Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company. The protection of your data is of the utmost importance to us. With the following information on data protection, we would like to inform you about the purposes for which and the extent to which we collect and process your personal data when you use our websites and how we protect your privacy when you provide us with your data.
Responsibility
Sternico GmbH, Dreimännerstraße 5, 38176 Wendeburg, Germany, is the operator of this website and, as the controller within the meaning of Art. 4 (7) GDPR, is responsible for compliance with the applicable data protection regulations.
The personal data of our users are stored and processed by us in compliance with the relevant regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Act on Data Protection and the Protection of Privacy in Telecommunications and Digital Services (TDDDG) in their current versions. All personal data is only collected for specified, clear and legitimate purposes and is not stored for longer than necessary.
Personal data
Personal data is individual information about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person (e.g. name, date of birth and contact details).
Websites
As soon as you visit our websites, our web servers temporarily store each access in a log file. The following data may be recorded and stored until automated deletion: IP address, date and time of access, transferred data volumes, messages about the success of accessing the web pages, identification data of the browser and operating system used, the website from which access is made and the IP address of your Internet access provider. This data is processed for the purpose of enabling the use of the websites, system security, technical administration of the network infrastructure and optimisation of the Internet offering. This is to be regarded as a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
Other data collection
We collect, store and process your personal data (e.g. first name, surname, address, e-mail address, telephone number) if a business relationship exists or is to be established, e.g. as part of a subscription or an order, as well as when the content of and changes to the business relationship are made. We also use your personal data if you have provided it to us for registration on our website and have consented to the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, we collect, store and process your personal data if you contact us via the contact form, competition or by sending us an e-mail, insofar as this is necessary for processing your enquiries and correspondence. The personal data collected by us will be deleted immediately as soon as it is no longer required for this purpose, unless there are statutory retention periods.
Contact form
If you use our contact form to send us an enquiry, we will store the information you provide and the contact details you provide to process the enquiry and for any follow-up questions. The data will not be passed on without your consent.
The legal basis for the data processing of the data provided in the contact form is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR), which you have given by ticking the box in the contact form. You can revoke this consent at any time without giving reasons to the above address or electronically (e.g. by e-mail). The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data provided in the contact form will be stored by us until you request its deletion, until receipt of the cancellation or after the purpose of data storage no longer applies (e.g. after processing of the enquiry has been completed). This does not affect the statutory provisions, in particular the retention periods.
Integration of external content on our website
External content is integrated on our website. The external content is job adverts from Personio. The content from Personio is integrated and technically provided by a software service provider on our behalf. The security and protection of your personal data is always guaranteed by suitable security measures and the conclusion of an order processing contract with our service provider in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR as part of the integration of external content. Further information on data protection regarding Personio can be found in the privacy policy of Personio https://www.personio.de/datenschutzerklaerung/.
Whistleblowing system
On our website, you have the option of accessing a reporting channel and using it to submit a report to our internal reporting centre in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG). We have entrusted a service provider with the technical provision of the reporting channel and the operation of the reporting centre. If you use the reporting channel, you use a ticket system from LINET Services GmbH. This company is responsible for receiving the report under data protection law, meaning that our data protection provisions do not apply. Information on data protection with regard to the reporting channel can be found in the LINET Services GmbH data protection information.
We may receive reports from our internal reporting office in the fulfilment of its tasks. Insofar as we come into contact with personal data, we have taken legal, technical and organisational measures to ensure compliance with the provisions of data protection laws.’
Transfer of the data
We use your personal data within Sternico GmbH and our external service providers who carry out data processing on our behalf are contractually obliged within the meaning of Art. 28 GDPR to treat personal data in accordance with the applicable regulations. Insofar as these companies come into contact with your personal data, we have taken legal, technical and organisational measures and carried out regular checks to ensure that they comply with the provisions of data protection laws.
If you find links from other controllers on our website (e.g. to our social media pages) and click on the link, you are using the website directly from the respective controller, so our data protection provisions do not apply to this website.
In principle, we do not transfer your personal data to a third country or to an international organisation outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If we do make such a transfer in individual cases, this will only take place to third countries for which an adequacy decision has been issued by the European Commission or the appropriate level of data protection has been ensured by suitable or appropriate guarantees (e.g. Binding Corporate Rules or EU standard contractual clauses).
We reserve the right to transfer your personal data to authorised bodies if we are obliged to do so by law or by court order.
Your personal data will not be passed on to other third parties.
Cookies
On our websites, various information is stored in so-called cookies, which serve to make the application more user-friendly and the Internet offer more effective overall. In addition, the data stored in a cookie makes it unnecessary to repeatedly fill out forms. The cookies we use are time-limited and are deleted regularly.
You can independently manage the acceptance of cookies from our websites in your browser and block them if necessary. You can also delete cookies that have already been set at any time. You can also find out about the possibility of deactivating cookies in the settings of your chosen browser. If you do not accept cookies, this may lead to restrictions in the use of our websites in individual cases. Please note that if you delete your cookies, you may also have to reactivate any opt-out cookies that have been set.
We recommend that you delete the cookies and the browser history manually on a regular basis.
We distinguish between technically necessary cookies and statistical and marketing cookies. Technically necessary cookies are those that make it technically possible to use the website. Cookies that are not technically necessary are all cookies that are used for marketing and statistical purposes. Sternico GmbH uses Google Analytics for this purpose.
Consent to data processing using cookies is voluntary and can be revoked or adjusted at any time by clicking on the following link: Call up settings . As part of the cookie layer, you give your consent in each case in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.sternico.com
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Analysing the websites
In order to optimise the content and offers of our websites and to collect statistical evaluations, various technical programs are used that record data about the behaviour of the user of the websites, also in anonymised form. For this purpose, for example, data on click behaviour, visit duration, system settings and user origin are collected in the form of text files using analysis software cookies. Cookies are stored on your computer for these analyses. This collected data can be stored on the servers of the operators of the analysis tools. The data collected will not be used to personally identify the user and will not be merged with other personal data of the user.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. In the following section, we provide you with a detailed description of the analysis tools we use.
The following analysis tools are used on our websites for this purpose:
Google Analytics
If you have given your consent in the cookie notice, Google Analytics is used on our website. This is a web analysis service of Google Inc. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is therefore your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S.1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Para. 1 TDDDG.
Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your computer and enable your use of our website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The Universal Analytics operating mode is used. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus to analyse the activities of a user across devices. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under ‘My data’, ‘Personal data’.
Our website uses Google Analytics with the extension ‘_anonymiseIp’. This means that IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, so that they cannot be linked to a specific person. If the data collected about you is personally identifiable, it is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted immediately. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
The data described will be automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.
If you do not want your data to be collected by Google Analytics, you can set this in the cookie layer. You can also prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to our website: Deactivate Google Analytics.
Further information on this web analysis tool can be found at: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/partners/ and in Google’s privacy policy http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.’
Social plug-ins
Our websites use social plug-ins from various social network providers. As soon as you access one of our websites that contains such a plug-in, the content of the plug-in is transmitted directly to your browser. By using social plug-ins, we offer you the opportunity to interact directly with our posts via the comment function.
By clicking on the respective social media plug-in, you will be forwarded directly to our website on the corresponding social network and your data will be transmitted to the servers of the respective provider of the social network. This data includes IP address, date and time of access, identification data of the browser and operating system used, the website from which access is made.
We would like to point out that we have no influence on the scope of data processing by the social network provider in question. The purpose, type and scope of data collection as well as the further processing and use of the data can therefore be found in the privacy policy of the respective provider.
Please note that the servers of the social network providers may be located to a large extent in countries outside the European Union. Companies that process data in countries outside the European Union are subject to data protection laws that regularly do not guarantee the protection of personal data to the same extent as is the case under the data protection laws of the European Union.
The following social plug-ins are offered on our websites:
YouTube
If you have given your consent in the cookie notice, YouTube is used on our website. The legal basis for the use of YouTube and the associated data processing is therefore your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG.
The YouTube plug-ins on our websites are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. The YouTube plug-ins are identified by the YouTube logo. Different data protection regulations apply in the USA, so that, for example, the US authorities have more access rights to personal data. As soon as you use such a plug-in, your browser establishes direct contact with YouTube so that your information is transmitted directly to a YouTube server.
If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time as visiting our website, YouTube can directly link your visit to your account. When you send a comment or press the ‘YouTube button’, this information is also transmitted to a YouTube server and stored by it in the USA. In addition, your YouTube interactions are published directly on YouTube and may therefore be visible to third parties. If you do not want such interaction, it is your responsibility to log out of YouTube before visiting our website and also to prevent the YouTube plug-ins from loading on our site by using a ‘script blocker’. You can also refuse to consent to data processing within the cookie layer or withdraw your consent at a later date.
Den Zweck und Umfang der Datenerhebung sowie die weitere Verarbeitung und Nutzung der Daten entnehmen Sie bitte der Datenrichtlinie von YouTube: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Data security
We have taken extensive technical and organisational operational security measures to protect the data transmitted by you against unauthorised access and misuse by third parties. These measures fulfil the high legal requirements of national regulations and are constantly adapted to the current state of the art.
Rights of data subjects
As a data subject, you may have the following rights against us in accordance with Art. 15 to 22 GDPR:
- Right to information,
- Right to rectification or erasure,
- Right to restriction of processing,
- Right to object to processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR,
- Right to data portability.
If you have given us your consent to use your personal data, you can revoke this at any time. To do so, please send an email to datenschutz@sternico.com . Alternatively, please inform us of your request by post.
You also have the option of complaining to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is ‘Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen, Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hannover’.
Up-to-dateness and amendment of the privacy policy
The privacy policy is dated 08/08/2024 and is currently valid. Due to the constant further development of our websites or the implementation of new technologies, it may become necessary to adapt this privacy policy to the current status. Sternico GmbH therefore reserves the right to amend the privacy policy at any time with effect for the future. You should therefore visit this website regularly to check the current status of our privacy policy.
Contact details of the data protection officer of Sternico GmbH:
You can contact our data protection officer at any time by email at:
Version: August 2024