Data protection

Based on the legal definition (Section 3 [1] BDSG - German Federal Data Protection Act, Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), personal data is ‘specific information or factual circumstances concerning identified or identifiable natural persons (data subjects)’. This includes all information the reveals something about a person.

Handling this personal information is a matter of trust and requires a conscientious approach. As a client or interested party of TL Electronic GmbH, the careful handling of your data is certainly very important to you, which is why TL Electronic GmbH appreciates you putting your trust in us. Thank you!

Through this policy, you are providing us with consent that TL Electronic GmbH may collect, process and use the following list of your personal data for the purposes outlined here. This consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Controller

The controller within the meaning of data protection laws, with particular reference to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

TL Electronic GmbH
Bgm.-Gradl-Str. 1
85232 Bergkirchen-Feldgeding
Telephone: +49 (0)8131 33204-0
E-mail address: info@tl-electronic.de
Managing Director and authorised representative: Stefan Götz

Your data subject rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time by using our data protection officer’s contact details:

  • access to your data which is stored by us and the processing of such data;
  • rectification of inaccurate personal data;
  • erasure of your data which is stored by us,
  • restriction of data processing if we are still unable to erase your data based on legal obligations;
  • objection to the processing of your data; and
  • data portability if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.


If you have given your consent, you can withdraw this at any time with future effect.

You can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the state in which you live, work, or the state in which the alleged infringement took place. You can find a list of supervisory authorities (for the private sector), including addresses, at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

We only process your personal data for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy. Your personal data is not shared with third parties for purposes other than those specified. We only share your personal data with third parties if:

  • you have given your explicit consent;
  • processing is required to process a contract with you;
  • processing is required to fulfil a legal obligation; and


processing is required to safeguard legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not sharing your data.

Erasing and suppressing data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. That is why we only store your personal data if we are required to do so to meet the purposes outlined here, or to meet the various retention periods stipulated by law. If the respective purpose no longer applies or if this period expires, the corresponding data shall be suppressed or erased as a matter of routine, and in accordance with legal provisions.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use ‘cookies’. Cookies are small text files that a website server saves on your hard drive. This automatically gives us access to specific data, e.g. IP address, browser used, operating system and your internet connection.

Cookies cannot be used to start programmes or spread viruses on a computer. Using the information stored in cookies, we can make navigation easier and allow our website to be displayed properly.

Data collected by us is never shared with third parties or linked with personal data without your consent.

You can of course also use our website without cookies. Web browsers are often configured in such a way that they accept cookies. You can generally disable the use of cookies at any time by changing your browser settings. Please use your web browser’s help section to learn about how to change these settings. Please note that specific functions of our website may not work if you have disabled cookies.

Contact form

If you contact us by e-mail or through the contact form with any questions, you are providing us with your consent for the purposes of getting in touch. You must provide a valid e-mail address for this. This is used to assign the request and then respond to it. Providing further data is optional. The information provided by you will be stored for the purpose of processing your query, and for the purpose of any potential follow-up questions. Personal data is automatically deleted once your request has been resolved.

Using Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (hereinafter ‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, i.e. text files that are saved on your computer that allow website use to be analysed. The information collected by the cookie about your use of this website is generally sent to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these web pages, your IP address is truncated by Google before it is sent within the European Union Member States or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. A full IP address is only sent to a Google server in the USA and truncated there in exceptional cases. By order of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate the use of the website, to prepare reports about website activities and to provide other services to the website operator that relate to website and internet use. The IP address sent from your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and compile reports concerning website activities. Further related services may then be provided based on the use of the website and the internet. Processing is based on the website operator’s legitimate interests.

You can prevent cookies from being saved by changing your browser settings; please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all of this website’s functions properly. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (inc. your IP address) from being captured and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via the following link: Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics.

In addition to, or alternatively to the browser add-on, you can prevent Google Analytics tracking on our pages by clicking on this link. In doing so, an opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. Future capture by Google Analytics will be prevented for this website and for this browser provided that the cookie is still installed on your browser.

Using Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps API to visually represent geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about how visitors use map functions. You can find more information about how Google processes data in Google’s privacy policy. You can also change your privacy settings in the data centre there.

You can find further instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products here.

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of these plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit a page that contains the YouTube plugin, a connection is made with YouTube servers. In doing so, YouTube is notified about which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you are allowing YouTube to directly associate your surfing behaviour to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account first.

If a YouTube video starts, the provider uses cookies that collect information relating to user behaviour.

If you have disabled cookies for the Google Ad programme, these cookies won’t be used, even if you view Youtube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal user information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this from happening, you have to block cookies from being stored in your browser.

You can find more information about data protection and ‘YouTube’ in the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Social plugins

Social plugins from the following list of providers are used on our website. The plugins can be recognised by their logo.

These plugins may send information concerning personal data to the service provider and this information may be used by the service provider. We prevent the unintended and unwanted capture and transmission of data to service providers by using a 2-click solution. You have to click on the corresponding button first to activate the desired plugin. Only if the plugin is activated is information captured and sent to the service provider. As a company, we do not collect any personal data through the social plugins or the use of those plugins.

We have no influence over what data is collected by a plugin and how this is used by the provider. We currently have to assume that a direct connection is made with the provider’s services and as a minimum, the IP address and device-related information is captured and used. There is also the possibility that the service provider will try to save cookies on the computer or device used. Please refer to the respective service provider’s privacy policy to find out what specific data is captured and used. Note: if you are signed into Facebook, Facebook can identify you as a visitor to a specific site.

We have embedded social media buttons from the following companies on our website:

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. If you are directed to our website via a Google advert, a cookie will be placed on your machine by Google Adwords. The cookie is placed on a machine for conversion tracking if a user clicks on a Google advert. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, the fact that a user has clicked on the advert and has been directed to the page via an advert can be recognised by us and by Google. Each Google AdWords client receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be kept track of via the AdWords customer’s website. The information obtained by the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers can find out the total number of users that have clicked on their adverts and have been directed to the page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can personally identify the user.

If you don’t want to take part in tracking, you can reject the cookies required for this from being used - for example by changing browser settings that generally deactivate cookies from automatically being accepted, or by changing your browser settings such that cookies are blocked from the ‘googleleadservices.com’ domain.

Please note that you cannot delete opt-out cookies if you don’t want measurement data to be recorded. If you have deleted all of the cookies stored in your browser, you must reinstall the respective opt-out cookie.

LiveChat

We also use LiveChat chat software. Service provider is the American company LiveChat, Inc., 101 Arch Street, 8th Floor, Boston MA 02110, USA.

LiveChat also processes your data in the USA, among other places. We would like to point out that, according to the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for data transfer to the USA. This can be associated with various risks for the legality and security of data processing.

LiveChat uses so-called standard contractual clauses (= Art. 46. Para. 2 and 3 DSGVO) as the basis for data processing by recipients based in third countries (outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, i.e. in particular in the USA) or data transfer there. Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) are templates provided by the EU Commission and are intended to ensure that your data also comply with European data protection standards if they are transferred to third countries (such as the USA) and stored there. Through these clauses, LiveChat undertakes to comply with European data protection standards when processing your relevant data, even if the data is stored, processed and managed in the USA. These clauses are based on an implementation decision of the EU Commission. You can find the decision and the corresponding standard contractual clauses here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj?locale=de

For more information on LiveChat's Standard Contractual Clauses, please visit https://www.livechat.com/legal/gdpr-faq/.

You can find out more about the data processed through the use of LiveChat in the privacy policy at https://www.livechat.com/legal/privacy-policy/.

Changing our privacy policy

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy so that it corresponds with currently applicable legal requirements, or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. if we introduce new services. The new privacy policy will then apply on your next visit.

Sending questions to data protection officers

If you have questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation:

Data protection officer
Stephanie Turba/Sandra Linke
Telephone number: +49 (0)8131 33204-141
E-mail address: datenschutz@tl-electronic.de

Public procedure directory:

datenschutz-oeffentliches-verfahrensverzeichnis-v1.pdf (966 KB)

Privacy notice for applicants:

datenschutzhinweise-fuer-bewerber-v1.pdf (194 KB)

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