Data protection

Data protection officer

The data protection officer for the processing of your personal data on our website is the company Hawle Beteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H. Your can find our details under Corporate details.

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and process it in accordance with the data protection laws and this privacy policy. Your data will not be sent to other recipients without your explicit consent.

Collection, processing and use of personal data

Access data/server log files
We automatically collect and store information that your browser sends to us. This information includes

• the browser type/version,
• the operating system used,
• referrer URL (the webpage visited previously),
• the host name of the computer accessing the site (IP address),
• the time of the server request,
• the data quantity transmitted, and
• the message stating whether the page call-up was successful.

Once they have finished being used, the IP addresses of users are deleted or anonymized. Anonymization involves modifying the IP addresses in such a way that details of personal or material circumstances can no longer or only with disproportionate investment of time, cost and labor be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person. We analyze the data in the log files in anonymized form in order to improve the website and make it more user-friendly, and to enable us to find and eliminate errors more quickly. This data is also used for the purpose of managing the server capacity in order to enable us to provide suitable data volumes where required.

Contact form
If you contact us via the form on the website or via email, we will save your details for 6 months for the purpose of processing your request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Newsletter
You can choose to subscribe to an email newsletter via our website. To do this, we require your email address and your declaration that you consent to receiving the newsletter. In order to provide you with targeted information, we also collect and process data that is provided voluntarily.

When you sign up for the newsletter, we will send you a confirmation email with a link to confirm your registration.

You are entitled to revoke your consent at any time by informing us in writing or (in the case of the email newsletter) by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link, without this affecting the legality of the data processing that took place on the basis of the consent up until this consent was revoked.

Job vacancies and online applications
We list job vacancies on our website as well as providing an option to submit an application to us online (via email or via the contact form). If you apply for an advertised position, your data will only be collected and processed by us within the scope of the application process and will be deleted by us once the vacancy has been filled unless legal regulations stipulate a longer storage period.

You will give your express permission for a longer storage period in the event that there is another vacancy to be filled at a later date, or we will conclude an employment contract with you, in which case we will store the data in accordance with the legal data protection provisions in your personnel file and for the purpose of managing payroll accounting.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. These are small text files that are placed on your device by your browser. They do not cause any damage.

We use cookies to make our services more user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. They enable us to recognize your browser next time you visit our website. If you do not want this to happen, you can configure your browser so that it informs you of the use of cookies and only permits it in individual cases.

Deactivating cookies may restrict the functionality of our website.

You can find more information about the cookies used on this website here.

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your use of the website. The information concerning your use of this website that is generated by the cookie is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, in the case where IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, prepare reports on website activities, and provide further services relating to use of the website and the Internet to the website operator. The IP address sent by your browser in connection with Google Analytics will not be combined with other data from Google. You can prevent cookies from being stored by configuring your browser software accordingly; however, this may result in you being unable to use all the functions of this website in full.

You can also prevent the data relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) that is generated by the cookie from being recorded or processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). You can prevent Google Analytics from recording your data by clicking on the following link. This sets an opt-out cookie that prevents your data from being recorded when you visit this website in future: Deactivate Google Analytics

You can find more information on Google’s Terms of Service and policies at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html and https://policies.google.com. Please also note that the code “anonymizelp” is added to Google Analytics on this website in order to ensure anonymized recording of IP addresses (also called IP masking).

Google Tag Manager
In order to manage our website and incorporate cookie-based technologies, we use the Tag Manager service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). Every time you visit one of our webpages, your IP address is sent to a Google server, which may also be located in the USA. The IP address is not saved by Google for the purpose of providing the Tag Manager service and it is only used in connection with the technologies managed via Tag Manager. The Tag Manager itself does not set any cookies.