Privacy policy

Name and contact details of the Controller in accordance with Article 4 Section 7 GDPR

Company engineering people GmbH
Address Söflinger Str. 70, 89077 Ulm
Tel. +49 (0) 731 / 20790-0
Fax +49 (0) 731 / 20790-120
E-Mail  info(at)ep-group(dot)de 

Contact data protection officer
E-Mail datenschutz(at)ep-group(dot)de

Safety and protection of your personal data 

We consider it our prime task to treat the personal data which you supply as confidential and to protect it against unauthorised access. For this reason, we exercise extreme care and apply state-of-the-art safety standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data.
 
As a private-law company, we are governed by the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the  German Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG) and the regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act (FDPA). We have taken technical and organisational measures which ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by our external service providers.

Definitions 
The legislator requires that personal data are processed lawfully, in good faith and in a form which is comprehensible for the data subject (“lawfulness, processing in good faith, transparency”). To ensure this, we inform you of the individual statutory definitions which are also used in this privacy statement:

1.    Personal data
“Personal data” is all information which refers to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); a natural person is regarded as identifiable if he/she can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location details, online identification data or one or more special characteristics which express the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of this person.
 
2.    Processing 
“Processing” is any process carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures or any such series of processes in connection with personal data, such as the collection, organisation, sorting, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.

3.    Blocking of processing 
“Blocking of processing” is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of blocking future processing thereof.

4.    Profiling
“Profiling” is any form of automated processing of personal data which consists of use of these personal data to evaluate particular personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects relating to performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, conduct, place of residence or change of location of this natural person.

5.    Pseudonymisation 
“Pseudonymisation” is processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data cannot be assigned to a specific data subject without the need for additional information insofar as this additional information is stored separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures which ensure that the personal data cannot be assigned to an identified or identifiable natural person.

6.    File system
A “file system” is any structured collection of personal data which are accessible according to particular criteria, independently of whether this collection is managed centrally or decentralised or is organised according to functional or geographic aspects.

7.    Controller 
A “controller” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or any other body which decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data. If the purposes and means of this processing are stipulated by European Union law or the law of member states, the controller or the particular criteria of his or her nomination may be designated in accordance with the law of the European Union or the law of the member states.

8.    Order processor
The “order processor” is a natural or legal person, authority, agency or any other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller

9.    Receiver
The “recipient” is a natural or legal person, authority, agency or any other body to which personal data are disclosed, regardless of whether this is a third party or not. However, authorities which may receive personal data in the course of a particular inquiry in accordance with European Union law or the law of member states are not regarded as recipients. Processing of this data by the specified authorities is carried out pursuant to the valid data protection regulations according to the purposes of processing.

10.    Third party
A “third party” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or the processor, are authorised to process the personal data.

11.    Consent 
“Consent” of the data subject is any freely given specific and informed indication of his or her wishes by which the data subject signifies his or her agreement to personal data relating to him or her being processed.
 
Lawfulness of processing 

Processing of personal data is only lawful if there is a legal basis for processing. The legal basis for the processing can be in accordance with  
Article 6(1)(, a. - f.) GDPR in particular:

a. The data subject has given consent to the processing of personal data relating to him or her for one or more specific purposes;
b. processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take pre-contractual measures at the data subject's request;
c. processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
d. processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person;
e. processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
f. processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of the controller or of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

Information on the collection of personal data 

(1) In the following, we provide information on the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are, for example, name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.

(2) When contacting us by e-mail and / or via a contact form, the data provided by you (your e-mail address, where appropriate your name and telephone number) are stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context when storage is no longer necessary or processing is restricted if statutory storage obligations exist.

 
Collection of personal data when visiting our website 
When only using the website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not sign up or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the data which your browser sends to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(1)(f) GDPR):

•    IP address
•    Date and time of the enquiry
•    Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
•    Content of the request (specific page)
•    Access status / HTTP status code
•    Data quantity transferred in each case
•    Website from which the request comes
•    Browser
•    Operating system and its interface
•    Language and version of the browser software

Use of cookies 

(1) In addition to the above-mentioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser which you use and through which certain information flows to the place which sets the cookie. Cookies cannot run programs nor transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and more effective in general.
 
(2) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are described in the following:
•    Transient cookies (see a.)
•    Persistent cookies (see b.)
a. Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. In particular, these include session cookies. These store a so-called session ID with which various requests of your browser can be allocated to a joint session. Your computer can thus be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
 
b. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a pre-set time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser. Automatic deletion is carried out after 60 days at the latest.
 
c.    You can configure your browser setting according to your preferences and, for example, you can refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. So-called “third-party cookies” are cookies set by a third party and therefore not by the actual website which you are on. We point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website if you disable cookies.
 
d. We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you would have to log in again for each visit.

Social media cookies

We use social media cookies that allow us to follow users to other websites in order to publish ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user. Processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

We use the following third party services: 

LinkedIn Insight-Tag

Data collected:

We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag for our websites. The LinkedIn Insight Tag creates a LinkedIn "browser cookie" which collects the following data:
• IP address,
• timestamp,
• site activities,
• demographic data from LinkedIn if the user is an active LinkedIn member.

This technology allows us to generate reports on the performance of our advertisements as well as information on website interaction. For this purpose, the LinkedIn Insight tag is embedded on our website, which establishes a connection to the LinkedIn server if you visit these web pages and are logged into your LinkedIn account at the same time.

Purposes of data processing: 

We process your data to evaluate campaigns and collect information on website visitors who may have reached us through our campaigns on LinkedIn. 
Period of storage and control options: 
We store your data as long as we need them for the respective purpose (campaign evaluation) or if you have not objected to the storage of your data or revoked your consent. 

The data collected are encrypted. See LinkedIn's privacy policy at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy for more information on data collection and use, as well as the options and rights to protect your privacy. If you are logged in to LinkedIn, you can deactivate the data collection at any time using the following link: www.linkedin.com/psettings/enhanced-advertising. 

Facebook Pixel

Data collected: 

We use Facebook Pixel for our websites. This technology allows us to generate reports on the performance of our advertisements as well as information on website interaction. For this purpose, the pixel is embedded on our website, whereby a connection to Facebook is established and the information that the user has clicked on the advertisement is recorded via the Facebook pixel embedded on our website. Other data that is collected includes, for example, the following:
• IP address,
• timestamp,
• site activities
Your data may be transferred to and processed in the USA, i.e. a third country outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA). In this country, there is no adequacy decision by the EU Commission stating that a level of data protection equivalent to the European standard exists there. According to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), there is a particular risk that US authorities can process data for surveillance purposes without being noticed. The legal basis for the processing of your data is your consent pursuant to Article 49(1)(a) GDPR. This can be revoked at any time.

Overview of cookies used: 

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Further functions and features of our website 

(1) In addition to use of our website for information purposes only, we offer various services which you may use if interested. For this, you must generally give further personal data which we use to provide the individual service and for which the above-mentioned general data processing principles apply.
(2) We sometimes use external service providers to process your data. These are carefully selected by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.
 
(3) We can also forward your personal data to third parties if promotions, prize draws, conclusions of contracts or similar services are offered by us together with partners. You will receive further information on these when you provide your personal data or below in the description of the service.
 
(4) If our service providers or partners have their headquarters in a country outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we inform you of the consequences of this situation in the description of the service.

Children
Our services are aimed principally at adults. Persons under the age of 18 should not send us personal data without the permission of their parents or legal guardians.

Rights of the data subject 

(1) Revocation of consent
If the processing of personal data is based on consent granted, you have the right to revoke the consent at any time. By revoking the consent, the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the revocation is not affected.
 
You can contact us at any time with regard to the right of revocation.
 
(2) Right to confirmation
    You have the right to request confirmation from the controller as to whether we are processing personal data relating to you. You can request confirmation at any time using the above-mentioned contact details.

(3) Right of access
    If personal data are processed, you can request information about these personal data and about the following information at any time:
 
a. the purposes of the processing;
b. the categories of personal data processed;
c. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in third countries or international organisations;
d. if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration;
e. the existence of a right to rectify or erase personal data concerning you or to have processing restricted by the controller, or a right to object to such processing;
f. the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
g. if the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information on the origin of the data;
h. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.
 
If personal data are disclosed to a third-party country or international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the suitable guarantees in accordance with Article 46 GDPR in connection with the disclosure. We provide a copy of the personal data which are subject to processing. For all further copies for which you apply, we may request an appropriate payment based on administration costs. If you submit the application electronically, the information is to be provided in a conventional electronic format unless otherwise stated. The right to receive a copy pursuant to paragraph 3 must not prejudice the rights and freedoms of other persons.
 
(4) Right to rectification    
    You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal data relating to you without undue delay. Taking into account the purposes of processing, you have the right to request that incomplete personal data be completed - also by means of an additional statement.
 
(5) Right to deletion ("right to be forgotten")
    You have the right to request that the controller delete personal data concerning you without undue delay and we are obliged to delete personal data without undue delay if one of the following reasons applies:
 
a.    The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
b.    The data subject withdraws the consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

c.    The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
d.    The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
e.    The deletion of the personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
f.    The personal data have been collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
 
If the controller has disclosed the personal data and if he or she is obliged to delete them pursuant to Paragraph 1, he or she takes appropriate measures, also of a technical nature, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, in order to inform the persons responsible for processing the personal data that a data subject has requested that they delete all links to these personal data or copies or reproductions of these personal data.
 
The right to deletion (“Right to be forgotten”) does not exist insofar as processing is necessary:
 
- to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
- for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
- for reasons of public interest in the field of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;
- for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to  
Article 89(1) of the GDPR, where the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to make impossible or seriously prejudice the achievement of the purposes of such processing; or
- for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
 
(6) Right to restriction of processing
    You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data if one of the following conditions is met:
 
a. the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data,
b. the processing is unlawful and the data subject objects to the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of the use of the personal data;
c. the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
d. the data subject has objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, as long as it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
 
If processing was restricted according to one of the above-mentioned conditions, this personal data may only be processed – apart from storage – with the permission of the data subject or in order to apply, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity or due to reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a member state.
 
To assert the right to restriction of processing, the data subject can apply to us at any time under the above-mentioned contact details.
 
(7) Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data was provided, insofar as:
 
a. the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR; and
b. the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures.
 
When asserting the right to data portability pursuant to Paragraph 1, you have the right to effect that the personal data be transferred directly from one controller to another controller insofar as technically feasible. Exercising the right to data portability does not affect the right to deletion (“Right to be forgotten”). This right does not apply to processing which is necessary for the performance of a task which is in the public interest or is carried out in the exercise of official authority which was transferred to the controller.
 
(8) Right of objection
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The controller no longer processes the personal data unless he or she can furnish proof of compelling legitimate grounds for processing which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or unless processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
 
If personal data are processed in order to carry out direct marketing, you have the right to raise an objection at any time to processing of your personal data for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is linked to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for purposes of direct marketing, the personal data are no longer processed for these purposes.
 
In connection with the use of services of the information society, you can exercise your right to object by means of automated processes in which technical specifications were used, irrespective of the Directive 2002/58/EC.
 
You have the right, for reasons resulting from your particular situation, to object to the processing of your personal data which is carried out for the purposes of scientific or historical research or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 Paragraph 1, unless processing is necessary to fulfil a task in the public interest.
 
You can exercise this right to object at any time by applying to the relevant controller.
 
(9) Automated decisions in individual cases, including profiling.
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision:
 
a. is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller,
b. is permissible under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and that law contains suitable measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject; or
c. with the explicit consent of the data subject.
 
The controller takes appropriate measures to protect the rights and freedoms as well as the justified interests of the data subject, which at least includes the right to effect intervention of a person on the part of the controller, to state his or her point of view and to contest the decision.
 
The data subject can exercise this right at any time by applying to the relevant controller.
 
(10) Right to complain to a supervisory authority
They shall also have the right, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to them infringes this Regulation.
 
(11) Right to an effective judicial remedy
Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR, you shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy if you consider that your rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data not in compliance with this Regulation.

Electronic application 
If you apply via the website of engineering people GmbH, this is only possible if you give your informed consent. In this regard, please read the information on consent and tick the relevant box. The data which you upload to our server are transmitted in encrypted form. Please use this option rather than transferring the data via e-mail. 

Use of Matomo (formerly Piwik)

This website uses the open source web analytics service Matomo. Matomo uses technologies that enable cross-site user recognition for the analysis of user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Matomo about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymised before storage.
With the aid of Matomo, we are able to collect and analyse data on the use of our website by website visitors. This enables us to find out, among other things, when which page views were made and which region they come from. We also collect various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browsers and operating systems used) and can measure whether our website visitors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases etc.).
The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymised analysis of user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising. If appropriate consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymisation
When analysing with Matomo, we use IP anonymisation. Your IP address is shortened before analysis so that it can no longer be clearly assigned to you.
Hosting
We host Matomo exclusively on our own servers, so all analysis data remains with us and is not shared.
The Matomo program is an open source project. Information on the third-party data protection provider is available at matomo.org/privacy-policy/.

Use of Microsoft Advertising campaigns with conversion tracking 

We use Microsoft Advertising on our website, an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. Microsoft Advertising uses conversion tracking to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to provide you with relevant ads. When you access our website, a cookie is stored on your device, insofar as you have given us your express consent (statistics). No personal data is stored in this cookie, but only an individual identifier to recognise your activities on our website. 
 
The information collected through conversion tracking is used exclusively for statistical evaluations and to improve the advertisements. We do not receive any personal data from Microsoft Advertising. Your consent to the use of cookies for Microsoft Advertising conversion tracking is given via our cookie banner when you visit our website. Here you have the opportunity to adjust the cookie settings and agree to or reject the use of Microsoft Advertising cookies. 
 
The legal basis for the use of Microsoft Advertising and conversion tracking is your express consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time. 
Further information about data protection at Microsoft Advertising can be found in Microsoft's privacy statement: [Microsoft privacy statement – Microsoft data protection].

Google marketing services

We use marketing services from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The Controller for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
 
The services used include:

Use of Google Analytics

(1) Based on our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our website in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google LLC (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie on the use of the website by the user is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. 

(2) Google is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active). 

(3) Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Pseudonymous user profiles can hereby be created from the processed data. 

(4) We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymisation activated. This means that the IP address of users is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. 

(5) The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the website to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

(6) Further information on data use by Google, setting and revocation options is given in the Privacy Policy of Google (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads ) and in the settings for the display of advertisements by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated ). 

(7) Users’ personal data are deleted or anonymised after 8 weeks. 

Integration of Google Maps 

(1) We use the services of Google Maps on this website. We can thus display interactive maps directly to you on the website and enable convenient use of the map function. 
 
(2) When visiting the website, Google receives information that you have opened the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified under § 3 of this declaration are transferred. This occurs irrespective of whether Google provides a user account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in with Google, your data are directly assigned to your account. If you do not want assignment to your profile with Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as a usage profile and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and / or design of its website according to requirements. Such analysis is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display requirement-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network of your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the formation of these user profiles but to exercise this right you must object to Google. 
 
(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing thereof by the plug-in provider is given in the data protection declarations of the provider. There you can also receive further information on your corresponding rights and setting options to protect your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield,www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Google Ads

Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland 
Function: Placement of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking. 
Further information can be found at: adssettings.google.com/authenticated 
 
The use of Google Ads allows us to track conversions, i.e. we can determine whether you came to our website via a Google ad. It is not possible for us to identify you on this basis. Statistics are created. 

Google Tag Manager 
Use of the Google Tag Manager only allows us to integrate the services listed by implementing the other cookies/tags. Google Tag Manager does not store any data itself and does not have access to it. The Tag Manager only collects data on how the individual tags are used. The legal basis for the processing is in our interest to optimise our website in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

Order processor

We use external service providers (order processors), e.g. for shipment of goods, newsletters or payment processing. Separate order data processing was agreed with the service provider in order to ensure protection of your personal data.

We co-operate with the following service providers:
IT Consulting Kühnl
Söflinger Str. 70, 89077 Ulm, Deutschland

Further functions and features of our website  

(1) In addition to use of our website for information purposes only, we offer various services which you may use if interested. For this, you must generally give further personal data which we use to provide the individual service and for which the above-mentioned general data processing principles apply.

(2) We sometimes use external service providers to process your data. These are carefully selected by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.
 
(3) We can also forward your personal data to third parties if promotions, prize draws, conclusions of contracts or similar services are offered by us together with partners. You will receive further information on these when you provide your personal data or below in the description of the service.
 
(4) If our service providers or partners have their headquarters in a country outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we inform you of the consequences of this situation in the description of the service.

Children

Our services are aimed principally at adults. Persons under the age of 18 should not send us personal data without the permission of their parents or legal guardians.

Rights of the data subject  

(1) Revocation of consent
If the processing of personal data is based on consent granted, you have the right to revoke the consent at any time. By revoking the consent, the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the revocation is not affected.
 
You can contact us at any time with regard to the right of revocation.
 
(2) Right to confirmation
    You have the right to request confirmation from the controller as to whether we are processing personal data relating to you. You can request confirmation at any time using the above-mentioned contact details.

(3) Right of access
    If personal data are processed, you can request information about these personal data and about the following information at any time:
 
a. the purposes of the processing;
b. the categories of personal data processed;
c. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in third countries or international organisations;
d. if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration;
e. the existence of a right to rectify or erase personal data concerning you or to have processing restricted by the controller, or a right to object to such processing;
f. the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
g. if the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information on the origin of the data;
h. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.
 
If personal data are disclosed to a third-party country or international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the suitable guarantees in accordance with Article 46 GDPR in connection with the disclosure. We provide a copy of the personal data which are subject to processing. For all further copies for which you apply, we may request an appropriate payment based on administration costs. If you submit the application electronically, the information is to be provided in a conventional electronic format unless otherwise stated. The right to receive a copy pursuant to paragraph 3 must not prejudice the rights and freedoms of other persons.
 
(4) Right to rectification    
    You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal data relating to you without undue delay. Taking into account the purposes of processing, you have the right to request that incomplete personal data be completed - also by means of an additional statement.
 
(5) Right to deletion ("right to be forgotten")
    You have the right to request that the controller delete personal data concerning you without undue delay and we are obliged to delete personal data without undue delay if one of the following reasons applies:
 
a.    The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
b.    The data subject withdraws the consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

c.    The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
d.    The personal data have been processed unlawfully.
e.    The deletion of the personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
f.    The personal data have been collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Article 8(1) of the GDPR.
 
If the controller has disclosed the personal data and if he or she is obliged to delete them pursuant to Paragraph 1, he or she takes appropriate measures, also of a technical nature, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs, in order to inform the persons responsible for processing the personal data that a data subject has requested that they delete all links to these personal data or copies or reproductions of these personal data.
 
The right to deletion (“Right to be forgotten”) does not exist insofar as processing is necessary:
 
- to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
- for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
- for reasons of public interest in the field of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;
- for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to  
Article 89(1) of the GDPR, where the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to make impossible or seriously prejudice the achievement of the purposes of such processing; or
- for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
 
(6) Right to restriction of processing
    You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data if one of the following conditions is met:
 
a. the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data,
b. the processing is unlawful and the data subject objects to the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of the use of the personal data;
c. the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
d. the data subject has objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, as long as it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
 
If processing was restricted according to one of the above-mentioned conditions, this personal data may only be processed – apart from storage – with the permission of the data subject or in order to apply, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity or due to reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a member state.
 
To assert the right to restriction of processing, the data subject can apply to us at any time under the above-mentioned contact details.
 
(7) Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data was provided, insofar as:
 
a. the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR; and
b. the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures.
 
When asserting the right to data portability pursuant to Paragraph 1, you have the right to effect that the personal data be transferred directly from one controller to another controller insofar as technically feasible. Exercising the right to data portability does not affect the right to deletion (“Right to be forgotten”). This right does not apply to processing which is necessary for the performance of a task which is in the public interest or is carried out in the exercise of official authority which was transferred to the controller.
 
(8) Right of objection
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The controller no longer processes the personal data unless he or she can furnish proof of compelling legitimate grounds for processing which outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or unless processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
 
If personal data are processed in order to carry out direct marketing, you have the right to raise an objection at any time to processing of your personal data for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is linked to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for purposes of direct marketing, the personal data are no longer processed for these purposes.
 
In connection with the use of services of the information society, you can exercise your right to object by means of automated processes in which technical specifications were used, irrespective of the Directive 2002/58/EC.
 
You have the right, for reasons resulting from your particular situation, to object to the processing of your personal data which is carried out for the purposes of scientific or historical research or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 Paragraph 1, unless processing is necessary to fulfil a task in the public interest.
 
You can exercise this right to object at any time by applying to the relevant controller.
 
(9) Automated decisions in individual cases, including profiling.
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision:
 
a. is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller,
b. is permissible under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and that law contains suitable measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject; or
c. with the explicit consent of the data subject.
 
The controller takes appropriate measures to protect the rights and freedoms as well as the justified interests of the data subject, which at least includes the right to effect intervention of a person on the part of the controller, to state his or her point of view and to contest the decision.
 
The data subject can exercise this right at any time by applying to the relevant controller.
 
(10) Right to complain to a supervisory authority
They shall also have the right, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to them infringes this Regulation.
 
(11) Right to an effective judicial remedy
Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR, you shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy if you consider that your rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data not in compliance with this Regulation.

Electronic application  

If you apply via the website of engineering people GmbH, this is only possible if you give your informed consent. In this regard, please read the information on consent and tick the relevant box. The data which you upload to our server are transmitted in encrypted form. Please use this option rather than transferring the data via e-mail.

Use of Matomo (formerly Piwik)

This website uses the open source web analytics service Matomo. Matomo uses technologies that enable cross-site user recognition for the analysis of user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Matomo about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymised before storage.

With the aid of Matomo, we are able to collect and analyse data on the use of our website by website visitors. This enables us to find out, among other things, when which page views were made and which region they come from. We also collect various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browsers and operating systems used) and can measure whether our website visitors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases etc.).

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymised analysis of user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising. If appropriate consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymisation

When analysing with Matomo, we use IP anonymisation. Your IP address is shortened before analysis so that it can no longer be clearly assigned to you.

Hosting

We host Matomo exclusively on our own servers, so all analysis data remains with us and is not shared.

The Matomo program is an open source project. Information on the third-party data protection provider is available at matomo.org/privacy-policy/.

Use of Microsoft Advertising campaigns with conversion tracking  

We use Microsoft Advertising on our website, an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. Microsoft Advertising uses conversion tracking to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to provide you with relevant ads. When you access our website, a cookie is stored on your device, insofar as you have given us your express consent (statistics). No personal data is stored in this cookie, but only an individual identifier to recognise your activities on our website.
 
The information collected through conversion tracking is used exclusively for statistical evaluations and to improve the advertisements. We do not receive any personal data from Microsoft Advertising. Your consent to the use of cookies for Microsoft Advertising conversion tracking is given via our cookie banner when you visit our website. Here you have the opportunity to adjust the cookie settings and agree to or reject the use of Microsoft Advertising cookies.
 
The legal basis for the use of Microsoft Advertising and conversion tracking is your express consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.
Further information about data protection at Microsoft Advertising can be found in Microsoft's privacy statement: [Microsoft privacy statement – Microsoft data protection].

Google marketing services

We use marketing services from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The Controller for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
 
The services used include:

Use of Google Analytics
(1) Based on our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our website in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google LLC (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie on the use of the website by the user is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

(2) Google is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

(3) Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Pseudonymous user profiles can hereby be created from the processed data.

(4) We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymisation activated. This means that the IP address of users is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

(5) The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the website to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

(6) Further information on data use by Google, setting and revocation options is given in the Privacy Policy of Google (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads ) and in the settings for the display of advertisements by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated ).

(7) Users’ personal data are deleted or anonymised after 8 weeks.

Integration of Google Maps  

(1) We use the services of Google Maps on this website. We can thus display interactive maps directly to you on the website and enable convenient use of the map function.
 
(2) When visiting the website, Google receives information that you have opened the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified under § 3 of this declaration are transferred. This occurs irrespective of whether Google provides a user account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in with Google, your data are directly assigned to your account. If you do not want assignment to your profile with Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as a usage profile and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and / or design of its website according to requirements. Such analysis is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display requirement-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network of your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the formation of these user profiles but to exercise this right you must object to Google.
 
(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing thereof by the plug-in provider is given in the data protection declarations of the provider. There you can also receive further information on your corresponding rights and setting options to protect your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield,www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Google Ads

Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Placement of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking.
Further information can be found at: adssettings.google.com/authenticated
 
The use of Google Ads allows us to track conversions, i.e. we can determine whether you came to our website via a Google ad. It is not possible for us to identify you on this basis. Statistics are created.

Google Tag Manager  

Use of the Google Tag Manager only allows us to integrate the services listed by implementing the other cookies/tags. Google Tag Manager does not store any data itself and does not have access to it. The Tag Manager only collects data on how the individual tags are used. The legal basis for the processing is in our interest to optimise our website in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

Order processor

We use external service providers (order processors), e.g. for shipment of goods, newsletters or payment processing. Separate order data processing was agreed with the service provider in order to ensure protection of your personal data.
We co-operate with the following service providers:

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