Privacy policy according to the EU GDPR

 

We are pleased about your interest in our company. Data protection is very important to us. We only use personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”) only to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its content and what is offered there Services, processed.

According to Art. 4 Number 1. The Regulation (EU) 2016 / 679, the Basic Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the "GDPR"), is considered to be the "processing" of any process or series of operations related to personal data, such as collection, carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures the collection, organization, ordering, storage, adaptation or modification, reading out, querying, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or any other form of providing, matching or linking, the restriction, the Erase or annihilation.

With the following privacy policy, we inform you in particular about the nature, scope, purpose, duration and legal basis of the processing of personal data, as far as we either alone or together with others decide on the purposes and means of processing. In addition, we will inform you below about the third-party components that we use for optimization purposes and to increase the quality of use, insofar as third parties process data in their own responsibility.

Our privacy policy is structured as follows:

I. Information about Us as Responsible
II. Rights of Users and Stakeholders
III. Information about Data Processing
IV. Linking to social media via graphics or text links
V. External Services


I. Information about Us as Responsible

The responsible provider of this website in terms of data protection is:

PHYTEC Messtechnik GmbH
Barcelona avenue 1
55129 Mainz
Germany

Tel .: 06131 / 9221-0
Email:  contact@phytec.de
Website: https: //www.phytec.de

The Data Protection Officer of the controller is:

Email:  data protection officer@phytec.de
Phone: +49 6131 9221-333


II. Rights of Users and Stakeholders

With regard to the data processing described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right

  • upon confirmation of the processing of the data in question, on information about the processed data, on further information on data processing and on copies of the data (see also Art. 15 DSGVO);
  • Correction or completion of incorrect or incomplete data (see also Art. 16 DSGVO);
  • for immediate deletion of their data (see also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, if further processing is required under Art. 17 para. 3 DSGVO, for limitation of processing in accordance with Art.
  • upon receipt of data concerning them and provided by them and on the transmission of these data to other providers / controllers (see also Art. 20 DSGVO);
  • on complaint to the supervisory authority, if they consider that the data concerning them are processed by the provider in breach of data protection provisions (see also Art. 77 DSGVO).

In addition, the Provider is obliged to notify any recipients to whom data has been disclosed by the Provider of any correction or deletion of data or restriction of processing that occurs under Articles 16, 17 para. 1, 18 DSGVO teaching. However, this obligation does not exist insofar as this notification is impossible or disproportionate. Notwithstanding, the user has a right to information about these recipients.

Likewise, according to Art. 21 DSGVO, users and data subjects have the right to object to the future processing of the data concerning them, provided that the data are provided by the provider in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO be processed. In particular, an objection to the processing of data for the purpose of direct advertising is permitted.


III. Information about Data Processing

Your data processed on the use of our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of the storage is omitted, the deletion of the data does not conflict with statutory retention requirements and subsequently no other information is given about individual processing methods.

Server Data

For technical reasons, in particular to ensure a secure and stable Internet presence, data is transmitted through your Internet browser to us or to our web space provider. These so-called server log files include the type and version of your Internet browser, the operating system, the website from which you have switched to our website (referrer URL), the website (s) of our website that you visit, date and time of the respective access as well as the IP-address of the internet connection from which the use of our internet presence takes place.

These data collected will be temporarily stored but will not be shared with other information about you.

This storage takes place on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality and security of our website.

The data will be deleted at the latest after seven days, as long as no further storage for evidence is required. Otherwise, the data will be wholly or partially exempt from the cancellation until the final clarification of an incident.

Cookie policy

a) Session-Cookies

We use so-called cookies with our website. Cookies are small text files or other storage technologies that are stored and stored on your device by the Internet browser you use. These cookies process certain information about you, such as your browser or location data or your IP address, to an individual extent.  

This processing makes our website more user-friendly, effective and secure, as the processing, for example, allows us to reproduce our website in different languages ​​or to offer a shopping cart function.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit b.) GDPR, insofar as these cookie data are processed to initiate a contract or to execute a contract.

If the processing does not serve to initiate the contract or to fulfill the contract, our legitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our website. Legal basis is then Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Closing your internet browser deletes these session cookies.

b) Third-Party Cookies

If necessary, our website also uses cookies from partner companies with whom we cooperate for the purpose of advertising, analyzing or functionalizing our website.

For details, in particular for the purposes and legal basis of the processing of such third party cookies, please refer to the information below.

c) Disposal Option

You can prevent or restrict the installation of cookies by setting your Internet browser. You can also delete previously saved cookies at any time. However, the necessary steps and measures depend on your specific Internet browser. If you have questions, please use the help function or documentation of your Internet browser or contact its manufacturer or support. With so-called Flash cookies, however, the processing can not be prevented by the settings of the browser. Instead, you need to change the setting of your Flash Player. The necessary steps and measures depend on your specific Flash player. If you have any questions, please also use the help function or documentation of your Flash Player or contact the manufacturer or user support.

If you prevent or restrict the installation of cookies, however, this may result in not all functions of our website being fully usable.

Newsletter

If you subscribe to our free newsletter, the data requested by you, ie your e-mail address and - optionally - your name and address will be sent to us. At the same time, we store the IP address of the Internet access from which you access our website as well as the date and time of your registration. As part of the further registration process, we will seek your consent to the transmission of the newsletter, describe the content specifically and refer to this privacy policy. We use the data collected exclusively for the newsletter dispatch - they are therefore not passed on to third parties in particular.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The consent to the newsletter dispatch can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO. For this you only need to inform us about your withdrawal or press the unsubscribe link contained in each newsletter.

Contact Requests/Contact Possibilities

If you contact us via contact form or e-mail, the data provided by you will be used to process your request. The specification of the data is necessary for processing and answering your inquiry - without their provision we can not answer your inquiry or at best only to a limited extent.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted, provided that your request has been finally answered and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory storage requirements, such as in the event of subsequent contract execution.

Online job applications / publication of job advertisements

We offer you the opportunity to apply with us on our website. In these digital applications, your application and application data will be electronically collected and processed by us to process the application process.

The legal basis for this processing is § 26 para. 1 S. 1 BDSG in conjunction with Art. 88 para. 1 DSGVO.

If an employment contract is concluded after the application process, we will save your data submitted in the application in your personal file for the purpose of the normal organizational and administrative process - of course, taking into account the further legal obligations.

The legal basis for this processing is also § 26 para. 1 S. 1 BDSG in conjunction with Art. 88 para. 1 DSGVO.

When rejecting an application, we will automatically delete the data submitted to us two months after notification of the rejection. However, the deletion does not take place if the data require a longer storage period of up to four months or until the conclusion of a judicial procedure due to legal provisions, for example because of the proof obligations under the AGG.

The legal basis in this case is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO and § 24 para. 1 No. 2 BDSG. Our legitimate interest lies in the legal defense and enforcement.

If you expressly agree to a longer storage of your data, for example, for your inclusion in an applicant or interest database, the data will be further processed on the basis of your consent. Legal basis is then Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Of course, you can revoke your consent at any time according to Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO by declaring to us with effect for the future.


IV. Linking to social media via graphics or text links

We also advertise on our website presences on the social networks listed below. The integration takes place via a linked graphic of the respective network. The use of this linked graphic prevents a connection to the respective server of the social network from being automatically established when a website with a social media application is called up in order to display a graphic of the respective network itself. The user is only forwarded to the service of the respective social network by clicking on the corresponding graphic.

After the user has been forwarded, information about the user is recorded by the respective network. It cannot be ruled out that the data collected in this way will be processed in the USA.

First of all, this includes data such as IP address, date, time and page visited. If the user is logged into his user account of the respective network, the network operator may be able to assign the information collected from the specific visit of the user to the user's personal account. If the user interacts via a “Share” button on the respective network, this information can be saved in the user's personal user account and published if necessary. If the user wants to prevent the information collected from being directly assigned to his user account, he must log out before clicking on the graphic. There is also the option of configuring the respective user account accordingly.

The following social networks are linked to our website:

facebook

Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Data protection statement: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

YouTube

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

Data protection statement: https://policies.google.com/privacy

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of the LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA.

Data protection statement: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Instagram

Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a subsidiary of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Data protection statement: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Xing

XING SE, Dammtorstrasse 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany

Data protection statement:  https://www.xing.com/privacy

 

V. External Services

We sit Services external providers in order to be able to offer you additional content, communication channels or improvements to our offering.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analysis service from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

The service Google Analytics is used to analyze the usage behavior of our website. Legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website.

User and user-related information, such as IP address, location, time or frequency of visiting our website, are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function. With this feature, Google already truncates the IP address within the EU / EEA.

The data collected in this way will again be used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of the visit to our website as well as about the usage activities there. This data may also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and the use of the Internet.

Google states that you do not associate your IP address with other data. In addition, Google keeps under

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners

Further data protection information for you, for example, also to the ways to prevent the use of data.

In addition, Google offers below

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

a so-called deactivation add-on together with further information. This add-on can be installed with the common Internet browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when we visit our website. The add-on informs the JavaScript (ga.js) of Google Analytics that information for visiting our website should not be transmitted to Google Analytics. But this does not prevent information from being passed to us or other web analytics services. Of course, you will also find out in this privacy policy whether and which other web analysis services we use.

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.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

Google offers below https://policies.google.com/privacy more information.

Google Maps

On our website we use Google Maps to show our location and to create a route description. It is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

In order to enable the representation of certain writings in our Internet appearance, a connection to the Google server in the USA is set up when calling our Internet appearance.

Insofar as you access the Google Maps component integrated in our website, Google will store a cookie on your device via your Internet browser. To view our location and provide directions, your user settings and data are processed. Here we can not rule out that Google uses servers in the United States.

Legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimizing the functionality of our website.

Google's connection to Google enables it to determine from which website your request has been sent and to which IP address the directions are to be transmitted.

If you do not agree with this processing, you have the option to prevent the installation of cookies through the corresponding settings in your Internet browser. You will find details on this under the heading "Cookies".

In addition, the use of Google Maps and the information obtained through Google Maps is based on the Google Terms of Service https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=de and the Terms and Conditions for Google Mapswww.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Moreover, Google offers below

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

further information.

Google Fonts

We use Google Fonts on our website to display external fonts. It is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

In order to enable the representation of certain writings in our Internet appearance, a connection to the Google server in the USA is set up when calling our Internet appearance.

Legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the optimization and economic operation of our website.

Google can determine from which website your request has been sent and to which IP address the presentation of the font is to be transmitted by the connection to Google established when our website is called up.

Google offers below

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Further information, in particular on the possibilities of preventing the use of data.

GOOGLE search function ("CSE")

For full-text search on the website, we use the "Google Custom Search Engine" (Google Custom Search Engine "CSE"). "CSE" is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter "Google".

"CSE" enables a full-text search for content on our website. This search function is accessed via a "Google Custom Search" search box.

The legal basis is here Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the user-friendliness of the website.

The function is still integrated as a software module by Google on our website.
If the search is activated by entering a search term, Google loads the searched information using a plugin. At the same time, the terms entered by the user and the user's IP address are transmitted to Google to carry out the search and display the search results.

If the user is logged into his or her existing Google account at the time of the search process, Google can assign the recorded information to the associated user profile.

Google offers further information, in particular on the options for preventing data use, under the following links:

https://policies.google.com/privacy
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

YouTube

In our website we use YouTube. This is a video portal of YouTube LLC., 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, hereinafter referred to as "YouTube".

YouTube is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

We use YouTube in conjunction with the Enhanced Privacy Mode feature to show you videos. Legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our website. The Enhanced Privacy Mode feature, according to YouTube, means that the data specified below will only be transmitted to the YouTube server when you actually start a video.

Without this "Enhanced Privacy," you will be connected to the YouTube server in the United States as soon as you visit one of our websites that embed a YouTube video.

This connection is required in order to be able to display the respective video on our website via your Internet browser. In the course of this, YouTube will at least collect and process your IP address, the date and time as well as the website you are visiting. It also connects to Google's DoubleClick ad network.

If you're logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube will provide the connection information to your YouTube account. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our website or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube user account.

For the purpose of functionality as well as for the analysis of user behavior, YouTube permanently stores cookies via your Internet browser on your device. If you do not agree with this processing, you have the option to prevent the storage of cookies by a setting in your Internet browser. For more information, see "Cookies" above.

Further information about the collection and use of data and their rights and protections Google holds in the under

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Available data protection information.

FoxyCart and Mollie

This website uses FoxyCart.com (Foxy.io, 337 Garden Oaks Blvd, Houston, TX 77018, Ste. #56961). FoxyCart provides us with the online e-commerce platform with which we Products and sell services to you.

Your data is stored through FoxyCarts data storage, databases and the general FoxyCart application. This is done on a secure server behind a firewall.

For more information, see FoxyCart's privacy policy here: https://www.foxy.io/privacy-policy

Credit card payments are processed by our service provider Mollie BV, Keizersgracht 313, 1016 EE Amsterdam, Netherlands, which is why we transfer your data to this service provider. You can find Mollie's privacy policy at: https://www.mollie.com/de/privacy.

Your payment details are stored by the service provider. The payment service provider is responsible for your payment data. The legality of this data processing results from Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b of the GDPR, as this data processing is used for payment processing Services necessary is.

gTranslate and Google Translate

This website uses gTranslate, which is based on Google Translate, to offer the option of translating the page into other languages.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the gTranslate.io and Google servers. This gives gTranslate.io and Google knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. 

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

For more information on the handling of user data, please review Google’s Data Privacy Declaration under:  https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/, as well as in the privacy policy of gtranslate.io https://de.gtranslate.io/Bedingungen

Microsoft Advertising

We use the Microsoft Advertising service from Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (Ireland/EU) (formerly Bing Ads) on our website. Microsoft Advertising is an online marketing service that uses the Universal Event Tracking (UET) tool to help us display advertisements in a targeted manner via the Microsoft Bing search engine. Microsoft Advertising uses cookies to do this. Personal data is processed in the form of online identifiers (including cookie identifiers), IP addresses, device identifiers and information about device and browser settings.

Microsoft Advertising collects data via UET that allows us to track audiences thanks to remarketing lists. For this purpose, a cookie is stored on the end device used when you visit our website. Microsoft Advertising can be used to recognize that our website has been visited and that an advertisement can be displayed when Microsoft Bing or Yahoo is used later. The information is also used to create conversion statistics, ie to record how many users have reached our website after clicking on an ad. This tells us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and were redirected to our website. However, we do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.

Further information on these processing activities, the technologies used, stored data and the storage period can be found in the settings of our consent management tool. The processing takes place only with your consent according to § 15 Abs. 3 TMG or Art. 6 Abs. 1 Letter a DSGVO. You can withdraw your consent via our consent management tool.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

You can also opt out of personalized advertising at Microsoft at: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/de-de/ressourcen/richtlinien/personalisierte-anzeigen.

Facebook Pixel

We use Facebook Pixel from Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, to create so-called Custom Audiences, i.e. to segment visitor groups of our online offer, determine conversion rates and then optimize them. This happens in particular when you use advertisements that we have with Facebook Ireland Ltd. have switched, interact.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

Further information can be found in the data protection declaration for Facebook Pixel: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Font Awesome

This page uses Font Awesome for the uniform display of symbols. The provider is Fonticons, Inc., 6 Porter Road Apartment 3R, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

When you call up a page, your browser loads the required fonts into your browser cache in order to display text, fonts and symbols correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the Font Awesome servers. This gives Font Awesome knowledge that this website was accessed via your IP address. 

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

Further information on Font Awesome can be found in the Font Awesome privacy policy at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

HubSpot

We use HubSpot, a digital marketing tool, on our website. The service provider is the American company HubSpot, Inc., 25 First St 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA, USA.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. These clauses are based on an implementation decision of the EU Commission. You can find the decision and the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses here, among others: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?locale=de The data processing condition can be found at https://legal.hubspot.com/dpa.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

You can find out more about the data that is processed when using HubSpot https://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy.

LinkedIn Insight Tag and LinkedIn Ads

This website uses LinkedIn's Insight Tag and LinkedIn Ads. The provider of these services is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

With the help of the LinkedIn Insight Tag we receive information about the visitors of our website. If a website visitor is registered with LinkedIn, we can, among other things, analyze the professional key data (e.g. career level, company size, country, location, industry and job title) of our website visitors and thus better align our site to the respective target groups. We can also use LinkedIn Insight Tags to measure whether visitors to our website make a purchase or take another action (conversion measurement).

LinkedIn Ads is a service provided by LinkedIn Corporation that displays targeted advertising to users. LinkedIn Ads uses cookies and other browser technologies to evaluate user behavior and to recognize users. LinkedIn Ads collects information about visitor behavior on various websites. This information is used to optimize the relevance of advertising. Furthermore, LinkedIn Ads delivers targeted advertising based on behavioral profiles and geographic location. Your IP address and other identification features such as your user agent will be transmitted to the provider. In this case, your data will be passed on to the operator of LinkedIn Ads, the LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, US.

LinkedIn itself also collects so-called log files (URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties and time of access). The IP addresses are shortened or (if they are used to reach LinkedIn members across devices) hashed (pseudonymized). The direct identifiers of LinkedIn members are deleted from LinkedIn after seven days. The remaining pseudonymised data will then be deleted within 180 days.

The data collected by LinkedIn cannot be assigned to specific individuals by us as the website operator. LinkedIn will store the personal data collected from website visitors on its servers in the USA and use it for its own advertising purposes.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

Details can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Microsoft Clarity

We use the web analysis software Microsoft Clarity for our website. Service provider is the American company Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. These clauses are based on an implementation decision of the EU Commission. You can find the decision and the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses here, among others: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?locale=de. More information about the standard contractual clauses at Microsoft can be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offering-eu-model-clauses

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

You can find out more about the data processed by using Microsoft in the data protection declaration https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

PHYTEC America

We use content from our sister company PHYTEC America (wiki.phytec.com) for our website. Service provider is the American company PHYTEC America, 203 Parfitt Way SW, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, USA.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. These clauses are based on an implementation decision of the EU Commission. You can find the decision and the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses here, among others: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?locale=de. 

The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR.

You can find out more about the data that is processed through the use of PHYTEC America in the data protection declaration https://www.phytec.com/privacy-policy/.

 

Based on: Sample Privacy Policy is Law firm Weiß & Partner