Privacy information

Privacy information SCHWENK website according to Art. 13 GDPR

Note: In the following, personal terms always include all genders.

We process your personal data in accordance with the applicable legal data protection requirements. Personal data refers to all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. With these privacy notices, we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection of personal data on our website and how we handle this data. In addition, you will learn about your rights regarding the processing of your personal data. This privacy information is regularly reviewed and adapted if necessary. Please therefore regularly inform yourself using this privacy information.

1. Scope of this privacy information

1.1. Principle

This privacy information applies to all visitors of our website.

1.2. Supplementary application of special regulations

For certain services, there is additional privacy information that supplements this privacy information. This applies, for example, to the privacy information for business partners, which you can find in the download area of this website, or for applicants on our career page in the online application area.

2. Name and contact details of the controller

SCHWENK Zement GmbH & Co. KG
Management: Eduard Schleicher, Thomas Spannagl, Stephan Pott
Hindenburgring 15
89077 Ulm
Tel. +49 731 9341-0
E-Mail: info@schwenk.de
www.schwenk.de

3. Contact details of the external data protection officer

OFFICESCHOCH GmbH
Melanie Schoch
Tel. +49 151 5551 2959
E-Mail: datenschutz@schwenk.de

4. Categories of personal data processed

When you access our website or download a file, data about this process is stored in a log file on our web server. Specifically, the following data may be stored:

IP address (if possible, this is stored in an anonymized form)
Domain name of the website you came from
Names of the files accessed
Date and time of access
Name of your Internet Service Provider
and, if applicable, the operating system and browser version of your device.

The statistical evaluation of anonymized data sets remains reserved.

5. Purposes and legal bases of processing

The processing of your personal data takes place for the purpose and on the basis of:

Ihrer Einwilligung gemäß Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 a) DSGVO
Im Falle einer durch Sie zu einem bestimmten Zweck erteilten Einwilligung ist die Rechtmäßigkeit der Verarbeitung auf Basis der Einwilligung gegeben, z.B. YouTube etc.

To fulfill contractual and pre-contractual obligations in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b) GDPR, the processing of your aforementioned personal data is necessary to provide our website, answer your request, including via the contact form.
Of legal requirements in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 c) GDPR
We are subject to extensive legal and regulatory requirements, which require the processing of personal data, for example, to fulfill legal retention obligations.
Of a legitimate interest Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f)
– We store your IP address for security reasons. We assume in this case that your interest in the processing of your data does not outweigh it.
– When using the open-source web analytics service Matomo, we anonymize your IP address for statistical evaluation of user behavior and to improve the usability of our website and career area.

6. Recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data

We do not pass on your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to such data transfer, the data transfer is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations, or we are entitled or obliged to pass on data on the basis of legal provisions and/or orders from authorities or courts.

Your personal data will be transmitted to:

Those departments within the company who need them to fulfill our contractual and legal obligations.
Contract processors (entity outside the company that processes personal data on behalf of the controller in a binding manner)
for the purpose of fulfilling the contract pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.
Lawyers for the purpose of clarifying other disputes.
Public authorities and institutions (e.g. courts) if there is a legal or official obligation to comply with legal provisions.

Further data recipients may be those to whom you have given your consent to transmit data.

7. Transfer of personal data to a third country

A transfer of data to a third country only takes place when using YouTube videos embedded on our website, insofar as you have given us your consent.

We have embedded YouTube videos on our website that are stored on the servers of the provider YouTube and can be played on our website via an embedding. The embedding of the videos is done with the activated option for enhanced privacy settings. If you play these videos, YouTube cookies and DoubleClick cookies may be stored on your computer and data may be transferred to Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, as the YouTube operator.

When playing videos stored on YouTube, at least the following data is currently transmitted to Google as the YouTube operator and operator of the DoubleClick network: IP address and cookie, the specific address of the page you visited on our website, system date and time of the visit, and the identifier of your browser.

The transmission of this data takes place regardless of whether you have a Google user account that you are logged in with, or whether you do not have a user account. If you are logged in, this data may be directly assigned to your account by Google. If you do not want the assignment to your profile, you must log out before activating the play button for the video.

YouTube or Google Inc. store this data as usage profiles and may use it for purposes of advertising, market research and/or the needs-based design of their websites. Such evaluation takes place in particular (also for unregistered users) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users about your activities on our website. You have a right of objection to the formation of these user profiles, whereby you must exercise this right by contacting Google as the operator of YouTube.

Further information on the purpose & scope of data collection and its processing by Google can be found on this information page: Privacy Policy – Privacy Policy & Terms of Use – Google

8. Duration of storage of personal data

Your personal data as per section 4 will be processed for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the request or as legally required. We store your IP address with log files and the URL called for 14 days for analysis, intrusion detection and troubleshooting.

9. Your obligation to provide data

Personal data required to answer your request and provide our website, or the collection of which we are legally obligated to, must be provided by you.

10. Automated decision-making including profiling

We do not use automated processing procedures including profiling to establish or execute a contractual relationship (Art. 22 GDPR). Should we use these procedures in individual cases, we will inform you separately if legally required.

11. SSL encryption

This website uses SSL encryption (Secure Socket Layer) for the transmission of data from your browser to our server and to servers that provide files which we embed on our website. With SSL, data is transmitted encrypted. The data cannot be altered and the sender can be identified. You can recognize the presence of SSL encryption by the prefix “https” before the address of the website you are calling up in your browser.

12. References to third-party websites

This website offers references to third-party websites in the form of so-called links. Data is only transmitted to the link destination when you click on such a link. This is technically necessary. The transmitted data includes, in particular, your IP address, the time you clicked on the link, the page on which you clicked the link, and information about your internet browser. If you do not want this data to be transmitted to the link destination, do not click on the link.

If you follow a link to one of these websites, we would like to point out that these websites have their own privacy information (also called privacy policies or privacy notices) and that we are not responsible or liable for this data processing. Please review this privacy information before submitting any personal data to these websites. External links are marked with this symbol: Symbol for external links

13. Cookies

This website uses the following cookies.

Name	Domain	Lifespan	Purpose of processing
borlabs-cookie*	.schwenk.de	1 year	Stores the user’s consent status for cookies on the current domain.
wp-wpml_current_language	.schwenk.de	Session	Stores the user’s chosen language for future visits to the website.
_pk_id.*	.karriere.schwenk.de	28 Days	Used to store some details about the user, such as the unique visitor ID. Collects statistics about the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website, and which pages were read.
_pk_ref.*	.karriere.schwenk.de	6 Months	The referrer in the World Wide Web refers to the website from which the user came to the current website or file. This cookie is used to store which website the visitor originally came from.
_pk_ses.*	.karriere.schwenk.de	30 Minutes	Used by Matomo to track the visitor’s page views during the session.
SESSID	.schwenk.de	Session	Used to store the career groups selected in the “training matcher” that the website visitor is interested in.

You can change your current cookie settings via “Current Cookie Settings”:

Cookies are data records that are created when you visit our website and are stored and saved on your device by our server. Cookies support the presentation of our website and help you navigate our website as user-friendly as possible and optimize the information for you, which would not be easily possible without setting cookies. Cookies collect data on the browser and operating system used, your internet connection and IP address. Setting cookies allows us to recognize you, i.e. the visitor to our website, and thus make it easier for you to use our website. Under no circumstances will we use cookies to install malicious or spyware on your device. Our website can also be used without the use of cookies. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser software and permanently disable cookie setting. However, we would like to point out that if you deactivate cookies, you may not be able to fully use all the functions of this website. Already set cookies can be deleted at any time via the settings of your browser software or other programs.

14. Contact form

On the SCHWENK website, you have the opportunity to contact us and, for example, submit your inquiries to SCHWENK via a contact form or register for one of our events. Which personal data is transmitted to SCHWENK in the process results from the respective input mask used for registration. The personal data transmitted to SCHWENK is used exclusively for internal use to process the corresponding inquiries and for our own purposes. Data will not be shared without your consent. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 lit. a or b GDPR.

15. Matomo

No cookies are used with the use of Matomo; this means that individual users cannot be distinguished from each other and returning users cannot be identified. To ensure the protection of the personal data of users, the person responsible for the website has activated the so-called “IP anonymization”. This means that the IP addresses of users are only processed in shortened form – i.e. anonymized.

If you generally do not want tracking when visiting our website, you can activate the “Do Not Track” function in your browser; Matomo will then not collect any data. Further information on data protection with Matomo can be found at https://matomo.org/privacy.

16. OpenStreetMap

This page uses the map software OpenStreetMap from OpenStreetMap Foundation, 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom (“OSM”). When using OpenStreetMap, your IP address is transmitted to an OSM server and may be stored there. The use of OpenStreetMap is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Further information can be found in the privacy policy of OpenStreetMap at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

17. WordPress

We use WordPress as a content management system for our website. WordPress uses functional (necessary) cookies to ensure the login process for editors and administrators. In particular, a cookie named wordpress_test_cookie is set when attempting to log in to the WordPress administration interface. This cookie is used exclusively for the active session and is deleted as soon as you close the browser. The cookie is not used to evaluate users.

18. Online application

Via our application portal, you have the opportunity to apply online. Information on data processing in the application process can be found at the beginning of the input mask.

19. Data subject rights

According to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:

Right to information:
If your personal data is processed, you have the right to obtain information about the data stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR).
Right to rectification:
If incorrect personal data is processed, you have the right to
Rectification, erasure (“right to be forgotten”) and restriction of processing:
If the legal requirements are met, you can request the erasure or restriction of processing (Art. 17 and 18 GDPR).
Right to data portability:
If you have consented to the processing of data or if there is a contract for data processing and the data processing is carried out using automated procedures, you may have the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).
Right of withdrawal:
You can revoke at any time, free of charge and with effect for the future, any consent given for the processing of personal data.

Right to lodge a complaint:
If you have data protection concerns, you can contact the relevant supervisory authority.
Right to object:
You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR (Art. 21 GDPR). If you lodge an objection, we will cease processing your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. The objection can be made in any form. To exercise your rights, please contact our external data protection officer.

20. Changes to this privacy information

We will update this privacy information from time to time to reflect changes in our practices. Making changes to this privacy information will also change the date indicated at the top of this information, which indicates the latest update.

Date: February 2024