Privacy Policy

We take the security of your data very seriously. Here's how.

We are pleased to welcome you to our website at www.ergosign.de and are interested in our company. Protecting your personal data is important to us. Personal data is information about personal or material circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, the civil name, address, telephone number, and date of birth, as well as any other data that can be related to a determinable person. Since personal data enjoys special legal protection, we only collect it to the extent necessary for providing our website and providing our services.

Below, we outline which personal information we collect during your visit to our website and how we use it. Our privacy practice is in accordance with the legal regulations, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG), and the EU Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO).

We will only collect, process, and store your personal data to the extent necessary for the functioning provision of this website and our content and services, as well as for processing inquiries and, if necessary, for processing orders/contracts, but only if there is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f DSGVO or another authorization provision. Only if you have separately given your consent will your data also be used for further, specifically defined purposes in the consent, e.g. for the sending of promotional information via newsletter. Personal data (hereinafter mostly referred to as "data") is processed by us within the framework of necessity and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its content and the services offered there.

According to Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as "DSGVO"), "processing" means any operation or series of operations carried out with or without the help of automated procedures in connection with personal data, such as collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, adapting or altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing by transmitting, disseminating or otherwise making available, aligning or linking, restricting, deleting or destroying.

With the following privacy policy, we would like to inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration and legal basis for the processing of personal data, if we decide on the purposes and means of processing either alone or together with others. We also inform you below about the third-party components used on our website, which may result in further data processing. Additionally, we inform you about your rights as a data subject. Finally, we explain the use of cookies on our website.

I. Information about us as Responsible Party

The responsible provider of this website in terms of data protection law is:

Ergosign GmbH

Europaallee 20a

66113 Saarbrücken

Germany

Phone: +49 681 9884120

Fax: +49 681 98841210

Email: contact@ergosign.de

The data protection officer at the provider is:

Marco Peters, Nextwork GmbH

Sophienstraße 20, 80333 Munich

II. User and Affected Party Rights

With regard to the data processing described below, users and affected parties have the right

to confirm whether data concerning them is being processed, to receive information about the data processed, to further information about the data processing, and to receive copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);

to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);

to immediately delete data concerning them (cf. also Art. 17 GDPR), or alternatively, if further processing is required according to Art. 17 para. 3 GDPR, to limit the processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR;

to receive the data concerning them and provided by them and to transfer this data to other providers/responsible parties (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);

to make a complaint to the supervisory authority if they believe that the data concerning them is being processed by the provider in violation of data protection regulations (cf. also Art. 77 GDPR).

Furthermore, the provider is obligated to inform all recipients to whom data has been disclosed by the provider about any correction or deletion of data or limitation of processing that is carried out in accordance with Art. 16, 17 para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this obligation does not apply if such notification is impossible or would involve disproportionate effort. Regardless, the user has the right to receive information about these recipients.

Users and affected parties also have the right to object to the future processing of data concerning them under Art. 21 GDPR, if the data is processed by the provider in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct marketing is permissible.

III. Information on Data Processing

Your data processed during use of our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage is met, deletion of the data does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations, and no other statements are made to individual processing procedures.

Server Data

For technical reasons, particularly to ensure a secure and stable online presence, data is transmitted from your internet browser to us or to our web space provider. These so-called server log files include the type and version of your internet browser, the operating system, the website you switched from to access our online presence (referrer URL), the websites of our online presence that you visit, the date and time of each access, and the IP address of the internet connection from which you access our online presence.

These data are temporarily stored, but not together with other data from you.

This storage is based on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving, stability, functionality, and security of our online presence.

The data will be deleted at the latest after seven days, unless further storage for evidential purposes is required. Otherwise, the data is partially or completely exempt from deletion until the final clarification of an incident.

Cookies

a) Session Cookies

We use cookies on our online presence. Cookies are small text files or other storage technologies that are stored on your device by the internet browser you use. Through these cookies, certain information from you, such as your browser or location data or your IP address, is processed individually.

This processing makes our online presence more user-friendly, effective, and secure, for example, by allowing the display of our online presence in different languages or by offering a shopping basket function.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, if these cookies process data for contract initiation or performance.

If the processing does not serve contract initiation or performance, our legitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our online presence. The legal basis is then Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

These session cookies are deleted when you close your internet browser.

b) Third-Party Cookies

In some cases, cookies from partner companies that we collaborate with for advertising, analysis, or functionality of our online presence may also be used.

For details, please refer to the following information, particularly with regard to the purposes and legal basis for processing such third-party cookies.

c) Removal option

You can prevent or restrict the installation of cookies by setting your internet browser. Likewise, you can delete already stored cookies at any time. However, the steps and measures required for this depend on your specific Internet browser used. If you have any questions, please use the help function or documentation of your Internet browser or contact its manufacturer or support. In the case of so-called Flash cookies, however, processing cannot be prevented via the browser settings. Instead, you must change the settings of your Flash player. The steps and measures required for this also depend on the specific Flash player you use. If you have any questions, please also use the help function or documentation of your Flash player or contact the manufacturer or user support.

However, if you prevent or restrict the installation of cookies, this may mean that not all functions of our website can be fully used.

MARKETING COOKIES (GOOGLE ANALYTICS, HUBSPOT)

Contact requests / contact possibility

If you contact us via contact form or e-mail, the data you provide will be used to process your request. The provision of the data is necessary for processing and answering your request - without their provision, we can not answer your request or at best limited.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO.

Your data will be deleted if your inquiry has been answered conclusively and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations, such as in the case of any subsequent contract processing.

Leadinfo

We use the lead generation service of Leadinfo B.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands. This recognizes visits by companies to our website on the basis of IP addresses and shows us publicly available information for this purpose, such as company names or addresses. In addition, Leadinfo sets two first-party cookies to evaluate user behavior on our website and processes domains from form entries (e.g., "leadinfo.com") to correlate IP addresses with companies and improve the services. For more information, please visit www.leadinfo.com. On this page: www.leadinfo.com/en/opt-out you have an opt-out option. If you opt-out, your information will no longer be collected by Leadinfo."

Hubspot

On our website, we use the service HubSpot and HubSpot Forms, from HubSpot Inc, 25 First Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA. HubSpot is an integrated software solution that can be used to cover various online marketing activities. This includes, for example, our website content management, email marketing, social media publishing & reporting, contact management, and the provision of any landing pages and contact forms.

Through our sign-up service, we enable our website visitors to learn more about our company. In addition, you can download content and provide your contact information and other demographic information. This information, as well as our website content, is stored on servers operated by our software partner HubSpot and may be used by us to contact our website visitors. In addition, we use the information to determine which of our company's services are of interest to you.
We use HubSpot on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) a) DSGVO. We use HubSpot Forms on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, whereby our legitimate interest lies in the provision of any contact forms and simplified communication with interested parties. We would like to point out that when using HubSpot Forms, no personal tracking takes place as with HubSpot itself.

HubSpot is a software company from the USA. To legitimize the transfer of data to the USA, HubSpot Inc. relies on EU standard contractual clauses: https://legal.hubspot.com/dpa.

Further information on data protection can be found in HubSpot's privacy policy: HubSpot Privacy Policy, HubSpot Information on EU GDPR, Information on cookies used by HubSpot.

Provision of files and copyright

Ergosign owns and reserves the copyrights to all content made available for download on these pages. This content may not be reproduced, modified or otherwise made available for download, published, uploaded, transmitted or distributed without express permission. You agree that you will not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, transmit, broadcast or create derivative versions of the Content or the Site in any manner, in whole or in part. Ergosign cannot guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading through the Site will not be infected by software viruses or other malicious code or other harmful files or programs.

Online job applications / publication of job advertisements

We offer you the opportunity to apply for jobs with us via our website. For these digital applications, your applicant and application data will be collected and processed electronically by us for the purpose of handling the application process.

The legal basis for this processing is Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG in conjunction with. Art. 88 para. 1 DSGVO.

If an employment contract is concluded after the application process, we will store the data you provided during the application in your personnel file for the purpose of the usual organizational and administrative process - this, of course, in compliance with the more extensive legal obligations.

The legal basis for this processing is also Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG in conjunction with. Art. 88 para. 1 DSGVO.

If an application is rejected, we automatically delete the data provided to us two months after notification of the rejection. However, the deletion does not take place if the data requires longer storage of up to four months or until the conclusion of legal proceedings due to legal provisions, e.g. due to the obligation to provide evidence according to the AGG.

In this case, the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO and § 24 Para. 1 No. 2 BDSG. Our legitimate interest lies in the legal defense or enforcement.

If you expressly consent to a longer storage of your data, e.g. for your inclusion in a database of applicants or interested parties, the data will be further processed based on your consent. The legal basis is then Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO. However, you can of course revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3) DSGVO by declaration to us with effect for the future.

Facebook

To advertise our products and services and to communicate with interested parties or customers, we operate a company presence on the Facebook platform.

On this social media platform, we are jointly responsible with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Facebook's data protection officer can be reached via a contact form:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

We have regulated the joint responsibility in an agreement regarding the respective obligations in terms of the GDPR. This agreement, from which the mutual obligations arise, can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

The legal basis for the processing of personal data that thereby takes place and is reproduced below is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest is in the analysis, communication and sales and promotion of our products and services.

The legal basis may also be the user's consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO vis-à-vis the platform operator. The user can revoke this consent for the future at any time by notifying the platform operator in accordance with Art. 7 (3) DSGVO.

When calling up our online presence on the Facebook platform, data of the user (e.g. personal information, IP address, etc.) is processed by Facebook Ireland Ltd. as operator of the platform in the EU.

This user data is used for statistical information about the use of our company presence on Facebook. Facebook Ireland Ltd. uses this data for market research and advertising purposes and to create profiles of users. On the basis of these profiles, it is possible for Facebook Ireland Ltd., for example, to advertise users within and outside of Facebook according to their interests. If the user is logged into his account on Facebook at the time of the call, Facebook Ireland Ltd. can also link the data with the respective user account.

In the event that the user contacts us via Facebook, the user's personal data entered on this occasion will be used to process the request. The user's data will be deleted by us, provided that the user's inquiry has been conclusively answered and there are no statutory retention obligations, such as in the case of subsequent contract processing, to the contrary.

In order to process the data, Facebook Ireland Ltd. may also set cookies.

If the user does not agree to this processing, it is possible to prevent the installation of cookies by setting the browser accordingly. Cookies that have already been stored can also be deleted at any time. The settings for this depend on the respective browser. In the case of Flash cookies, processing cannot be prevented via the browser settings, but by the corresponding setting of the Flash player. If the user prevents or restricts the installation of cookies, this may mean that not all functions of Facebook can be fully used.

More details about the processing activities, their prevention and the deletion of data processed by Facebook can be found in Facebook's data policy:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

It is not excluded that processing by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited also takes place via Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 in the USA.

Twitter

We maintain an online presence on Twitter to present our company as well as our services and to communicate with customers/interested parties. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA.

In this respect, we would like to point out that there is a possibility that user data may be processed outside the European Union, in particular in the USA. This may pose increased risks to users in that, for example, it may be more difficult to access user data at a later date. We also do not have access to this user data. The access option lies exclusively with Twitter.

The privacy policy of Twitter can be found at

https://twitter.com/de/privacy

YouTube

We maintain an online presence on YouTube to present our company and our services and to communicate with customers/interested parties. YouTube is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.

The privacy policy of YouTube can be found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

General linking to third-party profiles

The provider uses a link on the website to the social networks listed below.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The legitimate interest of the provider is to improve the quality of use of the website.

The integration of the plugins takes place via a linked graphic. Only by clicking on the corresponding graphic, the user is forwarded to the service of the respective social network.

After the customer has been redirected, information about the user is collected by the respective network. This is initially data such as IP address, date, time and page visited. If the user is logged into his user account of the respective network during this time, the network operator may be able to assign the collected information of the specific visit of the user to the personal account of the user. If the user interacts via a "Share" button of the respective network, this information can be stored in the user's personal user account and may be published. If the user wants to prevent the collected information from being directly assigned to his user account, the user must log out before clicking on the graphic. In addition, it is possible to configure the respective user account accordingly.

The following social networks are linked by the provider:

facebook

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

twitter

Twitter Inc, 795 Folsom St, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

YouTube

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "Google".

The Google Analytics service is used to analyze the usage behavior of our website. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website.

Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, location, time or frequency of visits to our website, is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function. Through this function, Google already shortens the IP address within the EU or EEA.

The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of the visit to our website and the usage activities there. This data may also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and the use of the Internet.

Google states that it will not associate your IP address with any other data. In addition, Google keeps a record of your IP address at

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners

Google provides you with further information on data protection law, including information on how to prevent the use of your data.

In addition, Google offers a website at

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

offers a so-called deactivation add-on together with further information on this. This add-on can be installed with standard Internet browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you visit our website. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) of Google Analytics that information about the visit to our website should not be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services. If and which other web analytics services are used by us, you will of course also find out in this privacy policy.

Adobe Typekit

External fonts from "Adobe Typekit", a service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24 Republic of Ireland, hereinafter "Adobe", are used to display the font design.

When the provider's website is called up, a connection is established to the Adobe server in order to enable the display of the font or to update it. In the process, data may be transmitted to servers in the USA.

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However, in the opinion of the data protection supervisory authorities, the USA does not currently have an adequate level of data protection. Therefore, so-called standard contractual clauses exist between the provider and Adobe for the transfer of data to third countries:

https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html

However, these are private law agreements and therefore have no direct impact on the access possibilities of the authorities in the USA.

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The legal basis here is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The legitimate interest of the provider is the optimization and economic operation of the website.

Through the connection, Adobe can recognize from which website a request is sent and to which IP address the display of the font is transmitted.

Adobe provides further information, in particular on the options for preventing the use of data, under the following links:

https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy.html

https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html

Vimeo

We use "Vimeo" on our website to display videos. This is a service provided by Vimeo, LL C, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA, hereinafter referred to as "Vimeo".

Partial processing of user data takes place on Vimeo servers in the USA.

In the event that you have given your consent for this processing, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. The legal basis may also be Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our Internet presence.

If you visit a page of our website in which a video is embedded, a connection to the servers of Vimeo in the USA is established to display the video. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Vimeo to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website are also recorded.

If you are logged in to Vimeo at the same time as you visit one of our websites in which a Vimeo video is embedded, Vimeo may assign the information collected in this way to your personal user account there. If you wish to prevent this, you must either log out of Vimeo before visiting our website or configure your user account with Vimeo accordingly.

For the purpose of functionality and usage analysis, Vimeo uses the web analytics service Google Analytics. Google Analytics stores cookies on your end device via your Internet browser and sends information about the use of our website, in which a Vimeo video is embedded, to Google. It cannot be ruled out that Google processes this information in the USA.

If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option to prevent the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. Details on this can be found above under the item "Cookies".

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the quality improvement of our website and in the legitimate interest of Vimeo to statistically analyze user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.

Vimeo offers under http://vimeo.com/privacy for further information on the collection and use of data and on your rights and options for protecting your privacy.

YouTube

We use YouTube on our website. This is a video portal of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as "YouTube".

We use YouTube in connection with the "Enhanced Privacy Mode" function in order to be able to show you videos. In the event that you have given your consent for this processing, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO. The legal basis may also be Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website. According to YouTube, the "Enhanced Privacy Mode" function ensures that the data described in more detail below is only transmitted to the YouTube server if you actually start a video.

Without this "Enhanced Privacy Mode", a connection to the YouTube server in the USA is established as soon as you call up one of our Internet pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.

This connection is necessary in order to be able to display the respective video on our website via your Internet browser. In the course of this, YouTube will at least record and process your IP address, the date and time, as well as the website you visited. In addition, a connection to Google's advertising network "DoubleClick" is established.

If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube will assign the connection information to your YouTube account. If you wish to prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our website or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube user account.

For the purpose of functionality as well as for the analysis of user behavior, YouTube permanently stores cookies on your end device via your Internet browser. If you do not agree with this processing, you have the option to prevent the storage of cookies by a setting in your Internet browser. You can find more information on this above under "Cookies".

Google provides further information on the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard in the privacy policy published at https://policies.google.com/privacy available at.

Sample data protection declaration of the law firm Weiß & Partner.