Source: https://www.efficient-elements.com/privacy/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 19:23:57+00:00

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For the use of the website and the provision of services, we collect various types of data, some of which are provided by you as a user and some of which are necessary for the use of the website or arise from the use of the website and/or services. Personal data are individual details about personal or professional circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person, such as your name, your address, your telephone number, your date of birth, your payment data and your IP address. Your personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transferred to third parties if the transfer is necessary for the purpose of contract processing (for example for payment processing or sending goods via parcel service) or if you have given your express consent. The information is not used for any other purpose and no automatic decision processing will take place.
Person responsible in the meaning of. Art. 4 Para. 7 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Bastian Schittny, Efficient Elements GmbH, Tropauer Str. 34, 74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen (see also via „Imprint“ at our Website). You can contact the person responsible for data protection at privacy@efficient-elements.com or via our postal address with the addition “Data Protection “.
Right of appeal to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. The supervisory authority responsible for us can be found in section 6. j) below. The right of appeal is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.
Please contact the person responsible for data protection via the contact details provided in Section 2 above to request information and for withdrawal as well as for notification of a request for deletion; the data protection officer will then provide the information immediately or confirm the execution of your request for deletion. A deletion requested by you will then be carried out subject to statutory retention obligations. If a deletion cannot take place completely due to legal storage obligations, we limit the processing of the data concerned and inform you accordingly.
As far as the website or an action via our website or a webinar offered via third party service requires a registration, the basic data for the registration, determined by the respective registration form are transmitted, processed and stored and only collected, stored and used for the use of the website and its services as well as the web shop. In the context of such registration we are also entitled to inform you about changes, additions or new versions of the website, changes of our terms and conditions as well as these privacy statement and additional information provided via the website as well as e.g. about new products.
If you would like to order in our web shop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you enter your personal data, which we need for the completion of your order. Required information for the execution of the contracts are marked separately, any further information is voluntary. If you are interested in the purchase of a special licence type, we may request additional information, which are necessary for the approval of the grant of the requested licence type. We process the data provided by you to process your order. For this purpose, we can pass on your payment data to our payment service provider. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR.
For processing your order, you do not have to create a customer account. Orders are processed as guest orders only. The data you provide will be stored until you delete the data or request for deletion.
If you order a free educational license we ask for your title, name and email address and possibly for a proof that you are currently a registered student or employee of an educational / research institution (copy of student ID card or similar) and use this data for processing the order. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR.
If you would like to use Efficient Elements for presentations via the XING Premium program, XING will provide us with the following data from your XING account which is required for granting you the use of the software: e-mail, First Name, Family Name, Gender and Link to your XING Profile.
To prevent unauthorized access to your personal data, especially financial data, the order process is encrypted using SSL/TLS technology.
We have included YouTube videos in our online offer, which are stored on http://www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. No data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the above data be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transmission.
We process personal data about you for the purpose of your application for employment, insofar as this is necessary for the decision to establish an employment relationship with us. The legal basis is § 26 Paragraph 1 in conjunction with Paragraph 8 Sentence 2 BDSG. Furthermore, we may process personal data about you insofar as this is necessary to defend against legal claims asserted against us in the application process. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1, letter f GDPR, the legitimate interest is for example a duty of proof in a procedure according to the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). Insofar as an employment relationship exists between you and us, we can process the personal data already received from you for the purpose of the employment relationship in accordance with § 26 Paragraph 1 BDSG, if this is necessary for the execution or termination of the employment relationship or for the exercise or fulfilment of the rights and obligations of the interest representation of the employees resulting from a law or a collective agreement, a company or service agreement (collective agreement).
As part of this processing of your application by StepStone on our behalf, security deposits from Akamai Technologies, Inc. will be used, which may result in a transmission to the USA. Akamai is Privacy Shield certified to maintain an adequate level of privacy. The certification can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt-0000000Gn4RAAS&status=Active.

References: Art. 4
 Art. 77
 Art. 6
 Art. 6
 § 26
 Art. 6
 § 26