Privacy Policy

General
We appreciate your visit to our website and your interest in our services. We attach the utmost importance to protecting your privacy as a user of our website and adhere strictly to the provisions of data protection law when collecting, processing and using data. This applies in particular to the processing of your personal data.

Name and contact details of the controller

AI Marketplace GmbH
Zukunftsmeile 2
c/o it’s OWL Clustermanagement GmbH
33102 Paderborn

Phone: +49 5251 4149960
Fax: +49 5251 4149969
E-Mail: info@ki-marktplatz.com

Represented by: Ruslan Bernijazov, Rik Rasor

 

Purposes for which the personal data are processed and the legal basis of the processing
Purposes of the processing:

  • Provision of general information / company or organizational presentation
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest of the controller)
  • Contacting visitors to the website with the controller via our online contact form
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures)
  • Uploading files
    The legal basis depends on the type of files uploaded. Possible legal bases may be: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (necessary for the performance of a contract or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract)
    Art. 88 GDPR in conjunction with. § Section 26 (1) BDSG (establishment of an employment relationship)
  • Conducting evaluations of user behavior with Google Analytics
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent of the data subject)
  • Sending the newsletter and carrying out other online marketing activities using the Brevo system (formerly Sendinblue)
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent of the data subject)
  • Tracking of newsletter subscribers with regard to opening emails and clicking on articles
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest)
  • Integration of videos from the “YouTube” platform
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest of the controller)
  • Control of the website and needs-based design of processes during use through the use of cookies
    Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest of the controller)

If your personal data is processed to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, the legitimate interests are to permanently analyze and improve the website, to optimize user-friendliness and to detect and prevent misuse. If reach measurement techniques are used that are based on the legitimate interest of the controller, you will be informed separately in this privacy policy and you will be given the opportunity to object. In this case, our legitimate interest in measuring reach serves the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website.

Categories of personal data that are processed
When using our website, the following data is processed for organizational and technical reasons:

    • Log files (error log, access log)
    • IP addresses of the visitors
    • Name of the browser used
    • Name of the pages accessed
    • Date and time of access
    • Name of the search engine or external link
    • Name of the downloaded files
    • Time and access with specification of the time zone
    • Request from the visitor
    • http status code
    • Size of the server response in bytes
    • User agent of the visitor

If you send us data via our online forms, the personal data you provide will be processed to fulfill the respective purpose.

Recipients of your personal data
Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties with your consent or on the basis of a legal permission. Your personal data will only be transferred to state institutions and authorities entitled to receive information within the framework of the relevant laws or if we are obliged to do so by a court decision. Our employees are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of data protection legislation. We have commissioned appropriate companies to process your personal data on our behalf for the technical implementation of the services provided. These are

  • Host Europe GmbH
    Service provided: Hosting of the website
  • Data Center Cologne
    Service provided: Rental and operation of virtual servers as part of order processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR
  • Google Ireland Ltd.
    Service provided: Web tracking with Google
  • Sendinblue GmbH (Brevo)
    Service provided: Sending the newsletter and carrying out other online marketing activities, including email marketing, automated mailings, administration of contact forms and analysis of user behavior as part of order processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR
  • Detering Design
    Service provided: Administration of the website

Subscription to the newsletter and use of Brevo
We use Brevo to send our newsletter and to carry out other online marketing activities. These include email marketing, including the sending of newsletters and automated mailings, for example to provide downloads. We also use Brevo to integrate and manage contact forms on our websites. As part of these activities, personal data such as your e-mail address, first name, surname and any other voluntary personal details are processed. We use this information to provide you with targeted and relevant content and to continuously improve our offering.

If you have subscribed to our newsletter, we will use your e-mail address and the voluntary personal details you provide to send you our newsletter on a regular basis. To receive our newsletter, it is sufficient to provide your e-mail address.

At the end of each newsletter there is a link that you can use to edit your subscription data or unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. You can also unsubscribe by sending us a corresponding message using the contact details provided in the legal notice. If you subscribe to the newsletter with an e-mail address that is not already registered to receive our newsletter, an e-mail will be sent to confirm the subscription using the double opt-in procedure. The subscription is only activated after confirmation of the subscription by clicking on a link in this confirmation e-mail. This procedure is used for legal reasons to ensure that the owner of the e-mail address has requested the subscription as the data subject.

When you subscribe to the newsletter and use Brevo’s other marketing functions, we store the date of your registration and other relevant usage data. This information is necessary to prevent possible misuse of the email address used for registration and to effectively optimize our marketing measures. The newsletters and other e-mail communications are individualized so that we can recognize whether a newsletter or an automated e-mail has been opened by a recipient and whether one of the articles or links contained therein has been accessed. The personal data collected in this way, including your interactions with the emails, is stored and evaluated in order to optimize our offer and to be able to adapt the content of future communications even better to the interests of our subscribers and users.

The service provider of Brevo is Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin, information on the processing of data by Brevo can be found here:
https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/
https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/termsofuse/

Use of cookies
This website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are sent from our web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard disk. No personal data is stored, only an individual pseudonym. This information is used, for example, to recognize you when you navigate our website and to make navigation easier for you.

You can set your browser so that it informs you about the placement of cookies. This makes the use of cookies transparent for you. Alternatively, you can also view this website without cookies. You can pre-set this in your browser. Please note that some functions of the website may then be partially or completely unavailable.

Cookies may be stored on your computer by the following functions and services on this website:

  • WordPress language cookie
    To save and restore your selected display language.
  • Consent cookies
    To save your cookie settings
  • Google Recaptcha
    To recognize real users, data is transferred with the service provider Google Ireland Limited, as spam protection against bots via the recognition of human interaction patterns
  • Google Analytics
    To collect visitor statistics for the website, your page views, your IP address and parts of your device and browser configuration are documented (service provider Google LLC). Only with active consent in the cookie consent tool!
  • Youtube
    When you play YouTube videos, data is exchanged between the YouTube service (Google Ireland Limited) and you. Only with active consent before playback in the current session.

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Traffic analysis Google Analytics
We use the Google Analytics tool on our website, which is offered and operated by Google LLC.
The business address of Google LLC: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The imprint of Google LLC with further information can be found at the following link https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/+/policy/imprint.html

The business address of the responsible service provider in the EU is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The legal notice of Google Ireland Limited with further information can be found at the following link https://www.google.de/intl/de/contact/impressum.html

We will only use the tool if you have consented to the use of this service.
The Google Analytics tool is used to analyze the use of our websites by you (web analysis service).
In order to be able to carry out the analyses and ensure the function of the tool, we have implemented the code that ensures the function of Google Analytics on our website that you visit.

On our behalf, Google will use the information collected on the website to evaluate your (generally pseudonymous) use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website. Google Analytics is also used to analyze the success of our marketing campaigns. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze your use of our website. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser and stored on your device’s data carrier.

To protect your privacy, we anonymize the IP addresses that are transmitted to Google by using the ‘anonymizeIP’ function (so-called IP masking): Due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

As a processor, Google Ireland Limited processes your personal data on our behalf. For this purpose, we have concluded an order processing contract with Google in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. As part of the order processing, Google is authorized to commission subcontractors. You can access a list of approved subcontractors at https://privacy.google.com/businesses/subprocessors/. In addition to Google LLC, which is based in the USA, the US authorities may also have access to the data stored by Google.

Insofar as cookies are used in the context of the use of Google Analytics, these are described in detail by Google.

General information on the cookies used can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=de

Detailed information on the cookies used, in particular with regard to the personal data processed in this context, the storage period of the individual cookies and their purposes can be found at:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=de

To find out more about Google’s data protection provisions in general, you can access these provisions at the following link:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de#infocollect

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Your consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future by reopening the cookie settings by clicking on the red bar at the bottom left of our website.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website by not giving your consent to the setting of the corresponding cookie or by installing the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics. This is available at:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You can also prevent the setting of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser and configuring your browser to refuse all cookies. In this case, however, the functionalities on this and other websites may be restricted.
Insofar as the data collected regarding user activities is transmitted by Google Ireland Limited to Google LLC (parent company in the USA), the transmission is also based on your consent in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Google Analytics is used via a WordPress plugin “MonsterInsights”. Further information about the plugin provider can be found at https://www.monsterinsights.com/. The provider’s privacy policy is available at the following link https://www.monsterinsights.com/privacy-policy/.
The integration of Google Analytics via the WordPress plugin “MonsterInsights” is carried out in accordance with the description in the online information of the plugin provider, which can be accessed via the following link https://www.monsterinsights.com/addon/eu-compliance/.

External services:


Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. We have no influence on whether their operators comply with data protection regulations. Despite careful control of the content, we assume no liability for the content of external links. The operators of the linked sites are solely responsible for their content.

Our social media presences
On the social networks listed below, we provide you with opportunities to find out about us and our offers and to get in touch with us via so-called fan pages (e.g. on Facebook, Instagram) or accounts or channels.

Below you will find information about which of your data we or the respective social network or social media service process in connection with your access and use of the respective website.

What data of yours do we process?
If you contact us via the respective social network, we regularly process your user name through which you contact us and, if necessary, store further data provided by you insofar as this is necessary to process/answer your request.
The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR (safeguarding our legitimate interests).

We may receive automated statistics relating to our accounts from the operators of the social media platforms on which we have a presence. These statistics contain the following data in particular:

– Number of page views,
– Information on the “Like” function,
– Information on page activities and post interactions, reach,
– Information on video views,
– Information on the proportion of men and women among visitors to our social media presence.

However, these statistics are limited to aggregated and non-personal data, so that you would not be identifiable to us from the data contained in the statistics.

What data of yours do the social networks or platform operators process?
In order to view our social media presence, you do not need to be a member of the respective social network. You also do not need a user account for the respective social network.

In addition to the data of (logged-in) members of the respective network, the platform operators also collect and process data from visitors to the respective social media website who do not have a user account and are not logged in. This may include, for example, technical data in order to be able to display the website to you. In addition, cookies and similar technologies may also be used by the platform operators, over which we have no influence.

Details regarding your personal data processed by the respective social media platform can be found in the privacy policy of the respective social network. The corresponding links to the data protection provisions of the individual platform operators can be found in this privacy policy, depending on the provider, insofar as provider-specific information is provided by us below.

If you wish to use the functions offered on the respective social media presence (e.g. comment function, sharing content, like function, messenger function, etc.), this is only possible if you have registered with the respective social network and provided your personal data.
We have no influence on the data processing by the social networks in the context of your use.

According to our information, your data will be processed by the social networks, in particular for the analysis of user behavior using cookies and similar technologies, in order to present you with advertising based on your interests both within and outside the respective social network on the basis of these analyses. In this context, it cannot be ruled out that your data will also be stored by the social networks outside the EU/EEA and passed on to third parties (e.g. foreign authorities and other public bodies).

Information on the exact scope and purposes of the processing of your personal data, the storage period and deletion as well as guidelines on the use of cookies and similar technologies in the context of registration and use of the social networks can be found in the data protection notices and cookie policies of the social networks. Among other things, you will find information on your rights and revocation and objection options.

Use of YouTube videos
We use videos on our site that are stored on the Internet video portal YouTube (available at: https://www.YouTube.com) are stored on our website.
The internet video portal YouTube is provided by a US company, YouTube LLC (LLC stands for Limited Liability Company). The business address of YouTube LLC: 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube LLC is itself a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, a company based in Ireland. The business address of Google Ireland Limited: Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Google).

The videos are used by embedding a video on our website by integrating an external video player from YouTube. When you click on the video, it is played directly on our site.

By using this technology, personal data is transmitted to YouTube LLC as described below.

The videos are integrated on our website in such a way that no personal data is transferred to YouTube LLC if you have not given your consent to the use of this service. When you access the video on the YouTube video portal, YouTube LLC processes your personal data (e.g. your IP address, location data of your device, sensor data from your device, Wi-Fi access points, etc.) in accordance with its own privacy policy, which you can access at the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=en.

When you watch the videos embedded on our site, cookies are used by the service provider YouTube to make ads more appealing to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Cookies are usually used to select user-relevant ads, to improve reporting on campaign performance or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once.

YouTube may also collect such data from visitors to this website who are not logged in or registered with YouTube. As a rule, YouTube uses and processes user data for market research and advertising purposes, as explained above. For example, usage profiles can be created from the usage behavior and the resulting interests of the users. The usage profiles can in turn be used, for example, to place advertisements inside and outside YouTube that correspond to the presumed interests of the users. For these purposes, cookies are generally stored on the user’s computer, in which the user’s usage behavior and interests are stored.
Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser and stored on the data carrier of your device. These cookies enable the YouTube or Google service to match your user data (e.g. URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties (user agent) and timestamp) with the data of your Google account, if applicable.

Furthermore, data can also be stored in the user profiles independently of the devices used by the users (especially if the users are YouTube members and are logged in to the YouTube page).

The data collected by YouTube is anonymous to us as users of the service and cannot be viewed. This data is only used by YouTube for the purposes described in YouTube’s privacy policy, e.g. to display advertisements. The following information, for example, is made available to us as service users by YouTube: Followers, reach, demographics of users. These statistics do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual users. Information about personal data can therefore only be requested directly from YouTube. For our part, we can only view the public information of the users, which has been defined by the respective YouTube user in the private account settings. Registered users also have the option of actively hiding likes or unfollowing our channel.

If you are a registered YouTube member and have logged in to the YouTube site, your data will be automatically assigned to your user account by YouTube when you visit our site.
Further information on the possible account settings on YouTube can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/account_privacy.

In particular, if you do not have a YouTube account, you can also prevent the setting of cookies by configuring your browser to reject all cookies. In this case, however, the functionalities on this and other websites may be restricted.

Insofar as cookies are used by YouTube or Google in the context of the use of YouTube, these are described by YouTube or Google in a detailed table, which you can call up under the following link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

Registered and logged-in YouTube members have the opportunity to contact us publicly via the video comment function. This is done by means of a public comment on our YouTube company channel. Personal contact is based on a voluntary decision by the respective user and is always initiated by the respective user.

The legal basis for the use of the YouTube service is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.
Insofar as the data collected regarding user activities is transmitted to the USA by the service provider YouTube LLC, the transmission is also based on your consent in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Our YouTube company page
In principle, YouTube LLC or its parent company Google Ireland Limited is solely responsible for the processing of personal data on our YouTube company page. Further information about the processing of personal data by YouTube LLC or Google can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=en.

When you visit our YouTube company page, YouTube processes personal data in order to provide us with anonymized evaluations. We do not receive any personal data from you, but only have access to the aggregated content. Even if we have no influence on the type and scope of the processing of your personal data by YouTube, this processing of personal data takes place within the framework of joint responsibility in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. The processing serves the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to obtain information about the actions on our YouTube company page.

In the case of requests for information and the assertion of user rights, it is pointed out that these can be asserted most effectively directly against Google, because only Google has access to the user’s data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly.
Please note that personal data is also processed by YouTube LLC in the USA.

Our presence on X (formerly Twitter)
For the sake of readability and clarity, we use ‘X/Twitter’ below to refer to the company, which was recently renamed from ‘Twitter’ to ‘X.’ The following link will take you to our X/Twitter page, for which we are jointly responsible with the service provider (X/Twitter) for certain functions (see below) in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR: https://twitter.com/ki_marktplatz

The X/Twitter information service we use is provided by a US company, Twitter Inc. The business address of Twitter Inc. is 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Twitter International Company is responsible for the processing of personal data of persons living outside the USA. The business address of Twitter International Company: One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland.

The services may include content such as images, videos, buttons via which you can use the X/Twitter services interactively (e.g. the “Share” and “Rate” functions). If you are a member of the X/Twitter platform, it is possible for X/Twitter to assign the use of the above-mentioned X/Twitter services to the respective member profile.

You can find detailed information about which data is processed by X/Twitter and for what purposes in X/Twitter’s privacy policy at the following link: https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

You can object to the individualization of your personal data by X/Twitter under the following link: https://twitter.com/personalization.

We have no influence on the way in which data is processed by X/Twitter.
Data processing by us only takes place to the extent that we may “re-tweet” your tweets or reply to these messages or write tweets from us that contain information about your account. In this way, data that you have made public can be made accessible to our followers. You can use our X/Twitter page directly via the X/Twitter platform or by clicking on one of the direct links on our website. When you click on the link, you will be redirected to our company profile on X/Twitter. No personal data is transmitted to X/Twitter during the forwarding process, as no X/Twitter plug-ins are used on our site that tell the operator which of our pages you have visited.

Twitter International Company or the parent company Twitter Inc. is solely responsible for the processing of personal data on our X/Twitter company page. When you visit our X/Twitter company page, the service provider X/Twitter processes personal data in order to provide us with anonymized evaluations. We do not receive any personal data from you, but only have access to the aggregated content. Even if we have no influence on the type and scope of the processing of your personal data by X/Twitter, this processing of personal data takes place within the framework of joint responsibility in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. The processing serves the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to obtain information about the actions on our Twitter company page.

In the case of requests for information and the assertion of user rights, it is pointed out that these can be asserted most effectively directly against X/Twitter, because only the service provider has access to the user’s data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly.

Insofar as we collect your personal data via our X/Twitter page (e.g. your name, nickname, content of messages sent to us, comment content and the profile information you provide “publicly”) only in order to communicate and interact with you.

Your personal data is generally processed by us for the purpose of communication and interaction on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is that we pursue our business objectives through our information and communication offers on the X/Twitter page.

Insofar as we carry out processing operations in connection with the operation of our X/Twitter page for which your consent is required (e.g. participation in a competition, prize draw, sending a newsletter, etc.), we will obtain this separately in each case. In this case, your personal data will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a in conjunction with Art. 7 GDPR. Art. 7 GDPR.

Insofar as the service provider X/Twitter collects your data for its own purposes for which consent is required (e.g. evaluation of user behavior), this is also done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a in conjunction with. Art. 7 GDPR. In this case, the required consent is obtained by the social network itself. Due to the joint responsibility of X/Twitter and us for the processing of personal data on our Twitter page, you can assert your rights as a data subject both with us and directly with X/Twitter.

As X/Twitter is responsible for most of the data processing that takes place as a service provider, our ability to access your data is very limited. Only the service provider has full access to your data in accordance with the terms of use of the network. For this reason, only the service provider can usually take and implement the necessary measures to fulfill your rights as a data subject (e.g. right to information, deletion, objection, etc.). The most effective way to assert such rights is therefore to contact the network provider directly. Please note that personal data is also processed by X/Twitter (service provider) in the USA.

Our presence on LinkedIn
The following link will take you to our LinkedIn page, for which we are jointly responsible for certain functions (see below) with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (LinkedIn) in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ki-marktplatz

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company is a subsidiary of LinkedIn Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Our company profile on LinkedIn can be used directly via the LinkedIn platform or by clicking on one of the direct links on our website. When you click on the link, you will be redirected to our company profile on LinkedIn. No personal data is transmitted to LinkedIn during the forwarding process, as no LinkedIn plugins are used on our site that inform the operator which of our pages you have visited.

When you visit our company profile on LinkedIn, LinkedIn processes your personal data (e.g. your IP address, location data of your device, etc.) in accordance with its own privacy policy, which you can access at the following link:
LinkedIn privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=hb_ft_priv

In principle, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Ireland/EU – “LinkedIn”) is solely responsible for the processing of personal data on our LinkedIn company page. Further information on the processing of personal data by LinkedIn can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

When you visit our LinkedIn company page, LinkedIn processes personal data in order to provide us with anonymized evaluations. This provides us with information about the actions you take on our LinkedIn company page (called Page Insights by LinkedIn). We do not receive any personal data from you via the Page Insights, but only have access to the aggregated content. Even if we have no influence on the type and scope of the processing of your personal data by LinkedIn, this processing of personal data takes place within the framework of joint responsibility in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. The processing serves the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to receive information about the actions on our LinkedIn company page. For this purpose, LinkedIn provides an agreement on processing as joint controllers, which sets out the distribution of data protection obligations between us and LinkedIn. The agreement is available at https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.

Insofar as we collect your personal data via our LinkedIn page (e.g. your name, nickname, content of messages sent to us, comment content and the profile information you provide “publicly”) only in order to communicate and interact with you.

Your personal data is generally processed by us for the purpose of communication and interaction on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is that we pursue our business objectives through our information and communication offers on the LinkedIn page.

Insofar as we carry out processing operations in connection with the operation of our LinkedIn page for which your consent is required (e.g. participation in a competition, prize draw, sending a newsletter, etc.), we will obtain this separately in each case. In this case, your personal data will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a in conjunction with Art. 7 GDPR. Art. 7 GDPR.

Insofar as the social network LinkedIn collects your data for its own purposes for which consent is required (e.g. evaluation of user behavior), this is also done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a in conjunction with Art. 7 GDPR. Art. 7 GDPR. In this case, the required consent is obtained by the social network itself.

Due to the joint responsibility of LinkedIn and us for the processing of personal data on our LinkedIn presence, you can assert your data subject rights both with us and directly with LinkedIn.

As LinkedIn is responsible for most of the data processing that takes place as a service provider, our ability to access your data is very limited. Only the service provider has full access to your data in accordance with the network’s terms of use. For this reason, only the provider of the social network can usually take and implement the necessary measures to fulfill your rights as a data subject (e.g. right to information, deletion, objection, etc.). The most effective way to assert such rights is therefore to contact the network provider directly.

Please note that personal data is also processed by LinkedIn in the USA.

Your safety
We use technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, manipulation or destruction. Our security measures are constantly updated in line with technological developments. All communication between your device and our servers is encrypted. This applies both to the download of documents or information that we offer you via our website and to information that you provide to us via the contact form or the application form.

Duration of storage
The personal data that you have provided to us will be deleted automatically if the purposes of the processing no longer apply and there are no statutory retention obligations. The following retention periods apply in detail:

Category of the stored data

  • Technical data and logs to ensure the operation of the website
    Deletion period:

    • Access log file: 14 days
    • Error log file: 7 days
    • FTP log file: 7 days
    • POP/IMAP log file: 7 days
    • SMTP log file: 7 days
    • MySQL slow query log file: 7 days
  • Newsletter subscription and other online marketing activities
    Deletion period: The data of your newsletter subscription and other online marketing activities via Brevo will be deleted after revocation of your consent or termination of participation in these activities, provided that there are no legal storage obligations.

Rights of data subjects / right of appeal
In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data processed by you, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of the rights to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details.

In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or the completion of your personal data stored by us.

In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless there is a legal basis that entitles or obliges us to continue storing the data.

In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if

    • the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of the personal data
    • the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead
    • we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims
    • you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR pending the verification whether our legitimate grounds override your grounds

In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller.

In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is in breach of the GDPR.

Right to withdraw consent
In accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you have the right to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected by the revocation.

Right of objection
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation.

Provision of your personal data
Personal data is information about your identity. This includes, for example, details such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address. It is not necessary for you to disclose personal data in order to use this website. In certain cases, however, we need your name and address as well as other details so that we can provide the requested services.

This applies, for example, to the use of our contact form, the sending of information, the answering of individual questions or the use of our form for online applications. Where this is necessary, we will inform you accordingly. In addition, we only store and process data that you provide voluntarily or automatically. If you make use of consulting services, we generally only collect the data required to provide the services. If we ask you for further data, this is voluntary information. The personal data you provide will be processed exclusively for the purposes communicated and explained to you.

Change to the data protection provisions
We reserve the right to change the security and data protection measures at any time, in particular if this becomes necessary due to technical developments. In such cases, we may also adapt this privacy policy accordingly. Please therefore note the current version of this privacy policy.

Questions, suggestions, complaints
If you have any further questions about the information on data protection and the processing of your personal data, you can contact our representatives directly using the contact details provided above.

Status: January 2024