DATA PROTECTION

Details about the responsible entity

Company:

SAE Applications for Digitalization GmbH

Legal representative:

Dipl. Ing. Erich Schaarschmidt

Susanne Henkel

Address:

Seegarten 12 – 14, 84187 Weng, GERMANY

Contact details data protection officer:

Robert Aumiller
E-Mail: r.aumiller@r-au.de
Website: www.r-au.de
Phone: 0049 (0) 9431/7160-27

Personal data is only collected if you provide it to us by yourself. Apart from that, no personal data is collected. Any processing of your personal data that goes beyond the scope of the legal permissions will only take place if you give your explicit consent.

Processing purpose:

Contract execution

Categories of recipients:

Public entities in case of the existence of priority legal obligations

External service providers or other contractors

Further external entities provided that the person affected has given his or her consent or a transfer is allowed due to an overriding interest.

Third-country transfers:

As part of contractual execution, processors outside the European Union may also be used.

Duration of data storage:

The duration of the data storage complies with the legal storage obligations and is generally 10 years.

If you as a visitor neither contact us via the contact form, the appointment booking or the live chat function, nor make a purchase, we collect the following data transmitted by your browser in so-called log files::

IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time, content of the request, HTTP status code, amount of data transferred, website from which the request originated and information about the browser and operating system.

This is necessary to display our website and to ensure stability and security so that our hoster can charge us for the services provided and to enable efficient provision of the website. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

We use the following hoster for the provision of our website.

Kinsta Inc.
Attn: Privacy and Data Protection Team
8605 Santa Monica Blvd #92581
West Hollywood, CA 90069
USA
privacy@kinsta.com

Kinsta mainly uses the Google Cloud Platform service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google) for its infrastructure.

Kinsta has implemented compliance measures for international data transfers with Google. These apply to all global activities in which Kinsta processes personal data of natural persons in the EU. These measures are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Kinsta is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a processor for us. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in not having to maintain a server on our premises ourselves. The server is located in Frankfurt, Germany.

Further information on objection and removal options towards Kinsta Inc. can be found at: https://kinsta.com/legal/privacy-policy/

You have the right to object to the processing. Whether the objection is successful must be determined as part of a balancing of interests.

The data will be deleted after 30 days.

The processing of the data specified in this section is not required by law or contract. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing.

We use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) of Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 Munich Germany (Cloudflare) to increase the security and delivery speed of our website. This corresponds to our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). A CDN is a network of [weltweit] distributed servers that is able to deliver optimized content to the website user. For this purpose, personal data may be processed in Cloudflare’s server log files. Please compare the details under “Hosting”.

Cloudflare is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a processor for us. This corresponds to our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR not to operate a content delivery network ourselves.

You have the right to object to the processing. Whether the objection is successful must be determined as part of a balancing of interests.

The processing of the data specified in this section is not required by law or contract. The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing.

Your personal data will be stored by Cloudflare for as long as is necessary for the purposes described.

Further information on objection and removal options towards Cloudflare can be found at: Cloudflare DPA

Cloudflare has implemented compliance measures for international data transfers. These apply to all global activities in which Cloudflare processes personal data of natural persons in the EU. These measures are based on the EU standard contractual clauses (SCCs). Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter: https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/cloudflare-customer-scc/

This website provides a contact form. This contact form collects personal data such as name and e-mail address, as well as your IP address (at the time of contact form submission), which are collected and stored electronically. The legal base for the processing of this data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. These data will not be transmitted to third parties and are used to answer and organize the contact inquiry, as well as for internal statistics. By using the contact form, you agree that you are in agreement with this. Furthermore, by using the contact form, you agree that SAE Applications for Digitalization GmbH may inform you by email about SAE’s product portfolio, SAE events, and other relevant topics such as publications (e.g. success stories, white papers, etc.). You can cancel this consent at any time by e-mail to kontakt@sae-portal.de, by fax, or by post.

We explicitly point out that you are not obliged to use the contact form. You can also use other ways to contact us. You can find this information under the menu item “Contact” as well.

This website provides various contents, files, and information, which are only accessible after successful submission of a form providing personal data such as name and e-mail address, as well as IP address (at the time of form submission). This data is collected and stored electronically. The legal base for the processing of this data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. This data will not be transmitted to third parties and is used for answering and transmitting the requested content, files, and information, as well as for internal statistics. By using the form, you agree that you are in agreement with it. Furthermore, by using this form, you agree that SAE Applications for Digitalization GmbH may inform you by email about SAE’s product portfolio, SAE events, and other relevant topics such as publications (e.g. success stories, white papers, etc.). You can cancel this consent at any time by e-mail to kontakt@sae-portal.de, by fax, or by post.

When registering for our newsletter, you provide us with your email address and, on an optional basis, further information. We use these data solely for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. We store the data that you provide with your newsletter subscription until you unsubscribe from our newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in the newsletter provided for this purpose, or by sending us a respective notification. By unsubscribing, you disagree with the usage of your email address.

We also use your email address, which we receive in relation to the sale of a product or service, exclusively for direct advertising in the form of our newsletter for products or services that we sell that are similar to the ones you ordered, provided that you have not disagreed to having your email used for this purpose. You can disagree with the usage of your e-mail address at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the base rates. Your objection (and thus the unsubscription from our newsletter) can be transmitted by sending an appropriate message to our email address (see Legal Notice).

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”), which enables an analysis of your usage of our website. By default, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies when you visit the website, and these are stored as small text modules on your end device and collect certain information. The scope of this information also includes your IP address, which is, however, shortened by Google by the last digits in order to avoid a direct personal connection. The information is transferred to Google servers and processed there. This may also involve transfers to Google LLC, which is based in the USA. Google uses the information collected to evaluate the usage of the website. These reports of website activities are compiled in order to provide further services related to website and internet usage. The data collected in the context of the use of Google Analytics 4 is stored for a period of two months and thereafter deleted. All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies on the end device used, is only executed with your consent in accordance with Art. 6 paragraph 1 lit. a DSGVO. You can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. To exercise your right of withdrawal, please deactivate this service via the “cookie consent tool” provided on the website.
We have concluded an data processing agreement with Google. (Data Privacy Framework)
Further legal information on Google Analytics 4 can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=de and at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en.

• Demographics and Interests
  Google Analytics 4 uses the special “Demographics and Interests” function and can use it to create statistics that make statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This is done through the analysis of advertising and information from third parties. This allows target groups to be identified for marketing activities. However, the collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person and is deleted after being stored for a period of two months.
• Google Signals
  As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals will be used on this website to generate cross-device reports. If you have activated personalized ads and linked your devices to your Google account, Google may, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics according to Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO, analyze your usage behavior across devices and create database models, including on cross-device conversions. We only receive statistics from Google. If you want to stop cross-device analytics, you can disable the “Personalized Advertising” feature in your Google Account settings. To do so, follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155764?hl=en. More information about Google Signals can be found at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en.

This website uses Google AdWords Conversion Tracking, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). („Google“). Google AdWords Conversion Tracking also uses “cookies” stored on your computer that allow an analysis of your usage of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google will in no case associate the data with other Google data. You can generally prevent the use of cookies by prohibiting the storage of cookies in your browser.

This website is protected by reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy and terms of use apply.

This website uses SalesViewer® technology from SalesViewer® GmbH on the basis of the website operator’s legitimate interests (Section 6 paragraph 1 lit.f GDPR) in order to collect and save data on marketing, market research and optimization purposes, but this data is not used for advertising purposes. In order to do this, a JavaScript based code, which serves to capture company-related data and according website usage. The data captured using this technology are encrypted in a non-retrievable one-way function (so-called hashing). The data is pseudonymized and not used to personally identify the visitor to this website. The data stored by Salesviewer will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and there are no legal obligations to retain them.

The data recording and storage can be repealed at any time with immediate effect for the future, by clicking on https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out in order to prevent SalesViewer® from recording your data. In this case, an opt-out cookie for this website is saved on your device. If you delete the cookies in the browser, you will need to click on this link again.

SAE uses chat software from the company Userlike UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Probsteigasse 44-46, 50670 Cologne, Germany. You can use the chat like a contact form to chat with our employees in nearly real time. When starting the chat, the following personal data is gained:

• Date and time of the request
• URL of the previously visited website
• If provided: First name, last name and e-mail address

Depending on the course of the conversation with our employees, further personal data may arise in the chat, which are entered by yourself. The type of this data depends very much on your request or the problem you are describing to us. The purpose of processing all this data is to provide you with a quick and efficient way to contact us and thus improve our customer service.

All our employees have been and will be trained on the subject of data protection and taught how to handle customer data securely and confidentially. All our employees have been and will be trained on the subject of data protection and taught how to handle customer data securely and confidentially. By visiting www.sae-portal.de, the chat widget is loaded in the form of a JavaScript file from AWS Cloudfront. The chat widget technically represents the source code that runs on your computer and enables the chat.

In addition, SAE stores the history of the chats for a period of 12 months. This serves the purpose of avoiding extensive explanations of the history of your inquiry and for the constant quality control of our chat service. The processing is therefore permitted under Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If you do not wish to do so, you are invited to inform us using the contact details listed below. Saved chats will then be immediately deleted by us. The storage of chat data also serves the purpose of ensuring the security of our information technology systems. This is also our legitimate interest, which is why the processing is permitted under Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.

For more information, please see the privacy policy of Userlike UG (haftungsbeschränkt).

This website uses Calendly for the provided online appointment scheduling. This page provides an external platform for scheduling appointments. Via a script, the appointment scheduling is integrated into the source code on our website. By using the appointment service you automatically use the services of Calendly LLC (https://calendly.com/). There, data is transferred that serves security and documentation purposes of SAE Applications for Digitalization GmbH. The data collected includes: Name, email address, company, department/position, phone number, IP address (at the time of booking the appointment), arranged date and time. This data will not be passed on to third parties and will only be used for the administration and organization of the dates, as well as for internal statistics. By using the appointment service, you agree that you are consenting to this. Here you can find more information from Calendly: https://calendly.com/pages/privacy

We explicitly point out that you are not obliged to use this service to make an appointment. You can also use other options that we have indicated under the menu item “Contact”.

This website uses Borlabs Cookie which sets a technically necessary cookie (borlabs cookie) to save your cookie permissions. Borlabs Cookie does not process any personal data. The borlabs cookie saves the permissions that you gave when you entered the website. If you wish to withdraw these permissions simply delete the cookie from your browser. When you re-enter/reload the website you will be asked again for your cookie permission. Borlabs stores the data for 1 year.

This website uses its own “cookies” to enhance the user experience (“cookies” are records that are sent from the webserver to the user’s browser and stored there for later retrieval). Our own “cookies” never store any personal data. You can prevent the use of cookies in general if you set your browser to disallow the storage of cookies.

In the context of handing over or exchange of business cards, you submit personal data to us, like telephone numbers or email addresses. We only use this information to stay in contact with you. If you do not purchase any products or services from our portfolio, we will delete your contact details after a reasonable period of time.
You have the right to information, deletion, or correction at any time.

Data concerned:

Application data

Processing Purpose:

Execution application process

Categories of recipients:

Public entities in case of the existence of priority legal obligations

External service providers or other contractors

Further external entities provided that the person affected has given his or her consent or a transfer is allowed due to an overriding interest.

Third-country transfers:

As part of contractual execution, processors outside the European Union may also be used.

Duration of data storage:

Application data will generally be deleted within six months after communication of the decision unless consent has been given for

a longer period of data storage.

Data concerned:

Data communicated for contract execution; if necessary, additional data for processing on the basis of your explicit consent

Processing Purpose:

Contract execution

Categories of recipients:

Public entities in case of the existence of priority legal obligations

External service providers or other contractors

Further external entities provided that the person affected has given his or her consent or a transfer is allowed due to an overriding interest.

Third-country transfers:

As part of contractual execution, processors outside the European Union may also be used.

Duration of data storage:

The duration of the data storage complies with the legal storage obligations and is generally 10 years.

Data concerned:

Data communicated for contract execution; if necessary, additional data for processing on the basis of your explicit consent

Processing Purpose:

Contract execution

Categories of recipients:

Public entities in case of the existence of priority legal obligations

External service providers or other contractors

Further external entities provided that the person affected has given his or her consent or a transfer is allowed due to an overriding interest.

Third-country transfers:

As part of contractual execution, processors outside the European Union may also be used.

Duration of data storage:

The duration of the data storage complies with the legal storage obligations and is generally 10 years.

Data concerned:

Data communicated for contract execution; if necessary, additional data for processing on the basis of your explicit consent

Processing Purpose:

Contract execution

Categories of recipients:

Public entities in case of the existence of priority legal obligations

External service providers or other contractors

Further external entities provided that the person affected has given his or her consent or a transfer is allowed due to an overriding interest.

Third-country transfers:

As part of contractual execution, processors outside the European Union may also be used.

Duration of data storage:

The duration of the data storage complies with the legal storage obligations and is generally 10 years.

Data concerned:

Data provided for the use of the video conferencing software or the webinar software (esp. first name, last name, e-mail address; optional – after consent: Audio transmission; optional – after consent: Image transmission; optional: questions when using chat functions); to the extent technically necessary, processing of data from your system to establish the connection with the provider of the video conferencing software or the webinar software.

Processing Purpose:

Holding video conferences or webinars

Categories of recipients:

Public entities in case of the existence of priority legal obligations

External service providers or other contractors, among others data processing and hosting

Further external entities provided that the person affected has given his or her consent or a transfer is allowed due to an overriding interest.

Third-country transfers:

Processors outside the European Union are used (here: United States of America); standard contractual clauses have been concluded with the service provider accordingly.

Duration of data storage:

A recording of video conferences or webinars will only take place with the previously documented consent of the participants. The technical data is deleted if it is no longer required. The duration of the data storage complies with the legal storage obligations and is generally 10 years.

In addition, you may at any time claim your right to correction or deletion or to restriction of processing or to exercise your right to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability. Here you will find the possibility to contact us by email or letter. You also have the right to contact the data protection supervisory authority for complaints.