Data Privacy

Data protection information

1. name and contact details of the person responsible for data processing and the company data protection officer
The operator of this website and responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-2018) is

3W Solutions GmbH
Meckhofer Feld 41
51377 Leverkusen
0049/17645947407 oder 0049/1732733723
info@3wsolutions.de

In this context, we note that the security notice under item 6 was taken from the website of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and corresponds to the current state of knowledge. The note under item 7 reflects the legal situation in North Rhine-Westphalia that is currently (still) in force.

2. General information
We consider it our primary responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data you provide and to protect it from unauthorized access. For this reason, we apply the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data.
As a company under private law, we are subject to the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) and the regulations of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the regulations on data protection are observed both by us and by our external service providers.
We use your data in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. This privacy policy informs you which personal data we collect and store from you. You will also receive information on how your data is used and what rights you have with regard to the use of your data.

Definitions
The legislator requires that personal data be processed in a lawful manner, in good faith and in a way that is comprehensible to the data subject ("lawfulness, processing in good faith, transparency"). To ensure this, we inform you about the individual legal definitions, which are also used in this privacy policy:
• Personal data
"Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
• Processing
"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, filing, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
• Restriction of Processing
"Restriction of processing" means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing.
• Profiling
"Profiling" is any type of automated processing of personal data that consists of using such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects relating to that natural person's job performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location.
• Pseudonymization
"Pseudonymization" means the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.
• File system
"File system" means any structured collection of personal data accessible according to specified criteria, whether such collection is maintained centrally, decentrally, or according to functional or geographical criteria.
• Controller
"Controller" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its designation may be provided for under Union or Member State law.
• Processor
"Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
• Recipient
"Recipient" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to whom personal data are disclosed, whether or not a third party. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigation mandate under Union or Member State law shall not be considered as Recipients; the processing of such data by the aforementioned authorities shall be carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation in accordance with the purposes of the processing.
• Third Party
"Third party" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body, other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons authorized to process the personal data under the direct responsibility of the controller or the processor.
• Consent
"Consent" of the data subject means any freely given specific, informed and unambiguous indication of his or her wishes in the form of a statement or other unambiguous affirmative act by which the data subject signifies his or her agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her

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3. collection and storage of personal data as well as type and purpose of their use

You have various options for contacting us via the Internet.

a) Visiting our website

In the case of merely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server.
The following data is collected without your intervention and stored until automated deletion:
- the IP address of the requesting computer
- the date and time of access
- the name and URL of the file accessed
- the website from which the access was made
- the operating system of your computer and the browser you are using
- the name of your Internet access provider.

The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website
- Ensuring a comfortable use of our website
- evaluation of system security and stability
- other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for the data processing is Article 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO, according to which the processing is lawful if "the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child".
Our legitimate interest in collecting data derives from the purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data to draw conclusions about your person.

In addition, we use cookies and another analysis tool on our website (for more details, see section 5).

b) Use of our contact form
For questions of any kind, we offer you the opportunity to contact us via a form provided on this website.
In doing so, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address so that we know from whom the inquiry originates and so that we can answer the inquiry. Further information can be provided voluntarily.
Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is based on your voluntarily given consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DS-GVO).
The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after your request has been dealt with.

4. transfer of data
Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties if
- you have given your express consent to this (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DS-GVO)
- the transfer is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b DS-GVO)
- there is a legal obligation for the disclosure (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. c DS-GVO)
- the disclosure is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO).

5 Cookies and analysis tool
We use cookies on our site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device (smartphone, tablet, laptop or similar) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device, do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.

In the cookie, information is stored that arises in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we gain direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies primarily serves to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. We use so-called "session cookies" to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These cookies are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain fixed period of time. When you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already been with us and which entries and settings you have made. You then do not have to make them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize when you return to our site that you have already visited us and which information was of particular interest to you. The corresponding cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

The data processed by cookies is necessary for the aforementioned purposes to protect our legitimate interests as well as the interests of third parties (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO).

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can also configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a notice always appears before a new cookie is created.
Complete deactivation of cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

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 this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged 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. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This means that IP addresses are processed in a shortened form, thus excluding the possibility of personal references. Insofar as the data collected about you is related to a person, this is therefore immediately excluded and the personal data is thus immediately deleted.

We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Third-party provider information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. User terms:
http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Privacy Policy Overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and Privacy Policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under "My Data", "Personal Data".

Integration of Google Maps
On this website, we use the offer of Google Maps. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to use the map function conveniently.

By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under § 3 of this declaration are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact Google to exercise this right.

Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.
For more information on Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and see Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

6. social media
We take the current discussion about data privacy in social networks very seriously. It is currently not conclusively clarified in legal terms whether and to what extent all networks offer their services in compliance with European data protection regulations.

We therefore expressly draw attention to the fact that the services we use - Facebook, Twitter, Xing, Google+ and YouTube - store the data of their users (e.g. personal information, IP address ) in accordance with their own data usage guidelines and use it for business purposes.
We have no influence on the data collection and its further use by the social networks. Thus, there is no knowledge of the extent to which, where and for how long the data is stored, to what extent the networks comply with existing deletion obligations, what evaluations and links are made with the data and to whom the data is passed on.

7. use of data for scientific purposes
We also offer you legal-scientific content on our pages, e.g. by reporting on current legislative projects, discussion processes and resolutions of the Statutory Assembly and current (supreme) court decisions.

Personal data is processed exclusively in anonymized form or - if the latter is not possible - in pseudonymized form (Section 28 (1) DSG NRW).

If you have any questions (or suggestions) in this regard, please contact info@3wsolutions.de.

8. protection of minors
Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.
We do not request personal data from children and young people. We do not knowingly collect such data and do not pass it on to third parties.

9. data subject rights
You have the right,

- pursuant to Art. 7 (3) DS-GVO to revoke your consent given to us at any time. The revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your previous consent. The only consequence of the revocation is that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future.

- In accordance with Art. 15 DS-GVO, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about

- the purposes of the processing
- the categories of personal data which are or have been processed
- the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data are or have been disclosed
- the planned storage period
- the existence of a right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing or of a right to object
- the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority
- the origin of your data, if it was not collected by us
- the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for you.

- In accordance with Art. 16 DS-GVO, to demand without delay the correction of any inaccurate personal data relating to you or the completion of your personal data stored by us, insofar as this is incomplete.

- in accordance with Art. 17 DS-GVO to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us. This does not apply insofar as the processing of your data is necessary

- to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information
- for the fulfillment of a legal obligation
- for reasons of public interest in the area of public health
- for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes

- for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

- In accordance with Art. 18 DS-GVO, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. This applies insofar as
- the accuracy of the data is disputed by you
- the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete the data and instead request the restriction of data use
- we no longer require the data, but you need the data to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
- you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) DS-GVO.

- in accordance with Art. 20 DS-GVO to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller.

- complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 DS-GVO. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our registered office.

Supervisory authorities for us are:
Data of your supervisory authority with address, tel, fax, email, etc.

10. right of objection
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO), you have the right to object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 DS-GVO, insofar as there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.

If you wish to exercise your right to object, please send an email to info@3wsolutions.de.

11. data security
Within the website visit, we use the widespread SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in conjunction with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. As a rule, this is a 256 bit encryption.

If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead.

You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, against partial or complete loss, against destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

12. links to other websites
We link websites of other providers not affiliated with us (third parties).
If you click on these links, we no longer have any influence on what data is collected and used by these providers (third parties). For more detailed information on data collection and use, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective provider (third party).
We assume no responsibility for the data collection and processing by third parties.

You can recognize third-party websites by the fact that they always open in a separate window of your browser. In contrast, new websites of our offer always open in a new tab of your browser.

13. how to contact us with questions
If you have any questions about data protection on our website, we welcome your e-mail to info@3wsolutions.de.

14. regular updating of this data protection information
The data protection legal framework for service providers is subject to constant changes and adjustments. These changes and adjustments make it necessary to update our data protection notice from time to time. You can recognize the current status by the line "Status: ..." at the end of this data protection notice.