TPS Technitube Röhrenwerke GmbH processes your personal data. This information explains the details.
With this privacy policy,
TPS-Technitube Röhrenwerke GmbH
Julius-Saxler-Straße 7
54550 Daun, Germany
Telephone: 0049 (0) 6592 7120
E-Mail: datenschutz@tpsd.de
(hereinafter referred to as “TPS”) fulfils its existing statutory duty to provide information in accordance with Art. 13 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) with regard to the processing of personal data on its website. We therefore explain below which personal data pertaining to you we process, and how we process it.
Personal data pursuant to Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR is, for example, information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, bank details, or date of birth.
The processing of personal data in accordance with Art. 2 No. 2 GDPR is deemed to occur in any process, with or without the aid of automated procedures, or in any series of processes, involving personal data.
We process personal data pursuant to Art. 4 No. 2 GDPR in accordance with the guidelines and requirements set out below, within the scope of an automated process founded on a relevant legal basis.
With regard to the fulfilment of statutory obligations, Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (c) GDPR provides the corresponding legal basis. We process your personal data depending on the respective statutory obligation.
The corresponding legal bases for other forms of data processing are set out below.
No automated decision is made in individual cases, including profiling, pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR.
In the case of use of the website for purely informational purposes, or whereby you do not register or transfer other information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser sends to our server. If you wish to view our website, we specifically collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and to guarantee stability and security.
The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR (“justified interest”).
In addition to use of the website for purely informational purposes, we also offer various services that you can take advantage of, if interested, and use other standard functions for the analysis or marketing of our offers, which are presented in greater detail below. To this end, you generally have to submit additional personal details, or we process such additional data, which we then use to perform the respective services. These are presented to you in this document.
In some cases we may make use of external service providers for the processing of your data. These are carefully selected by us, are obliged to follow our instructions, and are regularly inspected.
If our service providers or partners have their registered office in a state outside of the EU/the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the implications of this situation in the description of the order.
When you contact us by email, by telephone, or using a contact form, the data you share will be processed by us. The only mandatory information is that to be entered in the required fields shown in the respective contact option, and depending on the topic in question. These details are required so that we can respond to your query accordingly. You can provide further personal details on a voluntary basis if you like, e.g. if we are to send information materials to you by post we will require your address. We store your personal data with a view to answering your questions. We delete the data acquired in this context once storage is no longer required, or we limit its processing where statutory retention periods are in force.
The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (a) GDPR (“consent”), or alternatively Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR (“legitimate interest”)
In addition to the aforementioned data, when you use our website we use technical tools to perform various functions, in particular cookies, which are stored on your end device. When calling up our website, and at any subsequent time, you have the choice as to whether to generally approve the placement of cookies or can choose which individual additional functions you wish to select. Changes can be applied in your browser settings or via our Consent Manager Consent-Manager. Below we first describe cookies from a technical perspective, before looking more closely at your individual selection options, describing technically necessary cookies and cookies that you can voluntarily select or deselect.
Cookies are text files or information in a database that is stored on your hard disk and are assigned to the browser you use, allowing certain information to flow to the location in which the cookie is placed. Cookies cannot run programs or transfer viruses to your computer; rather they are primarily used to make the website faster and more user-friendly. This website uses the following types of cookie, the function and legal basis of which we will explain below:
Firstly, we use technically necessary cookies to display the website. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR (“legitimate interest”), as is apparent from the Cookie Consent Manager. The technical structure of the website requires that we use technologies, in particular cookies. Without these technologies, the proper function or complete presentation of our web pages cannot be assured, or the support functions cannot be facilitated. This essentially consists of transient cookies, which are deleted after the end of your website visit, or at the latest when you close your browser. You cannot deselect these cookies if you wish to use our website. However, you can of course configure your browser settings according to your preferences and also reject these technically necessary cookies. We hereby point out that you will then be unable to use our website, or will not be able to use it to its full extent.
Otherwise, Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (a) GDPR forms the legal basis for the use of cookies (“Consent”), which you can select the first time you visit our website and upon each subsequent visit, via the so-called Cookie Consent Manager Consent Manager. The functions are only activated if you grant consent, and can specifically serve to allow us to analyse and improve visits to our website, to facilitate your use via different browsers or end devices, to recognise you when you revisit the website, or to activate marketing (including, if applicable, to focus marketing on your interests, to measure the effectiveness of advertisements, or to display interest-orientated advertising). More detailed information on this can be found in this privacy policy and via the “Services”, Privacy Settings menu item when you click on “Configure” in our cookie banner.
The storage of information in an end device owned by you by means of the storage of cookies, as well as access to such information stored in any such end device by means of the reading of the cookies, is only permitted if you have granted us consent to do so in accordance with § 25 Para. 1 L. 1 TDDDG (Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz; Telecommunications-Digital-Services-Data-Protection-Act). However, in this regard, the GDPR provisions already stipulated apply in accordance with § 25 Para. 1 L. 2 TDDDG.
The withdrawal of your consent is possible, without affecting the legitimacy of the data processing performed prior to the withdrawal.
You can specify whether you wish to issue consent to all cookies, to only certain types of cookie, or not to issue consent at all.
This consent is voluntary. You can decline to issue consent, without stating reasons and without fear of detriment. You can withdraw this consent with future effect at any time here, without any threat of consequent disadvantage. However, we hereby point out that failure to grant consent or withdrawal of consent may mean that it will not be possible to use all of the functions of this website to their full extent.
Further information on the use of cookies will be provided in the sections that follow.
On this website we use the Matomo web analytics service to analyse and check the use of our website. We can use the acquired statistics to improve our website and make it more interesting to you as the user.
Matomo uses cookies. The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (a) GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TDDDG, i.e. embedding only takes place subject to your consent. This consent is voluntary. You can decline to issue consent, without stating reasons and without fear of detriment. You can withdraw this consent with future effect at any time here, without any threat of consequent disadvantage.
Otherwise, that is, without your consent, we will operate Matomo in a version that does not require cookies. In this case, no Matomo cookies will be stored on your computer for the purpose of web analytics. In order to analyse website use, your IP address and information such as time stamps, web pages visited, and your language settings are recorded. We store the information collected in this way on our server. The legal basis for the use of Matomo is therefore Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR.
This website uses Matomo with the “AnonymizeIP” extension. This means that IP addresses are processed in truncated form and cannot be linked to a particular individual. The IP address transferred from your browser via Matomo is not amalgamated with other data collected by us.
The prevention of the use of Matomo is also possible, by removing the checkmark below and thus activating the Opt-Out plug-in. In this case, an Opt-Out cookie is stored in your browser, which prevents Matomo from storing user data. If you delete your cookies, this will also cause the Matomo Opt-Out cookie to be deleted. The Opt-Out must be reactivated the next time you visit our site.
The Matomo program is an Open Source project. Information from the third-party provider regarding data protection can be found at matomo.org/privacy-policy/.
We have profiles on various so-called social media platforms. We operate the profiles with the following providers: YouTube and LinkedIn.
As operators of the site, we are the controller in accordance with Art. 4 Para. 7 GDPR, together with the provider as joint controller in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR.
The main content of the agreement regarding our joint responsibility pursuant to Art. 26 Para. 2 Line 2 GDPR is presented below
The provider assumes primary responsibility in accordance with the GDPR provisions for the processing of Insights data and will fulfil all obligations pursuant to the GDPR with regard to the processing of Insights data (including Art. 12 and 13 GDPR “Information obligations”, Art. 15 to 21 GDPR “Persons affected” and Art. 32 to 34 GDPR “Technical and organisational measures”).
Data relating to you collected in this context is processed by the platforms. This involves the transmission of this data to countries outside the European Union, in particular the USA.
Data transfer to companies in the USA takes place on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, as defined in Art. 45 Para. 3 GDPR, wherein it has been stipulated that the USA offers an appropriate level of protection.
We do not know how the social media platforms use the data from your visit to our account and your interaction with our posts for their own purposes, how long this data is stored, and whether data is forwarded to third parties. The data processing can differ depending on whether you are registered with and signed into the social network or are visiting the site as an unregistered user or are not logged in. When accessing a post or the account, the IP address assigned to your end device is transmitted to the provider of the social media platform. If you are not currently logged in as a user, a cookie on your end device can be used to trace your browsing behaviour. Via buttons integrated into websites, it is possible for the platforms to record your visits to these websites and allocate them to your respective profile. Using this data, tailored content or marketing may be displayed to you. If you wish to avoid this, you should log out or disable the “Stay logged in” function, delete cookies that are stored on your device, and restart your browser.
We rely on the provider's technical platform and services for these information services. We hereby point out that your use of our profiles on social media platforms and their functions is under your own responsibility. This applies in particular for the use of the interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, reviewing). When visiting our profiles, the providers of the social media platforms record data such as your IP address and other information available on your end device in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the operator of the account, with statistical information regarding your interaction with us.
Furthermore, we, as the provider of the information service, only process data relating to your use of our service that you provide to us and that requires interaction. If, for example, you ask a question to which we can only respond via email, we will store your information in accordance with our general data processing principles, which we describe in this privacy policy.
The legal basis for the processing of your data on the social media platforms by us is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR.
In order to exercise your rights as an affected person, you can contact either us or the provider of the social media platform. If one party is not responsible for responding, or must obtain the information from the other party, we or the provider will forward your request to the respective partner. For questions in relation to the creation of your profile or the processing of your data when using the website, please contact the operator of the social media platform directly. In case of questions regarding the processing of your interaction with us on our site, please write to us using the contact details provided above.
Addresses of the respective providers and URL for their privacy notices:
a) YouTube: The operator is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=de.
b) LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA; www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Further information on the data protection operated by the respective provider can be found beneath the provider’s aforementioned privacy notices, and also at youngdata.de.
We have integrated YouTube videos into our website, which are stored at www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website.
Here, we use the so-called Two-Click solution. This means that, if you visit our website, no personal data will initially be forwarded to the provider. All videos are integrated in “enhanced data protection mode”, i.e. no data relating to you as the user is transferred to YouTube if you do not play the videos. We make it possible for you to communicate directly with the provider via the video. Only when you play the videos will the data specified under B., I., “Collection of personal data when visiting our website” be transferred. In addition, YouTube will then be informed that you accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. This takes place irrespective of whether YouTube has provided a user account via which you are logged in, or whether no such user account exists. If you are logged in, your data will be allocated directly to your account. If you do not wish for your data to be allocated to your profile with YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as user profiles and uses it for the purposes of marketing, market research and/or the user-orientated design of its website. Analysis such as this specifically takes place (even for users who are not logged in) for the presentation of user-orientated marketing and to inform other users of the social network regarding your activities on our website. You have a right to object to the creation of these user profiles. To do so, you must contact YouTube in order to exercise this right.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (a) GDPR, in conjunction with § 25 TDDDG, i.e. integration only takes place subject to your consent. Consent is voluntary. You can decline to issue consent, without stating reasons and without fear of detriment. You can withdraw this consent with future effect at any time, without any threat of consequent disadvantage.
YouTube also processes your personal data in the USA. Data transfer to companies in the USA takes place on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, as defined in Art. 45 Para. 3 GDPR, wherein it has been stipulated that the USA offers an appropriate level of protection.
Further information regarding the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in the privacy policy. There you can also access further information regarding your rights and configuration options with a view to protecting your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
For acquiring possible interested parties for our products, we process the IP address of your end user device, the time and time zone, the target, status and data volume of the call-up and additional data transmitted from your web browser (normally the address of the website previously visited, the language, type and version of the browser, and details of the operating system), in order to then be able to generate leads. We forward corresponding information to our marketing service provider Wired Minds GmbH and delete it immediately after its collection and anonymised analysis. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (a) GDPR (“Consent”).
The storage of information in an end device owned by you, as well as access to such information stored in any such end device, is only permitted if you have granted us consent to do so in accordance with § 25 Para. 1 L. 1 TDDDG. However, in this regard, the GDPR provisions already stipulated apply in accordance with § 25 Para. 1 L. 2 TDDDG.
This consent is voluntary. You can decline to issue consent, without stating reasons and without fear of detriment. You can withdraw this consent with future effect at any time here, without any threat of consequent disadvantage.
Information from the third-party provider regarding data protection can be found at wiredminds.de/datenschutz-leadlab/.
We intend to process the data shared by you or collected by us in the case of an existing customer relationship and in the case of other paid contractual relationships, including for marketing purposes. The legal basis in this case, under data protection law, is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR (“legitimate interest”). According to the recitals of the GDPR, such legitimate interest is deemed to exist in relation to so-called direct marketing (Recital 47 Line 7). The term ‘direct marketing’ is understood to refer to the direct addressing of a customer by a provider, with the aim of promoting the paid purchasing of products or services. Customer satisfaction surveys and participation in polls also fall under the legal term of marketing. Other legal requirements (in particular those of § 7 Para. 3 UWG ("Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb"; Unfair Competition Act)) are of course observed.
Marketing takes place via post, electronically (including via email, in particular via our newsletters), or by telephone, provided this is legally permissible
Marketing measures specifically relate to all products and all services, to customer satisfaction surveys and polls, and to invitations to trade fairs and events.
You can submit an objection to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes at any time. The corresponding contact details are stated in the privacy notice. In this case, your personal data will no longer be processed for marketing purposes and will be deleted from the corresponding marketing mailing lists.
If we use order processors in this context, we have concluded a corresponding order processing agreement with these order processors in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR, such that the order processor is legally bound to follow our instructions.
If you submit an application to us, we will process the data that you make available to us in order to check whether we would like to establish and maintain an employment relationship with you.
If you apply online via our Careers Portal, your data will be processed within the systems of our holding company, Techniropa Holding GmbH, www.techniropa.de, which employs a suitable software partner for this purpose. An order processing contract in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with this software partner. The software partner will only process your data in accordance with statutory regulations, and only as bound by instruction within the scope of its order fulfilment as order processor. It has also taken the necessary measures to ensure security, as well as technical and organisational measures.
During the application procedure, in addition to your title, last name, and first names, standard correspondence data such as your postal address, email address, and telephone number will be stored. In addition, application documents such as cover letters, your CV, professional and educational qualifications, and employment references will be recorded.
If the process does not result in an employment relationship, the applicant data sent to us and entered by you will, as a rule, only be processed until a decision has been made regarding your hiring. The data will be deleted four months after sending the rejection or after the application documents have been returned to the applicant.
Storage in an applicant pool will then only take place if you have expressly issued your consent, Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (a) GDPR. The storage of this data will be for a maximum period of two years. This consent is voluntary. You can decline to issue consent, without stating reasons and without fear of detriment. You can withdraw this consent to the use of the contact details provided above with future effect at any time in text form (e.g. letter, email), without any threat of consequent disadvantage.
If we enter into an employment relationship with you, the data that you have provided to us for the establishment, implementation and, if applicable, termination of the employment relationship, will be processed.
The data may be processed for statistical purposes (e.g. reporting). When so doing, it is not possible to draw conclusions regarding individual people.
The legal basis is § 26 Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, “BDSG”) (§ 26 para. 8 L. 2 BDSG).
The maximum storage period depends on which purpose the data processing serves. In particular, the storage term will be based on the period for which storage is required for the fulfilment of its purpose. Furthermore, the data will be processed for the fulfilment of statutory obligations (e.g. commercial and tax-related retention obligations pursuant to § 257 German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch, “HGB”), § 147 German Tax Code (Abgabenordnung, “AO”) for up to ten years).
We transfer your data to our technical departments if this is deemed necessary.
The basis of authorisation for data processing within the Techniropa corporate group extending beyond this scope is Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR (“legitimate interest”). On this basis, data processing is lawful if the processing is necessary in order to safeguard our legitimate interests, unless the interests or fundamental rights of the affected person do not outweigh these interests. In the recitals of the GDPR, the legitimate interest for the transfer to a corporate group is substantiated in Recital 48. According to this recital, transfer within a corporate group for internal administrative purposes with regard to the processing of customer and employee/applicant data must be qualified as being within our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR.
The transfer of personal data to third parties extending beyond this scope shall then only occur provided it is required for the fulfilment of the respective purpose and we can cite a corresponding legal basis, in particular with regard to our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR.
In some cases we make use of external service providers for the processing of your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are obliged to follow our instructions, and are regularly inspected. All requirements of Art. 28 GDPR are observed.
The entire processing of your personal data takes place either in Germany or within member states of the European Union. We do not transfer your personal data to states outside of the member states of the European Union (so-called third states) or to other international organisations, unless otherwise stated in this document.
Insofar as we transfer personal data to service providers outside the EU, this only takes place if the third state has been confirmed by the EU Commission as offering an appropriate level of data protection in accordance with Art. 45 Para. 3 GDPR, or if other appropriate data protection guarantees (e.g. binding corporate data protection regulations or an agreement to adhere to the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission) are in place, or consent has been granted by the person concerned, Art. 44 ff. GDPR.
We take all necessary technical and organisational measures, taking into account the requirements of Art. 24, 25 and 32 GDPR, to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, access, modification, or dissemination by unauthorised persons and misuse.
As such, we observe those legal requirements regarding the anonymisation and encryption of personal data, the confidentiality, integrity, availability and capacity of the systems and services in conjunction with the data processing, regarding the availability of the personal data and the ability to quickly recover this data in the event of a physical or technical incident, and with regard to the establishment of procedures for the regular checking, assessments and evaluation of the effectiveness of the technical and organisational measures to guarantee the security of the processing.
Furthermore, we also observe the requirements of Art. 25 GDPR with regard to the principles of “privacy by design” and “privacy by default”.
You have a right to free information regarding your personal data and, if the legal prerequisites are met, a right to the correction, blocking and deletion of your data, to the limitation of its processing, to data portability, and a right of objection.
If we support the processing of your personal data for the balancing of interests, Art. 6 Para. 1 L. 1 (f) GDPR, you can object to its processing. In particular, this is the case if the processing is not required for the fulfilment of a contract concluded with you. If exercising such a right of objection, we request that you state the reasons why we should not have processed your personal data in the manner realised by us. In the case of a justified objection, we will examine the facts and will either cease or adjust the processing of the data or demonstrate to you our compelling and legitimate grounds for continuation of the processing of the data.
You also have the option to raise a complaint with the competent supervisory authorities (e.g. the State Officer for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hintere Bleiche 34, 55116 Mainz, Germany).
Should you have questions regarding the processing of your personal data, questions relating to the rights mentioned below or how to assert these rights, or if you wish to make suggestions, please contact us or our external data protection officer:
Telephone: +49 (0) 6592 712 1351
Email: datenschutzbeauftragter@tpsd.de
Version: 2, valid from 23.07.2024
The most up-to-date version of this document is to be considered valid.
