Since data protection reflects an essential feature of quality, we feel strongly about protecting your personal data, which is why we would like to provide you with the following information on data protection:

1. Protecting your personal data
The Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), the Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz) and other laws with data protection regulations protect personal data. Personal data is information that can be allocated to your person (e.g. your name, telephone number or email address). Information that is not brought into connection with your actual identity does not apply. We obligate ourselves to strictly protect personal data conveyed to us. The collecting, using or distributing of information is performed in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) and other relevant laws in their respectively valid version.

2. Handling your data
Personal data conveyed to us during an order or a query via our website will be collected, processed and utilised by us exclusively to the extent permitted by law. We need these data to further process and implement your order and to contact you. By conveying your personal data you are giving your consent to us storing, handling and utilising your data for further processing. We obligate ourselves not to disclose your data as a general rule to third parties outside of the Pneuhage company group (with the exception of external service partners pursuant to § 11 BDSG), unless legally bound to do so. Your personal data that you convey to us when placing an order or asking a query through our website is protected with SSL. SSL, an abbreviation for “secure socket layer,” is an encoding procedure that is successfully used throughout the entire Internet. During this procedure all personal data such as your address are encoded during the transmission through the Internet and is therefore safe. You recognise via a symbol (closed lock) behind the address bar of your browser (depending on the type of browser this can also be displayed differently) that you are in an area secured with SSL.

3. Online application
Interested in working with our company? All current job offers are located on our website. In order to be able to make applying with us as convenient as possible you may also apply online. To do so, you will have to provide personal information. These data and the electronic documents that you provide to us are electronically stored.

We guarantee that the data provided to us by you will be treated as strictly confidential. Third parties and offices outside of the Pneuhage company group shall not obtain knowledge of your application or the data conveyed to us (with the exception of external service partners pursuant to § 11 BDSG).

We often have several applicants who fit the job, however, only one vacancy. If you agree, we offer to keep your application documents on file in our pool of applicants in the event that you are not accepted. This way your application can be taken into consideration for future job vacancies.

If you should only want your data to be taken into consideration for a concrete job vacancy and do not wish to keep your application documents in our applicant pool, please delete your applicant registration in our system after the selection procedure has ended.

You can delete your registration and therefore your stored application data yourself at any time. By deleting this information all of your personal data will be deleted from our system. Any information deleted cannot be retrieved by us or you. If you would like to re-apply after deleting your data, all personal data must be re-entered.

Your application data will be automatically deleted by us if there has been no activity or changes made after two years at the very latest.

Your personal data that you convey to us during an online application is protected with SSL. SSL, an abbreviation for “secure socket layer,” is an encoding procedure that is successfully used throughout the entire Internet. During this procedure all personal data such as your address are encoded during the transmission through the Internet and is therefore safe. You recognise via a symbol (closed lock) behind the address bar of your browser (depending on the type of the browser this can also be displayed differently) that you are in an area secured with SSL.

4. Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are saved by your browser on your PC when you visit our website. These files do not cause any damage to your PC and do not contain any viruses or any other malware. Cookies make it possible to identify and authorise you upon successful login in a protected area such as our online application system for the entire duration of your visit without you having to constantly register with your registration data again. In addition certain convenient functions would not be possible without the use of cookies.

5. Information about using Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your abridged IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

In view of the discussion about the use of web analytics tools with full IP addresses, we would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()", thus ensuring that IP addresses are only processed in an abridged form to exclude direct personal identification.
Further, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

6. Right of objection
According to the regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) you have the right to object to the utilisation or transmission of your data for marketing purposes (block indicator). In addition under certain conditions you have a right to correction, blocking and deletion of data we have stored about you.

7. Right to information
Upon request you have the right to receive information free of charge on personal data stored about you. Of course you also have the right to have your data deleted within the scope permissible by law, whereby you also are able to delete these data for online applications at any time yourself.

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