Privacy policy

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We give you the opportunity to contact us by means of a contact form on our website. The personal data you provide as a result of contacting us through a contact form will only be processed for the purpose of handling your contact through the contact form. Your data will only be disclosed to third parties if doing so is necessary for the purpose of processing your contact. The legal basis for this processing is Art.  6 (1) (b) of the GDPR.  Your personal data will be deleted when it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose of your contact. We would like to point out that your messages may have to be stored in the context of legally existing retention requirements. In this case, the legal basis is Art.  6 (1) (c) of the GDPR.

If we use additional functions and contents (e.g. map or font services) on our website, by means of which we or the provider of the services process(es) personal data belonging to you, we will inform you of this at this point.

We use features of other services for our IDS Vision Channel (https://ids-vision-channel.tech) webinar and video streaming channel that requires registration. These are listed individually below:

We have pooled certain data processing operations in our company. They may be handled centrally by our individual divisions, e.g. for processing enquiries. External contractors and service providers (e.g. logistics companies or IT service providers) may also be used to ensure that our tasks are performed and contracts are fulfilled. Additionally, data may be passed on to recipients to whom we are obligated or entitled to disclose the same due to contractual or legal obligations or based on your consent.

Data transfer to third countries (countries outside of the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA)) only takes place insofar as doing so is necessary for the execution of a contract / order / business relationship, including the initiation of the same, or is permitted by our legitimate interest or based on your consent and only in compliance with the data protection requirements prescribed for this.

Note on data transfer to the USA
Services from companies based in the USA are integrated in our website. In the context of using these services, personal data may be transferred to servers belonging to the relevant service providers that are based in the USA. We would like to point out that the USA is not a safe third country under EU data protection law. US companies are obligated to hand over personal data to security authorities without you (the data subject) being able to take sufficient legal action against this. It cannot, therefore, be completely ruled out that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) process, evaluate and permanently store your data located on US servers for surveillance purposes. We have no control over these processing activities.

We process your personal data only for as long as doing so is necessary for the relevant purpose or until a legal basis for processing (e.g. revocation of consent to data processing) no longer exists. In this respect, we observe the existing legal retention and storage periods.

We reserve the right to modify our privacy policy at any time to ensure that it complies with the current legal requirements at all times. This also applies in the event that the privacy policy has to be adapted due to new or revised services, e.g. new services. The new privacy policy will then take effect the next time you visit our website.

We operate publicly accessible profiles on various social media channels. You can find out more about our activities in these sections below. We would like to draw your attention to the relevant operator’s privacy policy if you access these channels.

Social networks like Facebook, etc., can generally comprehensively analyse your user behaviour when you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. Like buttons or advertising banners). Visiting our social media pages triggers numerous processing operations that are relevant to data protection. Specifically: If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media page, the operator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. Under certain circumstances, your personal data may also be collected if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the relevant social media portal. In this case, this data collection takes place using the likes of cookies that are stored on your terminal device or by recording your IP address. The operators of the social media portals can create user profiles that your preferences and interests are stored in using the data collected in this way. In this way, you may be shown interest-based advertising within and outside of the relevant social media page. If you have an account with the relevant social network, the interest-based advertising may be displayed on all devices that you are or have been logged in on.

Please also note that we cannot track all processing on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, further processing operations may therefore be carried out by the operators of the social media portals. For details, please refer to the relevant social media portals’ terms of use and privacy policies.

Legal basis
Our presence on social media is designed to provide an informative online presence. This is a legitimate interest under Art.  6 (1) (f) of the GDPR. The analysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal bases, which are to be indicated by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent under Art.  6 (1) (a) of the GDPR).

Controller and asserting rights
If you visit one of our social media pages, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. In principle, you can assert your rights (access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and complaint) both against us and against the operator of the relevant social media portal.

Please note that, despite being a joint controller together with the social media portal operators, we do not have complete control over the social media portals’ data processing operations. Our options are largely determined by the relevant provider’s corporate policy.

Storage period
The data we collect directly through the social media page will be deleted from our systems as soon as the purpose for storing it no longer applies, you request that we delete it, you revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Stored cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them. Mandatory statutory provisions – particularly  retention periods – remain unaffected.

We have no influence over the storage period of your data that is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details, please contact the operators of the social networks directly (e.g. in their privacy policy; see below).