Responsible party
The responsible party within the meaning of the German Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-new) is: KiKxxl GmbH Mindener Str. 127, D-49084 Osnabrück, Germany. Tel.: +49 (0)541) 41- 3305 -0, email: info@kikxxl.de
Legal basis for the processing of personal data
We only process personal data if a legal basis exists, i.e. if
– consent has been given by the data subject (cf. Art. 6 GDP)
– Fulfilment of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
– According to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interests)
– Fulfilment of a legal obligation (e.g. according to UStG (German Turnover Tax Law), AO (German Fiscal Code), SGB (German Social Insurance Code), etc.)
Subject
Personal data is only collected on our website in the event of a contact request (contact form) or an online application. Your usage data is stored anonymously in log files. Your current IP address, the date and time of your visit to the site and the address of the page you called up are stored in these files.
Purpose limitation
The personal data you provide will be collected, processed and used solely for the purpose of your application or contact request. All personal data will be kept strictly confidential and not disclosed to third parties.
Erasure of data
Data collected through the contact form will be deleted after it has been processed, unless it is needed for further business purposes (e.g. contract initiation and information requests). Data collected through the online application will be handled in accordance with the document ‘Privacy Policy for Online Application’. Usage data will be deleted after 28 days.
1. Data protection at a glance
Analytics and third-party tools
When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behaviour. This happens primarily through the use of cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following Data Protection Policy.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this Data Protection Policy.
2. Social media
Google+ Plugin
Our website uses features of Google+. Provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Recording and sharing of information: Using the Google +1-push button, you can publish information all over the world. Via the Google+-push button, you and other users will receive personalised content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the information that you have provided for +1 content and also information via the site that you have viewed by clicking on +1. Your +1 can appear as references together with your profile name and your photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile or in other places in the websites and advertisements on the Internet.
Google lists information on your +1 activities in order to improve the Google services for you and others. In order to be able to use the Google+ push button, you require a globally visible, public Google profile, which must at least contain the name chosen for the profile. This name will be used in all Google services. In many cases, this name can also replace another name that you have used with parts of the contents via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be displayed to users who know your email address or who have other identifying information on you.
Use of the information recorded: As well as the purposes stated above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the current Google data protection regulations. Google publishes statistics that may have been compiled on the users’ +1 activities and shares these with users and partners such as the publisher, advertisers or linked websites.
3. Analytical tools and advertising
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (Google). Provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called ‘cookies’, text files that are stored on your computer and facilitate analysis of your use of the website. Information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising.
IP anonymisation
We have activated the IP anonymisation feature on this website. This means that your IP address is first shortened by Google in the member states of the European Union or in other member states of the EEA (European Economic Area) Agreement before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf this website’s owner, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports about website activities, and provide the website’s operator with further services related to website and Internet usage. Google will not link the IP address transferred by your browser as part of Google Analytics with any other data held by Google.
Browser plugin
You can prevent storage of cookies by appropriately setting your browser software; in this case, however, please note that you might not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. In addition, you can prevent data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google, by downloading and installing a browser plugin from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Objecting to the collection of data
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website: disable Google Analytics.
More information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
Contract data processing
We have entered into a contract data processing agreement with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities for the use of Google Analytics.
Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising programme from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (‘Google’).
In the context of Google AdWords we use the so-called conversion tracking. When you click on an ad served by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores on your computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used to personally identify users. Should the user visit certain pages of the website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the website can tell that the user clicked on the ad and proceeded to that page.
Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked through the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers see the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that personally identifies users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can opt out of this by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by changing your browser settings. They are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics.
‘Conversion cookies’ are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise both its website and its advertising.
For more information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, see the Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. If a cookie is deactivated, the functionality of the website may be restricted.
Facebook Pixel
Our website uses the visitor action pixel of Facebook, Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (‘Facebook’) for conversion measurement.
These allow the behaviour of site visitors to be tracked after they click on a Facebook ad to reach the provider’s website. This allows an analysis of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and their future optimisation.
The data collected is anonymous for us as operators of this website and we cannot use it to draw any conclusions about our users’ identities. However, the data are stored and processed by Facebook, which may make a connection to your Facebook profile and which may use the data for its own advertising purposes, as stipulated in the Facebook privacy policy Facebook Data Policy Guidelines. This will allow Facebook to display ads both on Facebook and on third-party sites. We have no control over how this data is used.
Please see Facebook’s privacy policy for more information on how we protect your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
You can also use the remarketing function ‘Custom Audiences’ in the ‘Settings for Advertisements’ section under https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen deactivate. To do so, you will first need to log into Facebook.
If you do not have a Facebook account, you can opt out of usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
Use of Facebook social plugins
This website uses social plugins (‘plugins’) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (‘Facebook’). The plugins are identified by the Facebook logo or the addition ‘Facebook Social Plugin’. When you visit a page on our website that contains such a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transferred from Facebook directly to your browser, which then embeds it into the website. By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page our website. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can link the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, by pressing the Like button or writing a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored there. The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of your data by Facebook and your rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy. If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.
Bing Universal Event Tracking (UET)
Data is collected and stored on our website using Bing Ads technologies, from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. This is a service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. This service enables us to track the activities of users on our website if they have reached our website via ads from Bing Ads. If you access our website through such an ad, a cookie is placed on your computer. A Bing UET tag is integrated on our website. This is a code that, in conjunction with the cookie, stores certain non-personal information about your use of the website. This includes, among other things, the length of time spent on the website, which areas of the website were accessed and via which advertisement the users arrived at the website. Information about your identity is not collected.
The information collected is transferred to Microsoft servers in the USA and stored there for a maximum of 180 days. You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website, as well as the processing of this data, by deactivating the setting of cookies. Under certain circumstances, this may restrict the functionality of the website.
In addition, Microsoft may be able to track your usage behaviour across multiple electronic devices through cross-device tracking, which enables Microsoft to display personalised advertising on or within Microsoft websites and apps. You can disable this behaviour at http://choice.microsoft.com/en-en/opt-out.
For more information about Bing’s analytics services, please visit the Bing Ads website (https://help.bingads.microsoft.com/#apex/3/en/53056/2). For more information about Microsoft and Bing privacy, please see Microsoft’s privacy policy (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-GB/privacystatement).
Use of Google Remarketing
This website uses the remarketing function service provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). This function is used to present interest-based advertisements to website visitors as part of the Google advertising network. The website visitor’s browser saves so-called ‘cookies’, text files that are stored on your computer and which make it possible to recognise the visitor when he or she visits websites that belong to the Google advertising network. Advertisements can then be presented to the visitor on these pages that relate to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function. According to its own information, Google does not collect any personal data during this process.
However, if you do not wish to use Google’s remarketing function, you can deactivate it by making the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-based advertising via the advertising network initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Further information on Google Remarketing and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.
Use of YouTube components with extended data protection mode
On our website we use components (videos) of the company YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company of Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We use the option ‘extended data protection mode’ provided by YouTube. When you display a page that has an embedded video, a connection will be made to the YouTube server and the content will appear on the website via a communication to your browser. According to the information provided by YouTube, in the ‘extended data protection mode’, your data will be transferred to the US YouTube servers only while you watch the video, in particular which of our Internet pages you just viewed. Should you be logged in to your YouTube account at the same time, YouTube will associate these collected data with your YouTube member account. You may prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account prior to visiting our website. Further information about data protection by YouTube is provided by Google under the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Use of Google Maps
The SOFTTECH GmbH website uses the Google Maps API to visually display geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google (Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043) also collects, processes and uses data on the use of the Maps functions by visitors to the website. Further information on data processing by Google can be found in Google’s privacy policy, which can be accessed at www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Use of Indeed Conversion Pixels
We use social plugins and conversion pixels from indeed.com, operated by Indeed Ireland Operations Limited 124 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. The social plugins can be identified by the Indeed logo or the addition ‘Indeed Social Plugin’. If you click on the Indeed logo button or post a comment, for example, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from your browser to Indeed and stored there. If you are logged in to Indeed, Indeed can link the visit to our website directly to your Indeed account. Even if you are not logged in or do not have an Indeed account, your browser transmits information (e.g. which website you have visited, your IP address) which is stored by Indeed. For details on how Indeed handles your personal data and your rights in this regard, please refer to Indeed’s privacy policy. If you do not want Indeed to link the data collected about you via our websites to your Indeed account, you must log out of Indeed before visiting our websites. You can also completely prevent Indeed plugins from loading by using add-ons for your browser. Please check with the respective provider before downloading and installing such an add-on.
Use of Instagram.com social plugins
We use social plugins from instagram.com, operated by Instagram, LLC ATTN: Arbitration Opt-out 1601 Willow Rd. Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. The plugins can be identified by the Instagram logo or the addition ‘Instagram Social Plugin’. If you click on the Instagram logo button or post a comment, for example, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from your browser to Instagram and stored there. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can link the visit to our website directly to your Instagram account. Even if you are not logged in or do not have an Instagram account, your browser transmits information (e.g. which website you have visited, your IP address) which is stored by Instagram. For details on how Instagram handles your personal data and your rights in this regard, please refer to Instagram’s privacy policy. If you do not want Instagram to link the data collected about you via our websites to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our websites. You can also completely prevent Instagram plugins from loading by using add-ons for your browser. Please check with the respective provider before downloading and installing such an add-on.
