DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT

The following privacy notice informs you about the nature and extent of our processing of personal data in accordance with the information requirements of Article 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”). Personal data is information that is or can be directly or indirectly attributed to you. If you have any questions or comments about this data protection information, you can send them at any time to the e-mail address given in Section 2. We have also taken appropriate technical and organisational security measures in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorised access.

1.0 Controller Pursuant to Art. 4(7) GDPR

The controller responsible for processing data for this website is

WIELAND ELECTRIC GMBH 
Brennerstraße 10-14 
96052 Bamberg 
Germany 

E-Mail: info@wieland-electric.com 
Phone: +49 (0)951-9324-0 
Fax: +49 (0)951-9324-198 

Managing Director:
Dr.-Ing. Börne Rensing
Dr. Christian Wahlers
 

2.0 Data Protection Officer for the Controller

You can reach our data protection officer at datenschutz@wieland-electric.com.  

3.0 Rights of the Data Subject  

We will inform you about your rights as a data subject below.

  • Right of Access (Art. 15 GDPR)

You have the right to request information from us as to whether we are processing your personal data and, if so, which data. This also includes information on the purposes of the processing, any recipients to whom we have disclosed your data, the planned storage period and, if applicable, information on the origin of this data if we have not collected it directly from you.  

  • Right to Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)

You have the right to ask us to correct any inaccurate data we have stored about you. This also includes the right to have incomplete personal data completed.  

  • Right to Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)

You have the right to ask us to erase any data we have stored about you.  

  • Right to Restriction of Processing (Art. 18 GDPR)

You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of any data we have stored about you. After that, this data may only be processed with your consent or for a few legally defined purposes.

  • Right to Object to Processing (Art. 21 GDPR)

Where processing of your personal data is based on the weighing of our justified interests within the meaning of Art. 6(1), you may object to processing.  

  • Right to Revoke Data Privacy Consent (Art. 7 GDPR)

If you have consented to your data being processed, you may withdraw your consent at any time pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR with effect for the future.  

  • Right to Data Portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

You have the right to ask to receive from us the personal data you have provided in a structured, common and machine readable format suitable for transmission to another controller, provided that processing of the data is based on your consent or on a contract.  

  • Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority (Ar. 77 GDPR)

You have the right at any time to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority for data protection in connection with our processing of your personal data. The responsible supervisory authority can be reached at: Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Postfach 1349, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.

4.0 Erasure of Data and Storage Period

The personal data of the data subject will be erased or blocked once the purpose for storage no longer exists.  

The data may also be stored if we are obliged by law to retain it.  

Data will also be blocked or erased following expiry of a retention period required under the above standards unless further storage of the data is required to conclude or fulfil a contract.  

5.0 External Hosting and CDN

Our websites are hosted on servers in Germany, which are made available by technology service provider Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855, Luxembourg (AWS). The transfer of your data to the USA cannot be ruled out, as this is a European company with a US parent company.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

Moreover, we use the content delivery network (CDN) of service provider Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. A CDN is an online service which helps with delivering files – particularly large media files (such as graphics, page contents or scripts) – using a network of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet. Using the CDN helps us to optimise the loading speeds of our website.

This processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interests in the secure and efficient provision and improvement of our website’s stability and functionality. An agreement on order processing according to Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with this service provider.  

You will find more information on the data stored when you visit our website in the next section.

6.0 Server Log Files

If you only use our websites merely for information purposes, meaning that you do not register or otherwise send us information, we only collect the personal data your browser transmits to our server. The following data is always collected when you visit our website:

  • IP address of the user
  • Date and time of the request/access
  • Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Contents of the request (specific page)
  • Access status / HTTP status code
  • Data volume transferred
  • Website from where the request is coming (which redirected the user’s system to our website)
  • Website called up by the user’s system via our website
  • Information about the browser type and the version used
  • Operating system and interface
  • Browser software language and version

We temporarily store this data, such as your IP address, which we require for technical reasons to display our website for you and ensure its stability and security. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interests according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.  

7.0 Other Usage Forms of our Website

7.1 Contact Forms

Our website has various forms that you can use to contact us. When these forms are used, the data entered in the input mask is transmitted to us and stored. The mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of the request are stored.  

We can also be contacted by using the specified e-mail addresses. In this case, your personal data transmitted with the e-mail will be stored and processed by us in order to take care of your enquiry or the reason why you contacted us.  We may forward this data to companies affiliated with us. The data will only be used to process the conversation.  

When contacting you, we only process the data for the purposes stated in the respective form.

The legal basis for processing your data when contacting you is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

7.2 Application Portal

If you apply for a job offer or send us an unsolicited application, we will process the data you provide in order to handle your application. Generally, your documents contain special categories of personal data (e.g. marital status information; information about your health; a photograph that allows conclusions about your ethnic origin and possibly your eyesight and/or religion to be drawn; similarly sensitive data within the meaning of Art. 9 GDPR).

The legal basis for processing applicant data is Art. 88 (1) GDPR in conjunction with. Section 26 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), as such processing is necessary for deciding whether to establish an employment relationship.

Please be aware that we work together with service provider softgarden e-recruiting GmbH, Tauentzienstraße 14, 10789 Berlin (applicant management tool). This is where our entire applicant management process is handled. You can find more information on application data protection at https://wieland-electric.softgarden.io/de/data-security?2.  

If your application is unsuccessful, you have the option of allowing the personal data that you provided (such as in the cover letter, CV, certificates, applicant questionnaires, applicant interviews) as part of the overall application process beyond the end of the specific application process. This will enable us to contact you at a later date about future positions for which you may be eligible. The legal basis for this is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Otherwise, your data will be deleted 6 months after the end of an unsuccessful application procedure.

7.3 Newsletter

When we send out our electronic newsletter – to which you can subscribe – we process the data you have entered.  

Specifying your e-mail address is obligatory to receive our electronic newsletter. The processing of additional data from you serves to personalise these contacts and allow for more specialised offers from us or companies associated with us.

We process your e-mail address in order to send you our electronic newsletter, to inform you of current events and any current developments and to maintain our contractual relationship with you. In addition, we use this data for promotional communications by e-mail and – if we have received your e-mail address in connection with our products and services – for promotional activities about our own similar products and services.

7.3.1 Tracking

By subscribing to the newsletter, the user consents to tracking for statistical purposes. A tracking pixel is used for this.  

We use the product Sugar Market from SugarCRM Inc., 10050 North Wolfe Road, SW2-130, Cupertino, CA 95014, USA, for newsletter tracking.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

When the newsletter is delivered, the external server can then record certain data of the recipient, such as the time of retrieval, the IP address or information on the e-mail programme used (client). The name of the image file is individualised for each e-mail recipient by appending a unique ID, making it possible to determine which newsletter recipient has just opened the e-mail when the image is retrieved.

The personal data collected via tracking pixels in the newsletters is stored and analysed by us to optimise the sending of newsletters and to more readily adapt the contents of future newsletters to the interests of the recipients. The data is not disclosed to third parties.

The user can prevent tracking by setting the e-mail programme not to load images in an e-mail. We consider unsubscribing from the newsletter as a revocation of this consent.

7.4 Overs via Our Online Shop

Registration in our shop to purchase our products via our online distribution is only possible for commercial customers. To this end, we will also ask you for personal data (name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, etc.). However, we will still make direct contact with you before activating our shop functions. The personal data that you provide us with here is used internally by the departments that deal with the processing of your enquiries and orders.  Your data may be combined and stored with the data of other orders that you send to us by other means (fax, post, telephone, etc.).  

We process your personal data for the purposes needed in each case to fulfil the business relationship between you and us.  

The personal data that you provide to us in order to make use of our shop offers is used by us to process your individual enquiries and orders, such as for the following purposes:

  • Checking your access authorisation
  • Your use of the shopping cart
  • Determining your individual prices
  • Internal handling of your order
  • Delivering the merchandise ordered
  • Payment transactions
  • Marketing measures

If necessary, we also employ the assistance of service providers (e.g. logistics service providers for sending your ordered products, banks for payment processing). We will only pass on your data to such third parties to the extent necessary for fulfilling these tasks. Third parties who receive data from our customers are obliged to comply with data protection regulations. Our legitimate interest in using external service providers, such as our logistics service provider for shipping the goods you have ordered, is to provide our services as efficiently and effectively as possible and thus as quickly and cost-effectively as possible for you.

We reserve the right to pass on your personal data to external service providers in order to carry out a credit check. This provides us with information about your previous payment behaviour and credit ratings. The data enables us to evaluate our customer relationship and is used by us to make delivery decisions and to protect us against payment defaults. This is also the basis for our legitimate interest.

If you have decided to open a customer account, we will use your personal data for the purpose of opening such a customer account.

The legal basis for the processing is the conclusion and fulfilment of the purchase contract for the ordered goods pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

8.0 Use of Cookies  

Cookies are small files which are stored on your hard drive by the browser you use and which receive specific information by the cookie being set. Cookies cannot execute any programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.

The storage of technically unnecessary cookies or the use of comparable technical functions takes place on the legal basis of consent pursuant to Sec. 25(1) of the Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG).

Any further processing of your data with the aid of a cookie is also based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Technically necessary cookies are stored pursuant to the second sentence of Sec. 25(2) TTDSG.

You can find detailed information on the cookies used by us in our cookie banner. 

9.0 Transmission of Data to the USA

Based on a decision by the European Commission, there is no adequate level of data protection for the transmission of personal data to the USA. Owing to the powers of the US intelligence services and the legal situation in the US, the requirements of the GDPR cannot be met:

  • Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) does not specify any restrictions on the surveillance activities of the intelligence agencies and or any guarantees for non-US citizens;
  • Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28) does not give affected persons any effective remedies against measures taken by the US authorities, nor does it provide for barriers to ensure proportionate measures;
  • the ombudsman provided for in the Privacy Shield is sufficiently independent from the executive branch; he cannot issue binding orders against the intelligence services.

As a result, there is no effective remedy or independent supervisory authority for data protection available should your personal data be accessed by US authorities.  

If your personal data is transmitted to the USA, the risk of losing control of your own data cannot be ruled out. The rights and freedoms of data subjects may not be adequately protected.

10.0 Web Analysis and Third-Party Services

10.1 Local Web Analysis

As far as local web analytics tools are used, the legal basis for this is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our interest is in analysing how our visitors use our website in order to improve it and to make it more interesting for you as the user based on the statistics obtained this way. The legal basis for using third-party providers to perform web analytics your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

10.2 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), represented in Europe by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To this end, we have concluded a Contractual Processing Agreement according to Art. 28 GDPR.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will normally be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, generate reports on website activity and to provide the website provider with additional services related to website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

IP addresses are shortened or masked as soon as the data is received by Google Analytics and before it is stored or processed. The data is deleted after 26 months.

We only use Google Analytics with your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Sec. 25(1) TTDSG and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. You have the right to object to this in the cookie banner at any time with future effect.

10.3 Google Ads

Our website uses the Google Ads service provided by Google LLC, represented in Europe by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which enables marketers to place ads in the Google search hit lists and also in the Google advertising network. This is done on the basis of pre-defined keywords, which only allow a display in the hit lists if a keyword-relevant search is carried out. To this end, we have concluded a Contractual Processing Agreement according to Art. 28 GDPR.

The purpose of Google Ads is to promote our website by displaying relevant advertisements on third-party websites and in Google search results lists and by displaying relevant third-party advertisements on our website. Clicking on a corresponding Google ad linking to our website causes Google to set a cookie.  

The cookie allows both us and Google to track whether you have accessed our website via an Ads ad and have generated sales. We use the Google Ads Conversion Tracking Tool for this purpose. The data obtained in this way is used by Google to compile statistics (e.g., total number of users referred via Google Ads, success of our Ads campaign) for our website. Google does not provide us or other Google Ad advertisers with information which could be used to identify the you.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

We only use Google Ads with your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Sec. 25(1) TTDSG and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. You have the right to object to this in the cookie banner at any time with future effect.

10.4 LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

We use “LinkedIn Marketing Solutions” on our website, a service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as: “LinkedIn”). LinkedIn Ads stores and processes information about your user behaviour on our website. Among other things, LinkedIn Ads uses cookies – small text files stored locally in the cache of your web browser on your end device – that enable your use of our website to be analysed.

To this end, we have concluded a Contractual Processing Agreement with LinkedIn according to Art. 28 GDPR.

We use LinkedIn Marketing Solutions to serve ads and to analyse the effectiveness of the ads we serve. We measure how often our ad is clicked on and watched. We also use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to measure how often a desired action is performed on our website by users who arrive on our website because of the advertisement.

The legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Sec. 25(1) TTDSG and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. You have the right to object to this in the cookie banner at any time with future effect.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

More information from the third-party provider on data protection can be found on the following website: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

10.5 Microsoft Ads (formerly Bing Ads)

We use Bing Conversion Tracking for the use of Bing Ads from Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. This saves a cookie on your computer if you clicked on a Bing Ads advertisement and were redirected to our website. We are told the total number of users who clicked on their advertisement and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag (e.g., registration via contact form). This data is transmitted to Microsoft. More information on the Microsoft privacy policy is available at https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

The legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Sec. 25(1) TTDSG and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. You have the right to object to this in the cookie banner at any time with future effect.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

10.6 Findologic

We use the “FINDOLOGIC” service on our website to provide a search function for items via the search box and for navigation and filters.  

For this purpose, the service provider collects and stores information (such as the user or session ID) in anonymised form.

Whenever personal data is processed, this is done on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing an item search to make it easier to find our products in the shop.

More information on the service provider: FINDOLOGIC GmbH, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5a, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. Privacy policy: https://findologic.com/datenschutz/.

10.7 YouTube

We use YouTube, a service provided by Google LLC, represented in Europe by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, in order to show you video contents. To protect your privacy, we have activated the extended data protection mode. YouTube also uses cookies to collect information about visitors to their website. YouTube uses them to collect video statistics, prevent fraud, improve the user experience, etc. Calling up a video usually also brings about a connection with the Google Ads network. When you start the video, this may trigger other data processing operations, especially if you are already logged in to YouTube. This is beyond our control.  

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

We only use YouTube after receiving your consent with your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. You have the right to object to this in the cookie banner at any time with future effect.

For more information about data protection at YouTube, please refer to its privacy policy: https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube.

10.8 Sugar Market

We use Sugar Market – a marketing automation tool. This is analysis and tracking software for allocating and storing usage data (browser used, last page visited, length of stay, etc.). The software uses this information to personalise our marketing measures and better target each user’s interests. In addition, the software also helps us to better evaluate the success of individual marketing measures.

The legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Sec. 25(1) TTDSG and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR.

Please be aware of the risks associated with the transfer of your data to the USA as set out in Section 9.

We use this tool on landing pages. Landing pages are special web pages defined as the target of advertising campaigns. They usually contain interaction options, such as for downloading white papers and software or forms for collecting information. The software uses various technical procedures to assign individual activities to profiles of individual users:

  • cookies and
  • IP address of the users.

Other data collected in the process includes:

  • activity on the web pages,
  • number of page views and length of the website visitor’s stay,
  • the click path of the respective visitor,
  • downloads of files provided via the website,
  • landing page visits.

When the user is registering on the website or downloading a white paper, the provider collects data through the use of Sugar Market:

  • contact details (such as name, postal or e-mail address, telephone number),
  • business contact details (such as job title, company name, business e-mail address, telephone or fax number); and
  • the IP address of the end device from which the website is used.

The data being released is clearly recognisable to the user through the filling out of a form, which indicates which data is required to submit it.

10.9 GoToWebinar

You can register on our website for live webinars and other events that we hold. To do this, we use the product GoToWebinar from service provider LogMeIn Ireland Limited, Bloodstone Building Block C, 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LogMeIn”). When you do this, the personal data you provide when registering will be transmitted to us or LogMeIn by your browser and stored. Your IP address and time of registration are stored as well. When you register for a live webinar, the personal data you provide when registering will be transmitted to LogMeIn by your browser.

Detailed information on data protection and your rights when it comes to the processing of your data can be found at any time in LogMeIn’s privacy policy: https://www.logmeininc.com/de/legal/privacy.

Last updated: 03/04/2023

If you have further questions, please contact:
Wieland Electric GmbH
Brennerstr. 10-14
96052 Bamberg
Germany
Tel: +49 951 9324 479
Fax: +49 951 9326 479
E-Mail: datenschutz@wieland-electric.com

Bamberg, 2023-04-03

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