When visiting and using our website we already collect personal data. You can find within this section more information about website specific processes and tools especially from external partners. Further information about processes which can also occur in an offline context can be found in section 3.
2.1 Hosting
Purpose/Information:
When visiting and using our 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, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security.
Used Cookies/Tools: Type A. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section
Recipients:
-Platform/hosting providers will have access to personal data from a third country (countries outside the European Economic Area). As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
-Service Provider for IT-Support will have access to personal data from a third country (countries outside the European Economic Area). As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section
Deletion:
The deletion of the log files takes place after 7 days.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (legitimate interest)
2.2 Ratings and Reviews
Users might have the possibility to submit ratings and reviews of products, processes or other evaluations within the scope of the website's offers in accordance with the conditions of use. We will therefore collect the data that you have provided to us when you submit content via a rating and review.
In the case this website demands a specific consent for sensitive data we will also process sensitive information (e.g. via pictures or content description) about your health or data revealing racial or ethnic origin especially within reviews for products suitable for skin concerns.
It is our legitimate interest that users can give their free opinion about products and that those reviews can appear on third party websites in a pseudonymised manner.
We use the data you provide in order to publish and maintain your review and rating on our website in accordance with our conditions of use. Your review will be published with your nickname/pseudonym. The reviews might be checked before publication, to ensure that they comply with our conditions of use. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are objected to as unlawful by third parties. More information can be found in our conditions of use.
We also use your provided data within our legitimate interest to ensure that your review is not based on fraudulent behaviour, automatic programs or bots. It is therefore possible that you will receive a verification email to validate your email address.
You might receive emails in relation to your review (e.g. confirmation of approved/rejected review, comment to your review). You have at any time the option to unsubscribe via a link within these emails.
Cookie/Tools: Type A. More information can be found in the
“Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
-Platform/hosting provider
-Consumer service provider
-Fraud prevention service provider (for publication on a third-party website).
-Third party websites
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion / Objection:
The personal data of the users will be deleted or anonymised after the corresponding deletion request. The published reviews will usually remain visible under the published nickname/pseudonym unless you request a deletion separately
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR in conjunction with Art. 9 (2) a GDPR (consent)
Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (legitimate interest)
2.3 Cookies/Tools
This website uses cookies or other technologies/tools like pixels, local storage, tags, IDs or external services (hereinafter referred to as “Cookies/Tools”) and are used on when visiting and using our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your device to save certain information or image files, such as pixels. The next time you visit our website on the same device, the information saved in the cookies will subsequently be accessed on your device and transmitted either to our website (“First Party Cookie”) or to another website to which the cookie belongs (“Third Party Cookie”).
Through the information saved and returned, the respective website can recognise that you have already accessed and visited it with the browser you use on that device. We use this information to be able to design and display the website in an optimum way in line with your preferences. In that respect, only the cookie itself is identified on your device. Beyond this extent, your personal data will only be saved upon your express consent or if it is strictly necessary to be able to use the service offered to and accessed by you accordingly.
This website uses the following types of cookies/tools, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:
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Type A: Technical/Audience Measurement – to ensure that the demanded service can be provided including basic analysis. (No consent necessary acc. to ePrivacy Directive 2002/58 EC).
- Type B: Functional and Performance – Additional tools to measure the performance/attractiveness of our website and to provide further additional (personalised) functionalities.
- Type C: Marketing – Cross websites tools for marketing profiling based on user behaviour.
You can find more information on in the description of the tools implemented on our websites in this privacy policy. In case this website is using a consent management platform you can additionally find further information in there.
Please note that the tools listed in the following subsection might not be constantly in use.
2.3.1 Consentmanager CMP – Central cookie management platform
Purpose/Information:
This website is using the consent management tool “Consentmanager” (www.consentmanager.net) to obtain consent for data processing and use of cookies or comparable functions. With the help of "consentmanager" you have the possibility to give your consent for certain functionalities of our website, e.g. for the purpose of integrating external elements, integrating streaming content, statistical analysis, measurement and personalised advertising. With the help of “Consentmanager” you can grant or reject your consent for all or individual purposes or functions. The settings you have made can also be changed afterwards. The purpose of integrating “consentmanager” is to let the users of our website decide about the above-mentioned functions and, as part of the further use of our website, to offer the option of changing settings that have already been made. By using “consentmanager”, personal data and information from your end device, such as the IP address, are processed.
By processing the data, consentmanager helps us to fulfil our legal obligations (e.g. obligation to provide evidence). Our interests in processing lie in the storage of user settings and preferences with regard to the use of cookies and other functionalities. "Consentmanager" stores your data as long as your user settings are active.
The provision of your personal data is required for the performance of the contract or a situation similar to a contract. You are not obliged to provide your personal data. If your personal data is not provided, you cannot use the described service.
Cookies/Tools: Type A. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider is Consentmanager AB, Håltegelvägen 1b, 72348 Västerås Sweden.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion:
The data will be deleted after 13 months. The choice you have made (consent/setting) will be stored for one year and can be viewed here [LINK]. You can always delete your choice by deleting the cookies within your browser.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) b GDPR (situation similar to a contract)
Art. 6 (1) c GDPR (when processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation)
2.3.2 Beiersdorf Simplicity
Purpose/Information:
This site uses own hosted tool to analyse and regularly improve the usage of our website. It helps us to ensure that the website operates correctly especially by checking the functionalities of the website (e.g. to detect website navigation problems or to ensure enough server capacities). The statistics obtained also allow us to improve our website and make it more interesting for you as a user. Your IP-address will be automatically anonymised.
Cookies/Tools: Type A. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Platform/hosting provider
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
The collected personal data will be deleted after 1 day. Your IP-address will be anonymised immediately. You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (f) GDPR (legitimate interest ensuring the website operation and statistical usage)
2.3.3 Google Analytics
Purpose/Information:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Ltd. (“Google”). The configuration of Google Analytics has been modified by us to the measurement only function, unless separate consent for further advertising features has been given.
Google Analytics uses a specific form of cookie, which is stored on your computer and enables an analysis of your use of our website. The cookies set by Google Analytics for measurement are first party cookies, which means that data subjects’ cookie values will be different for each customer (i.e. there is not a single Google Analytics cookie ID that is used on all sites using Google Analytics). The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google Analytics is only used with an IP-Anonymization. The IP addresses are anonymized by default by Google and additionally by us.
Google uses this information on our behalf to analyse your use of this website in order to compile reports on website activities and provide additional services related to website and internet use.
We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the usage of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. In addition, we gain information about the functionality of our site (for example to detect navigation problems).
In the configuration of Google Analytics, we ensured that Google receives this data as a processor and is therefore not allowed to use this data for its own purposes. The "Google Analytics Advertising Features" configuration is independent from this and is described in the appropriate section below, provided it is also used on this website.
Cookies/Tools: Type B. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Information about Google Consent Mode:
Additionally, this website uses Google Consent Mode. Consent Mode sends statistical data via cookie-less pings about whether a user has clicked on an ad or link and has landed on our website (conversion). The statistical data is then used with a mathematical modelling to enhance the internal reporting. A ping contains by default technical information like the IP-address, platform type or screen resolution. As these data or the combination of it might theoretically be considered as personal data by Google Ireland Ltd, additional measures have been implemented to ensure that the ping data is not personal data: Certain information of the ping are being set to a default value by our server before sending it to Google analytics.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html, General overview on Google Analytics security and privacy principles: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en, as well as Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/Withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 12 months (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Maximum storage period of data: up to 26 months.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.4 A/B Testing
Purpose/Information:
This website also carries out analyses of user behaviour via a so-called A/B testing. We can show you our websites with slightly varied content, depending on your profile assignment. This enables us to analyse and regularly improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user.
Cookies are stored on your computer for these analyses. The information collected in this way is stored exclusively on a server in the EU. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the proper setting using your browser software.
Before the analyses are carried out, the IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, so that direct personal contact can be ruled out. The IP address transmitted by your browser is not merged with other data collected by us.
Cookie/Tools: Type B. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
The data is accessible by our analytical service providers based in the EU.
Deletion/objection:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 2 years (this applies only for cookies which have been set by this website).
Maximum storage period of data: up to 25 months. You can deactivate this tool within the cookie settings [LINK]
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.5 Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords)
Purpose/Information:
Google Ads Conversion
We use the services of Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertisements (so-called Google Ads) on external websites. We can determine in relation to the data of the advertising campaigns how successful the individual advertising measures are. We are interested in showing you advertisements that are of interest to you, to make our website more interesting for you and to achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs.
The advertisements are delivered by Google via so-called “Ad Servers”. For this purpose, we use ad server cookies, through which certain parameters for measuring success, such as the insertion of ads or clicks by users, can be measured. If you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads stores a cookie on your device. For this cookie, the unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (mark that the user no longer wishes to be addressed) are usually stored as analysis values.
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 device has not expired, Google and the customer can recognise that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Each Ads customer is assigned a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be traced via the websites of Ads customers. We do not collect and process any personal data in the aforementioned advertising measures. We only receive statistical evaluations from Google. On the basis of these evaluations we can recognise which of the used advertising measures are particularly effective. 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.
Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically starts a direct connection to the Google server. We have no influence on the extent and the further use of the data which are raised by the use of this tool by Google and inform you therefore according to our knowledge: By the integration of Ads conversion Google receives the information that you called the appropriate part of our internet appearance or clicked an announcement of us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may associate your visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the providers may obtain and store your IP address.
Google Ads Remarketing
We use the remarketing function within the Google Ads service. The remarketing function allows us to present to users of our website advertisements based on their interests on other websites within the Google advertising network (in Google search or on YouTube, so-called "Google ads" or on other websites). For this purpose, the interaction of users on our website is analysed, e.g. which offers the user was interested in, in order to be able to display targeted advertising to users even after visiting our website on other pages. To do this, Google stores cookies in the browsers of users who visit certain Google services or websites in the Google Display Network. This cookie is used to record the visits of these users. The number is used to uniquely identify a web browser on a particular device.
Cookies/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 180 days (this applies only for cookies which have been set by this website).
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.6 Google Analytics Advertising Features
This website also uses the extended functions of Google Analytics (Google Analytics Advertising Features) in addition to the standard functions. The Google Analytics Advertising Features implemented on this website include:
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting
- Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
- Remarketing Audiences based on specific behaviour, demographic, and interest data, sharing those lists with Google Ads
- Integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data for advertising purposes, including the collection of data via advertising cookies and identifiers
- Google Signals in order to receive more insights about you when you are signed in to your Google account in the browser with which you are accessing this website. This feature is only active if you have additionally consented within your Google settings to the data sharing/Ads Personalisation.
We therefore use first-party cookies (e.g. Google Analytics cookies) and Google advertising cookies and identifiers together in order to optimise our website.
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Information about Google Consent Mode:
Additionally, this website uses Google Consent Mode. Consent Mode sends statistical data via cookie-less pings about whether a user has clicked on an ad or link and has landed on our website (conversion). The statistical data is then used with a mathematical modelling to enhance the internal reporting. A ping contains by default technical information like the IP-address, platform type or screen resolution. As these data or the combination of it might theoretically be considered as personal data by Google Ireland Ltd, additional measures have been implemented to ensure that the ping data is not personal data: Certain information of the ping are being set to a default value by our server before sending it to Google analytics.
Recipients/Source:
Main service provider and source: Google Ireland Ltd., Ireland.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/Withdrawal:
Cookie lifetime: up to 12 months (this applies only for cookies which have been set by this website).
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.7 Google Campaign Manager
Purpose/Information:
This website also uses the online marketing tool Campaign Manager by Google. Campaign Manager uses Cookies to display ads relevant to users, improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once. Google uses a cookie ID to track which ads are displayed in which browser and to prevent them from being displayed more than once. In addition, Campaign Manager may use cookie IDs to collect so called conversions related to ad requests. This is the case, for example, when a user sees a Campaign Manager ad and later visits the advertiser's website with the same browser and buys something there.
Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Google server once visiting our website. We have no influence on the extent and the further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: By integrating Campaign Manager, Google receives the information that you have called the corresponding part of our Internet presence or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may associate your visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the providers may obtain and store your IP address.
In addition to that, Campaign Manager cookies (e.g. named as DoubleClick or Floodlight) allow us to understand whether you complete certain actions on our website(s) after viewing one of our display/video ads on Google or other platforms through Campaign Manager or clicking through one (conversion tracking). Campaign Manager uses this cookie to understand the content with which you have interacted on our website(s) in order to be able to send you targeted advertising later.
Used Cookies: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/Withdrawal
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here “Cookies/Tools” section.
Cookie lifetime: up to 180 days after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.8 Adform
Purpose/Information:
This website uses the online marketing tool Adform by Adform A/S Denmark. Adform uses tracking on our website via cookies and similar tracking technologies based on IDs (short cookie). The Adform cookie is placed on our website as soon as you have given your consent. An Adform cookie will also be placed, if you view our advertisement placed on third-party websites via Adform and you have consented to cookies on that website.
The legal basis for the placement of Adform cookies is your consent. Personal data is collected for analytical purposes and for the purpose of optimizing and personalizing advertising campaigns for Adform’s customers, including us. The Adform cookie collects the following data from us or our advertising material: Cookie ID, device type / ID, time of clicking on the website or the advertising medium, the URL of the website or the advertising medium, information automatically sent by your device (including Language setting, IP address, demographic data) interest data, socio-demographic data associated with a cookie or other ID.
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Adform A/S, Denmark.
Joint Controllership:
We and Adform are joint controllers of the collection of personal data and their disclosure to Adform by means of the Adform cookie and as joint controllers. The agreement lays down, who is responsible for compliance with certain data protection duties and who is responsible for follow-up in relation to your data protection rights. Adform is responsible for responding to your queries and for your data protection rights (e.g. the duty to provide information, your right to object, etc). To exercise your rights, you can contact Adform at the following link: https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/platform-privacy. You can also contact us about this. You can withdraw your cookie consent at any time and without giving reasons, by contacting Adform or deactivate the tools as stated below.
When Adform processes the data for its own purposes, Adform is the only data controller and solely responsible for its optimizing of advertising campaigns and target groups. Adform will analyse the data collected via cookies and IDs to be able to deliver targeted advertising purchases on behalf of Adform’s customers (including us), as detailed in Adform’s Privacy Policy. Click here https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/platform-privacy/product-and-services-privacy-policy for additional information on Adform’s processing, including when Adform will delete your data.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 180 days after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Maximum storage period of data: up to 13 months.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.9 (Website) Facebook Custom Audiences / Conversion (“Facebook Pixel”)
Purpose/Information:
This website uses the so-called "Facebook Pixel" and the Conversions API of the social network "Facebook" by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (Meta) for the following purposes:
Facebook (website) Custom Audiences
We use the Facebook pixel and the Conversions API for remarketing purposes to be able to contact you again within 180 days. This allows us to display interest-based advertisements ("Facebook Ads") to users of the website when they visit the social network "Facebook" or other websites also using this tool. In this way, we pursue the interest in displaying advertisements that are of interest to you in order to make our website or offers more interesting for you.
Facebook conversion
We also use the Facebook Pixel and the Conversions API to ensure that our Facebook Ads match the potential interest of users and are not annoying. With the help of the Facebook Pixel, we can track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion").
Due to the marketing tools used (Facebook Pixel and Conversions API), your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server as soon as you have agreed to the use of cookies requiring your consent. Through the integration of the Facebook pixel and the usage of the Conversions API, Facebook receives the information that you have called up the corresponding website of our internet presence or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account.
The processing of this data by Facebook takes place within the framework of Facebook's data policy. Special information and details about the Facebook pixel, the Conversions API and its functionality can also be found in the Facebook help area.
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Joint Controller:
We are jointly responsible with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (Meta) for the collection and transfer of data in this process. This applies to the following purposes:
The creation of individualised or suitable ads, as well as for their optimization
Delivery of commercial and transaction-related messages (e.g. via Messenger)
The following processes are therefore not covered by joint controllership:
The process that takes place after the collection and transmission is within the sole responsibility of Meta.
The preparation of reports and analyses in aggregated and anonymised form is carried out as a Processor and is therefore within our responsibility.
We have concluded a corresponding agreement with Meta for joint controllership, which can be accessed here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. This agreement defines the respective responsibilities for fulfilling the obligation under the GDPR with regard to joint controllership.
The contact details of the Controller and the data protection officer of Meta can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
We have agreed with Meta that Meta can be used as a contact point for the exercise of data subject rights (see Section 1.3). Without prejudice to this, the jurisdiction of the Rights of Data Subjects is not limited.
Further information on how Meta processes personal data, including its legal basis and further information on the rights of data subjects can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. We transfer the data within the scope of joint controllership based on the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.
Information on the data security conditions can be found here. https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/data_security_terms and on processing on the basis of standard contractual clauses can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK] and for logged in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#.
Cookie lifetime: up to 180 days after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.10 Social Plug-ins
Purpose/Information:
Social plug-ins (“plug-ins”) of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) are used on our websites, in particular the “Share” or “Share with friends” button of Facebook, whose website facebook.com is operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. The plug-ins are usually marked with a Facebook logo.
Besides Facebook, we use plug-ins from Twitter (Provider: Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103) and Pinterest (Provider: Pinterest Europe Limited, 2nd Floor, Palmerston House, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland).
For data protection reasons, we have deliberately decided against utilising direct plug-ins of social networks on our websites. Instead, we use the “Shariff” solution. With the aid of Shariff, we can determine for ourselves when and whether data is transmitted to the operator of the respective social network. For this reason, there is no automatic data transmission to social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest once you access our website. Data will be transmitted to social networks only if you actively click on the respective social network button. In this case, your web browser starts a connection to the respective social network's servers. By clicking on the respective button (e.g. “Pass on”, “Share” or “Share with friends”) you agree that your browser will produce a link to the respective social network's servers and transmit usage data to the respective operator of the social network and vice versa. We have no influence upon the nature and extent of the data that is then gathered by the social networks.
The social network providers store the data collected about you as user profiles and use these for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation takes place in particular (also for not logged in users) for the representation of demand-fair advertisement and in order to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have a right of objection to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in providers to exercise this right. Through the plug-ins we offer you the possibility to interact with social networks and other users, so that we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user.
Recipients:
Main service providers:
-Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
-Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
-Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion:
The deletion is in the responsibility of the main service providers.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.11 YouTube-Videos
Purpose/Information:
We have integrated YouTube videos into our website, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in the “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube, if you do not click on the videos to start playing them. Only when you play the videos the data referred to in the next paragraph will be transferred to YouTube. We have no influence on this data transfer.
By playing the videos YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website and might place further tools for marketing purposes. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account.
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
The deletion is in the responsibility of the main service providers.
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.12 Google Tag Manager
Purpose/Information:
This website uses the Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed through an interface. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. This means that no cookies are used and no personal data are stored. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn collect data if necessary. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, it remains valid for all tracking tags if they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.
Cookie/Tools: Type A. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion:
The Google Tag Manager does not store any personal data.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (legitimate interest)
2.3.13 Friendly Captcha
Purpose/Information:
This website uses in specific cases the Friendly Captcha to avoid the usage of text fields by automated programs/bots. It helps to support the security of our website and to avoid SPAM for the users. This is also our legitimate interest and fulfils our legal obligation.
Further information: https://friendlycaptcha.com/legal/privacy-end-users/
Cookie/Tools: Type A. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Friendly Captcha GmbH, Germany.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
The IP-address will be immediately after collection anonymised.
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) c GDPR (when processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation)
Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (when processing according to the legitimate interest described above)
2.3.14 Contentsquare
Purpose/Information:
This website uses Contentsquare, a cookie based web analysis service of Contentsquare GmbH (“Contentsquare”). Contentsquare processes user IP-addresses for geolocation (city level), blacklisting unwanted visitors and troubleshooting. We use Contentsquare to analyse and regularly improve the usage of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. In addition, we gain information about the functionality of our site (for example to detect navigation problems).
Cookie/Tools: Type B. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: Contentsquare GmbH, Germany. General overview on Contentsquare security and privacy principles https://contentsquare.com/privacy-center/
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Maximum storage period of IP address: 3 days.
Cookie lifetime: up to 13 months after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.15 LinkedIn Insight Tag
We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag on this website. The LinkedIn Insight Tag collects metadata such as URL, IP address, timestamp, device and browser characteristics in order to produce insights and campaign reporting. We are not able to identify you through these reports. LinkedIn provides only reports and alerts (which do not identify you) about the website audience and ad performance. You can control the use of your personal data for advertising purposes through your LinkedIn account settings.
Further information:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section.
Recipients:
Main service provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Ireland
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 90 days after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.16 TikTok Pixel
Purpose/Information:
This website uses the so-called "TikTok Pixel" of the social network „TikTok“ (for EU: TikTok Technology Limited, Ireland and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited, United Kingdom). This enables users of our website to be contacted again when visiting the social network "TikTok".
Through the TikTok pixel, your browser establishes a direct connection to the TikTok servers as soon as you have agreed to the use of cookies requiring consent. The pixel receives the information that you have accessed a particular page of our website or clicked on one of our ads.
TikTok then uses this data to display targeted and personalised advertising to its users and to create interest-based user profiles. The data collected from users is anonymous to us and is only used to measure the effectiveness of the ads.
TikTok also receives your IP address and other information about the user's device, such as the marketing identifier, device used, website visited and time. TikTok uses this data to identify users of our website and to link their actions to a "TikTok" user account. TikTok processes this data under its own responsibility from the moment of transmission. We have no influence on the further processing by TikTok.
Information on how TikTok collects, uses and protects the information collected with the TikTok pixel can be found in detail in the privacy policy for TikTok users: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/privacy-policy/en
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the “Cookies/Tools” section Cookies/Tools section.
Recipients:
Joint Controller:
We are jointly responsible with TikTok Technology Limited, Ireland and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited, United Kingdom (TikTok) for the collection and transfer of data as part of this process. This applies for the following purposes:
• Measurement and Insight Reporting
• Collection and transmission of Developer Data and/or Event Data
The following processing operations are therefore not covered by the joint processing:
• Determining and improving the relevance of ads to individuals.
• Optimisation of ad delivery by TikTok.
• Improving user safety, research, development to maintain and improve the integrity of TikTok's products and services
We have concluded a corresponding agreement with Meta for joint controllership, which can be accessed here: https://ads.tiktok.com/i18n/official/policy/jurisdiction-specific-terms.This agreement defines the respective responsibilities for fulfilling the obligation under the GDPR with regard to joint controllership.
The contact details of the Controller and the data protection officer of Meta can be found here: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/privacy-policy/en
We have agreed with TikTok that TikTok can be used as a contact point for the exercise of data subject rights. Without prejudice to this, the jurisdiction of the Rights of Data Subjects is not limited.
We transfer the data within the scope of joint controllership based on the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 180 days after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
2.3.17 Awin Performance Advertising Network
Purpose/Information:
We participate in the performance advertising network of "AWIN". AWIN places cookies on your device in order to be able to assign the visit of our website to a specific source (so-called affiliate links). By placing these cookies, the success of an advertising campaign can be measured and the corresponding billing can be carried out within the framework of a network. In other words, information is placed in a cookie about when a particular advertising medium was clicked by a device. AWIN also collects information about the device of the user, e.g. the operating system and the browser used.
Cookie/Tools: Type C. More information can be found in the Cookies/Tools
Recipients:
Main service provider: AWIN AG, Berlin, Germany
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies. For more information (such as a copy of the guarantees), you can contact us as mentioned under 1.2.
Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4.
Deletion/withdrawal:
You can deactivate this tool via the Cookie Settings here [LINK].
Cookie lifetime: up to 5 days after last interaction (this applies only to cookies which have been set by this website)
Legal basis:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
