We process your data in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act 2018 in the currently valid version:

• to fulfill (pre-)contractual obligations (Article 6 Paragraph 1lit.b GDPR):

Your data is processed for contract fulfillment online or in one of our branches, and for the contract management of your employment with our company. The data is processed in particular during the initiation of business and the execution of contracts with you.

• to fulfill legal obligations (Article 6 Para. 1 lit.c GDPR):

Processing of your data is necessary for the purpose of fulfilling various legal obligations, for example from the Commercial Code or the Tax Code.

• for the purposes of legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR):

Based on a balancing of interests, data processing beyond the actual fulfillment of the contract may occur to protect our legitimate interests or those of third parties. Data processing to protect legitimate interests occurs, for example, in the following cases:

• Advertising or marketing (see No. 4),
• Measures for business management and further development of services and products;
• Maintaining a group-wide customer database to improve customer service
• in the context of legal proceedings
• Sending of non-promotional information and press releases.

• within the scope of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR):

If you have given us your consent to process your data, e.g. to send you our newsletter, publish photos.

You can object to the use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time, as a whole or for individual measures, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.

Under the legal requirements of Section 7 Paragraph 3 UWG, we are entitled to use the email address that you provided when concluding the contract for direct advertising of our own similar goods or services. You will receive these product recommendations from us regardless of whether you have subscribed to a newsletter.

If you do not wish to receive such recommendations from us by email, you can object to the use of your address for this purpose at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. A notification in text form is sufficient for this. Of course, every email always contains an unsubscribe link.

If we use a service provider for order processing, we still remain responsible for the protection of your data. All processors are contractually obliged to treat your data confidentially and only process it within the scope of providing the service. The processors commissioned by us receive your data if they need the data to fulfill their respective service. These include, for example, IT service providers that we need for the operation and security of our IT system, as well as advertising and address publishers for our own advertising campaigns.

If there is a legal obligation or as part of legal prosecution, authorities and courts as well as external auditors may be recipients of your data.

In addition, insurance companies, banks, credit agencies and service providers may be recipients of your data for the purpose of initiating and fulfilling contracts.

We process your data until the termination of the business relationship or until the expiry of the applicable statutory retention periods (e.g. from the Commercial Code, the Fiscal Code, or the Working Time Act); furthermore, until the conclusion of any legal disputes in which the data is required as evidence.

In principle, we do not transmit any data to a third country. In individual cases, transfer will only take place on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, standard contractual clauses, suitable guarantees or your express consent.

You have a right to information, correction, deletion or restriction of processing of your stored data at any time, a right to object to processing as well as a right to data portability and a right to lodge a complaint in accordance with the requirements of data protection law.

Right to information:

You can request information from us as to whether and to what extent we process your data.

Right to rectification:

If we process your data that is incomplete or incorrect, you can request that we correct or complete it at any time.

Right to erasure:

You can request that we delete your data if we are processing it unlawfully or if the processing disproportionately interferes with your legitimate protection interests. Please note that there may be reasons that prevent immediate deletion, for example in the case of legally regulated retention obligations.

Regardless of whether you exercise your right to deletion, we will delete your data immediately and completely, provided that there is no legal or statutory retention obligation to the contrary.

Right to restriction of processing:

You can ask us to restrict the processing of your data if

• you contest the accuracy of the data for a period of time that enables us to verify the accuracy of the data.
• the processing of the data is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and instead request a restriction of data use,
• we no longer need the data for the intended purpose, but you still need this data to assert or defend legal claims, or
• you have lodged an objection to the processing of the data.

Right to data portability:

You can request that we provide you with the data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and that you can transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that

• we process this data on the basis of revocable consent given by you or for the performance of a contract between us, and
• this processing is carried out using automated procedures.

If it is technically feasible, you can request that we transmit your data directly to another person responsible.

Right to:

If we process your data based on legitimate interest, you can object to this data processing at any time. We will then no longer process your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal claims. You can object to the processing of your data for direct marketing purposes at any time without giving reasons.

Right of appeal:

If you are of the opinion that we are violating German or European data protection law when processing your data, we ask you to contact us to clarify any questions. Of course, you also have the right to contact the supervisory authority responsible for you, the respective state office for data protection supervision.

If you wish to assert one of the rights mentioned against us, please contact our data protection officer. If in doubt, we may request additional information to confirm your identity.