Data protection

YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Contact
• Applications
• Arrangement of an appointment
• Newsletter subscription
• Opening of a customer account
• Optimisation of the website (adapting the website to your needs)
• Defense and recording of hacking attacks
• Production of usage statistics
• For the fulfilment of our contractual obligations with customers, suppliers and service providers

VISIT TO THE WEBSITE

When you visit our website, our servers temporarily save the following data in a log file, the so-called server log files.

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Date and time of access/retrieval
• Name and URL of the retrieved data
• Operating system of your computer and the browser you use
• Country from which our website is accessed
• Name of your Internet access provider
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (concrete page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transmitted in each case
• last visited website
• Browser settings
• Language and version of the browser software
• Activated browser plug-ins

We consider the temporary storage of personal data and log files to be of legitimate interest. The legitimate interest exists to

• to enable the use of our website
• to ensure the long-term security and stability of the system
• provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for law enforcement in the event of a cyber attack
• to further improve our offer and our Internet presence
• collect statistical data

This data will not be stored together with other personal data. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of the collection of your personal data for the purpose of providing the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.

CONTACT

When you fill out our contact form for existing customers or prospective customers, your details are stored by us so that we can grant you access to our internal platform, where you can find price lists, a demo system and, for example, answers to more detailed technical questions. The following information is(*mandatory) required. The other details are voluntary:

• Company
• first name*
• Last name*
• Phone
• e-mail address*

The mandatory data are necessary to process your request. In order to provide you with even more targeted information, we also collect and process information provided voluntarily.

The personal data you provide will not be merged with other data.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest in this service. If the purpose of contacting us is the fulfilment of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures, this is an additional legal basis for the processing of your personal data.

COMMENT FUNCTION

You have the possibility to write comments on our website. For this we need your name or a pseudonym. Optionally you can indicate your website. We ask for this voluntary information in order to promote a more transparent and individual communication between authors and commentators.

In addition, your IP and e-mail address will be recorded or queried. Storage of this information serves to avoid spam. We delete this data once a month.

The data you provide will not be merged with other data.

BLOG

You have the possibility to subscribe to our blog via our website. To do so, we need your e-mail address and your declaration that you agree to receive the blog.

We use the so-called double-opt-in procedure for the registration. This means that after you have entered your e-mail address, we will send you a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address you have provided, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to subscribe. The confirmation is made by clicking on an activation link contained in the confirmation e-mail.

We will store your data until you unsubscribe from the blog. You have the opportunity to unsubscribe from the blog at any time and revoke the consent you have given. To do so, please click on the corresponding button on the blog or on our website or send your revocation to the following e-mail address: [email protected]

IN CONNECTION WITH INTERESTED PARTIES, CUSTOMERS, SUPPLIERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS

Purpose We process inventory data (e.g. names and addresses as well as your contact data), contract data (e.g. services used, names of contact persons, payment information and your online access data) in order to fulfil our contractual obligations and services.

The legal basis for the processing of your data is the fulfilment of a contract to which you are a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures or our legitimate interest in providing you with our services.

If we store your data on the basis of a contractual relationship, this data will be stored at least as long as the contractual relationship exists and at most as long as the limitation periods for possible claims from us run or statutory or contractual storage obligations exist.

SETTING UP A CUSTOMER ACCOUNT

We offer you the opportunity to register on our website for the purpose of opening a customer account. By opening a customer account, you will receive password-protected direct access to your inventory data stored with us (e.g. name and address).

To open a customer account, you must provide the following information (*mandatory). The other details are voluntary:

• Your e-mail address*
• password*
• first name*
• Last name*
• Mobile number*

If you close your user account, the associated data will be deleted, subject to legal retention obligations. It is your responsibility to save this data before the end of the contract if you terminate it. We are entitled to irretrievably delete all data stored during the contract period.

Within the scope of registration and renewed logins and use of our online services, we store the IP address and the time of the respective user action. The storage is based on our legitimate interests, as well as the user's need for protection against misuse and other unauthorised use. As a matter of principle, this data is not passed on to third parties unless it is necessary to pursue our claims or there is a legal obligation to do so.

ONLINE APPLICATIONS

If you apply for a job with us, we process your details to process your application. During the application process, in addition to title, surname, first name, date of birth and nationality, the usual correspondence data such as postal address, e-mail address and telephone numbers are stored in the applicant database. In addition, all documents submitted by you in connection with the application will be recorded. This data is stored, evaluated, processed or forwarded internally exclusively in connection with your application. The data can be processed for statistical purposes (e.g. reporting). No conclusions can be drawn about individual persons.

The processing can also be carried out electronically. This is particularly the case if you send us the relevant application documents electronically, for example by e-mail.

The legal basis for processing is the common interest in processing your application or pre-contractual measures taken in response to your application.

If we conclude an employment contract with you, the transmitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the applicable regulations. If the application procedure ends without employment, your personal data will be stored for six months for documentation purposes and then deleted unless you have given us permission to use your data for further application procedures with us.

Irrespective of the above, you have the option of having your electronic data deleted at any time. You can send your request for deletion to the person named as contact person in the job advertisement or to [email protected].