7. Use of JavaScript and Matomo
7.1 Use of JavaScript
We use JavaScript in order to provide our information to you on a variety of remote devices. This is also our legitimate interest in processing your personal data. We work with widely used public JavaScript libraries so that we can display our web pages attractively. If you do not want this, please use your browser settings or add-ons, such as NoScript for Firefox, for example, in order to prevent the execution of these scripts. This may limit the functionality of our web offer.
7.2 Matomo
For statistical data collection purposes we employ the web analytics tool Matomo.
If you have not consented to the use of Matomo you prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.
Data collected by Matomo
If you have consented to the use of Matomo, the following data are being recorded by our Matomo server and considered by the usage statistics.
Basic data:
- IP address, shortened for anonymity
- A cookie to distinguish different visitors
- The previously visited URL (referrer), insofar as it has been transmitted by your browser
- Name and version of your operating system
- Name, version and language settings of your browser
Additional data, if JavaScript is active:
- URLs visited in this website
- Time stamps of visits
- Types of HTML requests
- Screen resolution and colour depth
- Technical processes and formats supported by your browser (e.g. cookies, Java, Flash, PDF, WindowsMedia, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Director, SilverLight, Google Gears)
8. Application log files
For technical reasons, our servers and applications save personal details upon your visit to our websites in their log files. This is also our legitimate interest in processing your personal data. However, these data are only used for the immediate provision of our services, for troubleshooting purposes or for attack prevention and will be deleted automatically.
The following data are saved:
- Your IP address
- Date and time of your website visit
- The address of the site visited
- The address of the previously visited website (referrer)
- Name and version of your browser / operating system (if transmitted by your browser)
- Your e-mail address (e.g. when using the contact form)
9. Integrating services and contents of third parties
It is possible that the contents of third parties are integrated into our online offer. This always requires that the provider of these contents (referred to in the following as the third-party provider) stores the IP addresses of the users. Without the IP address, the contents cannot be sent to the particular user’s browser. The IP address is consequently necessary to display these contents. We endeavour to use only contents whose providers use the IP addresses solely to deliver the contents. However we have no influence if the third-party provider stores the IP addresses for other purposes, such as statistical ones. Any time we are aware of such storage, we explain it to the users.
10. Linking to other websites
As the provider of our website, we are responsible for the contents of our own online offer. However, we have no influence on the compliance of the operators of websites that are linked to us with the relevant data protection regulations. We therefore accept no liability for the contents of external websites.
If you follow a hyperlink, your data will be sent to that website’s provider when you call up the external website. When you use external links and applications, the data protection guidelines of that particular provider apply. That provider is solely liable for damages resulting from incorrect or even illegal contents on its website.
11. Privacy policy for social media channels
11.1 General information
We appreciate your interest in our presence on the social media channels. We would like to give you an overview of what data is collected, used and stored by us on these channels and what rights you have with regard to this. Details on the social networks used by us can be found under section 11.5 of this privacy statement.
Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. can generally analyze your user behavior comprehensively when you visit their website, or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. like buttons or advertising banners). Visiting our social media channels triggers numerous data protection-related processing operations, which we would like to explain to you in more detail:
If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media channel, the operator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. However, there may be occasions when your personal data may also be collected if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal. In such circumstances, this data collection takes place, for example, via cookies, which are stored on your terminal device or by collecting your IP address.
With the help of the data collected in this way, the operators of the social media portals can create user profiles in which your preferences and interests are stored. By doing this, interest-based advertising can be displayed to you inside and outside the respective social media presence. If you have an account with the respective social network, the interest-based advertising may be displayed on all devices on which you are or were logged in.
Please also note that we are unable to track all processing steps on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, further processing procedures may therefore be carried out by the operators of the social media portals. For details, please refer to the terms of use and data protection provisions of the respective social media portals.
11.2 Responsible party and assertion of rights
If you visit one of our social media channels, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. In principle, you can assert your rights (access to information, rectification, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and complaint) both against us and against the operator of the respective social media portal (e.g. against Twitter).
Please note that it cannot be ruled out that the respective provider of the social media platform will use your profile and behavioural data, for example, to evaluate your habits, personal relationships, preferences, etc. This data may be used for other purposes. In this respect, we have no influence on the processing of your data by the provider of the social media platform, as it is determined by their corporate policy.
If you wish to assert your rights as a data subject against us, you can find the contact details in section 1 of this privacy statement.
If you wish to assert your rights against one of the operators of the social media platforms, please contact them directly. A list of the social media channels operated by us can be found under section 11.5 of this privacy statement.
11.3 General information on data processing
11.3.1 Scope and purpose of the processing of personal data
The data you enter on our social media channels, such as comments, videos, images, likes, etc., are published by the respective social media platform and are not used or processed by us for any other purpose at any time. We only reserve the right to delete content if this should be necessary. If applicable, we share your content on our site if this is a function of the social media platform and communicate with you via the social media platform.
11.3.2 Legal basis for the processing of personal data
Our social media presences are intended to ensure the most comprehensive presence possible on the Internet and serve our public relations work. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1) point (f) EU-GDPR. When contacting us via a social media platform, your inquiries will be processed with your consent and for the purpose of processing and handling the contact inquiry in accordance with Art. 6(1) point (a) and (b) EU-GDPR. The analysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal bases to be specified by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6(1) point (a) EU-GDPR).
11.3.3 Data deletion and storage duration
The personal data collected directly by us via the social media presence will be deleted from our systems as soon as the purpose for storing it no longer exists, you request us to delete it, or you withdraw your consent to its storage. Stored cookies remain on your end device until you delete them. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected. We have no influence on the storage period of your data, which is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details on this, please contact the operators of the social networks directly (e.g., in their privacy policy, see section 11.5 of this privacy statement).
11.4 Disclosure of personal data
We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:
- you have given your express consent to do so in accordance with Art. 6(1) point (a) EU-GDPR,
- the disclosure is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims pursuant to Art. 6(1) point (f) EU-GDPR and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data,
- there is a legal obligation for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6(1) point (c) EU-GDPR, or
- this is necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you according to Art. 6(1) point (b) EU-GDPR.
Any further transfer outside our company will not take place.
11.5 Social networks in detail
11.5.1 Twitter
We have a profile on Twitter. The provider is Twitter, Inc, 1355 Market Street #900, San Francisco, California 94103, USA.
For details and options for contacting Twitter as a data subject, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy.
11.5.2 LinkedIn
We have a profile on LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 West Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94085, USA.
For details and options for contacting LinkedIn as a data subject, please refer to LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
12. Exercise of rights applying to data subjects
As a user of this website, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of your data at any time and to demand, at no cost, information regarding the scope, origin and receivers of your personal stored data, as well as the purpose of the storage. You can freely withdraw the consent at any time with an explicit request communicated ivn r-znvy. You can furthermore exercise your rights to restriction, erasure or rectification of your personal data. If you would like to have your personal data that we have stored corrected, or if you require a copy of certain personal information that have been passed on, or if you learn of inaccurate information, please also contact us. We are, however, obligated to verify your identity and further details before we can provide you with information or correct incorrect information. We shall contact you within 30 days following the successful verification of your identity and the further details. Furthermore you have the right to obtain the data we hold about you in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller without hindrance, or to arrange for us to transmit the data.
In the cases where we rely on our legitimate interest to process your personal data you have the right to object to this processing, provided there are grounds for doing so relating to your particular situation. If you object, your data will no longer be processed unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or where processing is required to establish, assert or defend legal claims.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, if you consider that the processing of personal data to you infringes the GDPR.
13. Contact
Please feel free to contact us ivn r-znvy if you have any questions regarding this data protection statement.
