Data Privacy Policy

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The security of your personal data is important to us. The legal framework of personal data protection may be found in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG): Transparency, legality, purpose limitation, data accuracy and data minimization are also standards for the handling of your data. We attach great importance to justifying the trust you have placed in us in this regard as well. We therefore protect your personal data in particular against access by unauthorized persons. This Data Privacy Statement is constantly revised and kept up to date. The current version of this Data Privacy Statement is October 2024
The intensity of the collection, processing and use of your data depends on how you use our services. By visiting our website, you agree that we may collect, process, use and store your individual personal data to the extent indicated below. Confidential handling of this data is a matter of course for us.

The provisions below serve to provide information as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting and processing your data by:

Eckert & Ziegler SE
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10
13125 Berlin
Germany

If you have any questions, comments and/or criticism about the privacy policy on ezag.com, feel free to contact our data protection officer at the address mentioned above or via e-mail: datenschutz@ezag.de

I. General information

  1. Collection, processing and use of personal data when visiting our website

When you visit our website, certain data are automatically collected in anonymized form. These are, in particular, data about
– the identity of your internet service provider,
– the browser type you are using and the respective software version,
– the screen resolution,
– the operating system you are using,
– the question of whether you access our site from a desktop PC or a mobile device,
– the pages you visited with us,
– the duration of your stay with us,
– the referring URL, which is information about the page from which you came to our website,
– the IP address of your device,
– the date and time of the server request and
– the location of your device.

All of these data are collected by us for analysis purposes. They will be evaluated to improve our website and service. The individual data in each case cannot be assigned to a specific person. The data mentioned are primarily device-related. However, it may be possible to associate them with specific people in connection with other data. We use the data collected for statistical purposes, to evaluate the attractiveness of our offers, to evaluate user behavior in order to improve and expand our range of services and to identify errors and optimize processes. Data are only linked as far as it is necessary for the purposes mentioned. The purpose for data processing is the interest of our company and the interest of our customers to comprehensive information (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
Your personal information transferred over the Internet will be encrypted. We use a SSL-protocol (Secure Socket Layer) for data transfer. The data stored by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which we originally stored it. Data may be blocked instead of deleted as a result of legal or technical issues (e.g. mandatory retention periods).

  1. Legal basis for data processing

If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR serves as a legal basis for data processing. If processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as a legal basis for data processing. If we process your personal data for compliance with legal obligations, we are subject to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR as a legal basis for data processing. Furthermore, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, when the processing of your personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of our company or of a third party and at the same time which do not violate your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms requiring protection of personal data. In scope of this Data Privacy Policy we inform about the legal basis for particular data processing activities.

  1. Analysis program

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The use includes the Analytics 4 operating mode. This facilitates the assignment of data, sessions and interactions across several devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus the analysis of user’s activities across devices. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, Google will reduce your IP address within Member States of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. 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 the website operator with other services related to website and Internet use. Our legitimate interest in data processing also lies in these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is § 15 para. 3 TMG and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user-identifiers (e.g. User-IDs) or advertising-identifiers are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html and https://policies.google.com/.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under Disable Google Analytics. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

  1. Use of cookies

“Cookies” are small text files that are stored by your browser on your device. We use cookies so that we can present you an individually designed offer and/or in order to recognize repeated use of our website by the same user. Cookies are also used to make our offer as effective, smooth and user-friendly as possible in the interest of the customer. Furthermore, they contribute to a fast and easy use of our website and services. The explicit type of personal user information can be found in section 1 of this data privacy segment. The legal basis for our use of cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR. When visiting our website, you are given the opportunity to refuse the use of cookies. We recommend that you allow the use of cookies; otherwise the use of our website and our offer is limited. Until the end of your browser session, the cookies are saved. Certain cookies also automatically store information for your return to the website.

This website uses the following types of cookies. Their extent and functionality will be explained below:

a) Transient cookies:
Transient cookies will be deleted automatically as soon as you close your browser. They include session cookies in particular, which save a session-ID used to assign different queries of your browser to one session. By this your computer will be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies will be deleted as soon as you log out or close the browser.
b) Persistent cookies:
Persistent cookies will be saved temporarily and deleted automatically after a certain predefined period. This period may alter from cookie to cookie. Persistent cookies may be deleted in the browser at any time.
c) Third-party cookies:
This website uses Google Analytics for analysis of user behavior and optimization purposes. Google Analytics uses cookies to support this analysis. For further information, please refer to section 3 of this data privacy statement.

Through corresponding settings in your browser, you can prevent the storage of cookies, e.g. by refusing the use of third-party cookies. Please get information about this subject through your browser’s provider if you need it. If you enter the corresponding settings in your browser, this may result in you not being able to fully use what our website has to offer.

To manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool “Real Cookie Banner”. Details on how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at https://devowl.io/rcb/data-processing/.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in this context are Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.

The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we will not be able to manage your consents.

  1. The rights of data subjects

We consider it very important, to keep the processing of your personal data as transparent as possible and to inform you about your rights in scope of protection of personal data. If you would like more information or if you would like to execute your rights, you can always contact us. Please be informed, that according to the GDPR, you have extensive rights regarding processing of your personal data. First of all, you have comprehensive right of access to your personal data and you may require us to correct and/or erase or block your personal data. You have the right to request limitation of processing or to object the data processing at all. With regards to your personal data collected by us, you also have the right to data portability. Your consent may be withdrawn with future effect at any time. However, such withdrawal will not affect the legality of the data processing, which has been already performed until its withdrawal. Your contact person in this matter is our data protection officer. Provided that the data processing is based on other legal basis than your consent, you may object the processing of your personal data. Your objection will be reviewed and will possibly lead to termination of the processing of your personal data. You will be informed about the result of the review and you will receive from us – in case the data processing shall continue – more information regarding legitimacy of such data processing.

If you would like to execute your rights and/or to receive more information, please contact our data protection officer at the address or e-mail mentioned above.

We would like to point out that we continue to store personal data even after the conclusion of a business relationship. We can only delete personal data if doing so does not conflict with statutory retention periods. Only after the expiry of the retention periods can we possibly comply with a cancellation request. If you want us to delete the data during the retention period, we will block and stop using the personal data until the retention period has expired.

  1. Service inquiries, contact and other correspondence

If you use our online forms to contact us, personal data will be collected and stored for the purpose of facilitating communications with the user. The correspondence itself, including the associated personal data (first name, last name, company, e-mail address, etc.) that you provide will be stored accordingly. These data are used only to carry out the correspondence. After the correspondence has been completed, personal data and content of the correspondence will be stored for documentation purposes and to allow us to establish a uniform procedure should similar cases or further queries arise. Of course, the personal data obtained in this context will not be disclosed to unauthorized third parties. The data thereby collected is used solely for the purpose of facilitating communications with you. Your personal data is thereby processed for your interest and upon to your consent as well as for interest our company to ensure proper communication with you (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a), f); Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. b) GDPR).

  1. Links

On our website, you will find links to offers from other operators. These links are marked. We have no influence on the content of the linked pages. If necessary, find out more about their privacy policy on the linked page.

  1. Integration of services and content of third parties

a) YouTube

We may include videos from youtube.com. By the inclusion, the provider of this service receives the same information as we do when you visit our pages. In addition, it receives the information that it was called up through our site. YouTube, however, does not receive these data until an included video is viewed. We do not know the specifics on the extent to which these data are collected and processed, in particular for advertising purposes, and stored by servers abroad. For the scope of data processing by the service, we therefore refer you to their privacy policy. These notices can be found in Google’s privacy policies (https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/). The service on de.youtube.com is provided by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, United States. Inclusion of YouTube is to provide better presentation of our company and also for your convenience. The legal basis for such inclusion is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

b) Google Maps

This website uses the map service Google Maps via API to display maps and create itineraries. This service is provided by Google LLC, Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. By using this website, you agree to the collection, processing and use of the data collected automatically as well as the data entered by you, by Google and any of its agents or third parties. The Privacy Policy for Google Maps can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

c) LinkedIn

We use a link to LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/eckert-and-ziegler-se). If you use the link, you get to our company’s profile on LinkedIn. By this, LinkedIn receives information about your previous visit to our website. Whether personal data is collected and to what extent depends on whether you are logged in to LinkedIn at the same time. If that’s the case, LinkedIn may be able to associate your usage behavior with you. The operator of the page is the operator of the LinkedIn website: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. The terms of use for LinkedIn can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement?trk=organization-guest_footer-user-agreement. We have no control over the data that LinkedIn collects thereby, nor over the extent of the data that LinkedIn collects. Nor do we have any knowledge of the content of data transferred to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn as well as your rights in this regard and your browser setting options may be obtained from the LinkedIn data privacy policy, which may be accessed at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=hb_ft_priv.

d) Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a service for managing tags triggered by a specific event that injects a third script or sends data to a third service. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.

  1. Authorization

The use of social media such as LinkedIn takes place through our company, so that we can present the profile and extent of our company as well as people associated with our company, to the users of our website. The personal or anonymized information collected and disclosed in this context is solely used for the purpose of strengthening the company’s presence and facilitating communication between our company, customers, partners and investors. We are pleased to have you connected to the company through social networks so that we can share the company’s profile with as many people as possible. The purpose for data processing is the interest of our company and the interest of our customers to comprehensive information (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The use of Youtube is primarily to present individual content for the benefit of our company. In particular, videos or posts produced are available on YouTube and are included in this way. We do this to provide our customers with relevant information. The use of Google Maps informs our customers about our specific locations and how these can be reached. The purpose of data processing is the interest of our company and the interest of our customers to comprehensive information (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

II. Right of complaint

You have the right to report alleged violations of privacy legislation and to complain to the relevant regulatory body. The complaint can be sent to:

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
[Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information]
Alt-Moabit 59-61
10555 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 13889-0
Fax: +49 30 2155050
E-Mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de