Privacy Policy

Introduction

We appreciate your visit to our website and your interest in our company.

The personal rights of our visitors, interested parties, customers and employees have the highest priority for us. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. In certain areas, we collect and use certain personal data, which we treat with the utmost care and in accordance with existing data protection law.

In the following, we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data as well as your rights.

Responsible entity

Trust NICKOL GmbH
Schaumburger Str. 31 b
Data protection
65936 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Alexander Nickol (Managing Director)

General information

We collect and use personal data exclusively within the framework of the statutory data protection provisions. These are, for example, the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO, from May 25, 2018), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG, until May 24, 2018). Our employees and agents are obligated to comply with the provisions of data protection law. You can access this information at any time on our website.

Your rights

You have the following rights with respect to us regarding the personal data concerning you:

  • To confirmation as to whether data concerning you is being processed, to information about the data being processed, to further information about the data processing and to copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 DSGVO);
  • to correction or completion of incorrect or incomplete data (cf. also Art. 16 DSGVO);
  • to the immediate deletion of the data concerning you (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alternatively, insofar as further processing is necessary pursuant to Art. 17 (3) DSGVO, to the restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO;
  • to receive the data concerning you and provided by you and to transfer this data to other providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 DSGVO);
  • to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the data concerning you is being processed by us in breach of data protection regulations (cf. also Art. 77 DSGVO).

We are obliged to inform you of all recipients to whom we have disclosed data of any correction or deletion of data or restriction of processing that takes place on the basis of Articles 16, 17 (1), 18 DSGVO. However, this obligation does not exist insofar as this notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Notwithstanding the above, you have a right to information about these recipients.

In accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO, you also have the right to object to the future processing of data relating to you, provided that the data is processed by us in accordance with Art. 6 (1) f) DSGVO. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct marketing is permitted.

Collection and processing of data / contact form

When our homepage is accessed, we log and store information in log files that your browser transmits to us. This is data such as IP address, date and time, the accessed website, browser type and version, operating system and referrer URL. This is done exclusively for statistical purposes. A combination with other data sources is not made.

Within the Internet offer there is the possibility to enter personal or business data (such as e-mail addresses, names, addresses) via a contact form for the purpose of contacting us.

We need the e-mail address and the name to process your contact request. The disclosure of this data on the part of the user takes place on an expressly voluntary basis. Thus, we may come into possession of personal data or other information, which will be treated carefully by us in accordance with data protection laws. This data will only be processed for the purpose of handling and responding to your request. The data will be deleted after we have answered your inquiry, or if a continuation of communication with you is no longer expected and there are no legal storage obligations. Data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

The legal basis for the processing is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry, as well as contract initiation or a contract conclusion as such.

Protection of the stored data

We use extensive technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data provided to us from manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved and adapted according to the state of the art.

Cookies use

Information about the cookies created by this website or embedded elements can be viewed on the Cookie Statement subpage. There you have the possibility to view the cookies we collect and to view and change the settings regarding their storage.

Usage of Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is offered by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (in short: Google).

With reCAPTCHA, it can be checked whether data entries on our websites (contact form) were made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent by the website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user).

The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not notified that an analysis is taking place.

The data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 letter f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. Please inform yourself in this regard by means of the privacy policy of Google and, if applicable, also through the further links to associated Google agreements provided in these documents.

Web analysis tools

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our websites. This is an analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). In the process, pseudonymous usage profiles of visitors to our website are created. Google uses permanent cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is processed by Google in the USA. This information includes your IP address, the date and time of your visit, information about the browser you are using including language settings and, if applicable, your operating system, the address of the website from which you accessed our website (referrer URL) and information about the files you accessed. Google also processes the search term with which you found our website via a search engine. We use Google Analytics with IP anonymization activated. Your IP address is shortened by Google within the European Union or the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to the USA and only anonymized there. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit the following Google website: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Purposes of the data processing?

The data is processed for the purpose of market research and demand-oriented design of our website. Google processes this data on our behalf in order to evaluate the use of our website and to compile reports for us about the activities on our website. The processing is based on your consent. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 a) DSGVO and Art. 49 para. 1 a) DSGVO.

Storage duration?

The data will be stored for a maximum of 14 months. The provision of this data is not mandatory and not required for a contract with us. You can prevent the storage of cookies and thus the use of Google Analytics through your settings or, alternatively, through your browser settings. You can also prevent the processing of data generated by the cookie by downloading and installing the plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Applicant Information

If you would like to send us an unsolicited application by e-mail or via Xing and LinkedIn, you can view our data protection information on the application process here.

Questions?

If you have questions about this that this privacy statement could not answer, you can contact us at any time at the e-mail address privacy@trust-nickol.de.