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Privacy Policy

As safe as a building built with Cobiax: your data.

Data protection

We, Cobiax Deutschland GmbH, are happy to welcome you to our website www.cobiax.com and are pleased that you have expressed an interest in our company. We take the protection and security of your personal data entrusted to us very seriously and therefore want you to feel safe and comfortable when visiting our website and using our services.

It is particularly important to us that you know which personal data is collected when our offers and services are used and how we use this data afterwards.

Purpose of data processing

Cobiax Deutschland GmbH is a leading company in the development and production of various innovations in the construction sector. We have a patented technology that makes the use of solid concrete in a reinforced concrete ceiling unnecessary by using hollow body modules made of recycled plastic.

Insofar as Cobiax Deutschland GmbH processes personal data, this is done for the purposes stated in this data protection declaration.

Lawfulness of processing

Accessing our website

The IP address assigned to your computer is recorded and stored by us in order to transmit the website content you have accessed to your computer (e.g. texts, images and files made available for download, etc.) (cf. Art. 6 (1) lit. b General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)). We also process this data to identify and prosecute misuse. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest in data processing is to ensure the proper functioning of our website and the transactions carried out on it.

Other purposes

If you also provide us with personal data of your own accord, it will also be processed by us. For example, when registering for our software tool, when registering for our newsletter or when using our download services. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. The data processed by us include customer data, employee data and data of suppliers and interested parties insofar as these are required for the purposes specified in this data protection declaration.

If we process your data as described above for the purpose of receiving and processing your respective inquiry (or newsletter registration), you are contractually obliged to provide us with this data. We cannot process your request without this information.

If you have consented to the processing of personal data (cf. Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR), you can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

Software tool ‚Quick and Light‘

If you register to use our software tool, all your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provided there for processing enquiries and any queries that may arise, will be stored and processed by us.

In particular, it is necessary for the use of the program that you agree to the license agreement and register. As part of the registration then the information such as company name, first name, name, full address, telephone and e-mail address are recorded and processed. We use this data including to clearly identifying you as a user and to contact you regarding the Software.

Your aforementioned data will only be processed for the specific purpose of answering and processing your enquiry. The data will be processed in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent. You can object to this at any time (right of withdrawal).

Newsletter

If you subscribe to one of our newsletters, you must enter your email address, as well as your first and last name. Using the double opt-in procedure, we ensure that the subscription to the newsletter is actually requested for the e-mail address provided when registering. If you confirm your subscription to the newsletter, you will receive interesting information about this website, our products and services at irregular intervals to the e-mail address you have provided. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any newsletter e-mail and thus revoke your consent. We do not pass on your e-mail address, nor the other data received from you during registration, to third parties without your consent.

We use Newsletter2Go as our newsletter software. Your data will be transmitted to Newsletter2Go GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany. Newsletter2Go is prohibited from selling your data and using it for purposes other than sending newsletters. Newsletter2Go is a German, certified provider selected in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Federal Data Protection Act).

Download Services

If you want to use our download services, you must register. You are required to provide your company, title, first and last name, address, email address and telephone number. All of your above-mentioned data, including the contact data provided by you there, will be stored and processed by us for registration processing and any queries that may arise. Your aforementioned data will only be processed for the specific purpose of answering and processing your inquiry. The data will be processed in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent. You can object to this at any time (right of withdrawal).

Online application

If you send us your application documents via our online application portal or via e-mail, we collect and process all your personal data provided to us, hereinafter also referred to as application data. This includes the following data:

Your personal application data will be collected and processed exclusively for the purpose of filling positions within our company. In principle, the data is only forwarded to the internal departments and specialist departments of the job posting companies responsible for the specific application procedure. Your personal application data will not be passed on to other companies of the Heinze Gruppe GmbH without your prior and express consent. Your application data will not be used or passed on to third parties beyond this.

The personal application data sent to us will generally be deleted three months after completion of the application procedure. Exceptionally, we may also process the application documents after the aforementioned point in time if legal provisions prevent deletion, if further storage is necessary for the purpose of providing evidence or if you have expressly consented to longer storage.

If we are unable to offer you a current vacancy but believe that your application may be of interest to us for future vacancies due to your application profile, we will store your personal application data for 12 months. However, this will only be done if you have expressly consented to such storage and use.

We protect the data that we have collected in the context of your application against manipulation and unauthorised access by using various technical and organisational measures. In particular, the transfer of your application documents and the personal data contained therein is encrypted in accordance with currently recognised state-of-the-art technology.

By submitting your application, you consent to be contacted and informed by post, email and/or telephone during the application process. Furthermore, by sending us your application, you confirm that you have read and expressly consented to the information in this data protection declaration on the processing and use of your personal data. Please note that your application data will not be stored anonymously, but will be made available to the management and the relevant offices in our company for the position to be filled, including your personal data.

If you are under the legal age of majority, by sending us your application you confirm that you have obtained the consent of a parent or guardian to apply at our company before using our online application portal or sending your application documents by email. You further guarantee that all your details are correct.

Forwarding to third parties

If necessary for the purposes stated in this data protection declaration and if other companies should act for us as service providers/contract processors, your data may also be passed on to these companies and processed there.

Our service providers are service providers/processor bound by instructions and are accordingly obliged to process your data exclusively in accordance with our instructions and the applicable data protection laws. In particular, they are obligated to treat your data strictly as confidential. Furthermore, they are also forbidden to process the data for purposes other than those consented to. The forwarding of data to processor is carried out on the basis of Art. 28 (1) GDPR.

Furthermore, we use Newsletter2go, headquartered in Germany, Berlin, as a forwarding service provider / service provider for our newsletter system.

Your data will not be sold or otherwise marketed to third parties.

We will only disclose your personal data without your express consent to law enforcement authorities and, if necessary, to injured third parties if this is necessary to clarify any unlawful use of our services or for legal proceedings. However, this data forwarding is subject to concrete evidence of illegal or abusive behaviour. Furthermore, it may also be disclosed if this should become necessary to enforce terms of use or other agreements. We are also legally obliged to provide information to certain public authorities upon request. These include law enforcement authorities, authorities that prosecute offences subject to fines and tax authorities.

The disclosure of this data is based on our legitimate interest in combating abuse, prosecuting criminal offences and securing, asserting and enforcing claims, provided that your rights and interests in the protection of your personal data are not outweighed, Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

Planned data transfers to third countries

We do not currently transfer your data to third countries, nor are we planning to do so. If data is to be transferred to third countries at a later date, the necessary legal requirements will be created. In particular, you will be informed about any recipients or categories of recipients in accordance with legal requirements.

Security

In order to protect the data provided to us from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons, we use technical and organisational security measures. These technical and organisational security measures and their effectiveness are regularly reviewed by us and continuously improved in line with technological developments. When personal data is entered, it is always transmitted in highly encrypted form.

Cookies

We use cookies in some sections in order to make our website user-friendly and optimally tailored to your needs. A cookie is a small file that is stored locally on your computer when you visit a website. For example, if the website is visited again on the same device, the cookie indicates that the visit has been repeated. Cookies also enable us to analyse how our website is used. The cookie does not contain any personal data; it cannot be used to identify you on the websites of third parties. This also applies to the websites of the analytics providers.

We use one performance/statistics cookie:

This type of cookies collect information about how you use our website (for example, internet browsers used, number of visits, pages viewed or time spent on the website). These cookies do not store any information that allows a visitor to be personally identified. The information collected using these cookies is aggregated and is therefore anonymous.

We use the following statistical cookies:
1.:
Name:_ga (Google Analytics)
Type: Analytics cookie
Purpose: Saves an anonymous ID for every visitor to this website, so that the pages being accessed can be assigned to a user.
Provider: Google LLC (Google)
Duration: 2 years after visiting this website

You can set your web browser to accept or reject cookies – including for web tracking. You can configure your browser so that you either refuse cookies altogether, or are notified in advance whenever a cookie is being stored. However in this case the functionality of the website may be impaired (e.g. when placing orders). Your browser also offers the option to delete cookies (e.g. by clearing browsing data). You can find more information about in the operating instructions or this can usually be found under the web browser settings menu.

Our website has been programmed so that initially no cookies are placed or used. Cookies will only be placed and the information obtained through the use of these cookies once you have given your consent for this to happen, which can be withdrawn at any time. You can withdraw your consent and disable the use of cookies by clicking on the following link:

Change settings

Google Maps

This website has a link to the map service Google Maps. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

This is a link, so your data will not be forwarded to the map service operator when visiting our website.

Only when you follow the link by clicking, will you be redirected to the website of Google Maps and leave the website of Cobiax Deutschland GmbH.

If you have clicked on the link and you have been redirected to the website of the map service provider, we have no influence on the data collected, data processing operations and are not responsible for this data processing. In this respect, we are not responsible for the aforementioned case within the meaning of the GDPR. We are not aware of the full extent of the data collection, its legal basis, the purposes and the retention periods. Consequently, the information we provide here is not necessarily complete.

For more information on terms of use and privacy, please visit the Google Privacy Policy & Terms of Use page.

Anonymised website tracking

In order to adapt our website to the needs of our customers, visits to our website are analysed. To do this, we use your IP address, which we previously make anonymous (and possibly similar numbers that are exchanged between computers during normal Internet use). This is done with the intention of being able to carry out an analysis. Among other things, this involves the analysis of the data of the websites visited via the Cobiax Deutschland GmbH website, your browser and your computer.

Cookies are also set for this purpose. Our cookie only contains a unique number so that we can recognize you on our websites – but not on third-party websites. The stored data is evaluated exclusively for statistical purposes. The IP address is not associated with a particular person.

Use of Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses what are known as “cookies”, text files stored on your computer that allow your use of the website to be analysed. Information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is normally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there, as soon as you have given your consent for this to happen.

IP anonymisation has been enabled on our website. Therefore, the user’s IP address is first shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting parties to the European Economic Area agreement. The full IP address is only transferred to a Google server in the US and shortened there in exceptional cases, if your consent has been provided. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website on behalf of the operator of this website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services related to website and internet use. The IP-address transferred from your browser by Google Analytics is not merged with other information held by Google. The placement of cookies can be disabled by changing your browser software’s settings as appropriate. However, if the placement of cookies has been disabled, you may no longer be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition, you can prevent Google collecting data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available from the page “Browser add-on for disabling Google Analytics“.

You can prevent Google Analytics collecting data by clicking on the following link. A data element that save your choice is stored on your browser using local storage. Unlike with cookies, these do not send any data to the server from which the cookie was sent. The information only remains on your system for this purpose: Deactivate Google Analytics.

More information regarding terms of use and data protection can be found on Google’s page “Privacy Policy & Terms of Use“. Please note that this website uses Google Analytics with the code extension “anonymizeIp” to ensure the anonymous collection of IP addresses (what is known as IP masking) and to prevent any direct personal identification.

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts for the uniform representation of fonts. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you visit our page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

Google Web Fonts is hosted on our local servers, so your personal information for using Google Web Fonts is stored only on our local servers and is not redirected to the provider. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a consistent and attractive presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font will be used by your computer.

More information about Google Web Fonts can be found on the Google Fonts FAQ page and you can also visit the Google Privacy Policy & Terms of Use page.

Statutory retention periods for the deletion of data

Legislators have issued various retention periods and obligations. The corresponding data is routinely deleted after the expiry of these periods. Should data not be affected by the statutory retention periods and obligations, they will be deleted and made anonymous, provided that the purposes stated in this data protection declaration no longer apply. If no other provisions regarding the duration of data storage arise from this data protection declaration, the data collected by us will be stored for as long as they are necessary for the above purposes for which they were collected.

Other use of data and data deletion

Your personal data will only be processed or used further if permitted by law or if you have consented to the processing or use of your data. If further processing for purposes other than those for which data were originally collected should take place, you will be informed of the other purposes before any further processing and will receive any further relevant information.

Identifying and tracking misuse of data

We keep information, in particular your IP address, for a maximum of 14 days for the purpose of identifying and tracking misuse. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. We retain data for 14 days on the grounds of our legitimate interest in guaranteeing the proper functioning of our website and the transactions conducted over it, as well as being able to ward off cyber-attacks and the like. If necessary, we use anonymous usage information for the design of our website according to our requirements.

Your rights

Right of access by the data subject

You have the right, upon request, to receive information from us at any time and free of charge about the personal data we have processed concerning you within the scope of Art. 15 GDPR. To do so, please send us an application by post or e-mail to the addresses below.

Right to rectification

You have the right to request us to rectify your personal data immediately and free of charge if it is incorrect (Art. 16 GDPR). Please contact us by post or e-mail at the addresses below.

Right to erasure ‚right to be forgotten‘

Furthermore, you have the right to request immediate and free deletion („right to be forgotten“) of your personal data if there are legal reasons in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR. This is the case, for example, if the data is no longer required for the original purpose for which it was collected, and you have declared your consent revoked and if there is no other legal basis and overriding reasons (e.g. legal obligations) for processing your data. If you wish to be deleted immediately, please contact us by post or e-mail at the addresses below.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to demand that we restrict processing of data free of charge if the conditions are met and in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. In particular, processing the data may be restricted if the processing is unlawful and the data subject refuses to delete his or her personal data and instead requests that the use of the personal data be restricted. Furthermore, the restriction of processing may be required in the event that the data subject has filed an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons for processing outweigh theirs. To request processing restrictions, please contact us by post or e-mail at the addresses below.

Right to data portability

Furthermore, you are entitled to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR. This is your right to receive the data that concerns you and is available to us in a common, structured and machine-readable format and to transfer this data to another controller, such as another service provider. This presupposes that the data processing is based on a consent or a contract and is carried out by means of automated procedures. To exercise your rights, please contact us by post or e-mail at the addresses below.

Right to object

In particular, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you, which is based, inter alia, on Art. 6 (1) lit. e or f GDPR, in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR. If you have exercised your right to object, we will stop the processing of your personal data, unless we can prove compelling reasons warranting protection for the processing, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or also in the event that the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. To exercise your right to object, please contact us by post or e-mail at the addresses below.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain to the data protection supervisory authorities responsible for us if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you by us is inadmissible. The contact details of the supervisory authorities responsible for us are as follows:

The Officer for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for Hessen

References and links

When you access internet pages referred to on this website, you may be asked again to provide information such as your name, address, e-mail address, browser properties, and so on. This data protection provision does not regulate the collection, transfer or handling of personal data by third parties.

Third party service providers can have their own and differing regulations in dealing with the collection, processing and use of personal data. It is therefore recommended to inform yourself on the websites of third parties about their practice for handling personal data before submitting personal data.

Amendments to our data protection provisions

In order to ensure that this data privacy declaration always complies with current legal requirements or to be able to include any changes to our services in the declaration, we expressly reserve the right to amend the data privacy declaration if necessary. The new data privacy statement will then apply for your next visit. We therefore ask you to revisit our privacy policy the next time you visit our website.

If you have any further questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact us directly at any time using the contact details below. We are also at your disposal for requests for information, applications or complaints:

Contact details of the responsible person:

As of: February 2022

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