PRIVACY POLICY

The privacy and protection of your personal data is very important to us when we collect, process and use such data upon your visit to our website. Your data is protected in accordance with legal regulations. Below you will find information on what data is recorded during your visit to our website and how it is used:

Information about the collection of personal data

(1) Below, we provide information on the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that are personally referable to you, such as name, address, email addresses, user behaviour and IP address.

(2) The controller according to Art. 4 (7) EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Mohn GmbH
Am Stadion 4
58540 Meinerzhagen
Germany

Tel.: + 49 (0) 2354-9445-0
Fax: + 49 (0) 2354-9445-299
E-Mail: info@mohn-gmbh.com
Website: www.mohn-gmbh.com/en/

You can contact our data protection officer at:

progressorg GmbH
Höveler Weg 2
58553 Halver
Germany

Tel: + 49 (0) 2353-9096 31
Fax: + 49 (0) 2353-9096 49
E-Mail: datenschutz@progressorg.de
Webseite: https://www.progressorg.de

(3) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes. We also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

General information on data processing

(1) We collect and utilize our website users' personal data only insofar as this is necessary for provision of an operational site and of our content and services. Collection and utilization of our users' personal data is only undertaken periodically with the user's consent. An exception applies in those cases where prior consent cannot be obtained for legal or circumstantial reasons and the processing of the data is permitted by law.

(2) Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for processing personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO serves as the legal basis. In the processing of personal data required for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations which are required to carry out pre-contract measures. Insofar as the processing of personal data is required to fulfil a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO serves as the legal basis. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d DSGVO applies as the legal basis. If processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO serves as the legal basis for processing.

(3) The personal data of a data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to exist. Furthermore, data may be stored if this has been provided by the European or national legislation in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the data controller is subject. Blocking or erasing of data will also be carried out if a storage period prescribed by the above-mentioned standards expires, unless further data storage is necessary for concluding or performing a contract.

Your Rights

(1) You have the following rights towards us regarding your personal data:

a) Right to obtain information
You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data concerned are being processed and to request information about these data as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO.

b) Right to rectification
According to Art. 16 DSGVO, you have the right to request the completion of data concerning you or the correction of inaccurate data concerning you.

c) Right to delete or limit the processing of data
In accordance with Art. 17 DSGVO, you have the right to demand that relevant data be deleted immediately or, alternatively, to demand a restriction on the processing of the data in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO.

d) Right to data portability
You have the right to request that the data concerning you that you have provided to us be received in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO and to request their transmission to other persons responsible.
 
(2) Furthermore, you have the right to complain to the responsible data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us. To us, this is the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany (ldi): https://www.ldi.nrw.de/

Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

(1)  If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this at any time acc. to Art. 7 (3) DSGVO. If you exercise this right, this will affect our ability to process your personal data after you have already given it to us.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is not necessary in particular to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the description of the functions. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified revocation, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, on the basis of which we will continue processing.

(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. You can inform us about your advertising contradiction under the following contact data: Mohn GmbH, Am Stadion 4, 58540 Meinerzhagen, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)2354-94450, E-Mail: info@mohn-gmbh.com

Deletion of data

The data processed by us will be deleted or their processing restricted in accordance with Articles 17 and 18 DSGVO. Unless expressly stated in this Privacy Statement, the data stored by us will be erased as soon as it are no longer required for its intended purpose and the erasure does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations. If the data is not erased because it is necessary for other and legally permissible purposes, the processing of the data will be restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons. In accordance with legal requirements in Germany, the data is stored for 6 years in accordance with § 257 (1) HGB (German Commercial Code) (e.g. trading books, inventories, opening balances, annual financial statements, commercial letters, accounting vouchers, etc.) and for 10 years in accordance with § 147 (1) AO (Taxation Regulation) (e.g. accounts, records, status reports, accounting vouchers, commercial and business letters, tax-relevant documents, etc.).

Transfer of personal data to third countries

If we process data in a third-party country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this occurs in the context of the use of third-party services or disclosure or transfer of data to third parties, this only takes place if it occurs for the fulfilment of our (pre)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation, or on the basis of our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we only process the data in a third country or have the data processed in a third country if the particular requirements of Art. 44 ff. of the DSGVO are met. This means, for example, that processing only takes place in third countries with a recognised level of data protection (Art. 45 GDPR), in the presence of and compliance with contractual obligations through so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission (Art. 46 GDPR) or in the presence of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations.

The EU Commission has recognised the level of data protection for certain companies from the USA as secure through the "Data Privacy Framework" (DPF) within the framework of the adequacy decision of 10 July 2023. The list of certified companies is available at www.dataprivacyframework.gov. Within the scope of our data protection notice, we provide separate information on which service providers we use are certified under the Data Privacy Framework.

Data collection on our website

(1) If you use the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para 1 sentence 1 lit f DSGVO):

a) IP address,
b) Date and time of the inquiry,
c) Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
d) Content of the request (specific page),
e) Request status/HTTP status code,
f) The amount of data transmitted,
g) The website making the request,
h) Browser,
i) Operating system and device,
j) Language and version of your browser software.
 
(2) The data is also stored in the log files of our system. This data is not stored together with other personal user data. The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The data is stored in log files to ensure the website's functionality. The data is also used to optimise the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. No evaluation of the data for marketing purposes is undertaken in this context. The anonymous data of the server log files is stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

(3) The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. In the case of data collection for provision of the website, this will be undertaken once the respective session has ended. Collection of data for provision of the website and storage of data in log files is absolutely necessary for website operation. Consequently, there is no option to object on the part of the user.

SSL encryption

This website uses a so-called SSL or TSL encryption to protect the transmission of confidential contents (e.g. purchase orders, inquiries) which you send to us. You can recognize this from the padlock symbol in your browser line. At the same time, the address line changes from “http://” to "https://" . This means that third parties cannot read this data.

Use of cookies

(1) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the user's computer system. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. They serve to make our site more user-friendly and effective. Cookies enable us to recognize the users of our website. By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimised for the user. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. For example, the user of a website that uses cookies does not have to re-enter their access data each time they visit the website because the website and the cookie stored on the user's computer system remembers the information.

(2) As temporary cookies, or "session cookies" or "transient cookies", are cookies referred to that are deleted after a user leaves an online offer and closes his/her browser. For example, the content of a shopping cart in an online shop or a login Status can be stored in a cookie of this nature.

(3) Cookies are referred to as "permanent" or "persistent" if they remain saved even after the browser is closed. For example, the login status can be saved if users visit it after several days have passed.

(4) Apart from so-called “First-Party-Cookies” which are set by us for the responsible person for data processing, also “Third-Party-Cookies” are used that are offered by third-party providers. Whenever “Third-Party-Cookies” have been set, we will inform you about that in the respective data protection information of the online offerings and about the cooperation with external service providers.

(5) Mandatory functions that are technically necessary to display the website: The technical structure of the website requires us to use techniques, in particular cookies. Without these techniques, our website cannot be displayed (completely correctly) or the support functions could not be enabled. These are basically transient cookies that are deleted after the end of your website visit, at the latest when you close your browser. You cannot deselect these cookies if you wish to use our website. The individual cookies can be seen in the Consent Manager. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

(6) We only set various cookies with your consent. The functions are only activated in the event of your consent and can serve in particular to enable us to analyse and improve visits to our website, to make it easier for you to use it via different browsers or end devices, to recognise you when you visit, or to serve advertising (possibly also to orient advertising to interests, to measure the effectiveness of advertisements or to show interest-oriented advertising). The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO. The revocation of your consent is possible at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until the revocation.

(7) Within the framework of a Consent Management (“Cookie Banner”), we offer you the opportunity to take a decision about setting cookies in the area of our website in accordance with your specifications. It is possible for you at any time to change the decision taken there and to give or revoke your consent subsequently. You can access the setting options for this HERE. You can also make changes in your browser settings.

Use of our contact form 

Our website contains a contact form that can be used for electronic contact. If a user makes use of this option, the data entered in the input mask is transmitted to us and stored. These data are: Company, title, first and last name, street and house number, postcode, town, country, telephone and e-mail. The following data is also stored at the time the message is sent: IP address of the user, date and time of registration.

For the processing of the data, your consent is obtained during the sending process and reference is made to this data protection declaration. Alternatively, it is possible to contact us via the e-mail address provided. In this case, the user's personal data transmitted with the e-mail will be stored. In this context, the data will not be passed on to third parties. The data is used exclusively for processing the conversation. The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO if the user has given his consent. The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of sending an e-mail is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If the e-mail contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. The processing of the personal data from the input mask serves us solely to process the contact. In the case of contact by e-mail, this also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in processing the data. The other personal data processed during the sending process serve to prevent misuse of the contact form and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For the personal data from the input mask of the contact form and those sent by e-mail, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is ended when the circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified. The additional personal data collected during the sending process will be deleted after a period of seven days at the latest. The user has the option of revoking his or her consent to the processing of personal data at any time. If the user contacts us by e-mail, he can object to the storage of his personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued. All personal data stored in the course of contacting us will be deleted in this case.

Newsletter

(1) With your consent you can subscribe to our newsletter, through which we inform you about our current interesting offers. The goods and services to be advertised will be named in the consent form. The personal data transmitted to the responsible person for processing when the newsletter is ordered results from the input form used for this purpose.

(2) To register for our newsletter, we use for legal reasons what is called the double opt-in method. This means that after your registration we will send you an e-mail to the specified e-mail address in which we ask you to confirm that you would like the newsletter to be sent. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store your IP addresses and the time of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify a possible misuse of your personal data.

(3) The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. After your confirmation we will save your email address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO.

(4) You can revoke your consent for the newsletter at any time and thus unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare your revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email, by sending an email to info@mohn-gmbh.com, or by sending us a corresponding message to the contact data stated in the imprint.

(5) In addition, you can also give your consent for us to evaluate your user behaviour when sending the newsletter. With the data obtained in this way, we create a user profile in order to tailor the newsletter to your individual interests. In doing so, we record when you read our newsletter, which links you click on and deduce your personal interests. We link this data to actions you have taken on our website. The legal basis for this data processing is Section 25 (1) TTDSG.

Use of Google Analytics 4

(1) This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Web analysis is the collection, compilation and evaluation of data about the behaviour of visitors to websites. Google Analytics 4 uses so-called "cookies", which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. We have already explained what cookies are above. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. For these cases, Google has, according to its own statements, imposed a standard on itself that corresponds to the former EU-US Privacy Shield and has promised to comply with applicable data protection laws when transferring data internationally. We have also agreed so-called standard contractual clauses with Google, the purpose of which is to ensure compliance with an appropriate level of data protection in the third country.

(2) The scope of data collection also includes your IP address. However, this is shortened by Google and thus anonymised. The IP address transmitted and shortened by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics 4 will not be merged with other Google data.

(3) By integrating Google Analytics 4, we pursue the purpose of analysing user behaviour on our website and being able to react to this. This enables us to continuously improve our offer. The legal basis for the processing of personal data described here is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until revocation. In apps, you can reset the advertising ID under the Android or iOS settings. The easiest way to revoke your consent is via our Consent Manager.

(4) We have concluded an order processing agreement with Google for the use of Google Analytics 4 in accordance with Art. 28 DSGVO. Google therefore processes the data on our behalf for the above-mentioned purposes. A transfer of your personal data to unauthorised third parties is prohibited.  

(5) The legal basis for the transfer of data to the USA is the EU Commission's adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework of 10.07.2023 and the standard contractual clauses agreed with Google (https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms/). Further information on Google Analytics 4 including a copy of the above standard contractual clauses can be found at policies.google.com/privacy and at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

(6)  Google Analytics 4 uses the special "demographic characteristics" function and can use this to create statistics that make statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This is done by analysing advertising and information from third-party providers. This allows target groups to be identified for marketing activities. However, the collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person and is deleted after being stored for a period of two months.

(7) As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals can be used on this website to have cross-device reports generated. If you have activated personalized ads and linked your devices to your Google account, Google may, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO, analyze your usage behavior across devices and create database models, including on cross-device conversions. We do not receive any personal data from Google, only statistics. If you want to stop the cross-device analysis, you can deactivate the "Personalized advertising" function in the settings of your Google account. To do so, follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en For more information about Google Signals, please visit the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en

Use and application of Google Ads Conversion (formerly Google AdWords)

(1) We use the offer of Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google AdWords) on external websites. We can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are in relation to the data from the advertising campaigns. We are interested in showing you advertisements which are of interest to you, in order to make our website more interesting for you and achieving a fair calculation of advertising costs. Google Ads allows an advertiser to pre-define certain keywords to display an ad in Google's search engine results only when the user uses the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. The operating company of the services of Google AdWords is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The purpose of Google Ads is to advertise our website by displaying interest-relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the Google search engine and by displaying third-party advertising on our website.

(2) This advertising media is delivered by Google via "Ad Servers". For this purpose, we use ad server cookies, through which certain parameters for measuring success can be measured, such as the display of advertisements or of clicks by users. If you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads will store a conversation cookie on your device. These conversation cookies usually expire after 30 days and are not used with the intention of personally identifying you. The unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (a mark that the user no longer wishes to be addressed) are usually stored as analysis values for this cookie.

(3) These cookies enable Google to recognise your Internet browser. If a user visits certain pages of an Ads customer's website and the cookie stored on their computer has not expired, both Google and the customer are able to recognise that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Every Ads customer is assigned a different cookie. This means that cookies cannot be tracked via the website of an Ads customer. We do not collect or process any personal data ourselves in the aforementioned advertising measures. We only receive statistical evaluations from Google. We are able to recognise which of the advertising measures are particularly effective on the basis of these evaluations. We do not receive any further data from the use of advertising material; in particular, we cannot identify users on the basis of this information.

(4)  Due to the marketing tools used, your browser is automatically able to establish a direct connection to the Google server. We therefore have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google by using this tool and therefore hereby notify you of the following, which represents the best of our knowledge: By integrating Ads, Google obtains information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website appearance or clicked on an ad of us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may associate your visit to our website with your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider may obtain and store your IP address.

(5) Whenever you visit our website, this personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the data subject, is therefore transmitted to Google in the United States of America and stored there. The legal basis for the transfer of data to the USA is the EU Commission's adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework of 10.07.2023 and the standard contractual clauses agreed with Google (https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms/).

(6) You can prevent the setting of Cookies through our website in different ways:

a) by making a corresponding setting in your browser software in particular, the rejection of third-party cookies results in the fact that you will not received any advertisements of third-party providers;

b) by deactivating cookies for conversion tracking, by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com", https://www.google.de/settings/ads, this setting being deleted when you delete your cookies;

c) by deactivating the interest-based ads of the providers that are part of the "About Ads" self-regulation campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, this setting being deleted when you delete your cookies;

d) by permanently deactivating Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome in your browsers under the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.

Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer in full.

(7) The legal basis for processing your data is Art. 6 para 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Further information on data protection at Google can be found here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy and https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html.  Alternatively, you can visit the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at http://www.networkadvertising.org. Google has submitted to the EU-US privacy shield, (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework).

Use and application of Google Ads Remarketing

(1) We use the remarketing functions within the Google Ads service. This is a function of Google by means of which we would like to contact your again. Due to this application, after visiting our website you might be shown our advertisements when you keep on using the internet. This takes place by means of cookies stored in your browser via which your usage behaviour will be recorded and evaluated by Google. So your previous visit on our visit can be determined by Google. The legal basis for the transfer of data to the USA is the EU Commission's adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework of 10.07.2023 and the standard contractual clauses agreed with Google (https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms/).

(2) Google does not combine the data collected in the course of remarketing with your personal data, which may be stored by Google. In particular, according to Google, pseudonymisation is used in remarketing. The company operating the Google Ads Remarketing services is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Insofar as a corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO; the consent can be revoked at any time.

(3) Google Ads Remarketing sets a cookie on the information-technology system of the person concerned. We have already explained above what Cookies are. By setting a cookie, it is made possible for Google to recognise the visitors of our website when they subsequently call up websites which are always members of the Google advertising network. Whenever calling up a website on which the service of Google Ads Remarketing has been integrated, the internet browser of the relevant person will automatically identify at Google. Within the bounds of this technical procedure, Google will get knowledge of personal data such as the IP address or the surfing behaviour of the user which Google uses, among other things, to fade in interest-relevant advertising. Personal information, e.g. websites visited by the relevant person, is saved by means of the cookies. Whenever you visit our websites, this personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the data subject, is therefore transmitted to Google.

(4) As already described above, the relevant person can deactivate the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of an appropriate setting of the internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Such setting of the internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a cookie on the information-technology system of the person concerned. Furthermore, a cookie that has already been set by Google can be deleted at any time using an Internet browser or other software programs. Moreover, it is possible for the person concerned to object to interest-related advertising by Google. To do so, the person concerned must call up the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin from any internet browser used and make the desired setting there. Further information and the valid data protection regulations of Google can be found under http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy and https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html.

Advertising with Facebook (Pixel and Conversation Tracking)

(1) We use advertising measures of Facebook Inc ("Facebook"). By integrating the so-called "Facebook Pixel" on our website, we can display our advertising measures ("Facebook Ads") to users of our website and the social network Facebook and measure and evaluate the success ("Conversion Tracking"). This connection of Facebook and our website is technically carried out via the "Facebook Pixel". The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO, i.e. the integration only takes place after your consent.

(2) Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server when you visit our website. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Facebook through the use of this tool and therefore present you with the processes known to us: Through the integration of the Facebook pixel, Facebook receives the information that you have called up the corresponding web page of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider will learn your IP address and other identifying features and use them to create your profile.
(3) The information collected is stored on Facebook servers, including in the USA. The legal basis for the data transfer to the USA is the EU Commission's adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework of 10.07.2023 and the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses.

(4) You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the permissibility of the processing until revocation. The easiest way to revoke is via our Consent Manager or by clicking HERE. In addition, (logged-in users only) can object via the provider's function under the following link: www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_ possible.

(5) Further information on data processing by Facebook is available at Facebook Inc, 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA; privacy policy: www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

Data protection for applications

Provided that you send us an application via our website, we will use this data exclusively for the purpose of handling the application procedure. Processing can also take place by electronic means if your send us corresponding application documents electronically, such as, for example, by email or via a web form on the website. Provided that we conclude an employment contract with you due to this application, the data transmitted by you will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the statutory provisions. However, if we do not conclude an employment contract with you, the application documents will be automatically deleted six months after notification of the rejection decision, unless you have given your consent to the storage of your applicant data for future job advertisements on our part.

Data protection for WhatsApp Business

We use WhatsApp Business to communicate with commercial customers and/or business or contractual partners. Communication via WhatsApp Business only takes place if the initial contact is made by the customer and/or business or contractual partner. Correspondence includes answering enquiries, providing information and carrying out customer service activities.

Communication takes place via end-to-end encryption, which prevents WhatsApp or other third parties from gaining access to the communication content. The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. Furthermore, the use of WhatsApp Business is based on our legitimate interest in communicating with customers and/or business and contractual partners as quickly and effectively as possible (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

The following categories of personal data may be processed when using WhatsApp Business: Contact data (e.g. name, telephone number), communication content (e.g. chat histories), usage data (e.g. time of messages).

The communication content exchanged via WhatsApp Business remains with us until the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

The use of WhatsApp Business requires that data is transmitted to WhatsApp Inc, a service of Meta Platforms, Inc. This includes servers in countries outside the European Union, in particular the USA. The legal basis for the transfer of data to the USA is the EU Commission's adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework of 10 July 2023. Meta Platforms, Inc. is certified under the adequacy decision of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

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