Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA takes your legitimate data protection concerns very seriously and complies with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG) and, where applicable, the provisions of other applicable data protection regulations.<o:p></o:p>

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA handles the data transmitted by you with care and conscientiousness. Insofar as data of whatever kind are collected, processed, or used, this is always performed within the framework of legal regulations or by your explicit consent.

The protection of the private sphere is of decisive importance for the future of Internet-based business models and for the development of an Internet-based economy. With this declaration, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA underlines its commitment to the protection of the private sphere. Below you will find out how IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA deals with personal data on this website.

Other privacy regulations may apply to individual businesses of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA. We therefore ask you to carefully read the privacy statements of all websites that you visit.

Responsible Person acc. art. 4, sect. 7 General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) is:

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA

registered in the trade register of the district court Freiburg under HRB 714815
Heinrich-Hertz-Straße 16
78166 Donaueschingen (Germany)

E-Mail: info(at)imsgear.com

Tel. +49 (0)771 8507-0
Fax +49 (0)771 8507-444

You can reach the Data Protection Officer of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA under:

Thomas Fletschinger
Heinrich-Hertz-Straße 16

78166 Donaueschingen
dsb@imsgear.com

Global Privacy Standards

Our handling of personal data has been aligned with the global principles and standards with respect to a transparent use of personal data, the compliance with and granting of options, access regulations, rules concerning data integrity, data security, data transfer, and the monitoring of lawful processing. In particular, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO).

Data Collection During Visits to our Website

If you use our website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information, we only collect data that your browser transfers to our server (so-called “server logfiles”). When you call up our website, we collect the following data that we need for technical reasons to show you the website: Our visited website 

• Date and time of access
• Source/reference from where you got to the website 
• Browser used 
• Operating system used 
• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymous form) 
• Type of device
• Information from UTM parameters

 The processing is performed acc. art. 6 sect. 1 lit. f DSGVO based on our justified interest in the improvement of stability and functionality of our website. A transfer or other use of data does not take place. However, we reserve the right to retroactively check the logfiles in case of concrete indications of illegal usage.
 

Consent

By using this website, you consent to the electronic saving and use of your data as described below. Changes of this privacy statement are always announced on this site so that you will always be informed which data IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA saves and how they are used.

Where required by applicable data protection rights, you are also explicitly asked for your consent to the further processing of the personal data that have been collected on this website or that you have provided.

 General Notes on the Legal Foundations of Data Processing on This Website

Insofar as you have given your consent to the data processing, we process your personal data based on art. 6 sect. 1 lit. a DSGVO resp. art. 9 sect. 2 lit. a DSGVO, insofar as particular data categories acc. art. 9 sect. 9 DSGVO are processed. Insofar as you have given your consent to the storage of cookies or the access to information in your end device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data processing is additionally carried out on the basis of § 25 sect. 1 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If your data are necessary to fulfil a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures, we process your data based on art. 6 sect. 1 lit. b DSGVO. Furthermore, if your data are required to fulfil a legal obligation, we process them based on art. 6 sect. 1 lit. c DSGVO. The data processing can also be performed based on our justified interest acc. art. 6 sect. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The following sections of the privacy statement inform about the legal foundations that are relevant in individual cases.

Collection and Processing of Personal Data

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA desires to better understand your wishes and interests and to offer you optimum service. Therefore, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA collects and uses personal information in the way described below and in accordance with applicable data protection law.

When you visit our website, we collect your IP address and set cookies and other Internet technologies (subsequently called “automated tools” and “integrated weblinks”) by means of which general information about the visitors of our website and their interests can be gained. Below we explain which technologies are used and what type of information can be collected in this way.

Furthermore, we collect and process data you provide voluntarily, e.g. when you register for events, subscribe to newsletters, take part in online surveys, join discussion groups or forums, or make purchases.

Which Data are Collected and Why?

With the help of the data collected, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA wishes to provide you consistent personal support. IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA uses your data exclusively as described in this statement. A retroactive modification of their use is subject to your explicit consent unless the modification is otherwise legitimized by applicable legal regulations.

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• in order to maintain our relationship with you, e.g. by our databases, in which we merge data about you from different sources to get an overview of the cooperation. Furthermore, we want to improve and individualize our understanding of your preferences and our communication with you;
• for the purpose of order processing and the delivery of ordered services and products;
• in order to carry out tasks for the preparation or fulfilment of contracts;
• in order to provide evidence of business transactions;
• in order to provide you with suitable and current information about our research, products, and services,
• in order to improve the quality of our products and services by adapting our offer to your specific needs;
• in order to answer your enquiries and provide efficient support;
• in order to manage the communication and cooperation with you;
• in order to track our activities (e.g. measurement of cooperation or sales, number of appointments/meetings, topics discussed, documents presented); 
• in order to invite you to events sponsored or used by us (e.g. lectures, conferences);
• in order to provide you access to our specified IT systems so that you can use certain services of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA;
• for the administration of our IT resources, including infrastructure management and business continuity;
• in order to protect the economic interests of the company and to ensure compliance and reporting (e.g. compliance with our guidelines and local legal regulations, taxes and deductions, compliance with internally defined upper limits of donations, management of suspected cases of misconduct or fraud, carrying out of checks, and defense in legal disputes);
• for archiving and recording purposes;
• for the processing of job applications;
• for invoicing and accounting as well as
• for other purposes that are legally and officially prescribed.
• In certain cases, we are legally bound to transmit data to an enquiring state agency (institution or authority). The legal foundation of the processing is art. 6 sect. 1c DSGVO resp. § 24 sect. 2 no. 1 BDSG.
• In some cases, business partners need personal data of our customers. This is usually performed within the framework of order fulfilment (e.g. in case of complaints) and is explicitly provided by law. In this case, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA also remains responsible for the protection of your data - possibly along with the order processor. The respective business partner acts according to our instructions which IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA ensures by strict contractual regulations.
• for the fulfilment of the legal obligations to detect, document and notify the responsible authorities.

IP Addresses

IP addresses are used for the analysis of malfunctions, for the administration of the website, and to gain demographic information. Furthermore, we use IP addresses and possibly other information that you have provided us on this website to find out which pages of our offer are called up and which topics our visitors are interested in. We use the knowledge gained to be able to offer you optimized information on our products and services. In principle, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA collects such data in anonymous form only and will not link them to the profiles of registered users without their consent.

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA only collects data in connection with your visit to the IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA website. We do not collect any personal data within the framework of your visits to the websites of other companies or organizations that do not belong to IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA.

Privacy Statement on the Use of HubSpot

On HubSpot in general

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, the provider has signed up to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.   <o:p></o:p>

HubSpot primarily serves our customer care activities and as a service software (administration of customer enquiries from different channels), ticketing system, feedback surveys on satisfaction and other topics.

Contact

• When we are contacted (via contact form or e-mail), the user data are processed to handle and reply to the contact request acc. art. 6 sect. 1 lit. b) DSGVO.
• The user data can be stored in our customer relationship management system and marketing automation platform (“CRM & Marketing System”) or comparable request organization.
• We use the CRM, registration, and marketing automation system “HubSpot” of the provider HubSpot Inc. (25 First Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA) with branches in Ireland (One Dockland Central, Dublin 1, Ireland) and Germany (Am Postbahnhof 17, 10243 Berlin) based on our justified interests (efficient and quick processing of user requests, applications, and the optimization of our online offer). For this purpose, we have closed a contract with HubSpot including so-called standard contractual clauses in which HubSpot commits itself to process the user data only according to our instructions and in compliance with the EU privacy level.
• Please find further information on the HubSpot privacy guideline here: https://legal.hubspot.com/de/dpa and  https://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy.
• Our registration service allows the visitors of our website to find out more about our company, download contents and provide their contact information and further demographic information. This information is stored on servers of our software partner HubSpot. It can be used by us to contact visitors of our website and find out which services of our company are interesting for them. All information collected by us is subject to this privacy statement. We use all collected information exclusively to optimize our marketing.
• We delete enquiries when they are no longer required. We check the requirement every two years; we permanently store requests of customers that have a customer account, and concerning the deletion of requests we refer to the information about customer accounts.  In case of legal archiving obligations, the deletion is carried out upon their expiration (end of commercial (6 years) and fiscal (10 years) archiving obligation).

Registration via our Forms

Double opt-in process: Registration via our forms generally takes place by a so-called double opt-in process. This means that upon registration you receive an e-mail in which you are asked to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary to prevent other users from registering with third-party e-mail addresses. The registration with forms is documented in order to be able to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements. This includes the storage of the time of registration and confirmation as well as the IP address. Likewise, the changes of your data stored with the shipping provider are recorded.

Privacy Statement on the Use of the HubSpot Consent System

This website saves cookies on your computer. These cookies are used to collect information on your interaction with our website and to allow us to remember you. We use this information to optimize your website experience and to generate analyses and key figures about our visitors of this website and other media sites.

Please find further information on this topic in the cookie settings below. 

Exclusion of Liability

If you reject, your information will not be collected durting the visit of this website. A single cookie will be set in your browser as a reminder that you do not wish to be tracked.

Privacy Statement on the Use of Flockler 

We use the software “Flockler“( https://flockler.com/ ), a social media aggregator tool, to curate social media feeds and present social media contents

which we believe to be relevant and inspiring for you. Flockler does not save any personal data / information about your visit. Furthermore, Flockler does not use any tracking cookies.

Depending on the platform, however, the social media services can save information about you when you decide to interact with the contents (e.g. play a video or visit our social media profile site).” 

We use the prefabricated embed codes from Flockler to show social media feeds on their website or other digital channels. For this service, we use first-class providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon CloudFront. In this way, we ensure that the embed codes are delivered fast, reliably and safely. Our AWS databases are hosted in Germany.

We use Flockler based on our justified interest in target social media advertisement acc. art. 6 sect. 1 lit. f. DSGVO.

You find the privacy policy of Flockler at:  Flockler’s Privacy Policy

Privacy policy for the use of Usercentrics

We use the Usercentrics cookie tool from Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Str. 7, 80331 Munich, Germany (Usercentrics). This enables us to obtain and manage the consent of website users for data processing. Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 7 para. 1 GDPR) to which we are subject (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR). <o:p></o:p>

The following data is processed for this purpose: <o:p></o:p>

Date and time of access Browser information Device information Geographical location Cookie preferences URL of the page visited. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing. Usercentrics is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a processor for us. The data will be deleted after 3 years. The processing takes place in the European Union. Further information on objection and removal options vis-à-vis Usercentrics can be found at: https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/<o:p></o:p>

Cookie Settings

• Introduction to Cookies
  • This website uses cookies. We primarily use cookies to improve and analyze your experience on our websites and for marketing purposes. As we respect your right to privacy, you can reject some types of cookies. Click on the headlines of the different categories to find out more and change your default settings. Blocking some types of cookies can impair the user-friendliness of the website and limit the range of services we can provide.
• Necessary Cookies
  • These cookies are required for the website and cannot be deactivated in our systems. It is usually stipulated that they are only placed upon activities by which you request a service, e.g. upon the definition of your privacy settings, your registration, or the completion of forms. Find out more about necessary cookies.
• Analytics Cookies
  • These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website. We possibly use a number of cookies to collect information and create reports with statistics on the website use. Together with these statistics, collected data can also be used to place further online ads together with some of the described ad cookies and to measure the interaction with the ads that we show you. Find out more about analytics cookies.
• Functional Cookies
  • We use a number of optional cookies that are not mandatory for the proper functioning of the website. Usually, these are only placed when information is provided on the website, to personalize and optimize your user experience, and to store your chat history. Find out more about functional cookies.
• Advertising Cookies
  • We use cookies to create more attractive and useful ads for website users. Among other things, cookies are used to select ads that are relevant for the user, to improve the reporting on the performance of the advertising campaign and to avoid ads which the user has already seen. Find out more about advertising cookies.

Use of Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website and cannot be deactivated in our systems. It is usually stipulated that they are only placed upon activities by which you request a service, e.g. upon the definition of your privacy settings, your registration, or the completion of forms.

Use of Analytics Cookies

These cookies are not absolutely necessary and controlled by the cookie banner. When you visit a website supported by HubSpot you can unsubscribe from these cookies by not granting permission.

Use of Statistics Cookies

Statistics cookies help the users of websites to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information.

Google

Use of Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used to follow users to websites. It is the intention to show ads that are relevant and attractive for the individual user.

LinkedIn & LinkedIn Insight Tag

• Categories of Users Concerned: Website users, users of online services, potential customers, communication partners, business and contractual partners
• Categories of Data: User data (e.g. used websites, interest in contents, access times), meta and communication data (e.g. device information, browser features, IP addresses), location data, contact data (e.g. e-mail, phone numbers), content data (e.g. entries in online forms)
• Purposes of Processing: Marketing (partly also interest-based and behavior-related), contact enquiries and communication, conversion measuring (LinkedIn Insight Tag), target group formation, click training, development of marketing strategies and increase of campaign efficiency, range measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of recurring visitors).

LinkedIn Cookies

E-Mail Addresses

When you contact us via e-mail or a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and phone number) are saved by us to answer your enquiry.  We will delete the data accrued in this connection once the storage is no longer required, or we restrict their processing if there are legal archiving obligations.

We will not pass on your e-mail address to third parties. You can decide at any time to receive no more e-mails from IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA.

Use of External Service Providers

We cooperate with service providers that process certain data on our behalf. This occurs exclusively in compliance with the applicable data protection laws. In particular, we have concluded agreements with our service providers about data processing on behalf that meet the requirements of article 28 DSGVO.

Data Transfer

The transfer of your personal data to third parties for other purposes than those listed below is excluded. We only transfer your personal data to third parties if:

a) you have given your explicit consent acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. a) DSGVO, § 26 sect. 2 Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG),

b) the transfer acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DSGVO is necessary for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have a predominant interest in the non-disclosure of your data worthy of protection,

c) in case there is a legal obligation for the transfer acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. c) DSGVO and
d) it is legally permitted and required acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. b) DSGVO, § 26 sect. 1 BDSG for the processing of a contractual relationship with you or for pre-contractual measures at your instigation.

If necessary, information from IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is also transferred to business partners, service providers, third parties, or sub-contractors. This may be necessary to deliver services or transactions desired by you, such as order processing, for the purpose of customer service or to inform you about products and services.

Without your prior consent, your personal data are not transferred for marketing purposes, sold, or otherwise made available to third parties.

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA may be forced to reveal your data and related information on order of courts or authorities. Likewise, we reserve the right to use your data for the assertion of or defense against legal claims.

In case of a takeover or merger with another company, the revelation or transfer of personal data to potential or actual purchasers may become necessary. In such a case, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA will strive for the highest possible protection of the data.

In accordance with applicable law we reserve the right to store and transfer personal and other data to reveal and fight illegal actions and attempted frauds or a violation of the terms of use of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA.

Transfer of Personal Data to Third Countries

If a data transfer of your personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, where privacy standards fall short of those of the EU, takes place, we will ensure the required privacy standard by respective contractual clauses with the recipients of the data unless an adequacy decision justifies such a transfer. Herewith we ensure the protection of your personal data. The so-called standard contractual clauses can be downloaded from the following website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_en

See also the Data Process Agreement of HubSpot, no. 7, sect. G (data transfer mechanisms).

Analytical Tools

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. By the tracking measures used we wish to ensure a needs-based design and the continuous optimization of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These interests are to be considered as justified in the sense of the above regulation. The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be inferred from the tracking tools specified below.

Privacy Statement for the Use of Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, the provider has signed up to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.<o:p></o:p>

This website uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files that are saved on your end device and allow to analyze your use of the website. The information on your use of this website generated by the cookie (including the shortened IP address) is usually transferred to a server of Google and saved there; this may also involve a transfer to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA.

This website uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp()” that ensures the anonymization of the IP address by shortening and excludes the possibility of direct personal identification. By the extension your IP address is shortened beforehand 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, the full IP address is transferred to a server of Google LLC. in the USA and shortened there.

On our account, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide us with further services in connection with the website and Internet usage. In doing so, the IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) will not be merged with other data from Google.

Beyond that, Google Analytics uses a special function, the so-called “demographic features”, to create statistics with information on age, sex and interests of the site visitors based on an evaluation of interest-related advertisement and by using third-party information. This allows the definition and differentiation of user circles of the website for the purpose of a target group-optimized alignment of marketing measures. However, the data sets recorded by means of the “demographic features” cannot be allocated to individual persons.

Please look here for details on the processings triggered by Google Analytics and on Google’s handling of data and websites:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

All processing described above, in particular the setting of Google Analytics cookies for the extraction of information on the end device used, will only be performed if you have given us your explicit consent acc. art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (General Data Protection Regulation). Without your consent, Google Analytics will not be used while you visit the site.

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. In order to revoke your consent, please deactivate this service in the “cookie consent tool” provided on this website.  For the use of Google Analytics, we have closed an order processing agreement with Google by which Google is obliged to protect the data of our site visitors and to refrain from passing on the data to third parties.

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, Google refers to the so-called standard data protection clauses of the European Commission designed to ensure compliance with the European privacy level in the USA.

As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent the capture by Google Analytics within this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only functions in this browser and only for this domain; if you delete your cookies in this browser, you have to click on this link again): 

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You can find further information on Google Analytics 4 (GA4) here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

Privacy Statement for the Use of the Google Tag Manager

On our website, we use the "Google Tag Manager", a service of Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland (subsequently called "Google"). Google Tag Manager allows us as a marketer to manage website tags via a surface. The tool Google Tag Manager that implements the tags is a cookieless domain and does not collect any personal data itself. Google Tag Manager provides for the triggering of other tags that may collect data themselves. Google Tag Manager itself does not access these data. If a deactivation has been carried out on domain or cookie level, it remains existent for all tracking tags implemented by Google Tag Manager.

Information of third-party provider: Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland. You can find further privady information on the following Google websites:

Privacy Statement: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

FAQ Google Tag Manager: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html

Terms of Use Google Tag Manager: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html

Use of Google AdWords Conversion Tracking

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, the provider has signed up to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.   <o:p></o:p>

This website uses the online advertisement software "Google AdWords" and within the framework of Google AdWords the conversion tracking of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland („Google“). We use the service of Google Adwords to call attention to our attractive offers on external websites by means of advertising media (so-called Google Adwords). In relation to the data of the advertising campaigns we can determine the success of the individual advertising measures. By doing so, we pursue the goal to show you advertisement that is of interest to you, to create a more interesting website for you and to achieve a fair calculation of advertisement costs.

The cookie for conversion tracking is set if a user clicks on an AdWords ad placed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are placed in your computer system. These cookies usually expire after 30 days and do not serve the purpose of personal identification. If the user visits certain sites of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was transferred to this site. Each Google AdWords Customer obtains a different cookie. Thus, cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information gathered by means of the conversion cookie serve to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers that opted for conversion tracking. The customers find out the total number of users that clicked on their ad and were transferred to a site equipped with a conversion tracking tag. They do not get any information, however, by which users can be identified in person. If you do not want to take part in the tracking, you can block this usage by deactivating the cookie of the Google conversion tracking via the user settings of your Internet browser. In this case, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

We use Google Ads based on our justified interest in target advertisement acc. art. 6 sect. 1 lit. f. DSGVO. Within the framework of using Google Ads, a transfer of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA is not excluded.

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, Google refers to the so-called standard data protection clauses of the European Commission designed to ensure compliance with the European privacy level in the USA. 

Please find further information on the privacy regulations of Google at the following Internet address:

http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

You can permanently deactivate cookies for ad requirements if you block them by a respective setting of your browser software or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in at the following link:

HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/SETTINGS/ADS/PLUGIN?HL=DE

Please note that certain functions of this website may only be used to a limited extent or not at all if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Privacy Statement on LinkedIn

Privacy Statement on LinkedIn Insight Tag

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, the provider has signed up to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.   <o:p></o:p>

We use the marketing function (so-called “LinkedIn Insight Tag”) of the network LinkedIn within the framework of our online services. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Whenever one of our sites that includes LinkedIn functions is called up, a connection to LinkedIn servers is established. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our Internet sites with your IP address. By means of the LinkedIn Insight Tag we can in particular analyze the success of our campaigns on LinkedIn or define target groups for these based on the interaction of the users with our online services. When you are registered with LinkedIn, it is possible for LinkedIn to allocate your interaction with our online service to your user account. It is also possible for LinkedIn to allocate your visit to our Internet site to you and your user account if you click on the “recommend button” of LinkedIn and are logged in to your LinkedIn account. As personal data are transferred to the USA, further protection mechanisms are required to ensure the privacy level of the DSGVO. In order to guarantee this, we have concluded standard data protection clauses acc. art. 46 sect. 2 lit. c DSGVO. These oblige the recipient of the data in the USA to process the data according to the protection level in Europe. In cases where this cannot be guaranteed by this contractual extension, we take efforts to achieve further regulations and commitments by the recipient in the USA.

Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy, opt-out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

In our benchmark, you find notes on the cookie guideline and data transfers to the USA. Please find the respective URLs here:

Cookie guideline of LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

Data transfers to the USA are subject to so-called EU standard contract clauses: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62533?lang=de

Data Retention

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA retains personal data only as long as required by the purpose or the legal regulations for which they were collected.

Rights of Persons Affected

You have the right,

a) to request information on your personal data that we have processed acc. art. 15 DSGVO. In particular, you can demand information on the processing purposes, the categories of your personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or are revealed, the intended storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction, processing, or objection, the existence of a right to complain, the origin of your data unless collected by us, and the existence of an automatic decision-making and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details;
b) acc. art. 16 DSGVO to request the immediate correction of false data or the completion of your personal data stored with us;
c) acc. art. 17 DSGVO to request the deletion of personal data stored with us unless their processing is required to execute the right to free speech and information to fulfil a legal obligation for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, execution, or defense of legal claims;
d) acc. art. 18 DSGVO to request the restricted processing of your personal data, insofar as the correctness of the data is denied by you, the processing is unlawful but you reject their deletion and we do not need the data any longer, while you require them for the assertion, execution, or defense of legal claims or have entered an objection against the processing acc. art. 21 DSGVO;
e) acc. art. 20 DSGVO to receive your personal data you have provided for us in a structured, common, and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to a different person responsible;
f) acc. art. 7 sect. 3 DSGVO to revoke your consent previously given to us at any time. This results in the fact that we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent and
g) acc. art. 77 DSGVO to complain with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can turn to the supervisory authority of your residence or workplace or to the registered office of our company.

The responsible supervisory authority of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is:

To assert the above right and for questions on privacy you can turn to the person responsible or send an e-mail to dsb@imsgear.com. 

Right of Objection

If your personal data are processed on the basis of justified interests acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data acc. art. 21 DSGVO if there are reasons resulting from your personal situation of if the objection is against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object that is implemented by us without specification of a particular situation. If you want to exert your right of revocation or objection, an e-mail to dsb@imsgear.com will be sufficient.

 Data Security

a) During the visit to the website we use the widespread SSL procedure (secure sockets layer) in combination with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. In general, this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support a 256-bit encryption, we rely on 128-bit v3 technology. You can recognize from the closed representation of the key resp. lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser if an individual page of our web presence is transferred in encrypted form.
b) Furthermore, we utilize suitable technological and organizational security measures to protect your data against incidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or unauthorized access of third parties. Our security measures are being continuously improved in line with the technological development. 

Modifications of this Privacy Statement

If necessary, we will update this privacy statement due to current circumstances such as changes of relevant privacy regulations.

Status: 17.10.2022

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Marketing cookies are used to follow users to websites. It is the intention to show ads that are relevant and attractive for the individual user and thus more valuable for publishers and advertising third-parties.

E-Mail Addresses

When you contact us via e-mail or a contact form (in the career section resp. “Jobbörse”), the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and phone number) are saved by us to answer your enquiry.  We will delete the data accrued in this connection once the storage is no longer required, or we restrict their processing if there are legal archiving obligations.

We will not pass on your e-mail address to third parties. You can decide at any time to receive no more e-mails from IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA.

Use of External Service Providers

We cooperate with service providers that process certain data on our behalf. This occurs exclusively in compliance with the applicable data protection laws. In particular, we have concluded agreements with our service providers about data processing on behalf that meet the requirements of article 28 DSGVO.

Data Transfer, Transfer to a Third Country

The transfer of your personal data to third parties for other purposes than those listed below is excluded. We only transfer your personal data to third parties if:

a) you have given your explicit consent acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. a) DSGVO, § 26 sect. 2 Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG),

b) the transfer acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DSGVO is necessary for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have a predominant interest in the non-disclosure of your data worthy of protection,

c) in case there is a legal obligation for the transfer acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. c) DSGVO and

d) it is legally permitted and required acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. b) DSGVO, § 26 sect. 1 BDSG for the processing of a contractual relationship with you or for pre-contractual measures at your instigation.

A transfer to a third party or an international organization is not intended and there is no automatic decision making unless something different is subsequently provided in this privacy statement.

If necessary, information from IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is also transferred to business partners, service providers, third parties, or sub-contractors. This may be necessary to deliver services or transactions desired by you, such as order processing, for the purpose of customer service, or to inform you about products and services.

Without your prior consent, your personal data are not transferred for marketing purposes, sold, or otherwise made available to third parties.

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA may be forced to reveal your data and related information on order of courts or authorities. Likewise, we reserve the right to use your data for the assertion of or defense against legal claims.

In case of a takeover or merger with another company, the revelation or transfer of personal data to potential or actual purchasers may become necessary. In such a case, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA will strive for the highest possible protection of the data.

In accordance with applicable law, we reserve the right to store and transfer personal and other data to reveal and fight illegal actions and attempted frauds or a violation of the terms of use of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA.

Privacy Statement on the Use of Mouseflow:

This website uses Mouseflow, an analytical tool of Mouseflow, ApS (Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen V, Denmark), to track user activity, page content, click, touch, movement, scrolling, and (in some cases) keystrokes. This serves the purpose of optimizing our website to customer requirements. If you are located in Europe, your IP address, click activity, and your personal data are never stored or transferred to third parties. We process and store all data for our own website within Europe.

The processing is required to fulfil a legal obligation (art. 7 sect. 1 DSGVO) that we are subject to (art. 6 sect. 1 lit. c DSGVO).

If you want to deregister from the recording by Mouseflow, you can do so here:

https://mouseflow.de/opt-out/ 

Privacy Statement on the Use of A1 Webstats

The person responsible for the processing has integrated components of A1 Webstats on this Internet site. Companies that visit Internet sites are automatically recognized and qualified by the A1 Webstats components. The A1 Webstats component allows the operator of an Internet site using the component the generation of leads, i.e. a qualification of potential new customers.

A1 Webstats is operated by:

A1WebStats Ltd, Canterbury Innovation Centre, University Road
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7FG, United Kingdom

We use an A1 Webstats tracking pixel. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphics that is embedded into an Internet site to enable a logfile recording and analysis in order to then perform a statistical evaluation.

Furthermore, A1 Webstats places a cookie on the IT system of the respective person. The nature of cookies has been explained above. By setting cookies it is made possible to analyze the use of our website.

By means of the data collected, pseudonymized user profiles are generated. The pseudonymized user profiles are used for the purpose of analyzing visitor behavior and allow for the improvement of our Internet service. Without the prior, separate, and explicit consent of the person concerned, the data collected via A1 Webstats are not used to identify the person concerned. These data are not merged with personal or other data that include the same pseudonym.

Every call-up of one of the pages of this Internet site induces the Internet browser on the IT system of the person concerned to transfer data for the purpose of online analysis.

By means of the cookie, personal information such as the time and place from which an access originated and the frequency of visits on our Internet site are stored. On every visit of our Internet site, these personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection of the person concerned, are transferred to the server of A1WebStats Ltd. These personal data are stored by A1 WebStats but not transferred to third parties.

As already presented above, the person concerned can at any time prevent and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies by our Internet site by means of a respective setting of the Internet browser used. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent the setting of a cookie on the IT system of the person concerned. Furthermore, a cookie already set by A1 WebStats can at any time be deleted by an Internet browser or other software.

The processing is required to fulfil a legal obligation (art. 7 sect. 1 DSGVO) that we are subject to (art. 6 sect. 1 lit. c DSGVO).

Further information and the current data protection regulations can be downloaded from www.a1webstats.com/privacy-policy/.

Privacy Statement for the Use of YouTube Plug-Ins

Our website uses plug-ins of the site YouTube operated by Google. The operator of this site is: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

When you visit one of our sites equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. In this process, the YouTube server is notified which of our sites you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly assign your surfing behavior to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is motivated by our interest in an appealing presentation of our online services. This is a justified interest in the sense of art. 6 sect. 1 lit. f. DSGVO.

If you do not want to take part in the tracking process, you can generally deactivate the automatic setting of cookies. You can also just block special cookies for conversion tracking by modifying your browser settings in the sense that cookies of the domain „googleadservices.com“ are not accepted.

Please find further information on the handling of user data in the privacy statement of YouTube.

Address and Link to Privacy Notices of YouTube

Google/YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Privacy Statement: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Social Media

On our website, we set links to the social networks Facebook and Instagram. The social networks on our website are only embedded as links to the respective services. No data are transmitted to the services unless you click on the respective graphics. Upon clicking on the embedded graphics, you will be forwarded to the site of the respective provider. User information will only then be transmitted to the respective provider.

Addresses of the respective providers and URLs with privacy notices:

a) Facebook 

On our website, we use social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”).

If you open our website with the plugin, it will establish a direct connection to the Facebook servers via your browser. By doing so, the information that you have called up the site will be transferred to Facebook. If you are logged in with your Facebook account, the visit of our website can be directly attributed to your profile by clicking on the plugin. Even if you do not have a profile, it cannot be excluded that your IP address will be saved by Facebook. Please see the privacy notices of Facebook at www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ for the purpose and scope as well as the further processing and utilization of the data by Facebook and your respective rights and configuration options to protect your privacy.

If you are a member of Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our online offer and connect them to your membership data saved by Facebook, you have to log out from Facebook before visiting our website and delete respective Facebook cookies. It is also possible to block Facebook social plugins with add-ons for the browser, e.g. by the “Facebook blocker”.

b) Instagram

On our website, plugins of the social network Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) are integrated. You can recognize the Instagram plugin from the “Instagram button” on our website. If you click on the Instagram button while being logged into the Instagram account, you can link the contents of our websites on your Instagram profile. Hereby, Instagram can allocate the visit to our sites to your user account. We would like to point out that as providers of our website we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted and their use by Instagram. Please find further information on the privacy policy of Instagram at instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Link to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to the websites of third-party providers. IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is not responsible for the privacy provisions, the content of websites or the content of websites of third-party providers that do not belong to IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA resp. affiliated companies.

Data Retention

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA retains personal data only as long as required by the purpose or the legal regulations for which they were collected.

Privacy Provisions in the Application Process

(1) We only process the applicants’ data for the purpose and within the framework of the application process in accordance with the legal provisions. The applicants’ data are processed to fulfil our (pre)contractual obligations within the framework of the application process in the sense of art. 6 sect. 1 lit. b DSGVO, insofar as the data processing becomes necessary for us, e.g. within the framework of a legal procedure (in Germany, § 26 BDSG is also applicable).

(2) The application process requires that applicants send us their data. Necessary data of applicants include information on the person, postal and contact addresses, and the documents appertaining to the application such as letter of motivation, CV, and reports. Apart from that, applicants are free to send us further information.

(3) By sending the application to IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA, the applicants agree with the type and scope of processing of their data as presented in this privacy statement for the purposes of the application process.

(4) As far as special categories of personal data in the sense of art. 9, sect. 1 DSGVO are disclosed within the framework of the application process, they are additionally processed acc. art. 9 sect. 2 lit. b DSGVO (e.g. health data such as status as severely handicapped person or ethnic background). Insofar as special categories of personal data in the sense of art. 9 sect. 1 DSGVO are enquired within the framework of the application process, they are additionally processed acc. art. 9 sect. 2 lit. a DSGVO (e.g. health data), if they are required for the professional practice.

(5) Applicants can submit their applications via mail, e-mail or in the career section (“Jobbörse”) of our website. Please observe in this context that e-mails are generally not encrypted when being sent and that the applicants themselves have to provide for their encryption. For this reason, we cannot take any responsibility for the transmission channel of the application between the sender and the reception on our server. If applicants are concerned about the security of transmission of their application documents via e-mail, we recommend the transmission of the application documents by postal mail.

(6) In case of a successful application, the data provided by the applicants can be further processed by us for the purposes of an employment relationship. Otherwise, if the application to a job offer is unsuccessful, the data of the applicant will be deleted. The data of applicants are also deleted if an application is withdrawn; something applicants are entitled to at any time.

(7) Subject to a justified revocation of the applicant, the deletion is made after the expiration of an application process of six months so that we can answer potential follow-up questions on the application and meet our obligations to provide proof from the Equal Treatment Act.

In case you have approved of a further storage of your personal data, we will take over your data into our pool of applicants. There, the data will be deleted after two years.

If your application has been successful, the data from our applicants’ data system are transferred to our personnel information system and deleted 10 years after the employment has been terminated.

If you register in the career section (“Jobbörse”) of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA in the respective form, the following personal data are collected and stored: Name, first name, e-mail address, category, professional field, and country for which resp. in which you are interested in an activity. Furthermore, your approval to storing your data insofar as you have declared this in the form in the job search section. 

We only use the data to contact you in case of a job vacancy that meets your ideas resp. in case we wish to offer you a respective position. These data are not used for any other purpose. It is always possible to deregister from the career section (“Jobbörse”). Please send an e-mail to jobs(at)imsgear.com for this purpose.

As soon as you have deregistered as described above, your data are deleted unless there are no legal retention periods, or the storage is required for the assertion or defense of claims. If you are further interested at this point, we would ask you to register again via the contact form.

Invoices concerning possible compensations for travelling are archived according to the tax provisions.

Rights of Persons Affected

You have the right,

a) to request information on your personal data that we have processed acc. art. 15 DSGVO. In particular, you can demand information on the processing purposes, the categories of your personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or are revealed, the intended storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction, processing, or objection, the existence of a right to complain, the origin of your data unless collected by us, and the existence of an automatic decision-making and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details;

b) acc. art. 16 DSGVO to request the immediate correction of false data or the completion of your personal data stored with us;

c) acc. art. 17 DSGVO to request the deletion of personal data stored with us unless their processing is required to execute the right to free speech and information to fulfil a legal obligation for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, execution, or defense of legal claims;

d) acc. art. 18 DSGVO to request the restricted processing of your personal data, insofar as the correctness of the data is denied by you, the processing is unlawful, but you reject their deletion and we do not need the data any longer, while you require them for the assertion, execution, or defense of legal claims or have entered an objection against the processing acc. art. 21 DSGVO;

e) acc. art. 20 DSGVO to receive your personal data you have provided for us in a structured, common, and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to a different person responsible;

f) acc. art. 7 sect. 3 DSGVO to revoke your consent previously given to us at any time. This results in the fact that we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent and

g) acc. art. 77 DSGVO to complain with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can turn to the supervisory authority of your residence or workplace or to the registered office of our company.

The responsible supervisory authority of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is:

To assert the above right and for questions on privacy you can turn to the person responsible or send an e-mail to dsb(at)imsgear.com.

Right of Objection

If your personal data are processed based on justified interests acc. art. 6 sect. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data acc. art. 21 DSGVO if there are reasons resulting from your personal situation or if the objection is against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object that is implemented by us without specification of a particular situation. If you want to exert your right of revocation or objection, an e-mail to dsb(at)imsgear.com will be sufficient.

Data Security

a) During the visit to the website we use the widespread SSL procedure (secure sockets layer) in combination with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. In general, this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support a 256-bit encryption, we rely on 128 bit v3 technology. You can recognize from the closed representation of the key resp. lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser if an individual page of our web presence is transferred in encrypted form.

b) Furthermore, we utilize suitable technological and organizational security measures to protect your data against incidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or unauthorized access of third parties. Our security measures are being continuously improved in line with the technological development.

Modifications of this Privacy Statement

If necessary, we will update this privacy statement due to current circumstances such as changes of relevant privacy regulations.

Status: 01.04.2024

E-mail addresses

When contacting us by email or via a contact form (in the job exchange), we will retain the data you provide to us (your email address, possibly your name and your phone number) to respond to your request. The data collected in this context will be erased by us as soon as there is no need to retain them anymore, or we will restrict the processing provided a legal retention period applies.

We will not share your e-mail address with third parties. You may decide any time to no longer receive e-mails sent by IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA.

Contracting external service providers

We work with service providers who process certain data on our behalf. This is only done in compliance with the applicable data protection law. In particular, we have concluded agreements with our service providers regarding data processing on our behalf; these agreements comply with the requirements of Article 28 of the GDPR.

Sharing of data, transfer to a third country

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties other than for the following purposes: We only transfer your data to third parties if:

a) You have given your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(a) of the GDPR, § 26(2) of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz);

b) The transfer is necessary pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) of the GDPR for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-transfer of your data;

c) In case the transfer is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(c) of the GDPR; and

d) The same is permitted by law and is necessary pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(b) of the GDPR, § 26(1) of the of the German Federal Data Protection Act for concluding a contractual relationship with you or for pre-contractual measures at your instigation.

No transfer to a third country or an international organization is intended, and there will neither be any automatic decision-making, unless otherwise provided for hereinafter in this Privacy Policy.

If required, information of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is also shared with business partners, service providers, third parties, or subcontractors. This may be required to render a requested service or transaction, such as order fulfilment, to provide customer service or to inform you about products and services.

Your personal data will not be shared for marketing purposes, sold or made available to third parties in any other way without your prior consent.

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA may be obliged to disclose your data and associated information upon court or administrative order. We also reserve the right to use your data to assert or defend against legal claims.

In case of acquisition or merger with another company, a disclosure or transfer of personal data to potential or actual purchasers may be required. In such a case, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA will strive to maintain the highest possible level of data protection.

In accordance with applicable law, IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA reserves the right to store and disclose personal and other data to detect and combat illegal activities and attempted fraud or a violation of our conditions of use.

Analytics tools

The tracking measures listed in the following and used by us will be taken on the basis of Art. 6(1)(1)(f) of the GDPR. Tracking measures are used to ensure a need-based design and the continuous improvement of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically analyze the use of our website and to optimize our services for you These interests shall be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision. The respective data processing purposes and data categories shall be taken from the tracking tools which are specified in the following.

Privacy Policy for the Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). Google (Universal) Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files that are saved on your end device and allow to analyze your use of the website. The information on your use of this website generated by the cookie (including the shortened IP address) is usually transferred to a server of Google and saved there; this may also involve a transfer to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA.

This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp()” that ensures the anonymization of the IP address by shortening and excludes the possibility of direct personal identification. By the extension your IP address is shortened beforehand 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, the full IP address is transferred to a server of Google LLC. in the USA and shortened there.

On our account, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide us with further services in connection with the website and internet usage. In doing so, the IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

Beyond that, by means of a special function, the so-called “demographic features”, Google Analytics allows to create statistics with information on age, sex and interests of the site visitors based on an evaluation of interest-related advertisement and by using third-party information. This allows the definition and differentiation of user circles of the website for the purpose of a target group-optimized alignment of marketing measures. However, the data sets recorded by means of the “demographic features” cannot be allocated to an individual person.

Please look here for details on the processings triggered by Google Analytics and on Google’s handling of data and websites:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

All processings described above, in particular the setting of Google Analytics cookies for the extraction of information on the end device used, will only be performed if you have given us your explicit consent acc. art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (General Data Protection Regulation). Without your consent, Google Analytics will not be used while you visit the site.

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. In order to revoke your consent, please deactivate this service in the “cookie consent tool” provided on this website.  For the use of Google Analytics, we have closed an order processing agreement with Google by which Google is obliged to protect the data of our site visitors and to refrain from passing them on to third parties.

For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, Google refers to the so-called standard data protection clauses of the European Commission designed to ensure compliance with the European privacy level in the USA.

As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent the capture by Google Analytics within this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only functions in this browser and only for this domain; if you delete your cookies in this browser, you have to click on this link again): 

You will find further information on Google (Universal) here:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

Privacy policy applicable to the use and application of Mouseflow

This website uses Mouseflow, an analytics tool by Mouseflow, ApS (Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen V, Denmark), to track user activity, page content, click, touch, movement, scrolling, and (in some cases) keystrokes. This serves the purpose of optimizing our website with regard to customer needs. If you are located in Europe, your IP address, click activity and personal information will never be stored or shared with third parties. We process and store all data for our own website in Europe.

Processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation (Art. 7(1) DSGVO) to which we are subject (Art. 6(1) p. 1(c) DSGVO).

If you want to opt out of being recorded by Mouseflow, you can do so here:

https://mouseflow.de/opt-out/ 

Privacy policy applicable to the use and application of A1 Webstats

The controller has integrated components by A1 Webstats on this website. The A1 Webstats components automatically recognize and qualify companies visiting a website. The A1 Webstats component enables the operator of a website who uses the component to generate leads, i.e. to qualify potential new customers.

The operating company of A1 Webstats is:

A1WebStats Ltd, Canterbury Innovation Centre, University Road
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7FG, United Kingdom

We use an A1 Webstats tracking pixel. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in a web page to enable log file recording and log file analysis to subsequently perform a statistical analysis.

A1 Webstats also sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. What cookies are is explained above. Setting the cookie enables us to analyze the use of our website.

The data obtained is used to create pseudonymized usage profiles. The pseudonymized usage profiles are used for the purpose of analyzing visitor behavior and enable us to improve our online offer. The data collected via the A1 Webstats component will not be used to identify the data subject without obtaining the data subject's separate and explicit consent first. Such data will not be merged with personal data or with other data containing the same pseudonym.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website is opened, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted by the A1 WebStats component to transmit data for the purpose of online analysis.

The cookie enables the storage of personal information, for example, the time of access, the location from which an access originated and the frequency of visits to our website. This personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the data subject, is transmitted to the server of A1WebStats Ltd every time our websites are accessed. This personal data is stored by A1 Webstats, but is not passed on to third parties.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of appropriate settings in the web browser used, as described above, thus permanently objecting to the setting of cookies. Such a setting in the web browser used would also prevent A1 Webstats from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie already set by A1 Webstats can be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

Processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation (Art. 7(1) DSGVO) to which we are subject (Art. 6(1) p. 1(c) DSGVO).

Further information and the applicable privacy policy can be found at www.a1webstats.com/privacy-policy/.

Privacy Policy for the use of YouTube plug-ins

Our website uses plug-ins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of this site is: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.

When accessing one of our pages that contain a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the servers of YouTube is established. This communicates to the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

We use YouTube to present our online offers in a visually appealing manner. This constitutes a legitimate interest as defined in Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f of GDPR.

If you do not want to participate in the tracking process, you may generally disable automatic cookies in your browser settings. You can also block only specific cookies for conversion tracking by modifying your browser settings accordingly so that cookies of the “googleadservices.com” domain are not allowed.

For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to the YouTube privacy policy.

Address and link to the data protection statement of YouTube:

Google/YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland  Privacy Policy:  https://policies.google.com/privacy,
Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Social Media

On our website, we use links to the social networks Facebook and Instagram. The social networks on our website are just embedded as links to the respective services. No data are transmitted to the services unless you click on the respective graphics. Upon clicking on the embedded graphics you will be forwarded to the page of the respective provider. User information will only then be transmitted to the respective provider.

Addresses of the respective providers and URLs with privacy notices:

a) Facebook

On our website, we use social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”).

If you open our website with the plugin, it will establish a direct connection to the servers of Facebook via your browser. Hereby, the information that you have called up the page will be transferred to Facebook. If you are logged in with your Facebook account, the visit of our website can be directly attributed to your profile by clicking on the plugin. Even if you do not have a profile it cannot be excluded that your IP-address will be saved by Facebook. Please see the privacy notices of Facebook at www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ for the purpose and scope as well as the further processing and utilization of the data by Facebook and your respective rights and configuration options to protect your privacy.

If you are a member of Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our online offer and connect them to your membership data saved by Facebook, you have to log out from Facebook before visiting our website and delete respective Facebook cookies. It is also possible to block Facebook social plugins with add-ons for the browser, e.g. by the “Facebook blocker”.

b) Instagram

On our website, plugins of the social network Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) are integrated. You can recognize the Instagram plugin from the “Instagram button” on our website. If you click on the Instagram button while being logged into the Instagram account, you can link the contents of our websites on your Instagram profile. Hereby, Instagram can allocate the visit to our sites to your user account. We would like to point out that as providers of our website we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted and their use by Instagram. Please find further information on the privacy policy of Instagram at instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is not responsible for data protection provisions, the content of websites or the content of third-party websites which do not belong to IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA or affiliated companies.

Data storage

IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA only stores personal data as long as required for the purpose for which they were collected, or as long as required by law.

Data protection in the application procedure

(1) We process applicant data only for the purpose and in connection with the application procedure in line with legal requirements. Applicant data is processed to fulfill our (pre)contractual obligations in the context of the application procedure in the sense of Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR if data processing becomes necessary for us, e.g. in the context of legal proceedings (in Germany, § 26 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) applies in addition).

(2) To start the application procedure, applicants must provide us with their data. Required applicant data includes personal data, postal and other contact addresses and the documents required for the application, such as cover letter, curriculum vitae and certificates/diplomas. In addition, applicants may voluntarily provide us with additional information.

(3) By sending their application to IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA, the applicants agree to the processing of their data for the purpose of the application procedure in the way and extent described in this Privacy Policy.

(4) Insofar as special categories of personal data in the sense of Article 9(1) of the GDPR are voluntarily provided during the application procedure, their processing is additionally carried out pursuant to Article 9(2)(b) of the GDPR (e.g. health data, such as severe disability, or ethnic origin). Insofar as special categories of personal data in the sense of Article 9(1) of the GDPR are requested from applicants during the application procedure, their processing is additionally carried out pursuant to Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR (e.g. health data) if this information is required to fulfill the job requirements.

(5) Applicants can send us their applications by post, by e-mail or upload them to our job exchange. Please note that e-mails are generally sent unencrypted, and the applicants themselves must ensure that they are encrypted. Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for the application during transmission from the moment it is sent until it is received on our server. If the applicant is concerned about data security when application documents are sent by e-mail, we recommend sending the application documents by post.

(6) The data provided by applicants may be further processed by us for the purposes of the employment relationship in case the application is successful. Otherwise, if an application for a job is not successful, the applicant’s data will be deleted. The applicants' data is also deleted if an application is withdrawn, which the applicants are entitled to do at any time.

(7) Data will be deleted after the end of the application procedure, which lasts six months, subject to a justified revocation by the applicants, so that we can answer any follow-up questions regarding the application and meet our obligations to provide evidence under the German Equal Treatment Act (AGG).

In case you have consented to further storage of your personal data, we will add your data to our candidate pool. In this case, the data will be deleted after two years.
Should your application for a job be successful, data from the application procedure system will be transferred to our human resources system and deleted 10 years after the employment relationship ends.

When registering for the IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA job exchange in the respective form, the following details provided by you will be collected and stored: surname, given name, e-mail address, category, professional field and the country where you are looking to work. Furthermore, your consent to the storing of the data to the extent you have agreed to the same in the form for the job search. 

We will use the data only to contact you if we have a vacancy that meets your expectations or if we would like to offer you an adequate position. Such data will not be used for any other purposes. You can deregister from the Job exchange at any time. In order to do so, please send an email to jobs(at)imsgear.com.

As soon as you have deregistered as explained above, your data will be deleted unless a statutory retention period applies or any storing is required in order to assert or ward off any claims. If you are then still interested, we would like to ask you to register again using the contact form.

Invoices for any reimbursement of travel expenses will be archived according to tax regulations.

Data subject rights

You have the right

a) to request access to personal data which are processed by us, pursuant to Art. 15 of the GDPR. You can, in particular, request information about the purposes of the processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients your personal data was or is disclosed to, the projected storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or to object, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, about the origin of your data to the extent they have not been collected by us, and about the existence of any automatic decision-making, and meaningful information on their details, if any;

b) to have incorrect personal data stored by us rectified or incomplete personal data stored by us completed without undue delay, pursuant to Art. 16 of the GDPR;

c) to have the personal data stored by us to be erased where the processing is not required to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to comply with a legal obligation for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, pursuant to Art. 17 of the GDPR;

d) to have the processing of your personal data restricted, pursuant to Art. 18 of the GDPR, where you contest the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful, but you oppose their erasure and we do not need the data anymore, but you need them for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected the processing pursuant to Art. 21 of the GDPR;

e) to receive your personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have this data transmitted to another controller, pursuant to Art. 20 of the GDPR;

f) to withdraw the consent you have once given at any time, pursuant to Art. 7(3) of the GDPR. This would mean that we are no longer allowed to carry out the data processing which is based on such consent; and

g) to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, pursuant to Art. 77 of the GDPR. Usually, you can contact the supervisory authority of your habitual residence, place of work or the headquarters of our company for this purpose.

The competent supervisory authority for data protection of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA is:

To exercise the afore-mentioned rights and if you have any question regarding privacy, please contact the controller or send an e-mail to dsb(at)imsgear.com.

Right to object

If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6(1)(1)(f) of the GDPR, you have the right pursuant to Article 21 of the GDPR to object to the processing of your personal data when there are reasons for this arising out of your particular situation or when the objection concerns direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which is fulfilled by us without a particular situation having to be stated. If you want to exercise your right to withdraw or your right to object, please just send an email to dsb(at)imsgear.com.

Data security

a) Within the visit to our website, we use the common SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. Usually, this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether a single page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form is indicated by the closed display of the key or the lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

b) Besides, we employ suitable technical and organizational safety measures to protect your data against any accidental or deliberate manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our safety measures are continuously improved in line with progressing technological development.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will be updated, if needed, to meet current requirements, e.g. a change to the relevant data protection regulations.

Version: 2024-04-01