This data protection information is aimed at all persons with whom Filzlig (hereinafter referred to as "we" or "us") interacts, including customers, potential customers and interested parties, visitors to our websites, users of our apps/applications, other users of our products or services and visitors to our locations (collectively referred to as "you" or "you"). It contains the information according to Art. 13 and 14 GDPR.
1. Terms
The processing of personal data takes place within the framework of the statutory provisions.
The term "personal data" refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. "Processing" includes any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Other data protection terms are used in accordance with the definitions in Art. 4 GDPR.
2. Name and address of the responsible bodies
New Ventures GmbH
Reichenberger Straße 17
95111 Rehau
3. General processing purposes and legal bases
We collect and process your personal data in the following cases in particular:
- If you contact us directly, e.g. via our website, via our customer service or if you visit us at our locations, participate in our events, customer satisfaction surveys and competitions and you are interested in our products or services, for example, or have another concern.
- If you or your employer purchase products or services directly from us.
- If you or your employer request information about our products and services (e.g. transmission of brochures or price lists).
- When you purchase or use our products.
- When you or your employer offer or sell products or services to us.
Please help us to keep your details up to date by informing us of any changes to your personal data, in particular your contact details.
Insofar as we process personal data, this relates in particular to your name and your business contact details such as company, function, telephone number or e-mail address as well as contract and transaction data. Other categories of data may be collected for specific purposes, which are described in detail below.
In addition to collecting your data via our contact forms on our website, we also collect the data directly from you or via generally accessible sources (e.g. commercial register, authorities, Internet), insofar as this is necessary for the purpose.
4 Individual processing purposes and legal bases
In the following, we will inform you about the purposes for which we process which personal data. In the case of non-recurring circumstances, we will generally refer you to this information again separately in the specific processing situation and, if necessary, provide additional information.
4.1 Processing of data for the preparation, conclusion and execution of contracts
We process personal data as part of the acquisition (see also 4.9.) and sales processes as well as for the execution of contracts. For this purpose, data is processed in particular for contract initiation, offer processing, customer advice, procurement, production and delivery of goods, contract management and complaints processing.
The following data categories in particular are processed as part of these activities:
- Contact data / personal master data (surname, first name, address, e-mail address, etc.)
- Logistics data such as delivery addresses
- Contract data, payment data
In doing so, it may be necessary for us to pass on the data to third parties who are involved in the supply chain or are otherwise required for the execution of the contract in order to prepare an offer and process the contract.
For the purpose of credit checks of our business partners, we process data that we receive from credit agencies (e.g. from Schufa) in accordance with the legal requirements. In addition, we reserve the right to report payment experiences with customers to a payment experience pool of a scoring company (Creditreform, Bisnode) in order to further minimize the risk of default. Payment histories with natural persons are excluded from this.
To optimize financial transactions, we reserve the right to assign claims against our business customers to a refinancing company as part of receivables financing. In this process, only company-related data (name of the debtor, reason, amount, due date of the claim) are passed on for the purpose of receivables financing. As far as necessary for the examination of the claim, the refinancing company will pass on the mentioned company data for creditworthiness check to third parties.
The legal basis for receivables financing/factoring is, insofar as personal data are affected in exceptional individual cases, Art. 6 I f DSGVO.
Insofar as data is collected directly for the processing of a request or the execution of a contract, we will inform you which data is mandatory. If not you yourself, but your employer or another third party contractually linked to you or your employer is the contractual partner, the data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 I f DSGVO. The data is processed insofar as the data is necessary for the execution of the contract or for the fulfillment of further legal, e.g. product liability obligations and duties (e.g. information, clarification and warning duties).
Insofar as the processing is based on Art. 6 I f DSGVO, you can object to this at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.
4.2 Use of Online Shop
We use the platform Shopify Inc. (“Shopify”) as a shop system. When you place an order in our shop, you agree to the storage and processing of your personal data by Shopify. For this purpose, your personal data will be forwarded and processed to the Shopify data centers in Canada and the USA. This storage and processing of data is done for the purpose of supporting and processing your orders, your authentication, the processing of payment transactions and the improvement of Shopify’s services. For more information on Shopify’s terms of use and privacy policy, please visit https://www.shopify.de/legal/datenschutz.
4.3. Participation in Events and On-site Visits (Art. 6 I f DSGVO)
We are very pleased to meet you personally during a visit on site or at one of our events. In this context, we process your personal data in order to organize and carry out events and to provide you with information material. At events, we may pass on the data to the speakers and participants. This is important to ensure the smooth running of the event. We also use the data collected to evaluate and follow up on our events.
For the coordination and planning of visits and appointments, we also use the functions of Calendly. The processing of your data is necessary for the use of this service (Art. 6 I b DSGVO). If you use this service, the privacy information of Calendly applies (https://calendly.com/de/privacy).
For the documentation of the events as well as for press and public relations work, image and video recordings of the events can be created. In this process, personal (image) data is also processed. You can object to this processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. In this case, we ask you to communicate these reasons in advance to the photographers or organizers, who will consider your objection and initiate the necessary measures.
4.4. Use of Service (Consultation)
In addition to our products and system solutions, we offer extensive services. These include consultation and services that we offer you via telephone, email, contact form, and possibly even on-site. With this service, we aim to assist you in the selection, deployment, and application of our systems.
As part of this service, the necessary data that you provide us in connection with the service request, such as contact details / personal master data (name, first name, address, email address, etc.) along with the affected products and the problem, can be stored. We want to ensure that we can advise you specifically based on the previous service history for any later queries. The basis for this storage is the legitimate interest in a consistent and effective advisory activity over time. Your data will be stored exclusively in direct connection with the service case. As far as the service data is relevant for the defense of liability, especially product liability cases, we will also process them for this purpose. The data will be deleted when they are no longer required for this purpose, at the latest after the expiration of the limitation periods for this liability.
Insofar as the data is processed only on the basis of Art. 6 I f DSGVO, you have the right to object to the storage for reasons that lie in your person.
4.5. Newsletter
We offer newsletter services on our web presences, which you can subscribe to. For this, we use a double opt-in procedure, so a newsletter subscription is only activated after you click on a confirmation link, which you receive by email. A completed newsletter subscription can be terminated at any time by revoking your consent. A revocation can be made via an unsubscribe link in a newsletter, if available via administration settings on our web presence, or by direct contact with us via the listed contact details.
4.6. Access to the company premises for the delivery of goods or fulfillment of a service or work performance
In this case, we collect your data, which is directly necessary for the execution of a contractual relationship, such as name, first name, company, billing data, vehicle identification data, as well as the duration of your stay with us based on Art. 6 I f DSGVO. The aim is to have knowledge of the people who are in the building or on the premises in the event of an emergency and a necessary evacuation. As far as you stay for business, the duration of the stay can also be used to check and optimize internal processes as well as to check the plausibility of performance information (e.g., invoices). Cameras are also used at various locations for the monitoring of logistical processes when goods are delivered. Based on legal requirements or Art. 6 I f DSGVO to prove the fulfillment of traffic safety obligations, the safety instructions that the visitor receives are also documented. Of course, you can object to the uses based on Art. 6 I f DSGVO at any time for reasons that arise from your particular situation. Video surveillance only takes place openly at our locations. Corresponding signs will point this out to you. This video surveillance serves to secure our production and our data processing facilities. This ensures an even higher protection of personal data.
4.7. Corporate Communication and External Representation (Art. 6 I f DSGVO)
As part of participation in events, visiting our trade fair appearance, and other events, images and videos of these events are created for documentation, press and public relations, and corporate communication. In this process, personal (image) data is also processed. The publication of the image material takes place both electronically in social media such as Facebook and in print media. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 I f DSGVO for corporate communication and, where applicable, § 23 KunstUrhG. As far as factually possible and legally reasonable, each individual event will once again point out the image recordings. If the processing of the images is based on Art. 6 I f DSGVO, you can object to this use at any time for reasons that arise from your particular situation. You can exercise this right by informing the photographers of these reasons in advance, they will take this into account in their work accordingly. We will be happy to provide you with details on this in relation to the event.
4.8. Compliance, Legal Enforcement, and Prevention of Crimes (Art. 6 I f DSGVO)
As far as legally required, we use personal data to assert legal claims and to defend in legal disputes. Within the framework of the company’s compliance guidelines, the data can also be used to prevent, clarify, or prevent crimes. In addition to the data categories mentioned so far, as far as they are necessary for the purpose, credit data, visit data, account data, and correspondence, purchasing, and sales data are also used. We also use an internal whistleblower system for named and anonymous hints on compliance violations. These data are deleted or completely anonymized within the framework of the respective applicable legislation or immediately after the conclusion of the respective case. Security is usually also served by systems for building and plant security and for securing our data processing facilities such as access controls or video surveillance. The mentioned controls only take place openly at our locations. On-site, you can inform yourself about this in detail again. We continue to process your personal data in connection with the usual checks of business partners within the framework of compliance requirements. As far as we have not directly requested your personal data from you, we have collected them within the framework of due diligence from publicly accessible sources and databases. The data collected from these sources are processed exclusively for this purpose and deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for this purpose. The processing is based on Art. 6 I c DSGVO, as far as the due diligence is based on legal requirements or on Art. 6 I f DSGVO, the legitimate interest of the company in evaluating its business partners to reduce risks. If the processing is based on Art. 6 I f DSGVO, you can object to this for reasons that lie in your person.
4.9. Advertising Communication and Market Research (Art. 6 I f DSGVO)
As far as legally permissible on the basis of Art. 6 I f DSGVO or if you give us your consent (Art. 6 I a DSGVO), we process your data especially for advertising communication, customer satisfaction surveys, promotional activities, and for the implementation of sweepstakes. This way, we can further improve our product and service offerings and act more targeted. As part of these activities, the necessary data such as contact details / personal master data (name, first name, company, address, telephone number, IP address, email address, etc.) can be processed. Only as far as a corresponding consent exists, further data, (1) which you provide us for this purpose, such as interests, personal preferences, professional situation or (2) which we collect through analysis, individual measurement, storage, and evaluation of opening rates and click rates in recipient profiles for the design of future newsletters or other communication, are processed. In an existing customer relationship or as far as you have consented to it, you usually receive the mentioned information using electronic mail. Otherwise, the information is provided by telephone or analog to business partners who are not consumers. For the mentioned purposes, it may be necessary that we pass on your personal data to companies of the REHAU Group in order to better respond to your wishes or to continuously improve our products and services. In any case, you can object to the use of your data for direct advertising purposes at any time according to Art. 21 para. 2 DSGVO or revoke a corresponding consent at any time according to Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO with effect for the future. For the further development of our products, services, and business processes as well as for market research, we analyze the data available to us (e.g., business transactions, contracts, inquiries, and other evaluations). Of course, we respect it if you do not want to provide us with your personal data to support our customer relationship - especially for direct marketing or market research. For the collection of feedback, we also use the functions of SurveyMonkey, Typeform, and Google Forms. If you participate in a corresponding survey, the data protection information of SurveyMonkey (https://www.surveymonkey.de/mp/legal/privacy-policy), Typeform (https://admin.typeform.com/to/dwk6gt) or Google Forms (https://policies.google.com/?hl=de&gl=de) apply.
4.10. Fulfillment of Legal Obligations (Art. 6 I c DSGVO)
We are subject to a multitude of legal obligations for the processing and storage of personal data. These concern, for example, commercial and tax law retention regulations according to the Commercial Code and the Tax Code. To comply with these obligations, we process your data to the necessary extent and, if necessary, pass them on to the responsible authorities within the framework of legal reporting obligations.
4.11. Further Processing Purposes
Data processing continues to take place within the framework of quality management, for the determination and improvement of customer satisfaction, for the further development of products and services, for the implementation of research and development, and for the improvement of IT security and IT operations. The latter point also includes processing to detect and prevent unauthorized access to personal data. The legal basis for the processing of this data is Art. 6 I f DSGVO. As far as no consent is given, basically no conclusions are drawn about individual natural persons. In individual cases, this processing can be objected to for reasons arising from your particular situation.
4.12. Transfer of Data to Third Parties
For the aforementioned purposes, the data can be passed on to third parties who support the responsible body in pursuing the stated purposes. The transfer takes place either within the framework of order processing in the sense of Art. 28 DSGVO, a joint responsibility according to Art. 26 DSGVO, or as data transmission within the framework of commissioning professional services. For data transmission to recipients in third countries (see below no. 6).
5. Duration of Storage
We store your personal data only as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or as long as storage is legally or officially ordered. We delete or block your data as soon as they are no longer needed. Furthermore, we delete or block your data immediately in the event of a revocation of your consent as well as in the event of a justified objection to the processing.
6. Planned Data Transfer to Third Countries
For the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy, we can pass on your personal data to other companies associated with us. These can use your personal data in their own interest for the same purposes as we do. In particular, they can process your personal data for the mentioned purposes in their own interest. Within our group, employees only have access to your personal data as far as it is necessary for the fulfillment of their activity. The data transfer to branches outside the European Economic Area takes place either on the basis of an adequacy decision by the Commission (Art. 45 para. 3 DSGVO) or on the basis of standard data protection clauses (Art. 46 II c DSGVO), which contain appropriate guarantees for the data subject. The text of the standard data protection clauses is published at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/model-contracts-transfer-personal-data-third-countries_en. We can also pass on your personal data to third parties outside the companies to use technical or organizational services that we need for the fulfillment of the mentioned purposes or our other business activity. Our service providers are contractually obliged to process the personal data exclusively on our behalf and according to our instructions. We also oblige our service providers to comply with technical and organizational measures that ensure the protection of personal data. If the service providers are located in countries where the applicable laws do not provide protection of personal data comparable to European law, we will contractually ensure that the relevant service providers comply with the legally required level of data protection (standard data protection clauses). You can obtain more information about this from our data protection officer.
7. Online Data Usage / Visit to Our Websites
In the following, you will learn what information we may collect when you visit our websites and how we handle it. Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers to which this privacy policy does not extend. When you visit our website, we store information about the browser and operating system you use, the date and time of your visit, and the IP address. This data is necessary for the functioning of the pages, in particular to ensure a smooth connection and a reasonable use of our website. We cannot assign this data to you. For the display of the websites, we are supported by Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (38 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855, Luxembourg); Webflow, Inc. (398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103); MongoDB, Inc. (1633 Broadway, 38th floor, New York, NY 10019); Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) and Wix.com Ltd. (Nemal St. 40, 6350671 Tel Aviv, Israel). In this context, personal data, such as IP addresses, may be processed to the necessary extent for service purposes also in non-secure third countries. In this case, we will contractually ensure that the relevant service providers comply with the legally required level of data protection (standard data protection clauses). You can obtain more detailed information about this from our data protection officer. Without your participation, we do not collect any personal data via our websites. Only you decide whether you want to disclose such data to us, for example in the context of a registration, order, or survey. In addition, we use the following technologies on our website in particular:
7.1. botgie Chatbot
If you want to use our service “botgie Chatbot” (for example via our websites or within mobile apps), this happens anonymously. However, please do not pass on any personal information to us via chat messages. Data in the form of chat messages and IP addresses are collected and stored by our processors Amazon Web Services, Inc., MongoDB, Inc., and Google Ireland Limited. This information is necessary for the provision of the service. In addition, we use the anonymized chat messages to continuously improve our chatbot service.
7.2. Google Analytics - Web Analysis Service
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have activated IP anonymization on this website, so your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide further services related to website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de&gl=de. We would like to point out that Google Analytics has been extended on our website by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).
7.3. Google Tag Manager
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, this website uses the Google Tag Manager. The Tag Manager does not collect any personal data. The tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager. You can find Google’s privacy policy for this tool here: https://policies.google.com/?hl=de&gl=de
7.4. Google Ads Remarketing
If you agree on the cookie pre-pages to our web presence, our website uses the functions of Google Ads Remarketing, with which we advertise for this website in the Google search results, as well as on third-party websites. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). For this purpose, Google sets a cookie in the browser of your end device, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you have visited. Further data processing only takes place if you have agreed to Google that your internet and app browser history will be linked to your Google account and information from your Google account will be used to personalize ads that you view on the web. If you are logged into Google during the visit to our website in this case, Google uses your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. Your personal data will be temporarily linked with Google Analytics data to form target groups. You can permanently deactivate the setting of cookies for ad preferences by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en Alternatively, you can inform yourself about the setting of cookies and make settings for this at the Digital Advertising Alliance at the internet address www.aboutads.info. Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited. You can view further information and the data protection regulations regarding advertising and Google here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en
7.5. Use of Google reCaptcha
We use the service reCAPTCHA from Google in our contact forms, which you can use to make service and information requests to us. The query serves the purpose of detecting a hostile attack on our websites by distinguishing human input from automated, machine input. The use of this application is necessary for the provision of the service that we offer via our contact forms and is therefore based on Art. 6 I b DSGVO. It is necessary for the provision of the service, as otherwise the website would not be sufficiently protected against automated spying, abuse, and SPAM. The use is therefore also in the interest of the service recipients. For this purpose, your input is transmitted to Google and processed there. The IP address and possibly other data used by Google for the service are transmitted to Google. Therefore, you can only use our contact forms if you consent to the use of Google reCaptcha to protect the site. In exceptional cases, your data may also be processed in countries without an adequate level of data protection outside the European Union (in so-called third countries). To ensure an adequate level of data protection in this case as well when transmitting personal data, we take additional measures in accordance with Art. 44 ff DS-GVO and thus ensure that the transmission is generally permissible (e.g., by concluding EU standard contracts). Insofar as the effectiveness of the standard contractual clauses has not been conclusively clarified, we base the data transmission alternatively on Art. 49 DSGVO, in particular your explicit consent or the necessity for the risk-free provision of contact forms. The USA is considered by the EU as a country without an adequate level of data protection, in particular, there is a risk that your data may be processed by US authorities, possibly without adequate legal protection options for control purposes. Further information on Google reCaptcha and the privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html or https://www.google.com/privacy. The responsible party for this data processing is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The following data is transmitted to the person responsible for the independent provision of a service, the defense against hostile attacks: your web request, the IP address, the browser type, the browser language, the date and time of your request, one or more cookies that may identify your browser. If you do not agree to the use of Google reCaptcha, then you may not fill out the contact forms in which Google reCaptcha is used! If you want to use our services without using Google reCaptcha, you are welcome to send us an email or a letter at any time, and we will then take care of your request in another way.
7.6. Google Maps
If you have given the necessary consents, you can use interactive map services from Google Maps within our offered services. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). For this purpose, Google Maps sets cookies in the browser of your end device and optionally queries your exact geolocation via technical interfaces in your end device. Furthermore, for technical reasons and for alternative position determination, your IP address and other user information can be queried, used, and stored. You can view further information and the privacy policy for Google Maps here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
7.7. Facebook Plugin
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, we use the “Visitor Action Pixel” from Facebook Inc. on our website. This allows the behavior of users to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This process is used to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and can help optimize future advertising measures. The data collected is anonymous to us, so it does not provide us with any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, so a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Data Usage Policy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/ The data can enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and outside of Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.
7.8. Facebook Remarketing
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, we use the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” of Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; “Facebook”) on our website. This function serves the purpose of addressing the visitors of the website in a targeted manner with interest-related advertising in the social network Facebook. For this purpose, the remarketing tag of Facebook has been implemented on the website. This tag establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers when you visit the website. This transmits to the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When you visit the social network Facebook, you will then be shown personalized, interest-based Facebook ads. You can deactivate the remarketing function “Custom Audiences” here: https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings More detailed information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard, and options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
7.9. Facebook Lead Ads
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, we use Facebook Lead Ads to obtain contact information from users who are interested in our products and services on Facebook. Our ads on Facebook are thus expanded by additional interaction options, in particular the option for the user to request more information about our products and services via a contact form. When an interested party submits such a form, the data provided by the user is stored as a lead on Facebook and transmitted to us. We only use this data for the purpose specified in the Lead Ad. This can be, for example, the name for personal address, the email address for sending the desired product information, or the phone number for making a phone call. You can get more information directly from Facebook at: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/
7.10. YouTube Plugin
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, we use plugins from YouTube LLC (represented by Google Inc.) among others for the integration of videos on our websites. In this case, as soon as you use our website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the plugin is displayed. This transmits to the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of YouTube, YouTube assigns this information to your personal user account. When using the plugin, for example after clicking the start button of a video, this information is also assigned to your user account. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your YouTube user account and other user accounts of the companies YouTube LLC and Google Inc. before using our websites and deleting the corresponding cookies of the companies. Further information on data processing and privacy protection by YouTube (Google) can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
7.11. Microsoft Plugin
If you agree to the cookie pre-pages on our website, our website uses the conversion tracking of Microsoft Corporation. In this case, Microsoft Bing Ads sets a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via a Microsoft Bing ad. Microsoft Bing and we can thus recognize that someone has clicked on an ad, has been redirected to our website, and has reached a previously determined target page (conversion page). We only learn the total number of users who have clicked on a Bing ad and were then redirected to the conversion page. No personal information about the user’s identity is disclosed. If you do not want to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse to set a cookie required for this - for example, via a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. Further information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft Bing can be found on the Microsoft website: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement/
7.12. cidaas Account
If you use our service “cidaas Account” (for example, through user registrations or account management), the personal data necessary for the provision of the service will be requested and stored at a minimum. The underlying service - product name “cidaas” - is provided by our processor Widas ID GmbH, Maybachstraße 2, 71299 Wimsheim. You can find more information at https://www.cidaas.com/de/datenschutzhinweise/.
7.13. Additional Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are usually set on the PC by a website. Cookies serve a variety of purposes. However, they are never risky, as they lack any “active” ability. So they cannot run harmful applications. They almost exclusively contain information that is necessary for convenient internet use. In addition, we have set ourselves a deadline for deleting cookies. Without your renewed consent, these will be stored for a maximum of 12 months from the first collection. For this, we take technical precautions to ensure automatic deletion. Classic examples of tasks of cookies: Login data, secure shopping cart, user analysis, form fields. Information that can be stored in cookies can be: lifespan, server name, unique ID, content data.
Use of cookies:
- Function Functional or session cookies are purely technical cookies that are necessary for the proper functioning of our website.
We only use all other cookies if you have agreed to them as part of our Consent Manager pre-pages. We have structured these cookies as follows:
Via statistics or tracking cookies, the user behavior when visiting our website is evaluated - of course in a completely anonymized form. We and possibly the responsible body thus receive valuable information on how the website is used, which allows us and possibly the responsible body to better align it with the interests of the visitors
In addition to our own cookies, we use third-party cookies to display personalized advertising on our and other websites. This process is called “retargeting”. It is based on your activity on our website.
In addition, the plugins used on our website use their own cookies. You can find out about the types and purposes of the cookies on the specified pages of the third-party providers.
Consentmanager:
We have integrated the consent management tool “consentmanager” (https://www.consentmanager.net/) from Jaohawi AB (Håltgelvågen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden, info@consentmanager.net) on our website to request consents for data processing or the use of cookies or similar functions. With the help of consentmanager, you have the opportunity to give or refuse your consent for certain functionalities of our website, e.g., for the purpose of integrating external elements, integrating streaming content, statistical analysis, reach measurement, and personalized advertising. You can give or refuse your consent for all functions using consentmanager, or you can give your consent for individual purposes or individual functions. The settings you have made can also be changed by you afterwards. The purpose of integrating consentmanager is to leave the decision about the aforementioned things to the users of our website and to offer the possibility to change already made settings during the further use of our website. In the course of using consentmanager, personal data and information of the used end devices such as the IP address are processed. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) in conjunction with Art. 6 para 3 sentence 1 lit. a) in conjunction with Art. 7 para. 1 DSGVO and alternatively lit. f). With the processing of the data, consentmanager helps us (according to DSGVO the responsible party) to fulfill our legal obligations (e.g., obligation to provide proof). Our legitimate interests in the processing lie in the storage of user settings and preferences regarding the use of cookies and other functionalities. Consentmanager stores your data as long as your user settings are active. After two years after making the user settings, consent is requested again. The user settings made are then stored again for this period. You can object to the processing. Your right to object exists for reasons arising from your particular situation. For the purpose of objection, please contact info@consentmanager.net via email.
8. Social Media
We operate social media presences together with the responsible parties of the various social media platforms. For defined processing operations, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the respective social network in the sense of Art. 4 No. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The following describes how we handle information (“personal data”) that is collected when you visit us on social networks or contact us using the information provided here.
8.1. Verantwortliche
The operator of the respective platform is solely responsible for the processing of personal data on social media platforms. This operator usually processes your personal data, which is generated when you visit a social media platform, regardless of whether you have a user account there and/or are logged in. If you agree, cookies and other storage and tracking technologies (partially across devices) are used. Social media platforms typically create their own personalized usage statistics, e.g., for market research, advertising, and other commercial purposes. In this process, personal data can also be processed outside the European Union. We do not have access to this data and cannot influence the collection of this data. To support social media activities, we use the Later platform, through which our posts are created and distributed, and feedback comments from users are managed and edited. You can find more information about Later’s privacy policy at https://later.com/privacy/.
8.2. Contact Person
For all questions regarding data protection, our data protection officer (contact details see below) is available to you. We would like to point out that from the agreements between us and the operators of the social media platforms, it follows that inquiries for information and rights of those affected should be asserted directly with the respective operator of the social network. Only the provider of the social network has direct access to the necessary information and can also take necessary measures and provide information. If our support is still needed, you can contact us at any time.
8.3. Processing of Personal Data
Data Categories
- When you visit a company page, we, as the operator of the respective page, process the data that you provide to us during your direct actions and interactions (e.g., inquiries, posts, comments, likes, shares) as well as your publicly accessible profile data. The public visibility of your personal profile data depends on your profile settings, which you can adjust yourself on the respective social media platform. For the use of all social media channels, the urgent recommendation is not to share sensitive data or confidential information.
- The social media platforms provide us with anonymous usage statistics (analysis services or page insights data) for our company pages, which are based on the usage behavior of visitors. We receive associated demographic and geographic evaluations for this data. We cannot access or influence the creation and processing of these usage statistics and the underlying data. This is the responsibility of the operator of the respective social media platform. We have no way of viewing personal data of individual users.
Duration of Processing
We process your personal data only as long as they are needed for the aforementioned purposes. In the case of an objection to the processing for the protection of our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR), we will delete personal data unless their further processing is permitted under the relevant legal provisions. We will also delete personal data if we are obliged to do so for other legal reasons. According to these general principles, we generally delete personal data as soon as the legal basis ceases to apply, if they are no longer necessary for the stated purposes or the stated purposes cease to apply and no other legal basis exists (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods), or otherwise, if the other legal basis ceases to apply.
9. Data Security
We have technical and organizational security procedures to ensure the security of your personal data and to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and/or against accidental loss, alteration, disclosure, or access.
10. Your Rights
The compliance with data protection regulations is controlled by the following bodies, which anyone can contact:
Data Protection Officer of New Ventures GmbH:
Mr. Dr. Alexander Walter
Helmut-Wagner-Str. 1 95111 Rehau
Phone: 09283 77 1381
Email: datenschutz@rehau-newventures.com
Supervisory authority in the sense of Art. 56 GDPR: Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision Promenade 27 91522 Ansbach
You also have the opportunity to check our compliance with data protection regulations yourself. The following rights are available to you for this purpose:
- Right to information
- Right to access your processed data
- Right to object For all processing operations based on Art. 6 I f GDPR (see above), you can object to the processing for reasons arising from your particular situation.
- Right to object to direct advertising You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data for the purpose of direct advertising. This also applies to profiling associated with such direct advertising.
- Right to correction, deletion, and restriction
- Right to data portability
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
If you have any questions about these rights regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer, who is also available in case of requests for information, suggestions, or complaints. Upon request, we will inform you as soon as possible in writing in accordance with applicable law whether and which personal data about you is stored with us. If, despite our efforts to ensure data accuracy and timeliness, incorrect information is stored, we will correct it at your request.
