Source: http://merchantvessels.blohmvoss.com/en/data-privacy
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 19:00:13+00:00

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This privacy notice serves fulfil the requirements of Art. 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (duties to provide information) in respect of the website of Blohm+Voss B.V. & Co. KG. In this respect, it is expressly limited to the data processing operations associated with a visit to this website.
We are very pleased that you are interested in our company. Data protection is a matter of particular importance to us. In principle, it is possible to use our websites without having to provide any personal data. However, for the best possible experience of using our website, temporary system-side processing of personal data, such as the IP address of the requesting system, will need to take place. In this regard, the processing serves to safeguard the security of our systems and optimise our services for you.
“Consent” of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
You can find further definitions on linguistic usage in the General Data Protection Regulation under Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
The browser being used and, where applicable, your computer’s operating system, as well as the name of your access provider.
The legal basis of processing is Art. 6(1), sentence 1, letter (f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest is based on the above-listed purposes for data collection. We will not, under any circumstances, use the collected data to draw conclusions about you as an individual. In addition, we also deploy cookies during a visit to our website. You can find additional explanations on this under section 2 (d) of this privacy notice.
If you have any questions, of any kind, you can contact us via the communications channels provided on our website. When doing so, it will usually be necessary to specify a valid email address; this enables us to know who sent the query, as well as to provide an answer. Additional information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purposes of establishing contact with us is, in accordance with Art. 6(1), sentence 1, letter (a) of the GDPR, carried out on the basis of your voluntarily given consent. The personal data we collect to process your queries will be erased once your query has been resolved, provided that the purpose of processing has thereby been concluded and there are no statutory retention periods that require us to store the correspondence.
Blohm+Voss B.V. & Co. KG collects and processes the personal data of applicants for the purposes of handling the application process. This processing may also be carried out by electronic means. This applies in particular if an applicant submits the corresponding application documents by electronic channels, for example by email or via our application portal. If an employment contract is concluded with an applicant, the submitted data will be stored for the purposes of handling the employment relationship, in compliance with the statutory provisions. If an employment contract is not concluded with the applicant, the application documents will be erased 6 months after notification of the rejection decision, provided that there are no other legitimate interests militating against such erasure. In this sense, another legitimate interests means, by way of example, a duty to provide proof in proceedings under the German General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG).
In this respect, see also the privacy notice for online applications.
Information that is generated in connection with the specific end-device being used in each case is stored in the cookie. However, this does not mean that we will immediately acquire knowledge of your identify.
In addition, we also use temporary cookies, which are stored on your end-device for a specific, fixed period of time, in order to optimise user-friendliness. If you visit our website again to make use of our services, the system will automatically detect that you have already visited us and identify the information you entered and the settings you specified, so that you will not have to re-enter these.
Data processed by cookies are necessary for the specified purposes to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6(1), sentence 1, letter (f) of the GDPR. Most browsers will accept cookies automatically. However, you can adjust your browser settings so that no cookies can be stored on your computer, or so that a notification will always be displayed before a new cookies is placed on your device. Completely deactivating cookies may mean, however, that you will be unable to use all of our website’s functionalities.
The transfer is necessary under Art. 6(1), sentence 1, letter (f) of the GDPR in order to establish, exercise or defend against legal claims and there are no grounds for assuming that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the prevention of your data from being transferred.
“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not.
However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with European Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
In connection with the processing operations, access to your data may, in certain circumstances, be provided to service providers that we have commissioned. In such case, special contractual agreements will be concluded that correspond to our security requirements and guarantee proper handling in accordance with data protection law.
In addition, your data may be transferred to various specialist departments within our company in order to process your request.
Your personal data will not be transferred to agencies or institutions in a third country.
In principle, personal data will be erased immediately once the purpose for which they were collected has ceased to apply and the purpose of processing has been accomplished.
Due to various statutory retention periods, the data may, depending on the purpose of processing, be stored on our systems for a longer period.
We will be pleased to provide you with more specific information concerning the individual storage period for your data upon request.
Under Art. 16 of the GDPR, to demand the immediate rectification or completion of inaccurate personal data stored by us.
Under Art. 77 of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a general rule, you can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for your habitual place of residence, or for our company (Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit [Hamburg Commissioner for Data Proection and Freedom of Information] – mailbox@datenschutz.hamburg.de).
If your personal data are being processed on the basis of a legitimate interest under Art. 6(1), sentence 1, letter (f) of the GDPR, you have the right, under Art. 21 of the GDPR to lodge an objection to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation or if the data are being processed for direct marketing.
We would like to point out to you that in some cases the provision of personal data is prescribed by law, necessary for the purposes of contract initiation, or required under the terms of a contract.
If you do not provide your personal data, this may mean that only a limited visit to the website is possible and certain functionalities will be unavailable. In some circumstances, it may not be possible to conclude a contract with the data subject.
Our data processing officer will be pleased, upon request, to clarify for you, in relation to the specific case, whether the provision of personal data is required by law or under a contract, or necessary in order to conclude the contract, or if there is an obligation to provide the personal data, as well as the consequences that would result for you if you were to choose not to provide the personal data.
We take appropriate technical and organisational security measures in order to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulations, or partial or total loss or destruction, as well as from unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological progress.
This privacy notice is currently valid and was last updated in October 2018. It may be necessary to amend this privacy notice due to further developments to our website and offerings, or due to modifications to statutory or official regulations. You can access and print out the latest current version on our website at: http://www.blohmvoss.com/en/corporate/data-privacy.
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References: Art. 13
 Art. 6
 Art. 6
 Art. 6
 Art. 6
 Art. 16
 Art. 77
 Art. 6
 Art. 21