PRIVACY POLICY

Contact Details of the Responsible Party (“Controller”)

SCC Scientific Consulting Company
Chemisch Wissenschaftliche Beratung GmbH
Am Grenzgraben 11
55545 Bad Kreuznach
Germany
Tel.: +49 671 29846-0
Fax: +49 671 29846-100
E-Mail: ed.hbmg-ccs@ccs

Contact details of the Data Protection Officer

Thomas Kolb LL.M., External Data Protection Officer
KolbCom GmbH
P7, 22
68161 Mannheim
Germany
Fax: +49 621/121829-32
Email: ed.mocblok@ofnied.mocblok@ofni

Welcome to our website. The protection of your data is very important to us. For this reason, we have described how we process your personal data below.

General processing of visitors’ data

Our website can principally be used without having to provide personal data.
We would nevertheless like to point out that in this case, too, access data are collected and stored in the server logfiles. This includes, in particular, the following data:

  • type and version of your browser
  • operating system
  • the website from which you are visiting us
  • date and time of your visit
  • your IP address.

We evaluate this information principally in anonymised form to prevent attacks and to improve our offering (processing of personal data in the context of a balancing of interests pursuant to point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR) and erase it afterwards. As a general rule, the data cannot be traced back to you personally by us, neither are they combined with other data.

In the event of concrete indications of unlawful usage, however, we reserve the right to evaluate the data retroactively.

Categories of data, data sources

In principle, we process the personal data that you transmit to us in connection with your use of our website, or that you communicate to us in the context of an enquiry, a pre-contractual legal relationship or a contractual relationship. In individual cases, and as far as this is necessary within the scope of fulfilling the contract, we also process personal data which have been acquired admissibly from publicly accessible sources (e.g. commercial registers, debtor’s registers, Internet) or which have been communicated to us admissibly by third parties (e.g. credit agencies).

This may include technical data relating to you (IP address, browser type), information relating to your person (name, date of birth, legal representatives), address data (postal address, e-mail address, contact person), financial data (name of accountholder, IBAN, BIC), contract data (contract period, services purchased, cancellations), communication data (correspondence, e-mail correspondence), advertising data (advertising correspondence) as well as other, comparable categories of personal data.

Processing of personal data subject to consent (point (a) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR)

In individual cases, we will request your consent to certain specifically stated purposes in connection with the data collection.

In these cases, your data will only be processed on the basis of your consent. It is possible that the handling of your matter may not be possible without your consent, and must therefore be made conditional thereon. The data will be processed exclusively for the purpose(s) expressly stated.

You may withdraw your given consent at any time with effect for the future. The withdrawal has no influence on the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

Consents specifically obtained

You may have given us the following consents in the context of our Internet presence:

  • In the context of the general contact form:

“I agree to the storage of my data for the electronic processing of my enquiry and accept the terms of the Data Protection Policy. I can withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future.”

Cross-border transmission of data (point (a) of the first sentence of Article 49 (1) GDPR)

Where personal data are transmitted to a third country, we comply with the data protection guidelines for this by transmitting your data on the basis of standard contractual clauses or we obtain your consent to this in accordance with point (a) of the first sentence of Article 49 (1) GDPR.

A transmission of data occurs, for example, in connection with the use of Google services. Due to the use of these services, data are transmitted to the United States of America.

A transmission of data will only occur if you have given us your consent.

The specific details of the recipient, the personal data transmitted and the purpose of the forwarding of the data can be found in the below information on the processing concerned.

The forwarding of your data poses a risk to your personal data. The United States of America does not provide for a level of data protection comparable to that under EU law (GDPR) and / or national guidelines (e.g. BDSG), or for adequate guarantees to ensure a sufficient level of data protection. Moreover, due to the US legal situation, any deficits cannot be compensated by other specific guarantees. Nevertheless, depending on the service concerned, standard contractual clauses are used in some cases to achieve the maximum possible protection of your data. To find out whether standard contractual clauses are used, please refer to the explanations provided for each service.

You may withdraw your given consent at any time with effect for the future. The withdrawal has no influence on the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

Processing of personal data performance or initiation of a contract (point (b) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR)

If you enter into a contract with us, we will use personal data to the extent needed for performance of contract and / or for implementing pre-contractual measures. The purposes of the data processing will be determined by the concrete contents of the contract which can be found in the contractual documents.

Where a contract already exists with us, we process your data in order to verify that you are our contractual partner and in order to render the contractual service due in accordance with the contract.

Processing of personal data in the context of a balancing of interests (point (f) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR)

We process personal data in the context of a balancing of interests provided that this is necessary to safeguard our own interests and / or the interests of third parties.

Examples of such purposes are:

  • ensuring our IT security and the integrity of our systems
  • preventing or investigating criminal offences
  • asserting / defending against legal claims.

Contacting us

If you contact us by e-mail or telephone, we process your provided personal data in order to respond to your enquiry. The legal basis for this is principally point (b) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR, but, by way of exception, and where no connection with a contract exists, point (f) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR, whereby the legitimate interest lies in the proper response to your enquiry. We erase the data after the final processing of your enquiry, provided that no contractual or legal obligation to retain the data exists.

Contact form

If you send us an enquiry via our contact form, we will process your provided data to handle your inquiry on the basis of your consent pursuant to point (a) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR. Your data will principally be erased after your enquiry has been dealt with, provided that no contractual or legal obligation to retain the data exists. Where you send us information of a contractually relevant nature, we will transfer this to our system for existing customer relationships.

You may withdraw your given consent at any time with effect for the future. The withdrawal has no influence on the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

Use of cookies

Various cookies may be used in the context of your visit to our website. Cookies are text files which are placed on your computer and enable an unimpeded visit to our website, among other things.

Cookies are in part necessary to be able to ensure the correct functioning and IT security of our website. Such function cookies are used on the basis of a legitimate interest in enabling the use of our website including its functions, pursuant to point (f) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR.

We may possibly also use other – nonessential – cookies on the basis of point (a) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR, and thereby on the basis of your consent. The purposes of the respectively used cookies include:

  • to enable usage of special functions
  • to analyse usage behaviour (in a pseudonymised manner) in order to optimise our website
  • to improve the attractiveness and user-friendliness of our website
  • to improve our offering and to tailor it to meet users’ needs.

Non-essential cookies are used in the context of so-called usage profiles. In doing so, you are assigned a pseudonym under which the usage data are stored. Your IP address is stored exclusively in truncated form, thereby fundamentally making it no longer possible to match the usage profile with a specific person.

Insofar as we use cookies – in particular for the purposes of (re-)marketing or for implementing (social media) plugins – we base this use on your free consent to such data processing and, in this respect, require your consent. As regards the individual plugins and tracking tools, we refer to the detailed expositions below.

The majority of the cookies we use are erased from your computer again after your browser is closed (session cookies). Other types of cookies may remain on your computer, and enable us to recognise your computer again by means of the created usage profile when you next visit our website (persistent cookies).

Cookies are used on our website exclusively by ourselves, and not by third parties, except for the cookies of third-party providers explicitly named in this Data Protection Policy.

When using our website, you can give your consent by confirming this via our cookie banner. You may withdraw your given consent at any time with effect for the future.

We use the following cookies:

Cookie Purpose Storage Duration
PHPSESSID 
Storage of the Session ID
Upon termination of the browser session
wpfuuid
Storage of settings
11 years
wp-wpml_current_language
Storage of the chosen language
Until termination of the session
real_cookie_banner*
Display of the Cookies banner
365 days
elementor
Detection of multiple sessions to prevent the reloading of non-visible contents.
Permanent
_ga (Google Analytics)
Compilation of usage statistics; user differentiation; storage of and about the user in connection with website usage; aggregation of data from multiple website visits.
2 years

Web analytics and marketing

We use the following service for the purpose of web analytics. Cookies may be used on various pages in the context of web analytics. Cookies are text files which are placed on your computer and enable an unimpeded visit to our website, among other things. Cookies are used in the context of so-called usage profiles. In doing so, you are assigned a pseudonym under which the usage data will be stored.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a Web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies. In the context of using cookies, we draw on your consent to the data collection. If you do not give your consent to the data usage when you first visit our website, we will not record your usage behaviour and other personal data which could arise during your website visit and, thus, also not use them for subsequent usage analytics or for remarketing campaigns. This also applies to third-party cookies such as this Google Analytics plugin. If you agree to the processing of your data in the context of the opt-in procedure (confirmation of the cookie banner), the lawfulness of the processing of your data is based on a consent in accordance with point (a) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR, and we shall use your data for the purposes of marketing and evaluating your usage behaviour within the scope of your given consent. The information the cookie generates in relation to your usage of this website is generally transmitted to a server of Google LLC in the USA where it is then stored. Information regarding the usage of this website and your IP address may possibly be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and also be stored on that server. The data transmission is lawful by virtue of your consent in accordance with point (a) of the first sentence of Article 49 (1) GDPR. If IP anonymisation is enabled on this website, Google will, however, truncate your IP address beforehand within a Member State of the European Union or in another state that is party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of this website’s operator to evaluate your usage of the website, to compile reports about the website activities, and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with the website usage and Internet usage. The IP address which your browser transmits in the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with any other data held by Google unless you have, in the settings of a Google account, configured the web and app activity settings to permit such combination by Google. Further information on the terms and conditions of use and on data privacy can be found at: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ (English) https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/de/  (German) and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=en (English) https://policies.google.com/?hl=de&gl=de (German). On our website, Google Analytics has been supplemented with the code “anonymizeIp” to be able to collect IP addresses anonymously (so-called IP masking). You can also prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics by clicking on the link below. This will set an opt-out cookie that will prevent collection of your data with future effect when visiting this website: Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics Please note that, if you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may possibly have to re-enable it.

Conversion Tracking via Google Ads

We use the online advertising program "Google Ads" and its conversion tracking functionality. Google Ads is an online advertising service provided by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Conversion tracking allows us to understand if users complete certain actions on our website. When you click on an ad served by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is placed on your device. These cookies expire after 30 days and do not contain personal data that can identify you. The information collected using the conversion cookie helps us compile conversion statistics. We can see the total number of users who clicked on our ads and what actions they took. However, we do not receive any information that personally identifies users. Google Ads also enables us to show ads in Google search results and on third-party websites based on the keywords you enter on Google (keyword targeting). Additionally, targeted ads may be displayed based on user data Google has collected (e.g., location data and interests) (audience targeting). As the website operator, we can analyze this data quantitatively to understand which search terms led to the display of our ads and how many clicks they received.

The use of these services is based on your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. For more information on Google Ads conversion tracking, please visit:

https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks
https://business.safety.google/controllerterms/
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

The company is certified in accordance the "EU-US Data Privacy Framework" (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Each company certified under the DPF commits to adhering to these data protection standards. For more information, please visit:

https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780

Newsletter

If you have subscribed to our Newsletter, we process your provided data on the basis of your consent pursuant to point (a) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR in order to send you our Newsletter on a regular basis. To subscribe, it suffices to provide an e-mail address. The other information is provided voluntarily. During the subscription process, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure in which, after you have given your consent to receive the newsletter, you must expressly confirm your e-mail address again in a second step. Only then is the service enabled. For legal reasons, we also store the IP address and the date on which you subscribed. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. You will find a link to withdraw your consent at the end of each Newsletter e-mail. You can, of course, also withdraw your consent via the other contact options offered.

Forwarding of data

We forward data to other third parties if, and to the extent that, we have delegated the performance of tasks to them. Data are forwarded only insofar as necessary for performing the delegated tasks. We work together with the following companies:
  • VMB Visuelle Medien Brunk GbR, Reiegelgrube 7, 55543 Bad Kreuznach, Germany
  • ALL-INKL.COM – Neue Medien Münnich, Inh. René Münnich, Hauptstrasse 68, 02742 Friedersdorf, Germany
Furthermore, service providers can be entrusted with tasks e.g. in the following areas:
  • IT maintenance
  • IT development
  • IT provisioning
  • Legal counsel
The data are forwarded exclusively on the basis of a legal standard or a suitable contract pursuant to Article 26 or Article 28 GDPR that ensures compliance with all statutory data protection guidelines. Apart from that, data are forwarded exclusively in the context of the legally provided cases, for example in the event of a legal obligation to disclose information to law enforcement authorities. In these cases, the forwarding of the data is lawful in accordance with point (c) of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) GDPR.

Forwarding of data to a third country

The forwarding of data to a third country is intended. This forwarding takes place on the basis of your given consent. The following companies are recipients of your provided data:
  • Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (parent company of the group in the USA)
Where data are transmitted to a third country on the basis of consent, without an adequacy decision or other suitable safeguards being in place, it is necessary to refer to the associated heightened risk of the data processing arising from the transmission, on the basis of point (a) of the first sentence of Article 49 (1) GDPR. We would nevertheless like to assure you that, through the diligent selection and constant review of the standards of our contractual partners, potential risks are successfully minimised.

Duration of data storage

We erase your personal data without undue delay as soon as the data are no longer required for the fulfilment of contractual and legal obligations or for the exercise of our legitimate interests. Where a contractual relationship exists, personal data are held at least for as long as is necessary for the fulfilment of contractual obligations and the exercise of contractual rights. This period may extend beyond the actual contractual period itself, since the data may remain relevant in the context of the limitation periods, even after the end of the contract. Moreover, data may only be erased after the expiry of any retention periods prescribed under tax and commercial law. The criteria for the duration of the storage of cookies can be found in the relevant section.

Data subjects’ rights

As the data subject of the processing of personal data, you have the following rights: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether personal data concerning yourself are being processed. Where this is the case, you have the right to information about these personal data and to the information set out in detail under Article 15 GDPR. You have the right to demand that the Controller rectify without undue delay any inaccurate personal data concerning yourself and, where applicable, complete any incomplete personal data concerning yourself (Article 16 GDPR). You have the right to demand that the Controller erase personal data concerning yourself without undue delay if any of the individual grounds set out in Article 17 GDPR apply, e.g. where the data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected (right to erasure). You have the right to demand that the Controller restrict processing if any of the conditions set out in Article 18 GDPR apply, e.g. if you have objected to the processing, for the duration of the Controller’s review. You have the right to receive the personal data concerning yourself, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance by us, provided that the processing of these data is based on your consent or on a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means (Article 20 GDPR). When exercising the right to data portability, you have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly by us to another controller, where technically feasible (right to data portability). You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning yourself, on grounds relating to your particular situation. The Controller will then no longer process these personal data unless the controller can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims (Article 21 GDPR). With respect to the exercise of your rights, you can contact us at any time via the contact options offered on our website.

Right to object to direct marketing

In individual cases, we process personal data for the purpose of direct marketing. In this case, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning yourself for such marketing purposes (Article 21 GDPR). If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes. The objection can be filed at any time, without formal requirements, via one of the contact options stated in this Data Protection Declaration or in our imprint.

Right to lodge a complaint

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning yourself infringes GDPR (Article 77 GDPR). You can assert this right before a supervisory authority in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the competent supervisory authority is the Rhineland-Palatinate State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Further information is available at the following link: https://www.datenschutz.rlp.de/de/startseite/ (German-language only) However, you can of course also contact us directly if you are dissatisfied or have questions about data protection. The quickest way to reach our internal contact for data protection topics is to use the contact details provided above.

Obligation to provide data

You are principally under no obligation to provide data. The provision of data may, however, be necessary in order for you to be able to use certain functions or to enter into a contract. If you fail to provide the required data, you will be unable to use certain functions and services and to enter into a contract.

Up-to-datedness and amendment of this data protection information

This data protection information is up-to-date as of November 2022. We reserve the right to revise this data protection information as necessary to reflect legal and technical developments or in connection with the offer of new products and services. Should we revise our data protection policy, we will announce this directly on our homepage in this Policy.  
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