Privacy Statement
§ 1 Information about the collection of personal data
(1) In the following we provide information about how we collect personal data when our website is used. Personal data is any information relating to you personally as e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.
(2) The person responsible in accordance with Article 4 Section 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are AxelFuisting and Christian Möcklinghoff (Rombacher Hütte 18a, 44795 Bochum; info(at)tibacon.com) (see our Imprint). You canreach our Data Protection Officer under SeppiA(at)tibacon.com or our postal address using the addition „the Data Protection Officer“.
(3) When you contact us by email or via a contact form we will store the data provided by you (your email address, your nameand your phone number, where appropriate) in order to answer your questions.
Thus, the data received as per your email will exclusively be processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 lit. a DGPR). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. An informal email message to us will suffice. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing operations based on consent before its withdrawal. We will delete the data collected in this connection once their storage is no longer required or restrict processing if legal retention obligations exist.
(4) If you wish to apply to us, you can send your application documents to the e-mail address provided or by post with a reference to the contact person. The information provided must be complete, otherwise it will not be possible to carry out the application process properly.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in this application procedure is primarily § 26 BDSG, according to which the processing of data required in connection with the decision on the establishment of an employment relationship is permitted. Should the data be required for legal prosecution after completion of the application procedure, data processing may be carried out on the basis of the requirements of Art. 6 GDPR, in particular to safeguard legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our interest then lies in the assertion of or defense against claims.
Applicants' data will be deleted after 6 months in the event of rejection. If you have been accepted for a position as part of the application process, the data will be transferred to our personnel system.
(5) If we assign individual functions of our offering to service providers or wish to use your data for promotional purposes wewill inform you in detail about the respective proceedings below. In doing this we will also state the criteria determined for the retention period.
(6) Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if: You have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, the disclosure in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data, in the event that the disclosure is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, and this is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.
§ 2 Collection of personal data during visits to our website
(1) If you use our website for purely informational purposes, i.e. without registering or submitting to us information in anyother way, we will only collect those personal data transmitted to our server by your browser. If you wish to view our websitewe will only collect the following data required by us for technical reasons in order to let you have access to our website and toensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Section. 1 S. 1 lit. f DGPR):
- IP-address
- Date and time of access
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Contents of the request (specific site)
- Status of access/HTTP status code
- Respective volume of data transferred
- Website from which the request originated
- Browser
- Operating system and its user interface
- Language and version of the browser software.
(2) In addition to the data mentioned before cookies will be placed on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard disk and allocated to the browser you use and which provide certain information to the unit placing the cookie (in this case to us). Cookies cannot execute any programs or transfer virusses to your computer. They only serve for making the internet offering as a whole more user friendly and effective.
(3) Use of cookies:
a) This website uses the following types of cookies the scope and mode of functioning of which are explained in the following:
- Transient cookies (see b)
- Persistent cookies (see c).
b) Transient cookies will be automatically erased when you close your browser. Session cookies count among this type ofcookies. They store a so called session ID by which different queries of your browser can be allocated to the joint session. This permits your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies will be erased when you log outor close the browser.
c) Persistent cookies will be erased automatically after a specified period of time which may vary depending on the cookie. You can erase the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.
d) You can configure your browser setting to suit your preferences and e.g. refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that when doing so you may possibly not be able to use all functions of this website.
e) The Flash Cookies used will not be registered by your browser but by you Flash-Plugin. We furthermore use HTML5 storage objects which will be stored on your terminal device. These objects store the required data independently of the browser you use and have no automatic expiry date. If you do not wish for flash cookies processing you will have to install the respective Add-On, e.g. „Better Privacy“ for Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/) or the Adobe-Flash-Killer-Cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by setting the private mode in your browser. We also recommend that you delete your cookies and the browser history manually at regular intervals.
§ 3 plug-ins of social networks
Plug-ins, links and buttons to social media websites are used for advertising and information purposes on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. By installing these elements, data is transmitted to the corresponding social media providers when our site is accessed, possibly also to third countries. This data is stored and processed by the providers; in particular, if you are logged in to the social media providers at the same time, a provider can recognize your visit to our website. Even if you "share" or otherwise pass on ("like") posts on our website in the social network, this will be transmitted to the provider and stored by them, possibly also to your user profile. The social networks use this data for business purposes, marketing, advertising and other purposes, in particular to create and create profiles about you and to provide personalized advertising. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by LinkedIn as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in LinkedIn's data protection information (https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy).
§ 4 Your rights
(1) You have the following rights towards us with respect to your personal data:
- Within the context of the current legal regulations you have the right to be informed free of charge of your personal data stored, the origin and the recipient of the data and the purpose of processing of such data and possibly a right to rectification, blocking and erasure of these data. In this respect and with respect to any further questions you may have on the subject ofpersonal data you may contact us at any time under the address given in the imprint.
- You have the right to request that processing of your personal data is restricted. In this respect you may contact us at anytime under the address given in the imprint. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:
If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us we will generally need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification you have the right to request that processing of your personal data is restricted.
If the processing of your personal data has been / is unlawful you may request restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
If we no longer need your personal data but they are required by you for the establishment, defence or exercise of legal claims, you have the right to request restriction of your personal data’s processing instead of erasure.
If you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 Section. 1 DGPR your interests need to be weighed up against our interests. As long as it is still undecided whose interests prevail you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted.
If you restricted the processing of your personal data these data may – with the exception of storage – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense 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 European Union or of a member state.
You have the right to receive or make available to a third-party data processed by us by automated means on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract in a commonly used, machine-readable format (data portability). Whenever you request the direct transmission of the data to another controller this will only be done where technically feasible.
(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
§ 5 Right to object
(1) When the processing of the data is based on Art. 6 Section 1 lit. e) or f) DGPR you shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of your personal data; this includes profiling based on these provisions. For the respective legal basis on which a processing rests please refer to this privacy statement. If you raise an objection we will no longer process your respective personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims (Right to object pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 DGPR).
(2) Where personal data 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 promotion which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you raise an objection we will stop using your personal data for direct marketing purposes (Right to object pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 2 DGPR).
§ 6 Data security
(1) We use the commonly used SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the respective highest encryption stagesupported by your browser during the visit to our website. Usually this is a 256 Bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-Bit encryption we will revert to 128-Bit v3 technology instead. An individual page of our internet presentation being transmitted in encrypted form will be indicated by the closed position of the key or padlock icon in the lower status line of yourbrowser.
(2) In all other respects we apply suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against any accidental or intentional manipulations, partial or full loss, destruction or the unauthorized access of third parties. Our security measures are subject to continual improvement in accordance with the technological development.
§ 7 Up-to-dateness and amendment of this privacy statement
(1) This privacy statement is currently valid and was last updated in February 2025.
(2) Due to the development of our website and the respective offerings or due to changed legal and/or official regulations it may become necessary to amend this privacy statement.