Privacy Policy

We welcome you to our website and appreciate your interest in our company. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We process your data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the country-specific implementing laws that apply to us. Through this Privacy Policy, we provide you with comprehensive information about the processing of your personal data by ALRE-IT REGELTECHNIK GMBH and the rights to which you are entitled.

Personal data refers to information that enables the identification of a natural person. This includes, in particular, name, date of birth, address, phone number, email address, and your IP address. Data is considered anonymous if no personal connection to the user can be established.

1. Data Controller and Data Protection Officer 

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact:

ALRE-IT Regeltechnik GmbH
Richard-Tauber-Damm 10
12277 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 399 84-0
Email: mail@alre.de 

Data Protection Contact
Email: datenschutz@alre.de
Information about the Data Protection Officer
Email: datenschutz@atarax.de

2. Your Rights as a Data Subject 

First, we would like to inform you here about your rights as a data subject. These rights are set forth in Articles 15–22 of the EU GDPR. This includes:

• The right of access (Art. 15 EU GDPR),
• The right to erasure (Art. 17 EU GDPR),
• The right to rectification (Art. 16 EU GDPR),
• The right to data portability (Art. 20 EU GDPR),
• The right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 EU GDPR),
• The right to object to data processing (Art. 21 EU GDPR).

To exercise these rights, please contact: datenschutz@alre.de. The same applies if you have questions about data processing in our company or wish to withdraw your consent. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

3. General Information on Data Processing

3.1 Rights to object

Please note the following regarding the right to object:

If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object to this data processing at any time without providing reasons. This also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to direct marketing.

If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes. The objection is free of charge and may be submitted in any form, preferably to: datenschutz@alre.de

In the event that we process your data to safeguard legitimate interests, you may object to this processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

3.2 Purposes and Legal Bases of Data Processing 

When processing your personal data, we comply with the provisions of the EU GDPR and all other applicable data protection regulations. The legal bases for data processing are derived in particular from Article 6 of the EU GDPR.

We use your data to initiate business relationships, to fulfill contractual and legal obligations, to execute the contractual relationship, to offer products and services, and to strengthen customer relationships.

Your consent to data processing may also constitute a legal basis under data protection law. Before you give your consent, we will inform you about the purpose of the data processing and your right to withdraw consent.

Marketing purposes for existing customers (Art. 6(1)(f) EU GDPR)

ALRE-IT Regeltechnik GmbH is interested in maintaining our customer relationship with you and providing you with information and offers regarding our products and services. Therefore, we process your data to send you relevant information and offers via email.

If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may object at any time to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to direct marketing. If you object, we will no longer process your data for this purpose.

The objection may be made free of charge and without any specific formality, without the need to provide reasons, and should preferably be directed to +49 30 399 84-0, by email to datenschutz@alre.de, or by mail to ALRE-IT Regeltechnik GmbH, Richard-Tauber-Damm 10, D-12277 Berlin.

3.3 Disclosure to Third Parties

We will only disclose your data to third parties within the scope of legal provisions or with your consent. Otherwise, no disclosure to third parties will take place unless we are required to do so by mandatory legal provisions (disclosure to external bodies such as supervisory authorities or law enforcement agencies).

3.4 Recipients of the data / Categories of recipients 

Within our company, we ensure that only those individuals who need your data to fulfill contractual and legal obligations receive it.

In certain cases, IT service providers in particular assist our departments in fulfilling their tasks. The necessary data protection agreements have been concluded with all service providers.

3.5 Transfer to third countries / Intention to transfer to third countries 

Data transfers to third countries (outside the European Union or the European Economic Area) only take place to the extent that this is necessary for the performance of the contractual relationship, required by law, or you have given us your consent.

We transfer your personal data to service providers or group companies outside the European Economic Area, namely Ireland and the United States. Compliance with data protection standards is ensured through EU Standard Contractual Clauses and binding corporate data protection policies.

3.6 Data Retention Period 

We store your data for as long as it is required for the respective processing purpose. Please note that numerous retention periods require that data continue to be stored. This applies in particular to retention obligations under commercial or tax law (e.g., the German Commercial Code, the German Fiscal Code, etc.). Unless further retention obligations apply, the data will be routinely deleted once the purpose has been fulfilled.

In addition, we may retain data if you have given us your consent to do so or if legal disputes arise and we use evidence within the scope of statutory limitation periods, which can be up to thirty years; the standard limitation period is three years.

3.7 Secure Transmission of Your Data 

To protect the data stored with us as effectively as possible against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons, we implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures. Security levels are continuously reviewed in collaboration with security experts and adapted to new security standards.

Data exchange to and from our website is always encrypted. We use HTTPS as the transmission protocol for our website, always employing the latest encryption protocols.

3.8 Obligation to Provide Data

Various personal data are necessary for the establishment, performance, and termination of the contractual relationship and the fulfillment of the associated contractual and legal obligations. The same applies to the use of our website and the various functions it provides.

We have summarized the details for you in the section above. In certain cases, data must also be collected or provided due to legal requirements. Please note that processing your request or fulfilling the underlying contractual relationship is not possible without the provision of this data.

3.9 Categories, Sources, and Origin of Data 

The specific context determines which data we process: This depends on whether, for example, you place an order online or submit an inquiry via our contact form, whether you send us a job application or file a complaint.

Section 5.4 lists the data we store when you visit our website. This consists of pseudonymous data that does not allow for a clear association with your person.

Please note that we may also provide information for specific processing situations separately in the appropriate place, e.g., when uploading application documents or submitting a contact request.

3.10 Automated Individual Decision-Making

We do not use purely automated processing procedures to make decisions.

4. Social Media Links

On our website, you will find links to the social media services of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. You can recognize links to the websites of these social media services by the respective company logo. If you follow these links, you will be directed to our company profiles on the respective social media service. When you click a link to a social media service, a connection is established with the servers of that social media service. This transmits information to the social media service’s servers indicating that you have visited our website. Additionally, further data is transmitted to the provider of the social media service. This includes, for example:

• The address of the webpage on which the activated link is located•
The date and time the webpage was accessed or the link
was activated• Information about the browser and operating
system used• IP address

If you are already logged in to the relevant social media service at the time the link is activated, the provider of the social media service may be able to determine your username and, in some cases, even your real name from the transmitted data and associate this information with your personal user account on the social media service. You can prevent this association with your personal user account by logging out of your user account beforehand.

The servers of the social media services are located in the United States and other countries outside the European Union. The data may therefore also be processed by the social media service provider in countries outside the European Union. Please note that companies in these countries are subject to data protection laws that generally do not protect personal data to the same extent as is the case in the member states of the European Union.

Please note that we have no influence over the scope, nature, and purpose of data processing by the social media service provider. For more information on how your data is used by the social media services integrated into our website, please refer to the privacy policy of the respective social media service.

5. Data Processing on Our Website

5.1 Cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies. They serve to make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and saved by your browser (locally). Cookies contain only pseudonymous, and in most cases even anonymous, data. Some cookies remain active for the duration of a browser session (so-called session cookies), while others are stored for a longer period (so-called persistent cookies, e.g., consent settings). The latter are automatically deleted after the specified time (usually ). In addition to our own cookies, we also use cookies controlled by third-party providers. These providers use the information contained in the cookies to, for example, display content to you or track the pages you visit.

Based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), we use technically necessary cookies that are essential for the operation of the website and ensuring its functionality. Furthermore, we use cookies without your consent to the extent that their sole purpose is to store or access information stored on the end device for the transmission of messages, or if they are absolutely necessary to provide the service you have expressly requested, § 25(2) TTDSG.

Subject to your consent, additional cookies are used that enable us or third parties, for example, to analyze how our services are used. This allows us to tailor content to user needs. In addition, cookies allow us to measure the effectiveness of a specific advertisement and to place it, for example, based on the user’s thematic interests. The legal basis for this is your explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TTDSG).

You can revoke your consent at any time via our consent banner with future effect and change your cookie settings. Please note that changes must be made separately for each device.

If you maintain accounts with the third-party providers we use and are logged in there, your data may be linked to the respective account. You can prevent such a link by not granting or by revoking your consent to the relevant cookies, or by logging out of the respective third-party providers beforehand.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can also manually disable, restrict, or delete cookies on your device via your browser settings or using software. If you disable cookies, full use of our websites will not be possible or will be limited.

Please also refer to our information in the section of the respective service that uses cookies.

Cookiebot

To ensure the use of cookies complies with data protection regulations, we use the Cookiebot consent banner on our website, a feature provided by Usercentrics A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, Denmark. By using this feature, data may be sent to Usercentrics A/S and processed by them.

The necessary data protection agreement has been concluded with Usercentrics.

Please note that the provider may engage third parties—including those based outside the European Union or the European Economic Area—to collect, process, and use personal data within the scope of data processing on behalf of the controller pursuant to Article 28 of the EU GDPR.

If you accept cookies, the following data will be transmitted to Usercentrics and processed:

• IP address
• Date and time of your consent
• Our website URL
• Technical browser data
• List of the cookies you have accepted

For more information on data processing by Usercentrics, please visit https://www.cookiebot.com/de/privacy-policy/?tid=331709113993.

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