Information about the collection of personal data

a)      The following information applies to the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail address and user behaviour.

b)      The controller in accordance with Article 4(7), General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is 

Dickert Electronic Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH)

Fünfhausen 1

D- 35091 Cölbe- Schönstadt

Tel.: +49 6427 9224-0

E-mail: info@dickert.com

We have appointed an external data protection officer to safeguard your rights and ensure the legally correct processing of your data.
Here are the contact details:

gds – Gesellschaft für Datenschutz Mittelhessen mbh
datenschutz at gdsm.de (at = @).
Tel.: +49 6421 870413-10

c)      If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer, or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In that respect, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

 

Contact by e-mail, contact form

a)      When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide and the resulting personal data (e.g. name, enquiry, e-mail address and telephone number) are stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry, and in the event of follow-up questions. We shall not forward such data to third parties without your consent. 

b)      We shall retain the data you have forwarded to us in the contact questions until you ask us to delete such data, withdraw your consent to the storage of such data or the purpose for the data storage becomes inapplicable (e.g. once the processing of your enquiry has been completed). This does not affect compulsory statutory provisions – in particular statutory storage periods. 

c)      Such data shall be processed on the basis of Article 6, sub-section 1, point b, GDPR, provided your enquiry is associated with executing a contract or is necessary to adopt pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing shall be based on our justified interest in the effective processing of the enquiries directed to us (Article 6, sub-section 1, point f, GDPR) or your consent (Article 6, sub-section 1, point a, GDPR) provided this was requested.

 

Collection of personal data when visiting our website

a)      When you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise forward information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser forwards to our server. If you wish to view our website, we shall collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and ensure that it is stable and secure based on Article 6(1), point f, GDPR, in line with Section 25 TTDSG (German Telecommunication-Telemedia Data Protection Act):

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
Respective transferred data quantity
Website from which the enquiry is made
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software.
b)    The personal data collected here are not stored as a log file, 

but deleted without delay after use of our website.   

c)       In addition to the aforementioned data mentioned, Cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive in relation to the browser you are using and which provide the party setting the Cookie (in this case by us) with certain information. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website as a whole more user-friendly and effective. Such Cookies are used on the basis of Article 6(1), point a, GDPR.

 

Use of Cookies

a)       his website uses the following types of Cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:

Transient Cookies (see b in that respect)
Persistent Cookies (see c in that respect).
b)      Transient Cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include, in particular, Session Cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This enables your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. Session Cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c)       Persistent Cookies are automatically deleted after a set period of time, which may vary depending on the Cookie. You can delete the Cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

d)      You can configure your browser settings in line with your requirements and, for example, reject the acceptance of third party Cookies or all Cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

e)      Cookie Consent Manager System “Cookie First.”

We use a Cookie Consent Manager tool on our website to inform you about technologies we use on our website and to obtain, manage and document your consent to the processing of your personal data via these technologies. 

This is necessary in accordance with Article 6(1), Sentence 1,  point (c), GDPR, in conjunction with Article 7(1), GDPR, for the fulfilment of our legal obligation to be able to prove your consent to the processing of your personal data. The service provider is the Dutch company Digital Data Solutions B.V., Plantage Middenlaan 42a, 1018 DH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

You can find out more about the data processed through the use of Cookie First in the Privacy Policy at https://cookiefirst.com/legal/general-terms-conditions/.

 

Data security

The personal data we collect and store are treated confidentially and protected against loss and modification, as well as unauthorised access by third parties, by way of appropriate technical and organisational precautions. Your personal data are transmitted via the internet in encrypted form. We use SSL encryption (Secure Socket Layer) for data transmission.

 

Data processing for applications

When you apply to us, we process the information that we receive from you as part of the application process, e.g. through letters of application, CVs, references, correspondence, telephone or verbal information. In addition to your contact details, information about your education, qualifications, work experience and skills is of particular relevance to us. We will only assess you according to your suitability for the position in question, so you do not need to send us a photo.

Your data will initially be processed solely for the purpose of carrying out the application process. If your application is successful, it will become part of your personnel file and will be used to carry out and terminate the employment relationship and deleted in accordance with the regulations applicable to personnel files. If we are currently unable to offer you employment, we will continue to process your data for up to six months after sending the rejection letter in order to defend ourselves against any legal claims, in particular due to alleged discrimination in the application process. Your data will initially be accessible to our HR department and the “Recruiting” department, but also to the specialist department of the position for which you have applied and, if necessary, to the accounting department. If technically necessary, our administrators and processors have the possibility to access data processed via IT. They are strictly bound by our instructions and may not process the data for their own purposes.

The legal basis for data processing in the application process and as part of the personnel file is § 26 para. 1 sentence 1 BDSG and Art. 6 para. 1 lit b GDPR and, if you have given your consent, for example by sending information that is not necessary for the application process, Art. 6 para. 1 lit a GDPR. The legal basis for data processing after a rejection is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legal basis for storage under budgetary and tax law is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR in conjunction with § SECTION 147 AO. Legitimate interest in processing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR is the defence against legal claims.

As a rule, we do not require any special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 GDPR for the application process. We ask you not to provide us with any such information from the outset. If such information is exceptionally relevant to the application process, we will process it together with your other applicant data. This may, for example, concern information about a severe disability, which you can provide to us voluntarily and which we then have to process in order to fulfil our special obligations with regard to severely disabled persons. In these cases, the processing serves the exercise of rights or the fulfilment of legal obligations arising from labour law, social security law and social protection. The legal basis for data processing is then Art. 9 para. 2 lit. b GDPR, §§ 26 para. 3 BDSG, 164 SGB IX.

 

Automated decisions, profiling

We do not make any automated decisions (including profiling) regarding the personal data we collect.

 

Your rights 

a)       You have the following rights in dealings with us with regard to your personal data:

Right to receive information (Article 15, GDPR),
Right to rectification (Article 16, GDPR) or erasure (Article 17, GDPR),
Right to restriction of processing (Article 18, GDPR),
Right to object to the processing (Article 21 GDPR), see Section 6 for more details.
Right to data portability, (Article 20, GDPR).
b)      You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us (Article 77, GDPR). The competent supervisory authority is:

The Hesse Officer for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

PO Box 3163

D-65021 Wiesbaden

Tel. +49 611 1408-0

Fax: +49 611 1408-611

E-mail: poststelle@datenschutz.hessen.de

 

Objection or revocation to the processing of your data

a)      If you have granted your consent to the processing of your data, you may withdraw such consent at any time. Such a withdrawal will affect the permissibility of processing your personal data once you have informed us of your withdrawal.

b)      Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for executing a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will review the situation and either discontinue or adjust the data processing, or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

Of course, you may object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us of your objection to advertising using the following contact details: By post to Dickert Electronic GmbH, Fünfhausen 1, D-35091 Cölbe-Schönstadt, Tel.: +49 6427 9224-0, e-mail: info@dickert.com.

 

Using our webshop

a)      If you wish to place an order in our webshop, to enter into contract you will need to provide your personal data, which we require to process your order. Compulsory data required for the processing of contracts are marked separately, other data are voluntary. We process the data you make available to deal with your order. For this purpose, we may forward your payment data to our house bank. Article. 6(1), sentence1, point (b), GDPR), forms the legal basis in this respect.

You can voluntarily have us create a customer account via the new customer registration, by way of which we can save your data for future purchases. When you create an account under “My account,” the data you provide will be stored such that they can be revoked. You can request the erasure of all further data, including your user account.

We may also process the data you make available to inform you about other interesting products from our portfolio, or send you e-mails stating technical information.

b)      We undertake by commercial and tax law to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years.

c)      The ordering process is encrypted using TLS technology to prevent unauthorised access by third parties to your personal data, in particular financial data.

 

Integration of Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called Web Fonts for the standardised presentation of fonts, Web Fonts are made available by Google. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. The fonts are stored locally by us, so that no personal data are transmitted to Google. A standard font from your computer will be used if your browser does not support web fonts. You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at  https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s data protection policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

 

Google Analytics

a)      This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis services of Google LLC. (for Europe: Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland – “Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable analysis to ensue regarding your use of the website. The information generated by the Cookie regarding your use of this website is usually sent to and stored on a server operated by Google and located in the USA. We have activated IP anonymisation on this website. Therefore your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the entire IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Google is, therefore, a processor by order within the meaning of Article 4, No. 8 GDPR; a corresponding agreement on processing on behalf in accordance with Article 28(3), GDPR, has been entered into. The setting of Google Analytics Cookies is based on Article 6(1), point (a), GDPR.

b)      The IP address forwarded as part of Google Analytics from your browser shall not be grouped together with other data from Google.

c)      You can prevent the storing of Cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser; however, we would like to point out that by doing so you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the Cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser Plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

d)      This website uses Google Analytics with the “_anonymizeIp()” extension. This means that IP addresses are processed in a shortened form, therefore excluding the possibility of personal references. If the data collected about you are related to a person, this is immediately excluded and the personal data are deleted without delay.

e)      We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer, and make it more interesting for you as a user.

f)      At present, the data transfer is based on the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) provided by Google. We reserve the right to deactivate Google Analytics should a judicial or regulatory decision determine that these SCCs do not comply with data protection requirements.

g)      This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under “My Data”, “Personal Data.”

 

Integration of YouTube videos

a)       We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offer, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in “Extended data protection mode,” i.e. no data about you as a user are transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. The data stated in b) are only transferred once you play the videos. We exert no influence on such data transmission.

B)      YouTube is deactivated when you enter this website for the first time to ensure data protection on this website. A direct connection to the YouTube servers is only established when you activate YouTube yourself (consent according to Article 6(1), point (a), GDPR). This prevents your data from being transferred to YouTube when you first access the page.

Following activation, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. Furthermore, the data stated in sub-section V of this Policy are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged-in to Google, your data shall be directly allocated to your account. If you do not wish this to be allocated to your profile at YouTube, you will need to log-out before activating the button. YouTube retains your data as use profiles and uses them for advertising and market research purposes and/or tailor-made management of its website. Such an evaluation applies, in particular (including for users who are not logged-in), to provide tailor-made and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right object to the creation of user profiles, whereby will need to contact YouTube to exercise this right.

d)      Further information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube can be found in the data protection policy. There you can also find further information about your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. YouTube also processes your personal data in the USA. At present, the data transfer is based on the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) provided by Google. We reserve the right to deactivate YouTube should a judicial or regulatory decision determine that these SCCs do not comply with data protection requirements.

 

Facebook Fanpage, joint responsibility according to Article 26 GDPR

By providing a Facebook Fanpage, we firstly collect data from you, the Fanpage users and secondly enable Facebook to collect, store and use data from you. Irrespective of whether you have a Facebook user account or not.

This circumstance only affects the type of data processing by Facebook, but not whether or not data are processed. This occurs in any case.

We cannot assume any responsibility for the data processing by Facebook, nor can we explain it comprehensively, but at this point we refer to the ECJ ruling of 05.06.2018 (case number C-210/16), which establishes joint responsibility with regard to Facebook fan pages. Please refer to Facebook’s data protection declarations for the part for which Facebook is responsible.

Below you will find a brief, comprehensible overview of the collection and processing of your data that arise as a result of our responsibility in conjunction with your visit to our fan page.

(1)    We process this data:

Your visit to our Fanpage, and in this context the domain name or IP address of your computer, the file request of the client (file name and URL), the http response code and the website from which you visit us.
Your Facebook interactions with our posts (“Likes”).
If you comment on our posts, we collect and store your comments as part of the history.
(2)    How we collect your data:

We collect data automatically when you visit our website.

Otherwise, we only collect the data based on your entries on our fan page, possibly based on your interaction with a Facebook function.

(3)    We use your data for this purpose:

For technical administration and to provide the website.
To communicate with you via the Messenger, or within the fan page.
If applicable, within the scope of an additional function (e.g. application) and exclusively for the purpose evident there.
 (4)    How long we store your data for:

The duration of data storage is primarily based on honouring the purpose. This means that we store your data for exactly as long as we need to honour the purpose for which the data were collected. In some cases, however, there are legal storage periods that stipulate a different storage period. In these cases, we store the data for as long as provided by the respective law.

We exert no influence on the storage period by Facebook.

 

Use of Algolia

We use Algolia, a web hosting and backend service, for our website. The service provider is the American company Algolia lnc, 301 Howard Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. The legal basis for the use of Algolia is your consent according to Article 6(1), point (a), GDPR.

Algolia also processes data in the USA, among other places. We would like to point out that according to the opinion of the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for the transfer of data to the USA. This may entail various risks for the legality and security of data processing. At present, data transfers are based on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) provided by Algolia. We reserve the right to deactivate Algolia should a judicial or regulatory decision determine that these SCCs do not comply with data protection requirements. You can find out more about the data processed through the use of Algolia in the data protection policy at httQs://www.algolia.com/Qolicies/Qrivacy/.

Use of Google Doubleclick / Google Ads

Our website also uses other services of the Google Marketing Platform (formerly “Google Doubleclick”). These services use Cookies to place ads that are relevant to users, improve campaign performance reports, or prevent a user from being served ads more than once.

Google uses a Cookie ID to record which ads are displayed in which browser and can, therefore, prevent them from being displayed more than once. Furthermore, Google can use Cookie IDs to record so-called conversions, i.e. whether or not a user sees an ad and later visits the advertiser’s website and makes a purchase there. According to Google, these Cookies do not contain any personal information.

Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Google’s server. We exert no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google by way of use of this service. According to Google, by integrating these services, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. Insofar as you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your user account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is still possible for the provider to obtain and store your IP address.

In addition, Cookies enable us to understand whether you perform certain actions on our website after you have called up or clicked on one of our ads on Google, or on another platform (conversion tracking) (“Floodlight”). Google uses this Cookie to understand the content you have interacted with on our websites to subsequently send you targeted advertising.

You can prevent the tracking process by making the appropriate setting in your browser software (e.g. third-party Cookies deactivated), deactivating Cookies for conversion tracking by blocking Cookies from the domain www.googleadservices.com in your browser settings, with regard to interest-based ads from providers that are part of the self-regulation campaign “About Ads” via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices or the link http://www.google.com/settings/. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully use all functions of this programme.

Further information on the Google Marketing Platform is available at https://marketingplatform.google.com/. You can also find further information at the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at http://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Your consent within the meaning of Article 6(1), point (a), GDPR, forms the legal basis for the data processing.  At present, the possible transfer of data to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) provided by Google. We reserve the right to deactivate Google Doubleclick should a judicial or regulatory decision determine that these SCCs do not comply with data protection requirements.

 

Use of Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager, a service is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. By way of Google Tag Manager, website tags are managed via an interface and other services can, therefore, be integrated in our online programme. The Tag Manager itself (which implements the tags), therefore, does not create user profiles or store Cookies. Google only learns the user’s IP address, which is necessary to run the Google Tag Manager. Your consent within the meaning of Article 6(1), point (a), GDPR, forms the legal basis in respect of the data processing.  At present, the possible transfer of data to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) provided by Google. We reserve the right to deactivate Google Tag Manager should a judicial or regulatory decision determine that these SCCs do not comply with data protection requirements. For more information on Google Tag Manager, please visit: https://marketingplatform.google.com; Data Protection Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy; Types of processing and data processed: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/adsservices; Data Processing Terms for Google Advertising Products and Standard Contractual Clauses for Third Party Data Transfers: https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms.

 

Use of polyfill

A web service provided by The Financial Times Limited, 1 Southwark Bridge, SE1 9HL London, United Kingdom (hereinafter: polyfill.io) is reloaded on our website. We use such data to ensure the full functionality of our website. In this context, your browser may transmit personal data to polyfill.io. Your consent in accordance with Article 6(1), point (a), GDPR, forms the legal basis in respect of the data processing. Further information of the transmitted data can be found in the data protection policy of polyfill.io:

 

Use of pixel-code technology

Dickert Electronic uses products and services for analysis and marketing purposes, which are provided by Visable GmbH (www.visable.com) in cooperation with them. To that end, pixel-code technology is used to collect, process and store data in order to create at least pseudonymised, but where possible and sensible, completely anonymous user profiles. Data collected, which may initially still include personal data, is transmitted to Visable or is collected directly by Visable and is used to create the aforementioned user profiles there. Visitors to this website are not personally identified and no other personal data is merged with the user profiles. If IP addresses are identified as personal, they are immediately deleted. You can object to the processing operations described with future effect at any time:

 

Chatbot OpenAI

We use a text-based chatbot on our website. The service provider is the Californian AI research company OpenAI OpCo, LLC, 3180 18th, San Francisco, CA 94110. We use this service to offer you a better and more interactive user experience. With the help of the OpenAI tool, you can interact directly with our website and ask questions. The tool is available to you at any time and thus improves our customer service and your user experience on our website. While we strive to provide accurate and helpful information, we cannot guarantee the completeness or correctness of the responses. We recommend verifying the information and seeking expert advice if in doubt. Which data is processed always depends on the input you make within the chatbot. All entries you make in the chatbot are processed. The data is used by OpenAI to improve and train the capabilities of the tool. As the website operator, we only receive the content of the chat in anonymized form. In general, if you do not enter any personal data in the chatbot, no data other than your IP address will be processed. In principle, the data entered remains stored at OpenAI because the tool uses the data to train itself. The legal basis for the use of the service is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. For cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, we have concluded a DPA with OpenAI with additional standard contractual clauses. Further information can be found in OpenAI's privacy policy