Privacy

BHI

Privacy policy

Privacy policy
With the following data protection information, we would like to inform you about what types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as "data") we process, for what purposes and to what extent. The data protection information applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both as part of the provision of our services and in particular on our websites, in mobile applications and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as "online offer").
The terms used are not gender-specific. Status: 19.12. 2023

Table of contents
•    Introduction
•    Controller
•    Processing overview
•    Contact data protection officer
•    Relevant legal bases
•    Security measures
•    Transfer and disclosure of personal data
•    Data processing in third countries
•    Cookies use
•    Provision of the online offer and web hosting
•    Blogs and publication media
•    Contact
•    Video conferencing, online meetings, webinars and screen sharing
•    Application procedure
•    Newsletter and electronic notifications
•    Promotional communication via e-mail, mail, fax or telephone
•    Online marketing
•    Affiliate programs and affiliate links
•    Presence in social networks (social media)
•    Plugins and embedded functions and content
•    Data deletion
•    Modification and update of the privacy policy
•    Rights of the data subjects
•    Definitions
Controller
BHI Biohealth International GmbH
Heinrich-Wirth-Straße 13
95213 Münchberg/Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 9251 87087 20 info@biohealth-int.com
Authorized representatives: represented by the managing director Geschäftsführer Dr. Peter Pfeilschifter
E-mail address: info@biohealth-int.com Imprint: www.biohealth-int.com

Data protection officer
SBS Data Protect GmbH
Represented by the Managing Director Mr. Thilo Noack
Hans-Henny-Jahnn Weg 49
22085 Hamburg
E-Mail: noack@sbs-data.de

Processing overview
The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing and refers to the data subjects.

Types of data processed

Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses).

Applicant data (e.g., personal information, postal and contact addresses, the documents belonging to the application and the information contained therein, such as cover letter, curriculum vitae, certificates as well as other information relating to the person or qualification provided with regard to a specific position or voluntarily by applicants).

Content data (e.g. text input, photographs, videos).

Contact details (e.g. email, phone numbers).

Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).

Usage data (e.g. web pages visited, interest in content, access times).

Contract data (e.g. subject matter of the contract, term, customer category).

Categories of affected persons

- Applicants.
- Interested parties.
- Communication partners.
- Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).

Processing purposes
- Affiliate tracking.
- Provision of our online services and user experience.
- Visit action evaluation.
- Application procedure (justification and possible later implementation.
As well as possible later termination of employment).

Office and organizational procedures.

Direct marketing (e.g. by e-mail or postal mail).

Feedback (e.g. collecting feedback via online form).

Interest-based and behavioral marketing.

Contact requests and communication.

Profiling (creation of user profiles).

Remarketing.

Reach measurement (e.g., access statistics, recognition

returning visitor).

Safety measures.

Tracking (e.g., interest/behavior-based profiling, use of

cookies).

Contractual benefits and service.

Managing and responding to inquiries.

Relevant legal bases
In the following, we share the legal basis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the basis of which we process personal data. Please note that in addition to the provisions of the GDPR, the national data protection provisions in your or our country of residence and domicile may apply. If, in addition, more specific legal bases are relevant in individual cases, we will inform you of these in these data protection notices.

Consent (Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. a GDPR) - The data subject has given his/her consent to the processing of personal data relating to him/her for a specific purpose or purposes.

Contract performance and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. GDPR) - Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at the data subject's request.

Protection of vital interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. d. GDPR) - Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.

Legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f. GDPR) - Processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data.

Art. 9 (1) p. 1 lit. b GDPR (application procedure as a pre-contractual or contractual relationship) (Insofar as special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 (1) GDPR (e.g. health data, such as severely disabled status or ethnic origin) are requested from applicants so that the data controller or the data subject can exercise the rights accruing to him or her under employment law and social security and social protection law and fulfill his or her obligations in this regard, their processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 9 (2) lit. b. GDPR, in case of protection of vital interests of the applicants or other persons according to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. c. GDPR or for the purposes of preventive health care or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the employee's ability to work, for medical diagnostics, care or treatment in the health or social sector or for the management of systems and services in the health or social sector pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h. GDPR. In the case of a communication of special categories of data based on voluntary consent, their processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 9 (2) lit. a. GDPR.)

National data protection regulations in Germany: In addition to the data protection regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation, national regulations on data protection apply in Germany. These include, in particular, the Act on Protection against Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Federal Data Protection Act - BDSG). In particular, the BDSG contains special regulations on the right to information, the right to erasure, the right to object, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes and transmission, as well as automated decision-making in individual cases, including profiling. Furthermore, it regulates data processing for employment purposes (Section 26 BDSG), in particular with regard to the establishment, implementation or termination of employment relationships as well as the consent of employees. Furthermore
state data protection laws of the individual federal states may apply.

Security measures

We make decisions in accordance with legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the
threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, appropriate technical and organizational measures are taken to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

The measures include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as the access, input, transfer, safeguarding of availability and its separation. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects' rights, the deletion of data, and responses to data compromise. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development or selection of hardware, software and processes in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

Transfer and disclosure of personal data

In the course of our processing of personal data, it may happen that the data is transferred to other entities, companies, legally independent
organizational units or persons or disclose it to them. The recipients of this data may include, for example, payment institutions in the context of payment transactions, service providers commissioned with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we comply with the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude appropriate contracts or agreements that serve to protect your data with the recipients of your data.

Data processing in third countries

If we process data in a third country (i.e., outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if the processing takes place in the context of the use of third-party services or the
If data is disclosed or transferred to other persons, bodies or companies, this will only be done in accordance with the legal requirements.

Subject to express consent or contractually or legally required transfer, we process or have the data processed only in third countries with appropriate guarantees in accordance with the current EU directives, contractual obligation by so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, in the presence of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations (Art. 44 to 49 GDPR, information page of the EU Commission: ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data- protection/international-dimension-data-protection_en ).

Cookies use

In addition to the previously mentioned data, cookies or similar technologies such as pixels (hereinafter generally referred to as "cookies") are used on your computer when you use and visit our website. Cookies are either small databases that are stored by your browser on your end device to store certain information, or image files such as pixels. The next time you visit our website with the same terminal device, the information stored in cookies is subsequently sent back either to our website ("first party cookie") or to another website to which the cookie belongs ("third party cookie").

Through the stored and returned information, the respective website recognizes that you have already called up and visited it with the browser of your end device. We use this information to optimally design and display the website according to your preferences. Only the cookie itself is identified on your end device. Any further storage of personal data only takes place with your express consent or if this is absolutely necessary in order to be able to use the service offered and accessed by you accordingly.

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

-Unconditionally required cookies (type a)

-Functional and performance cookies (type b)

-Cookies requiring consent (type c)

Cookies that are absolutely necessary (type a)

Essential cookies ensure functions without which you cannot use our websites as intended. These cookies are used exclusively by us and are therefore first party cookies. This means that all information stored in the cookies is returned to our website.

Essential cookies are used, for example, to ensure that you, as a logged-in user, always remain logged in when accessing various subpages of our website and thus do not have to re-enter your login data each time you call up a new page.

The use of strictly necessary cookies on our website is possible without your consent. For this reason, absolutely necessary cookies cannot be individually disabled or enabled. However, you have the option to generally disable cookies in your browser at any time (see below).

Functional and performance cookies (type b)

Functional cookies allow our website to store information you have already provided (such as registered name or language selection) and offer you improved and more personalized features based on this information. These cookies collect and store only anonymized information, so they cannot track your movements on other websites.

Performance cookies collect information about how our websites are used in order to consequently improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. These cookies help us to determine, for example, whether and which subpages of our website are visited and which content users are particularly interested in. In particular, we record the number of times a page is accessed, the number of sub-pages accessed, the time spent on our website, the order of the pages visited, which search terms led you to us, the country, region and, if applicable, the city from which access is made, as well as the proportion of mobile devices accessing our websites. Furthermore, we record movements, "clicks" and scrolling with the computer mouse in order to understand which areas of our website are of particular interest to users. As a result, we can tailor the content of our website more specifically to the needs of our users and optimize our offering. The IP address of your computer transmitted for technical reasons is automatically anonymized and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the individual user.

You can object to the use of functional and performance cookies at any time by adjusting your cookie settings accordingly.

Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR

Cookies requiring consent (type c)

Cookies that are neither essential (type a) nor functional or performance cookies (type b) are used only after your consent.

We reserve the right to also use information obtained by means of cookies from an anonymized analysis of the usage behavior of visitors to our websites in order to display specific advertising for certain of our products to you on our own websites. We believe that you, as a user, benefit from this because we display advertising or content that we assume, based on your surfing behavior, matches your interests and you are thus shown less randomly scattered advertising or certain content that may be of less interest to you.

Marketing cookies come from external advertising companies (third party cookies) and are used to collect information about the websites visited by the user in order to create targeted advertisements for the user.

Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR

Opt-out for marketing cookies

You may also manage cookies used for online advertising through tools developed in many countries as part of self-regulatory programs, such as the U.S.-based www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU-based www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

Legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR

Management and deletion of all cookies

In addition, you can set your Internet browser to generally prevent cookies from being saved on your end device or to ask you each time whether you agree to cookies being set. Once cookies have been set, you can also delete them at any time. You can find out how all this works in detail in the help function of your browser.

Consent Management Platform

We use the cookie consent tool CCM19 from the provider Papoo Software & Media GmbH, Auguststr. 4, 53229 Bonn, Germany, to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent.

By integrating this consent tool, users are shown a banner when they access the page in which they can give consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications by ticking the appropriate box. The tool blocks the setting of all cookies requiring consent until the respective user grants the corresponding consent by setting a check mark. This ensures that such cookies are only set on your respective end device if you have given your consent. In order for the cookie consent tool to clearly assign page views to individual users and to individually record, log and store the consent settings you have made for a session duration, certain user information (including the IP address) is collected when our website is called up by the cookie consent tool, transmitted to the server of the provider of the cookie consent tool and stored there. This data processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website. Further legal basis for the described data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR. As the responsible party, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

By using our website, information (e.g. IP address) may be accessed or stored (e.g. cookies) in your terminal equipment. This access or storage may involve further processing of personal data within the meaning of the GDPR.

CCM 19 Consent Management Platform

This is a consent management service.

Company that processes the data

Papoo Software & Media GmbH
Auguststr. 4
53229 Bonn

Data processing purposes

Compliance with legal obligations

Consent storage

Technologies used

Accept cookies

Local storage

Data attributes

Consent "Yes" or "No

Log file data (IP (anonymized))

Data collected

This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service.

Devices information

Browser information

Anonymized IP address

Opt-in and opt-out data

Date and time of the visit

Legal basis

In the following, the legal basis for the processing of personal data required by Art. 6 (1) p. 1 GDPR is stated. Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. c GDPR

Place of processing

European Union

Duration for saving the data

The consent data (consent given and revocation of consent) is retained for three years. A data export takes place after termination of the contract.

Data recipient

Papoo Software & Media GmbH

More information and opt-out

Click here to read the privacy policy of the data processor www.ccm19.de/datenschutzerklaerung

Provision of the online offer and web hosting

In order to provide our online offer securely and efficiently, we use the services of one or more web hosting providers from whose servers (or servers managed by them) the online offer can be accessed. For these purposes, we may use infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, as well as security services and technical

Make use of maintenance services.

The data processed as part of the provision of the hosting offer may include all information relating to the users of our online offer, which is generated as part of the use and communication. This regularly includes the IP address, which is necessary to be able to deliver the contents of online offers to browsers, and all entries made within our online offer or from websites.

Collection of access data and log files: We ourselves (or our web hosting provider) collect data on each access to the server (so-called server log files). The server log files may include the address and name of the web pages and files accessed, date and time of access, data volumes transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page) and, as a rule, IP addresses and the requesting provider.

The server log files may be used, on the one hand, for security purposes, e.g., to prevent server overload (especially in the case of abusive attacks, so-called DDoS attacks) and, on the other hand, to ensure the utilization of the servers and their stability.

- Types of data processed: Content data (e.g. text input, photographs, videos), usage data (e.g. web pages visited,

interest in content, access times), meta/communication data

(e.g. device information, IP addresses).

Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of

online services).

Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f.

GDPR).

Blogs and publication media

We use blogs or comparable means of online communication and publication (hereinafter "publication medium"). Readers' data is processed for the purposes of the publication medium only to the extent necessary for its presentation and communication between authors and readers or for security reasons. For the rest, we refer to the information on the processing of visitors to our publication medium within the scope of these data protection notes.

Comments and posts: When users leave comments or other posts, their IP addresses may be stored based on our legitimate interests. This is done for our security,

if someone leaves illegal content in comments and posts (insults, forbidden political propaganda, etc.). In this case, we ourselves can be prosecuted for the comment or post and are therefore interested in the identity of the author.

Furthermore, we reserve the right to process the user's data for the purpose of spam detection on the basis of our legitimate interests.

On the same legal basis, we reserve the right, in the case of surveys, to store the IP addresses of users for their duration and to use cookies to avoid multiple votes.

The personal information provided in the context of comments and contributions, any contact and website information as well as the content-related information will be stored permanently by us until the user objects.

Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers), content data (e.g. text entries, photographs, videos), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).

Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).

Purposes of processing: Contractual performance and service, feedback (e.g. collecting feedback via online form), security measures, managing and responding to requests.

- Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR), Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR), Protection of Vital Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. d. GDPR).

Contact

When contacting us (e.g. by contact form, e-mail, telephone or via social media), the information of the inquiring persons is processed insofar as this is necessary to answer the contact inquiries and any requested measures.

The response to contact requests in the context of contractual or pre-contractual relationships is made to fulfill our contractual obligations or to respond to (pre)contractual inquiries and otherwise on the basis of your implied consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR

- Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers), content data (e.g. text entries, photographs, videos).

Affected persons: Communication partners.

Purposes of processing: contact requests and communication.

Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries

Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. GDPR, consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR.)

Implementation of whistleblower system

In our company, every person who has a business relationship with our company has the opportunity to report misconduct or grievances. We thereby comply with the provisions of the Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG).

Please read the following data protection information for our whistleblowing system carefully before submitting a report.

We hereby inform you about the collection, processing and use of personal data in connection with the introduced system. The data is collected when you submit a report to BHI Biohealth International GmbH. You can submit a report in person, letter or e-mail.

Purpose of data processing

The purpose of data processing within the framework of the whistleblower system is to receive and clarify breaches of regulations at BHI Biohealth International GmbH. The clarification of misconduct, prevention of future misconduct, exercise of legal claims and legal defence if necessary, exoneration of employees in the event of unlawful accusations, implementation of compliance obligations, resolution of conflicts of interest, detection of sexualised violence, violations of competition law and the clarification of white-collar crime and possible corruption are also components of the purpose of processing.

Categories of affected persons

The reported facts may contain information about other persons who are affected by the report. The following persons are the subject of data processing in a report: The reporting person - in this context the whistleblower - and employees of our company whose behaviour is the subject of the report. Other persons may also be involved in the context of the report. In this case, the data of these additional persons will also be part of the data processing.

Categories of data processed

The following data of the persons concerned are processed as part of the report in the whistleblower system: Surname, first name, email address, position in the company, if applicable, further information on employment such as the exact area of activity. Content data containing information about the behaviour of the person(s) concerned is also processed.

Recipients of personal data

The data collected in the context described above will only be made accessible to persons who are authorised to receive and process the report and implement the follow-up measures. No other persons have access to the data. In principle, the data is not transferred to third parties. One exception, however, is the obligation to cooperate in the investigation of criminal offences. In this case, we are obliged to forward the data to law enforcement agencies or other authorities.

All persons involved who have access to data in the whistleblowing system have been obliged to maintain confidentiality and secrecy.

Duration of data storage

The duration of data storage depends on the retention period required to clarify and conclusively assess the facts of the report. As soon as data storage is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, we will delete the data. Art. 17 GDPR is relevant here. The deletion takes place as long as no other statutory retention periods or legitimate interests of the company or interests of data subjects worthy of protection prevent the deletion of the data.

Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR in conjunction with Article 13 HinSchG - we as a company thus fulfil the compliance and supervisory obligations imposed on us. Article 6(1)(f) GDPR serves as a further legal basis - the data is processed on the basis of the company's legitimate interests. In addition, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR also serves as the legal basis for data processing. This legal basis applies to the processing of the whistleblower's data. The whistleblower has given their consent to data processing with their report.

Automated decision making

Within the framework of the Whistleblower Protection Act, neither automated individual case decisions nor profiling measures within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR take place.

Technical and organisational measures for data security in accordance with Art 32

At BHI Biohealth International GmbH, relevant technical and organisational measures have been taken in connection with the whistleblower system, which contribute to data security within the meaning of Art. 32 GDPR.

You may object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, provided that the data processing is carried out in the public interest or on the basis of a balancing of interests. You can address your objection at any time to our contact person named above.

If the data processing takes place on the basis of your consent, you can revoke this at any time. The processing operations that have already been carried out at this time are excluded from the cancellation.

Video conferencing, online meetings, webinars and screen sharing

We use platforms and applications of other providers (hereinafter referred to as "third party providers") for the purpose of conducting video and audio conferences, webinars and other types of video and audio meetings. When selecting the third-party providers and their services, we observe the legal requirements.

In this context, data of the communication participants is processed and stored on the servers of the third-party providers, insofar as these are part of communication processes with us. This data may include, in particular, registration and contact data, visual and vocal contributions as well as entries in chats and shared screen contents.

If users are referred to third-party providers or their software or platforms in the course of communication, business or other relationships with us, the third-party providers may process usage data and metadata for security purposes, service optimization or marketing purposes. We therefore ask you to observe the data protection notices of the respective third-party providers.

Notes on legal bases: If we ask users for their consent to the use of third-party providers or certain functions (e.g., consent to a recording of calls), the legal basis of the processing is consent. Furthermore, their use may be a component of our (pre)contractual services, provided that the use of the third-party providers has been agreed within this framework. Otherwise, user data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests in efficient and secure communication with our communication partners. In this context, we would also like to refer you to the information on the use of cookies in these privacy notices.

Affected persons: Communication partners, users (e.g.

website visitors, users of online services).

Purposes of processing: contractual performance and service,

Contact requests and communication, office and

Organizational procedure.

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR),

Contract performance and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Application procedure

The application process requires applicants to provide us with the data necessary for their assessment and selection. The information required can be found in the job description or, in the case of online forms, in the details provided there.

Basically, the required information includes personal information such as the name, address, a means of contact and proof of the qualifications required for a position. Upon request, we will be happy to provide additional information about which details are required.

If provided, applicants can submit their applications to us using an online form. The data is transmitted to us in encrypted form in accordance with the state of the art. Applicants can also send us their applications by e-mail. However, please note that e-mails on the Internet are generally not encrypted.

are sent. As a rule, e-mails are encrypted in transit, but not on the servers from which they are sent and received. We can therefore not assume any responsibility for the transmission path of the application between the sender and the reception on our server.

For the purposes of applicant search, submission of applications and selection of applicants, we may use applicant management or recruitment software and platforms and services of third-party providers in compliance with the legal requirements.

Applicants are welcome to contact us regarding the method of application submission or to send us the application by mail.

Processing of special categories of data: Insofar as special categories of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 (1) of the GDPR (e.g. health data, such as severely disabled status or ethnic origin) are requested from applicants in the context of the application process so that the controller or the data subject can exercise the rights accruing to him or her under employment law and social security and social protection law and fulfill his or her obligations in this regard, their processing is carried out in accordance with Article 9 (2) b. GDPR, in case of protection of vital interests of the applicants or other persons according to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. c. GDPR or for the purposes of preventive health care or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the employee's ability to work, for medical diagnostics, for care or treatment in the health or social sector or for the management of systems and services in the health or social sector pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h. GDPR. In the case of notification of the special categories of data based on voluntary consent, their processing is based on Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a. GDPR.

Deletion of data: The data provided by applicants may be further processed by us for the purposes of the employment relationship in the event of a successful application. Otherwise, if the application for a job offer is unsuccessful, the applicants' data will be deleted. Applicants' data will also be deleted if an application is withdrawn, which applicants are entitled to do at any time. Subject to a justified withdrawal by the applicants, the deletion will take place at the latest after the expiry of a period of six months so that we can answer any follow-up questions about the application and meet our obligations to provide evidence under the regulations on equal treatment of applicants. Invoices for any reimbursement of travel expenses will be archived in accordance with tax law requirements.

Inclusion in an applicant pool: Inclusion in an applicant pool, if offered, is based on consent. Applicants are informed that their consent to inclusion in the talent pool is voluntary, has no influence on the current application process and that they can revoke their consent at any time for the future.

Types of data processed: Applicant data (e.g. personal details, postal and contact addresses, the documents belonging to the application and the information contained therein, such as cover letter, curriculum vitae, certificates, as well as other information provided with regard to a specific position or voluntarily by applicants regarding their person or qualifications).

Affected Persons: Applicants.

Purposes of processing: application procedure (establishment and possible subsequent implementation as well as possible subsequent termination of the employment relationship.).

Legal basis: Art. 9 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR (application procedure as a pre-contractual or contractual relationship) (Insofar as special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR (e.g. health data, such as severely disabled status or ethnic origin) are requested from applicants in the context of the application procedure so that the

If the data controller or the data subject is able to exercise his or her rights under labor law and social security and social protection law and to comply with his or her obligations in this regard, the processing of such data shall be carried out in accordance with Article 9 (2) b. GDPR, in case of protection of vital interests of the applicants or other persons according to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. c. GDPR or for the purposes of preventive health care or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the employee's ability to work, for medical diagnostics, care or treatment in the health or social sector or for the management of systems and services in the health or social sector pursuant to Art. 9 para. 2 lit. h. GDPR. In the case of communication of special categories of data based on voluntary consent, their processing is based on Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a. GDPR.

Newsletter and electronic notifications

We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications (hereinafter "newsletter") only with the consent of the recipients or a legal permission. Insofar as the contents of the newsletter are specifically described in the context of a registration, they are decisive for the consent of the users. Otherwise, our newsletters contain information about our services and us.

To subscribe to our newsletters, it is basically enough,

if you provide your e-mail address. However, we may ask you to provide a name, for the purpose of personal address in the newsletter, or other information if this is necessary for the purposes of the newsletter.

Double opt-in procedure: Registration for our newsletter is always carried out in a so-called double opt-in process. This means that after registration you will receive an e-mail in which you are asked to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no one can register with other e-mail addresses. The registrations for the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements. This includes the storage of the registration and confirmation time as well as the IP address. Changes to your data stored with the shipping service provider are also logged.

Deletion and restriction of processing: We may store unsubscribed email addresses for up to two years based on our legitimate interests before deleting them in order to be able to prove consent formerly given. The processing of this data will be limited to the purpose of a possible defense against claims. An individual request for deletion is possible at any time, provided that the former existence of consent is confirmed at the same time. In the case of obligations to permanently observe objections, we reserve the right to store the e-mail address in a block list (so-called "block list") for this purpose alone.

The logging of the registration process takes place on the basis of our legitimate interests for the purpose of proving its proper course. If we commission a service provider to send e-mails, this is done on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure sending system.

Notes on legal basis: The newsletter is sent on the basis of the recipients' consent or, if consent is not required, on the basis of our legitimate interests in direct marketing, if and to the extent that this is permitted by law, e.g. in the case of existing customer advertising. Insofar as we commission a service provider with the sending e-mails, this is done on the basis of our legitimate interests. The registration process is recorded on the basis of our legitimate interests to prove that it was carried out in accordance with the law.

Contents: Information about us, our services, promotions and offers. Analysis and performance measurement: The newsletters contain a so-called "web beacon", i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from our server when the newsletter is opened or, if we use a shipping service provider, from their server. Within the scope of this retrieval, technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and the time of the retrieval, are initially collected.

This information is used to technically improve our newsletter based on the technical data or the target groups and their reading behavior based on their retrieval locations (which can be determined using the IP address) or access times. This analysis also includes determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can indeed be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our intention nor, if used, that of the dispatch service provider to observe individual users. Rather, we use the analyses to identify the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users.

The evaluation of the newsletter and the measurement of its success are carried out, subject to the express consent of the user, on the basis of our legitimate interests for the purpose of using a user-friendly and secure newsletter system, which is both serves our business interests and meets the expectations of users.

A separate revocation of the performance measurement is unfortunately not possible, in this case the entire newsletter subscription must be cancelled, or it must be contradicted.

For sending electronic messages and newsletters use the services of the following providers: For newletters: Sendinblue, GmbH (formerly Newsletter2go) Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin and for mails via applicant management platform: New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg.

Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times).

Affected persons: Communication partners.

Purposes of processing: direct marketing (e.g. by e-mail or postal mail).

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Option to object (opt-out): You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent or object to further receipt. You will find a link to cancel the newsletter either at the end of each newsletter or you can otherwise use one of the above contact options, preferably e-mail, for this purpose.

Promotional communication via e-mail, mail, fax or

Phone

We process personal data for the purposes of promotional communication, which may take place via various channels, such as e-mail, telephone, mail or fax, in accordance with legal requirements.

Recipients have the right to revoke consent given at any time or to object to promotional communications at any time.

After revocation or objection, we may store the data required to prove consent for up to three years based on our legitimate interests before deleting it. The processing of this data is limited to the purpose of a possible defense against claims. An individual deletion request is possible at any time, provided that the former existence of consent is confirmed at the same time.

Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers).

Affected persons: Communication partners.

Purposes of processing: direct marketing (e.g. by e-mail or

postal).

- Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Online marketing

We process personal data for online marketing purposes, which may include, in particular, marketing advertising space or displaying promotional and other content (collectively, "Content") based on users' potential interests and measuring its effectiveness.

For these purposes, so-called user profiles are created and stored in a file (so-called "cookie") or similar procedures are used, by means of which the information about the user relevant for the presentation of the aforementioned content is stored. This information can include, for example, content viewed, websites visited, online networks used, but also

communication partners and technical information, such as the browser used, the computer system used, and information on usage times. If users have consented to the collection of their location data, this may also be processed.

The IP addresses of the users are also stored. However, we use available IP masking procedures (i.e., pseudonymization by shortening the IP address) to protect users. In general, no clear data of the users (such as e-mail addresses or names) are stored in the context of the online marketing process, but pseudonyms. I.e., we as

even the providers of online marketing procedures do not know the actual identity of the users, but only the information stored in their profiles.

The information in the profiles is usually stored in the cookies or by means of similar procedures. These cookies can later generally also be read on other websites that use the same online marketing procedure and analyzed for the purpose of displaying content as well as supplemented with further data and stored on the server of the online marketing procedure provider.

Exceptionally, clear data may be associated with the profiles. This is the case if, for example, the users are members of a social network whose online marketing procedures we use and the network links the users' profiles with the aforementioned data. We ask that you note that users can make additional agreements with the providers, e.g., by giving their consent as part of the registration process.

In principle, we only receive access to summarized information about the success of our advertisements. However, as part of so-called conversion measurements, we can check which of our online marketing methods have led to a so-called conversion,

i.e., for example, to a conclusion of a contract with us. The conversion measurement is used solely to analyze the success of our marketing measures.

Unless otherwise stated, we ask you to assume that cookies used will be stored for a period of two years.

Notes on legal bases: If we ask users for their consent to use third-party providers, the legal basis for processing data is consent. Otherwise, users' data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we would also like to refer you to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy notice.

Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g. web pages visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).

Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services), interested parties.

Purposes of processing: tracking (e.g. interest/behavior-based profiling, use of cookies), remarketing, visit action evaluation, interest-based and behavior-based marketing, profiling (creation of user profiles), reach measurement (e.g. access statistics,

Recognition of returning visitors).

Security measures: IP-masking (pseudonymization of the IP-

Address).

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR),

Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Possibility of objection (opt-out): We refer to the

Data protection notices of the respective providers and the objection options (so-called "opt-out") specified for the providers. If no explicit opt-out option has been specified, you have the option of disabling cookies in your browser settings. However, this may restrict functions of our online offer. We therefore additionally recommend the following opt-out options, which are offered in summary for respective areas.

Europe: www.youronlinechoices.eu. b) Canada: www.youradchoices.ca/choices. c) USA: www.aboutads.info/choices. d) Inter-territory: optout.aboutads.info.

Services used and service providers:

- Google Analytics: online marketing and web analytics; service provider:

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA;
website: marketingplatform.google.com

Possibility of objection (Opt-Out): Opt-Out-

Plugin: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, settings for displaying
advertisements: adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Conversion Linker

This service stores click data to effectively measure conversions. Processing company
Google Ireland Limited
Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland Purpose of the data
This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is valid only for the purposes indicated. The collected data cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below.

- Measurement of click data
- Linking with other tools - Conversion tracking Technologies used -
Cookies
Data collected
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. -
IP address
- usage data

- Clickstream
- Date and time of visit
- Pages viewed
- Referrer URL -
Cookie information -
Ads clicked on
- Click path
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for processing data -
Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR
Place of processing.
European Union
Retention period
The retention period is the period of time during which the collected data is stored for processing. The data must be deleted,
as soon as they are no longer needed for the specified processing purposes.
The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Data recipient
- Google Ireland Limited
- Google LLC

Transfer to Third Countries
This service may transfer the collected data to another country. Please note that this service may transfer data outside of the European Union

and the European Economic Area and to a country that does not provide an adequate level of data protection. If the data is transferred to the U.S., there is a risk that your data may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without you possibly having any legal remedies.Below is a list of countries to which the data is transferred. This may be for various purposes, such as storage or processing.
- United States of America

The Provider has signed the standard contractual clauses of the prevailing EU data protection requirements (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/publications/standard-contractual-clauses-controllers-and-processors).

Click here to view the privacy policy of the data processor
read. policies.google.com/privacy
Click here to revoke on all domains of the processing company. safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/
Click here to read the cookie policy of the data processor
. policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Google Ads Conversion Tracking
This is a conversion tracking service.
Processing Company
Google Ireland Limited
Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland Purpose of the data
This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is valid only for the purposes indicated. The collected data cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below.
- Advertising
- Analysis
- Conversion Tracking
Technologies used -
Cookies

- Pixel
- Web beacons
Collected data
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. -
Browser language
- Browser type
- Ads clicked -
Cookie ID -
Cookie information -
Date and time of visit -
IP address - Referrer URL
-
Usage data -
Web request.
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for processing data
- Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR
Place of processing.
European Union
Retention period
The retention period is the period of time during which the collected data is stored for processing. The data must be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the specified processing purposes
will be.
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the processing purposes.
Data recipients
- Google Ireland Limited
- Google LLC
- Alphabet Inc

Transfer to Third Countries
This Service may transfer the collected data to another country. Please note that this Service may transfer
data outside the European Union and the European Economic Area and to a country that does not provide an adequate level of data protection. If the data is transferred to the U.S., there is a risk that your data may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without you possibly having any legal remedies.

are entitled to. Below is a list of the countries to which the data is transferred. This may be for various purposes, such as storage or processing.
- Worldwide

The provider has signed the standard contractual clauses of the prevailing EU data protection regulations (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/publications/standard-contractual-clauses-controllers-and-processors).
Click here to read the data processor
's privacy policy. policies.google.com/privacy 
Click here to revoke on all domains of the processing company. safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/
Click here to read the data processor's cookie policy
. policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Storage information
Below you can see the longest potential storage time on a device using the cookie storage method and using other

Methods has been set. - Maximum limit for storing cookies: 1 year

Google Ads Remarketing
This is a remarketing service.
Processing Company
Google Ireland Limited
Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland Purpose of the data
This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is valid only for the purposes indicated. The data collected
cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below. - Remarketing
Technologies Used

- Cookies
Collected data
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. -
Duration of visit
- IP address -
Pages visited -
Content the user is interested in
- Website usage
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for processing data
- Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR
Place of processing.
European Union
Retention period
The retention period is the period during which the collected data is stored for processing. The data must be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the specified processing purposes.

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Data recipient
- Google Ireland Limited

- Google LLC
- Alphabet Inc.

The provider has signed the standard contractual clauses of the prevailing EU data protection requirements (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/publications/standard-contractual-clauses-controllers-and-processors).

Click here to read
the privacy policy of the data processor. policies.google.com/privacy

Click here to revoke on all domains of the processing company. safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/
Click here to
read the cookie policy of the data processor
. policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Storage Information
Below is the longest potential storage period on a device set when using the cookie storage method and when using other methods. - Maximum limit for cookie storage: 1 year
Stored information.

Google Analytics
This is a web analytics service.
Processing company
Google Ireland Limited

Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland Purpose of the data
This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is only valid for the purposes stated. The collected data cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below.

- Analysis
Technologies used
- Enable cookies
- Pixel tags.
Collected Data
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. - IP
address
- Usage data
- Click path
- App updates
- Browser information - Device information -
JavaScript support -
Pages visited - Referrer URL -
Downloads
-
Flash version -
Location information
- Purchase activity
- Widget interactions
- Date and time of visit
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for processing data
- Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR
Place of processing.
European Union
Retention period
The retention period is the period of time during which the collected data is stored for processing. The data must be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the specified processing purposes.
The retention period depends on the type of data stored. Each customer can specify how long Google Analytics retains data before it is automatically deleted.
Data recipients
- Alphabet Inc.
- Google LLC
- Google Ireland Limited

are transferred. This may be the case for various purposes, such as storage or processing.
- Worldwide

Click here to read
the privacy policy of the data processor. policies.google.com/privacy

Click here to revoke on all domains of the processing company. tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Click here to
read the cookie policy of the data processor
. policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

YouTube video

This is a video player service.
Processing company
Google Ireland Limited
Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland Purpose of the data

This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is valid only for the purposes indicated. The collected data cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below.

- Show videos
Used technologies
- Cookies (if the
Collected data
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. - Device information
- IP address
- Referrer URL
- Viewed videos
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for the processing of data
- Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR
Place of processing

European Union
Retention period
The retention period is the time period during which the collected data is stored for processing. The data must be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the specified processing purposes. The
data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Data recipients
- Alphabet Inc.
- Google LLC
- Google Ireland Limited

Transfer to Third Countries
This Service may transfer the collected data to another country. Please note that this service may transfer data outside the European Union and the European Economic Area and to a country that is not a

provides an adequate level of data protection. If the data is transferred to the U.S., there is a risk that your data may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without you possibly having any legal remedies.Below is a list of countries to which the data is transferred. This may be for various purposes, such as storage or processing. - Worldwide

In order to establish an adequate level of security, your consent pursuant to Art. 49 (1) a) GDPR may serve as the legal basis for the transfer to third countries.

To protect your rights and personal data, we have integrated Youtube with a so-called two-click solution, which only transmits data to Google after you have explicitly activated the video function.

Click here to read
the privacy policy of the data processor. policies.google.com/privacy 
Click here to opt-out on all domains of the processing company. safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/
Click here to read the cookie policy of the data processor
. policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Storage information
Below you can see the longest potential storage period on a device set when using the cookie storage method and when using other methods. - Maximum limit for cookie storage: 10 years, 2 days.

CCM 19 Consent Management Platform
This is a consent management service.
Processing Company: Papoo Software & Media GmbH
Auguststr. 4, 53229 Bonn, Germany.

Purpose of the data
This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is valid only for the purposes indicated. The collected data cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below. -
Compliance with legal obligations
- Storage of consent
Used technologies
- Local storage - Enable
cookies.
Collected Data
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. -
Browser information
- Opt-in and opt-out data
- Request website URLs - Website
page path -
Geographic location -
Device information -
Date and time of visit.
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for the processing of data
- Art.6Abs.1s.1lit.c GDPR.
Place of processing
European Union X

Retention period
The retention period is the period during which the collected data are stored for processing. The data must be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the specified processing purposes.
Consent data (consent and withdrawal of consent) is stored for three years. The data is then deleted
immediately or passed on to the responsible person in the form of a data export upon request.
Data recipient
Papoo Software & Media GmbH
X
Click here to read
the privacy policy of the data processor. www.ccm19.de/datenschutzerklaerung.html

Google Tag Manager
This is a tag management system for managing JavaScript and HTML code snippets that can be used to implement tracking, analytics, personalization, and marketing performance tags and tools. Processing Company
Google Ireland Limited
Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland Purpose of the data
This list represents the purposes of data collection and processing. Consent is valid only for the purposes indicated. The collected data cannot be used or stored for any purpose other than those listed below.

- Functionality
Used technologies
- Pixel
Collected data
This list contains all (personal) data collected by or through the use of this service. -
Aggregated data to trigger tags
Legal basis
The following is the required legal basis for processing data.
- Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR Place of processing United States of America Retention period

The retention period is the period during which the collected data is stored for processing. The data must be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the specified processing purposes.

The data is deleted after 14 days of retrieval. Data recipient
- Alphabet Inc.
- Google LLC

- Google Ireland Limited

Transfer to Third Countries
This service may transfer the collected data to another country. Please

note that this service may transfer data outside the European Union and the European Economic Area and to a country that does not provide an adequate level of data protection. If the data is transferred to the United States, there is a risk that your data may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without you possibly having any legal remedies. Below is a list of countries to which the data will be transferred. This may be for a variety of purposes, such as storing or processing. -Worldwide
Click here to read
the privacy policy of the data processor. policies.google.com/privacy
Click here to revoke on all domains of the processing company. safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/

Click here to read the cookie policy of the data processor.https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html

Google Maps

On our website, we use Google Maps to display our location and to create directions. This is a service of Google LLC, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

To protect your rights and personal data, we have integrated Google Maps with a so-called two-click solution / API / iFRame, which transmits data to Google only after you have explicitly activated the map function.

If you call up the Google Maps component integrated into our website, Google stores a cookie on your end device via your Internet browser. In order to display our location and to create directions, your user settings and data are processed. Here, we cannot exclude that Google uses servers in the USA.

The connection to Google established in this way enables Google to determine from which website your request was sent and to which IP address the directions are to be sent.

In addition, the use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is subject to the Google Terms of Use policies.google.com/terms and the Terms and Conditions for Google Maps www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Google also provides further information at adssettings.google.com/authenticated and policies.google.com/privacy.  
If the standard contractual clauses are not sufficient to establish an adequate level of security, your consent pursuant to Art. 49 (1) a) GDPR may serve as a legal ground for the transfer to third countries.

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

Affiliate programs and affiliate links

We include so-called affiliate links or other references (which may include, for example, search masks, widgets or discount codes) to the offers and services of third-party providers in our online offer (collectively referred to as "affiliate links"). If users follow the Affiliate Links or subsequently take advantage of the offers, we may receive a commission or other benefits from those third parties (collectively, "Commission").

In order to be able to track whether users have taken advantage of the offers of an affiliate link used by us, it is necessary that the respective third-party providers learn that users have followed an affiliate link used within our online offer. The assignment of the affiliate links to the respective business transactions or to other actions (e.g. purchases) serves the sole purpose of commission accounting and will be cancelled as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose.

For the purposes of the aforementioned assignment of the affiliate links, the affiliate links can be supplemented by certain values that are a component of the link or can be stored otherwise, e.g. in a cookie. The values may include, in particular, the source website (referrer), the time, an online identifier of the operator of the website on which the affiliate link was located, an online identifier of the respective offer, the type of link used, the type of offer and an online identifier of the user.

Notes on legal bases: If we ask users for their consent to the use of third-party providers, the legal basis for the processing of data is consent. Furthermore, their use may be a component of our (pre)contractual services, provided that the use of the third-party providers has been agreed within this framework. Otherwise, user data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we would also like to refer you to the information on the use of cookies in these data protection notices.

- Types of data processed: Contract data (e.g. subject matter of contract, term, customer category), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).

Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).

Purposes of processing: Affiliate tracking.

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR),

Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Presence in social networks (social media)

We maintain online presences within social networks and process user data in this context in order to communicate with the users active there.

Users to communicate or to offer information about us.

We would like to point out that user data may be processed outside the European Union. This may result in risks for the users because, for example, the enforcement of the users' rights could be made more difficult.

Furthermore, user data is usually processed within social networks for market research and advertising purposes. For example, usage profiles can be created based on the usage behavior and resulting interests of the users. The usage profiles can in turn be used, for example, to place advertisements within and outside the networks that presumably correspond to the interests of the users. For these purposes, cookies are usually stored on the users' computers, in which the usage behavior and interests of the users are stored. Furthermore, data independent of the devices used by the users may also be stored in the usage profiles (especially if the users are members of the respective platforms and are logged in to them).

For a detailed presentation of the respective processing forms and the

For information on how to object (opt-out), please refer to the data protection declarations and information provided by the operators of the respective networks.

In the case of requests for information and the assertion of data subject rights, we would also like to point out that these can be asserted most effectively with the providers. Only the providers have access to the users' data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly. If you still need help, you can contact us.

- Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers), content data (e.g. text entries, photographs, videos), usage data (e.g. visited

web pages, interest in content, access times), meta-

/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).

Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of

online services).

Purposes of processing: contact requests and communication,

Tracking (e.g., interest/behavior-based profiling, use of

of cookies), remarketing.

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR)

Services used and service providers:

LinkedIn: social network; service provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland;
website: www.linkedin.com;
Privacy policy: www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy- policy; Opt-out (Opt-

Out): www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-

controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Xing: social network; service provider: XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-

32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany; Website: www.xing.de; Privacy Policy: privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

Plugins and embedded functions and content

We integrate functional and content elements into our online offer that are obtained from the servers of their respective providers (hereinafter referred to as "third-party providers"). These can be, for example, graphics, videos or social media buttons and posts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as "content").

The integration always requires that the third-party providers of this content have the

process the IP address of the users, because without the IP address they could not send the content to their browser. The IP address is thus necessary for the display of this content or function. We endeavor to use only such content whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as "web beacons") for statistical or marketing purposes. The "pixel tags" can be used to analyze information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as be linked to such information from other sources.

Notes on legal bases: If we ask users for their consent to use third-party providers, the legal basis for processing data is consent. Otherwise, users' data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy notice.

- Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data.

(e.g., device information, IP addresses), inventory data (e.g., names, addresses), contact data (e.g., email, phone numbers), content data (e.g., text input, photographs, videos).

Data subjects: Users (e.g., website visitors, users of online services).

Purposes of processing: Provision of our online offer and user-friendliness, contractual performance and service, security measures, administration and response to inquiries.

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR), Contract performance and pre-contractual requests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. GDPR), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Services used and service providers:

- YouTube videos: Video content; Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; website: www.youtube.com; privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy; opt-out: Opt-Out-

Plugin: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, settings for the display of

Advertisements: adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Instragram

We have integrated a component of the Instagram service on our website. Instagram is a service that qualifies as an audiovisual platform and allows users to share photos and videos and also to redistribute such data in other social networks.

The operator of the Instagram services is Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.
4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland.

By each call of one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which an Instagram component (Insta button) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically caused by the respective Instagram component to download a representation of the corresponding component from Instagram. Within the scope of this technical procedure, Instagram receives knowledge about which specific subpage of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to Instagram at the same time, Instagram recognizes which specific subpage the data subject is visiting each time the data subject calls up our website and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the Instagram component and assigned by Instagram to the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject activates one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, the data and information thus transmitted will be assigned to the personal Instagram user account of the data subject and stored and processed by Instagram.

Instagram always receives information via the Instagram component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is simultaneously logged into Instagram at the time of calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Instagram component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Instagram, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her Instagram account before accessing our website.

Further information and the applicable privacy policy of Instagram can be found at help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Facebook Fanpage

We have integrated a component of the Facebook service on our website, which is a link to our Facebook fan page. We use the technical platform of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter: Facebook) for the information service offered here.

According to the ECJ, there is joint responsibility within the meaning of Art. 26 GDPR between Facebook and the operator of a Facebook fan page for the personal data processed via the Facebook fan page. For this reason, we have concluded a joint responsibility agreement with Facebook.

When you access a Facebook fan page, the IP address of your end device is transmitted to Facebook. According to Facebook, this IP address is anonymized and deleted after 90 days, at least if it is a German IP address. In addition, Facebook stores further information about the end devices of its users, e.g. the Internet browser used. If necessary, Facebook is thus able to assign IP addresses to individual users. If you are logged into your Facebook account while visiting our fan page, a cookie with your Facebook ID is stored on your end device. Based on this cookie, Facebook can track that you have visited our fan page and how you have used it. Facebook uses this information to present you with content or advertising tailored to you. If you do not want this, you should log out of your Facebook account or deactivate the "stay logged in" function. We also recommend that you delete the cookies present on your device and exit and restart your browser. This process deletes Facebook information that Facebook can use to establish a link to you. However, if you want to use the interactive functions of our fan page, you would have to log in to Facebook again with your Facebook login information. This also enables Facebook to establish a link to you again. In what way Facebook uses the data from visits to Facebook pages for its own purposes, to what extent activities on the Facebook page are assigned to individual users, how long Facebook stores this data and whether data from a visit to the Facebook page is passed on to third parties, is not conclusively and clearly stated by Facebook and is not known to us. In this respect, we can only refer you as a user of our fan page to Facebook's statements on data protection. The data collected about you in this context will be processed by Facebook and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union.

Facebook describes in general terms what information it receives and how it is used in its data usage guidelines. There you will also find information on how to contact Facebook and on the settings options for advertisements. The data usage guidelines are available at the following link: de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy. Opt-out options can be set here: www.facebook.com/settings and here www.youronlinechoices.com.

The transmission and further processing of personal data of users to third countries, such as the USA, as well as the associated possible risks for you as a user cannot be assessed by us as the operator of the Facebook fan page.

Data deletion

The data processed by us will be deleted in accordance with the legal requirements as soon as their consents permitted for processing are revoked or other permissions cease to apply (e.g. if the purpose of processing this data has ceased to apply or it is not required for the purpose).

If the data is not deleted because it is required for other and legally permissible purposes, its processing is limited to these purposes. I.e., the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for reasons of commercial or tax law or whose storage is required for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or
is necessary to protect the rights of another natural or legal person.

Further information on the deletion of personal data can also be found in the individual sections of this privacy policy.

Modification and update of the privacy policy
We ask you to inform yourself regularly about the content of our data protection information. We adapt the data protection information as soon as changes in the data processing carried out by us make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require an act of cooperation on your part (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

If we provide addresses and contact information of companies and organizations in this privacy notice, please note that the addresses may change over time and please check the information before contacting us.

Rights of the data subjects

As a data subject, you are entitled to various rights under the GDPR, which arise in particular from Art. 15 to 21 GDPR:
- Right to object: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR.
• This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

Right of revocation for consents: You have the right to revoke any consent you have given at any time.

Right of access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether data in question is being processed and to obtain information about this data, as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
Right to rectification: In accordance with the law, you have the right to request that data concerning you be completed or that inaccurate data concerning you be rectified.

Right to erasure and restriction of processing: You have the right, in accordance with the law, to request that data relating to you be erased immediately or, alternatively, to request restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with the law.

Right to data portability: You have the right to request that data concerning you be

data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format in accordance with the legal requirements or to request its transfer to another responsible party.

- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You also have the right, in accordance with the law, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

Definitions

This section provides you with an overview of the terms used in this privacy notice. Many of the terms are taken from the law and defined primarily in Art. 4 of the GDPR. The legal definitions are binding. The following explanations, on the other hand, are intended primarily to aid understanding. The terms are sorted alphabetically.

- Affiliate tracking: Affiliate tracking logs links that the linking websites use to direct users to websites with product or other offers. The operators of the respective linking websites may receive a commission if users follow these so-called affiliate links and subsequently take advantage of the offers (e.g. buy goods or use services). For this purpose, it is necessary for the providers to be able to track whether users who are interested in certain offers subsequently take advantage of them at the instigation of the affiliate links. It is therefore necessary for the functionality of affiliate links that they are supplemented with certain values that become part of the link or are stored elsewhere, e.g. in a cookie. The values include in particular the source website (referrer), the time, an online identifier of the operators of the
Web page on which the affiliate link was located, an online identifier of the respective offer, an online identifier of the user as well as tracking-specific values, such as, e.g., ad media ID, affiliate ID and categorizations.

- Conversion tracking: "Conversion tracking" refers to a method of determining the effectiveness of marketing measures. For this purpose, a cookie is usually stored on the users' devices within the websites on which the marketing measures take place and then retrieved again on the target website.
• For example, it allows us to track whether the information we provide on

other websites were successful).

IP masking: "IP masking" is the term used to describe a method by which

the last octet, i.e., the last two numbers of an IP address, is deleted so that the IP address can no longer be used to uniquely identify a person. Therefore, IP masking is a means of pseudonymizing processing procedures, especially in online marketing

Interest-based and behavioral marketing: Interest-based and/or behavioral marketing is when users' potential interests in ads and other content are determined as precisely as possible. This is done on the basis of information about their previous behavior (e.g., visiting and staying on certain websites, purchasing behavior or interaction with other users), which is stored in a so-called profile. Cookies are generally used for these purposes.

Personal data: "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who directly or
indirectly, in particular by associating it with an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookie) or with one or more particular characteristics that are an expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

- Profiling: "Profiling" is any type of automated processing of personal data that consists of using such personal data to analyze, evaluate, or to predict certain personal aspects relating to a natural person (depending on the type of profiling, this may include information concerning age, gender, location data and movement data, interaction with websites and their content, shopping behavior, social interactions with other people) (e.g., the
interests in certain content or products, the click behavior on a website or the location). Cookies and web beacons are often used for profiling purposes.

- Reach measurement: Reach measurement (also known as web analytics) is used to evaluate the flow of visitors to an online offering and can include visitors' behavior or interests in certain information, such as website content. With the help of reach analysis, website owners can see, for example, at what time visitors visit their website and what content they are interested in. This enables them, for example, to
• better adapt the content of the website to the needs of its visitors. For reach analysis purposes, pseudonymous cookies and web beacons are often used to recognize returning visitors and thus obtain more precise analyses of the use of an online offer.

Remarketing: "Remarketing" or "retargeting" is when, for example, for advertising purposes, a note is made of which products a user was interested in on a website in order to remind the user of these products on other websites, e.g. in advertisements.

Tracking: Tracking is when the behavior of users can be traced across several online services. As a rule, behavioral and interest information is stored in cookies or on servers of the providers of the tracking technologies with regard to the online offers used (so-called profiling). This information can then be used, for example, to display advertisements to users that are likely to match their interests.

Controller: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which alone is responsible for the
or jointly with others on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data decides, is referred to. –

Processing: "Processing" means any operation performed with or without the aid of The term "data processing" refers to any process or series of processes carried out by automated means in connection with personal data. The term is wide-ranging and includes virtually any handling of data, be it collection, evaluation, storage, transmission or deletion.

Pseudonymization

"Pseudonymization" means the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures which ensure that the personal data cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Third

"third party" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body, other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct responsibility of the controller or the processor, are authorized to process the personal data

Consent

Consent" of the data subject means any freely given specific, informed and unambiguous indication of his or her wishes in the form of a statement or other unambiguous affirmative act by which the data subject signifies his or her agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.