Privacy Protection

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Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in our company. Protecting your data is in the focus of our acting. Your data is processed in compliance with the privacy legislation applicable, which is especially the EU General Data Protection Legislation (“GDPR”). 

This privacy statement is to provide you exhausting information on the processing of your personal data by Leadec Holding BV & Co. KG as well as on the rights you are entitled to as a data subject. Personal data is information which identify a natural person or allow to identify a natural person. Such data especially includes name, birthdate, address, telephone number, e-mail address, but also the IP-address. Anonymous data is present, when a person cannot be identified.

Postal address:

Leadec Holding BV & Co. KG, Meitnerstraße 11, 70563 Stuttgart

Contact:

Tel: +49 711 7841 – 0, Fax: +49 711 7841 – 160, info(at)leadec.services.com

Data Protection Officer´s Contact:

Please turn to our Data Protection Officer for any privacy-related request: dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com

We would like to inform you about the rights you are entitled to as a data subject. These rights are stipulated by Art. 15 to 22 of the GDPR and cover:
 

• The right to access your data (Art. 15 GDPR)
• The right to deletion (Art. 17 GDPR)
• The right to correction (Art. 16 GDPR)
• The right to data transfer (Art. 18 GDPR)
• The right to have a data processing restricted (Art. 18 GDPR)
• The right to object against a data processing (Art. 21 GDPR).

To exercise these rights, please turn to dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com. The same applies, if you should have questions concerning the processing of personal data in our company. Additionally, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

Please consider the following concerning the objection rights: Should we process your data for purposes of direct marketing, you are entitled to object against that processing any time and without being required to name any reason. Such would also apply for any case of profiling, if such were related to direct marketing.

Should you object against a processing of personal data, we then will no longer process your personal data for such purposes. Exercising the right to objection against data processing is free of charge and does not require to be presented in any particular form, where we ask you to kindly consider addressing it to dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com.

Should we process personal data for purposes of prevailing interest, you are entitled to anytime object against such processing for reasons originating from your particular special situation; such would also apply for a profiling if such was based on these conditions.

We then will no longer process your personal data if not we can prove that compulsory reasons worth protection are present and outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or in cases where processing your data serves litigation purposes.

The requirements of the GDPR, the German Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”) and any further legal norms applying are complied with concerning the processing of your personal data. The legal basis for data processing does especially originate from Art. 6 GDPR.

Being a Company specializing in industrial services, we process your data to initiate business relationships, to comply with legal and contractual obligations, to execute contracts, to offer products and services as well as to strengthen the customer-relationship, which may include analyses for marketing and direct marketing purposes.

Your consent to data processing may also constitute a permission requirement under data protection law. In this case, we will inform you in advance about the purposes of the data processing and about your right of revocation. Should your consent also affect special categories of personal data, we will expressly inform you hereon.

Several personal data is required to initiate, execute and terminate contractual relationships and/or to comply with contractual and legal obligations related hereto. The same applies to the use of our websites and their functions.

In certain cases, data is required to be processed for legal reasons. Please note, that it may not be possible to answer your request or to execute a contract if certain data is not provided.

We currently do not use any fully automated processing to file any decision with legal effect on data subjects.

The context determines which data we process: this depends on whether, for example, you enter a general inquiry in our contact form, send us an application or make an inquiry about our services. Please note that we may also provide information separately in a suitable place for special processing situations, e.g. when uploading application documents.

When you visit our website, we may process the following data:

• Internet Service Provider´s name
• Information on the referrer-URL (the website, you are visiting us from)
• The IP-address you were attached by your Internet Service Provider
• Data requested, amount of data transferred, downloads, exported data
• Information on the context visited on our pages (including date and time)

For reasons of technical security (especially to defend against attack-attempts), this data is stored in accordance with Art. 6 I 1 f GDPR. After seven days latest, anonymization is executed by shortening the IP-address which does not allow for a link to the single user. Please consider the separate information on web tracking-tools below.

Concerning advertising measures, we may process the following data:
 

Address- and contact data, depending on the campaign respectively the communication channel (Postal letters, E-Mail, etc.). Please consider our separate information on ads below.
 

Concerning a contact request, we may process the following data: Name, contact data (e.g. e-mail-address) as well as information on your preferences and interests. Please consider our separate information on contact requests.

Concerning online-job-applications:
 

Please consider the specific privacy information, which is not covered by this website privacy-statement, but moreover provided within a suitable instance.

When you decide to participate in an online seminar:

• Name, Surname
• E-mail-address

Upon signing up for our online seminars, you will be sent a link which you need to follow to participate. Our online seminars are realized with a partner, who may apply his own privacy policy in addition. Such privacy policy may be accessed through the online-seminar-portal itself. We have concluded the required data protection contracts with our partner for compliance with the GDPR. When signing up for an online seminar, you may also decide to opt-in to our newsletter. We allow to refer to the according section of our privacy policy in this regard.

In the context of whitepaper marketing:  

On our website, we offer the opportunity to receive services such as access to whitepapers. We offer these services directly via our website and via our company profile on LinkedIn. We may process the following data as part of such a whitepaper campaign: Name, e-mail address. In the case of a request via our website, the data is collected directly from you; in the case of a request via LinkedIn, we receive the data via LinkedIn. Information on LinkedIn can be found under the paragraph "Information on data protection in social media".  

Within our company we ensure that only persons requiring data to fulfil their contractual obligations are provided data for this purpose. Where data is transferred within our group of companies, such is executed in consideration of the applicable law, which does also apply for international data transfer.

In addition, our corporate departments are supported by external suppliers. Every supplier processing personal data (customers, employees, applicants) on our behalf, is bound by the required data protection contractual framework.

A transfer of data to third countries (outside the European Union respectively the European Economic Area) is executed only if such is required for reasons of a contractual obligation, legally mandatory or in case you have provided you explicit consent. 

Personal data is transferred as well to external suppliers as well as to further group companies, which may be located outside the EU, e.g. in the US, Brazil, India or China. A summary on the Leadec-locations is available on our website.

Compliance with the level of data protection is primarily ensured by an appropriate contractual framework under data protection law, e.g. EU standard contractual clauses.

Your data will be transferred to third parties if legally permissible or upon consent declared. In further cases, a transfer of personal data to third parties is executed only, if we are obliged to do so by compulsory law (Transfer to external entities as e.g. data protection supervisory authorities or instances of criminal prosecution).

Your data is stored as long as required for the underlying processing purpose. Please note, that several retention obligations require us to store data even longer. That does especially mean commercial or taxational retention obligations (e.g. tax and commercial legislation).

If no further no further retention obligation exists, data is deleted when the processing purpose is achieved. Beyond this, a longer retention is executed only if you declared your consent or if we need to do so for litigation purposes. Please do also consider legally defined limitation periods which may last for up to thirty years, where the general limitation period is three years.

To protect the data we process best against incidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorized access, we have implemented according technical and organizational security measures. Together with security experts, the security levels are subject to continuous monitoring and adjustment.

Data transfer to and from our website is encrypted each. As a transfer protocol, https is used for our website, where the current encryption protocols are used. Additionally, we are offering our users encrypted transfer options concerning our contact forms and job applications. Additionally, you may use further communication channels (such as e.g. by post).

Leadec is interested in maintain our customer relationship with you and to provide you information and offers concerning our products, services, activities, events and company news. Therefore, we are processing your data to the permissible extent, for sending you according information and offers.

If you should not wish to be addressed by such content, you are entitled to contradict the processing of your personal data for purposes of direct marketing; Such would also apply for a profiling, if such would be related to direct marketing. Should you declare to contradict as before, we will no longer use your data for the according purposes.

Contradiction may be declared without requiring any special form and free of charge, but should be addressed to dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com or by postal letter to Leadec Holding BV & Co. KG, Meitnerstraße 11, 70563 Stuttgart, at the best.

Our website offers a contact form, which may be used to contact us electronically. Should you launch an inquiry via the contact form, we will process the data you enter into the contact form to contact you concerning your inquiry.

The principle of data minimization is complied with, as you are required to enter only the data objectively required to contacting you. Such is your name, email-address as well as your message.

In addition, your IP-Address is processed for reasons of technical requirement and legal protection. Any further data may be provided on a voluntary basis and optionally (e.g. to reply more individually to your request).

Should you turn to us by email, we will process the data you submit this way solely for the purpose and term of replying to your inquiry. Should you not make use of the contact forms offered, no further processing is executed.

On our website you will find our web-to-lead contact form, which can be used to contact us electronically. If you write to us via the contact form, we will process the data you provide in the contact form to contact you and answer your questions and requests. In order to be able to answer your questions in a more individualized manner, further information about you and your request is necessary here: 

- Personal information (title, first name, last name) for the purpose of personal address.
- Location (country, city/region) is required in order to assign the inquiry to the corresponding regional sales units so that a contact person in your vicinity can get in touch with you about your request.
- Business information (company, position, department) is used to determine from which company and from which professional interest the inquiry comes, so that industry-specific aspects can also be taken into account in the response, for example.
- Contact options (e-mail, telephone) for the purpose of establishing contact; depending on the complexity of the inquiry, it may also be necessary to contact us by telephone
- Interest/request (interest in; message), so that you can inform us of your request.

In addition, your IP address is processed for technical necessity as well as for legal protection. All other data are voluntary fields and can be provided optionally (e.g. to answer your questions more individually).

If you contact us via this contact form, we will first ask you for your consent within the scope of the double opt-in that your data is also stored for a longer period of time for the purpose of processing the inquiries.

In order to protect the security and confidentiality of your data as best as possible, we implement appropriate security measures. Your request will be transmitted to us in encrypted form.
If you withdraw your consent, we will of course anonymize your personal data immediately. If there has been no contact with you for a longer period of time, your data will be anonymized after 500 days.

If you should not already receive our newsletter as an existing customer, you may subscribe to our free newsletter on our website. The email-address entered upon registration as well as your name and surname will be processed for sending you our personal newsletter.

The principle of data minimization is complied with, as solely your email-address, name and surname are marked as mandatory information.

Concerning the subscription to our newsletter, we are basically making use of the so called double-opt-in-process. This process safeguards that you will regularly receive our newsletter solely upon having expressly declared your interest in receiving the newsletter. Such is realized as you are sent a notification-message, which contains a link you may click to declare your will in receiving our newsletter to the mailbox the notification-message was sent to.

Your subscription may, of course, be terminated anytime by using the unsubscribe-option embedded to each single newsletter. This, at the same time, means that you revoke your consent into receiving our advertising mailings with effect for the future. Additionally, you may unsubscribe by sending a notification to dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com.

The processing mentioned in this section is based on Art. 6 I 1 a respectively f GDPR, Section 7 III UWG (German Federal Code on Competition). You are free to exercise your rights as a data subject any time. In case of inquiries, please contact us through dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com.

Privacy information concerning job applicants may be found on a separate website: Privacy information concerning the application process.

Our website uses so-called cookies. They serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal device and that your browser stores (locally). Cookies contain only pseudonymous, usually even anonymous data. Some cookies remain for the duration of a browser session (so-called session cookies), others are stored for a longer period of time (so-called persistent cookies, e.g. Consent settings). The latter are automatically deleted after the respective specified time. In addition to our own cookies, we also use cookies that are controlled by third-party providers. These use the information contained in the cookies, for example, to display content to you or to record the pages you visit. 

Based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f EU-DS-GVO), we set technically necessary cookies, which are mandatory for the operation of the website and to ensure its functionality. Furthermore, we use cookies without your consent insofar as their sole purpose is the storage of or access to information stored in the terminal device for the transmission of messages or these are absolutely necessary in order to be able to provide the service expressly requested by you, § 25 para. 2 TDDDG.

Assuming your consent, further cookies are used, by means of which it is possible for us or third parties, for example, to evaluate how our services are used. This allows us to design the content according to user needs. In addition, the cookies enable us to measure the effectiveness of a particular advertisement and to have it placed, for example, depending on the thematic user interests. The legal basis for this is your express consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a EU-DS-GVO, § 25 para. 1 TDDDG).

You can revoke your consent via our Consent banner at any time with effect for the future and change the cookie settings. Please note that changes must be made separately for each end device.
https://www.leadec-services.com#cmpscreencustom

If you maintain accounts with the third-party providers we use and are logged in there, your data may be linked to the respective account. You can avoid such a combination by not granting or revoking your consent to the relevant cookies or by logging out of the respective third-party providers in advance. 
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can also deactivate, restrict or delete cookies on your end device manually via your browser settings or software-supported. If you deactivate the setting of cookies, the full use of our website is not possible or only possible to a limited extent. 
Please also note our instructions in the section of the respective service that uses cookies.

etracker

The operator of this website uses services provided by the etracker GmbH of Hamburg, Germany (www.etracker.com) to analyze usage data. For this purpose, cookies are used which enable for a statistical evaluation of the user´s interaction with the website. Cookies are small text files, which are placed on the user´s device. etracker-cookies do not contain information which would allow to identify the single user.

Where visitor´s data is stored, especially the IP-addresses, device- and domain-data will be stored in shortened form respectively encrypted, which does not allow to draw conclusions concerning the users´ identity. Another use, connection to further data or transfer to third parties is not executed by etracker.

Data produced via etracker is processed by etracker on our behalf and solely in Germany, which makes that data subject to the strict German and European legislation and standards on privacy. These cookies are deleted after 720 days.

Data processing concerning etracker is based on Art. 6 I 1 a GDPR and requires your explicit consent.

You may revoke your consent with effect for the future anytime. To do so, just browse our consent banner and unselect the according cookie(s). Please consider, that such changes require to be made for each device separately.

Privacy settings

Further information on etracker´s privacy may be accessed through www.etracker.com/datenschutz.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon house, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so called “cookies”, text file, which are stored on your device and which allow us to analyze how you are using our website. By activating the IP-anonymization on our website, your IP-address is shortened before such transfer and still within the EU member-states or the member states to the European Economic Area. We point out that for this purpose on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp" to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate the website usage, to compose reports on the website activities and to provide further services in regard of the website usage and the internet usage in favor of the operator of this website. The IP-address transferred in regard of Google Analytics, due to Google, is not merged with further data.

Sessions and campaigns are terminated after a certain period. Sessions are terminated after 30 minutes of inactivity and campaigns are terminated after six months, both by default. The user´s personal data is deleted or anonymized after 2 months.

Further information on Google´s terms of use and privacy at Google is available through https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

You may prevent these cookies from storing the data mentioned by respective browser settings; However, we shall mention that such may result in a (partial) unavailability of certain website functions.

Moreover, you may prevent Google from collecting the website-use-related data created by the cookie (inclusively of your IP-Address) by downloading and installing the browser-plugin which is available through:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]. 

You are free to revoke your consent any time with effect for the future. For this purpose, just browse our consent banner and unselect the respective cookie(s). Please consider, that such changes require to be made for each device separately.

Privacy settings

We have concluded an order processing agreement with Google for the use of Google Analytics, which obliges Google to protect the data of our site visitors and not to pass it on to third parties. This service may transfer the collected data to another country. Please note that this service may transfer data outside the European Union and the European Economic Area and to a country that does not provide an adequate level of data protection. If the data is transferred to the U.S., there is a risk that your data may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without any possible legal remedy available to you. However, we take the possible measures necessary under data protection law in accordance with Art. 44 et seq. EU-DS-GVO to establish the level of data protection in the third country. In this respect, your consent for the use of Google Analytics also constitutes consent pursuant to Art. 49 (1) p. 1 lit. a EU-DS-GVO to a transfer of personal data to a third country outside the EU / EEA. In particular, Google LLC has been certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for data transfers out of the EU, which insofar certifies Google an adequate level of data protection from an EU perspective.

We are using Google Analytics to evaluate data originating from Google Ads Conversion, Google Ad Manager (please see the sections to follow in Google Ads Conversion and Google Ad Manager) as well as data originating from the Google advertising functions for purposes of statistics. You may deactivate such via the ads-setting manager (https://www.google.de/settings/ads or https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=de). 

This website uses the online marketing program Google Ads of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Out of the scope of Google Ads, we are using the so-called conversion tracking. The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent, Art. 6 I 1 a GDPR.

Whenever you are klicking a Google-placed ad, a cookie for conversion tracking is placed. These ads are delivered by Google through so called “ad servers”. Cookies are small text files, the internet browser places on the user´s device. These Cookies are becoming invalid after 30 days and do not provide for a personal user-identification. If a user visits certain parts of this website with the cookie not yet having expired, Google and us may identify the circumstance that the user has clicked the ad and was redirected to this website. Each Google Ads customer is issued a different cookie. These cookies cannot be tracked via a Google Ads´ customers´ website. The information collected by use of the conversion cookie is made use of for purposes of creating conversion statistics for Google Ads customers, who decided in favor of conversion tracking. The customers are provided information on the number of customers who have clicked their ads and who were redirected to a conversion-tag-equipped website. The cookies, however, do not contain any information which would allow for an identification of a single user.

More information on Google Ads ad Google Conversion Tracking may be accessed through Googles Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/. You may choose browser settings which will issue an information whenever a cookie is placed and to allow cookies in single cases only, to prevent cookies from being accepted in general or in certain cases or activate the auto-deletion of cookies upon terminating a browser-session. However, deactivating cookies may result in the (partial) unavailability of certain website-functions.

You are free to revoke your consent any time with effect for the future. For this purpose, just browse our consent banner and unselect the respective cookie(s). Please consider, that such changes require to be made for each device separately.

Privacy settings

In addition, you may install the Google-provided plug-in which is accessible through: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.

Further information on how Google uses data on settings and options to contradict a processing may be accessed via Google´s privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads), as well as via Google´s settings for the placing of ads (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

We are using the remarketing functions offered by Google Ads. That enables us to show our websites´ users interest-related ads on further websites within the Google Advertising Network (e.g. within Google Search or on YouTube). For this purpose, your interaction with our site is evaluated, meaning which sites you are interested in, to enable us showing you ads, you might be interested in also on further websites. For this purpose, Google stores cookies on the device you visit Google Services or websites within the Google Advertising Network with. These cookies use to identify your visit to these websites. However, these cookies are solely identifying the web browser in a certain device, while they do not identify a certain person, mean you personally as a user.

For reasons of the tools described, your browser will automatically establish a direct connection to Google-servers, which may be located outside the EU (within the US). We may not influence the scope or the further use of your data, which is collected by Google through this tool. To the extent of our knowledge, Google via Ads Conversion receives information on whether you surfed a certain website content or clicked one out of our ads. Should you be registered with a Google-service, Google may be able to link your visit to your account(s). However, it may be possible that Google might identify and process personals data of yours (such as e.g. your IP-Address), even if you do not have a Google account or if you have a Google account, but are currently not logged into it.

General information on cookies may be found in the “cookies”-section of this privacy statement. Information on data protection at Google is available through: http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy. You may prevent being tracked alternatively by:

• Setting your browser to suppression of third party cookies. You will then no longer receive third party ads.
• Installing the Google-plugin available through: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin
• Deactivating ads of advertisers being members to self-regulation-campaign “about ads” through http://www.aboutads.info/choices(where you should consider, that this setting will be deleted itself upon deleting cookies)
• Permanently deactivating third party cookies within your browsers Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome through http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin
• Waiving your consent within our consent-management-tool “consentmanager”

If you should decide in favor of one out these options, you may not or just partially be able to use all of the functions our website offers.

The legal basis for the processing described is your consent, Art. 6 I 1 a GDPR. You are free to revoke your consent any time with effect for the future. For this purpose, just browse our consent banner and unselect the respective cookie(s). Please consider, that such changes require to be made for each device separately.

As far as Google Ad Manager, a web-advertising-service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”) places ads (text-ads, banners, etc.) on this website, your browser may store a cookie issued by Google Inc. or by a further party. The information stored in this cookie may be recorded, collected and evaluated by Google Inc. or these further parties.

Moreover, Google Ad Manager may use so called (re)marketing-tags (invisible graphs, which are also named web-beacons) for the purpose of collecting information. By use of these tags, the websites´ visitor traffic can be recorded and evaluated.

The legal basis for this processing is your consent, Art. 6 I 1 a GDPR.

The information on your use of this website through the cookie and/ or the remarketing Tag may be transferred to and stored on a Google server in the US.

Google is using the information collected this way to evaluate your behavior as a user concerning the Google Ad Manager ads. Google will additionally transfer that information to third parties, where such is legally mandatory or where Google employees third parties as data processors.

Should you be registered with any Google service, Google may assign your visit to your Google account(s).

You may contradict against this tracking: You my set your browser to informing you upon the event of a cookie being placed on your device or allow cookies in single cases only, exclude accepting cookies for certain cases or in general or activate auto-deletion of cookies upon termination of a browser-session. Please consider that deactivating cookies may restrict this websites´ functionality.

Additionally, you may consider installing the Google-provided plugin which is available through: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin

You are free to revoke your consent any time with effect for the future. For this purpose, just browse our consent banner and unselect the respective cookie(s). Please consider, that such changes require to be made for each device separately.

Privacy settings

Further information on how Google uses data, on settings and options to contradict a data processing are available through Google´s privacy statement (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads) as well as through Google´s settings for embedded ads (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

This website uses the Google Tag Manager. Through this service, website tags can be managed via an interface. The Tag Manager is necessary for the technical operation, through it the tags are controlled. The legal basis for the use of the Google Tag Manager is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO, § 25 para. 2 TTDDG . The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. This means: no cookies are used and no personal data is collected. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags, insofar as these are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.

Our website uses Google Maps (API), a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). We are using Google Maps through our service provider uberall.com to offer the functionality of a “Location finder”. Google Maps is a web-service to display interactive maps to visualize geographic information. If you make use of Google Maps, you may identify where we are located which makes finding us easier, when you visit us.

To prevent a transfer and storage of user data upon use of our website (such as your IP-address) to Google-US-servers yet upon surfing the sub-pages on which the Google Maps are embedded, we are making use of the so called- two-click-solution. All Google Maps are deactivated by default. A direct link to Google Maps will not be established before you explicitly activate Google Maps. By klicking, you declare your consent into the transfer of your data to Google Maps as well as into the respective cookies being placed in your browser.

You may renew your consent pursuant to Art. 6 I 1 a GDPR concerning single Maps and geographic information anytime.

Detailed privacy information concerning the use of Google Maps is available through Google´s website (“Google Privacy Policy”): http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

This website uses the content delivery network (CDN) Cloudfront. This is a service of Amazon Web Services Inc, 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210. The Cloudfront CDN provides duplicates of data of a website on various Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers distributed worldwide. This provides faster website load times, increased resiliency, and increased protection against data loss. Some of the images and videos embedded on this website are retrieved from Cloudfront CDN when the page is accessed. Through this retrieval, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Amazon's servers in other EU countries and stored there. This happens as soon as you enter our website. The use of Amazon Web Services and the Amazon CDN Cloudfront is done in the interest of a higher reliability of the website, increased protection against data loss and a better loading speed of this website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, § 25 para. 2 TDDDG. Information on data protection measures and the privacy policy of Amazon Web Service can be found at: https://aws.amazon.com/de/privacy/  

This service may transfer the collected data to another country. Please note that this service may transfer data outside the European Union and the European Economic Area and to a country that does not provide an adequate level of data protection. If the data is transferred to the U.S., there is a risk that your data may be processed by U.S. authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without any possible legal remedy available to you. However, we take the possible measures necessary under data protection law in accordance with Art. 44 et seq. DS-GVO to establish the level of data protection in the third country.

We have implemented the consent-management-tool “consentmanager” (www.consentmanager.net) of Jaohawi AB (Håltgelvågen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden, info@consentmanager.net) on our website to request consent concerning the processing of data respectively the use of cookies or the like functions. “Consentmanager” offers you the option to declare your consent into certain functions offered by our website, e.g. for the purpose of embedding external elements, a statistical analysis, conversion tracking and individual ads or in the opposite to not consenting. With “consentmanager”, you may declare your consent into the complete scope of functions, to not consenting or to consent into single processing purposes or functions. You may change your setting anytime. The purpose for which we embedded “consentmanager” is to enable our users to decide on the processing activities mentioned before and to change their individual setting in accordance to their preferences anytime. To change your settings, please use:

https://www.leadec-services.com#cmpscreencustom

Upon the use of “consentmanager”, personal data as well as information related to the device (such as e.g. the IP-address) is processed. To remember your settings, a cookie is placed on your device. This cookie is technically required to operate the website.

The legal basis for the processing mentioned is Art. 6 I 1 c, as is Art. 6 I 1 f alternatively. “consentmanager” is used to comply with our legal obligation (such as e.g. the accountability-requirements). Our legitimate interest in processing is to store our user’s settings and preferences concerning the use of cookies and further functions. “consentmanager” stores your data as long as your user-settings are active, for two years at the longest. Two years after your settings were made, your consent is requested again. Should you declare your consent upon such request, it may be stored for another period of two subsequent years.

You may contradict to this processing. Your right to contradiction is present for reasons which result from your particular situation. To declare a contradiction, please turn to dataprivacy.DE(at)leadec-services.com by e-mail.

We are embedding videos of “YouTube”, a platform of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland into our web presence. These videos are embedded using the extended privacy mode.

Embedding videos in extended privacy mode means, that no cookies are placed which would require your consent or for tracking your behavior as a user and to personalize the video playback. However, the extended privacy mode does solely affect the tracking of the users´ behavior, but not the presentation of ads or the loading of further third-party-content.

To protect your data, we are using the two-click-solution. All YouTube content is deactivated by default. A direct connection to the YouTube-servers will not be established before you activate YouTube yourself. In doing so, you consent into the transfer of e.g. your IP-Address, the referrer-URL (meaning the website from which you surfed our site) and browser data to YouTube and also into the placing of cookies within your browser. That data usually is transferred to an US-server and stored there.

You may renew your consent (as per Art. 6 I 1 a GDPR) into the download of each single video anytime.

Further information on purposes an extent of the processing of your data at YouTube may be accessed through Google´s Privacy Policy. There, you will find further information on your rights as a data subject as well as on optional setting to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. German language

On our website you will find links to the social media services of LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. You can recognize links to the websites of the social media services by the respective company logo. If you follow these links, you will reach Leadec's corporate presence on the respective social media service. When you click on a link to a social media service, a connection to the servers of the social media service is established. This transmits to the servers of the social media service that you have visited our website. In addition, further data is transmitted to the provider of the social media service. These are, for example:

- Address of the website on which the activated link is located.
- Date and time when the website was called up or the link was activated
- Information about the browser and operating system used
- IP address

If you are already logged in to the corresponding social media service at the time the link is activated, the provider of the social media service may be able to determine your user name and possibly even your real name from the transmitted data and assign this information to your personal user account with the social media service. You can exclude this possibility of assignment to your personal user account if you log out of your user account beforehand.
The servers of the social media services are located in the USA and other countries outside the European Union. The data may therefore be processed by the provider of the social media service in countries outside the European Union. Please note that companies in these countries are subject to data protection laws that do not generally protect personal data to the same extent as they do in the member states of the European Union.
Please note that we have no influence on the scope, type and purpose of the data processing by the provider of the social media service. For more information on the use of your data by the social media services integrated on our website, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective social media service.
 

Leadec Holding BV & Co. KG maintains various presences in the "social media", presently Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing and YouTube, in order to communicate with the customers, interested parties and users registered there and to be able to inform them about our offers there. Insofar as we have control over the processing of your data, we ensure that the applicable data protection regulations are complied with.

In the following, you will find the most important information on data protection law with regard to our websites.

Name and address of the person responsible for the company

Responsible for the company appearances in terms of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-DS-GVO) and other data protection regulations is, in addition to the company Leadec Holding BV & Co. KG the

- Facebook

(Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland).

- Instagram

(Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland)

- LinkedIn

            (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland)

- Twitter

(Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland)

- Xing

            (New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany)

- Youtube

            (Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland)

We would like to point out that the use of these platforms with the functions they provide is your own responsibility. This applies in particular to your specific usage behavior on our site. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, rating).

We would also like to point out that your data may be processed outside the European Union.

Purpose and legal basis

We ourselves maintain the fan pages in order to communicate with visitors to these pages and to inform them about our offers in this way.

Furthermore, we collect data for statistical purposes in order to be able to further develop and optimize the content and to make our offer more attractive. The data required for this purpose (e.g. total number of page views, page activity and data provided by visitors, interactions) are processed by the social networks and made available to us. We have no influence on the generation and presentation.

In addition, your data may be processed for market research and advertising purposes. For example, usage profiles can be created from your usage behavior and the resulting interests. This allows, for example, advertisements to be placed within and outside the platforms that presumably correspond to your interests. Cookies are usually stored on your computer for this purpose. Independently of this, data that is not collected directly from your end devices may also be stored in the usage profiles (in particular, but not exclusively, if you are a member of the respective platforms and logged in to them).

Beyond that, we do not collect or process any personal data from your use of our service.

The processing of users' personal data is based on our legitimate interests in effective information and communication pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. EU-DS-GVO. If you are asked for consent to data processing (i.e. declare your consent, e.g. by selecting a checkbox or confirming a button), the legal basis of the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 lit. a.EU-DS-GVO.

Your rights / option to object
If you are a member of a social network and do not want the network to collect data about you via our website and link it to your stored membership data with the respective network, you must
- log out of the respective network before visiting our website
- delete the cookies stored on your device and
- close and restart your browser.

After logging in again, however, you will once more be recognizable to the network as a specific user.

For a detailed description of the respective processing and the opt-out options, please refer to the information of the providers linked below: 
- Facebook 
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ ;
Opt-out: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads  and 
http://www.youronlinechoices.com ;
- Instagram 
Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 ;
Opt-out: optout.networkadvertising.org/ and 
http://www.youronlinechoices.com ;
- LinkedIn 
Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy ;
Opt-out: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy  and 
http://www.youronlinechoices.com ;
- Twitter
Privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy ;
Opt-out: http://www.youronlinechoices.com ; Settings: https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization ;
- Xing 
Privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung ;
Opt-out: http://www.youronlinechoices.com .
- Youtube 
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy ;
Opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de  and 
http://www.youronlinechoices.com ;

Overall, you have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data: 
Right of access; Right to rectification; Right to erasure; Right to restriction of processing; Right to object; Right to data portability; Right to complain about unlawful processing of your personal data to the competent data protection authority.

However, after the company Leadec Holding BV & Co. KG does not have complete access to your personal data, you should contact the providers of the social media directly when asserting your rights, as they each have access to the personal data of their users and can take appropriate measures and provide information. 

If you still require assistance, then you can contact us at any time.

Our website does –clearly visible- contain links to third party´s websites. Where links to such websites are implemented, we may not influence the linked site´s content. Therefore, we cannot accept any responsibility or liability for such content. The party solely responsible ad liable for such content is the respective operator.

The sites linked have been checked for potential violations of the law as well as on recognizable violations of the law in the moment of linking them. However, no such content was identified. A permanent control of a linked website´s content is unreasonable in the absence of actual indication of a violation of the law. Should any violation of the law become identifiable, we will immediately remove the respective link.

Should you intend to publish any pictures, text, plans, videos, music or the like on our website, please be informed that such may mean a transfer of the whole usage rights hereto to the underlying network, which may result in legal consequences if you are not the legitimate holder of the corresponding copyright(s).