Data Protection Statement in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
(Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC in the Official Journal of the European Union, OJEU L 119/1; effective date: 25 May 2018).
on the website www.berentzen-gruppe.de
At Berentzen-Gruppe AG in Haselünne we are very serious about protecting your personal data. We treat your personal data confidentially in conformity with statutory data protection regulations under German and European laws (in particular, the General Data Protection Regulation/GDPR and the German Telemedia Act/TMG)and the following Statement.
This Data Protection Statement relates to our website alone. If you are forwarded to other websites via links on our website, please seek information from those other websites about how they handle and process your data.
The legal basis for data processing, including on websites, is essentially the following provisions and legal regulations:
- Your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR)
- Fulfilment of agreements or other legal relationships (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR)
- Protection of legitimate interests / balancing of interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR)
Based on the principles of data avoidance and data economy, we process personal data only as long as this is necessary within the meaning of the Statement below or prescribed by legislators (statutory storage period). If the purpose or right to process the collected personal data no longer exists or if the permitted storage period expires, we will lock or erase the data; that is, unless their further processing — with a time limit — is required, particularly for the following purposes:
- Fulfilment of retention periods under commercial and tax laws, in particular pursuant to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the German Tax Code (AO). The periods prescribed therein for retention or documentation run from two to at most ten years.
- Preservation of evidence in the context of statutes of limitations. According to Secs. 195 et seq. of the German Civil Code (BGB), these limitation periods can run as long as 30 years, although the regular limitation period is three years.
- Warranty or guarantee claims made by you.
To allow for a data lock at any time, it is necessary to keep the data in a lock file for control purposes. If there is no statutory duty to archive, you can also demand the erasure of such data. If a statutory duty to archive exists, we will lock these data if you wish. If providing personal data is mandated by law or contract, or is necessary for conclusion of a contract, we refer to the adverse consequences for not providing them.
In particular, the following terms used in this agreement are defined according to Art. 4 GDPR as follows:
- Personal data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as a "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.
- Data subject: any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data are processed by the controller responsible for the processing.
- Processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
For further definitions, please refer to Art. 4 GDPR (https://dejure.org/gesetze/DSGVO).
1. Name and contact data of the controller responsible for the processing and of the internal Data Protection Officer
This Data Protection Statement is valid for data processing by the responsible operator of this website: Berentzen-Gruppe Aktiengesellschaft, Ritterstraße 7, 49740 Haselünne, Germany (hereinafter: Berentzen), e-mail: berentzen@berentzen.de, phone: +49 (0)5961-502-0, fax: +49 (0)5961/502-268.
Berentzen's internal Data Protection Officer can be reached as follows:
Sebastian Feldmann, Prico GmbH
Unterer Markt 1, 49477 Ibbenbüren
Phone: +49 (0) 5451 562 213 1
Mail: datenschutz@berentzen.de
2. Collection and storage of personal data, nature and purpose of use
a. Call-up of the website (server log files)
When this website www.berentzen-gruppe.de is called up, information is automatically sent by the browser used on your terminal device to the server of this website. This information is stored temporarily in a log file. The following information is recorded without your doing anything and is stored until it is automatically deleted:
- IP address of the querying computer (hostname)
- access date and time
- name and URL of the file called up
- website from which the access originates (referrer URL)
- browser used and operating system of your computer, if applicable
- name of your access provider
It is not possible to deduce your identity from this automatically generated information. The aforementioned data are processed for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth establishment of connection with the website
- Ensuring a comfortable use of our website
- Analysis of system security and stability
- Other administrative purposes.
The legal basis for this data processing is provided by Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter referred to as: GDPR). Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. In no case will we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions as to your identity.
In addition, we use cookies as well as analysis services when you visit our website. More detailed explanations about this are provided to you under sections 4 and 5 of this Data Protection Statement.
b. Age verification
There is no age verification on this website, and consequently in this respect no specific personal data are processed by us and no cookies, etc., are placed.
c. Contacting us by mail or by e-mail as well as via contact form.
You can contact us by mail as well as by e-mail via info@berentzen.de and ir@berentzen.de (see contact details imprint). In this case, we will process the data that you provide to us when contacting us; in addition to the purely technical data (see 2.a. above), this may include in particular plain names (first name/last name), user names, addresses (street, house number, postal code, city), telephone numbers or e-mail addresses.
We also offer you the opportunity to contact us via a form on this website (including message field). In doing so, the following data will be collected from you and processed by us: Salutation, first name, last name, e-mail address. Additional information may be provided voluntarily, in particular within the message written by you via the message field.
We process your personal data received via the aforementioned contact for the purpose of proper feedback to you and further correspondence with you, if any.
The aforementioned data processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO on the basis of your voluntarily given consent. This consent can be revoked by you at any time (e.g. by e-mail to info@berentzen.de ), unless we have a legitimate interest in further processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f DSGVO or there is a legal obligation to do so (e.g. for storage, documentation, contractual obligations).
d. Registration for Investor Relations e-mail distribution list
You have the option of registering on our website to receive news (financial and investor relations news) via our investor relations e-mail distribution list by providing personal data. The relevant personal data transmitted to us via the input mask are: Salutation, title if applicable, language, capital market affiliation (buy-side, sell-side, etc.), e-mail address.
The purpose of this registration with your personal data is to send you our latest financial and investor relations news directly and personally as soon as it is published.
The aforementioned data processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO on the basis of your voluntarily given consent. This consent can be revoked by you at any time, unless we have a legitimate interest in further processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.
e. Online applicants
On our website, we make it possible for you to submit an application to us by e-mail; you can do so under jobs@berentzen.de, or for training under ausbildung@berentzen.de.
We also offer you the possibility to contact us for application purposes using a separate contact form. The following data are to be provided in this case:
- Sex
- Last name, first name
- Street address, postal code, city
- Phone number
- E-mail address
so that we can know who is making the inquiry and what position it is regarding, and so that we can answer you. We also ask for your first and last name and your telephone number. Additional data can be provided voluntarily, especially in the messages that you write via the contact forms.
We process the data that you send us in connection with your application (incl. the e-mail address you used to send it), in order to examine your suitability for the position (or perhaps other open positions at our company) and to carry out the application procedure.
The legal basis for processing your personal data in this application procedure is mainly Section 26 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) as amended as of 25 May 2018. According to it, it is permissible to process data required in connection with the decision on establishing an employment relationship.
If it is the case that, after the conclusion of the application procedure, the data are required in the prosecution of a claim, data processing can occur on the basis of the requirements of Art. 6 GDPR, particularly to protect legitimate interests under Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our interest in that case consists in the assertion or defense of claims.
If an application is denied, the applicant's data will be erased after a reasonable time.
In the event that you have consented to continued storage of your personal data, we will place your data into our applicant pool. The data therein will be erased after expiration of a reasonable time, unless a legitimate interest in the data continues to exist (e.g., in the event the applicant was hired).
If, in the application procedure, you were accepted for a position, the data will be transferred from the applicant data system into our personnel information system.
Your applicant data will be screened by the human resources department after your application is received. Suitable applications will then be forwarded internally to the persons responsible for the open position in the department. Then the further steps will be agreed upon. Within the company, generally only those persons who need your data for the regular process of our application procedure will have access to them.
f. Google Search Console
The SEO tool Google Search Console is used for this website for optimization purposes. Personal data is not collected, stored or processed in any other way. Cookies are not set, tracking does not take place. You can find more information about the Google Search Console here: https://search.google.com/search-console/about?hl=de
3. Sharing of data
Any transfer of your data to third parties will take place only for the purposes listed below.
We share your personal data with third parties only
- if you have given your explicit consent to this under Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR
- if the sharing is required under Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal rights and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in your data not being shared
- if a legal obligation to share the data exists under Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR
- if this is legally permitted and is required under Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for the performance of a contractual relationship with you
- on the basis of a processing agreement entered into by us with a processor according to Art. 28 GDPR
If we should form the intention to use the personal data for a purpose other than those mentioned above, prior to this further processing we will make available to you information about this other purpose and all other relevant information according to Art. 13 para. 2 GDPR.