We collect and use per­so­nal data au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly that is ge­ne­ra­ted by your vi­sit to our web­site for the pur­po­se of the tech­ni­cal pro­vi­si­on our web­site and to im­pro­ve our ser­vices.

3.2.1 Log files and (session) cookies
If you only use our web­site for in­for­ma­ti­on pur­po­ses, our ser­ver tem­pora­ri­ly re­cor­ds the fol­lo­wing per­so­nal data in what are re­fer­red to as log files:

IP address assigned by the provider,
File request by the client (file name and URL),
HTTP status code,
The website from where you visit us.

Un­less other­wi­se sta­ted in this Pri­va­cy No­ti­ce, this data is re­qui­red for the tech­ni­cal func­tio­n­ing and ope­ra­ti­on of our web­site. The short-term sto­r­a­ge of log files is also re­le­vant for the pur­po­se of sub­se­quent­ly clea­ring up at­temp­ted at­tacks on web ser­vers and pos­si­ble mi­suse. Our le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest in this form of data pro­ces­sing the­re­fo­re is to be in a po­si­ti­on to of­fer you our ser­vices ba­sed on this set of cir­cum­stan­ces (le­gal ba­sis:

Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) and will be de­le­ted when it is no lon­ger re­qui­red for this pur­po­se.

In se­veral pla­ces on our web­site, we also use “coo­kies” that ser­ve to make our of­fe­ring more user-fri­end­ly and ef­fec­tive. Coo­kies are small text files that our web­site wis­hes to place on your com­pu­ter or other in­ter­net-enab­led de­vices in­clu­ding ta­blets or smart­pho­nes to the extent that your brow­ser set­tings ac­cept coo­kies.

Coo­kies in no way harm your com­pu­ter and do not con­tain vi­ru­s­es. Most of the coo­kies we use on our web­site are what are re­fer­red to as ses­si­on coo­kies which are au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly de­le­ted once you clo­se your brow­ser. The­se crea­te a ses­si­on ID for your brow­ser which al­lows va­rious re­quests from your brow­ser to be as­si­gned to a ses­si­on, so that you can be re­co­gnis­ed when you re­turn to our web­site with the same brow­ser. The­se ses­si­on coo­kies are de­le­ted when you clo­se your brow­ser. You have the op­ti­on to make set­tings in your brow­ser so that the­se coo­kies are not stored in the first place, or that they are de­le­ted at the end of your ses­si­on. Plea­se note, howe­ver, that this may li­mit your abili­ty to use all the func­tions of our va­rious web pa­ges.

You can ob­ject to your data being pro­ces­sed using coo­kies at any time for the fu­ture (Art. 21 GDPR). Howe­ver, plea­se note this may then li­mit your abili­ty to use all the func­tions of our web­site.

3.2.2 Google Web Fonts
On our web­site, we use the Goog­le Fonts ser­vice from Goog­le LLC, 1600 Am­phi­thea­t­re Park­way, Moun­tain View, Ca­li­for­nia 94043, USA (“Goog­le”).

If you have your ha­b­itu­al place of re­si­dence in the Eu­ro­pean Eco­no­mic Area or Swit­z­er­land, Goog­le Ire­land Li­mi­ted (Gor­don Hou­se, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land) is the Data Con­trol­ler re­s­pon­si­ble for your data.

Coo­kies are not stored in your brow­ser when Goog­le Fonts is used. The files (CSS, fonts) are re­quested over the Goog­le do­mains fonts.goo­gle­a­pis.com and fonts.gsta­tic.com. Ac­cor­ding to Goog­le, the re­quests for CSS and fonts take place com­ple­te­ly se­pa­ra­te­ly from all other Goog­le ser­vices. If you have a Goog­le ac­count, you do not need to worry about in­for­ma­ti­on about your Goog­le ac­count being trans­fer­red to Goog­le whi­le using Goog­le Fonts. Goog­le only re­cor­ds the use of CSS (Cas­ca­ding Style Sheets) and the fonts used.

Goog­le Fonts ma­kes it pos­si­ble for us to use fonts on our own web­site and not have to upload them to our own ser­ver. Goog­le Fonts re­pres­ents a key com­po­nent in main­tai­ning the high qua­li­ty of our web­site. All Goog­le fonts are au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly op­ti­mi­sed for the web which sa­ves on data vo­lu­me and re­pres­ents an enor­mous ad­van­ta­ge, es­pe­cial­ly when used on mo­bi­le de­vices. When you vi­sit our web­site, the small file size ma­kes sure that the web­site loads quick­ly.

We the­re­fo­re use Goog­le Fonts owing to our le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest in en­su­ring the qua­li­ty and per­for­mance (through the im­pro­ved loa­ding time) of our ent­i­re on­line ser­vice (le­gal ba­sis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Goog­le sa­ves re­quests for CSS as­sets for one day on their ser­vers, which are also lo­ca­ted outs­ide the EU. The font files are stored by Goog­le for a year.

The data is au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly trans­fer­red to Goog­le when the page is ac­ces­sed. To de­le­te this data ahead of time, you should con­tact Goog­le sup­port at https://support.google.com/?hl=en&tid=331585294560.

You can only prevent the data from being sa­ved by not vi­sit­ing our web­site.

For more in­for­ma­ti­on, plea­se re­fer to the pri­va­cy po­li­cy from Goog­le, which you can ac­cess here:

www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about

www.google.com/policies/privacy/

3.2.3 XING
Coun­sel main­ta­ins a com­pa­ny pro­fi­le on the XING plat­form ope­ra­ted by New Work SE, Damm­tor­stra­ße 30, 20354 Ham­burg, Ger­ma­ny (“XING”).

XING is a so­ci­al net­work which, in ad­di­ti­on to al­lo­wing the crea­ti­on of pri­va­te pro­files, also al­lows the crea­ti­on of com­pa­ny pa­ges. Pho­tos and other com­pa­ny in­for­ma­ti­on, for ex­amp­le, can be uploa­ded to the­se pa­ges. Other XING users have ac­cess to this in­for­ma­ti­on and can wri­te their own posts and sha­re this con­tent.

We would like to point out that your use of our XING page and its func­tions ta­kes place un­der your own re­s­pon­si­bi­li­ty. This ap­p­lies, in par­ti­cu­lar, to the use of the in­ter­ac­tive func­tions (for ex­amp­le, ra­ting and sharing posts). Al­ter­na­tive­ly, you can also ac­cess some of the in­for­ma­ti­on of­fe­red over this page over our web­site.

As the ope­ra­tor of the XING page, we have ac­cess to sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­ses of the hits on our XING page. This data is avail­able in ag­gre­ga­ted and an­ony­mi­sed form and does not al­low us to draw any con­clu­si­ons about in­di­vi­du­al vi­si­tors to the page. We use the sta­tis­ti­cal eva­lua­ti­ons to make the in­for­ma­ti­on pro­vi­ded on our XING com­pa­ny page more attrac­tive on an on­go­ing ba­sis and to align it with user in­te­rests.

If you are log­ged into a XING user ac­count at the same time as ac­ces­sing our com­pa­ny page, in­for­ma­ti­on about your ac­cess to the ser­vice can be as­si­gned to this user ac­count. This in­for­ma­ti­on is also avail­able to Coun­sel as the ope­ra­tor of the com­pa­ny page. You can avo­id pro­vi­ding this in­for­ma­ti­on by log­ging out of XING over your user ac­count be­fo­re ac­ces­sing our com­pa­ny page.

As a vi­si­tor to our XING com­pa­ny page, you also have the op­ti­on to use in­ter­ac­tive func­tions, such as the “Like” func­tion or sharing and com­men­ting on posts. As a rule, such use re­qui­res re­gis­te­ring with XING. Du­ring this use, per­so­nal data and in­for­ma­ti­on are vi­si­ble to us and also to other vi­si­tors to the com­pa­ny page and a di­rect as­si­gn­ment to you may take place. Howe­ver, we have no in­flu­ence on the in­ter­ac­tive func­tions and the vi­si­bi­li­ty of user ac­tivi­ties on our XING com­pa­ny page.

We would like to ex­press­ly point out at this point that you can also vi­sit our XING com­pa­ny page on XING wi­thout using the­se in­ter­ac­tive func­tions.

We ope­ra­te our XING com­pa­ny page and pro­cess your per­so­nal data over this page on the ba­sis of our le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) in con­duc­ting ef­fec­tive mar­ke­ting over a much-used plat­form. The com­pa­ny page also pro­vi­des an op­ti­on for con­tac­ting us by mes­sa­ge over the con­tact chan­nels spe­ci­fied the­re. We pro­cess the in­for­ma­ti­on trans­fer­red in this way on the ba­sis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest) or Art. 6 (1) (b) DS­GVO if the en­qui­ry is ser­vice re­la­ted. We use this in­for­ma­ti­on ex­clu­si­ve­ly for the pur­po­se of re­spon­ding in a fo­cus­sed man­ner to such en­qui­ries.

We have no con­trol over the na­tu­re and scope of the data pro­ces­sed by XING, the na­tu­re of this pro­ces­sing and the use or dis­clo­sure of the data to third par­ties, in par­ti­cu­lar to coun­tries outs­ide the Eu­ro­pean Uni­on. In this re­spect, we also have no ef­fec­tive con­trol op­ti­ons avail­able to us. In­for­ma­ti­on on how XING pro­ces­ses per­so­nal data can be found in the XING pri­va­cy po­li­cy which you can ac­cess over the fol­lo­wing link:

https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

3.2.4 LinkedIn
Coun­sel also main­ta­ins a pro­fi­le on the “Lin­ke­dIn” plat­form from the in­for­ma­ti­on ser­vice Lin­ke­dIn Ire­land Un­li­mi­ted Com­pa­ny, Wil­ton Place, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land.

We would like to point out that your use of our Lin­ke­dIn page and its func­tions ta­kes place un­der your own re­s­pon­si­bi­li­ty. This ap­p­lies in par­ti­cu­lar to the use of in­ter­ac­tive func­tions (e.g. com­men­ting, sharing, ra­ting). Al­ter­na­tive­ly, you can also ac­cess parts of the in­for­ma­ti­on of­fe­red over Lin­ke­dIn on this web­site.

When you vi­sit our Lin­ke­dIn page, Lin­ke­dIn collects your IP ad­dress and other in­for­ma­ti­on among other things. As the ope­ra­tor of the Lin­ke­dIn pa­ges, this in­for­ma­ti­on is used to pro­vi­de us with sta­tis­ti­cal in­for­ma­ti­on on the use of our Lin­ke­dIn page. The data collec­ted on your per­son in this con­text is pro­ces­sed by Lin­ke­dIn and may be trans­fer­red to coun­tries outs­ide the Eu­ro­pean Uni­on. Lin­ke­dIn does not con­clu­si­ve­ly and cle­ar­ly sta­te and we do not know the way in which Lin­ke­dIn uses the data from a vi­sit to Lin­ke­dIn pa­ges for its own pur­po­ses, to what extent ac­tivi­ties on the Lin­ke­dIn page are as­si­gned to in­di­vi­du­al users, how long Lin­ke­dIn stores this data and whe­ther data from a vi­sit to a Lin­ke­dIn page is dis­clo­sed to third par­ties.

When you ac­cess a Lin­ke­dIn page, the IP ad­dress as­si­gned to your end de­vice is trans­fer­red to Lin­ke­dIn. Ac­cor­ding to in­for­ma­ti­on from Lin­ke­dIn, this IP ad­dress is an­ony­mi­sed (for “Ger­man” IP ad­dres­ses) and de­le­ted af­ter 90 days. Lin­ke­dIn also stores in­for­ma­ti­on about the end de­vices used by its users (e.g. as part of the “log­in no­ti­fi­ca­ti­on” func­tion); By do­ing so, Lin­ke­dIn may be able to as­sign IP ad­dres­ses to in­di­vi­du­al users.

If you are cur­rent­ly log­ged in to Lin­ke­dIn as a user, you will have a coo­kie with an iden­ti­fier stored on your end de­vice. This al­lows Lin­ke­dIn to track your vi­sit to the re­spec­tive page and how you have used it. This also ap­p­lies to all other Lin­ke­dIn pa­ges. This data can be used to de­li­ver con­tent or ad­ver­ti­sing tailo­red to you. If you want to prevent such data pro­ces­sing, you should log out of Lin­ke­dIn or de­ac­tiva­te the “Re­main log­ged in” func­tion, de­le­te the coo­kies on your de­vice and clo­se and re­start your brow­ser. By do­ing so, Lin­ke­dIn in­for­ma­ti­on which can be used to di­rect­ly iden­ti­fy you is de­le­ted. This al­lows you to use our Lin­ke­dIn page wi­thout re­vea­ling your Lin­ke­dIn iden­ti­fier. When you ac­cess the in­ter­ac­tive fea­tures on the web­site (Like, Com­ment, Sha­re, News, etc.), a Lin­ke­dIn log­in screen ap­pears. Once you have log­ged in, Lin­ke­dIn will again be able to iden­ti­fy you as a spe­ci­fic user. In­for­ma­ti­on on how to ma­na­ge or de­le­te in­for­ma­ti­on on your per­son can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

As the in­for­ma­ti­on ser­vice pro­vi­der, we do not collect and pro­cess any fur­ther data from your use of our ser­vice.

The in­for­ma­ti­on that Lin­ke­dIn re­cei­ves and how it is used is de­scri­bed in ge­ne­ral terms by Lin­ke­dIn in its data use po­li­cy. You will also find in­for­ma­ti­on in it on how to con­tact Lin­ke­dIn and on the set­tings for ad­ver­ti­se­ments. The data use po­li­cy is avail­able at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

3.2.5 Facebook
Coun­sel also main­ta­ins a pro­fi­le on the “Face­book” plat­form from the in­for­ma­ti­on ser­vice META Plat­forms, Inc., 1 Ha­cker Way Men­lo Park, Ca­li­for­nia 94025, United Sta­tes of Ame­ri­ca.

We would like to point out that your use of our Face­book page and its func­tions ta­kes place un­der your own re­s­pon­si­bi­li­ty. This ap­p­lies in par­ti­cu­lar to the use of in­ter­ac­tive func­tions (e.g. com­men­ting, sharing, ra­ting). Al­ter­na­tive­ly, you can also ac­cess parts of the in­for­ma­ti­on of­fe­red over Face­book on this web­site.

When you vi­sit our Face­book page, Face­book collects your IP ad­dress and other in­for­ma­ti­on among other things. As the ope­ra­tor of the Face­book pa­ges, this in­for­ma­ti­on is used to pro­vi­de us with sta­tis­ti­cal in­for­ma­ti­on on the use of our Face­book page. The data collec­ted on your per­son in this con­text is pro­ces­sed by Face­book and may be trans­fer­red to coun­tries outs­ide the Eu­ro­pean Uni­on. Face­book does not con­clu­si­ve­ly and cle­ar­ly sta­te and we do not know the way in which Face­book uses the data from a vi­sit to Face­book pa­ges for its own pur­po­ses, to what extent ac­tivi­ties on the Face­book page are as­si­gned to in­di­vi­du­al users, how long Face­book stores this data and whe­ther data from a vi­sit to a Face­book page is dis­clo­sed to third par­ties.

When you ac­cess a Face­book page, the IP ad­dress as­si­gned to your end de­vice is trans­fer­red to Face­book. Ac­cor­ding to in­for­ma­ti­on from Face­book, this IP ad­dress is an­ony­mi­sed (for “Ger­man” IP ad­dres­ses) and de­le­ted af­ter 90 days. Face­book also stores in­for­ma­ti­on about the end de­vices used by its users (e.g. as part of the “log­in no­ti­fi­ca­ti­on” func­tion); By do­ing so, Face­book may be able to as­sign IP ad­dres­ses to in­di­vi­du­al users.

If you are cur­rent­ly log­ged in to Face­book as a user, you will have a coo­kie with an iden­ti­fier stored on your end de­vice. This al­lows Face­book to track your vi­sit to the re­spec­tive page and how you have used it. This also ap­p­lies to all other Face­book pa­ges. This data can be used to de­li­ver con­tent or ad­ver­ti­sing tailo­red to you. If you want to prevent such data pro­ces­sing, you should log out of Face­book or de­ac­tiva­te the “Re­main log­ged in” func­tion, de­le­te the coo­kies on your de­vice and clo­se and re­start your brow­ser. By do­ing so, Face­book in­for­ma­ti­on which can be used to di­rect­ly iden­ti­fy you is de­le­ted. This al­lows you to use our Face­book page wi­thout re­vea­ling your Face­book iden­ti­fier. When you ac­cess the in­ter­ac­tive fea­tures on the web­site (Like, Com­ment, Sha­re, News, etc.), a Face­book log­in screen ap­pears. Once you have log­ged in, Face­book will again be able to iden­ti­fy you as a spe­ci­fic user. In­for­ma­ti­on on how to ma­na­ge or de­le­te in­for­ma­ti­on on your per­son can be found at https://www.Facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0.

As the in­for­ma­ti­on ser­vice pro­vi­der, we do not collect and pro­cess any fur­ther data from your use of our ser­vice.

The in­for­ma­ti­on that Face­book re­cei­ves and how it is used is de­scri­bed in ge­ne­ral terms by Face­book in its data use po­li­cy. You will also find in­for­ma­ti­on in it on how to con­tact Face­book and on the set­tings for ad­ver­ti­se­ments. The data use po­li­cy is avail­able at https://www.Facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0