If you exclude the use of cookies, you may not be able to use certain functions of our Website – including the possibility of cookie-based opt-out from tracking. Please allow the opt-out cookies of those services for which you wish to prevent tracking.

Please also note that deleting all cookies will also delete opt-out cookies. You may therefore have to reset them. Cookies are also browser-bound, i.e. they must be set separately for each browser you use on each device you use. You will find the necessary links in the description of the respective service below.

The cookies used, their purpose, provider and storage period Cookies can be tracked at any time by clicking on the cookie banner here and their use can be adjusted accordingly.

8. Supplementary notes and provisions on specific services

a) Statische Elektrizität – Wissenscenter

At your express request, we may subscribe to our knowledge centre. Please note that delivery can only take place once you have expressly confirmed your subscription request again in the context of our double opt-in procedure.

The personal data collected within the scope of the knowledge-centre registration will be used exclusively for marketing content, such as articles, technical papers and case studies. You can revoke your consent to the storage of personal data that you have given us for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. For the purpose of revoking your consent, each newsletter contains an appropriate link; alternatively, you are welcome to contact us directly so that we can implement your revocation. Details of the consent given to us were communicated to you in the Double-Opt-In-Mail.

b) Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how data subjects use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before this happens. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. One way to object to web analysis by Google Analytics is to set an opt-out cookie, which instructs Google not to store or use your data for web analysis purposes. Please note that with this solution, web analytics will only not take place as long as the opt-out cookie is stored by the browser. If you wish to set the opt-out cookie now, please click https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/?hl=us#disable

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link. The current link is: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=us.

Recipient of the data: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

The transfer of data to the USA as a third country without an adequate level of data protection takes place on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit a) GDPR in the cookie banner. Here you have agreed as follows:

I consent to the use of the cookie, although I have been informed that the data will be transferred to the USA and I cannot sufficiently exercise my right to a legal hearing there in accordance with European principles and therefore no adequate level of data protection can be guaranteed.

c) Matomo Web Tracking (ehemals Piwik)

Auf dieser Website werden unter Einsatz der Webanalyse-Software Matomo (www.matomo.org), bestimmte Nutzerinformationen gesammelt und gespeichert. Aus diesen Informationen können pseudonymisierte Nutzungsprofile erstellt und ausgewertet werden.

Folgende Daten werden erhoben und unter einer Visitor-ID (config_id) gespeichert:

• Zwei Bytes der IP-Adresse des aufrufenden Systems des Nutzers
• aufgerufene Website, Datum und Zeitpunkt des Aufrufs
• Website, von der der Nutzer auf die aufgerufene Webseite gelangt ist (Referrer)
• Unterseiten und externe Seiten, die aufgerufen werden sowie heruntergeladene Inhalte
• Verweildauer auf der Website und Ladezeiten der angezeigten Seiten
• Bildschirmauflösung, Browser-Sprache und Browser-Typ
• Systemzeit und ungefährer Standort (Land, Region, Stadt, geografische Länge/Breite)

Die mit der Matomo-Technologie erhobenen Informationen werden ausschließlich auf unseren Servern in der EU verarbeitet. Eine Weitergabe der Daten an Matomo oder sonstige Dritte erfolgt nicht.

Diese Website verwendet Matomo ohne den Einsatz von Cookies, was bedeutet, dass Matomo zur Nutzungsanalyse keine Cookies auf Ihrem Endgerät setzt, sondern lediglich anhand der genannten Daten einzelne Nutzer wiederzuerkennen versucht. Da wir die erhobenen Daten sparsam konfiguriert haben, ergibt sich eine gewisse Unschärfe, die das Wiedererkennen einzelner natürlicher Personen stark erschwert. Wenn auch das genutzte Endgerät wiedererkannt werden kann, so ist es auch mit großem Aufwand nahezu unmöglich, den tatsächliche Identität der Nutzer zu ermitteln.

Matomo erkennt wiederkehrende Nutzer mit Hilfe einer sogenannten config_id. Dabei handelt es sich um eine zufällige Zeichenfolge, die mittels der ersten 2 Bytes der IP-Adresse, sowie den Browser-Plugins, dem Betriebssystem und der gewählten Browsersprache des Nutzers berechnet und sodann gehasht wird. Die ID wird nach 24 Stunden gelöscht und neu erstellt, sodass der Nutzer von der Website bei erneuten Besuchen nicht wiedererkannt werden kann. Analysedaten werden in Auswertungsberichten aggregiert und für 2 Jahre gespeichert. Matomo ist dabei so eingestellt, dass die IP-Adressen nicht vollständig gespeichert werden, sondern 2 Bytes der IP-Adresse maskiert werden (Bsp.: 192.168.xxx.xxx). Auf diese Weise ist eine Zuordnung der gekürzten IP-Adresse zum aufrufenden Endgerät nicht mehr möglich.

Rechtsgrundlage der Verarbeitung ist Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 f) DSGVO. Die Verarbeitung dient der Wahrung berechtigter Interessen des Verantwortlichen an der Auswertung der Websitenutzung zu Optimierungszwecken. Diesen berechtigten Interessen an der Nutzungsauswertung zur Angebotsverbesserung stehen die Rechte und Freiheiten der betroffenen Personen regelmäßig nicht entgegen, da wir die Auswertung vertraglich und technisch streng reguliert haben. Durch die sparsame Datenerhebung und pseudonymisierte Auswertung, ist die Rückverfolgbarkeit auf einzelne natürliche Personen praktisch ausgeschlossen. Da sich insofern rein theoretisch Möglichkeiten der Beeinträchtigung von Betroffeneninteressen ergeben und selbst diese theoretische Möglichkeit anhand der von uns angebotenen Inhalte kein Missbrauchspotential erkennen lässt, stehen die Interessen betroffener Personen unseren Auswertungsinteressen nicht entgegen.

Sie können der Speicherung und Auswertung der Informationen aus Ihrem Besuch per Mausklick jederzeit widersprechen. In diesem Fall wird in Ihrem Browser ein sog. Opt-Out-Cookie abgelegt, mit der Folge, dass Matomo keinerlei Sitzungsdaten erhebt. Bitte beachten Sie, dass eine Löschung Ihrer Cookies zur Folge, dass auch das Opt-Out-Cookie gelöscht wird und ggf. erneut abgelegt werden muss.

Allgemeines zum Datenschutz bei Matomo: https://matomo.org/matomo-cloud-privacy-policy/

d) Contact form

Data that you transmit to us via our contact form will be processed for the purpose of communication and data exchange, i.e. to respond to your specific request. These data are stored as long as their processing is necessary for these purposes or until the expiry of any subsequent retention periods.

e) Online application process

We offer you the opportunity to apply to us online by e-mail. The data entered by you and the attachments sent with it are transmitted via the Internet and thus unencrypted. Your electronic application data will be received by the relevant personnel department and only forwarded to the department responsible for the respective position or to the persons in charge of processing. All parties involved treat your application documents with the necessary care and with absolute confidentiality.

f) Social Media Buttons

Our website uses social media buttons (LinkedIn, YouTube) to enable you to interact with third parties.

These social media buttons are not integrated as plugins, but are provided as links. By clicking on the social media buttons you will be redirected to the page of the respective provider. The respective provider is then responsible for compliance with data protection regulations and for the correctness, topicality and completeness of the data processing information provided there in accordance with Art. 4 No. 17 GDPR.

g) YouTube

We have no influence on the purposes for which the platform operator actually uses the data. We also have no effective means of control in this respect.Storage duration

The storage and deletion of the data is the duty of the platform operator in accordance with the agreement in the sense of Art. 26 para. 1 GDPR. The information on this can be obtained from the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update?hl=us&gl=us

We have no influence on how the platform operator determines the regular deletion periods and how the data is deleted. We also have no effective control possibilities in this respect.

Categories of recipients

Only our employees and service providers who maintain our fan page and need the data for the above-mentioned purposes have access to the data processed by us. If the data subjects post their data publicly on our fan page, these data can be accessed by other registered and possibly also non-registered visitors.

The recipient categories to which the platform operator discloses the data or allows registered visitors to disclose their data, as well as information on intra-group data exchange, can be found in the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update?hl=us&gl=us

We have no influence on the disclosure of data to individual recipients (categories) by the platform operator. We also have no effective means of control in this respect.

Data transfers to third countries

If the data subjects post their data publicly on our fan page, they can be accessed by other registered and possibly also unregistered visitors worldwide.

In the context of the operation of our fan page, the data is also processed by Google LLC. The transfer of data to the USA as a third country is currently taking place due to technical necessity of the data partially accessed in the USA without an adequate level of data protection. Please note that due to the decision of the European Court of Justice on the invalidity of the privacy shield, the data transfer to the USA may possibly be carried out without an adequate level of data protection and we are therefore currently working on a solution. If you nevertheless call up our fan page, we would like to point out explicitly that your basic rights under Art. 7, 8 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (GRChr) are not adequately taken into account in the USA.

The platform operator will transfer the data to the United States, Ireland and any other country in which the platform operator does business, regardless of the residence of the data subjects, and will store and otherwise process the data there.

Related data transfers to third countries are secured by an adequacy decision of the EU Commission in accordance with Art. 45 GDPR or by suitable guarantees in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update?hl=us&gl=us

We have no influence on the data transfers to third countries carried out by the platform operator. We also have no effective means of control in this respect.

Logic involved and scope of a profiling or an automated individual decision based on the collected data

If the data subjects are tracked by the collection of their data, whether by using cookies or comparable techniques or by storing the IP address, the platform operator is obliged under the terms of the agreement within the meaning of Art. 26 Para. 1 GDPR to provide information about this. In particular, the platform operator is obliged to inform the data subjects of the purposes and legal basis if, after calling up a subpage within our fan page, one session cookie and three cookies with lifetimes between four months and two years are stored.

The information on this can be taken from the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update?hl=us&gl=us

The platform operator may use various analysis tools for evaluation.

We have no influence on the use of such tools by the platform operator and have not been informed about such potential use. If tools of this kind are used by the platform operator for our fan page, we have neither commissioned nor approved nor supported this in any other way. Also, the data obtained during the analysis is not made available to us. Furthermore, we have no way of preventing or stopping the use of such tools on our fan page and no other effective means of control.

Data Subject Access Rights

The joint controllers must grant the data subjects various rights with regard to the processing of their data, which they can assert directly against the platform operator on the basis of the agreement within the meaning of Article 26 (1) GDPR: https://support.google.com/policies/answer/9581826?visit_id=636832497483186206-2169122297&hl=en&rd=3

If certain conditions are met, data subjects have the right of access, correction or deletion of personal data concerning them or the right to limit the processing of data by the data controller, in accordance with Art. 15 to Art. 18 GDPR. Data subjects also have the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of their personal data at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR). They may also object to the further processing of their data, which is based solely on the legitimate interest of the controller pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR (Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR), if interests worthy of protection in excluding data processing arise from their particular personal situation and there are no longer compelling reasons for the controller to continue processing the data. If personal data are processed for the purpose of direct marketing, data subjects have the right to object to such processing at any time with effect for the future (Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR). If the data processing is based on the consent of the data subject pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a), Art. 9 (1) (a) GDPR or pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR on a contract with the data subject and is carried out with the aid of automated procedures, the data subjects may, pursuant to Art. 20 (1) DGVO, request to receive the personal data stored about them in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to have it transmitted to a third party designated by the data subject.

In principle, data subjects have the right not to be subjected to any automated individual decision pursuant to Art. 22 para. 1 GDPR. Insofar as such an automated individual decision is permissible pursuant to Art. 22 Paragraph 2 Letters a) to c) GDPR, data subjects are granted the following rights pursuant to Art. 22 Paragraph 3 GDPR: the right to present one’s own point of view, the right to object to the intervention of a person on the part of the Controller, the right to challenge the automated individual decision (right of appeal).

Furthermore, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if they consider that the processing of their personal data violates the basic data protection regulation, Art. 77 GDPR. The supervisory authority responsible for the platform operator is:
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2
D02 RD28, Ireland
Website: https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Contact-us/b/11.htm
Website: http://gdprandyou.ie/contact-us/

h) LinkedIn