Data protection
Data protection
1) Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the controller
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data
This includes all data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is PROFILAN Kunststoffwerk GmbH & Co. KG, Zur Dinkel 27-31, D-48739 Legden, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 2566/93 33-0, Fax: +49 (0) 2566/93 33-33, Email: info@profilan.de. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.
1.3 The controller has appointed a data protection officer who can be contacted as follows: "PROFILAN Kunststoffwerk GmbH & Co. KG, Zur Dinkel 27-31, D-48739 Legden, datenschutzbeauftragter@profilan.de "
1.4 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser bar.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- Our visited website
- Date and time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/reference from which you came to the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be shared or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to subsequently review the server log files if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
3) Hosting
We host the content of our website with the following provider:
WIX
The provider is Wix.com Ltd., 40 Namal Tel Aviv St., Tel Aviv 6350671, Israel (hereinafter “WIX”).
WIX is a tool for creating and hosting websites. When you visit our website, WIX analyzes user behavior, visitor sources, the region of website visitors, and visitor numbers. WIX stores cookies on your browser that are necessary for the website to function and ensure security (necessary cookies).
The data collected through WIX may be stored on various servers worldwide. WIX's servers are located in the USA, among other places.
For details, please see WIX’s privacy policy: https://de.wix.com/about/privacy .
According to WIX, data transfer to the USA and other third countries is based on the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses or comparable guarantees pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR. Details can be found here: https://de.wix.com/about/privacy-dpa-users .
The use of WIX is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in presenting our website as reliably as possible. If consent has been requested, processing will be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Section 25 (1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the United States designed to ensure compliance with European data protection standards when processing data in the United States. Every company certified under the DPF is committed to adhering to these data protection standards. Further information is available from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5626 .
Order processing
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract required by data protection law, which guarantees that the personal data of our website visitors will only be processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
4) Cookies
In order to make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information to an individual extent, such as browser and location data as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which can vary depending on the cookie.
If personal data is also processed through individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR either to execute the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
We may work with advertising partners who help us make our website more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies are also stored on your hard drive when you visit our website (third-party cookies). If we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in each case in the paragraphs below.
Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general.
Each browser differs in how it manages cookie settings. This is described in each browser's Help menu, which explains how to change your cookie settings. You can find these settings for each browser at the following links:
Internet Explorer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Opera:
http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contact
When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected when you use a contact form can be seen in the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been finally processed. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention periods to the contrary.
6) Use of social media: videos
Use of YouTube videos
This website uses the YouTube embedding function to display and play videos from the provider “YouTube”, which belongs to Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).
This uses the enhanced data protection mode, which, according to the provider, only initiates the storage of user information when the video(s) are played. When embedded YouTube videos are started, the provider "YouTube" uses cookies to collect information about user behavior.
According to information from YouTube, these serve, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent abusive practices. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish to be assigned to your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as user profiles and evaluates them. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR on the basis of Google's legitimate interests in displaying personalized advertising, market research, and/or tailoring its website to meet your needs. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles; to exercise this right, you must contact YouTube.
When you use YouTube, personal data may be transferred to Google LLC's servers in the USA.
Regardless of whether the embedded videos are played, a connection to the Google network is established each time this website is accessed, which may trigger further data processing operations without our control.
In the event of the transfer of personal data to Google LLC, based in the USA, Google LLC has certified itself for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield," which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. A current certificate can be viewed here:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/list
Further information on data protection at “YouTube” can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
To the extent legally required, we have obtained your consent to process your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect. To exercise your consent, please follow the objection procedure described above.
7) Web analysis services
Google (Universal) Analytics
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). Google (Universal) Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your abbreviated IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there; this may also involve transmission to a Google LLC server in the USA.
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymization of the IP address by truncation and excludes direct personal reference. The extension truncates your IP address by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google LLC server in the USA and truncated there. In these exceptional cases, this processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.
On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services related to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google (Universal) Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the 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 downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: tools.google.com
As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data within this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you will need to click this link again): <a onclick="alert(‘Google Analytics has been deactivated’);" href="javascript:gaOptout() ">Deactivate Google Analytics</a>
Further information about Google (Universal) Analytics can be found here: policies.google.com
In the event that personal data is transferred to Google LLC. based in the USA, Google LLC. has certified itself for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield,” which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU. A current certificate can be viewed here: www.privacyshield.gov
To the extent required by law, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please follow the procedure for objecting described above.
WIX Analytics
When you visit our website, WIX is used to analyze user behavior, visitor sources, the region of website visitors, and visitor numbers. WIX stores cookies on your browser that are necessary for the display of the website and to ensure security (necessary cookies). The data is stored on WIX servers in Israel. Israel is considered a third country with a high level of data protection. This means that Israel has a level of data protection that is equivalent to that in the European Union. For details, please refer to the WIX privacy policy: https://de.wix.com/about/privacy.
The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the anonymous analysis of user behavior in order to optimize both our website and our advertising. If consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's terminal device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
Order processing
We have concluded an order processing agreement (AVV) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that the personal data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
8) Tools and Other
8.1 - Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”) for the uniform display of fonts. When you visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This may also result in personal data being transmitted to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA. In this way, Google becomes aware that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.
In the event of personal data being transferred to Google LLC. based in the USA, Google LLC. has certified itself for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU. A current certificate can be viewed here:
www.privacyshield.gov
Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at developers.google.com and in Google's privacy policy:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
8.2 Applications for job vacancies by email
We advertise current vacancies in a separate section of our website, and interested parties can apply by emailing the contact address provided.
In order to be included in the application process, applicants must provide us with all the personal data necessary for a sound and informed assessment and selection process together with their application by email.
The required information includes general personal details (name, address, telephone or email contact details) and performance-specific evidence of the qualifications required for the position. Where necessary, health-related information may also be required, which must be taken into account in the applicant's personal social protection interests under labor and social security law.
The specific job advertisement will indicate which components an application must contain in order to be considered and in what form these components must be submitted by email.
After we get your application sent to the email address we gave you, we'll store your info and only use it to process your application. If we have any questions while we're processing it, we'll either use the email address you gave us in your application or a phone number you provided, whichever we choose.
The legal basis for this processing, including contacting applicants for queries, is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR in conjunction with § 26 (1) BDSG, according to which the application process is considered to be the initiation of an employment contract.
If special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 (1) GDPR (e.g. health data such as information on severe disability) are requested from applicants, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 9 (2) (b) GDPR so that we can exercise the rights arising from labor law and social security and social protection law and fulfill our obligations in this regard.
Cumulatively or alternatively, the processing of special categories of data may also be based on Art. 9 (1) (h) GDPR if it is carried out for the purposes of health care or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the applicant's ability to work, for medical diagnosis, care or treatment in the health or social sector, or for the management of systems and services in the health or social sector.
If the applicant is not selected in the course of the evaluation described above, or if an applicant withdraws their application prematurely, their data transmitted by email and all electronic correspondence, including the original application email, will be deleted after a corresponding notification at the latest after 6 months. This period is based on our legitimate interest in answering any follow-up questions regarding the application and, if necessary, in fulfilling our obligations to provide evidence under the
regulations on the equal treatment of applicants. In the event of a successful application, the data provided will be further processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR in conjunction with § 26 (1) BDSG for the purposes of implementing the employment relationship.
8.3 - Google Maps
On our website, we use Google Maps (API) from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (land) maps to visually represent geographical information. By using this service, our location is displayed to you and any journey to us is made easier. When you visit subpages that contain a Google Maps map, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers and stored there. This may also involve transmission to Google LLC. servers in the USA. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in to or whether a user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not want this association with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them. The collection, storage, and evaluation are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR on the basis of Google's legitimate interest in displaying personalized advertising, market research, and/or the needs-based design of Google websites. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right. In the event of personal data being transferred to Google LLC. based in the USA, Google LLC. has certified itself for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU. A current certificate can be viewed here: www.privacyshield.gov If you do not agree to the future transfer of your data to Google in connection with the use of Google Maps, you also have the option of completely deactivating the Google Maps web service by disabling JavaScript in your browser. Google Maps and thus also the map display on this website cannot then be used. You can view Google's terms of use at www.google.de, and the additional terms of use for Google Maps can be found at www.google.com Detailed information on data protection in connection with the use of Google Maps can be found on Google's website (“Google Privacy Policy”): www.google.de To the extent required by law, we have obtained your consent to the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please follow the procedure for objecting described above.
9) Rights of the data subject
9.1 Applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights as a data subject (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, which we will inform you about below:
- Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have the right to obtain information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us from you, the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and intended effects of such processing on you, as well as your right to be informed of the guarantees in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries;
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR: You have the right to have inaccurate data concerning you rectified without delay and/or to have incomplete data stored by us completed. - Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if the conditions of Art. 17 (1) GDPR are met. However, this right does not apply in particular if the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data for as long as the accuracy of your data is being verified, if you refuse to have your data deleted due to unlawful data processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data, if you need your data to assert, exercise or defense of legal claims after we no longer need this data to fulfill the purpose, or if you have lodged an objection for reasons relating to your particular situation, as long as it is not yet clear whether our legitimate reasons prevail; - Right to be informed pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR: If you have asserted your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients. - Right to data portability pursuant to 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 its transfer to another controller, where technically feasible. - Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of withdrawal, we will delete the data concerned without delay, unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal; - Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
9.2 Right to object
If, in the context of weighing up interests, we process your personal data on the basis of our overriding legitimate interest, you have the right to object to this processing at any time with effect for the future for reasons arising from your particular situation.
If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. However, we reserve the right to continue processing if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims. If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing. You can exercise your right to object as described above. If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned for direct marketing purposes.
10) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of storage of personal data is determined based on the respective legal basis, the purpose of the processing and – where applicable – also on the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When personal data is processed on the basis of an express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject revokes his or her consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data that are processed within the framework of legal transactions or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, these data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that they are no longer required for the fulfilment or initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continuing to store them.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, these data will be stored until the data subject exercises his or her right of objection in accordance with Art. 21 (1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, these data will be stored until the data subject exercises his or her right of objection in accordance with Art. 21 (2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration on specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.