Privacy Policy

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In the following we would like to inform you which of your personal data we process when you use our offers and the processes described below.

Personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”) is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. Your name, your e-mail address and your use of our offers.

Person in charge

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is GUTOM GmbH & Co. KG, Achtern Dieck 9, 24576 Bad Bramstedt, welcome@GUTOM.com.

You can contact our data protection officer by e-mail at datenschutz@gutom.com or by post at our address with the addition “the data protection officer”.

Browser data

As soon as you visit our website, our web server on which our website is located automatically collects the following data transmitted by your browser:

• IP address of your device
• Date and time of the request
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status and amount of data transferred
• Product and version information of your browser
• Operating system of your device
• From which website the access to our website took place

This data is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure the stability and security of our website. In this context, the recipient is our server host.

The IP address of your device is only stored for the time of your use of the website and then immediately deleted or anonymized by shortening.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Functional cookies

We use cookies to make the use of our website comfortable for you.

Cookies are small text files that are sent from our web server to your browser during your visit to our website and stored by it on your computer for later retrieval. The cookies enable the recognition of your Internet browser.

We use cookies to make your preferences available, to have your personal data entered in the input mask for future interactions with our website or to ensure your authorization.

Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. Other cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. The exact storage period can be found in the settings of your browser.

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website.

You can delete the cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Your inquiry

We offer you various contact options, e.g. our address, our e-mail address, our telephone number, possibly chat systems, the possibility to make an online appointment, appearances in social media and our contact form.

If you contact us, we will use the data you provide, such as: Your email address, name and the content of your request to process your request.

As part of our communication, we may also use messengers. You are entitled to use our other means of communication at any time. If the messenger uses end-to-end encryption, the messenger provider cannot access the message content. However, the messenger service provider may have access to the information that communication has taken place and which device was used. However, this data is processed by the messenger provider, please read its privacy policy.

We delete the resulting data after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

Candidacies

If we are looking for employees, we publish job advertisements.

In order to be able to process your application, we need certain data from you.

In addition to your name and contact details, we also need and process your other applicant data, e.g. Your cover letter, CV, certificates or interview notes.

We delete the data generated in the application process if the data is no longer needed for the purpose of the application. This is the case after a maximum period of six months after the end of the application process if employment does not take place. This does not apply if statutory provisions preclude deletion, the data is required for the purpose of providing evidence or if you have expressly consented to a longer storage period.

If we ask for your consent, e.g. to the longer storage of your data, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, § 26 para. 2 BDSG. Otherwise, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO, § 26 BDSG.

Business relation

For the conclusion as well as for the execution of a contract for the services offered by us or by you, we need personal data.

As part of the initiation or execution of the contract, you must provide the personal data necessary for the establishment, execution and termination of the contractual relationship and the fulfillment of the associated contractual obligations. We process your data in order to fulfil the contract with you as well as to fulfil existing legal requirements, e.g. commercial or tax law. This may include a transfer of data to subcontractors, payment service providers or authorities.

Due to commercial and tax regulations, we are obliged to store the contract data for ten years. However, after two years we will restrict the processing, i.e. Your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

Credit check

We reserve the right to obtain credit information from a credit agency in individual cases before conclusion of the contract in the event of a significant obligation to make advance payments on our part. The purpose is to protect against payment defaults.

The deletion of the data provided by the credit agency takes place after the decision on the conclusion of the respective contract.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Existing customer advertising

If you become a customer of ours, we may use your e-mail address received in this context to send you advertising for similar goods or services.

You can object to this advertising at any time, in particular by informing us about this via the contact options given in the imprint. Even if we do not send you advertising for a period of two years, we will block your e-mail address from sending you advertising. For the storage of your e-mail address itself, the explanations on the commercial and tax law requirements in connection with your purchase from us apply.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with § 7 para. 3 UWG.

Web conferencing

By web conferencing we mean the holding of online meetings, video conferences, screen sharing or webinars. We use service providers for the implementation. For this purpose, you as a participant will in particular process registration and contact data as well as communication data that accrue during the conference.

It may be that the service provider processes usage and metadata for the purpose of optimizing its service. The purpose and scope of the collection and use of your data as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for the protection of your privacy by the third-party provider can be found in the data protection declarations of the respective provider.

In detail, we use the following service providers:

• Microsoft Teams – Website: https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software ; Datenschutzhinweise: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement

If we ask for your consent to use the services, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

Third-party services

We use third-party services to optimize our offers.

If you access an offer that contains such a service, a direct connection to the third-party servers may be established. The third-party provider therefore receives the information that you or Your IP address has accessed the corresponding page of our offer.

If you are logged in to the provider of the service, the third-party provider can assign your visit to our offer to your account. If you interact with the services, for example by pressing a button, this will be transmitted directly from your device to the third-party provider. If you do not want a third-party provider with whom you have an account to collect data about you via our offers, you must log out of the respective account before visiting our offers.

In some cases, methods for identification and recognition are used, which are stored on your device and/or generated from automatically transmitted information of your end device. These can be, for example, cookies or fingerprint procedures. If necessary, we offer you a tool with which you can control the use of such procedures.

The purpose and scope of the collection and use of your data as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for the protection of your privacy by the third-party provider can also be found in the data protection information of the respective third-party provider.

Embedded services:

We embed third-party services in order to make our offers more informative for you through additional services.

In detail, we embed services from the following providers on our website:

• Google Maps – Website: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform ; Datenschutzhinweise: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• YouTube – Website: https://www.youtube.com/ ; Datenschutzhinweise: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Vimeo – Website: https://vimeo.com/de/ ; Datenschutzhinweise: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Analytics Services:

We use analysis services to record the user behavior of visitors to our offers, to evaluate them statistically and to use the knowledge gained to improve our offers and to make them more interesting for you as a user.

In detail, we use the following analysis tools on our website:

Google Analytics – Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/ ; Datenschutzhinweise: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Advertising services:

We use advertising services or performance measurement services to show you suitable advertising based on your potential interests and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. Your usage behaviour when visiting our or other offers is evaluated and/or advertising is tailored to you on the basis of other data available on the advertising service.

We ourselves do not collect or process any data. We only receive statistical evaluations from the advertising service. Based on these evaluations, we can identify which of the advertising measures used are particularly effective and make optimizations.

In particular, we use the following advertising services or services to measure success on our website:

• Google Ads – Website: https://ads.google.com/intl/de_de/home/ ; Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

If we ask for your consent to use the services, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Privacy Policy

Insofar as we use service providers who work for us within the framework of so-called order processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR, we have concluded a corresponding contract with them.

Insofar as we use service providers in so-called third countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, we only process your data in third countries with a level of data protection checked by the EU Commission, on the basis of special guarantees, such as contractual obligation through so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission.

We will be happy to provide you with further information on request.

Appearances on social media

We operate appearances in social media in order to communicate with our customers, interested parties and users and to inform about our services. As a rule, cookies are stored on users’ computers. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive assigned to the browser used and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (here by the social network).

The cookies enable the creation of statistics on the use of an appearance in the social networks. Furthermore, the data of the users are also regularly used for advertising purposes by creating usage profiles (in particular of the registered users) about the usage behavior and used for the placement of suitable advertisements.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the comprehensive and optimized information of the users. We would like to point out that only the respective social network has full access to the entire data and therefore an effective claim to information should be made directly to the social network.

We have signed a joint responsibility agreement with Facebook Ireland. Information on the type, scope and purposes of processing and the exercise of your rights can be found at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy and in the Terms of Use for “Included Products” at https://de-de.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms.

Your rights

You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to the data concerning you:

• Right to information
• Right to rectification or erasure
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to object to processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority

If you have given us your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future.