Newsletter and other marketing communication
If you receive a newsletter from us, then we originally added you to the mailing list in compliance with the law applicable at the time of inclusion. The newsletter is subscribed by and with the help of a double opt-in, so that we can make sure that you are the right recipient. Double opt-in means that after filling in our form for signing in for our newsletter we will send you an e-mail to the mail-address you filled in. You need to follow the link to complete your subscription. We need to store the time and IP address of your confirmation in order to prove that you did subscribe to the newsletter. To serve personalised advertising to you — BCD Chemie doesn´t share your information with advertisers without your consent. BCD Chemie allows advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements, and BCD Chemie may use any of the non-personally-identifiable attributes BCD Chemie has collected to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. When you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and that your attributes meet the criteria the advertiser selected.
Right to withdraw consent
If the use of your data is based on your explicit consent, like ordering a Newsletter, you may at any time withdraw your consent for future processing for that purpose. For all other subject rights please see below.
Recipients of personal data
BCD Chemie may share the information collected with third parties for further processing to provide a safe, efficient and customized experience. Here are the details on how BCD Chemie does that: To provide products: Each entity of the affiliated Group of BCD Chemie may share your Personal Data within the affiliated Group, but also with agents, contractors or partners of BCD Chemie in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for or with BCD Chemie.
These agents, contractors or partners are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for BCD Chemie, or for the collaboration in which they and BCD Chemie are engaged (for example, some of our products are developed and marketed through joint agreements with other companies). BCD Chemie may, for example, provide your information to agents, contractors or partners for hosting our databases, data processing or mailing you information that you requested.
Where processing is to be carried out by agents, contractors or partners on behalf of BCD Chemie, the contractors provide sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the requirements of the data protection law. Processing by an agent, contractor or partner shall be governed by a written contract.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm: BCD Chemie reserves the right to share your data to respond to duly authorised data requests of governmental authorities, or where required by law BCD Chemie shall never sell your Personal Data to third parties, such as marketers, without your explicit consent. BCD Chemie does not provide any Personal Data to “people finder,” “public directory” or “white pages” sites.
Sending and storing information overseas
BCD Chemie may disclose Personal Data about an individual to overseas recipients after obtaining the consent of the individual; or otherwise complying with applicable privacy legislation. BCD Chemie may also store Personal Data in the ‘cloud’ which may mean that it resides on servers which are situated outside EU. In cases when BCD Chemie needs to transmit your Personal Data, BCD Chemie shall preferably transmit your personal data only within countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) and to or from countries that provide adequate protection, as confirmed by the European Commission. For more information, see European Commission, “Commission Decisions on the Adequacy of the Protection of Personal Data in Third Countries.”
In other cases, the transmission will be done preferably according to the requirements of applicable regulations with appropriate safeguards, and on condition that enforceable data subject rights and effective legal remedies for data subjects are available or, by using of binding corporate rules. Finally, if these options were not possible, the data transfers we have to make will be in accordance to the provisions of Article 49 GDPR, for example with the explicit consent of the data subject.
Deletion process
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from an authorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means and the applicable legal requirements.
The treatment of special categories of personal data
BCD Chemie shall use and/or disclose special categories of personal data only for the purpose for which it was provided either based on your consent, or if the use or disclosure of the sensitive information is permitted by law.
Applicants
If you get in contact with BCD Chemie regarding open positions or in the case of a speculative application, we will process your data as follows: We process personal data you provide to us only for respective purposes, i.e. the respective position you apply for. You can see the categories of personal data we store directly in the relevant application form before you submit it to us.
Parallel to the human resources department, only the corresponding manager has access to your personal data. In the case of a negative decision by the manager, this access will be revoked and only the respective person in the human resources department has access your data. Obtaining and storing applicants’ personal data is necessary in order to carry out the application process, initiated by the applicant, and to make decisions about the potential working relationship. BCD Chemie deletes personal data when the application process has been completed. However, access to personal data will be restricted if there are any legal obligations to keep it.
Your data subject´s rights
BCD Chemie shall honour your data subject’s right in accordance with legal obligations and subject to the exemptions defined in applicable laws and regulations.
These rights are
1. Your right to access your personal data;
2. Your right to correct or amend or update your personal data;
3. Your right to be forgotten (right to erasure);
4. Your right to obtain Personal Data in a portable form (right to data portability);
5. Your right to restriction of processing, according to the regulation;
6. Your right to object of processing of personal data concerning you, according to the regulation, and;
7. Your right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact the Group Data Protection Officer. For contact details see below. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
Your right “to be forgotten”
If you wish to remove your personal data from our systems as indicated in the “Deletion Process” section, please contact us.
Security
BCD Chemie implements reasonable physical, technical and administrative security controls to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Your data will be stored in a secure operating environment. However, BCD Chemie cannot guarantee the security of information on or transmitted via the internet as it relies on the security of the system you have used in communication with BCD Chemie systems. BCD Chemie uses measures to enhance security, such as analysing account behaviour for fraudulent or otherwise anomalous behaviour and BCD Chemie attempts to encrypt that information to protect against eavesdropping.
Contact details of the data protection officer
BCD Chemie has appointed a Group Data Protection Officer who is located at the Headquarters in Germany together with an international Team of Local Data Protection Coordinators, thus you can get in contact in the language of the respective region. We remain available for your questions and remarks at any time.
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data and possible related rights, you may contact the Group Data Protection Officer directly as per the below:
Group Data Protection Officer (GDPO)
Schellerdamm 16
21079 Hamburg
Germany
datenschutz@bcd-chemie.de
Right to contact the supervisory authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, every data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of his or her habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes this Regulation.
External references and links
BCD Chemie’s websites may have links to other sites that are owned and maintained by other organisations. These links are outside BCD Chemie´s scope yet are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute any matter related to or sponsored by BCD Chemie services or opinions or organisation or individual. Please contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content and their privacy settings & policy.