Data Privacy Protection

ästik/ Wønderwall is pleased about your interest in our company and our products. We want you to feel comfortable when you contact ästik/ Wønderwall. For this reason, the security of your personal data, such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address used when you contact ästik/ Wønderwall, is important to us.

This privacy policy is intended for anyone with whom ästik/ Wønderwall (hereinafter referred to as “we” or “us”) interacts, including customers, suppliers, service providers, other business partners, prospects, visitors of our websites, users of our apps/applications, other users of our products or services, and visitors to our sites (hereinafter referred to as “you”). It contains the information described in Art. 13 and 14 of the GDPR.

1. 1. Terms

The processing of personal date takes place within the guidelines of legal regulations.

The Term "personal data" refers to all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. "Processing" means any operation or set of operation which is performed on personal date whether or not by automated means such as collection, recording, organization, arrangement, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or association, qualification, erasure or destruction.

Further data protection terms are used in accordance with the definitions in Art. 4 GDPR.

1. 2. Name and address of the controller

New Ventures GmbH

Reichenberger Straße 17

95111 Rehau

Germany

1. 3. General processing purposes and legal bases

We collect and process your personal date in particular in the following cases:

• If you contact us directly e.g. via our website, via our customer service or if you visit us at our locations, participate in our events, customer satisfaction surveys and competitions and are interested in our products or services or have any other concerns.
• If you or your employer buy products or services directly from us.
• If you or your employer request information about our products and services (e.g. sending brochures or price lists).
• If you buy or use our products.
• If you or your employer offer or sell us products or services.

Please help us keep your information current by informing us of changes to your personal data, in particular your contact details.

Insofar as we process personal data, this applies in particular to your name and your official contact data such as company, function, telephone number or e-mail address as well as contract and transaction date. Additional data categories may be collected for special purposes described in detail below.

Besides the collection of your data from our contact forms on our website, we also collect the data directly from you or from generally accessible sources (e.g. commercial register, authorities and internet) to the necessary extent for the purpose.

1. 4. Individual processing purposes and legal bases

In the following we inform you for which purposes we process which personal date. In the case of nonrecurring circumstances, we will generally draw your attention to this information separately in the specific processing situation and, if necessary, provide additional information.

4.1. Processing of data for the preparation, conclusion and performance of contracts

We process personal data within the scope of acquisition (also under 4.9.) and sales processes as well as for the execution of contracts. For this purpose, data is processed in particular for contract initiation, quotation processing, customer consulting procurement, production and delivery of goods, contract management and complaint processing.

Within the context of these activities, the following data categories are processed in particular:

• Contact data/ personnel master data (surname first name, address, e-mail address etc.)
• Logistics data such as delivery address
• Contract data, payment data

It may be necessary for us to pass on the data for the preparation of an offer and the execution of the contract to third parties who are integrated into the supply chain or otherwise required for the execution of the contract.

For the purpose of credit checks of our business partners, we process data which we receive under the legal requirements of credit agencies (such as Schufa). In addition, to further minimize the risk of default, we reserve the right to report payment experiences with customers to a payment experience pool of a scoring company (Creditreform, Bisnode). This does not apply to payment experiences with natural persons.

In order to optimize financial transactions, we reserve the right to assign receivables from its business customers to a refinancing company as part of receivables financing. Only company-related data (name of debtor, reason, amount, due date of the receivable) will be passed on for the purpose of receivables financing. Insofar as necessary for the verification of the receivable, the refinancing company will pass on the aforementioned company data to third parties for credit assessment.

The legal basis for debt financing/factoring is, insofar as personal data is involved in exceptional individual cases, Art. 6 I f GDPR.

If data is collected directly for the processing of an inquiry or the execution of a contract, we will inform you which data is absolutely necessary. If it is not you yourself but your employer or another third party which is contractually connected with you or your employer which is the contracting party, the data will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR. The data will be processed insofar as the data is required for the execution of the contract or for the fulfillment of further legal e.g. product liability obligations and duties (e.g. duties to inform, clarify and warn).

If processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR, you can always object the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.

4.2. Application process (Art. 6 I b GDPR)

For the application procedure there are additional data protection notices, which will be communicated separately within the application. The following information also applies to all applications.

4.3. Participation in events and on-site visits (Art. 6 I f GDPR)

We are looking forward to meeting you personally during a visit on site or at one of our events. We process your personal data in order to organize and carry out events and to provide you with information material. In the case of events, we may forward the data to the speakers and participants. This is important to ensure the smooth running of the event. We also use the data collected in this process to evaluate and post-process our events.

For the coordination and planning of visits and appointments, we also use the functions of Calendly. The processing of your data is necessary for the use of this service (Art. 6 I b DSGVO). If you use this service, the data protection information of Calendly (https://calendly.com/privacy) applies.

For the documentation of the events as well as the press and public relations work picture and video recordings of the events can be provided. Personal (image) data will also be processed. You may object to this processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. In this case we ask you to inform the photographers or organizers of these reasons in advance. They will take your objection into account and take the necessary measures.

4.4. Use of services (consulting)

In addition to our products and system solutions, we offer various services. This also includes consulting and services which we offer by telephone, e-mail, contact form and possibly also on site. With this service we would like to support you in the selection of our systems and their application.

Within the context of this service, the necessary data that you provide in connection with the service request, such as contact data / personal master data (surname, first name, address, e-mail address, etc.) may be stored together with the products concerned and the problem. In this way, we want to ensure that we can provide you with targeted further advice in the event of any queries at a later date on the basis of the previous service history. The basis of this storage is the justified interest in an effective and consistent consulting activity, even over time. Your data will only be stored in direct connection with the service case. As far as the service data are relevant for the defense against claims of liability, especially product liability, we will also process them for this purpose. The data will be deleted if they are no longer required for this purpose, at the very latest after the end of the limitation periods existing for this liability.

If the data is only processed on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR, you have the right to object the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.

4.5. Newsletter

We offer newsletter services via our web presences, to which you can subscribe. For this purpose, we use a double opt-in procedure, so that a newsletter subscription is only activated after you click on a confirmation link, which you receive by e-mail. A completed newsletter subscription can be terminated at any time by revoking your consent. A revocation can be made via an unsubscribe link in a newsletter, if available via administrative settings on our web presence or by contacting us directly via the listed contact details.

4.6. Access to the company premises for the delivery of goods or performance of a service or work performance

In this case, we collect not only your data which are directly necessary for the execution of a contractual relationship, such as name, first name, company, invoice data, vehicle identification data, but also the duration of your stay with us on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR. In the event of an emergency and a necessary evacuation, the aim is to have knowledge of the persons staying in the building or on the premises. If you are on business, the duration of your stay can also be used to check and optimize internal processes and to check the conclusiveness of performance data (e.g. invoices).

When goods are delivered, cameras are also used to monitor logistical processes at various locations.

On the basis of legal requirements or Art. 6 I f GDPR to prove the fulfillment of road safety obligations, the safety instructions given to the visitor are also documented.

Of course you can disagree with the uses on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.

Video surveillance at our locations only takes place openly. Appropriate signs will point this out to you. This video surveillance serves to secure our production and our data processing systems. This ensures even greater protection of personal data.

4.7. Corporate communication and external image (Art. 6 I f GDPR)

As part of our participation in events, the visit to our trade fair presence and other events, images and video recordings of these events are made to document the event for press and public relations work and corporate communications. Personal (image) data is also processed in this process.

The publication of the image material takes place both electronically in social media such as Facebook and in print media. Legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 I f GDPR for corporate communication as well as § 23 KunstUrhG as applicable.

As far as factually possible and legally reasonable, reference will be made again to the photographs at each individual event. If the processing of the pictures takes place on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR, you can object to this use at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. You can exercise this right by informing the photographer of these reasons in advance and he will take this into account in his work. We will be happy to provide you with details of the event in question.

4.8. Compliance, law enforcement and crime prevention (Art. 6 I f GDPR)

To the extent required by law, we use personal data to assert legal claims and to defend legal disputes. Within the context of the company's compliance requirements, the data may also be used to prevent, clarify or prevent criminal offences.

In addition to the previously mentioned data categories insofar as they are required for the purpose, creditworthiness data, visit data, account data as well as correspondence, purchasing and sales data are also used for this purpose. We also use an internal whistle-blower system for name and anonymous reports of compliance violations. This data will be deleted or made completely anonymous in accordance with the applicable legislation or immediately after the respective case has been concluded.

Security is generally also served by systems for building and plant security as well as for securing our data processing systems, such as access controls or video surveillance. The mentioned controls only take place openly at our sites. You can find out more about them in detail on site.

We process your personal data further in connection with the usual checks of business partners within the framework of compliance requirements. Insofar as we have not requested your personal data directly from you, we have collected them from publicly accessible sources and databases as part of the due diligence. The data collected from these sources are processed exclusively for this purpose and deleted as soon as they are no longer required for this purpose. The processing is based on Art. 6 I c GDPR insofar as the due diligence is based on legal requirements or on Art. 6 I f GDPR the legitimate interest of the company in the evaluation of its business partners for the reduction of risks. If the processing is based on Art. 6 I f GDPR, you can object to this on grounds relating to your particular situation.

4.9. Advertising communication and market research (Art. 6 I f GDPR)

As far as legally permissible on the basis of Art. 6 I f GDPR or if you give us your consent (Art. 6 I a GDPR), we process your data in particular for advertising communication, customer satisfaction surveys, advertising campaigns and for the implementation of sweepstakes. In this way, we can further improve our range of products and services and act in a more targeted manner.

Within the context of these activities, the necessary data such as contact data / personal master data (surname, first name, address, e-mail address, etc.) can be processed. Only as far as a permission is given further data which you provide to us for this purpose will be processed, e.g. interests, personal preferences, professional situation.

In the case of an existing customer relationship or if you have consented to this, you will generally receive the above information by electronic mail. For business partners who are not consumers, the information is provided by telephone or analogue.

For the purposes mentioned it may be necessary for us to pass on your personal data to companies of the REHAU Group in order to better respond to your wishes or to continuously improve our products and services. In each case you can disagree with the use of your data for purposes of direct advertising at any time according to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR or revoke a corresponding consent at any time according to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with effect for the future.

For the further development of our products, services and business processes as well as for market research, we analyse the data available to us on business transactions, contracts and enquiries. It is in no way possible to draw conclusions about individual natural persons. Of course we respect it if you do not want us to use your personal data to support our customer relationship - in particular for direct marketing or market research.

We also use the functions of SurveyMonkey, Typeform and Google Forms to obtain feedback. If you participate in a corresponding survey, the data protection information of SurveyMonkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/legal/privacy/), Typeform (https://admin.typeform.com/to/dwk6gt) or Google Forms (https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=en) applies.

4.10. Compliance with legal obligations (Art. 6 I c GDPR)

We are subject to a number of legal obligations regarding the processing and storage of personal data. These relate, for example, to commercial and tax retention regulations in accordance with the commercial code and the tax code.

In order to meet these obligations, we process your data to the required extent and, if necessary, pass them on to the responsible authorities within the framework of statutory reporting obligations.

4.11. Further processing purposes

Data processing also takes place within the context of quality management to determine and improve customer satisfaction, to further develop products and services, to carry out research and development and to improve IT security and IT operations. The last point also includes processing to identify and prevent unauthorized access to personal data.

Legal basis for the processing of these data is art. 6 I f GDPR. Insofar as no consent is given, no conclusions can be drawn about individual natural people.

In individual cases this processing can be objected on grounds relating to your particular situation.

4.12. Transfer of data to third parties

For the aforementioned purposes, the data may be disclosed to third parties who assist the controller in the pursuit of the mentioned purposes. The passing on takes place in the context of an order processing within the sense of Art. 28 GDPR, a joint responsibility according to Art. 26 GDPR or as data transfer in the context of the order of professional services.

For data transfer to recipients in third countries (see point 6 below).

1. Duration of storage

We store your personal data only as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or as long as storage is required by law or within the framework of official regulations. We delete or block your data as soon as they are no longer needed.

Furthermore, we will delete or block your data immediately in the event of a revocation of your consent and in the event of a justified objection to the processing.

1. Planned transfer of data to third countries

We may share your personal information with other companies affiliated to us for the purposes described in this privacy statement. The other companies may use your personal data in their own interest for the same purposes as we do. In particular, they may process your personal data for the above-mentioned purposes in their own interest. Within our group, employees only have access to your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the performance of their duties.

Data is transferred to branches outside the European Economic Area either on the basis of an adequacy decision of the Commission (Art. 45 Para. 3 GDPR) or on the basis of standard data protection clauses (Art. 46 II c GDPR) which contain appropriate guarantees for the data subject.

The text of the standard data protection clauses is published at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/model-contracts-transfer-personal-data-third-countries_en.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties outside these companies to use technical or organizational services that we need to fulfill for the purposes mentioned above or for our other business activities. Our service providers are contractually obliged to process personal data exclusively on our behalf and according to our instructions. We also oblige our service providers to comply with technical and organizational measures that ensure the protection of personal data. If the service providers are located in countries where the applicable laws do not provide for the protection of personal data comparable to European law, we will contractually ensure that the relevant service providers comply with the statutory level of data protection (standard data protection clauses). For more information, please contact our data protection officer.

1. Online data usage / visit of our websites

In the following, you will learn which information we may collect when you visit our websites and how we deal with it. Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers which are not covered by this data protection declaration.

When you visit our website, we store information about the browser and operating system you are using, the date and time of your visit and the IP address. These data are required for the web pages to function, in particular to ensure flawless connectivity and to guarantee a reasonable user experience on our website. We cannot associate these data with your person.

For the presentation of the websites we are supported by Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (38 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855, Luxembourg); Webflow, Inc. (398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103); MongoDB, Inc. (1633 Broadway, 38th floor, New York, NY 10019); Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) and Wix.com Ltd. (Nemal St. 40, 6350671 Tel Aviv, Israel). In this context, personal data, such as IP addresses, may also be processed in non-secure third countries to the extent necessary for service purposes. In this case, we will contractually ensure that the service providers in question comply with the legally required level of data protection (standard data protection clauses). You can obtain more information on this from our data protection officer.

We will not collect any personal data via our websites without your consent. You alone decide whether or not you wish to disclose such data to us in the context of a registration, order or survey.

In addition, we use the following technologies on our website:

7.1. botgie Chatbot

If you want to use our "botgie chatbot" service (for example, via our websites or within mobile apps), this will be done anonymously. However, please do not provide us with any personally identifiable information via chat messages. Data in the form of chat messages and IP addresses, are collected and stored by our processors Amazon Web Services, Inc, MongoDB, Inc. and Google Ireland Limited. This information is necessary to provide the service. In addition, we use the anonymized chat messages to continuously improve our chatbot service.

7.2. Google Analytics - Web Analytics Service

This website will use Google Analytics, a web analysis service offered by Google Inc., provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. Google Analytics uses cookies. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. We have activated IP anonymization on this website. This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at this link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Further information on the terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html and https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

We would like to point out that, on our website, Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to guarantee anonymous IP address recording (so-called IP masking).

7.3. Google Tag Manager

This website will use Google Tag Manager, provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. The Tag Manager does not collect personally identifiable information. The tool triggers other tags that may themselves collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivation is made at the domain or cookie level, it will persist for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager. Google’s privacy policy for this tool can be found here: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/.

7.4. Google Ads Remarketing

This website will use the functions of Google Ads Remarketing, provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. This allows us to advertise this website in Google’s search engine results page, as well as on third-party websites. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). To this end, Google places a cookie in the browser of your end device, which automatically uses a pseudonymous cookie ID to enable interest-based advertising based on the pages you visit. Further data processing will only take place if you have agreed to Google linking your internet and app browsing history to your Google account, and using information from your Google account to personalize advertisements you view on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google during your visit to our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. Google will temporarily link your personal data to Google Analytics data in order to create target groups. You can permanently disable the setting of ad personalization cookies by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Alternatively, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance under www.aboutads.info to obtain information about setting cookies and adjust your cookie settings. Finally, you can adjust your browser settings so that it informs you about cookies that are being stored, allowing you to decide if you want to accept them individually, in certain cases only, or reject them in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited. Further information and the data protection regulations regarding advertising and Google are available here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

7.5. Use of Google reCaptcha

In our contact forms, which you can use to send service and information requests to us, we use the service reCAPTCHA by Google.

The service is used to recognize malicious attacks on our websites by differentiating entries made by a human being from those made by automated machines. The use of this application is necessary for providing the service we offer through its contact form, and is thus based on Art. 6 l b of the GDPR. It is required for providing the services, as otherwise the website would not be adequately protected against automated surveillance, misuse and spam. Hence, using the application is also in the best interest of service recipients. In the process, your entry is transferred to Google and further processed. The data transferred to Google includes your IP address and possibly other data used by Google for the service.

This means you can only use our contact forms if you consent to the use of reCAPTCHA for protection of the site.

During this process, your data may, in exceptional cases, be processed in countries outside of the European Union without an adequate data protection level (so-called third countries). In order to guarantee an adequate level of data protection even in such cases, we take additional measures according to Art. 44 ff of the GDPR and thereby ensure that the data transfer is generally permissible (e.g. by establishing EU standard contracts).

If the effectiveness of the standard contract clauses is not conclusively clarified, we base the data transfer alternatively on Art. 49 GDPR, in particular based on your explicit consent or our need to provide contact forms in a risk-free way.

The EU considers the USA to be a country without an adequate level of data protection; in particular there is an alleged risk that your data may be processed for monitoring purposes by US authorities without adequate legal protection options.

Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and the data protection declaration are available at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html or https://www.google.com/privacy.

The entity responsible for this data processing is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The following data are forwarded to the responsible entity for the independent provision of the service, i.e. defence against malicious attacks: Your web enquiry, the IP address, the browser type, the browser language, the date and time of your enquiry, one or several cookies, which under certain circumstances identify your browser.

If you object to the use of Google reCAPTCHA, you must not fill in the contact forms in which Google reCAPTCHA is used!

If you would like to take advantage of the services offered by us without the use of Google reCAPTCHA, please feel free to write us an e-mail or letter any time. We will then address your enquiry through another channel.

7.6. Google Maps

If you have given the necessary consents, you can use interactive map services from Google Maps within our offered services. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). For this purpose, Google Maps sets cookies in the browser of your terminal device and optionally requests your exact geolocation via technical interfaces in your terminal device. Furthermore, for technical reasons and for alternative positioning, your IP address and other user information may be queried, used and stored.

You can view further information and the data protection provisions for Google Maps here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

7.7. Facebook-Plugin

This website will use “visitor action pixel” provided by Facebook Inc., provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. This allows companies to track users’ behavior after they click on a Facebook ad that redirects them to the vendor’s website. This process is used to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and may help optimize future advertising efforts. The data collected is anonymous to us and therefore does not provide us with any information about the identity of the user. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook to facilitate a connection to the respective user profile and to allow Facebook to use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook data policy: https://facebook.com/about/privacy/.

The information may enable Facebook and its partners to show advertisements within and outside of Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.

7.8. Facebook Remarketing

Our website will use the remarketing function “custom audiences” offered by Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; “Facebook”), provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. This function serves to target visitors to the website with interest-related advertising in the social network Facebook. For this purpose, the remarketing tag of Facebook was implemented on the website. This tag establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers when you visit our website. It tells the Facebook servers which of our pages you have visited. Facebook associates this information with your personal Facebook user account. When you visit Facebook, you will be shown personalised, interest-based Facebook ads.

You can deactivate the remarketing function “custom audiences” here. Further information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, on your rights in this regard and on ways of protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook’s data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

7.9. Facebook Lead Ads

We will use Facebook lead ads in order to obtain the contact data of users who show interest in our products and services on Facebook, provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. This extends our ads on Facebook by further options for interaction, in particular the option for the user to request further information about our products and services through a contact form. When an interested user submits such a form, the data entered by the user are stored by Facebook as a lead and sent to us. We use these data only for the purpose referenced in the lead ad. They may include, for example, a name for personal contact, an e-mail address for sending the desired product information, or a phone number for establishing contact by phone. Further information on lead ads is available directly from Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

7.10. YouTube-Plugin

We will use plug-ins of YouTube LLC (represented by Google Inc.), among others, to integrate videos into our websites, provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. In this case, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the plug-in is displayed as soon as you use our website. Information on the pages you have visited will be transmitted to the YouTube server. If you are registered as a member of YouTube, YouTube will assign this information to your personal user account. If you use the plug-in, this information will also be assigned to your user account, for example after clicking the start button of a video. You can prevent this assignment by logging out of your YouTube user account and other YouTube LLC and Google Inc. user accounts before using our websites and by deleting the corresponding company cookies. For more information about YouTube (Google) data processing and privacy practices, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

7.11. Microsoft-Plugin

Our website will use conversion tracking by Microsoft Corporation, provided you consent to the use of such on our websites’ cookie splash pages. Microsoft Bing Ads places a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via a Microsoft Bing display. This allows both us and Microsoft Bing to recognize that someone clicked on an advertisement, was redirected to our website, and reached a previously determined target page (conversion page). We only know the total number of users who clicked on a Bing ad and were redirected to the conversion page. No personal information about the user's identity is shared. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking procedure, you can object to the setting of the cookies that are usually required for this, for example by adjusting your browser settings to deactivate the automatic storing of cookies in general. Further information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft Bing can be found on the Microsoft website: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement/.

7.12. cidaas Account

When using our service “cidaas Account” (for example via user registrations or account administrations), we will ask you for a minimal set of personal data which is needed and stored for providing the service. The underlying service – product name “cidaas” – is provided by our data processor Widas ID GmbH, Maybachstraße 2, 71299 Wimsheim, Germany.

For further information, please visit: https://www.cidaas.com/privacy-policy/

7.13. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are usually placed on the PC from a website. Cookies are used for a variety of purposes. However, they are never risky because they lack any "active" ability. They cannot therefore execute any malicious applications. They contain almost exclusively information which is necessary for a comfortable Internet use. In addition, we have set ourselves a deadline for deleting cookies. Without your renewed permission these are stored maximally 12 months starting from the first collection. To this end, we take technical steps to ensure automatic deletion.

Classic examples of cookie tasks: login data, shopping cart storage, user analysis, form fields. Information that can be stored in cookies: Lifetime, server name, Unique ID, content data.

Use of cookies:

• Function Function or session cookies are purely technical cookies that are necessary for the proper functioning of our website.

All other cookies are only used if you consented to them on our cookie consent manager splash pages. We have structured these cookies as follows:

• Statistics Statistics or tracking cookies are used in a completely anonymized form to evaluate user behavior when they visit our website. We and, if necessary, the responsible body, receive valuable information on how the website is used, which helps us and, if necessary, the responsible body, to optimize the website to better appeal to visitors’ interests.
• Marketing In addition to our own cookies, we use third-party cookies to display personalized advertising on our own and other websites. This process is called “retargeting”. It is based on your activity on our website.
• Other The plug-ins used on our website also use their own cookies. You can find out about the types and purposes of these cookies on the pages specified by the third-party providers.

Consentmanager:

We use the consent management tool “consentmanager” (https://www.consentmanager.net/) provided by Jaohawi AB (Håltgelvågen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden, info@consentmanager.net) on our website to obtain consent to data processing or the use of cookies and comparable functions. With the help of consentmanager, you can grant or withhold your consent to particular functions of our website, e.g. for the integration of external elements, streaming content, for statistical analysis, reach measurement and personalized marketing. Furthermore, consentmanager allows you to grant or withhold your consent to all functions or grant consent to individual purposes or functions. You can change these settings at a later date. The purpose of integrating consentmanager is to give the users of our website the choice about the matters listed above and to allow them to change their current settings as they continue to use our website. Personal data and information about the end device used, such as the IP address, will be processed as part of using consentmanager.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. c) in connection with Art. 6 (3) 1 lit. a) in connection with Art. 7 (1) GDPR, as well as alternatively lit. f). By processing this data, consentmanager helps us (the responsible party according to GDPR) to fulfill our legal obligations (e.g. obligation to provide proof). Our legitimate interests in the data processing are to save the user’s settings and preferences regarding the use of cookies and other functions. consentmanager stores your data for as long as your user settings are active. Two years after establishing your user settings, your consent is obtained again. The user settings are then stored for another two years.

You can object to the processing of your data. You have the right to object for reasons based on your particular situation. To submit your objection, please write an e-mail to info@consentmanager.net.

1. Social Media

We operate social media presences jointly with the responsible parties of the various social media platforms. For defined processing operations, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the respective social network within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The following describes how we handle information ("personal data") that is collected when you visit us on social networks or contact us using the information available here.

8.1. Responsible

The operator of the respective platform is solely responsible for the processing of personal data on the social media platforms. This operator generally processes your personal data generated when you visit a social media platform, regardless of whether you have a user account there and/or are logged in. If you consent, cookies and other storage and tracking technologies (sometimes across devices) are used.

Social media platforms usually create their own personalized usage statistics, e.g. for market research, advertising and other commercial purposes. Personal data may also be processed outside the European Union in the process. We have no access to this data and cannot influence its collection.

To support our social media activities, we use the Later platform, which is used to create and distribute our posts and manage and process user feedback comments. For more information on Later's data protection, please visit [https://later.com/privacy/.](https://later.com/privacy/)

8.2. Contact

Our data protection officer (see below for contact details) is available to answer any questions you may have regarding data protection.

We would like to point out that it follows from our agreements with the operators of the social media platforms that requests for information and data subject rights should be asserted directly with the respective operator of the social network. Only the provider of the social network has direct access to necessary information and can also take necessary measures and provide information. Should our support nevertheless be necessary, you can contact us at any time.

8.3. Processing of personal data

Data categories

• When you visit a company page, we as the operator of the respective page process those data that you provide to us during your direct actions and interactions (e.g., inquiries, posts, comments, likes, forwards) as well as your publicly accessible profile data. The public visibility of your personal profile data depends on your profile settings, which you can adjust yourself on the respective social media platform. For the use of all social media channels, the strong recommendation is not to share sensitive data or confidential information.
• The social media platforms provide us with anonymous usage statistics (analytics services or page insights data) for our company pages based on the usage behavior of visitors. For this data, we receive assigned demographic and geographic evaluations. We cannot access or influence the creation and processing of these usage statistics and the underlying data. This is the responsibility of the operator of the respective social media platform. We have no possibility to view personal data of individual users.

Purposes and legal basis of processing

We operate our company pages and process the above-mentioned data to provide information about us and our products as well as to communicate with interested parties. The legal basis for this processing is the necessity to protect our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO). Insofar as you provide us with a specific request, the processing may also take place for the fulfillment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO).

We use the data provided by the operator to better understand the use and reach of the content, to identify user preferences, and to tailor our company pages to our target groups as effectively as possible.

We can use this information to target interest-based advertisements without gaining direct knowledge of visitors' identities. If visitors use social media applications on multiple devices, the collection may take place across devices if they are registered and logged in visitors.

The processing of this data is carried out in pursuit of our above-mentioned legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

Further processing takes place exclusively on the basis of consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO), in the context of which we provide detailed information about the data processing to which consent is given.

As part of the provision of our company pages, we work with service providers (e.g. advertising and content agencies that support us in the creation of our posts and the provision and optimization of our social media activities).

Duration of processing

We process your personal data only as long as it is needed for the aforementioned purposes.

In the event of an objection to processing for the protection of our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO), we will delete personal data unless its further processing is permitted under the relevant legal provisions. Likewise, we will delete personal data if we are obliged to do so for other legal reasons. In accordance with these general principles, we will generally delete personal data as soon as the legal basis ceases to apply, if it is no longer required for the stated purposes or if the stated purposes cease to apply and no other legal basis exists (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law), or otherwise if the other legal basis ceases to apply.

1. Data security

We have technical and organizational security procedures in place to protect the security of your personal data and to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and/or against accidental loss, alteration, disclosure or access.

1. Your rights

Compliance with data protection regulations is monitored by the following bodies, to which anyone can turn:

Data protection officer of the New Ventures GmbH:

Dr. Alexander Walter

New Ventures GmbH

Reichenberger Strasse 17

95111 Rehau

Germany

Phone: +49 9283 77 1381

E-mail: datenschutz@rehau-newventures.com

Lead supervisory authority within the meaning of Art. 56 GDPR:

Bavarian State Office for Data Protection

Promenade 27

91522 Ansbach

Germany

You also have the possibility to check our compliance with data protection regulations yourself. You are entitled to the following rights:

• Information Law
• Right to access your processed data
• Right to object For all processing operations based on Art. 6 I f GDPR (see above), you can object the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation.
• Right for disagreement against direct advertising You have the right to object at any time against the processing of your data for the purpose of direct marketing. This also applies to profiling in connection with such direct marketing.
• Right of correction, deletion and limitation
• Right of data portability
• Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you have any questions about these rights with regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer, who is also available in the event of requests for information suggestions or complaints. Upon request, we will inform you as soon as possible in writing if and which of your personal data we have stored in accordance with applicable law. Should incorrect information be stored despite our efforts to ensure that the data is correct and up-to-date, we will correct it at your request.

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