Privacy Policy

1. Data protection at a glance

General notes

The following information provides a simple overview of how your personal data is handled when using this website. The term personal data refers to all data that can be used to identify you as a person. Our Privacy Policy below provides detailed information on data protection.

Data collection via this website

Who is responsible for collecting data via this website?

The data processing on this website is performed by the website operator. The contact details of the website operator are provided in the imprint section of this website.

How do we collect your data?

We collect the data you provide, among other things. This may include data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected by our IT systems automatically or after your consent when you visit the website. This primarily concerns technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system, or the time a page was visited). Such data is collected automatically as soon as you visit this website.

How do we use your data?

Some data is collected to ensure that the website operates correctly. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have with regard to your data?

You are entitled to receive information regarding the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You are also entitled to request the correction or deletion of your stored personal data. If you have consented to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time in the future. In addition and under certain circumstances, you are also entitled to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to file a complaint at the competent supervisory authority.

You may contact us at any time at the address stated in the imprint section of this website.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by a third-party service provider (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Host’). The personal data collected on this website is stored on servers of the Host. Such data may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website access data and other data generated through the website.

The Host is assigned for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1) point b of the German Data Protection Act) and in the interest of the safe, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6(1) point f of the German Data Protection Act).

Our Host shall only process your data to the extent necessary in order to fulfil its performance obligations and to comply with our instructions regarding such data.

Stipulation of an order processing contract

We have signed a contract for order processing with our Host in order to ensure data protection-compliant processing.

3. General Notes and Required Information

Data protection

The operators of these website pages take the protection of personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with data protection legislation and the Privacy Policy at hand.

Various personal data are collected whilst using this website. Personal data refers to data that can be used to identify you as a person. The Privacy Policy at hand explains the data we collect and the purpose for which we use your data. It also explains how and for what purpose we collect data.

Please be aware that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., when communicating via e-mail) may pose the risk of security gaps. It is impossible to completely protect data against unauthorised access by third parties.

Note regarding the Data Controller

Die verantwortliche Stelle für die Datenverarbeitung auf dieser Website ist:

The Data Controller for data processing on this website is:

Petec Verbindungstechnik GmbH
Wüstenbuch 26
96132 Schlüsselfeld, Germany

Telephone: +49 9555 809940
E-mail: info@petec.de

The Data Controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purpose and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Data Protection Officer

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer for our company.

IFS Engineering GmbH, An der Leite 16, 96193 Wachenroth, Germany; Mr. Stefan Scharinger

Telephone: +49 0157 83059373
E-mail: stefan.scharinger@ifs-infoweb.de

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations require your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. To revoke your consent, an informal e-mail to us shall be sufficient. A revocation shall not affect the legality of the data processing performed before such revocation.

Right to object to direct marketing and to the collection of data in special cases (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS PERFORMED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1) POINTS E OR F OF THE GDPR, YOU SHALL BE ENTITLED TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS SHALL ALSO INCLUDE PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL PROVISIONS ON WHICH THE PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THE PRIVACY POLICY AT HAND. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE NEED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21(1) OF THE GDPR).

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR MARKETING PURPOSES AT ANY TIME IN CASES WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES. THIS SHALL ALSO INCLUDE PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21(2) OF THE GDPR).

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of GDPR violations, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability

You are entitled to request that we hand over the data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract in a commonly used machine-readable format to you or to a third party. If you request the direct transfer of such data to another Data Controller, we shall only comply with such request if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

This website uses SSL and/or TLS encryption for security reasons and in order to protect the transmission of sensitive content such as the orders or queries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the address line of the browser changes from ‘http://’ to ‘https://’ and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

The data you send to us cannot be read by third parties once SSL or TLS encryption is enabled.

Access, erasure and correction

You are entitled to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to correct or erase this data in accordance with the GDPR. For further information on this topic and regarding your personal data, please feel free to contact us at any time at the address provided in the imprint.

Right to restriction of processing

In addition and under certain circumstances, you are also entitled to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time using the address stated in the imprint section of this website. The right to restrict processing applies in the following cases:

Should you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us; we will usually require a certain amount of time to verify this. For the duration of the verification period, you are also entitled to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
If we no longer require your personal data, however you need such data to exercise, defend or enforce legal claims, you are entitled to request restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
If you have objected pursuant to Art. 21(1) of the GDPR, a verification of whether our legitimate grounds override your own must be performed. So long as it is not yet clear whose legitimate grounds prevail, you are also entitled to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such personal data shall — with the exception of storage — only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.

4. Data collection via this website

Cookies

Our websites use cookies. Cookies are small text files and do not cause any damage to your device. Cookies are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted once you close our website. Permanent cookies are stored on your device until they are automatically deleted by your web browser or until you delete them yourself.

In some cases, cookies from third-party companies can also be stored on your device when you access our site (third-party cookies). These cookies enable us or you to use certain services of a third-party company (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have different purposes and functions. Numerous cookies are technically required, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping basket function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behaviour or to display advertising.

Cookies which are required to carry out the electronic communication process (required cookies) or to provide certain functions that you require (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping basket function) or to optimise the website (e.g. cookies for measuring the web audience) are stored in accordance with Art. 6(1) point f of the GDPR, unless a different legal basis is stated. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. If consent to the storage of cookies was requested, storage of the applicable cookies in question shall be based exclusively on this consent (Art. 6(1) point a GDPR). Such consent can be revoked at any time.

You can adjust your browser settings so that you will be notified about the use of cookies and to only enable cookies for individual cases or so that cookies are only accepted in specific cases or are generally prohibited. You can also activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this site may be limited upon the deactivation of cookies.

In the event that cookies should be used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, we shall notify you separately within the scope of this Privacy Policy and, if necessary, request your consent.

Cookie consent with Borlabs Cookie

Our website uses the Borlabs Cookie consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and to document this in compliance with current data protection legislation. Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs) is the provider of this technology.

When you access our website, a Borlabs cookie is saved in your browser, in which your consents or the revocation of such consents is saved. This data will not be forwarded to the Borlabs Cookie provider.

The recorded data is stored until you ask us to delete it or you delete the Borlabs cookie yourself or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Mandatory retention periods shall remain unaffected. Details on data processing by Borlabs Cookie are available at https://borlabs.io/kb/what-information-does-borlabs-cookie-store/

Borlabs Cookie consent technology is deployed to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies, which is legally based on Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point c of the GDPR.

Server log files

The provider of these website pages automatically collects and stores data in server log files, which are automatically transmitted to us by your browser. These include:

Browser type and Browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
IP Address

This data shall not be combined with data from other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6(1) point f of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of its website. The server log files must therefore be recorded for this purpose.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the form, including the contact details you provided in the form, will be stored in order to process the request and for any follow-up questions. We will not share this information without your prior consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1) point b of the GDPR insofar as your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is required to perform pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests sent to us (Art. 6(1) point f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1) point a GDPR), if this was requested.

We shall retain the data you enter in the contact form until you request the deletion thereof, revoke your consent to store such data or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after we have completed processing your request). Mandatory legal provisions, in particular retention periods, shall remain unaffected.

Requests by e-mail, telephone or fax

Should you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your inquiry — including all personal data contained therein (name, inquiry) — will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We will not share this information without your prior consent.

We shall retain the data you enter in the contact request until you demand the deletion thereof, revoke your consent to store such data or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after we have completed processing your request). Mandatory legal provisions, in particular legal retention periods, shall remain unaffected.

5. Plugins and Tools

YouTube with extended data protection

This website embeds videos from YouTube. The operator of the YouTube website is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in extended data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode ensures that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. The transfer of data to YouTube partners, on the other hand, is not necessarily excluded by the extended data protection mode. This is how YouTube connects to the Google DoubleClick network regardless of whether you are watching a video.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website, a connection to the YouTube servers will be established. The YouTube server is informed of which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your browsing behaviour directly to your personal profile. This can be prevented by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

In addition, YouTube can save various cookies on your terminal device after starting a video. These cookies allow YouTube to obtain information regarding visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness and prevent fraud attempts. These cookies remain on your device until you delete them.

As the case may be, further data processing operations can be triggered after starting a YouTube video and over which we have no control.

YouTube is deployed to facilitate the attractive display of our online offerings. This represents a legitimate interest as defined by Art. 6(1) point f of the GDPR. If such a consent was requested, processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1) point a of the GDPR. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Refer to the following data protection disclosure link for further information on data protection at YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Google Maps

This website uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider of Google Maps is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

In order to use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is saved. The provider of this website has no control over this data transfer.

Google Maps is deployed to facilitate the attractive display of our online offer and to make it easy to find the places we have specified on the website. This represents a legitimate interest as defined by Art. 6(1) point f of the GDPR. If such a consent was requested, processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1) point a of the GDPR. Consent can be revoked at any time.

For more information about the processing of user data, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

6. Own services

Processing applicant data

We offer you the opportunity to apply for a position within our organisation (e.g. by e-mail, post or via the online application form). In the following, we inform you about the scope, purpose and use of your personal data collected within scope of the application process. We hereby declare that your data will be collected, processed and used in accordance with the current and applicable data protection law and all other legal provisions and that your data will be processed in a strictly confidential manner.

Scope and purpose of data collection

If you send us a job application, we shall process your related personal data (e.g. contact and communication data, application documents, notes resulting from job interviews, etc.) insofar as this is required for the decision-making process regarding the conclusion of a contract of employment. This is in compliance with § 26 of the new German Data Protection Act (BDSG) (re. initiation of an employment relationship), Art. 6(1) point b of the GDPR (re. general contract initiation) and — if you have given your consent — Art. 6(1) point a of the GDPR. Consent can be revoked at any time. Your personal data will only be given to the individuals within our company who are involved in processing your application.

If your application should be successful, the data you submitted will be stored in our data processing systems in compliance with § 26 of the new BDSG and Art. 6 (1) point b of the GDPR for the purpose of implementing the employment relationship.

Data retention period

If and insofar as we are unable to make you a job offer or you reject a job offer or you withdraw your application, we shall reserve the right to retain the data you have provided on the basis of our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1) point f GDPR) for up to 6 months from the end of the application process (rejection or withdrawal of the application). The data shall then be deleted and any physical application documents shall be destroyed. Such data shall be stored, in particular, for the purpose of keeping evidence for possible legal disputes. If it is evident that the data will be required after the 6-month period has expired (e.g. due to an impending or pending legal dispute), it shall only be deleted when the purpose for further storage no longer exists.

Prolonged storage may also take place if you have provided your consent (Art. 6 (1) point a GDPR) or if legal retention requirements prevent deletion.

Inclusion in the applicant pool

If we do not make you a job offer, you may be able to be included in our pool of applicants. In such case, all documents and information from the application will be transferred to the applicant pool in order to contact you in the event a suitable vacancy should arise.

Inclusion in the applicant pool is exclusively based on your express consent (Art. 6 (1) point a GDPR). Giving your consent is voluntary and is in no way related to a current application process. The individual concerned may revoke their consent at any time. In such case, the data shall be irrevocably deleted from the applicant pool, provided there are no legal reasons for retention.

The data from the applicant pool will be irrevocably deleted no later than two years after consent has been given.