Privacy policy

Information on the collection of personal data

a) In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when us-ing our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

b) The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

ABICOR GROUP Management GmbH
Kiesacker
35418 Buseck
Phone: +49 (0) 6408/59-0
E-mail: info@abicor-group.com

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Gesellschaft für Datenschutz Mittelhessen mbH
Auf der Appeling 8
35043 Marburg
E-Mail: datenschutz@gdsm.de

c) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes. In doing so, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

Your rights

a) You have the following rights towards us with regard to personal data concerning you:
• Right to information,
• Right to rectification or erasure,
• Right to restriction of processing,
• Right to object to the processing,
• Right to data portability.

b) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

Collection of personal data when visiting our website

a) If you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or oth-erwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):
• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request comes
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

b) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall. These cookies are used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a or c. GDPR.

Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:
• Transient cookies (see b)
• Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, with which various re-quests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser’s security settings.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, re-fuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

Other functions and offers on our website

a) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you must generally provide additional per-sonal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforemen-tioned data processing principles apply.

b) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regu-larly monitored.

c) Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participa-tion in promotions, competitions, contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more detailed information on this when you provide your personal da-ta or in the description of the offer below.

d) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Eco-nomic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

Data security

The personal data collected and stored by us is treated confidentially and protected against loss, alteration and unauthorized access by third parties by means of suitable technical and organizational precautions . Your personal data is transmitted over the Internet in encrypted form. We use SSL encryption (Secure Socket Layer) for data transmission.

Automated decisions, profiling

We do not carry out any automated decisions (including profiling) with the personal data that we collect when you visit our website.

Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

a) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can withdraw it at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us.

b) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if, in particular, the processing is not neces-sary for the performance of a contract with you, which is described by us in the follow-ing description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to ex-plain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and will either discon-tinue or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of pro-tection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

c) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us of your objection to advertising using the following contact details: ABICOR GROUP Management GmbH, Kiesacker, 35418 Buseck, phone: +49 (0) 6408/59-0, e-mail: info@abicor-group.com.

Contact via contact form

a) When you contact us via a contact form, the data you provide and the resulting person-al data (e.g. name, request, e-mail address, telephone number) will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your request and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass this data on to third parties without your consent.

b) The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you ask us to de-lete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particu-lar statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

c) This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR if your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate in-terest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been requested.

Contact via e-mail

You have the option of contacting us by e-mail. You will find the relevant addresses on our website under Contact.

If you contact us via the e-mail address provided by us, the personal data transmitted with your e-mail will be stored. The legal basis for the processing of your data in this respect is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in contacting you as a (potential) customer.
If the contact via e-mail is in connection with the conclusion or execution of a contract be-tween you and us, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR is also the legal basis for the processing.

We process personal data that we store in connection with your contact via e-mail exclu-sively for the purpose of processing your contact. The data will not be passed on to third parties in this respect.

We delete your data as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was col-lected. For personal data transmitted by e-mail, this is the case when the respective corre-spondence with you has ended and it can be inferred from the circumstances that the mat-ter in question has been conclusively clarified.
If the data is required to fulfill a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures, it can on-ly be deleted if this is permitted by contractual or legal obligations. Which storage periods apply here must be determined individually for the respective contracts and contracting parties.

You can revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time. If you contact us by email, you can object to the storage of your personal data at any time. To do so, simply send an informal message to the contact details provided at the beginning of this privacy policy.

Use of Google Maps

a) On this website, we use the Google Maps service via an API on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. This allows us to show you interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function Provider is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
b) To ensure data protection on this website, Google Maps is deactivated when you enter this website for the first time. A direct connection to Google’s servers is only established when you activate Google Maps yourself. This prevents your data from being transmitted to Google the first time you enter the site.
c) After activation, Google Maps will save your IP address and your location information. This is then usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer once Google Maps has been activated. For cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.
d) You can find more information on the handling of user data in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Data processing by social networks

We maintain publicly accessible profiles in social networks. The individual social networks we use are listed below.

Social networks such as Facebook etc. can generally analyze your user behavior comprehen-sively when you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. Like buttons or advertising banners). Visiting our social media presences triggers numerous data protection-relevant processing operations. In detail:

If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media presence, the op-erator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. However, your personal data may also be collected if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal. In this case, this data is collected, for example, via cook-ies that are stored on your device or by recording your IP address.

With the help of the data collected in this way, the operators of the social media portals can create user profiles in which your preferences and interests are stored. In this way, interest-based advertising can be displayed to you inside and outside the respective social media presence. If you have an account with the respective social network, the interest-based ad-vertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are logged in or were logged in.

Please also note that we cannot track all processing operations on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, further processing operations may therefore be carried out by the operators of the social media portals. For details, please refer to the terms of use and data protection provisions of the respective social media portals.

Legal basis
Our social media presences are intended to ensure the widest possible presence on the In-ternet. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The anal-ysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal bases, which must be specified by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Responsible party and assertion of rights
If you visit one of our social media sites (e.g. Facebook), we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. You can assert your rights (information, rectification, erasure, restriction of pro-cessing, data portability and complaint) both against us and against the operator of the re-spective social media portal (e.g. Facebook).

Please note that, despite our joint responsibility with the social media portal operators, we do not have full control over the data processing operations of the social media portals. Our options are largely determined by the corporate policy of the respective provider.

Storage duration
The data collected directly by us via the social media presence will be deleted from our sys-tems as soon as the purpose for its storage no longer applies, you request us to delete it, re-voke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Stored cook-ies remain on your end device until you delete them. Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

We have no influence on the storage period of your data that is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details, please contact the operators of the social networks directly (e.g. in their privacy policy, see below).
Social networks in detail:

Facebook
We have a profile on Facebook. The provider is Meta Platforms Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. We have concluded an agreement with Facebook on joint pro-cessing (Controller Addendum). This agreement specifies which data processing operations we or Facebook are responsible for when you visit our Facebook page. You can view this agreement at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum. You can adjust your ad-vertising settings yourself in your user account. To do this, click on the following link and log in: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.Details see Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

Twitter
We have a profile on Twitter. The operator of the social network Twitter is Twitter Inc, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy

Instagram
We have a profile on Instagram. The operator of the Instagram social network is Meta Plat-forms Ireland Limited. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Insta-gram’s privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870

LinkedIn
We have a profile on LinkedIn. The social network LinkedIn is operated by LinkedIn Corpora-tion, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Xing
We have a profile on Xing. The operator of the Xing social network is Xing SE, Dammtor-straße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in Xing’s privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung?tid=331702548413

YouTube
We have a profile on Xing. The operator of the YouTube video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

TikTok
We have a profile on TikTok. The operator of the social network is the Chinese company Tik-Tok. For the European region, the company is TikTok Technology Limited (10 Earlsfort Ter-race, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland). Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in TikTok’s privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/privacy-policy/de