Privacy Policy of congatec GmbH

Website data protection statement and at the same time information for data subjects pursuant to Article 13 and Article 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation

General information:

Information about the controller

General data processing information

Affected data:

Personal data is only collected if you communicate it to us yourself. Apart from that, no personal data is collected. Any processing of your personal data that goes beyond the scope of the statutory permission is only possible on the basis of your express consent.

Specific information about the website

Use of a newsletter

When registering for our newsletter, you provide us with your email address, last name, company and, on an optional basis, other information. We use these data solely for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. We retain the data that you disclose in your newsletter application until you cancel your subscription to our newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in the newsletter intended for this purpose, or by sending us the appropriate notification. By unsubscribing, you revoke the use of your email address, last name and company.

We also use your email address, which we receive in connection with the sale of a product or service, exclusively for direct advertising in the form of our newsletter for products or services that we sell that are similar to the ones you ordered, provided that you have not objected to having your email used in this way. You may object to the use of your email address at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. Your objection (and thus the cancellation of our newsletter) can be communicated by sending the appropriate message to our email address (see the Legal Notice).
 

Marketing Purpose
Most information we collect about you comes from our direct interactions with you. When you register for an event we may collect information (online or offline) in relation to the event organization, and during an event, such as participation in sessions. We combine the personal information we collect to develop aggregate analysis and business intelligence for conducting our business and for marketing purposes. You can choose to receive information by email, telephone or postal mail about our products and services, or sign-up for subscriptions. When visiting our websites or using our services we may provide you with personalized information. The personal information you provide to congatec, as well as the personal information we have collected about you indirectly, may be used by congatec for marketing purposes, i.e, to keep you informed about events, products, services and solutions that congatec sells and which may complement an existing product portfolio. Before we do so, however, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether or not to have your personal information used in this way. You may at any time choose not to receive marketing materials from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each e-mail you may receive, by indicating so when we call you, or by contacting us directly.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. However, in the event IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Treaty on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there only on an exceptional basis. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services to website operators relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted under Google Analytics by your browser with other data held by Google. You may prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, we should inform you in this case that you might not be able to enjoy all of the functionality of this website to its full extent. You may additionally prevent the recording of the data (including your IP address) to Google that is generated by the cookie and that pertains to your use of the website, or the processing of these data, by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in available through the following Link . In view of the discussion about the use of analytics tools with full IP addresses, we would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” which means that IP addresses are used only in a shortened form in order to prevent any direct correlation to specific persons. For browsers on mobile devices, please click this link to, in future, prevent anonymous tracking by Google Analytics and to activate a so-called “opt-out cookie” for your browser.

Use of Google Tag Manager

We use the Google Tag Manager. Through this service, website tags can be managed via an interface. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. No cookies are set and no personal data is collected. The Google Tool Manager triggers other tags that may collect data. The Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags, insofar as these are implemented with the Google Tag Manager. More information about the Google Tag Manager can be found at the following link: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/tag-manager/.

You have the option to prevent all tags of the Google Tag Manager from being sent. To do this, you must click on this opt-out link to place the Google Tag Manager deactivation cookie in your browser.

Use of Linkedin

On our website, we use a reference to the social network LinkedIn, which is operated exclusively by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland); hereinafter "LinkedIn".
The link is identified by means of the LinkedIn logo (no LinkedIn plugin). When you click on the LinkedIn logo, your browser establishes a direct connection with the LinkedIn servers. If you are already logged in to LinkedIn via your personal user account, the information about your visit to our website is automatically forwarded to LinkedIn. It is then possible that LinkedIn assigns the visit to the website to your account.

If you have consented to data processing at LinkedIn, your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) UAbs. 1 lit. a) DSGVO and Section 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar as the consent within the meaning of the TTDSG relates to the setting of cookies or access to information on your terminal device, is the legal basis for the processing. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the data processing until the revocation remains unaffected.

The data transfer to the USA is based on the EU standard contractual clauses, details of which can be viewed here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs 
We would like to point out that we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. The following link leads to the privacy policy of LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Linkedin Insight Tag

Our website further uses Insight Tag technology, which is exclusively operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland); hereinafter "LinkedIn". The purpose of the Insight Tag is to enable us to optimize our campaigns, retarget website visitors and learn more about our target audience. For this purpose, the LinkedIn Insight tag creates a unique LinkedIn browser cookie in a visitor's browser and enables the collection of the following data for this cookie: metadata such as IP address, timestamp and page events (e.g. page views). Further, log files (which are URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser characteristics, and time of access) are collected by LinkedIn. After seven days, the direct identifiers of LinkedIn members are deleted, the remaining data is pseudonymized and deleted after 180 days.

LinkedIn does not share any personal data with us, but only provides aggregate reports on website audience and display performance. LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes in their account settings. You have the option to object to the analysis of usage behavior and targeted advertising by LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

The legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) a) DSGVO and Section 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar as the consent within the meaning of the TTDSG relates to the setting of cookies or access to information on your terminal device. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected.
Further information on the LinkedIn Pixel can be found at: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/65521. LinkedIn's data protection policy can be found at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/87150/linkedin-marketinglosungen-und-die-datenschutz-grundverordnung-dsgvo-.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU standard contractual clauses, details of which can be found here: www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs

Data processing by HubSpot

We use HubSpot, a platform for inbound marketing and sales, on the basis of your consent (regarding the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 UAbs. 1 lit. a. DSGVO) HubSpot, a platform for inbound marketing and sales. HubSpot uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the users is usually transmitted to a server of HubSpot in the USA and stored there.

HubSpot will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offer by the users, to compile reports on the activities within this online offer and to provide us with further services related to the use of this online offer and the internet. In doing so, pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can be created from the processed data. We only use HubSpot with activated IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of users is shortened by HubSpot within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a HubSpot server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other data from HubSpot. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly. For more information on data usage by HubSpot, setting and objection options, please visit HubSpot's websites: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

Use of Dealfront

We use the Dealfront service, which is operated by Liidio Oy, Keskuskatu 6 E, 00100 Helsinki, Finland. Dealfront accesses the list of IP addresses of website visitors provided by Google Analytics in the analysis and links the list of IP addresses with information about the companies that can be found on the Internet under these IP addresses. As the IP addresses of website visitors are already truncated when Google Analytics is used, no direct personal reference is established. A personal reference can be presumed when reviewing the linked company information. For more information about Leadfeeder and the data collected, please visit: www.dealfront.com/de/privacy-center/. Information on Dealfront and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation can be found here.

This website uses its own “cookies” to increase user-friendliness (“cookies” are text files sent by the web server to the user’s browser and stored there for later retrieval). Our own “cookies” never store any personal information. You can prevent the use of “cookies” in general if you set your browser to disallow the storage of “cookies.”

You can edit your cookie settings here on your own.

Information about other data processing procedures

Specific information about other data processing procedures

Specific information for the processing of customer data/prospective parties’ data

Specific information on the processing of employee data

Specific information for the processing of supplier data

Further information and contacts

In addition, you may invoke your rights to correction or deletion at any time, to restrict processing, to object to processing, and to data portability. Here you will find the option to contact us by email  or letter. You also have the right to contact the data protection supervisory authority for complaints.