Data protection

Privacy policy - including legally required information content

VinylPlus Deutschland e.V. takes the protection of personal data very seriously. For this reason, we would also like to inform the users of our internet offer about which data is stored by us and how this data is used.

The applicable data protection regulations, in particular the Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) and the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), oblige us to handle the data of the users of our website properly and for the intended purpose. We would like to inform you below about the data we collect and how the data is processed or used in detail.

Data protection information 1st part: Data protection information on data processing pursuant to Articles 13, 14 and 21 DSGVO

1. Body responsible for data processing and contact details

Responsible body in the sense of data protection law:

VinylPlus Germany e.V.

Am Hofgarten 1-2

53113 Bonn

Tel.: 0228 - 917 83 -0

Email: contact(at)vinylplus.de

2. Purposes and legal basis on which we process your data

We process personal data in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and other applicable data protection regulations (details below). Which data is processed in detail and how it is used depends largely on the services requested or agreed in each case. Further details or additions to the purposes of data processing can be found in the respective contractual documents, forms, a declaration of consent and/or other information provided to you (e.g. in the context of using our website or our terms and conditions). In addition, this privacy notice may be updated from time to time, as you can see from this website.

• Purposes for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures (Art. 6. para.1b DSGVO)

The processing of personal data is carried out for the implementation of our contracts with you and the execution of your orders, as well as for the implementation of measures and activities in the context of pre-contractual relationships, e.g. with interested parties. In particular, the processing serves to provide services in accordance with your orders and wishes and includes the services, measures and activities necessary for this. This essentially includes contract-related communication with you, the verifiability of transactions, orders and other agreements as well as quality control through corresponding documentation, measures for the control and optimisation of business processes as well as for the fulfilment of general due diligence obligations, statistical evaluations, cost recording and controlling, reporting, internal and external communication, emergency management, accounting and fiscal evaluation of operational services, risk management, assertion of legal claims and defence in the event of legal disputes; guaranteeing IT security (including system and plausibility checks), the protection of your data and the protection of your privacy.IT security (e.g. system and plausibility tests) and general security, e.g. security of buildings and facilities, ensuring and exercising domiciliary rights (e.g. through access controls); ensuring the integrity, authenticity and availability of data, prevention and investigation of criminal offences; control by supervisory bodies or control authorities (e.g. auditing).

• Purposes within the scope of a legitimate interest of us or third parties (Art. 6 para. 1f DSGVO)

Beyond the actual performance of the contract or preliminary contract, we may process your data if it is necessary to protect legitimate interests of us or third parties, in particular for purposes:

• advertising or market and opinion research, provided you have not objected to the use of your data.
• the testing and optimisation of needs assessment procedures
• the further development of services and products as well as existing systems and processes
• the enrichment of our data, including through the use or research of publicly available data
• of applications for admission and subsidies, among others For notices FA, statutes, minutes of general meetings, etc.
• Benchmarkings
• the assertion of legal claims and defence in legal disputes which are not directly attributable to the contractual relationship
• the limited storage of the data if deletion is not possible or only possible with disproportionate effort due to the special type of storage.
• the development of scoring systems or automated decision-making processes
• the prevention and investigation of criminal offences, insofar as not exclusively for the fulfilment of legal requirements.
• building and facility security (e.g. through access controls, insofar as these go beyond the general duties of care)
• internal and external investigations (safety audits)
• obtaining and maintaining certifications of a private or official nature.
• Purposes within the scope of your consent (Art.6. para. 1a DSGVO)

Processing of your personal data for certain purposes (e.g. use of your e-mail address for marketing purposes) may also be based on your consent. As a rule, you can revoke this consent at any time.

This also applies to declarations of consent given to us prior to the application of the GDPR, i.e. prior to 25 May 2018. You will be informed separately about the purposes and consequences of revoking or not granting consent in the corresponding consent text.

As a general rule, the revocation of consent only takes effect for the future. Processing that took place before the revocation is not affected and remains lawful.

• Purposes for the fulfilment of legal requirements (Art. 6 para. 1c DSGVO) or in the public interest (Art. 6 para. 1e DSGVO)

Like everyone involved in business, we are also subject to a variety of legal obligations. Primarily, these are legal requirements (e.g. Works Constitution Act, Social Code, commercial and tax laws, General Equal Treatment Act, Civil Code, Tax Code), but also, where applicable, supervisory or other official requirements (e.g. employers' liability insurance association). The purposes of processing include identity and age verification, fraud and money laundering prevention and offences endangering assets, the fulfilment of control and reporting obligations under tax law as well as the archiving of data for purposes of data protection and data security as well as auditing by tax and other authorities. In addition, the disclosure of personal data may become necessary in the context of official/court measures for the purpose of collecting evidence, criminal prosecution or the enforcement of civil law claims.

3. The categories of data we process, where we do not receive data directly from you, and their origin

Insofar as this is necessary for the provision of our services, we process personal data permissibly received from other companies or other third parties. In addition, we process personal data that we have permissibly taken, received or acquired from publicly accessible sources (such as telephone directories, commercial and association registers, civil registers, debtors' registers, land registers, the press, the Internet and other media) and may process. Relevant personal data categories can be in particular:

• Personal data (name, date of birth, profession, industry and comparable data)
• Contact details (address, e-mail address, telephone number and comparable data)
• Data about your use of the telemedia offered by us (e.g. time of calling up our websites, apps or newsletters, pages/links clicked on by us or entries and comparable data
• Operating data
• Certification protocols and inspection reports
• Print numbers

4. Recipients or categories of recipients of your data

Within our company, your data is passed on to those internal departments or organisational units that need it to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations or to process and implement our legitimate interests. Your data will be passed on to external bodies if exclusively

• in connection with the execution of the contract
• for the purposes of fulfilling legal requirements according to which we are obliged to provide information, report or pass on data or the passing on of data is in the public interest
• insofar as external service companies process data on our behalf as order processors or function transferees (e.g. external computer centres, support/maintenance of EDP/IT applications, archiving, document processing, data validation, data destruction, purchasing/procurement, billing, telephony, website management, auditing services, credit institutions, printers or companies for data disposal, courier services, logistics).
• on the basis of our legitimate interest or the legitimate interest of the third party for within the scope of the purposes stated in section 2.2 (e.g. to authorities, national associations, member clubs and committees and supervisory bodies)
• if you have given us consent to transfer the data to third parties.

We will not pass on your data to third parties. If we commission service providers to process your data, they are subject to the same security standards as we are. In other cases, the recipients may only use the data for the purposes for which it was transmitted to you.

5. Duration of the storage of your data

We process and store your data for the duration of our business relationship. This also includes the initiation of a contract (pre-contractual legal relationship) and the processing of a contract.

In addition, we are subject to various storage and documentation obligations, which result from the German Commercial Code (HGB), Value Added Tax Act (UstG), Value Added Tax Act Implementing Ordinance (UstG-DV) and the German Fiscal Code (AO), among others. The periods specified there for storage and documentation are up to ten years beyond the end of the business relationship or the pre-contractual legal relationship.

Furthermore, special statutory provisions may require a longer retention period. According to §§195 ff. BGB, the regular limitation period is three years; however, limitation periods of up to 30 years may also be applicable.

If the data are no longer required for the fulfilment of contractual or legal obligations and rights, they are regularly deleted, unless their -temporary- further processing is necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes listed in section 2.2 due to an overriding legitimate interest. Such an overriding legitimate interest also exists, for example, if deletion is not possible or only possible with disproportionate effort due to the special nature of the storage and processing for other purposes is excluded by suitable technical and organisational measures.

6. Processing of your data in a third country or by an international organisation

Data is transferred to bodies in countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area if it is necessary for the execution of an order/contract from or with you, if it is required by law (e.g. tax reporting obligations), if it is in the legitimate interest of us or a third party or if you have given us your consent.

The processing of your data in a third country may also be carried out in connection with the involvement of service providers within the framework of commissioned processing. If there is no EU Commission decision on an adequate level of data protection for the country in question, we ensure that your rights and freedom are adequately protected and guaranteed by means of appropriate contracts in accordance with EU data protection requirements. We will provide you with the relevant detailed information upon request. Information on the appropriate or adequate guarantees and on the possibility of obtaining a copy from you can be requested on request.

7. Your data protection rights

Under certain conditions you can assert your data protection rights against us

• Thus, you have the right to receive information from us about your data stored by us according to the rules of Art. 15 DSGVO (if necessary with restrictions according to § 34 BDSG).
• Upon your request, we will correct the data stored about you in accordance with Art. 16 DSGVO if it is inaccurate or incorrect.
• If you wish, we will delete your data in accordance with the principles of Art.17 DSGVO, provided that other legal regulations (e.g. statutory retention obligations or restrictions in accordance with § 35 BDSG) or an overriding interest on our part (e.g. for the defence of our rights and claims) do not prevent this.
• Taking into account the requirements of Art. 18 DSGVO, you may request us to restrict the processing of your data.
• Furthermore, you can object to the processing of your data in accordance with Art.21 DSGVO, on the basis of which we must stop processing your data. However, this right of objection only applies in the case of very special circumstances of your personal situation, whereby rights of our company may possibly conflict with your right of objection.
• You also have the right to receive your data in a structured, common and machine-readable format under the conditions of Art.20 DSGVO or to transfer it to a third party.
• Furthermore, you have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future (see section 2.3).
• Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO). However, we recommend that you always address a complaint directly to us first.

Your requests about exercising your rights should, if possible, be addressed in writing to the above address.

8. Scope of your obligations to provide us with your data

You only need to provide the data that is necessary for the establishment and execution of a business relationship or a pre-contractual relationship with us or that we are legally obliged to collect. Without this data, we will generally not be able to conclude or perform the contract or service. This may also relate to data required later in the course of the business relationship. If we request additional data from you, you will be informed separately of the voluntary nature of the information.

9. Existence of automated decision-making in individual cases

We do not use any purely automated decision-making processes in accordance with Art. 22 of the GDPR. If we do use such a procedure in individual cases in the future, we will inform you separately if this is required by law. In some circumstances, we process your data with the aim of evaluating certain personal aspects.

In order to be able to inform you about projects in a targeted manner, we use evaluation tools where necessary. These enable us to provide needs-based advice, services, communication and advertising.

Information on special categories of personal data pursuant to Art. 9 of the GDPR is not processed.

Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data based on Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO or Art. 6(1e) DSGVO if there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

We may also process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing. If you do not wish to receive advertising, you have the right to object to this at any time. We will observe this objection for the future. We will no longer process your data for direct marketing purposes if you object to processing for these purposes.

The objection can be made in writing and should preferably be addressed to:

VinylPlus Germany e.V.

Am Hofgarten 1-2

53113 Bonn

Our privacy policy as well as the information on data protection regarding our data processing according to Art. 13, 14 and 21 DSGVO may change from time to time.

Data protection notice 2nd part: Privacy policy for our website

This privacy policy applies to www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de.

Data collection and processing for accesses from the Internet

When you visit our websites, our web servers temporarily save each access in a log file. The following data is collected and stored until automated deletion:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Date and time of access
• Name and URL of the retrieved file
• data volume transferred
• Message whether the retrieval was successful
• Recognition data of the browser and operating system used
• Website from which the access is made
• Name of your Internet access provider.

This data is processed for the purpose of enabling the use of the website (connection establishment), system security, technical administration of the network infrastructure and optimisation of the internet offer. The IP address is only evaluated in the event of attacks on the network infrastructure or for other data security reasons.

Collection, storage and use of data

Any use of your personal data by us will be for the purposes stated or permitted by law and to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes. Personal data is individual information about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person. This includes name, address, telephone or fax number, e-mail address.

We store and process your personal data in particular for the following purposes:

1. for the purpose of responding to your enquiries
2. to subscribe to the newsletter

Personal data is only transferred to state institutions and authorities within the framework of legal regulations or if the transfer is necessary for legal or criminal prosecution in the event of attacks on our network infrastructure. Any service providers used within the scope of processing will only receive the data necessary for the fulfilment of their tasks. Data will only be passed on to other bodies (third parties) if this is legally permissible. Beyond this, your data will not be passed on to third parties.

Newsletter

If you have given us your consent, we will send you topics by e-mail as part of our newsletter, which can be cancelled at any time. Your name will be stored so that we can address you personally as the recipient of the newsletter. Before sending the newsletter, we will send you a confirmation e-mail at the e-mail address you provided, in which you must confirm your newsletter registration by clicking on the link contained therein. Within the scope of the newsletter registration, we also save the time of your registration and confirmation in order to be able to prove the proper registration of our newsletter recipients.

Cookies 

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the PC of the internet user. They are used to control the internet connection during your visit to our websites. At the same time, we receive information via these cookies that enables us to optimise our websites to the needs of our visitors. Some cookies are only stored by your browser for the duration of your visit to the website, others are stored for longer periods of time. All cookies on our websites contain purely technical information, no personal data. Of course, you can also view our web pages without cookies. However, most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent cookies from being saved by specifying this in your browser settings. If you do not accept cookies, this may lead to functional restrictions of our offers.

Privacy policy for the use of etracker

Our website uses the etracker analysis service. The provider is etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1 20459 Hamburg Germany.
User profiles can be created from the data under a pseudonym. Cookies can be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of your internet browser. The cookies enable your browser to be recognised again. The data collected with the etracker technologies will not be used to personally identify visitors to our website without the separately granted consent of the person concerned and will not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future. To object to the collection and storage of your visitor data in the future, you can obtain an opt-out cookie from etracker using the following link. This will ensure that no visitor data from your browser is collected and stored by etracker in the future: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb

This will set an opt-out cookie called "cntcookie" from etracker. Please do not delete this cookie as long as you wish to maintain your objection. You can find more information in the etracker privacy policy: http://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html

Security

The Arbeitsgemeinschaft PVC und Umwelt e.V. uses appropriate technical and organisational security measures in order to protect the personal data we have under our control against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorised persons. The transmission of data is secured by SSL encryption so that unauthorised third parties cannot gain access to personal data. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

References and links

VinylPlus Deutschland e.V. hereby expressly declares that at the time the links were created, no illegal content was recognisable on the linked pages. AGPU e.V. has no influence on the current and future design, content or authorship of the linked pages. Therefore, it hereby expressly distances itself from all contents of all linked pages that were changed after the link was set.

This statement applies to all links and references set within our own Internet offer. Liability for illegal, incorrect or incomplete content and in particular for damages arising from the use or non-use of such information lies solely with the provider of the page to which reference is made, and not with the party who merely refers to the respective publication via links.

Right to information, correction, blocking and deletion of data

You have a right to information regarding the personal data stored about you and also a right to correction of incorrect data, blocking and deletion. If you wish to receive information about your personal data or its correction or deletion, or if you have further questions about the use of your personal data provided to us, please contact us by e-mail or post at the addresses given in the imprint.

Should you wish to contact us by e-mail, we would like to point out that the content of unencrypted e-mails can be viewed by third parties. We therefore recommend sending confidential information in encrypted form or by post.

Inclusion, validity and up-to-dateness of the data protection notice

Due to the further development of our website or the implementation of new technologies or similar, it may become necessary to change this data protection notice. VinylPlus Deutschland e.V. reserves the right to change the data protection information at any time with effect for the future. We recommend that you read the current data protection information again from time to time.