Privacy

The data controllers (“Controllers” or “we”) for 5GMEC are, unless stated otherwise, Detecon International GmbH, Bayenwerft 12-14, 50678 Cologne, Germany (“Detecon”) and Monotch BV, Vogelstraat 23-SCH, Wagenberg 4845 PA, The Netherlands (“Monotch”)  under joint controllership according to Art. 26 GDPR.

Detecon is responsible for all processing of personal data as set out in this privacy notice and for the fulfillment of all obligations under the GDPR, including the handling of all data subjects’ requests. Notwithstanding your right to assert any further rights you may have under applicable law towards both controllers, you can contact info@detecon.com or Detecon’s Data Protection Officer at the aforementioned postal address or at privacy@detecon.com if you have any questions regarding privacy.

With respect to any of the activities listed below you have the right 

a) To request information about the categories of personal data processed, the purposes of the processing, any recipients of the data, and the envisaged storage period (Art. 15 GDPR);

b) To request that incorrect or incomplete data be rectified or supplemented (Art. 16 GDPR); 

c) To withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR);

d) To object at any time for the future to data processing that is to be carried out on the basis of a legitimate interest, for reasons arising from your particular situation (Art. 21 (1) GDPR), stating those reasons. You can object to data processing for direct marketing purposes at any time without stating those reasons (Art. 21 (2), (3) GDPR);

e) To request the erasure of data in certain cases under Art. 17 GDPR – especially if the data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or is unlawfully processed, or if you withdraw your consent according to (c) above or object according to (d) above; 

f) To demand, under certain circumstances, the restriction of data where erasure is not possible or the erasure obligation is disputed (Art. 18 GDPR);

g) To data portability, i.e. you can receive the data that you provided to us in a commonly used and machine-readable format such as CSV, and can, where necessary, transfer the data to others (Art. 20 GDPR);

h) To file a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority regarding data processing (for Detecon, that is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen).

To processors, i.e., companies we engage to process data within the legally defined scope, Art. 28 GDPR (service providers, agents). In this case, we also remain responsible for protecting your data.

To cooperation partners who, on their own responsibility, provide services for you or in conjunction with your relationship to the controllers. This is the case if you consent to the involvement of the partner, or if we involve the partner on the basis of legal permission.

Owing to legal obligations: In certain cases, we are legally obliged to transfer certain data to a state authority that requests it. 

As a general rule, your data will be processed in Germany and other European countries. If, in exceptional cases, your data is also processed in countries outside the European Union (in so-called “Third Countries”), this is done only where we inform you about such and if either certain measures ensure a suitable level of privacy (e.g., through the EU Commission’s adequacy decision or through suitable guarantees, Art. 44 et seq. GDPR), or if you have explicitly given your consent, or if it is necessary for us to provide you with services, or if it is prescribed by law (Art. 49 GDPR).

Collection of Technical Characteristics in the Provision of the Website

When you visit our web pages, the web server temporarily records the domain name or your computer’s IP address, date/time of request, HTTP request header data, especially user agent, the file requested (file name and URL) by the client, the http response code, and the website from which you are visiting us.

The recorded data is used solely for data security purposes, particularly to protect against attempted attacks on our web server. We do not use it to create individual user profiles, nor do we share this information with third parties. It is erased after seven days at the latest. We reserve the right to statistically analyze anonymized data records. We have a legitimate interest in that (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR).

Links to Social Media Networks

Some web pages include buttons for social media networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Xing, and LinkedIn) that you can use to recommend the services of Deutsche Telekom AG to others. 

To ensure you retain full control of the data, the used buttons only establish direct contact between the respective social network and the visitor only once you actively click on the button (one-click solution).

When the social media plug-in is activated or links in the pictogram are used, also for the purpose of sharing content (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR), the following data can be transmitted to the social media provider: IP address, browser information, operating system, screen resolution, installed browser plug-ins, previous site if you followed a link (referrer), URL of the current page, etc. On the next call, the social media plug-ins are once more provided in the default inactive mode, so that no data is transmitted on a subsequent visit. Further information on social media plug-ins, the scope and purposes of the respective data processing and further data protection-relevant information can be found in the privacy policy of the respective controller as well as in the explanation of the one-click solution.

Will My Usage Habits be Evaluated, e.g., for Advertising Purposes or Tracking?

We would like you to enjoy using our web pages and take advantage of our content and services. In order for you to find the services that interest you and for us to be able to design our digital service in a user-friendly way, we analyse your usage behaviour in pseudonymised form. Within the framework of the legal regulations, user profiles are created. In the following, we provide you with general information about the various purposes of the processing. By clicking on the “Your Cookie Settings” query, which appears when you access our websites, you have the option of agreeing to the processing or rejecting it in part or in full. Processing necessary for the provision of the digital service cannot be refused.

In any case, when you visit our website, the web server temporarily records the domain name or IP address of your computer, information on the device, operating system and browser used, geo-information down to a maximum of city level; the URL called up with the associated page title and optional information on the page content; the website from which the called individual page was reached (referrer site); the subsequent pages that were called from the called web page within an individual web page; the time spent on the web page; further interactions (clicks) on the web page such as entered search terms, downloaded files and videos viewed. This information is pseudonymized or anonymized. Pseudonymized data is deleted after 24 hours although we reserve the right to evaluate anonymized data even beyond this period. We have a legitimate interest in this (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR).

Cookies

Upon your consent, we also use preference and analytics cookies (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 (1) 1 TTDSG.). The cookie banner displayed when you visit our websites (or linked further below on this page) provides you with further information on those cookies, their respective purposes and storage period, and gives you the opportunity to manage your consent. Should you wish to contact us regarding your consent, kindly provide us with the ID and date of your consent (that can also be found further below on this page).

Cookies that are required to deliver the web service and use key functions (“Necessary Cookies”) cannot be rejected. Further information on Necessary Cookies, their respective purposes and storage period can also be found in the cookie banner. The legal basis for processing Necessary Cookies is Art. 6 (1) b GDPR in conjunction with § 25 (2) No. 2 TTDSG.

Services From Other Companies (Third-Party Providers)

We have integrated services from third-party providers that provide their services independently or under joint controllership with one or all of the controllers. If you consent to those services and visit our websites, data is collected and transmitted to the respective third parties, in some cases for the Controllers’ own purposes. The legal basis for processing is your consent (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR, in conjunction with § 25 (1) 1 TTDSG). For information on further processing for the third-party provider’s own purposes, please refer to the third-party provider’s privacy policy (purposes, storage period and legal basis). Insofar as data processing is also carried out under joint controllership with one or all of the controllers, we inform you as follows.

To show you videos on our websites, we use the service YouTube, provided by Google Ireland Limited with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). YouTube collects data to provide users with better services – from determining basic information such as your language through to more complex services such as advertising.

What data is collected and how it is processed depends on how you use YouTube and your privacy settings. If you are not signed into a Google account, the data collected is stored with unique identifiers associated with your browser or device. This can, for instance, ensure that the language settings are retained during all browser sessions. If you are signed in to a Google account, data is also collected that is stored in your Google account and that is considered personal information.

The data is transferred to Google’s computers and stored there. Google may transfer data to Google LLC in the U.S.A. and declares adherence to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The European Commission has found data to be adequately protected when transferred under the DPF (Art. 45 (1) GDPR).

You can find more information on Google’s data processing and privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

On our websites we may provide a range of newsletters, mailings, or downloads. With your consent on occasion of the registration or the download (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR), the data from the relevant input mask will be transmitted to us and stored to provide you with the requested information and potentially further information on the project “Integration of 5g with Edge Computing and Federated Cloud Facilities” (CEF-DIG-2022-TA-5G INTEGRA), a joint venture of Detecon International GmbH and Monotch B.V., in the future.

For our communication to be tailored to your respective interests in the most relevant way possible and to make the efficacy of such communication comprehensible, and also on the basis of your consent on occasion of the registration or the download (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 (1) 1 TTDSG.), we use a technology in our newsletters and mailings called “web beacon” and cookies on our website when you follow a link. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier. Their function is similar to that of cookies, and they are used to track users’ online behavior. We use these to identify which emails have been opened by recipients and which content is relevant. We combine such data collected by web beacons with the personal data of our customers. We use cookies to record future visits of a registered user to our websites through cookies from our service provider HubSpot, as well as the topics viewed, the IP address, the geographical location, the type of browser and the duration of the visit. If you wish to manage your cookie consent, go to the cookie banner linked further below.

HubSpot may process data in the USA as a participant of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, thereby deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of privacy. As additional guarantees for such transfer of data, HubSpot uses contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 (2) (c) GDPR.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email to the email address provided. Only after you have clicked on the link contained in this e-mail is the registration completed (so-called “double opt-in procedure”).

You can revoke your consent to data processing as laid out in this section at any time by sending an email to info@detecon.com. We will then delete your personal data immediately. Additionally, you can opt out of receiving emails by clicking the link at the bottom of each email.

If you have not used any of our media for 24 months, we consider you not interested and will delete your personal data from HubSpot.

Registrations and a user’s consent for newsletters, mailings or downloads are logged and can be stored for a longer period as proof of such consent. We have an overriding legitimate interest in this (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

We use the the “Page Insights” function of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn”) on our LinkedIn page to obtain anonymized statistical data about the use of and visitors to our LinkedIn page. The legal basis is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR) in public relations and communication in general and, in particular, the optimization of our LinkedIn presence, and to select groups that we want in particular to see our communication.

When you are a LinkedIn member and you visit, follow, or engage with our LinkedIn Page, LinkedIn creates similar statistics, in particular with data that was provided by you to LinkedIn, such as job function, country, industry, seniority, company size, and employment status data from your profile. Additionally, LinkedIn will process information on how you have interacted with our company page, e.g., whether you are a follower.

Detecon and LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Gardner House, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, are jointly responsible for these statistics under applicable privacy law. We have concluded an agreement pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR with LinkedIn on such joint controllership. The essence of this agreement and more detailed information on Page Insights can be found here.

Independently of this, please note that the Social Networks may process further data from you on their own sole responsibility, e.g., through cookies. Whether and to what extent this is generally the case can be seen for LinkedIn here.

LinkedIn provides choices about the collection, use and sharing of a member’s data, from deleting or correcting data a member includes in its profile and controlling the visibility of its posts to advertising opt-outs and communication controls. LinkedIn offers a member settings to control and manage the personal data it has about the member.

All Social Networks may transfer personal data to countries outside the EU, including the United States, and rely on either a European Commission’s decision that the country has an adequate level of privacy or on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to achieve such an adequate level of privacy.

Please note that communication via all Social Networks is potentially insecure. You can always contact us via other means, e.g., info@detecon.com.

All personal data on this website will only be transmitted in encrypted form. The identity of the server is known, and it is secured against unauthorized access by third parties. Effective algorithms check whether the data reaches its respective recipient completely and unchanged.

If you wish to contact us by e-mail, please note that due to the technical conditions of the Internet, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed for these messages. E-mails can also be changed by third parties or get lost.