DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT

As the operator of the website www.vs-tech.de or www.vs-tech-cnc.de the protection and safety of your personal data is very important to us. In the process of collecting, processing and using your personal data, the protection of your privacy and compliance with the requirements of data protection are of particular concern to us. Therefore, your personal data will be processed exclusively in compliance with data protection regulations, in particular the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG „Bundesdatenschutzgesetz“).

In the following we inform you about the collection of your personal data when using our website.
Personal data is all data that is related to you personally e.g. name, address, e-mail, user behaviour.
With regard to the terms used, such as „processing“ or „Controller“, we refer to the legal definitions in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our privacy policy must be read in conjunction with other legal notices and terms of use provided on other pages of our website.

1. Name and contact details of the person responsible for the processing (controller) and the company data protection officer
Controller according to Art.4 para. 7 GDPR in relation to the personal data collected on this website is:

VS.tech GmbH
Boschstraße 1
71679 Asperg

Tel. +49 7141 45740-00
Fax +49 7141 45740-30
E-Mail: info@vs-tech.de
www.vs-tech.de

You can reach our company data protection officer at:

VS.tech GmbH
Data protection officer
Boschstraße 1
71679 Asperg
Tel. +49 7141 45740-00
Fax +49 7141 45740-30
E-Mail: info@vs-tech.de

2. Collection and storage of personal data as well as purpose and legal basis of their processing
a) When visiting our website
During the mere informational use of our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server (server log files). If you want to look at our website we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you, to ensure its stability and security and to perform other administrative tasks.
The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. The following information is collected without your intervention and temporarily stored in a so-called logfile: IP-address, date and time of the request, content of demand (name and URL of the requested file), access status/HTTP-status code, website from which the request comes (referrer-URL), browser used and, if necessary, the operating system of your computer, the name of your access-provider and the amount of data transferred in each case. Furthermore we use cookies when you visit our website.
You can find more detailed explanations of this in No. 6-8 of this privacy statement.

b) When using our electronic contact options
When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form provided on our website the data you provide will be stored by us in order to answer your questions or process your requests. In doing so, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address so that we know from whom the inquiry originates and so that we can answer it. Further information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purpose of contacting and initiating business with us is generally based on your voluntarily given consent (Art. 6 para.1 lit. a GDPR). We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are legal retention obligations.
As far as you have given us consent to process personal data for specific purposes (e.g. transfer of data within the association/group), the lawfulness of this processing is based on your consent (consent pursuant to Article 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

c) Publication of job advertisement / online job applications
Your application data will be collected and processed electronically by us for the purpose of processing the application procedure. The data processing for the purpose of the application procedure is always based on your voluntarily given consent (Art. 6 para.1 lit. a GDPR). If your application is followed by a conclusion of an employment contract, your submitted data can be stored by us in your personnel file for the purpose of the usual organizational and administrative process in compliance with the relevant legal provisions.
If your job application is rejected, the data you have submitted will be deleted automatically two months after notification of the rejection.
This does not apply if longer storage is necessary due to legal requirements (for example, the burden of proof under the General Equal Treatment Act „Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz“) or if you have expressly consented to longer storage in our database of interested parties.

3. Duration of data storage
We process and store your personal data as long and as far as it is necessary for the fulfilment of our contractual and legal obligations. If the data is no longer required for the fulfilment of contractual and legal obligations, it will be deleted regularly, unless you have consented to further storage according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR or its – temporary – further processing is required for the following purposes:

– Compliance with retention periods according to commercial and tax law: These include in particular the German Commercial Code, the German Fiscal Code, the German Criminal Code and the German Money Laundering Act. The retention and documentation periods specified there range from two to ten years.

– Preservation of evidence as part of the statues of limitations. According to sec. 195 and following of the German Civil Code (BGB), these limitation periods can be up to 30 years, with the regular limitation period being three years.

4. Recipient of the data
Within our company those offices can access your data that need them to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations. If, in the course of our processing, we disclose data to other persons and companies (processors or third parties), transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this shall only be done if and to the extent that (i) legal provisions allow this (for example, if a transmission of the data to third parties pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR is necessary for the performance of the contract or to protect our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, such as when using external delivery services, payment processing credit institutions and other agents, use of web hosts, etc.), (ii) a legal obligation exists, (iii) you have consented, (iv) and/or processors commissioned by us guarantee compliance with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation/the Federal Data Protection Act (Art. 28 GDPR).

5. Your rights as a person affected (rights of the data subject)
Every person affected has the right to request information according to Art. 15 GDPR, the right of rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR, the right of erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR, the right of restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR and the right of data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR. With regard to the right of information and the right of erasure, the restrictions pursuant to Sections 34 and 35 BDSG apply. In addition, there is a right of appeal to a data protection supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR in conjunction with Section 19 BDSG).

You can revoke your given consent to the processing of personal data at any time. This also applies to the revocation of declarations of consent given to us before the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into force, so before May 25, 2018. Please note that the revocation only is effective for the future. Processings that were made before a revocation are not affected by this. If you wish to exercise your right of revocation, this is possible without any formalities; for example an email to info@vs-tech.de is sufficient.

6. Cookies
On our website we use cookies.
These are small files that your browser creates automatically and which are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website. Cookies don’t cause any damage to your end device, don’t contain any viruses, trojans or other malware. In the cookie information is dropped, which in each case is produced in connection with the specific end device used.
This doesn’t mean though, that we thereby receive direct knowledge of your identity.
The use of cookies on one hand helps to make the use of our offer more pleasant. We for example use so called session-cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These will automatically be deleted after leaving our website.
Futhermore we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a certain set period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made, so that you do not have to enter them again.
On the other hand, we use temporary cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies allow us to automatically recognize that you have already been on our site when you visit our site again. These cookies are also automatically deleted after a defined period of time.
The data processed by cookies is necessary for the aforementioned purposes to protect legitimate interests according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.
You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time or refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

7. Polylang
Consent with Borlabs Cookie
Our website uses the Borlabs consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser or for the use of certain technologies and for their data privacy protection compliant documentation. The provider of this technology is Borlabs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs). Whenever you visit our website, a Borlabs cookie will be stored in your browser, which archives any declarations or revocations of consent you have entered. These data are not shared with the provider of the Borlabs technology.
The recorded data shall remain archived until you ask us to eradicate them, delete the Borlabs cookie on your own or the purpose of storing the data no longer exists. This shall be without prejudice to any retention obligations mandated by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data processing policies, please visit
https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/
We use the Borlabs cookie consent technology to obtain the declarations of consent mandated by law for
the use of cookies. The legal basis for the use of such cookies is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.

8. Up-to-dateness and change of the privacy statement
This privacy statement is current as of May 2018. Due to the further development of our website, our offers or due to changed legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to change this privacy statement. The current privacy statement can be accessed and printed out by you at any time on our website under https://www.vs-tech.de/datenschutz/.