Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our products and services. We take the protection of your privacy and your personal data very seriously. This is why it is important to us to inform you about the personal data we collect and what data we use.

In our privacy policy we use terms and definitions of the european General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially of Art. 4 GDPR. This regulation defines, that we (PPC) are the “controller” and you (the user) the “data subject”. “Personal data” are details of personal or material circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person, e.g. your name, address and e-mail address. Only personally identifiable information you provide, will be collected. These personal data are collected, processed or used only for the purpose associated with making contact. Incidentally, personal data will only be collected, processed or used after your prior consent.

Right to information, revocation, correction and deletion of your data

You have the right, upon request, to obtain information about your personal data we have stored. This Service is free of charge. You also have the right to correct, delete and / or block your data stored with us. We point out that you can revoke your consent to the use of your data at any time free of charge.

Please contact our data protection officer in writing:

Mrs. Beatrice Bod
Power Plus Communications AG
Dudenstraße 6
68167 Mannheim, Germany
Tel.: +49 621 40165-126
Phone: +49 621 40165-111
E-Mail: datenschutz@ppc-ag.de

You can also withdraw your consent to the rest of the storage, processing and use of your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy at any time free of charge.

Server log files

As a provider of these pages, we automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

IP address of your computer; the name of your web browser and operating system; the request of your browser (URL and filename); the website from which you come to us; the date and time of your visit and if you have come to us via a search engine, the search term (s) used to find our website; information on whether your access to our website has been successful; the name of your internet access provider; the extent of the transmitted data. These data can not be assigned to specific persons and no usage profiles are created by us. We also do not transfer this data via the so-called “session ID” to the hardware of your computer.

At various points in our website, we refer to third-party websites and point out that we have no influence on the privacy of these third parties.

We use technical and organizational security measures to protect the data we manage against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

There is no merging of this data with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which allows the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Online application

Thank you for your interest in our online job posting. It is important to us to ensure the highest possible protection of your personal information. Therefore, we will inform you below about the collection, processing and use of your data in the context of the online application, in accordance with the relevant data protection regulations.

Collection and use of personal data

As part of your online application, we collect and process the following personal application data:

• Last name
• First name
• Address
• Phone number
• E-mail
• Application documents (letter of application, curriculum vitae, certificates, etc.)

The collection and processing of your personal application data is exclusively earmarked for the job application process in our company. As a matter of principle, your data will only be forwarded to the internal offices and specialist departments of our company responsible for the specific application process. Any further use or transfer of your application data to third parties will not take place.

Storage

A cancellation of your application documents automatically takes place six months after completion of the application process. This does not apply insofar as statutory provisions preclude deletion, further storage is necessary for the purpose of providing evidence or you have expressly consented to a longer storage period.

Storage for future job posting

If we can not offer you a job at the current time, but your profile might be interesting for future jobs, your application will be stored for twelve months, provided you have agreed to store your data beyond the statutory period of 6 months.

Cookies

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and contain no viruses. We serve Cookies to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer and saved in your browser. The cookies used on our web pages do not collect any personal data.

You have the option to accept or disable the use of cookies via the settings of your browser. For more information, refer to your browser’s guide or help. When you disable cookies, some features of the website may be restricted. You can delete stored cookies at any time in the system settings of your browser.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analysis is the collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website an affected person has come to a website (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which length of stay a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising. The operating company of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymisation has been activated on this website, so that the IP address of Google users within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area will be shortened beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by using the link below (browser plugin available Download and install the browser plugin For more information, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en or https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html (general information about Google Analytics and data protection).

In order to fully comply with the statutory data protection requirements, we have concluded an order processing contract with Google.

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics

Our website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. It can be used to create reports that contain statements on the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as from visitor data from third-party providers. It is not possible to assign the data to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time. You can do this via the ad settings in your Google account or by generally prohibiting the collection of your data by Google Analytics.

Google reCAPTCHA

On this website we also use the reCAPTCHA feature of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). With reCAPTCHA we want to check if the data entry on our website (for example in a contact form) is done by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (for example, the website’s IP address or time spent on the website). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyzes run completely in the background, website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy, please visit the following link: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Contact forms

On our contact forms we collect personal data that we need to answer your request. The legal basis for processing your name, your e-mail address and the content of your request is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR “Contractual and pre-contractual purposes”. Further, information provided voluntarily such as your company, your address, your telephone or fax number, we process on the legal basis of a legitimate interest in accordance with. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to improve communication with our customers. The content of the completed contact form will be sent to our marketing department by e-mail, which will pass on this message to our specialist department. The details of your request will remain exclusively stored in our e-mail system and, after your request has been completed, will be secured against any further use.

Newsletter

We need an email address from you to send our newsletter. A verification of the given email address is necessary and the receipt of the newsletter must be consented to. Additional data is not collected or is voluntary. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter. The data provided when registering for the newsletter are processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your already given consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for the revocation or you can unsubscribe using the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation. Data entered to set up the subscription will be deleted if you cancel. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it will remain with us.

CleverReach

We use CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede. With this service we can organize and analyze the sending of newsletters. The data you enter to receive the newsletter, such as your email address, will be stored on CleverReach’s servers. Server locations are Germany and Ireland. Sending newsletters with CleverReach allows us to analyze the behavior of the newsletter recipient. The analysis includes, among other things shows how many recipients have opened their newsletter and how often links in the newsletter were clicked. CleverReach supports conversion tracking in order to analyze whether a previously defined action, such as a product purchase, has taken place after clicking on a link. Details on data analysis by CleverReach can be found at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktion/reporting-und-tracking/.
The data processing takes place on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your already given consent at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for the revocation or you can unsubscribe using the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

If you do not want an analysis by CleverReach, you have to unsubscribe from the newsletter. To unsubscribe, an informal e-mail to us is sufficient or you can unsubscribe using the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. Data entered to set up the subscription will be deleted from our servers and the CleverReach servers if you unsubscribe. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it will remain with us. You can find details on the data protection provisions of CleverReach at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.

In order to fully comply with the statutory data protection requirements, we have concluded an data processing contract with CleverReach.

Events

By booking an event, you agree that your personal data collected in the course of this application will be processed to carry out and process this event. This consent is required for participation.

Furthermore, you consent that Power Plus Communications AG may use your personal data for the purpose of sending information such as event announcements or newsletters by e-mail. For this purpose, your data is stored in a CRM system.

Power Plus Communications AG uses the collected personal data when registering for events and furthermore for the information about further events, which we send by e-mail. In this context, your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties without your express consent.

You can revoke the above declarations of consent at any time with effect for the future. You also have a right to free information about your stored data and, if necessary, a right to correct, block or delete this data.

Social Plugins

Twitter

Functions of the service Twitter is integrated on our sites. These features are offered by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the pages you visit are linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that as a provider of the pages we are not aware of the content of the transmitted data as well as their use by Twitter. For more information, see Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Facebook

Our website uses features from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you visit our sites with Facebook plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and the servers of Facebook. Data is already transferred to Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, this data can be linked to it. If you do not want to assign this data to your Facebook account, please log out before you visit our Website. Interactions, in particular the use of a comment function or clicking of a “Like” or “Share” button are also passed on to Facebook. More information: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

LinkedIn

Our website uses social plugins from the social network linkedin.com (“LinkedIn”) operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you visit a web page that contains such a plugin, your browser connects directly to the LinkedIn servers.  By integrating the plugins, LinkedIn gets information about your visit of our website. If you are logged into LinkedIn, LinkedIn can assign your visit to your LinkedIn account. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by LinkedIn, as well as your rights and settings to protect your privacy, can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

XING

The “XING Share-Button” is used on this website. When this website is accessed, your browser will be connected to XING SE servers (“XING”) with which the “XING Share Button” functions will be provided. XING does not collect any personally identifiable information about you. In particular, XING does not store any IP addresses. There is also no evaluation of your usage behavior via the use of cookies in connection with the “XING Share-Button”. The respective current data protection information on the “XING Share-Button” and additional information can be found at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

Instagram

Functions of the service Instagram are integrated on our site. These features are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States. If you are logged in to your Instagram account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We point out that we as the provider of the pages do not receive knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use by Instagram. For more information, see the Instagram Privacy Policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Youtube

Our website integrates YouTube components. YouTube is an internet video portal that allows video publishers to freely watch video clips and other users for free viewing, rating and commenting. YouTube’s operating company is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

As soon as you visit our website with a YouTube plug-in, you will be connected to the servers of YouTube. At the same time, the Youtube server will be informed which particular page of our internet presence you visited.

If you are also logged in to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your browsing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent the possibility of such assignment if you log out of your account beforehand. For more information about YouTube’s collection and use of your information, please read the privacy policy at www.youtube.com.