Privacy policy

According to Articles 15 to 21 and 77 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you are entitled to the following data subject rights if the legal requirements are met:

1.1 Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)
You can request information at all times regarding which of your personal data we process and how and a copy of your personal data that are stored.

1.2 Right to lodge a complaint at a supervisory authority (Art. 15 Para. 1 lit. f, 77 GDPR)
If e.g. you are of the opinion that our data processing is unlawful or we have not safeguarded your rights to the necessary extent, you have the right to lodge a complaint at the responsible data protection supervisory authority.
You can find a list of the supervisory authorities (for the private sector) with addresses under:t: www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

1.3 Right of rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
You can safeguard your right to the rectification of incorrect personal data as well as completion of personal data.

1.4 Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
You can request the rectification of incorrect personal data as well as completion of personal data.

1.5 Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
You can, under certain circumstances, request the limitation to the processing, e.g. if you are of the opinion that your data are incorrect, if the processing is unlawful or you have filed an objection against the data processing. Your data can hereby only be processed to a very limited extent without your consent.

1.6 Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
You have the right to receive your data, which we process based on your consent or in order to fulfil the contract, in a common, machine-readable format and, within the framework of that which is technically feasible, to request a direct transmission of these data to third parties.

1.7 Right to object to the data processing (Art. 21 GDPR)
You have the possibility to object to the data processing for purposes of direct marketing at all times. With the existence of special reasons you can moreover object to the data processing at all times , which is carried out owing to a legitimate interest.


Type and purpose of the processing:

When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or send information otherwise, information of a general nature will be entered automatically. This information (Server log-files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the used operating system, the domain name of your Internet-Service-Provider, your IP address, which will be depersonalised by us during the processing activity, and similar details.

These are in particular processed for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring the problem-free set-up of a connection of the website,
  • ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • evaluation of the system security and stability as well as
  • for further administrative purposes.

We do not use your data in order to draw conclusions regarding your person. Information of this kind is, if applicable, evaluated by us for statistical purposes in order to optimise both our internet presence and the technology underlying it.

Legal basis:

The processing shall be carried out pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients:

The recipients of the data are, if applicable, technical service providers, who operate as contract data processors for the operation and the maintenance of our website.

Storage duration:

The data will be erased as soon as these are no longer required for the purpose of the collection. This is principally the case for the data, which serve the provision of the website, when the respective session is ended.

Provision stipulated or necessary:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither stipulated by law, nor as per contract. However, the service and the functionality of our website is not guaranteed without the IP address. Moreover, individual services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason an objection is excluded.


Type and purpose of the processing:

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies concern small text files, which are stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smart phone etc.) when you visit our website.

This way we receive certain data such as e.g. IP address, used browser and operating system.

Cookies cannot be used to initiate programmes or transfer viruses to a computer. We can use the information contained in the cookies to facilitate your navigation and enable the correct display of our websites.

In no circumstances are the data collected by us forwarded to third parties, nor is a link with personal data created without your consent.

You can of course in principle also view our website without cookies. The settings on internet browsers are usually such as will accept cookies. In general, you can at any time deactivate the use of cookies via the settings of your browser. Please use the help function on your browser in order to see how you can change the settings. Please note that certain functions of our website will possibly not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Storage duration and used cookies:

Insofar as you permit us to use cookies by your browser settings or consent the following cookies may be used on our websites:

_ga – Google Analytics – valid for 2 years
_gat – Google Analytics – valid for 1 day
_gid – Google Analytics – valid for 1 day
pll_language – language plugin Polylang – valid for 1 year
wfwaf-authcookie-* – security plugin Wordfence – valid for 1 day
wordpress_logged_in_* – WordPress – session cookie
wordpress_sec_* – WordPress – session cookie
euCookiesAcc – EU cookie plugin – valid for 1 year

Insofar as these cookies can (also) relate to personal data, we will inform you hereof in the following sections.

You can erase individual cookies or the entire stock of cookies via your browser settings. In addition, you receive information and instructions how these cookies can be erased or how their storage can be blocked in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser you will find the necessary information under the following links:




Type and purpose of the processing:

Your data are exclusively used to send you the subscribed newsletter per email. Your name is provided in order to be able to address you personally in the newsletter and, if applicable, to identify you if you would like to exercise your rights as data subject.The entry of your email address is sufficient for the receipt of the newsletter. If you register for subscription to our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Within the scope of the subscription information may also be transmitted, which is relevant for the service or the registration (for example changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions). For an effective registration we need a valid email address. In order to check on whether a registration has in fact been carried out by the holder of the email address, we make use of the “Double-opt-in” procedure. For this purpose we record the order of the newsletter, the dispatch of a confirmation email and the receipt of the reply requested therein. Further data are not collected. The data are used exclusively for the dispatch of the newsletter and are not forwarded to third parties.

Legal basis:

Based on your explicitly granted consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) we will regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information per email to your provided email address.You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and their use for the dispatch of newsletters at all times with effect for the future. Every newsletter contains a corresponding link for this purpose. In addition, you can also unsubscribe directly on this website or inform us of your cancellation at all times via the contact details given at the end of these data protection notices.

Recipients:

The recipients of the data are, if applicable, contract data processors.

Storage duration:

The data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent is available. After this time they will be erased.

Provision stipulated or necessary:

Your personal data are provided voluntarily, solely based on your consent. Without an existing consent we can, unfortunately, not send you our newsletter.


Type and purpose of the processing:

The data entered by you will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose it is necessary to provide a valid email address as well as your name. These serve to allocate the request and the subsequent reply hereto. The provision of further data is optional.

Legal basis:

The processing of the data contained in the email is carried out on the basis of a legitimate Interest (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). By providing our email addresses we would like to provide you an uncomplicated process for contacting us. Your provided details are stored for the purpose of processing the request as well as for possible follow-up questions. If you contact us in order to request an offer, the data provided in the email will be processed in order to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Recipients:

The recipients of the data are, if applicable, contract data processors.

Storage duration:

Data will be erased no later than 6 months after processing of the request. If a contractual relationship is concluded we will be subject to the statutory storage deadlines according to the HGB and will erase your data after expiry of these deadlines.

Provision stipulated or necessary:

Your personal data are provided voluntarily. We can, however, only process your request if you notify us of your name, your email address and the reason for the request.


The data provided by you will be stored for the purpose of the individual communication with you. For this purpose it is necessary to process a valid email address as well as your telephone number. If requested, you will receive further information from us following the trade fair by post or personally by our specialist consultants. For this purpose it is additionally necessary to process your address.

Legal basis:

The processing of your provided data is carried out on the basis of your explicitly granted consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) as well as on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Your provided data will be stored for the purpose of processing the request as well as for possible follow-up questions. If you contact us in order to request an offer, the data provided will be processed in order to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).


The data entered by you will be stored for the purpose of serving information material. For this purpose it is necessary to provide a valid address as well as your name. This serves to allocate the request and the subsequent sending of the information material by post. The provision of further data is optional.

Legal basis:

The data contained in the email are processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). By providing our contact form in order to request information material we would like to provide you an uncomplicated possibility for contacting us. Your provided details will be stored for the purpose of processing the request as well as for fulfilling your requirements. If you contact us in order to request an offer data entered in the contact form will be processed in order to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Recipients:

The recipients of the data are, if applicable, contract data processors.

Storage duration:

The data will be erased no later than 6 months after processing of the request. If a contractual relationship is concluded we will be subject to the statutory storage deadlines according to the HGB and will erase your data after expiry of these deadlines.

Provision stipulated or necessary:

Your personal data are provided voluntarily. We can, however, only process your request if you notify us of your name, your email address, your address and the reason for the request.


Type and purpose of the processing:

The data entered by you or transmitted per email will be collected within the scope of an application procedure, with the purpose of making a decision about the establishment of an employment relationship.

Legal basis:

Your data will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1b GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG.

Recipients:

Recipients of your personal data are the Human Resources department and

the direct specialist superior of the sector, for which the job is advertised.

Storage duration:

If an employment relationship is established the data collected in the application procedure will be stored and used insofar and as long as this is necessary to carry out the employment relationship. Otherwise the personal data collected from you will be erased 6 months after the sending of the rejection.

Provision stipulated or necessary:

Your personal data are provided voluntarily. We can, however, only take your application into consideration if you notify us of the data that are customary for an application.


Type and purpose of the processing:

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics utilises so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files which are stored on your computer and make it possible for your use of the website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie on your use of this website is, as a rule, transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If the IP anonymising function on this website is activated, however, your IP address is first abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address first transferred to a Google server in the USA and then abbreviated there. By order of the operator of this website, Google will use this information in order to analyse your use of the website, compile reports on the website activities and perform, for the website operator, other services related to the use of the website and the use of the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser in connection with the Google Analytics service will not be aggregated with other Google data.The purposes of the data processing lie in the evaluation of the use of the website and in the compilation of reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and of the internet further associated services should be provided.

Legal basis:

The processing of the data is carried out based on a consent of the user (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipients:

The recipient of the data is Google as contract data processor. For this purpose we have concluded the corresponding contract data processing agreement with Google.

Storage duration:

The data will be erased as soon as these are no longer required for our recording purposes.

Transfer to third countries:

Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted itself to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Provision stipulated or necessary:

Your personal data are provided voluntarily, solely on the basis of your consent. If you prevent the access this may lead to restrictions to functions on the website.

Revocation of the consent:

You can prevent the storage of the cookies by means of the relevant setting on your browser software. We must however inform you that in this case you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of the website. You can moreover prevent the transfer to Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of the said data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On for the deactivation of Google Analytics. In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our websites by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device hereby. This will prevent the future collection of data by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser for as long as the cookie remains installed on your browser.

Profiling:

With the help of the tracking tool Google Analytics the behaviour of the visitors to the website can be assessed and the interests analysed. A pseudonymised user profile can be created for this purpose.


Type and purpose of the processing:

We use Adobe Typekit for the visual design of our website. Typekit is a service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Companies (4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland; hereinafter “Adobe”), which grants us access to a font library. For the integration of the fonts used by us, your browser must set up a connection to a server of Adobe in the USA and download the font that is required for our website. Adobe hereby receives the information that our website was called by your IP address. You can find further information relating to Adobe Typekit in the data protection notices of Adobe, which you can call here: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html

Legal basis:

The legal basis for the integration of Adobe Typekit and the thus associated data transfer to Adobe is your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipients:

The calling of Script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers off a connection to the operator of the library. For information about how Adobe Typekit Web Fonts uses your data, please visit https://typekit.com/ and review the Adobe Typekit Privacy Statement: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/typekit.html.

Storage duration:

We do not collect any personal data through the integration of Adobe Typekit Web Fonts.

Transfer to third countries:

Adobe is certified under the Privacy-Shield-Agreement and hereby offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNo9AAG&status=Active)

Provision stipulated or necessary:

The provision of the personal data is neither stipulated by law, nor as per contract. However, the correct presentation of the contents of standard fonts cannot be made possible if these data are not provided.


Type and purpose of the processing:
Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The operator company of the services of Google AdWords is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via advertising copy run by Google, a cookie will be placed on your computer by Google AdWords. The Conversion Tracking cookie is placed when a user clicks on an advertisement run by Google.

If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, it becomes apparent to us and Google that the user clicked on the advertisement and was directed onto the specific page. Every Google AdWords customer (i.e. advertiser) receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the help of the Conversion cookie makes it possible to compile Conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided to make use of Conversion Tracking. The customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their advertisement and were directed onto a page bearing a Conversion Tracking tag. They are however not given any information that would enable them to identify individual users.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for the integration of Google AdWords and the thus associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipients:
With each visit to our website personal data, including your IP address will be transferred to Google in the USA. These personal data are stored by Google. Google will, under certain circumstances, forward these personal data collected through the technical process to third parties.

Our company does not receive any information from Google, by means of which the data subject could be identified.

Storage duration:
These cookies become invalid after 30 days and cannot be used to identify individual persons.

Transfer to third countries:
Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted itself to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Revocation of the consent:
If you do not wish to take part in Tracking, you can refuse the setting of the cookie that is necessary for the purpose – for example by setting your browser to deactivate the automatic setting of cookies in their entirety or by setting it to block cookies from the domain”googleleadservices.com“.

Please note that you may not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you have decided against the recording of measurement data. If you have deleted all the cookies in your browser, you need to reset the opt-out cookie in each case.

Provision stipulated or necessary:
Your personal data are provided voluntarily, solely based on your consent. If you prevent the access this may lead to restrictions to functions on the website.


For the protection of your data during the transfer we use encryption procedures that correspond with the current state of technology (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.


We use the YouTube provider in order to incorporate videos in our website. YouTube belongs to Google Inc. and is based in San Bruno, California, USA.

The YouTube videos on this website have activated the so-called “extended data protection mode”. This extended data protection mode is made available by YouTube in order to ensure that YouTube does not store any cookies with personal data on your PC. When calling the website and for the incorporation of the videos the IP address is in fact transferred. However, this cannot be allocated should you not be registered at Youtube or another Google service when calling the site.

Through the extended data protection mode Youtube only stores cookies on your PC when replaying a video, which do not contain any personally identifiable data. These cookies can be prevented by your browser settings and/or extensions.

Please note that, as providers of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or of their use by YouTube. If you do not wish YouTube to be able to allocate the visit to our website to your YouTube account, please log out of your YouTube account. Further information on YouTube’s data protection can be found at http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy.


alwitra uses the online tool HubSpot for its digital marketing activities. HubSpot is an online software solution that covers various digital marketing services, including content creation and content distribution (website, blog, email marketing and social media), analysis and reporting, UX optimization, lead nurturing and CRM.

The sign-up, download, and contact service we use allows visitors to our websites to learn more about our company, download content, and provide their contact information and other demographic information.

This information, as well as our website content, is stored on HubSpot's servers. This information may be used by us to contact visitors to our websites and to determine which of our company's services are of interest to them. All information we collect is subject to this privacy policy. We use all collected information exclusively to optimize our marketing.

HubSpot is a software company from the USA with a branch in Ireland.
Contact: HubSpot, 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland, Phone: +353 1 5187500.

HubSpot is certified under the terms of the "EU - U.S. Privacy Shield Framework" and is subject to TRUSTe's Privacy Seal and the "U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor" Framework.

More information about Hubspot Cookie Security & Privacy


The following organisations, companies or persons were commissioned with the processing of data by the operator of this website:

rdts Internet AG
Am Wissenschaftspark 7
54296 Trier, Germany


We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy, to ensure that it will always be consistent with current statutory requirements, or in order to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when we introduce new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to subsequent visits by you to our website.


If you have any questions regarding data protection, please send us an email or contact the person directly who is the person responsible for data protection in our organisation:

alwitra GmbH
Data protection officer
Am Forst 1
54296 Trier
datenschutz@alwitra.de