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Privacy Note – Tilke Engineers & Architects

We were happy about your interest in our company. The protection of your privacy when processing personal data and the security of all business data is an important concern to us that we consider in all our business processes. In this Privacy Policy we inform you in detail about the handling of your personal data.

Responsible according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU GDPR

TILKE GMBH & CO. KG
Krefelder Straße 147
52070 Aachen Germany
Phone: +49 241 9134-0
Fax: +49 241 9134-400
E-Mail: mailbox@tilke.de

Data protection officer of the responsible person

Dr. Ralf W. Schadowski
Phone: +49 241 44688-0
E-Mail: datenschutz@tilke.de

§ 1 Legal base for the processing of personal data

  1. If we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (EU GDPR) serves as the legal base.
  2. In the processing of personal data required for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Article 6(1)(b) EU GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.
  3. If the processing of personal data is required to fulfil a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c EU GDPR serves as the legal basis.
  4. If that the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6(1)(d) EU GDPR serves as the legal basis.
  5. If processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the former interest, Art. 6 para. 1 letter f EU GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing.

§ 2 Data erasure & storage time

  1. The personal data of the data subject will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Furthermore, data may be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the person responsible is subject.
  2. The data shall also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or performance of a contract.

§ 3 Information about the collection of personal data

  1. In the following we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that are personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.
  2. When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, if applicable your name and your telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or limit the processing if statutory retention obligations exist.
  3. If we make use of contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

    Collection of personal data when you visit our website

    When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis for this is Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. f EU GDPR):

    • Name and URL of the retrieved file / date and time of retrieval
    • transferred data volume / message about successful retrieval (HTTP response code)
    • Browser type and browser version / operating system
    • Referer URL (i.e. the previously visited page) / websites that are accessed by the user’s system via our website
    • Internet service provider of the user / IP address and the requesting provider

Use of cookies

In addition to the data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk in the browser you use and through which certain information flows to the place that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

  1. Transient Cookies

    Automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes the session cookies. These store a so- called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

  2. Persistent cookies

Are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser. You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies, for example. Third Party Cookies” are cookies that have been set by a third party, therefore not by the actual website you are currently visiting. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

We use cookies to identify you for follow-up visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you will have to log in again for each visit.

§ 4 Other functions of our website

  1. In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services which you can use if you are interested. As a rule, you must provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and to which the data processing principles apply. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk. Information in fields not marked in this way is purely voluntary.
  2. When you contact the service provider by e-mail or via the contact form your e-mail address and, if you specify this, your name, your telephone number and […] will be stored by us to answer your questions.
  3. In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.
  4. Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, competitions, conclusion of contracts or similar services together with partners. For more information, please provide your personal data or see the description of the offer below.
  5. If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

§ 5 Rights of the data subject

In the following, we inform you about your rights according to Art. 15 EU GDPR. You can exercise these rights at any time and therefore contact us directly. If you demand these rights from us, we will examine them in detail, considering the related legal requirements and requirements. We may ask you for further information. We will explain in detail the results of our audit and our procedure for fulfilling your request. It is possible that we may not be able to fully meet your wishes in the manner you request. This should not prevent you from claiming your rights from us or asking us about them. We will be happy to answer all your questions.

  1. Right to information

    You have the right to request information from us at any time as to whether and which of your personal data is processed by us. This also includes information on the purposes of processing, if applicable on recipients to whom we have disclosed data about you, the planned storage period and, if applicable, information on the origin of this data, unless we have collected this data directly from you. In addition, you have the right to a one-time free copy of your personal data stored by us. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate administration fee for the following copies.

  2. Right to correction

    You have the right to request us to correct any inaccurate information we hold about you. This also includes the right to complete incomplete personal data.

  3. Right to cancellation

    You have the right to request the deletion of data that we have stored about you. If we have published data about you, this also includes our obligation to forward all links to this data as well as copies or replications of this data concerning to other persons responsible for the processing of this published personal data within the framework of the “right to be forgotten” pursuant to Art. 17 para. 2 EU GDPR, considering available technology and the implementation costs.

  4. Right to limitation of processing

    You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of data that we have stored about you. Thereafter, processing of these data is only possible with your consent or for a few, legally defined purposes.

  5. Right of opposition to processing

    If we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is not necessary to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, based on which we will continue processing.

    Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us about your advertising contradiction using the contact channels listed above.

  6. Right to revoke consent under data protection law

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

  7. Right to data transferability

    You have the right to receive information about yourself that you have provided to us from us in a structured, common and machine-readable format for transfer to another person responsible. At your request and considering the available technical possibilities, this also includes the direct transfer from us to the other person responsible.

  8. Right of appeal to a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain at any time to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

(5) Automated decision making including profiling

They have the right to obtain information on the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 para. 1 and 4 EU GDPR and – at least in these cases – meaningful information on the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

§ 6 Special forms of use of websites

1. Use of the Press Service

  1. After registration at our press service you will receive access to pictures and information material for download. The following mandatory information is required for registration: Title, first name, surname and your e-mail address. In addition to these mandatory data, you can voluntarily enter further information such as “address, country or company”.
  2. Our press service serves our interest to increase the attractiveness of our website. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit f EU GDPR.

§ 7 Other third-party services

  1. Integration of YouTube videos

    1. We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offer, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in the “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data referred to in paragraph 2 be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transmission. With the integration of YouTube videos, we pursue our interest to make our website more interesting and attractive for our visitors and to achieve a better presentation of contents and/or facts. The legal basis for the use of the plug-in is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f EU GDPR.
    2. By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified in § 5 of this declaration will be transmitted. This is independent of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as user profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such evaluation takes place (even for unlogged-in users) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.
    3. Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube can be found in the data protection declaration. YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented

    by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

  2. Integration of Google Maps

  1. On this website we use the offer of Google Maps. We are pursuing our interest in increasing the attractiveness of our website by displaying interactive maps directly on our website and enabling you to use the map function in a comfortable way. The legal basis for the use of the plug-in is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f EU GDPR.
  2. By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified in § 5 of this declaration will be transmitted. This is regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in with or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such evaluation takes place (even for unlogged-in users) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.
  3. Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the data protection declarations of the provider. You will also find more information about your rights and privacy settings at: Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA;http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US- Framework.
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