Data privacy

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company. The protection of your data is of the utmost importance to us. With the following information on data protection, we would like to inform you about the purposes for which, and the extent to which we collect or process your personal data when you use our web pages and about how we protect your privacy when you provide us with your data.

Responsibility

Strube D&S GmbH, Hauptstrasse 1, D-38387 Söllingen, Germany, is the operator of these web pages and, as the data controller within the meaning of Art. 4 (7) GDPR, is responsible for compliance with the applicable data protection regulations.

We store and process our users’ personal data in compliance with the relevant regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and the Protection of Privacy in Telecommunications and digital media (TTDSG) in their respective current versions. We only collect personal data for specified, clear and lawful purposes and do not keep it for longer than necessary.

Personal data

Personal data is individual details about the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person (e.g. name, date of birth and contact details).

Web pages

When you visit our web pages, our web servers temporarily store each access in a log file. The following data may be collected and stored until it is deleted automatically: for example, your IP address, the date and time of the access, the data volumes transferred, messages about the success of accessing web pages, identification data of the browser and operating system used, the web page from which you accessed the website and the IP address of your internet access provider. The purpose of processing this data is to allow use of the web pages, for system security, for the technical administration of the network infrastructure and to optimise our website. This is to be regarded as a legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 f) GDPR.

Other data collection

We collect, store and process your personal data (e.g. first name, surname, address, email address, telephone number) if a business relationship exists or is to be established, e.g. in the context of a subscription or an order, as well as when the content of the business relationship is defined and modified. We also use your personal data if you have shared it with us during your registration on our website and have consented to the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, we collect, store and process your personal data if you contact us via the application form, a competition, telephone or fax or by sending us an email, insofar as this is necessary for processing your enquiries and correspondence. The personal data we collect is deleted immediately as soon as it is no longer required for this purpose, unless statutory retention periods exist.

Application form

As soon as you use our application contact form, we collect and process the personal data provided by you for the purpose of carrying out the application process. It is not processed for other purposes.

We only require the personal data marked as mandatory fields. The legal basis for this necessary personal data is generally Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR and Art. 88 GDPR in conjunction with section 26 (1) BDSG.

You also have the option of sending us additional information and personal data via the voluntary fields. We explicitly advise you that this information is not required and is therefore optional and can be provided by you on a voluntary basis. If you wish to provide us with this additional personal data, we require your consent, which you can give at the end of the application contact form. If the voluntary personal data also includes special categories of personal data in accordance with Art. 9 GDPR (such as health data), the consent also applies to this data. The legal basis for the voluntary personal data is your consent in accordance with, as a rule, Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR and Art. 88 GDPR in conjunction with section 26 (2) BDSG. You have the option of revoking this consent at any time (e.g. by email to datenschutz@strube.net or by post to Strube D&S GmbH, Hauptstrasse 1, 38387 Söllingen) with effect for the future. If you revoke your consent, only your mandatory data will be considered in the application process in the future and the data that was previously provided voluntarily will be deleted.

We will only store your personal data for the duration of the application process and for the period for which we potentially have to reckon with the legal claims being asserted against us. In the context of the application procedure, the statutory limitation period for such claims is 6 months after the end of the application procedure. If your application results in an employment relationship, the retention periods for employee data will apply accordingly.

Whistleblowing system

On our website, you have the option of accessing a reporting channel and using it to submit a report to our internal reporting centre in accordance with the German Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG). We have entrusted a service provider with the technical provision of the reporting channel and the operation of the reporting centre. If you use the reporting channel, you are using a ticketing system provided by LINET Services GmbH. This company is responsible under data protection law for the receipt of the report, which means that our data protection provisions do not apply to this. You can find information on data protection with regard to the reporting channel in the LINET Services GmbH privacy policy at https://www.linet-services.de/hinweisgeberschutzgesetz/.

Our internal reporting centre may inform us of reports during the performance of its tasks. Insofar as we come into contact with personal data, we have taken legal, technical and organisational measures to ensure compliance with the provisions of the data protection laws.

Passing on data

We use your personal data within Strube D&S GmbH and our affiliated companies. These companies, as well as our external service providers who carry out data processing on our behalf, are contractually obliged within the meaning of Art. 28 GDPR to handle the personal data in accordance with the applicable regulations. Insofar as these companies come into contact with your personal data, we have taken legal, technical and organisational measures and carry out regular checks to ensure compliance with the provisions of the data protection laws.

If you find links to other controllers on our website (e.g. to our social media pages) and click on the link, you are using the website directly with the respective controllers, which means that our data protection provisions do not apply to this web page.

In principle, we do not transfer your personal data to a third country or to an international organisation outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If, in individual cases, we do make such a transfer, it will only be to those third countries for which an adequacy decision has been issued by the European Commission or the appropriate level of data protection has been ensured by suitable or adequate safeguards (e.g. binding corporate rules or EU standard contractual clauses).

We reserve the right to transmit your personal data to bodies entitled to receive such information if we are obliged to do so by law or by court order.

As a matter of principle, your personal data is not passed on to other third parties.

On our websites, various items of information are stored in so-called cookies, which provide a user-friendly method for handling the application and make the website more effective overall. In addition, the data stored in a cookie makes it unnecessary to repeatedly fill out forms. The cookies we use are time-limited and are deleted regularly.

You can manage the acceptance of cookies from our web pages independently in your browser and block them if necessary. You can also delete cookies that have already been set at any time. Furthermore, you can find out about the possibility of disabling cookies in the settings of your selected browser. If you do not accept cookies, this may lead to restrictions on the use of our web pages in individual cases. We would like to point out that, after deleting your cookies, you may also have to re-enable the set opt-out cookies.

We recommend that you regularly delete the cookies and the browser history manually.

We distinguish between technically necessary cookies and statistical and marketing cookies. Technically necessary cookies are those that make it technically possible to use the page. Technically unnecessary cookies are all cookies that are used for marketing and statistical purposes. Strube D&S GmbH uses Google Analytics for this purpose.

Consent to data processing using cookies is voluntary and can be revoked or adjusted at any time via the following link: Access settings. In the cookie banner, you give your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 a) GDPR and section 25 (1) TDDDG.

Your consent applies to the following domains: strube.net

The list of individual cookie categories (necessary, statistics, marketing) can be found in the cookie settings.

Google Web Fonts

Our website uses Web Fonts provided by Google in order to display fonts consistently. Here we use the “offline mode”. The required fonts were previously downloaded from the Google servers and are stored locally on the web server. The IP address is therefore not transmitted to Google.

Google Web Fonts is used in the interests of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

You can find further information on Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Analysing the web pages

To optimise the contents and offerings of our web pages and to collect statistical analyses, various technical programs are used which record data on the behaviour of the user of the web pages, also in an anonymised form. For this purpose, data on click behaviour, the duration of the visit, system settings and the origin of users is collected in the form of text files by using analysis software cookies. Cookies are stored on your computer for these analyses. This collected data may be stored on the servers of the operators of the analysis tools. The collected data is not used to personally identify the user and is not merged with other personal data of the user.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly. However, we would like to point out that, in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. In the following section, we present the analysis tools we use in detail.

The following analysis tools are used on our web pages for this purpose:

Google Ads

If you have consented to this in the cookie notice, we use the Google Ads service on our website. The legal basis for the data processing is therefore Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR and section 25 (1) TDDDG. Google Ads is an online advertising program provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In addition, you can disable the interest-based ads on Google as well as the interest-based Google ads on the web in your browser. To do this, you must enable the "Off" button at https://myadcenter.google.com/home or disable it at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/. We would like to point out that, after deleting your cookies, you may also have to re-enable the set opt-out cookies.

You can revoke the processing of your data in the context of Google Ads at any time by adjusting your cookie settings: Access settings.

You can find further information on your settings options in this regard and data protection at Google at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/?fg=1.

Google Analytics

If you have given your consent in the cookie notice, Google Analytics is used on our website. This is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is therefore your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 a) GDPR and section 25 (1) TDDDG.

Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your computer and enable your use of our website to be analysed. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored.

Our website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymiseIp”. This means that IP addresses are processed in a shortened form to prevent individuals from being identified. If the data collected from you can be linked to a person, this link is eliminated immediately; thus eliminating the personal data as well. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted from your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not to be merged with other Google data.

Google uses this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide us with other services associated with the use of the website and the internet.

The data described is automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

If you do not want Google Analytics to collect data, you can set this in the cookie banner. You can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to our website: Opt out of Google Analytics.

You can find further information about this web analysis tool at: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/partners/ and in Google's privacy policy https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy."

Google Tag Manager

If you have given your consent to this in the cookie notice, we use the Google Tag Manager on our website. The legal basis for data processing is therefore Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR and section 25 (1) TDDDG.

Google Tag Manager allows marketers to manage website tags via a single interface. The Tool Tag Manager does not use cookies itself. However, the tool triggers other tags, which in turn can collect data under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. However, when the Google Tag Manager is called up, the IP address and the browser fingerprint are transmitted to Google. This means that data is transferred to the USA.

If you have disabled cookies, this setting will also remain in place for all tracking tags within the Google Tag Manager. Further information on the terms of use for Google Tag Manager can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

YouTube

If you have given your consent in the cookie banner, YouTube is used on our website. The legal basis for the use of YouTube and the associated data processing is therefore your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR.

We use the “no cookies” version of YouTube. No cookies are set by YouTube and no assignment to your YouTube account is made if you are logged in. The YouTube plug-ins on our web pages are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. The YouTube plug-ins are labelled with the YouTube logo. Other data protection regulations apply in the USA, meaning that the US authorities, for example, have more access rights to personal data. As soon as you use such a plug-in, your browser establishes direct contact with YouTube, with the result that your information is transmitted directly to a YouTube server. You can refuse to consent to data processing within the cookie banner or revoke your consent at a later date.

For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data, please refer to YouTube's data policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Newsletter

On our website, you have the option of registering for our free newsletter. Only your email address is required for sending the newsletter. You are also welcome to send us your name, company/business name and postcode. If you provide us with your name, this information is used to personalise the newsletter. The data you provide is not passed on to third parties.

We use a so-called double opt-in procedure to register for our newsletter. This means that, after we have received your registration, we will send you a confirmation email to the email address you have provided, in which we will ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not click on the link contained in the confirmation email within 24 hours, your registration will be automatically deleted.

If you confirm your wish to receive the newsletter, we will store your data until you unsubscribe or revoke your consent. The storage serves the sole purpose of enabling us to send you the newsletter. Furthermore, we store your IP addresses and the times of registration and confirmation to prevent a misuse of your personal data.

Your consent has the following wording: “I agree to receive advertising from Strube D&S GmbH by email in the form of the weekly newsletter.”

You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time. You can revoke your consent by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter (see footer), by sending an email to datenschutz@strube.net or by sending a message to the contact details given in the legal notice.

If you revoke your consent or unsubscribe from the newsletter, your data will be removed from the newsletter mailing list and then deleted completely. Insofar as we have also collected your contact details (name, postcode, company/business name and email address) from you in the context of other business relationships, the respective retention periods will apply in this respect.

Newsletter dispatch via Mailingwork

This website uses Mailingwork to send newsletters. The provider is Mailingwork GmbH, Schönherrstrasse 8, Building 10d, Entrance N, D-09113 Chemnitz, Germany. Mailingwork is a service that can be used to organise and analyse the mailing of newsletters. The data you enter for the purpose of receiving newsletters (e.g. email address) is stored on Mailingwork's servers in the EU.

Mailing our newsletters with Mailingwork enables us to analyse the behaviour of the newsletter recipients. Among other things, we can analyse how many recipients have opened the newsletter message and how often each link in the newsletter was clicked. With the help of so-called conversion tracking, it can also be analysed whether a predefined action (e.g. purchase of a product on our website) has taken place after clicking the link in the newsletter.

The data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) a) GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The lawfulness of the data processing operations that have already place remains unaffected by the revocation.

If you do not want an analysis by Mailingwork, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a corresponding link for this in every newsletter message.

The data that you provided for the purpose of obtaining the newsletter will be stored by us until you cancel the newsletter and will be deleted both from our servers and from the Mailingwork servers after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members' area) remains unaffected by this.

For more details, please refer to Mailingwork's privacy policy at: https://mailingwork.de/datenschutz/

Datawrapper

We use Datawrapper, an online tool provided by Datawrapper GmbH (Raumerstrasse 39, 10437 Berlin), on our website. This tool is used to visualise the results of data journalism research and to enable us to display any statistics and tables on our website. When using the tool, it may be technically necessary to collect your IP address. However, the IP address is not stored any further. This data processing is a legitimate interest on our part in accordance with Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR.

You can find further information in the FAQs (https://www.datawrapper.de/faq#how-can-i-remove-the-created-with-datawrapper-attribution-at-the-bottom-of-the-chart) and the privacy policy (https://www.datawrapper.de/privacy) of Datawrapper GmbH.

Competition

You have the option of participating in a competition on our Facebook page. In the context of these campaigns, personal data (email address, surname, first name, address) may also be collected and stored for the purpose of executing the competition. The personal data that you pass on to us in the context of such a campaign is used exclusively for executing the campaign (e.g. for determining the winner, notifying the winner and sending the prize). After the end of the campaign, the participants' data is deleted. Further conditions of participation can be found at: https://www.strube.net/teilnahmebedingungen.

Data security

We have taken extensive technical and organisational operational security measures to protect the data that you have transmitted from unauthorised access and from misuse by third parties. These measures meet the high legal requirements of the national regulations and are constantly adapted to the current state of the art.

Rights of data subjects

As a data subject, you have the following rights in relation to us in accordance with Art. 15 to 22 GDPR:

• right of access

• right to rectification or erasure

• right to restriction of processing

- right to object to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR,

• right to data portability.

If you have given us your consent to use your personal data, you can revoke this at any time. To do so, please contact us by email at info@strube.net. Alternatively, please inform us of your request by post or by fax.

Furthermore, you have the option of complaining to a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of the personal data. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is "Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen, Prinzenstrasse 5, 30159 Hannover” [The Lower Saxony State Commissioner for Data Protection].

Currency of and amendments to the privacy policy

The privacy policy is dated 8 August 2024 and is currently valid. Because of the continuous further development of our web pages or the implementation of new technologies, it may be necessary to adapt this privacy policy to the current situation. Strube D&S GmbH therefore reserves the right to amend the privacy policy at any time with effect for the future. You should therefore visit this web page regularly to find out about the current status of our privacy policy.

Contact details of the data protection officer at Strube D&S GmbH:

Anna Bauer

c/o LINET Services GmbH

Hinter dem Turme 12a

38114 Braunschweig

Or by email to: datenschutz@strube.net

Last updated: August 2024