For the operation of our LinkedIn page, we are jointly responsible with LinkedIn for the processing of your personal data.

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company
Wilton Place
Dublin 2
Irland

You can find LinkedIn’s privacy policy here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

LinkedIn Data Protection Officer

To contact LinkedIn’s data protection officer, you can fill out an appropriate contact form at the following link:

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO

For the operation of our LinkedIn page, we may collect personal data. As a rule, the collection and processing of your data takes place in pseudonymized form; as a result, we cannot assign your data directly to your name or e-mail address. In this respect, processing takes place via a profile based on an ID or a cookie. You can significantly influence the processing of your data; to do so, simply click on Settings & Privacy in your LinkedIn profile under your photo at the top right of your homepage.

LinkedIn analytics

LinkedIn provides us with statistical data about visitors to our LinkedIn profile via the “Analytics” function. In principle, we cannot establish a direct personal reference via this. This information is purely functional and helps us to better analyze our site and adapt it to your needs and interests. LinkedIn itself processes this data in a more extensive manner; you can find more detailed information on this under the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/83597.

Interaction with our LinkedIn page

As soon as you use a LinkedIn plugin on our website or rate or subscribe to our posts on our LinkedIn page, we can establish the corresponding personal connection. We can also see from which LinkedIn profile the comments on our LinkedIn page originate.

You can reach us via various channels on our LinkedIn page. Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your contact. We use the data you provide without your separate consent exclusively to fulfill and process your contact request. Data will not be passed on to third parties or only on the basis of your request.

We regularly publish news on our LinkedIn page. In order to be able to enter into an active exchange with you, we have activated the corresponding comment function of LinkedIn. We reserve the right to remove inappropriate posts (e.g. with racist, illegal or comparable content) immediately. For this purpose, all comments are checked for inappropriate content. In doing so, we can see from which LinkedIn profile the respective comment was posted. We have access to

• the content of the comment,
• the time of creation,
• the User-ID, 
• the LinkedIn username

and can establish a relation to the previous posts and comments. As a rule, data is not passed on to third parties; in exceptional cases, a legal provision or a corresponding court order may compel us to disclose the corresponding data.

We store your personal data only for the period required to fulfill the specified purpose. After the purpose no longer applies and after expiration of any existing retention periods, your data will be deleted immediately. If deletion is not possible, the data will be blocked instead.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides for extensive rights for data subjects in Chapter III, which we explain to you accordingly below with regard to the processing of your personal data:

1) Right of access
This requirement concerns in particular information on the following details of data processing:

• Purposes of the processing
• Categories of data
• Recipients or categories of recipients, if applicable
• If applicable, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining this period.
• Information on the respective right to rectification, deletion, restriction or objection
• Existence of the right of appeal to a supervisory authority
• If applicable, origin of the data (if not collected from you)
• If applicable, existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, including meaningful information about the logic involved, the scope and the expected consequences
• If applicable, (planned) transfer to a third country or international organization

2) Right to correction
We will promptly correct any inaccurate data, provided that you inform us of this fact.

3) Right to erasure (right to be forgotten).
Provided that the processing is no longer necessary and one of the following conditions is met:

• Discontinuation of the purpose of processing
• Withdrawal of their consent and the absence of any other legal basis for processing
• Objection to processing without an important reason to the contrary
• Unlawful processing
• Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
• Data collection was carried out in accordance with Art. 8 (1) GDPR

Within the scope of the deletion request, we will, if necessary, pass on your request to those third parties to whom a transfer of your data had previously taken place.

4) Right to restriction of processing
Provided that one of the following conditions is met:

• You dispute the accuracy of your data (restriction can take place for the duration of the review on our side).
• In the event of unlawful processing and if the data is not to be deleted, restriction of processing will take the place of deletion
• If the processing purposes cease to exist, at the same time you need your data for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims
• After you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) DS-GVO and for the duration of the examination as to whether our legitimate reasons outweigh yours.

6) Right of objection
If we collect or have collected and process personal data from you (on the basis of Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR), you have the right to object to the data processing (including profiling) at any time (with effect for the future). In exceptional cases, the objection may be ineffective, e.g. if we can demonstrate compelling interests worthy of protection for the processing that outweigh your interests or processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims. If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object to such processing at any time. This also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct advertising. You also have the right to object to processing of your data concerning you which is carried out by us for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 (1) DS-GVO, unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

7) Automated decisions in individual cases including profiling.
If we collect or have collected and process personal data from you, you have the right not to be subject to any decision based solely on automated processing – including profiling – which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. Exceptions to this requirement apply if the decision is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between you and us or you have expressly consented to the processing. In any case, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person on our part, to express our own point of view and to contest the decision.

8) Right to revoke consent under data protection law.
You have the right to revoke consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

9) Right to complain to a supervisory authority
A list of the supervisory authorities responsible in Germany can be found on the website of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection or at the following link:
https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/AufsBehoerdFuerDenNichtOeffBereich/AufsichtsbehoerdenNichtOeffBereich_liste.html

We process personal data in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR, depending on the type and purpose of the processing as follows:

Our legitimate interest, as defined in Article 6 (1) f DS-GVO, is based on the performance of our business activities in order to maintain our ability to operate and secure the employment of our employees.

We do not use automatic decision-making or profiling techniques.

If we use service providers for the data processing of our LinkedIn page, we conclude corresponding contracts for commissioned processing (AVV) with them. In the course of this, we regulate to what extent and under what security conditions the processing of the data takes place and determine the necessary powers of instruction in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.