Data Privacy
Name and address of the controller
The controller, as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection legislation applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is the:
The companies of TÜV NORD GROUP, represented by TÜV NORD AG
Am TÜV 1
Hannover, Germany
Tel. +49 511 998-0
E-mail: privacy(at)tuev-nord.de
www.tuev-nord.de
Name and address of the Data Protection Officer
The controller’s Data Protection Officer is:
Mr Berthold Weghaus
TÜV NORD AG
Am Technologiepark 1
45307 Essen, Germany
Tel +49 201 825-2165
E-mail: bweghaus(at)tuev-nord.de
www.tuev-nord.de
SSL encryption
The collection of survey data is secured by default via the SSL encryption method SHA256 (SSL 3.0 fallback deactivated) and are also only available to the author (customer) via an identically secured connection.
Voluntary participation
Participation in the survey is voluntary for you. You have the possibility to cancel the survey at any time by closing the browser window. The answers given so far will be made available to the author.
Anonymous participation
Your participation in the survey is basically anonymous. The survey system can only establish a connection between you and the results if this has been set by the author (customer). If you are asked for personal information within the survey, it is your decision to provide it and make it available to the author (customer) with your answers.
Encryption of the IP address
To prevent multiple participation in the survey, the author can enable IP blocking. To enable IP blocking, your IP address is read and only stored on the survey server after automatic encryption into a non-reverse-encryptable hashtag. This means that your IP address cannot be read by the author or easyfeedback at any time. As soon as the survey is finished, the hashtag is deleted.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are set in your browser when you call up the survey. Using these cookies, the survey system can recognize whether you have already visited the survey and reassign the answers you have already given (interrupt & continue a survey). Likewise, the use of cookies can prevent multiple participation. The cookie is automatically deleted after 90 days or if the survey is deleted prematurely.
Place of data storage
The storage of your answers and data takes place in accordance with applicable data protection regulations in Germany in the data center of Strato AG.
In accordance with the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we inform you here in detail about the personal data that we collect from you, store and process, as well as your rights: correction or deletion, to restrict processing or a right to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability. You have the following rights
Rights of the data subject
If personal data concerning you are being processed, you are a data subject as defined by the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the controller:
You can obtain confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed by us.
If this is the case, you can obtain from the controller the following information:
You have the right to obtain information as to whether the personal data concerning you are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. In this regard, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards under the terms of Art. 46 GDPR relating to the transfer.
Where data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes:
This right to information can be restricted in so far as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical objectives and the restriction is necessary for the fulfilment of the research or statistical objectives.
You have a right to rectification and/or completion vis-à-vis the controller in so far as the personal data being processed concerning you are inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must undertake the rectification without delay.
Where data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes:
Your right to rectification can be restricted in so far as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical objectives and the restriction is necessary for the fulfilment of the research or statistical objectives.
You can request the restriction of the processing of the personal data concerning you where one of the following applies:
Where processing of the personal data concerning you has been restricted, these personal data shall – with the exception of storage – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.
Where restriction of processing has been obtained under the conditions described above, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.
Where data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes:
Your right to restriction of processing can be restricted in so far as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical objectives and the restriction is necessary for the fulfilment of the research or statistical objectives.
You can request the erasure by the controller of the personal data concerning you without delay, and the controller is obliged to erase the data without delay, where one of the following grounds applies:
Where the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged under the terms of Art. 17(1) GDPR to erase them, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested the erasure by them of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.
The right to erasure does not apply to the extent that processing is necessary
If you have exercised your right vis-à-vis the controller to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of their processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right vis-à-vis the controller to be informed concerning these recipients.
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. In addition, you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:
In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. This must not adversely affect the freedoms and rights of others.
The right to data portability does not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on point (e) or (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions.
The controller shall no longer process the personal data concerning you unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Where personal data concerning you are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing. This also applies for profiling, to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
Where you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you shall no longer be processed for such purposes.
In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
Where data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes:
Where personal data concerning you are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes under the terms of Art. 89(1) GDPR, you have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object to such processing.
Your right to object can be restricted in so far as it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical objectives and the restriction is necessary for the fulfilment of the research or statistical objectives.
You have the right to withdraw your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you adversely. This does not apply if the decision:
However, these decisions must not be based on special categories of personal data referred to in Art. 9(1) GDPR, unless point (a) or (g) of Art. 9(2) applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests are in place.
In the cases referred to in points (a) and (c), the data controller must implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR.
The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged is to inform the complainant on the progress and the outcome of the complaint including the possibility of a judicial remedy under the terms of Art. 78 GDPR.