Privacy policy

This privacy statement informs you about how we treat your data. To make the processing of your data transparent, we would like to provide you with the following information to give you an overview of these processing operations. To keep things fair, we additionally want to inform you about your rights pursuant to the EU-General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).
We will inform you in detail about
General Information
Data Processing on our Website
Data Processing on our Social Media
is the controller of the data processing (hereinafter referred to as ‘we’ or ‘us’).

GENERAL INFORMATION

CONTACT
If you have any questions or feedback concerning this information or wish to contact us to exercise your rights, please send your enquiry to

DSAA e. V.
Vogelsanger Str. 321a
50827 Cologne, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 174 3916896
Email: info@dsaa.eu 

LEGAL BASIS
The legal term ‘personal data’ refers to all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
We process personal data in compliance with the data protection regulations, in particular the GDPR and the BDSG. We solely process data based on law. We process personal data solely with your consent (Art. 6 section 1 letter a GDPR), to perform a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6 section 1 letter b GDPR), to comply with a legal obligation (Art. 6 section 1 letter c GDPR) or where processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of personal data (Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR).
If you apply for an open position in our company, we will, additionally, process your personal data to decide on whether to hire you (§ 26 para. 1 sentence 1 BDSG).

PERIOD OF STORAGE
Unless otherwise stated in the following, we will only store your data for as long as required to achieve the intended processing purpose or to fulfil our contractual or statutory obligations. In particular, such statutory retention requirements may result from regulations under commercial or tax law.

RECIPIENTS OF DATA
For certain processing activities, we rely on service providers. These processing activities include, for example, hosting, maintenance and support for IT systems or destruction of paper files and data carriers. A ‘processor’ is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller. Processors process data not for their own purposes but solely for the controller and are contractually obliged to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures ensuring data protection.
Apart from that, we may transfer your data to postal and delivery services, our bank, consultants/auditors or the fiscal authority if necessary.

Should your data be transferred to further recipients, you can find this information under the description of the respective processing activity.

PROCESSING IN THE EXERCISE OF YOUR RIGHTS PURSUANT TO ART. 15 TO 22 GDPR
If you exercise your rights pursuant to Art. 15 to 22 GDPR, we process the personal data transferred in order for us to grant you your rights and to acquire proof thereof. For the purpose of providing information and preparing such information, we will process the stored data only for this purpose as well as for purposes of data protection control and otherwise restrict processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. These processing operations are based on Art. 6 section 1 letter c GDPR in combination with Art. 15 to 22 GDPR and § 34 para. 2 BDSG.

YOUR RIGHTS
As the data subject, you are entitled to exercise your rights against us. In particular, you have the following rights:

• Pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR and § 34 BDSG, you have the right of access to information confirming whether and, if so, to what extent we are processing personal data concerning you.
• Pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to rectification of your data.
  Pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR and section 35 BDSG, you have the right to erasure of your personal data.
• Pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to require us to restrict the processing of your personal data.
• Pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transfer such data to another controller.

Where you have granted us specific consent to a processing activity, you can withdraw such consent at any time pursuant to Art. 7 section 3 GDPR. Any such withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on that consent prior to its withdrawal.
If you are of the view that the processing of your personal data infringes GDPR provisions, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Art.77 GDPR.

RIGHT TO OBJECT
Pursuant to Art. 21 section 1 GDPR, you have the right to object to processing activities based on Art. 6 section 1 letter e or letter f GDPR on grounds relating to your particular situation. If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you may object to such processing pursuant to Art. 21 section 2 and section 3 GDPR.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
You can contact our data protection officer via the following address: Svenja Schauten Vogelsanger Str. 321a, 50827 Cologne, Germany E-Mail: info@amalitech.org

DATA PROCESSING ON OUR WEBSITE
During use of our website, we collect information that you provide yourself. We also automatically collect certain information about your use of the site during your visit to the site. In data protection law, the IP address is also considered personal data. An IP address is assigned to each device connected to the internet by the internet provider so that it can send and receive data.

PROCESSING OF SERVER-LOG-FILES
When using our website for informative purposes only, general information that your browser transfers to our server is initially stored automatically (not via registration).

This includes by default: browser type/-version, operating system used, page called, the previously visited page (referrer URL), IP address, date and time of server request and HTTP status code. The processing is carried out in pursuit of our legitimate interests and is based on Art. 6 section 1 letter GDPR. This processing serves the technical administration and security of the website. The data collected will be deleted after thirty days unless there is a justified suspicion of illegal use based on concrete indications and further examination and processing of the information is necessary for this reason. We are unable to identify you as a data subject based on the information collected. Art. 15 to 22 GDPR therefore do not apply pursuant to Art. 11 section 2 GDPR, unless you provide additional information to enable your identification in order to exercise the rights set out in these articles.

DATA TRANSFER TO THIRD COUNTRIES
Visiting our website may involve the transfer of certain personal data to third countries, i.e. countries where the DSGVO is not applicable law. Such a transfer shall be authorised if the European Commission has decided that an adequate level of data protection is ensured in such third country.
In the absence of such an adequacy decision by the European Commission, personal data will only be transferred to a third country if appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with Art. 46 DSGVO or if one of the conditions of Art. 49 DSGVO is met.
Unless otherwise stated below, we use as appropriate safeguards the EU standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in third countries: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32010D0087.
APPLICATION
When you apply for a position at our company, we process your application data exclusively for purposes related to your interest in current or future employment with us. Your application will only be processed and acknowledged by the responsible contact person. All employees entrusted with data processing are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of your data. If we are unable to offer you a position, we will retain the data you provide for up to three months for the purpose of potentially answering questions relating to your application and rejection. This does not apply if legal provisions prevent deletion, if further storage is necessary for the purpose of presenting evidence or if you have expressly consented to longer storage. Legal basis for the data processing is section 26 para. 1 BDSG.
If we keep your applicant data for a period of four months and you have expressly consented to this, we would like to point out that this consent can be freely withdrawn at any time in accordance with Art. 7 section 3 GDPR. Such a withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing, which has taken place prior to the withdrawal.

COOKIES
We use cookies and similar technologies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser when you visit a website. This makes the browser identifiable so it can be recognised by our web server. We use so-called ‘session cookies’, which are deleted when the browser session is ended. Other cookies (‘persistent cookies’) are automatically deleted after a specific period, which may vary depending on the cookie.
In part, the use of cookies is necessary to maintain functionality and operation of our website. Apart from that, we use cookies and similar technologies to measure the coverage of our website and analyse the use of our website.
Cookies are stored on the computer of the user. Therefore, you as the user have full control over the use of cookies. You can delete cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time. You can object to the use of cookies entirely or for certain cases in your browser settings.

You can find information on how we use cookies and similar technologies in the description of the specific processing activity. Further information about cookies used on our website can be found via the privacy settings in the consent banner.

Change cookie / privacy settings here

GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use the Google Analytics service of the provider Google Ireland Limited (Google Ireland/EU) on our website.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service that allows us to collect and analyze data about the behavior of visitors to our website. Google Analytics uses cookies for this purpose, which enable an analysis of the use of our website. Personal data in the form of online identifiers (including cookie identifiers), IP addresses, device identifiers and information about interaction with our website are processed in the process.
Some of this data is information that is stored in the terminal device you are using. In addition, further information is also stored on your end device via the cookies used. Such storage of information by Google Analytics or access to information that is already stored in your terminal device only takes place with your consent.

Google Ireland will process the data thus collected on our behalf in order to evaluate the use of our website by the users, to compile reports on the activities within our website and to provide us with further services related to the use of our website and the internet. In doing so, pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can be created from the processed data.

The setting of cookies and the further processing of personal data described here takes place with your consent. The legal basis for the data processing in connection with the Google Analytics service is therefore Art. 6 section 1 letter a DSGVO. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

The personal data processed on our behalf to provide Google Analytics may be transferred to any country in which Google Ireland or Google’s Ireland sub-processors maintain facilities. The legal basis for this transfer is the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors in third countries pursuant to Art. 46 section 2 letter c DSGVO.

We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled. This means that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google Ireland within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The IP address transmitted by the user’s browser is not merged with other data.

We use the Google Universal Analytics variant. This allows us to assign interaction data from different devices and from different sessions to a unique user ID. This allows us to put individual user actions in context and analyze long-term relationships.
Data on user actions is stored for a period of 14 months and then automatically deleted. Data whose storage period has expired is automatically deleted once a month.
You can also prevent the collection of information generated by the cookie by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you visit our website via a mobile device, you can deactivate Google Analytics by clicking on this link.

YOUTUBE
We use the YouTube service of Google Ireland Limited (Google Ireland/EU) on our website to integrate videos. For such an integration, a processing of your IP address is technically necessary so that the content can be sent to your browser. Your IP address is therefore transmitted to Google and Google may set its own cookies. We use YouTube in “extended data protection mode” so that no cookies are set by YouTube to analyze user behavior.

This processing of personal data serves our legitimate interest in integrating the video service into our website. The use of YouTube takes place on the legal basis of Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR.

With YouTube, a transmission of data to Google Inc. and YouTube LLC in the USA cannot be ruled out. Please note the information in the section “Data transfer to third countries”. Users can find further information on data protection at Google in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

GOOGLE MAPS
We use Google Maps of Google Ireland Limited (Google Ireland/EU) on our website to display maps. For such an integration, a processing of your IP address is technically necessary so that the content can be sent to your browser. Your IP address is therefore transmitted to Google and Google may set its own cookies. This processing of personal data serves our legitimate interest in integrating the map service into our website. Legal basis for the data processing carried out in this regard Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR.

In the case of Google services, the transmission of data to Google Inc. in the USA cannot be ruled out. Please also note the information in the section “Data transfer to third countries”. Further information on data protection at Google can be found in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

DATA PROCESSING ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA
We operate company pages on multiple social media platforms via which we offer further opportunities to obtain information about our company and for exchange. We operate company pages on the following social media platforms:

• Facebook
• Instagram

Visiting a company page on social media can result in your personal data being processed. The information in your social media account constitutes personal data. This also encompasses messages and statements made with the account. Additionally, certain information about your visit to a company page is often collected automatically during your visit.

DATA PROCESSING DURING THE VISIT OF A SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE
Certain information about you is processed relating to your visit to our Facebook or Instagram page on which we present our company or individual products. Facebook Ireland Ltd (Ireland/EU – ‘Facebook’) is the sole controller of this processing. Further information about the processing of personal data by Facebook is available via https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Facebook provides the opportunity to object to certain processing activities; corresponding information and opt-out-methods are available via https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

Facebook provides us with anonymised statistics and insights for our Facebook and Instagram page, which enable us to gain knowledge about the ways in which people interact with our page (so called ‘insights’). These insights are created based on certain information about persons who have visited our page. Facebook and we are joint controllers of this processing. The processing serves our legitimate interest in evaluating the ways in which people interact with our page and improving our page based on this. This finds its legal basis in Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR. It is impossible to match the information obtained via insights to individual accounts which interact with our Facebook page. We have concluded an agreement with Facebook on joint controllership in which the data protection
duties are allocated between Facebook and us. Details of the processing of personal data for the creation of insights and of the agreement we concluded with Facebook are available via https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data. Regarding these processing activities, you may also exercise your rights (see above ‘Your Rights’) against Facebook directly. Further information is available in Facebook’s privacy statement via https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Please note that user data is also processed in the USA and other third countries according to Facebook’s data protection guidelines. Facebook only transfers user data to countries for which the European Commission has made an adequacy decision pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR or based on appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR.

PROCESSING OF DATA YOU SHARE WITH US VIA OUR COMPANY PAGES
Additionally, we process information which you provide us with via the respective social media platform. Such information can include the username, contact details or a message to us. Generally, we only process this personal data if we have expressly requested you to share this data with us like, for example, in connection with a survey. We are the sole controller of such processing activities.

We process this data in pursuit of our legitimate interest to reach out to persons submitting requests. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR.

Additionally, we might process such data shared with us for purposes of evaluation or marketing. Such processing is based on Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR and serve our legitimate interest to develop our product range and inform you about our product range. Further data processing can take place if you have consented (Art. 6 section 1 letter a GDPR) or if this serves to fulfil a legal obligation (Art. 6 section 1 letter c GDPR).

June 2021