Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Thank you for visiting our website. We take data privacy very seriously and strive to protect your personal data in the context of our website offering.
We understand personal data to mean all data relating to the personal and material circumstances of a natural person. Personal data collected on our website are used exclusively for our own purposes.
2. Controller and contact details
The controller pursuant to Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR isTücking PM GmbH
Hardter Waldstrasse 24a
41169 Mönchengladbach
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 2161 3079 63
E-mail: contact@tueckingpm.com
Legal representative
Martina Tücking
3. Legal basis for data processing
As regards our processing of data, the legal basis for data processing within the framework of the EU General Data Protection Regulation arises from Art. 6 GDPR. Depending on the specific situation in which we process your data, a different legal basis may apply.
Consent
If your consent has been obtained to the performance of processing operations on personal data, the legal basis is provided by Art. 6 (1) Point a GDPR. Granted consent can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future.
Contract
For the processing of personal data collected for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, the legal basis is provided by Art. 6 (1) Point b GDPR. This also applies to processing operations required to take steps prior to entering into a contract.
Legal obligation
If the processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which our company is subject, the legal basis is provided by Art. 6 (1) Point c GDPR.
Vital interests
In case the processing of personal data is made necessary by your vital interests or those of another natural person, the legal basis is provided by Art. 6 (1) Point d GDPR.
Legitimate interest
If processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest pursued by our company or by a third party and such interest is not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, the legal basis for the processing is provided by Art. 6 (1) Point f GDPR. The legitimate interest of our company lies in the performance of our business activities.
4. Rights of the data subject
In the context of our data processing, personal data concerning you are processed. Against our company you have the rights arising from Chapter III of the GDPR.
You have the following rights pursuant to the Articles of the GDPR cited below:
• Art. 15 GDPR: the right to obtain information, to the extent specified therein, on the personal data concerning you that are being processed by us;
• Art. 16 GDPR: the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you held by us, or to have incomplete personal data completed;
• Art. 17 GDPR: the right to obtain from us the erasure of your personal data stored by us unless further processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; for reasons of public interest; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• Art. 18 GDPR: the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is contested by you; the processing is unlawful but you oppose the erasure of the personal data; we no longer need the data, but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or if you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
• Art. 20 GDPR: the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or to demand their transmission to another controller;
• Art. 77 GDPR: the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. For this purpose you can, as a general rule, address your complaint to the supervisory authority in the place of your habitual residence, your place of work, or the place where our company is established.
5. Contacting us by e-mail or telephone
You can contact us by e-mail or telephone. In this connection we process the personal data concerning you that are required to answer your inquiry or such personal data that you place at our disposal voluntarily.
When you contact us we process your data exclusively for the purpose of answering your inquiries.
If your inquiry is made in relation to the performance of a contract or in the context of steps prior to entering into a contract, the legal basis for processing your personal data is provided by Art. 6 (1) Point b GDPR.
For all other inquiries the legal basis for processing your personal data is provided by your explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Point a GDPR. Please note that you have the right to notify us of your revocation of granted consent without stating grounds at any time with effect for the future. Also note that if you revoke consent, we may not be able to continue processing your inquiry.
6. Newsletter
On our website you have the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter.
If you have entered your e-mail address and, if applicable, other data for the purpose of receiving a newsletter, we use the data only to send information as per the newsletter subscription.
When you subscribe to the newsletter we store your IP address and the date of the subscription. Storing these data serves the sole purpose of creating evidence in case a third party misuses an e-mail address and subscribes to the newsletter without the knowledge of the authorised person.
7. Web server logs
In the context of the use of our web offering, connection information is stored in server log files.
This information includes:
• the IP address of the system initiating the connection
• browser information, such as the name of the operating system and the screen resolution
• the website visited
• the originating website
• the time of the visit
The web server logs are processed exclusively for security purposes.
We use the log data only for statistical analyses serving the purpose of the website’s operation, security and optimisation. We reserve the right to examine the log data subsequently, however, if a legitimate suspicion of unlawful use exists on the basis of specific indications.
8. Cookies
This website and all of its pages use cookies and other similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSO).
Cookies are text files that are stored on your device. When you visit the website it can read out, transfer and edit cookies.
We use both first-party cookies, which are controlled by the company operating the domain where the cookies are set, and third-party cookies. These are controlled by third parties and help us to analyse the impact of our website content and the interests of our visitors, to measure the performance of our website, or to display tailored advertising or other content on our own website or other websites.
Most of the cookies we use are session cookies. These transient cookies are automatically erased when you leave the website or end your browser session. Other cookies, known as persistent cookies, remain stored on your device for a predetermined period or until you delete them. They enable us to recognise your browser the next time you visit. We use cookies only with random pseudonymous identification numbers. These numbers are used to analyse your behaviour pattern on our website. The user profile is not ascribed to the name of a natural person at any time. If you use specific functions provided by our website (such as the shopping basket or ‘stay logged in’), cookies are used for these functions as well.
Web beacons are tiny graphic files that are used to retrieve data from your device, such as the device type, the name of your operating system, your IP address, or the time of your visit.
Local storage objects (LSO) operate in much the same way as cookies, but the data are stored locally in the browser.
In the case of cookies and other technologies that are technically necessary for the operation of the website, the legal basis for their utilisation and the associated processing of your personal data is provided by our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Point f GDPR. Our legitimate interests in this instance lie in particular in our ability to provide you with a technically optimised, user-friendly and appropriate website, and to ensure the security of our systems.
Both the use of cookies and other technologies that are not technically necessary for the operation of the website and primarily serve the purposes of analysis and marketing, and the associated processing of your personal data, take place pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Point a GDPR only if you have granted us your explicit consent.
The first time you visit our website or one of its pages, a cookie banner notifies you of the cookies and other technologies that are in use on the website, and you are given the opportunity to consent to the non-essential cookies and other technologies that you wish to accept.
The cookie banner also offers you the opportunity at any time, by way of the ‘Cookies’ button, to retrieve information about the individual functions of the cookies, and, by way of the ‘Privacy Policy’ button, to display our detailed privacy policy.
You can revoke the consent you have granted at any time and likewise at any time edit your settings for the non-essential cookies and other technologies.
9. Consent management
On our website we use the consent management tool ‘Cookie First’ of Digital Data Solutions B.V. (CookieFirst), Plantage Middenlaan 42a,1018DH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to obtain your consent, as required by law, to the use of non-essential cookies and third-party services.
In this connection the following data are collected and transmitted to the service provider:
• your consent(s) and any revocations of consent(s)
• your IP address
• information about your browser
• information about your device
• the time of your visit to the website and of your consent
In order to facilitate appropriate assignment of the consents granted by you and of any revocations, the service stores a cookie in your browser.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in connection with the use of ‘Cookie First’ is our legal obligation to obtain and record legally compliant consents for the use of non-essential cookies and third-party services pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Point c GDPR.
We have concluded a supplemental processing contract with the service provider pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.
10. LinkedIn
In the context of our social media activities we operate a page on the LinkedIn network.
For the processing of personal data in connection with our LinkedIn page we are a joint controller together with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (‘LinkedIn’), Wilton Plaza, Gardner House 4,5,6, Dublin 2, Ireland.
If you visit our LinkedIn page and respond to our content, your personal data, such as your user name, the content published by you on LinkedIn and your reactions to our company’s content are processed by us where appropriate, such that we respond to same or mention your account and/or your content in content published by us.
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (‘LinkedIn’), Wilton Plaza, Gardner House 4,5,6, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible for the further processing of personal data in connection with the use of LinkedIn.
Among other things, LinkedIn processes the data voluntarily provided by you in connection with the use of your LinkedIn account, such as your name, user name, e-mail address and telephone number.
If you publish and share content on LinkedIn, LinkedIn can analyse same in order to identify the topics that interest you and provide you with relevant information about similar content as well as advertising where appropriate.
LinkedIn also collects log data, such as your IP address, your browser type, the operating system you are using, information about the website and pages you visited beforehand, your location, your mobile network provider, the device you are using, search terms entered by you, and cookie information. Please note that these data are processed by LinkedIn even if you do not possess a LinkedIn account.
If you possess a LinkedIn account, you may be able to edit the account settings to restrict the processing of your personal data by LinkedIn.
We have no knowledge or influence of and on the scope and type of data processing or further processing and use of your personal data by LinkedIn.
More information on data processing by LinkedIn is available at: https://linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
We explicitly point out that the use of LinkedIn can give rise to the transmission of personal data to a country outside the EU/EEA, known as a third country, in which the level of protection afforded by the GDPR in respect of personal data cannot be assured.
11. Matomo
On our website we use the open-source web analytics platform Matomo of InnoCraft, 7 Waterloo Quay PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand, to analyse the surfing behaviour of our users.
Matomo runs as an on-premise solution on dedicated servers with the ‘Force tracking without cookies’ feature enabled.
The following information is collected when Matomo is used:
• approximate location
• operating system and browser
• number of visits
• page visited
• duration of user’s visit to this page
• item(s) clicked on the page.
The software does not allow complete IP addresses to be stored; the final two bytes of the address are masked (e.g.: 192.168.xxx.xxx). Thanks to this truncation, an IP address cannot be assigned to the computer initiating the visit.
No other personal data are collected. In addition, user recognition methods, such as the setting of cookies, are not utilised for analytical purposes.
The legal basis for the use of Matomo on our website is provided by your consent, granted pursuant to Art. 6 (1) Point a GDPR.
12. Storage periods
We store your personal data only for as long as necessary and allowed for the purpose for which they were collected unless erasure is precluded by statutory retention periods or you have granted us your explicit consent to the further retention of your personal data.
Where certain data are subject to statutory retention periods, we store such data only until the relevant retention periods expire.
If you grant us your explicit consent to the further storage of certain data, we retain your data until you notify us of your revocation of consent. The following e-mail address can be used for revocation purposes: contact@tueckingpm.com
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In the event of any discrepancies or disputes arising from the interpretation of this privacy policy, the German version shall prevail.(As of October 2024)