option of using the chat, question or quiz feature in an online meeting. Your text entries are therefore processed to be able to display them during the online meeting and to log them, if need be. To be able to display the video and play the audio, the data from your device’s microphone and from any video camera of the device are processed for the duration of the meeting. You can turn off the camera or the microphone at any time in the Zoom application.
  • To join an online meeting or to enter the meeting room, you must at least enter your name.
  • We use Zoom to conduct online meetings. If we wish to record online meeting, we will let you know openly beforehand and ask for your permission, if required. The Zoom app will also display a notification when a meeting is recorded.

We will log the chat content if it is required to log the results of an online meeting. However, this will generally not be the case.

In case of webinars, we may also process the questions asked by webinar participants for the purpose of recording and revising webinars.

If you have a Zoom user account, online meetings reports (meeting meta data, data on joining the meeting by phone, questions and answers in webinars, quiz feature in webinars) may be saved at Zoom for up to one month.

Automated decision-making within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR is not used.

In addition, the legal basis for data processing when conducting online meetings is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, insofar as the meetings are conducted as part of contractual obligations. Otherwise, your consent according to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR applies. We have concluded a contract with Zoom in which we oblige Zoom to protect our customers’ data and not to pass it on to third parties.
 

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