Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. Preamble

In the following, we inform you about which personal data is collected in connection with the use of our website and for what purpose. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses.

2. Name and contact details of the controller and the company data protection officer

This data protection information applies to data processing by:

Person responsible:

Edel SE & Co. KGaA (in the following: Edel),
Neumühlen 17
22763 Hamburg
Deutschland

Tel.: +4940890850
Mail: info@edel.com

Edel’s company data protection officer can be reached at datenschutz@edel.com.

3. Collection and storage of personal data as well as type and purpose of their use

a) When visiting the website:

Visiting our website is generally possible without providing personal data.

When you visit our website, however, the browser used on your terminal device automatically sends information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until automated deletion:

IP address of the requested computer,
Date and time of the server request,
Name and URL of the retrieved file,
Website from which the access is made (referrer URL),
Browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

The aforementioned data will be processed by us for the following purposes:

Ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
Ensuring a comfortable use of the website,
Evaluation of system security and stability,
Improvement of our offer.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data processing purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. For more detailed explanations, please refer to sections 5 and 10 of this privacy policy.

b) When registering for our newsletter

On our website you have the option to sign up for a newsletter. For the registration we need your e-mail address, as well as first and last name to be able to address you personally in the newsletter. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure, i.e. after your registration we send you an e-mail in which we ask you to confirm that you agree to receive the newsletter and that you have also entered your mail address in the registration form yourself.

For the dispatch of our newsletters we use the service “Brevo”, a newsletter dispatch service of SendinBlue GmbH, Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin. Brevo is a European provider that we have selected in particular also from the point of view of DSGVO compliance of the newsletter dispatch.

Brevo makes it possible for us to analyze the user response to our newsletter mailings, e.g. by showing whether a newsletter message was opened and which links, if any, were clicked and how often. Brevo also allows us to subdivide newsletter recipients based on different categories and better tailor them to specific audiences.

The provider “Brevo” logs the registrations and double opt-in confirmations during newsletter registration to document the registration process. This includes the storage of the login and confirmation time, as well as the IP address. In addition, the provider already collects data via a cookie when our website is called up in order to ensure a technical functionality of the newsletter registration. The collected data is stored on Brevo’s servers in Germany. Brevo uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from our servers as well as from the servers of Brevo after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Likewise, changes to your data stored with Brevo are logged. If you do not confirm your registration within 2 weeks, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month.

The processing of your information entered in the form is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO) exclusively for the purpose of sending the requested newsletter. The technically necessary processing of the information retrieved via the cookie is based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) to ensure a functional dispatch of our newsletter.

You can revoke your consent at any time for the future. To do so, use the “Unsubscribe” link provided in our newsletters or contact us directly, e.g. via the mail address datenschutz@edel.com. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

For more information about the provider, please see Brevo’s privacy policy at https://www.brevo.com/de/legal/privacypolicy/.

4. Disclosure of Data

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.

We will only share your personal information with third parties if:

You have provided us with your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. if you have given explicit consent,
The disclosure according to Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data,
In the event that for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. c DSGVO a legal obligation exists, as well as
This is legally permissible and in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO is necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you.

Your application data, which you have submitted to us in the course of your online application, will only be forwarded to the internal departments and specialist departments of our company responsible for the specific application process. This internal restriction on data disclosure does not apply if you have given us your consent to be included in our talent pool (see section 3e) above).

5. Cookies

We use cookies on our site. These are small text files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (laptop. tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device, do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.

Information is stored in the cookie that arises in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we thereby obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies serves on the one hand to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called “session cookies” to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after leaving our website.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain specified period of time. If you visit our website again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already been with us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

The data processed by cookies are necessary for the aforementioned purposes to protect our legitimate interests as well as those of third parties Pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO required.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a notice always appears before a new cookie is created. However, the complete deactivation of cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

In addition to technically necessary cookies (essential cookies) that ensure the functionality of our website, we also use cookies on our website that enable us to track and analyze the usage behavior of our website visitors in order to optimize our online offering and display personalized advertising. These are partly also cookies that are set by third-party providers (third-party cookies).

By clicking on the “I only accept essential cookies” button displayed below, you have the option to refuse the use of technically unnecessary cookies. You can view your selection of permitted cookies at any time under “Individual cookie settings” and revoke or change them with effect for the future.

Reference to data processing in the USA

By clicking the button “I accept all cookies”, you consent at the same time in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO that your data will be transferred to the USA and processed there. According to the European Court of Justice, the USA does not guarantee a level of data protection that meets European GDPR standards. In particular, compared to authorities in the EU, U.S. authorities have easier and more extensive access to personal data. There is thus a risk that your data collected in connection with your visit to our website may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, possibly without any legal remedy.

6. Facebook Visitor-Pixel

With your consent, we use the “visitor action pixel” of Facebook Inc. within our website. With its help, we can track the actions of users after they have accessed our website or seen or clicked on a Facebook ad.

This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our website and Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous for us, which means that we do not see the personal data of individual users. We only receive statistical information via the Facebook pixel.

However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, about which we inform you according to our state of knowledge. In particular, Facebook may associate this data with your Facebook account and also use it for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s privacy policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

Through the use of the Facebook pixel, the following data is sent to the Facebook:

HTTP header information (including IP address, web browser information, page location, document, web page URL and web browser user agent, and day and time of use),
Pixel-specific data; this includes the pixel ID and Facebook cookie data, including your Facebook ID (this data is used to link events to a specific Facebook ad account and associate them with a Facebook user),
additional information about the visit and about standard and custom data events.

By means of the hashed user-specific Facebook ID (contained in the Facebook cookie), Facebook automatically checks whether the data transmitted by the Facebook pixel can be assigned to a Facebook user. If no Facebook cookies are stored in your browser, no classification into a user group called “Custom Audience” is made.

You may allow Facebook, as well as its partners, to serve ads on and off Facebook. Furthermore, a cookie may be stored on your computer for these purposes.

This consent may only be given by users who are older than 13 years of age. If you are younger, please ask your parent or guardian for advice.

Please click here, if you wish to withdraw your consent.

Reference to data processing in the USA by Facebook

7. Google Maps

This website uses the “Google Maps” service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). With the help of Google Maps, we can display interactive maps directly in the website to the users of our website and thus enable a vivid, interactive and flexible use of a map function.

By using our website with integrated and displayed function of Google Maps, the information is transmitted to Google that you have accessed the corresponding page. A transmission may take place with a direct assignment to your Google account, if you have one and are logged in there. Your data will be used by Google for tracking and marketing purposes. The service uses “cookies”. By storing cookies on your computer, Google can analyze your use of our website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website and your IP address is usually sent to a server of Google Inc. in the USA and stored by them.

If you do not wish to be associated with your Google account, please log out of your Google account before using our website with embedded Google Maps services. Prevent the use of cookies through your browser. You can also prevent the use of Google Maps and the forwarding to Google via the corresponding setting in our cookie banner. Please note, however, that the corresponding information in the map function is then unfortunately not available. For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

The legal basis for the use of Google Maps is Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO, provided that you give your consent via the cookie banner.

Reference to data processing in the USA by Google

8. GA4 Google Analytics

Insofar as you have given your consent, our website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. The responsible entity for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).

Scope of processing

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by means of cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics 4 has IP address anonymization enabled by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

During your website visit, your user behavior is recorded in the form of “events”. Events may be:

Page Views
First visit to the website
Session start
Your “click path”, interaction with the website
Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the end of the page (90%))
Clicks on external links
internal queries
Interaction with Videos
File Downloads
Ads seen / clicked
Language settings

Also recorded:

Your approximate location (region)
Your IP address (in shortened form)
technical information about your browser and the terminal devices you use (e.g.

language setting, screen resolution)

Your Internet provider
the referrer URL (via which website/advertising medium

you came to this website).

Processing purposes

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website

Receiver

Recipients of the data are/could be

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (as a processor according to Art. 28 DSGVO)
Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

It cannot be ruled out that U.S. authorities will access the data stored by Google.

Third country transfer

Insofar as data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection corresponding to the European standard, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider to establish an appropriate level of data protection. The parent company of Google Ireland, Google LLC, is based in California, USA. A transmission of data to the USA and access by US authorities to the data stored by Google cannot be ruled out. The USA is currently considered a third country from a data protection perspective. You do not have the same rights there as within the EU/EEA. You may not be entitled to any legal remedies against access by authorities.

Storage duration

The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 2 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.

Legal basis

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to. Art.6 Para.1 S.1 lit.a DSGVO

Revocation

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by calling up the cookie settings and changing your selection there:

The lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies from the outset by setting your browser software accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to reject all cookies, you may experience limited functionality on this and other websites. You can also prevent the collection of 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 clicking

do not give your consent to the setting of the cookie or
download the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics (viahttps://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de and install. You can find more information about Google Analytics terms of use and Google’s privacy policy at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/ and at https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

Reference to data processing in the USA by Google

9. Google Tag Manager

This website uses the service “Google Tag Manager”. Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows you to manage website tags through one interface. The tool itself processes personal data only for technically necessary purposes. Google Tag Manager takes care of loading other components, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

10. Your Rights

a) Information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability, revocation, complaint

You have the right:

In accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data if it has not been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;
in accordance with Art. 16 DSGVO immediately demand the correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us;
pursuant to Art. 17 DSGVO to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;
to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you object to its erasure and we no longer require the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO;
in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO to receive your personal data that you have provided in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller;
according to Art. 7 par. 3 DSGVO to revoke your consent once given to us at any time. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent for the future, and
complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 DSGVO. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our branch office for this purpose.

b) Right of objection:

Insofar as their personal data is collected on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO, provided that there are grounds for doing so which arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.

If you wish to exercise your right to object, simply send an e-mail to:

datenschutz@edel.com.

11. Data security

Within the website visit, we use the widespread SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. As a rule, this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

The transmission of your online application is encrypted according to the current state of the art.

We also use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

12. up-to-dateness and modification of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status 12/14/2022.

Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be viewed at any time on the website at https://www.edel.com/datenschutz retrieved and printed out by you.