Privacy Policy

BELECTRIC GmbH
Wadenbrunner Str. 10
97509 Kolitzheim, Deutschland

Contact our Data Protection Officer
Email: datenschutz@belectric.com

We would like to thank you for your interest in our company. The responsible authority for the offer of this website is BELECTRIC GmbH. We take the protection of your personal data seriously and like to inform you about our following privacy principles. We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the relevant laws on data protection and IT security are observed. Below you will find out what information we may collect and how we use it.

We generally use your personal data to answer your enquiry, process your order or provide you with access to special information or offers. Within the scope of a registration, contact request or similar, you can voluntarily provide us with your personal data. In this context, it may be necessary to transfer your data to a group company. Your data will not be transmitted to third parties outside the Group unless your inquiry or the service or product you have requested explicitly states so. You will then be informed accordingly. If you wish, you can also provide us with personal data about applications that are integrated into our platform (e. g. contact forms or services that require the creation of user accounts). The use of these applications may be subject to different terms and conditions from this Privacy Policy. Within the framework of additional data protection clauses, we will then explicitly point this out to you.

Log files and cookies

When you visit our website or access a file, data about this process is stored in a log file on our Internet server. This means that when you visit our website, data is automatically collected and stored that your browser transmits to us.

This is the case:

• the domain name of the website you came from

• the website you have visited in our offer

• the names of the files retrieved

• date and time of a call

• the name of your Internet service provider

• operating system and browser version of your PC.

• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),

• language settings

This data is collected for security and statistical purposes as well as for the optimization of our website. This data is not assigned to specific persons and no combination of this data with other data sources is carried out. The data is stored for 6 months and then deleted. An exception is when there is a legal obligation to pass on data.

Cookies are text files, usually consisting of letters and numbers, which are stored on the user’s computer when visiting our website. Through the use of cookies it is possible for us to extend the functional scope of our offer, so that our internet offer can be designed as comfortable as possible for you.

So-called session cookies remain on your computer for the duration of your visit to our website. Persistent cookies are stored beyond your individual visit and are used for recognition during your next visit. Our website may also contain cookies from third parties. These are cookies, which are set by third parties when viewing the content of our website.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Legal protection for children 

Children should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or guardian. We encourage all parents and guardians to instruct their children in the safe and responsible handling of personal data on the Internet. In any case, we will not knowingly collect personal data from children or use it in any way or disclose it to third parties without authorization.

IT Security

BELECTRIC GmbH takes precautions to ensure the security of your personal data. Your data will be conscientiously protected against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation and unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure. The transmission of your data from the Internet is partially unencrypted. As a result, unauthorized access by third parties cannot be completely excluded.

Links to external websites 

Our website contains links to external websites operated by third parties, the content of which we cannot influence. For this reason, we cannot accept any responsibility for this third-party content. In each and every case, the third party making the linked website available or operating it is responsible for its content. When the link was created to these websites, they were reviewed as to whether they violated any laws. At the time the link was set, no content was recognizable that was in violation of the law. Furthermore, we cannot reasonably be expected to permanently control the content of the pages of third parties to which we have links if there is no concrete indication of a law being violated. However, should any such violations of the law become known to us, we will remove the link in question immediately.

Your rights

In accordance with the relevant statutory provisions, (including any applicable restrictions arising from the GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) and/or the new version of the BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act), you have the opportunity to exercise the following rights: For instance, you have the right to receive information from us about any personal data stored by us. At your request, we will correct any of your stored data if it is inaccurate or inapplicable. If you wish, we will delete your data, provided there are no other legal requirements (e.g. statutory retention obligations) or an overriding interest on our part (e.g. to defend our rights and claims) that would prevent its erasure. With due consideration for any legal requirements, you have the right to set limits to the processing of your data. You also have the right under statutory provisions to receive or transmit your data to third parties in a structured, accessible and machine-readable format. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. In the first instance, you are welcome to consult our data protection officer.Moreover, you are entitled to lodge an objection to the processing of your data. If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at datenschutz@belectric.com or by letter to the address given above.

The further development of the Internet has an impact on our data protection strategy. Changes will be announced on this page in due time.

Information about your right to object

You have the right to object at any time to processing of your data which occurs as the result of a balancing of interests, if there are grounds for objection arising from your particular situation. This also applies to any profiling based on this provision. If you lodge an objection, your personal data will no longer be processed unless we can show evidence of compelling, legitimate reasons for processing it which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if processing the information serves to assert, exercise or defend rights or legal claims. The objection can be made in particular against the processing for purposes of direct marketing. Your objection can be made informally. Contact us at datenschutz@belectric.com or in writing at BELECTRIC GmbH, Wadenbrunner Str. 10, 97509 Kolitzheim, Germany.

Anonymisation of the IP address

In order to enable you to use our website anonymously, we have deliberately refrained from logging IP addresses. We will pseudonymise your IP address before storing it in our web server log file in a data protection compliant process. The pseudonymised IP addresses are used by us, for example, to detect and counteract attacks or to create web statistics.

Use of Google Analytics with IP-anonymization

If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. The responsible party for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).

Scope of processing:
Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by means of the cookies about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics 4 has IP address anonymization enabled by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

During your website visit, your user behavior is recorded in the form of “events”. Events can be:

– Page views
– First visit to the website
– Start of session
– Your “click path”, interaction with the website
– Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the bottom of the page (90%))
– clicks on external links
– internal search queries
– interaction with videos
– file downloads
– seen / clicked ads
– language settings

Also recorded:

– Your approximate location (region)
– your IP address (in shortened form)
– technical information about your browser and the end devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
– your internet service provider
– the referrer URL (via which website/advertising medium you came to this website)

Purposes of processing:
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics serve to analyse the performance of our website .

Recipients:
Recipients of the data are/may be:

– Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as processor under Art. 28 DSGVO).
– Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
– Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

It cannot be ruled out that US authorities may access the data stored by Google.

Third country transfer:
Insofar as data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection corresponding to the European standard, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider to establish an appropriate level of data protection. The parent company of Google Ireland, Google LLC, is based in California, USA. A transfer of data to the USA and access by US authorities to the data stored by Google cannot be ruled out. The USA is currently considered a third country from a data protection perspective. You do not have the same rights there as within the EU/EEA. You may not be entitled to any legal remedies against access by authorities.

Duration of storage:
The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached occurs automatically once a month.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to Art.6 para.1 p.1 lit. a GDPR.

Revocation:
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by changing your selection in the cookie settings at the bottom of this website. The lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation remains unaffected.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies from the outset by setting your browser software accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to reject all cookies, this may result in a restriction of functionalities on this and other websites. In addition, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google, by

  1. not giving your consent to the setting of the cookie or
  2. downloading and installing the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics HERE.

For more information on Google Analytics’ terms of use and Google’s privacy policy, please visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ and at https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

Use of social plugins

For data protection purposes, we have deliberately decided against using plug-ins of social networks. Therefore, there will be no generally automatic transfer to social networks as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube for example by accessing our website. Instead HME provides a hyperlink to the requested social network.

Our websites enables you – if you wish – to connect with social media operators like Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”), Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”), Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Youtube”) or LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043 United States (“LinkedIn”). For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by the social media platforms, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy, Twitter´s privacy policy, YouTube´s privacy policy and LinkedIn’s privacy policy. Please notice: This connection will only happen if you actively want to do this.

The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (black letter f on white background or a thumb up icon), the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”, a black bird on a white background for the Twitter button, a YouTube logo or a white “in” on a white background for LinkedIn.

Contact form

On the website there is a contact form that can be used for electronic contact. Alternatively, it is possible to contact us via the provided e-mail address. If you contact us via one of these channels, the personal data transmitted by the person concerned will be automatically stored. The storage serves solely for the purpose of processing or contacting. The data will not be passed on to third parties. It is forbidden to use the contact form or the blog for offences that are illegal or punishable by law. Misconduct is passed on by us to the competent authority for further investigation.

We delete the personal data submitted as soon as they are no longer required and there are no other legal storage obligations or legal justifications for storage.

Application for employment and BELECTRIC job market

Great that you want to be part of our company. Generally you can visit our employment market and the tendered jobs without any disclosure of your personal data. In case of an online-based job application all submitted data (like Email, names, addresses) are optional.

By sending us your application documents, you give us your consent to store, process and forward your personal data for our internal application process. Your personal data will be treated confidentially in accordance with applicable data protection regulations. Any personal data from your application and from all attachments that you send us will only be processed to persons involved by the personnel department of BELECTRIC group and its subsidiary companies on behalf for the purpose of the application procedure. Your personal data is accessible to the respective HR managers and is made available to the managers and decision-makers of the relevant specialist department. They are not permitted to pass on the data and/or to use them in any other way than for the selection of applications. Your application documents will be deleted after the legal retention period.

In case of the the collecting and processing of personal data all information between your client system and the application server is been transferred encrypted to prevent a third-party data missuse. Personal data will be stored encrypted in database. The application server and database are managed and hosted by BELECTRIC GmbH and its service partner Personio SE & Co. KG (Seidlstraße 3, 80335 München).

Please consider that job application sent by your email client can be transmitted unencrypted. For this reason, we recommend using our online job application forms.