Privacy policy

(courtesy translation, the German version is legally binding) We are pleased to welcome you to our website www.sikom.de and thank you for your interest in our company and our products.

The protection of your personal data is a central concern for us. Therefore, we strictly adhere to the applicable data protection laws.

In the following, you will learn which general and personal data we collect when operating the website www.sikom.de and how we process and use this data.

1. General handling of your data

In the following we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. This happens when you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter (see 2. below) or use our online contact form (see 3. below). 3.).
Otherwise, our server only stores anonymous data during your visit to the website www.sikom.de, which is generally technically stored when accessing websites: The name of your Internet browser, the name of your Internet service provider, the IP address under which your computer’s Internet connection to www.sikom.de is established, the name of your operating system, the web pages you visit on our site, and the date and duration of your visit. This data is stored and statistically evaluated by us, but without any reference to your person. We store and evaluate this anonymous information in order to better understand the specific use of the website www.sikom.de by its visitors and thus to improve our online offer on www.sikom.de.

The storage period of this data (logs) is 7 days.

The above-mentioned data is technically necessary in order to display our web pages to you and to ensure stability and security, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.

2. Email newsletter

We only send email newsletters to your email address with your prior consent. You give us this consent – which can be revoked at any time – by entering your email address in the field provided for subscribing to the newsletter.
To protect you from unintentional harassment, we use a so-called double opt-in procedure for ordering email newsletter subscriptions. This means: After ordering the email newsletter subscription, you will receive an email asking you to confirm the subscription.

After a successful registration, your data will be stored as long as you have subscribed to the newsletter.

You can unsubscribe from a newsletter you have subscribed to with us at any time – by clicking on the corresponding link at the end of the newsletter or by sending a message to the contact details provided in the imprint.

The storage of more detailed information regarding the time of your subscription and the IP address used is in our interest, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.

3. Contact form

You will find a contact form on www.sikom.de under the link „Contact“. You can leave us a message via this contact form. Furthermore, you can leave your contact details in this contact form if you would like us to contact you personally.

In the contact form, the following information will be requested from you on a mandatory basis:
Email address, name and company.

If you wish to be contacted by telephone, we also need your telephone number.

All other information is voluntary. You have the option of sending us an enquiry in free text within the contact form.

We only use the data you enter in the contact form to answer your enquiry. If you wish us to contact you personally by email or telephone in the contact form, we will use your email address or telephone number exclusively for the purpose of contacting you.

We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are legal obligations to retain data.

The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures which are carried out at the request of the data subject, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO.

4. Integrated services

For the design of our website and the provision of additional functions, we integrate some external services.

All services described below can be deactivated by using special plugins for your browser or, more precisely, the necessary connection to the corresponding servers is prevented. Please note, however, that the use of such tools may result in a loss of everyday comfort – because many things will no longer function as you would normally expect.

Otherwise, if configured correctly, these tools can also prevent the web analysis already mentioned or other evaluations of user behaviour (e.g. online advertising).

YouTube

We include videos from our YouTube channel on our website. YouTube is a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.

When you access the website, no connection is initially established to the YouTube (Google) servers. Instead of the video, you will only be shown a preview image, which we retrieve from our web server.

Should you click on the corresponding button to view the video, a connection will automatically be established from your browser to the YouTube (Google) server and thus your IP address will also be transmitted. If you have a user account with Google and are logged in when you visit our website, additional data will be transmitted to Google’s servers so that the provider of this service may also be able to associate your visit to our website with your user behaviour.

We would like to point out that we, as the provider of our website, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by YouTube, nor do we have any possibility of further restricting the transmission of data to YouTube and its partners.

Further information on data protection at YouTube (Google) can be found at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact YouTube (Google) to exercise this right.

Storage period: Your IP address and user information will be deleted after 180 days.

Legal basis: We only use YouTube (Google) on the basis of your personal consent, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Revocation: You have the right to revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 Abs. 3 S.1 DSGVO. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.

OpenStreetMap

We include map material from OpenStreetMap on our website. OpenStreetMap is a project of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B72 1JU, United Kingdom, which collects freely usable geodata and stores it in a database for free use.

When you access the website, no connection is initially made to OpenStreetMap’s servers. Instead of the embedded map, you will only be shown a preview image that we retrieve from our web server.

Should you click on the corresponding button to share the map, a connection from your browser to the OpenStreetMap server is automatically established and thus your IP address is also transmitted. If you have a user account with OpenStreetMap and are logged in when you visit our website, additional data will be transmitted to the OpenStreetMap servers so that the provider of this service may also be able to associate your visit to our website with your user behaviour.

Further information on data protection in connection with OpenStreet Map can be found here: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

Storage period: Your IP address and user information will be deleted after 180 days.

Legal basis: WWe only use OpenStreetMap on the basis of your personal consent, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Social Media Links

Within our websites there are links to various social media (LinkedIn, Xing) with the corresponding logos. These are not social media plug-ins, but merely a link to our offers within these media. If you click on one of these links, your data, which are listed under 1., will be transmitted to the respective operators of the different platforms.

If you do not wish the data to be merged with your social media user account, you must log out before using the services. The respective social media operators use this data to create user profiles, but also for advertising purposes, market research or also for the needs-based design of their websites. You have the option to object to the creation of such usage profiles. However, you must address this objection directly to the operators of the social media site.

Further information on the type and scope of data processing as well as setting options for the protection of your personal data can be found at:

LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Xing: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

5. Use of cookies

We use the technology of cookies for our websites. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser by our web server when you visit our website and are stored on your computer for later retrieval.

This website uses cookies to the following extent:

– Transient cookies (temporary use): Session cookies

– Persistent cookies (temporary use): Settings for language selection of our website

– Third-party cookies (from third party providers): if necessary, further cookies are set (see integrated services).

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This enables your computer to be recognised when you return to the website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a set period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

You can configure your browser setting according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website.

We do not collect or store personal data in cookies in this context. We also do not use any techniques that link information generated by cookies with user data.

6. Publication of job advertisements / job applications

Your application data will be collected and processed electronically by us for the purpose of processing the application. If your application is followed by the conclusion of an employment contract, your transmitted data may be stored by us in your personnel file for the purpose of the usual organisational and administrative process in compliance with the relevant legal provisions.

The deletion of the data you have submitted will take place automatically two months after notification of the rejection if your job application is rejected.

This does not apply if longer storage is necessary due to legal requirements (for example, the duty of proof under the General Equal Treatment Act) or if you have expressly consented to longer storage in our database of prospective applicants. There, the data will be deleted after 2 years.

The processing of your data in the context of the application procedure is permissible for the decision on the establishment of an employment relationship, in accordance with § 26 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – Federal Data Protection Act – (BDSG n.F.).

7. Data subject rights

You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you:

– Right to information

– Right to correction or deletion

– Right to restriction of processing

– Right to object to processing

– Right to data portability

Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time, e.g. also if you receive advertising from us in the form of a newsletter, customer magazine or information material by post as part of a business relationship (right to object to direct advertising).

If we use your data within the scope of functions of our websites for direct advertising and a related data analysis, we inform you about this data processing above in this data protection declaration, including a possibility to exercise your right of revocation by technical means if necessary.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

8. Person responsible

The responsible party in accordance with Art. 4 Abs. 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) is Sikom Software GmbH, Tullastraße 4, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany (see our imprint: www.sikom.de/de/impressum).

9. Data protection officer of the responsible party

You can contact our data protection officer as follows:

Thomas Althammer, Althammer & Kill GmbH & CO. KG, email: kontakt-dsb@althammer-kill.de

Please contact our data protection officer directly if you have any questions or suggestions.

Last update: 14.11.2022