Privacy Policy

A definition of the term “personal data” can be found in the GDPR. According to this definition, it includes all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your real name, your telephone number, or your birth date.

In general, the use of our website does not require you to give any personal data. But whenever this website is visited, our web server creates so-called log files. The data stored in these log files includes:

- The IP address of the requesting computer (including the geographic location)
- The website from which the file was requested (referrer URL)
- Access date and time of the server request including the length of visit
- Browser type and settings
- Operating system
- the page you have visited (file name and URL)
- the data volume to be transmitted
- Access status (file transmitted etc.)

This data will only be collected for statistical purposes. Data will not be transferred to third parties, either for commercial or non-commercial purposes. We will also at no point merge this information with data from other sources. We collect and process this data in order to enable the use of this website in the first place and to adapt it to the users’ preferences and on the basis of section 6, para. 1, page 1 lit. f.) GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to provide you with a website featuring all functions including its ongoing optimization.

This data stored in the server log files will only be on file for a limited period of time and deleted at regular intervals after 30 days.

We reserve the right to perform a retrospective review of this data whenever we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use. This review will only serve the purpose of exposing and preventing unlawful use of our website on the basis of section 6, para. 1, page 1, lit. f) GDPR. It is in our legitimate interest to ensure the data security of our offer and to prevent any improper use.

We collect or process personal data only when such information is voluntarily provided to us, e.g., transmitted relating to a request for quotation. In this event, your information from the request for quotation and the contact data you have provided in order to fulfill the purpose intended by transmitting the data, e.g. in order to process our request and for any further questions. Storage and use of this personal data is section 6, para. 1, page 1, lit. b) GDPR provided that you enter this personal data for the purpose of entering a business relationship with us. This is the only time when entering your personal data is required within the meaning of section 13, para. 2 lit. e) GDPR. In all other cases, storage and use will take place on the basis of section 6, para.1, page 1 lit. f) GDPR, where it is in our legitimate interest to carefully process your request.

If you place an order with us for rendering a service or if we use your services, we only collect, store and use your personal data to the extent where this is necessary for the provision of the service or the performance of the contract. The associated processing of data is in compliance with the legal basis of section 6, para. 1, page 1, lit. b) GDPR. This may also entail the necessity of passing on your personal information to companies we use for the provision of the service or performance of the contract. These may include transport companies or other service providers. Such transmission to the service providers we hire is also done on the legal basis of section 6, para. 1, page 1, lit. b) GDPR.

In all cases where data processing as described above serves the performance of the contract, the provision of your personal data is needed for the execution of the contract (see section 13, para. 2, 2 lit. e) GDPR). Without your personal data, we will be unable to properly perform the contract.

The personal information you provide to us during your job application (usually cover letter and supporting documents, such as certificates, collectively referred to as “application documents”) will only be stored and used while processing the application. We use the service provider rexx Systems GmbH Headquarters, Süderstraße 75-79, 20097 Hamburg, Germany, to carry out the application process and to organise applicants. If you are on our careers website and have given your comprehensive consent via the cookie banner, a connection may be established to the web analysis service Matomo (formerly Piwik) of the provider InnoCraft, 7 Waterloo Quay PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand, for the purpose of analysing the use of our careers website. The connection is established exclusively via our service provider rexx Systems GmbH. In particular, your IP address may be transmitted to InnoCraft's servers in New Zealand. For New Zealand, there is an adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR, so that a consistently high level of data protection is guaranteed when personal data is transferred to InnoCraft servers in New Zealand. Further information can be found in Matomo's privacy policy at https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/ and the GDPR information at https://matomo.org/gdpr-analytics/.

The following group of persons within Spectron Gas Control Systems GmbH will have access to your data: Employees in Human Resources, the responsible supervisor, and the works council. Should a follow-up interview be scheduled where you are to meet your future colleagues, these will receive a copy of your resume, so they can prepare for the meeting. All persons were sworn to maintain data secrecy and will treat your application as absolutely confidential.

Collection and processing of data during the application process for a job opening at Spectron Gas Control Systems GmbH will be performed in line with section 88 GDPR in connection with section 26, para. 1 S. 1 and papa. 3 German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). Should we continue to store your personal data after the completion of the application process for one more year in the context of our applicant tracking system, this will be done pursuant to section 6 para 1, page 1, lit. a) GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent which we will separately collect during the application process if required. In all other cases, your data (application information and interview results) will be deleted from our applicant tracking system at the end of the period of three months following the date on which the application period ends, provided that this is not prevented by legitimate reasons on our side.

On our website www.spectron.de we use the Consent Manager Cookiebot from the provider Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich (‘Usercentrics’). The use of the Usercentrics Consent Manager enables us to obtain, manage and document the consent of website users to the storage of or access to information on their end device and to the subsequent data processing. For this purpose, Usercentrics places cookies on the website visitor's end device. In particular, the date and time of the website visit, device information, browser information, the anonymised IP address, opt-in data and opt-out data are collected.
The legal basis for the use of the Consent Manager in the form of a cookie banner is § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TDDDG and Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) GDPR, as we thereby fulfil our legal obligation to obtain and document consent. You can revoke your consent at any time via the Consent Manager with effect for the future.
Your personal information will be stored for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes described above, i.e. we must be able to prove the existence of any consent you may have given.
Further information on the processing of data by Usercentrics can be found here: https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse your user interactions on our website. We use the statistics and reports obtained to improve our website and make it more interesting for you.
The information generated by cookies about your use of the website is usually transmitted by Google to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google Analytics also records the IP address of your end device in order to ensure the security of the service and to provide us as the website operator with information about the country, region or location from which the website is used (so-called ‘IP location determination’). We use Google Analytics exclusively with the extension ‘_anonymisehelp()’. By activating this extension for our website, your IP address will be truncated before being transmitted to a Google server in the USA within the member states of the EU or other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Google uses the information on our behalf to analyse your use of our website and to compile reports on website activity.

Google reserves the right to use the aforementioned data collected via Google Analytics for its own purposes in accordance with its own data protection regulations. The data may be stored by Google in user profiles and processed, for example, to improve products, to develop new products, to measure the effectiveness of certain advertising and market research and to personalise content and advertisements. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your user account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google user account, you must log out before activating Google Analytics. We have no influence on the further processing of your data by Google. You can find more information on this in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Further details on data processing in the context of Google Analytics are available at http://google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en/.

We would like to point out that the transfer of data to the USA could entail additional risks, for example, the enforcement of your rights to this data could be more difficult or certain US authorities could gain access to this data. For third country transfers of personal data to the USA, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework of the EU Commission provides an adequacy decision pursuant to Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR, which certifies that companies certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework have an adequate level of data protection within the meaning of the GDPR. Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List). A consistently high level of data protection is therefore guaranteed when data is transmitted to Google's servers in the USA.

We only activate Google Analytics if you consent to the use of cookies set by Google Analytics (i.e. the storage and reading of these cookies on your end device) and the subsequent processing of your data by Google Analytics. These consents therefore form the legal basis for the use of cookies (Section 25 (1) TDDDG) and for the processing of your data by Google Analytics (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR) on our website. You can revoke your previously granted consent at any time with effect for the future, for example by deselecting the ‘Marketing’ category in the cookie settings above.
Alternatively, you can also install the Google browser plugin to deactivate Google Analytics, which can be downloaded from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de/

With your consent, content (such as videos) from the YouTube service, which is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (‘Google’), is also integrated into our websites. This allows us to show you videos stored on YouTu-be.com directly on the website and enables you to play the videos conveniently.

If you visit one of our parts of the website with YouTube content and agree to the use of the YouTube service in our cookie settings, a connection to the YouTube or Google servers is established. The fact that you have visited our website, as well as your IP address, time stamp and other log data will be communicated. Google processes the data collected via YouTube for its own purposes and in accordance with its own privacy policy. The data may be stored by Google in user profiles and processed, for example, to improve products, to develop new products, to measure the effectiveness of certain advertising and market research and to personalise content and advertisements. If you are logged into your YouTube account, your data will be assigned directly to your user account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your YouTube or Google user account, you must log out before activating YouTube. We have no influence on the further processing of your data by Google. You can find more information on this in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
YouTube also analyses the views of the videos statistically and provides us with reports on these analyses, which, however, only contain general information on the views, such as the total number of views. In this respect, we do not receive any more detailed information about the individual persons concerned. We embed the videos in such a way that no cookies are set by YouTube to analyse user behaviour when you access the videos on our website (so-called ‘extended data protection mode’). We therefore assume that no more precise analysis of the behaviour of the data subjects is carried out as part of the analysis of video views by YouTube and that this cannot be assigned to individual persons. According to Google, the video view is also not used for further personalisation of YouTube content.

The aforementioned data may also be transmitted by Google to servers in the USA. This could give rise to additional risks, for example, it could be more difficult to enforce your rights to this data or certain US authorities could gain access to this data. As explained above, Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and is registered on the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List). A high level of data protection is therefore guaranteed throughout the transmission of data to Google's servers in the USA (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR).

We only activate YouTube if you consent to the use of cookies set by YouTube (i.e. the storage and reading of these cookies on your end device) and the processing of your data by YouTube and Google. These consents therefore form the legal basis for the use of cookies (Section 25 (1) TDDDG) and for the processing of your data by YouTube and Google (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR) on our website. You can revoke the consent you have already given at any time with effect for the future, for example by deselecting the ‘Marketing’ category in the cookie settings above.

In order to ensure sufficient data security when submitting forms, we use ‘Google reCAPTCHA’ (hereinafter ‘reCAP-TCHA’) on parts of our website. The provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (‘Google LLC’).

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data input on our website (e.g. in a contact form) is carried out by machine or automated processing. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA sets cookies and forwards the cookies and required information, including your IP address and time spent on the website, technical information about the browser used and any entries that reCAPTCHA prompts you to make, to Google LLC. If we collect data in this context, we only store and process it for as long as is necessary to check your data entry and generally delete it afterwards. We use reCAPTCHA exclusively to detect and prevent unlawful use of our website. Since the use of the cookies set by reCAPTCHA is absolutely necessary for the operation of the website, we are authorised to store the cookies on the end device used and to access them in accordance with Section 25 (2) No. 2 TDDDG. The data processing by reCAPTCHA is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to ensure the security of our web offers and to prevent their misuse for automated spying and SPAM. Data processing in connection with reCAPTCHA is also carried out by Google LLC with the help of European branches of Google LLC, for example Google Ireland Limited, within the EU. Insofar as the data is also transferred to the USA and processed there, Google LLC is also certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List), so that a consistently high level of data protection is guaranteed (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR, see above in the section on Google Analytics).

Further information on Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy with details on data processing in this regard can be found at the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en.

Use of Google Docs
We use the Google Docs service offered by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (‘Google’) to retrieve downloads, in particular for seminar registration. We use Google Docs as an online word processing tool to create online documents and retrieve them in real time. It is used to record registration data for seminars and facilitates our organisation by simplifying the release and access to documents as well as the simplified creation and editing of documents. When a Google Docs document is called up, the IP address and login data of the website visitor in particular are processed.
The legal basis for the use of Google Docs is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Google may also process the data on servers in the USA in order to carry out the processing. Since Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List), a consistently high level of data protection is guaranteed when data is transferred to Google servers in the USA (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR).

Google processes the content for its own purposes, including to improve user-friendliness. Further information on data processing by Google when using Google Docs can be found here: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/10381817?hl.  

Use of Cloudflare
We use the services of Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 Munich (‘Cloudflare’) on our website. We use Cloudflare's content delivery network to speed up the display of our content and our website. This shortens the loading time and improves the performance of the website. We also ensure that the website can be displayed reliably and stably in the event of increased requests. In this context, the IP address, information on the system configuration of the browser and traffic data as well as network data are passed on to Cloudflare.
The legal basis for the use of the Cloudflare service is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the security, stability and improved availability of content and redundancy when accessing the website. The retrieval of the IP address by Cloudflare is absolutely necessary in accordance with § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TDDDG in order to be able to display our website.

Cloudflare mainly uses servers in the European Economic Area or within the USA. In this respect, the aforementioned data may also be transferred by Cloudflare to servers in the USA. For data transfers to the USA, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework applies as an adequacy decision pursuant to Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR. Cloudflare Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List). This ensures a consistently high level of data protection when data is transferred to Cloudflare servers in the USA.
Further information on data processing by Cloudflare can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

We maintain online presences within social networks and process user data in this context in order to communicate with active users there or to provide information about us. This applies to our fan pages on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and our YouTube account.
We would like to point out that personal data may be processed outside the European Union on all online presences and that this could result in risks for users, for example because it could make it more difficult to enforce users' rights.
Furthermore, user data is also regularly processed within social networks for the platforms' own purposes, such as market research and advertising. For example, user profiles can be created based on user behaviour and the resulting interests of users. The usage profiles can be used to place adverts within and outside the respective network, among other things. For this purpose, cookies are usually stored on the user's end devices, which contain the user's usage behaviour and associated interests. This data can also be stored across devices. The respective providers of the social networks are responsible for this data processing under data protection law.

When you visit our profile on LinkedIn, which is offered by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (‘LinkedIn’), LinkedIn processes personal data in order to provide us with statistics and insights in anonymised form using analysis tools (so-called Page Insights). The data processed is data that you have already provided when registering or using LinkedIn. We have no influence on the use of such tools by LinkedIn and have not been informed of such potential use. We have the usage statistics made available to us in order to improve the posts published on LinkedIn and to make them as interesting as possible for users.
LinkedIn and we are joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR for the processing of personal data to compile these usage statistics.

In the Page Insights Joint Controller Addendum at https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum, LinkedIn and we have contractually defined which of us fulfils which obligations under the GDPR. It also describes which data is processed within the scope of joint responsibility.
You can find more information on data processing in LinkedIn's privacy policy: https://en.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?. You can find our fan page here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spectron-gas-control-systems-gmbh/

If you contact us via the LinkedIn page, e.g. by commenting on a post or writing a message via LinkedIn messages, we process your data (e.g. your name and the content of the communication) in order to process your request. The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to get in touch with you via our online presence, to reach many users and to inform them about our services.

In connection with the above-mentioned functions, LinkedIn may also transfer the processed data to servers outside the EU, in particular to LinkedIn Corp. in the USA, insofar as this is necessary for the provision of these services. LinkedIn Corp. is also certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List). A consistently high level of data protection is therefore guaranteed for the transmission of data to LinkedIn Corp. servers in the USA (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR).

We would also like to get in touch with you via Facebook. Facebook is a service provided by Meta Platforms Technologies Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square Dublin 2, Ireland (‘Meta’). When you visit our Facebook page, Meta collects usage data as explained under ‘Social Media Presence’. In particular, Meta collects the IP address and sets cookies on the user's device in order to tailor content or advertising to the user based on their activities. In principle, Meta is solely responsible for this under data protection law. Further information on data processing by Meta can be found in the privacy policy here: https://facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0 . You can find our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/spectrongas/  
If you contact us via Facebook, for example via the Messenger function, we process your personal data in order to process your request. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to be able to offer you short and simple communication channels and to advertise and provide our services in an uncomplicated manner for your benefit.

When you visit our Facebook page, Meta uses some of the usage data collected to compile summarised user statistics (so-called page insights) and make them available to us. The user statistics are only made available to us in anonymised form so that we cannot draw any conclusions about the behaviour of individual users. We ourselves do not have access to the personal data processed to compile the statistics. We access the user statistics in order to understand and thus improve the behaviour of users in connection with our posts and contributions and to make them as interesting as possible for users. You can find more information about Page Insights here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

In the course of processing personal data to compile these user statistics, Meta and we are joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. We have concluded a Joint Controller Addendum with Meta at https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum, in which we specify which of us fulfils which obligations under the GDPR. It also describes which data is processed within the scope of joint responsibility.
In connection with the above-mentioned functions, Facebook may also transfer the processed data to servers outside the EU, in particular to Meta Platforms Inc. in the USA. Meta Platforms Inc. is also certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List). A consistently high level of data protection is therefore guaranteed when data is transferred to Meta Platforms Inc. servers in the USA (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR).

We would also like to get in touch with you via Instagram. Instagram is also a service provided by Meta Platforms Technologies Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square Dublin 2, Ireland (‘Meta’). When you visit our Instagram account, Meta collects usage data as explained under ‘Social media presences’. In particular, Meta collects the IP address and sets cookies on the user's device in order to tailor content or advertising to the user based on their activities. In principle, Meta is solely responsible for this under data protection law. Further information on data processing by Meta can be found in the privacy policy here: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect You can find our Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/spectrongas/

If you contact us via Instagram, for example via the direct message function, we process your personal data in order to process your request. We justify this on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in order to be able to offer you short and simple communication channels and to advertise and provide our services in an uncomplicated manner for your benefit.
When you visit our Instagram account, Meta uses some of the usage data collected to create summarised user statistics (so-called page insights) and make them available to us. The user statistics are only made available to us in anonymised form so that we cannot draw any conclusions about the behaviour of individual users. We ourselves do not have access to the personal data processed to compile the statistics. We use the user statistics to understand the behaviour of users in connection with our posts and contributions and thus to be able to improve them and make them as interesting as possible for users. You can find more information about Page Insights here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

In the course of processing personal data to compile these user statistics, Meta and we are joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. We have concluded a Joint Controller Addendum with Meta at https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum, in which we specify which of us fulfills which obligations under the GDPR. It also describes which data is processed within the scope of joint responsibility.
In connection with the above-mentioned functions, Instagram may also transfer the processed data to servers outside the EU, in particular to Meta Platforms Inc. in the USA. As already explained, Meta Platforms Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, so that a consistently high level of data protection is guaranteed even if data is transferred to Meta Platforms Inc. servers in the USA (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR).

We operate a YouTube channel on the video sharing platform YouTube, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).
When you visit our YouTube channel, Google collects usage data as explained under “Social media presences”. Google processes your account data such as email address and user name, as well as content that you create, upload, receive or process when using YouTube. This includes photos and videos as well as comments you create. If you do not have an account, Google processes in particular your IP address and other information from log files (for more information on the personal data stored in log files, see “Data logging”). Google analyzes this information to determine your interests and to provide you with advertising or other content in this regard. Further information on data processing on YouTube can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en You can find our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrYc_S6vBFvwayNpM9_QVeA 

Based on the user data that Google collects, Google provides us with aggregated user statistics (so-called “YouTube Insights”). The information transmitted is anonymous to us and we cannot draw any conclusions about specific users. We have no influence on the processing of personal data for the creation of YouTube Insights.
We have the usage statistics made available to us in order to improve the content published on our YouTube channel and to make it as interesting as possible for users.
We are joint controllers with Google for this processing of personal data in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. In the joint controller agreement at https://business.safety.google/controllerterms/, we have defined who assumes which obligations under the GDPR. It also describes which data is processed within the scope of joint responsibility.

If you contact us via YouTube, e.g. by commenting on a video or writing a message, we process your data (e.g. name and communication content) in order to process your request. This processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to process your request and your feedback.
As already explained in the section on Google Analytics, Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and is also entered in the list maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Data Privacy Framework List). Therefore, even if Google also transfers the data processed in connection with the above-mentioned functions to servers outside the EU, in particular to Google LLC in the USA, a consistently high level of data protection is guaranteed in this respect (Art. 45 para. 1 sentence 1 GDPR).

No automated decision-making, including profiling pursuant to section 22, para. 1 and 4 GDPR is taking place on our end.

There will be no transmission of your data to third parties without your explicit consent, unless this may be required for the provision of the service or performance of the contract. Any transmission of your personal data to third parties will accordingly only happen based upon your consent pursuant to section 6, para. 1, page 1, lit. a) GDPR or for contract performance purposes pursuant to section 6, para. 1, page 1 lit. b) GDPR. The transmission to government institutions and authorities entitled to receive such information will only take place within the limits of legal information duties or where we must disclose such information instructed by a court order. In this case, the transfer of your data is mandatory for the fulfillment of a legal obligation which we are subject to pursuant to section 6, para. 1, page 1 lit. c) GDPR.

To the extent where external service providers come into contact with your personal data, we have ensured by taking all legal, technical, and organizational measures as well as regular controls that these will adhere to the provisions of data protection laws.

We will store your personal data as long as this is necessary for the fulfillment of the intended purpose (e.g. performance of the contract, responding to your request) or legitimate reasons within the meaning of section 17, para. 3, GDPR, such as legal retention periods. As long as legal retention periods, such as under commercial and tax law, conflict with the deletion of your personal data, we will limit the processing of your data; after that, your data will be deleted according to the legal regulations.
Applicant data will be deleted within six months after the end of the application process at the latest, unless you have granted us your consent for storage exceeding this period or if there are legitimate reasons on your side to object to deletion, such as the defense of legal claims.

We have taken appropriate technical and organizational precautions for preventing loss, abuse, or unauthorized modification of your personal data. We will store all the personal data you make available to us on our secure servers (password and firewall-protected). All electronic transactions you carry out with or receive from us will be encrypted. Please note that data transmission via the Internet is not 100% secure in itself and that we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted via the Internet.

You may at any time and free of cost obtain confirmation or information of your personal data stored by us (section 15 GDPR). You also have the right to demand the correction of incorrect data (section 16 GDPR) as well as the deletion of your personal data provided there are no legitimate reasons objecting to such deletion (section 17, para. 3, GDPR) or the restriction of data processing (section 18, GDPR). Provided that the foundation for the processing of data is section 6, para. 1, page 1, lit. f) GDPR (claiming of legitimate interest), pursuant to section 21 GDPR, you have the right to object to the handling of your personal data at any time to the extent where this is founded on reasons arising from your particular situation or when such objection is directed against data processing for direct marketing purposes. In the latter case, you are entitled to a general right of objection without giving a reason, arising from your special situation, which will be implemented by us (section 21, para. 2, GDPR). If you file an objection out of reasons arising from your special situation, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we are able to verify legitimate compelling reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms or the processing is in favor of the enforcement, exercise or defense of claims (section (21 para. 1, GDPR)

You may also at any time revoke any consent given to us for the collection and processing of data with future effects.

If you provide data regarding yourself, and if we process this data following your consent or for the performance of the contract, you may require that you receive this data in a structured, conventional and machine-readable format from us or that we will transmit this data to another person responsible to the extent this is technically feasible (so-called right to data transferability).

Moreover, you are entitled to file a complaint with a regulatory body if you feel that data processing by us violates statutory regulations.

In order for you to claim your above-stated rights, please contact our contact address indicated above or send an e-mail to us or our local data protection officer.

We have appointed internal data protection coordinators in our company and have hired an external data protection officer. They will carry out organizational and technical measures, thus ensuring that your personal data is secure and protected. Please contact the Spectron Gas Control Systems GmbH data protection officer for all questions around data protection at datenschutz@spectron.de.

If you would like to contact us via regular mail, please direct all letters to the mailing address listed above.

Our website may include links to other providers that are not covered by this privacy policy. This does not include third-party content and websites that are linked from our website. This applies to social networks, for example, such as LinkedIn, Xing, and others. In this case, your data is processed through the respective social network operator, without us having any control over it. The same applies to the personal data you provide to us via such a platform, for example by contacting us through our profile in the respective social network. Information on the handling and protection of your personal data on such networks can be found in the privacy statements of the respective platform provider. However, where we store your personal data which you have communicated to us or which we have obtained via such social network, on our own servers and use it for the processing of your request or otherwise, the above notes in this privacy statement naturally shall apply.

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy within the limits of the existing legal provisions and to publish an updated version on our website to the extent where this is appropriate due to new technological developments, legislative changes or changes in our business operations. This is why we recommend that you review this website periodically in order to make sure that you are familiar with our most recent privacy policy.