Data protection

The responsible body in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Alvern Media GmbH

Daimlerstraße 71c
22761 Hamburg

Fon +49 (0) 40 639063 0
Fax +49 (0) 40 639063 63

info @ alvern.de

Geschaftsführer:
Sven Wucherpfennig

Sitz der Gesellschaft:
22761 Hamburg

Amtsgericht Hamburg
HRB 83086
USt-IdNr. DE222449367

Your rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer using the contact details provided:

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing,
  • Correction of incorrect personal data,
  • Deletion of your data stored by us,
  • Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us and
  • data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time.

Your competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your residence, your place of work or the alleged infringement. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated.

We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent,
  • processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
  • processing is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation,
  • processing is necessary for the protection of legitimate interests
  • and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest in the non-disclosure of your data.

Web hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host’s servers. This may include IP addresses, contact enquiries, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website. The host is used in the interests of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and will comply with our instructions regarding this data. We use the following host:

mbk networks GmbH

Waidmannstr. 16

22769 Hamburg

Information on data protection and the legal framework of mbk networks is available at the following link: https://www.mbk-networks.com/datenschutzerklaerung/

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as required by the various storage periods provided for by law. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or these periods have expired, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when you visit our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar information. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the content you have requested from websites and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection to the website
  • Ensuring the smooth use of our website
  • Evaluating system security and stability
  • For other administrative purposes

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. The recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, contract processors.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called ‘cookies’. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data such as your IP address, the browser you are using, your operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to facilitate your navigation and ensure that our web pages are displayed correctly.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are usually set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Registration on our website

When you register to use our personalised services, we collect some personal data, such as your name, address, contact and communication details, such as your telephone number and email address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided during registration at any time. Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will also be happy to correct or delete this data at your request, provided that there are no legal obligations to retain it. To contact us in this regard, please use the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Comment function

When users leave comments on our website, the time of creation and the username previously selected by the website visitor are stored in addition to this information. This is for our security, as we can be held liable for illegal content on our website, even if it was created by users.

Newsletter

Based on your express consent, we will regularly send you our newsletter or similar information by email to the email address you provided.

Your email address is sufficient to receive the newsletter. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by email about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (e.g. changes to the newsletter offer or technical information).

For effective registration, we require a valid email address. To verify that a registration has actually been made by the owner of an email address, we use the ‘double opt-in’ procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email and the receipt of the response requested therein. No further data is collected. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter and is not passed on to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. Each newsletter contains a link for this purpose. You can also unsubscribe directly on this website at any time or inform us of your wish to do so using the contact details provided at the end of this privacy policy.

Contact

If you contact us by email or via the contact form with questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid email address. This is used to assign the enquiry and subsequently respond to it. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and for any follow-up questions. Once your enquiry has been dealt with, your personal data will be automatically deleted.

Applications

We offer you the opportunity to apply for a position with us (e.g. by email or post). Below, we provide information about the scope, purpose and use of your personal data collected during the application process. We assure you that your data will be collected, processed and used in accordance with applicable data protection law and all other legal provisions and that your data will be treated as strictly confidential.  If you send us an application, we will process your associated personal data (e.g. contact and communication data, application documents, notes made during job interviews, etc.) to the extent necessary to decide whether to establish an employment relationship. The legal basis for this is Section 26 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) (initiation of an employment relationship), Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR (general contract initiation) and – if you have given your consent – Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. Consent can be revoked at any time. Your personal data will only be passed on within our company to persons involved in processing your application.

If your application is successful, the data you submit will be stored in our data processing systems on the basis of Section 26 BDSG and Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR for the purpose of implementing the employment relationship. If we are unable to offer you a position, you decline a job offer or withdraw your application, we reserve the right to store the data you have provided on the basis of our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) for up to 6 months from the end of the application process (rejection or withdrawal of the application). The data will then be deleted and the physical application documents destroyed. The storage serves in particular for verification purposes in the event of a legal dispute. If it is apparent that the data will be required after the expiry of the 6-month period (e.g. due to an impending or pending legal dispute), deletion will only take place when the purpose for further storage no longer applies.

Longer storage may also take place if you have given your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or if statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, further related services are then to be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly;

however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics.

In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent Google Analytics from tracking you on our pages by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Social media

We create online presences within social networks in order to communicate with interested parties and users who are active there and to inform them about us. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

User data may be processed by the operator of the social media portal (service provider) outside the European Union. This may entail risks for users, as it could, for example, make it more difficult to enforce their rights.

Below, we provide information about how we process your personal data within the scope of our online presence. In its ruling of 5 June 2018, the European Court of Justice confirmed the joint responsibility of service providers and website operators.

The social media page you are visiting offers you the opportunity to respond to our posts, comment on them, create your own user posts and send us private messages with personal requests. The data you provide in this context and to which we may have access (e.g. user name, images, interests, contact details) will be used by us exclusively for the purpose of customer and interest communication. Our interest lies in providing you with a platform where we can display current information and where you can send us your enquiries so that we can respond to them as quickly as possible.

Our website contains links to social networks. The links are identified by the logos of the respective networks. Only when you click on these links does your browser establish a connection with the service providers’ servers and redirect you to their social media portal.

We do not process any data beyond the basic functions of the site.

Please note, however, that the service provider may use tracking tools and cookies regardless of our use of the site and that data may be collected even if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal.

For a detailed description of the respective processing and the options for objection (opt-out), we refer you to the information provided by the providers we use. In the event of requests for information and the assertion of user rights, we would also like to point out that these can be most effectively asserted with the providers. Only the providers have access to the user data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly. However, if you require assistance, please contact us. We operate the following websites:

LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland) – Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy,

Opt-out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

VIA Consult GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Hanni Koch
Kurfürst-Heinrich-Straße 10
57462 Olpe/Biggesee
Tel.: 02761/83668-0
E-Mail: alvern.datenschutz@via-consult.de

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