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FEV Group: Data protection information

Below you will find information on data protection at fev.com.

If you are looking for further information on data protection at FEV, we offer an overview of documents on data protection under the following link, e.g. for applicants, our social media channels such as LinkedIn and Facebook, or tools used such as Microsoft Teams.

Additional data protection documents

1. Controller

FEV Group GmbH
Neuenhofstraße 181
52078 Aachen, Germany

Phone: +49 241 5689 0
Contact: https://www.fev.com/en/contact

If, in addition, individual processing activities are the joint responsibility of other controllers, please refer to the information on the respective processing activity for further information.

2. Contact

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, this information or the assertion of your data subject rights, please contact our data protection coordinator:

Phone: +49 241 5689-0
Email: dp-coordinator@fev.com

3. Group Data Protection Officer

Jens-Martin Heidemann
Scheja & Partners GmbH & Co. KG
Adenauerallee 136
53113 Bonn, Germany

Phone: +49 228 227226-0
Contact: https://www.scheja-partners.de/kontakt/kontakt.html
Website: https://www.scheja-partners.de

4. General information on data processing

4.1 Scope of processing

As a matter of principle, we collect and use personal data only as far as this is necessary for the provision of a functioning of our website, if you have given your consent or the processing of the data is permitted by a legal regulation.

4.2 Legal basis of the processing of personal data

Insofar as we obtain your consent for processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis.

When processing personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, Art. 6 para 1 b) GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing of personal data that is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.
Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1c) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms do not override the former interest, Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.

4.3 Data deletion and storage period

We store your personal data for as long as is necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes stated in section 5 below or – in the case of consent – as long as you have not withdrawn your consent. In the event of an objection, we will delete your personal data unless their further processing is permitted under the relevant statutory provisions. Insofar as contractual or statutory retention obligations exist (e.g. according to the German Fiscal Code, German Commercial Code), we will delete your personal data after the retention obligations have expired.

4.4 Recipients

Within the FEV Group, only those departments and employees working there who absolutely need such access to fulfill their functions or tasks have access to your personal data. We will only share your personal data with external recipients if there is a legal justification for this or you have consented to it. External recipients may be:

  • Processors: service providers we use to provide services or who are entrusted with the maintenance of our IT systems.
  • Public bodies: Authorities and government institutions, such as courts or tax authorities, to which we may need to transfer personal data in individual cases.
  • Other bodies: Also other bodies may also have access to your personal data under certain circumstances within the framework of data protection requirements. In this respect, the confidentiality required by law is guaranteed.

4.5 Data transmission to third countries

Sometimes your data is transferred to another entity whose registered office or place of data processing is not located in a member state of the European Union or in another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. This may particularly be necessary for the fulfillment of your employment contract duties, insofar as there is a concrete foreign connection in your working activity.

If there is no adequacy decision of the European Commission for the third country, we work towards an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of personal data outside the EEA by concluding appropriate agreements with the recipients, which are regularly based on the EU standard contractual clauses, before the data is transferred.

5. Data processing when using our Website

5.1. Provision of the website and creation of log files

Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer. The following data is collected:

  • Information about the browser type and version used
  • The operating system of the user
  • The user’s Internet service Provider
  • The IP address of the user
  • Date and time of Access
  • Websites from which the user’s system accesses our Website
  • Websites that are accessed by the user’s system via our website

The data is also stored in the log files of our system. Not affected by this are your IP addresses or other data that allows the data to be assigned to you. Storage of this data together with other personal data of you does not take place. The legal basis for the temporary storage of the data is Art. 6 para a f) GDPR.

The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable delivery of the website to your computer. For this purpose, your IP address must remain stored for the duration of the session. These purposes are also our legitimate interest in data processing according to Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR.
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. In the case of the collection of personal data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.

etracker

The provider of this website uses services of etracker GmbH from Hamburg, Germany (www.etracker.com) to analyze usage data. We do not use cookies for web analysis by default.

Insofar as we use additionally analysis and optimization cookies, we obtain your explicit consent separately in advance (see below under 5.2.b)).

The data generated with etracker is processed and stored by etracker on behalf of the provider of this website exclusively in Germany and is thus subject to the strict German and European data protection laws and standards. etracker has been independently audited, certified and awarded the data protection seal of approval ePrivacyseal in this regard.

The data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR (legitimate interest) . Our legitimate interest is the optimization of our online offer and our web presence. You may object to the aforementioned data processing at any time. The objection has no adverse consequences.

You can find more information about data protection at etracker

Privacy Settings

Since the privacy of our visitors is important to us, the data that may allow a reference to an individual person, such as the IP address, login or device identifiers, are anonymized or pseudonymized as soon as possible. No other use, combination with other data or disclosure to third parties takes place.

5.2 Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on your computer system. When you access a website as a user, a cookie may be stored on your operating system. This cookie contains a string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change..
Cookies are stored on your computer and transmitted from it to our site. Therefore, you as a user also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your Internet browser, you can disable or restrict the transmission of cookies. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website in full.

a) Functional cookies
On the one hand, we use so-called „session cookies”. These are automatically deleted after the end of your browser session.
In addition, we also use long-term cookies, which are primarily used to provide you, as a visitor to our website, with permanently recurring settings. This enables us to adapt our website individually to your wishes. Long-term cookies also allow us to analyze the usage behavior of visitors, but only within the scope of the cookie’s validity period.

The following data is stored and transmitted:

  • Log-in-information
  • Cookie-ID

The processing of this data is necessary to enable the website to be displayed in the language you have selected and to facilitate the use of websites for users (e.g. by remembering search terms). Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change. These purposes are our legitimate interest in data processing according to Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR.
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. In the case of the collection of data for the presentation of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.

b) Analysis cookies
We also use cookies on our website that enable an analysis of your surfing behavior as a user. Therefore, the following data can be transmitted:

  • Search terms entered
  • Frequency of page views
  • Use of website functions

Your user data collected in this way is pseudonymized by technical precautions. The data is not stored together with other personal data of you. The analysis cookies are used for the purpose of improving the quality of our website and its content. Through the analysis cookies, we learn how the website is used and can thus constantly optimize our offer.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data and the use of cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR and§ 25 para. 2 no. 1 TDDDG.

Change your Cookie Settings

We, the FEV Group GmbH, use cookies to improve your experience on our Website. We need cookies to continually improve our services, enable certain features, and when we embed third-party services or content, such as the Vimeo video player or Twitter feeds. In such cases, information may also be transferred to third parties. We use different types of cookies. You can personalize your cookie settings here:

Privacy Settings

5.3 Social Media

We use social media channels as a supplementary service and provide supplementary information there. We have links on our website that refer to these social media channels. We do not use any so-called “social plugins” (e.g. Facebook Like button). The links are only included in the web analysis. We link to the following social media channels on our website:

LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fev-group
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/FEV-GmbH/171136272897772
X channel: https://twitter.com/FEV_Europe_GmbH
Xing page: http://www.xing.com/companies/fevgmbh
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/FEVvideo

The social media platforms are independent information offerings and independent of the FEV website. The privacy statements of the social media platforms provide a detailed overview of the processing of personal data :

LinkedIn Privacy Poilcy : https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Facebook Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/
X Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Xing Privacy Policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung
Youtube Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

5.4 Newsletter

On our website there is the possibility to subscribe to a free newsletter.  The data requested from the input mask when registering for the newsletter will be transmitted to us.

In addition, the following data is collected during registration:

  • IP address of the calling Computer
  • Date and time of registration

The collection of your e-mail address serves to deliver the newsletter. The collection of other personal data during the registration process serves to prevent misuse of the services or the e-mail address used.

For the processing of the data, your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR is obtained during the registration process.The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

The subscription to the newsletter can be cancelled by you at any time. For this purpose, a corresponding link can be found in each newsletter.  This also enables the withdrawal of the consent to the storage of the personal data collected during the registration process.

In the case of the withdrawal consent, the user’s e-mail address will be marked accordingly so that the e-mail address is no longer used for the sending of newsletter. In this way, the user will longer receive newsletters. If the contact details are no longer required for other purposes arising from our business relationship with the user, we will delete them.

5.5 Contact from and e-mail contact

Our website offers a contact form that can be used for electronic contact. If you contact us via that channel, the data entered in the input mask is transmitted to us and stored. These data are:

  • Desired contact
  • Name
  • Company Name
  • Country
  • Phone number (optional)
  • E-Mail address
  • Message

The following data is also stored at the time the message is sent:

  • The IP address of the user
  • The date and time of registration

Alternatively, it is possible to contact us via the e-mail address provided on the website. In this case, your personal data transmitted with the e-mail will be stored.  The data will not be passed on to third parties and is used exclusively for processing the conversation.

The processing of personal data from the input mask serves solely the processing of the contact. In the case of contact by e-mail, this also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in processing the data. Other personal data processed during the sending process serves to prevent misuse of the contact form and to ensure the security of our information technology systems.

The legal basis for the processing of data transmitted in the course of sending an e-mail is Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR. If the e-mail contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR.

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For the personal data from the input mask of the contact form and those sent by e-mail, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is ended when it is clear from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified.

The additional personal data collected during the sending process will be deleted after a period of seven days at the latest.

If you contact us by e-mail, you can object to the storage of his personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued. To object to the storage, either contact us via the contact form or write and e-mail to the addresses provided.

All personal data stored in the course of contacting us will be deleted in this case.

6. Rights of the data subject

As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, provided that their respective legal requirements are met:

Access: You have the right to obtain information about the data processed about you.

Rectification: You can request the rectification of inaccurate data concerning your person. In addition, you can request the completion of incomplete data.

Erasure: In certain cases, you can request the erasure of your personal data.

Restriction of processing: In certain cases, you can request that the processing of your data be restricted.

Dataportability: If you have provided data on the basis of a contract or consent, you can request that you receive the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or that it be transferred to another responsible party.

Withdrawalofconsent: If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing of your data until the revocation remains unaffected.

 


Right to object

Right to object on a case-by-case basis

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 para. 1 e) GDPR or Art. 6 para 1 f) GDPR for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. Your personal data will then no longer be processed for these purposes, unless compelling legitimate interests for the processing can be demonstrated by us which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Right to object to processing of data for direct marketing purposes

In individual cases personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing. You have the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising at any time. This also applies to profiling, as far as it is associated with such direct advertising. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, your personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes.

 


Right of complaint to the supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you is unlawful.