Introduction
We, the Fehr Group AG, as the operator of the online offer, are responsible for the processing of the personal data of the users of the online offer. Our contact details can be found in the imprint of the online offer, the contact persons for questions concerning the processing of personal data are mentioned directly in this data protection declaration. We take the protection of your privacy and your private data very seriously. We collect, store and use your personal data only in accordance with the content of this privacy policy and the applicable data protection regulations. With this data protection declaration, we inform you to what extent and for what purposes personal data is processed in connection with the use of the online offer.
Personal data
Personal data is information about an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes all information about your identity, such as your name, e-mail address or mailing address. However, information that cannot be associated with your identity (such as statistics, such as the number of users of the online offer) is not considered personal data. In principle, you can use our online offer without disclosing your identity and without providing personal data. We will then only collect general information about the visit to our online offer. For some of the services offered, however, personal data is collected from you. This data will then be processed by us in principle only for the purpose of using this online offer, in particular for providing the desired information. When collecting personal data, only those data that are strictly necessary must be provided. In addition, further information may be possible and may be voluntary. We would like to point out whether these are mandatory fields or voluntary information. We will then inform you about the specific details in the corresponding section of this data protection declaration. Automated decision-making based on your personal data does not take place in connection with the use of our online offer.
Processing of personal information
We store your data on specially protected servers within the European Union or Switzerland. These are protected by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or dissemination of your data by unauthorized persons. Access to your data is only possible for a few authorized persons. These are responsible for the technical, commercial or editorial support of the servers. Despite regular inspections, however, complete protection against all dangers is not possible. Your personal data is transmitted over the Internet in encrypted form. We use for data transmission.
Disclosure of personal data to third parties
We only use your personal information to provide the services you request. Insofar as external service providers are used by us in the context of the provision of services, their access to the data also takes place exclusively for the purpose of the provision of services. Through technical and organizational measures, we ensure compliance with data protection regulations and also oblige our external service providers to do so. In addition, transmission to third parties takes place only with your express consent or to the extent that we are entitled or obliged to do so on the basis of legal provisions and/or official or judicial orders. In particular, this may involve providing information for law enforcement, security or enforcement purposes. Insofar as we transfer your personal data ourselves or through service providers in countries outside the European Union, we comply with the applicable legal requirements and also oblige our service providers to comply with these. We will therefore only transfer your data to countries outside the European Union or Switzerland, as long as the legally prescribed level of protection is observed. This level of protection is ensured in particular by an adequacy decision of the EU Commission or the Swiss Federal Council or by appropriate guarantees in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.
Legal bases of data processing
We do not need a legal basis for all of our data processing. To the extent that we require such a measure due to the applicable laws, we will explain to you in this section what it consists of. References to these legal bases in the remainder of the Privacy Policy only refer to the case in which we need such a basis under the applicable laws. Insofar as we obtain consent for the processing of your personal data, this consent is the legal basis for the data processing. Insofar as we process your personal data because this is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract or within the framework of a contract-like relationship with you, the fulfillment of the contract or pre-contractual measures constitutes the legal basis. Insofar as we process your personal data for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, this constitutes the legal basis for the data processing. As a legal basis for the data processing, processing on the basis of legitimate interests can also be considered if the processing of your personal data is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests or the interests of a third party and your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms do not require the protection of personal data. Within the context of this data protection declaration, we point out in each case on which legal basis we base the processing of your personal data, insofar as legally necessary.
Data erasure and storage time
We always delete or block your personal data whenever the purpose of the storage no longer applies. However, storage can also take place if this is provided for by legal requirements to which we are subject, for example with regard to statutory retention and documentation obligations. In such a case, we will delete or block your personal data after the end of the relevant requirements.
Use of our online offer
Information about your computer
Whenever we access our online offer, we collect the following information about your computer, regardless of your registration: the IP address of your computer, the request of your browser and the time of this request. In addition, the status and the amount of data transferred are recorded within the scope of this request. We also collect product and version information about the browser and operating system used on the computer. We further record from which website the online offer was accessed. The IP address of your computer is stored only for the time of use of the online offer and subsequently deleted or anonymized by truncation. The remaining data shall be stored for a limited period of time. We use this data for the operation of the online offer, in particular to detect and eliminate errors, to determine the utilization of the online offer and to make adjustments or improvements. These purposes are also our legitimate interest in data processing.
Use of cookies
As on many websites, cookies are used for our online offer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and store certain settings as well as data for the exchange with the online offer of us via your browser. A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie file was sent, information about the age of the cookie, and an alphanumeric identifier. Cookies enable us to recognize your computer and make any preferences and preferences immediately available. The cookies used by us are – as far as possible – so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted after the end of the browser session. In some cases, cookies with a longer storage period can also be used so that your preferences and preferences can be taken into account the next time you visit our online offer. Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. However, you can disable the storage of cookies or set your browser to notify you when cookies are sent. It is also possible to manually delete already stored cookies via the settings of the browser. Please note that you may only be able to use our online offer to a limited extent or not at all if you refuse the storage of cookies or delete necessary cookies. Insofar as cookies are not required for our online offer, we ask you for consent to the use of cookies when you first call up the online offer. With regard to the non-necessary cookies of third-party providers, you will find below a more detailed description of the services of these third-party providers used by us. The legal basis for the associated data processing, including any data transfer, is your consent. Once consent has been given, it may be revoked at any time with effect for the future, in particular by changing the selected settings. The legal basis for the use of necessary cookies is our legitimate interest in the proper provision of our online offer and – insofar as contracts are concluded or fulfilled via our online offer – the fulfillment of the contract or pre-contractual measures. Once a selection has been made with regard to the use of cookies, it can be changed again at any time.
Integration of third-party services
For some features in our online offering, we use third-party services. The corresponding services are mainly optional functions that must be explicitly selected or used by you. We have entered into contractual agreements with the respective providers to provide or integrate their services and as far as we are able to ensure that the third-party providers also inform transparently about the scope of the processing of personal data and comply with data protection regulations.
Google Tag Manager
For our online offer we use the Google Tag Manager of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St., Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). The Google Tag Manager is a tag management system (TMS) that allows tags, i.e., tracking codes and related code fragments, to be managed on our website. Google services can be integrated into a website via Google Tag Manager. When using the Google Tag Manager, a connection to the Google servers is established. As a result, the IP address of the browser of the terminal device used by the visitor to these Internet pages is stored by Google. In this context, it is not excluded that data may be transferred to Google in the USA and that US security authorities may be able to access the data. However, cookies are not set in connection with the use of the Google Tag Manager. For more information on the Google Tag Manager and the data processing by Google, please visit: https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6102821?hl=de https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ Our legal basis for the use of the Google Tag Manager is our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest is the management of the tracking codes in our online offer, which enable us to analyze the use of our online offer and to improve and personalize our services.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics for statistical evaluations. Google Analytics is a web analysis service from Google. As part of Google Analytics, Google uses cookies, among other things, for the evaluations. The type and scope of the use and evaluation of cookies are determined by Google. The information about your use of the online offer generated by the cookies is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. This does not preclude the possibility that data may be transferred to the USA and that, as a result, public authorities may have access to this data. However, standardized IP anonymization means that your IP address will be truncated by Google beforehand on servers in the European Union or Switzerland. On our behalf, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the online offer, to compile reports on website activities and to provide other services related to website use and internet use to us as the operator of the online offer. In addition, Google may use the data for its own purposes. Within the scope of these purposes, Google, for example, forms a profile on the user behavior or links the data with other data, for example with an existing Google account. We have no influence whatsoever on these data processing operations. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be combined with other data that Google collects or already has. For more information, please refer to Google's data protection information, which is linked for you below. We also use the "demographic features" function of Google Analytics. This enables reports to be produced that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of the website visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as from visitor data from third-party providers. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as shown in the following paragraph. For more information on the demographics feature, please visit Google at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2799357?hl=de. You can 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 plug-in available under the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. For more information, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information on Google Analytics and data protection). Please note that on our website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "anonymizeIp();" in order to anonymize the IP addresses, whereby the last octet will be deleted.
Use of YouTube
Our online offer includes YouTube videos, for which we use a plugin of the Google-operated service YouTube ("YouTube"). The operator of the service is Google. We use the YouTube service in the extended data protection mode to protect your privacy as much as possible. When you access a website of our online offer on which a YouTube video is embedded, Google initially receives only the information necessary for integration and no cookies are set for usage analysis. Google will only receive further information when you play the embedded video; Google may also set cookies to analyze your user behavior. When the video is played, Google's YouTube servers are informed, for example, about which page of our online offer you play the video. If you are logged into your Google account, you enable Google or YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal Google profile. We therefore recommend that you only play embedded YouTube videos if you agree with the associated data processing by Google. You can prevent the data association to your Google profile by logging out of your YouTube account. For more information on how to handle user data, please see Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/, which also applies to YouTube. We use YouTube so that we can show you videos and thus better inform you about us and our services. The legal basis for the integration of the videos is our legitimate interest; however, the playback of the videos and the associated further data processing are only carried out on the basis of your consent.
Applicant Portal
You can apply for a position with us via the applicant portal and submit all the necessary information and documents. The use of the applicant portal is voluntary; you can also send us your application by other means, for example by e-mail or post. Upon receipt of an application via the applicant portal, your documents will be forwarded electronically to the relevant employees at our company. If you have applied for an advertised position, the documents will be automatically deleted three months after the completion of the recruitment procedure, unless any other legitimate interests preclude deletion. Such legitimate interests in this sense are, for example, evidentiary obligations in a procedure under the German General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) or the Swiss Equal Treatment Act (GlG). In the case of an application without reference to a job advertised (unsolicited application), the application is retained as long as there is a possibility that the application may be of interest. You have the possibility at any time to request the deletion of your application even before the expiry of the prescribed retention periods. In the event of a successful application, the transmitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the legal requirements. In all other cases, the legal basis for storing your applicant data is your consent.
Communicate with us
You can contact us in various ways, including via the contact form on our website. In addition, we will be happy to inform you regularly with our newsletter by e-mail.
Contact form
To the extent that you wish to use the contact form in our online offer, we collect the personal data that you provide in the contact form, in particular name and email address. In addition, we store the IP address as well as the date and time of the request. We process the data transmitted via the contact form exclusively for the purpose of being able to answer your inquiry or request. You can decide for yourself what information you will provide to us via the contact form. The legal basis for processing your data is your consent. After the matter has been processed by us, the data will be stored first in the event of any queries. The deletion of the data can be requested at any time, otherwise we delete the data after complete execution of the matter; statutory retention obligations remain unaffected in each case.
Social Media
In addition to our online offer, we also use various social media channels for information transmission and communication, to which you can find links in our online offer or in which you can find links to our online offer. Specifically, we use the social networks Facebook and LinkedIn. The links can be recognized by the respective logo of the providers. By clicking on the links, the corresponding social media pages are opened, to which the respective provider's own regulations and data protection information apply. We have summarized for you below an overview of the respective notes of the providers. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy No personal information is transmitted to the respective providers before the corresponding links are called up. Your access to the linked page is also the basis for data processing by the respective provider. In addition, the following information on the associated processing of your personal data applies to our use of the social media channels Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook fan page
In addition to our own online offer, we also run a fan page on the social network Facebook. The fan page provides information about our activities and offers a channel for communication. The operator of the Facebook social network is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (‘Meta’). To this extent, we use the technical platform and the services of Meta.
Delimitation of responsibility
We point out that you use the fan page and its function under your own responsibility, especially with regard to interactive functions such as commenting, sharing or evaluating. Alternatively, you can also access the information offered via the fan page on our homepage. As far as possible on Facebook, we try to ensure the protection of your privacy and your private data. If your personal data is processed in connection with the us visiting the fan page, the explanations in this data protection declaration apply without restriction. Due to the integration of the fan page into Facebook's offer, it should also be noted that personal data is processed by Meta at the same time. When visiting the fan page, Meta collects, among other things, your IP address and other information that may be stored in the form of cookies on the terminal device you use or in the respective browser. We have no influence on the processing of data by Meta; Facebook in particular does not act as a processor for us under our responsibility. Facebook's data processing policies apply – at least according to Meta's statements – to Facebook's policies, which can be accessed at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. We point out that the data collected about you by Meta in this context may also be transferred outside the European Union or Switzerland. In terms of data protection law, we and Meta are jointly responsible for the operation of the fan page or the evaluation of user data when visiting the fan page. In accordance with the data protection regulations, we have concluded an agreement with Meta to delimit responsibility internally.
Facebook Insights
Meta offers the operators of fan pages the opportunity to obtain an overview of the use of the fan page and its users via the functions of page insights. Above all, statistical data can be accessed and evaluated via page insights. We use the data from site insights to make the fan page as attractive and efficient as possible. To this end, Meta provides us with data generated by Meta itself. Facebook provides further information on the functioning and responsibility for the Page Insights function at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.
messenger
Users who are registered with Facebook also have the opportunity to communicate directly via Facebook Messenger. If you contact us via the Messenger, the transmitted data will be stored and used by us exclusively for the purpose of answering your inquiry. The legal basis for processing your data is your consent and our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest lies in the collection and processing of customer inquiries, in the evaluation of customer inquiries and the control of abuse. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for achieving the purpose for which they were collected. For your personal data, this is the case when the respective conversation has ended. For us, the conversation ends when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the facts in question have been finally clarified. You have the possibility to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time; in this case, the data will be deleted by us immediately if there is no basis for further storage.
Further information on Facebook
If you have any questions regarding the use of personal data by us in connection with the use of the fan page on Facebook, please feel free to contact us and our data protection officer. The contact details and the communication channels are explained in our privacy policy. If you have any questions regarding data protection on Facebook, please contact Meta directly.
In addition to our own online offer, we also run an account with the career network LinkedIn. Through the account we inform about our company and our activities and offer a channel for communication. The LinkedIn career network is operated by the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland ("LinkedIn"). Please note that you use the career network and its functions under your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions (e.g. likes, sharing, commenting). Processing of personal data The data collected about you when using the service is processed by LinkedIn. It cannot be excluded that data may also be transferred to countries outside the European Union or Switzerland. The data processed includes, among other things, the data voluntarily provided by you such as your name, user name, email address, telephone number, information about your career history, profile data, content that you create, upload or receive as well as comments, your IP address, information about the terminal device you use, information about websites accessed and content as well as your location. We have no influence on the type and extent of the data processed by LinkedIn, the way in which it is processed and used or the transmission of this data to third parties. Information on which data is processed by LinkedIn and for which purposes can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. We process the data you enter into LinkedIn insofar as we may like, comment or share your contributions or contact and interact with you. The data that you freely publish and distribute on LinkedIn will be included by us in our offer in this way. You have the possibility to restrict the processing of your data in the general settings of your LinkedIn account. In addition, you can restrict LinkedIn's access to contact and calendar data, photos, location data, etc. in the setting options for mobile devices. However, this depends on the operating system used. For more information on LinkedIn's privacy settings, please visit: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?. Analysis LinkedIn offers the operators of LinkedIn accounts the opportunity to get an overview of the use of the account and its users. Above all, statistical data can be accessed and evaluated via the analysis functions. We use the data to make our account attractive and efficient. To this end, LinkedIn provides us with data that LinkedIn itself generated on its own responsibility. The data we receive from LinkedIn is mostly anonymized data and statistics. Insofar as we receive personal data in this context, we are responsible for our further processing of this data to evaluate the use of our LinkedIn account. For more information, see LinkedIn's privacy policy at https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. Communication At LinkedIn you have the possibility to communicate directly with us. If you contact us via LinkedIn, the transmitted data will be stored and used by us exclusively for the purpose of answering your inquiry. The legal basis for processing your data is your consent and our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest lies in the recording and processing of inquiries, the evaluation of inquiries and the control of abuse. The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for achieving the purpose for which they were collected. For your personal data, this is the case when the respective conversation has ended. For us, the conversation ends when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the facts in question have been finally clarified. You have the possibility to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time; in this case, the data will be deleted by us immediately if there is no basis for further storage. Further information on LinkedIn If you have any questions regarding the use of personal data by us in connection with the use of the LinkedIn account, please feel free to contact us at any time. The contact details and the communication channels are explained in our privacy policy. If you have any questions regarding data protection at LinkedIn, we would like to ask you to contact LinkedIn directly.
Your rights and contact
We attach great importance to explaining the processing of your personal data as transparently as possible and also to informing you of your rights. If you wish to receive more information or wish to exercise your rights, you can contact us at any time so that we can take care of your request.
Data subjects' rights
You have extensive rights with regard to the processing of your personal data, depending on the applicable law. First of all, you have a comprehensive right to information and may request the correction and/or deletion or blocking of your personal data if necessary. You may also demand a restriction of processing and have a right to object in part. You also have a right to data portability with regard to the personal data you provide us with. If you wish to exercise any of your rights and/or receive further information about this, please contact our customer service.
Withdrawal of consent and objection
Once you have given your consent, you can revoke it freely at any time with effect for the future. The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of consent until the revocation. The contact person for this is also our customer service. If the processing of your personal data is not based on consent but on another legal basis, you can object to this data processing insofar as the applicable law so provides. Your objection leads to a review and, if necessary, termination of the data processing. You will be informed of the result of the check and – if the data processing is to continue anyway – will receive from us more detailed information as to why the data processing is permitted.
Complaints
If you consider that the processing of your personal data by us does not comply with this data protection declaration or the applicable data protection regulations, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority. You can also complain directly to us. We will then examine the matter and inform you of the outcome of the examination.
More information and changes
Links to other websites
Our online offer may contain links to other websites. As a rule, these links are marked as such. We have no influence on the extent to which the applicable data protection regulations are observed on the linked websites. We therefore recommend that you also check other websites for the respective data protection declarations.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The status of this data protection declaration is indicated by the date (below). We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with effect for the future. A change takes place in particular in the case of technical adaptations of the online offer or in the case of changes to the data protection requirements. The current version of the privacy policy is always available directly from the online offer. We recommend that you regularly inform yourself about changes to this data protection declaration. Status of this privacy policy: November 2024