Privacy policy

I. Information on processing

1. Information on the processing of personal data

This privacy policy provides information about the processing of your personal data when you use our website under the domain fuchsgruppe.com. Personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person (i.e. in particular you as a visitor to the website), e.g. name, IP address, email addresses, user behaviour. When using our website, personal data such as information about your use of our website may be processed. This includes, for example, connection data or sources accessed by you. This information is usually collected through the use of log files and cookies.

2. Name and address of the controller

The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”) is

DF World of Spices SE

Dieter-Fuchs-Straße 10

49201 Dissen a.T.W.,

Germany, Phone: +49 (0) 5421 309-0,

E-mail: info@fuchsgruppe.com (see our imprint)

(hereinafter “World of Spices” or “we“)

In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and contracted by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored. If we use contracted service providers, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes.

3. Contact details of the data protection officer

You can reach our data protection officer under

DF World of Spices AG

Data protection officer

Dieter-Fuchs-Straße 10

49201 Dissen a.T.W.,

E-mail: datenschutz@fuchs.de

Every data subject can contact our data protection officer directly at any time with any questions or suggestions regarding data protection.

4. Your rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

(a) Right of access, Art. 15 GDPR

You can comprehensive request about your personal data and the circumstances of the processing, such as the purposes for which this data is processed or the duration of storage.information

(b) Right to rectification Art. 16 GDPR

You can request that incorrect data concerning you be corrected.

(c) Right to erasure of data, Art. 17 GDPR

You can request that we delete the data relating to your person if this data is no longer required for legal reasons or may no longer be processed.

(d) Right to restriction of processing, Art. 18 GDPR

You may request a restriction of processing for the period required to verify the accuracy of the requested data if the accuracy of the data is disputed between you and us. Furthermore, if you have an existing right to erasure, you may request restricted processing instead of erasure. Furthermore, if the data is no longer required for the purposes we pursue, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and if the successful exercise of an objection is still in dispute between us and you.

(e) Right to object to the processing, Art. 21 GDPR

In the case of processing personal data for the performance of tasks carried out in the public interest (Art. Section 6 1st sentence 1 book. e) GDPR) or to pursue legitimate interests (Art. Section 6 1st sentence, book f) GDPR), you may object to the processing of your personal data at any time with future effect. In the event of an objection, we shall refrain from any further processing of your data for the aforementioned purposes, unless there are compelling, legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

(f) Right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR

You can request to receive the data concerning you in a commonly used, machine-readable format from us or to have it transmitted to another controller.

(g) Right not to be subject to an automated decision-making, including profiling, Art. 22 GDPR

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, if this has legal implications for you or similarly affects you.

An automated decision is permitted in exceptional cases if you have either (i) given your explicit prior consent or (ii) the decision is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and us or (iii) applicable legal provisions permit this and these provisions contain appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests.

In cases (i) and (ii), we will take appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests. This includes that you can explain your point of view, contest the automated decision and request a personal consultation with one of our employees.

Note: No automated decisions are made on this website.

(h) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

Of course, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time if you believe that our processing of data concerning you is in breach of the GDPR.

The supervisory authority responsible for World of Spices is:

The State Data Protection Officer for Lower Saxony

E-mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de

Telephone number: +49 511 120 4500

Fax number: +49 511 120 4599

Postal address: P.O. Box 221, 30002 Hanover

Visitor address: Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hanover

You can also contact any other data protection supervisory authority.

5. Safety instructions and external links

We take technical and organisational precautions on our websites to protect personal data stored by us from access by third parties, loss or misuse and to enable secure data transfer. We would like to point out that, due to the structure of the internet and e-mail transmission, unwanted access by third parties may occur during the transmission of information. It is therefore also your responsibility to protect your data against misuse by means of encryption or other methods. Our websites contain links to other websites of other providers. We are not responsible for the content and data processing of these other websites.

6. Processing of personal data when visiting our website in general

If you only use the website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server.

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the enquiry
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Amount of data transferred in each case
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

World of Spices requires the data mentioned in Section 6 of this Privacy Policy to be processed to ensure the long-term functionality and security of our website’s information technology systems. We also use the data to provide you with the website in the language of your choice and to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack. The legal basis for the processing of this data is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR“) based on our legitimate interest in providing you with a functional and user-friendly website. You can object to the processing at any time with effect for the future, see Section 4 (e) of this Privacy Policy.

The data in accordance with Section 6 of this Privacy Policy will be processed and stored for as long as is necessary to fulfil the aforementioned purposes. If data is required to provide the website, the requirement ceases when the respective session has ended. Your data will then be automatically deleted.

If the data is stored in log files, deletion usually takes place after seven (7) days at the latest. However, if the data is stored further, your IP address will be deleted or anonymised in this case, so that it is no longer possible to assign it to the accessing internet connection. The collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage of data in log files is essential for the operation of the website. Consequently, there is no possibility for you to object.

Insofar as we evaluate user behaviour on our website beyond this and in a legally permissible manner without express consent, we use only anonymised data that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual persons in order to improve the usability of the website and the user experience for our visitors.

7. Use of personal data when contacting us by e-mail or contact form

No products can be ordered on this website. If you use the contact form to request our products or place an order via another website, or submit a complaint about the purchased products via this website, the legal basis for processing the customer request is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter a) GDPR. We will inform you about the data processing related to the purchase of the products in the privacy policy of the other websites.

If you enter data in the input mask provided for the contact form, this data will be transmitted to us and processed by us. This concerns the following data: subject, company, first name, last name, street, house number, postcode, city, e-mail address, telephone number or mobile phone number, as well as the message you have entered.

For other enquiries from you via e-mail, the legal basis for the above-mentioned processing is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is communicating with existing and potential customers and offering customer service for the purpose of customer acquisition and retention.

8. Duration for which personal data is stored

We generally process personal data of the data subject for the period required to achieve the purpose of storage or for the period required by law. If the storage purpose no longer applies or if the prescribed storage period ends, the personal data is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with the statutory provisions. Detailed information on deletion periods can be found in the respective descriptions of the individual data processing operations.

Legal obligations include in particular the retention periods under the German Commercial Code (hereinafter “HGB”) or the German Fiscal Code (hereinafter “AO”) as well as the collection of evidence within the framework of the statutory limitation periods. According to the statute of limitations of the German Civil Code (hereinafter “BGB”), these limitation periods can be up to 30 years in some cases, the regular limitation period is three years.

9. Orders and other services

The sole purpose of this website is to present the Fuchs Group. Orders for products or the provision of other services are made via other websites. You will find information about data processing in the context of ordering products or other services in the privacy policies of the other websites.

II. Use of the anti-bot security tool Friendly Captcha

To protect our website from spam and misuse, we use the tool “Friendly Captcha” from Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3-5, 82237 Wörthsee, Germany.

Friendly Captcha is a privacy-friendly protection solution and only processes information that is technically necessary to prevent automated programmes and scripts (so-called “bots”) from using websites, thereby protecting our website from misuse.

When you visit our website, your browser receives a calculation task. The complexity of the calculation task depends on various risk factors. Your device solves the calculation task, which uses certain system resources, and sends the calculation result to our web server. The web server contacts the Friendly Captcha server via an interface and receives a response indicating whether the puzzle was solved correctly by the device. Depending on the result, we can apply security rules to requests made via our website and, for example, process or reject them.

In addition, your browser transmits connection data, environmental data, interaction data and functional data to Friendly Captcha. Friendly Captcha evaluates this data and determines how likely it is that the user is a human or a bot and sends us the result. Depending on this, we can treat access to our protected website or individual functions as human or potentially machine generated.

All data is used exclusively for the above-described detection and handling of potential bots and risks. The purpose of processing is therefore to ensure the security and functionality of our website.

Friendly Captcha does not use the data to identify a natural person or for marketing purposes, in particular, no tracking is carried out and no personal user profiles are created.

Friendly Captcha does not set cookies on your device or read them and does not store any data in persistent browser memory.

Friendly Captcha also does not store any personal data in the sense of permanent identifiability. The IP address is processed in a one-way hashed form and thus pseudonymised,and is then discarded.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in connection with the use of Friendly Captcha is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is to protect our website from misuse by spam and bots and thus to protect our website from mass attacks.

III. Policy on the use of technical tools on our website

1. Cookies

We use so-called “cookies” on our website. These are text files that are stored in or by your internet browser on your computer system when you visit our website. This text file contains an individual character string that can be used to identify your internet browser the next time you visit the website. These are stored on your computer and the data is transmitted from your computer to our website. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time and automatically by making the appropriate settings in your internet browser.

In the following sections “necessary cookies” (Section II.3) and “statistical cookies” (Section II.2), we explain in detail whether a World of Spices cookie (first-party cookie) or a third-party cookie (third-party cookie) is set, for what purpose the data is processed, what data is processed, whether data is transferred to a third country, the storage period of the cookie and the legal basis for setting the cookies and subsequent processing.

We only set cookies – except for necessary cookies -– with your express consent. When you visit our website for the first time, you can consent to the use of all “statistics cookies” (Section II.2) either by clicking on “I accept all” or by selecting your cookie settings individually by clicking on “Individual data protection preferences“. Here you can select which cookie category you would like to activate by clicking on the corresponding checkbox. You can activate or deactivate all cookies within a category using a slider. You can revoke your consent at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link in the page footer. You can also use our website without statistical cookies to their full extent. If you wish to deactivate the use of individual cookie categories and revoke your consent, you can do so by subsequently deactivating the category using the slider.

2. Statistics cookies

Statistical cookies allow us to analyse and evaluate your surfing behaviour. We process data on surfing behaviour to create anonymised statistical evaluations, reports and analyses that help us optimise our processes and workflows.

3. Necessary cookies – use of the external web service "borlabs cookie"

We use necessary cookies on our website. These are cookies that are used to enable basic functions of the website as well as those that are essential for a normal visit to the website.

We use the external consent management tool “borlabs cookie” from Borlabs GmbH, Hamburger Str. 11, 22083 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter “Borlabs”), to store the cookie settings you selected when you entered our website. The “borlabs cookie” is stored for 60 days.

The following data is stored in borlabs cookie:

  • Cookie runtime
  • Cookie version
  • Domain and path of the WordPress website
  • Consents
  • UID

The information generated by borlabs cookie is not used to personally identify the user of this website and is not passed on to Borlabs.

If you do not consent to the use of non-essential functions and cookies, this decision is documented in your browser via a cookie. As a result, only cookies that are technically necessary for the error-free and optimised provision of the website are provided.

The legal basis for the use of the cookie called “borlabs cookie” is our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25 (2) TDDDG, to be able to display the necessary contents of the website to you individually and correctly (the purpose is to ensure the data protection-compliant use of cookies on our website).

Please note that if you delete all of your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and may need to be reactivated by you.

4. Tracking via Matomo

This website uses the open-source analysis service Matomo, InnoCraft Limited, 7 Waterloo Quay, PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand (hereinafter “Matomo”), for tracking, which anonymises your IP address. Matomo uses cookies for this purpose.

The purpose of using the tool is to compile statistics about visits to our website. This includes information such as language settings, timestamps, drop-out rates, the browser and its plug-ins used, the search engine and search terms used, and the IP address.

The information about visits to our website is not shared with third parties. Anonymised data is excluded from this.

The legal basis for the data processing described is your consent, Art. 6 (1) 1 letter a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25 (1) 1 Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (hereinafter “TDDDG”), which we request from you when you access the website and which we store for a maximum of 13 months.
You can withdraw your consent at any time without this affecting the permissibility of processing up to the time of withdrawal. Once you have given your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future deactivating the cookie in the cookie settings.

5. Cookie overview

Below you will find a detailed overview of the cookies we use, which category of cookies they are, which provider they are from, which data is processed for which purpose, whether there is a third country transfer, and how long they are stored.

Necessary (2)

Name

Provider

Purpose

Processed Data

Third country transfer

Procedure

Type

borlabs-cookie

Borlabs

Stores consent information for service groups and individual services

Consent preferences

No

60 days

HTTP Cookie

wp-wpml_current_language

WordPress

Saves the current language. This cookie is activated by default on websites that use the language filtering function for AJAX operations.

Language setting

No

1 day

HTTP Cookie

Statistics (2)

Name

Provider

Purpose

Processed Data

Third country transfer

Procedure

Type

‘_pk_ses.*.*

Matomo

Session analysis

Number of page views during the session, timestamp, referral data

No

30 minutes

HTTP Cookie

_pk_id.*.*

Matomo

Identification of returning visitors and their interactions over several sessions

Anonymised: Visitor ID, timestamp, number of previous visits to the website, referral data

No

13 months

HTTP Cookie

IV. Data protection declaration for applicants

When you visit our careers page at https://karriere.fuchsgruppe.com/, the information provided above regarding data processing on the Fuchs Group websites applies. If you enter your application data in the form on our careers page and/or send us an application, the information provided below regarding data processing applies. We process your personal data for the purpose of handling the application process – i.e. when you enter data in our form, send us an application, and we review your assessment and contact you.

We process your personal data for the purpose of handling the application process – i.e. when you enter data in our form, send us an application, and we review your assessment and contact you. We process the personal data about you that you provide to us during the application process, in particular the mandatory contact details, your CV or other information about your professional career, as well as the internal processes involved in the application, in particular the internal review and evaluation. This may also include special types of personal data if you voluntarily provide this to us proactively, e.g. information about severe disabilities. In addition, we may request voluntary information that you can provide optionally. Furthermore, when using the applicant management system, data related to its use, known as usage data, is also collected. Usage data is data that is necessary to operate our websites, such as information about the start, end and scope of use of our website, including login data.

When you submit your application documents to us, the data is transferred via our interface to our administration programme, which is provided by the service provider Softgarden. To transfer the data, you need to create an account. We use the application platform provided by the service provider softgarden e-recruiting GmbH (Tauentzienstraße 14, 10789 Berlin; https://softgarden.com/de/impressum/) to process the application process. We also use the technical service provider BeOn! (be-on! GmbH, Natruper Str. 24, 49076 Osnabrück; https://be-on.de/impressum/) to ensure the correct and secure transfer of data to our management systems. The service providers are bound by strict data protection requirements via a data processing agreement and are checked by us accordingly.

When you send us an application, the data will be used internally in our application process and, if your application is rejected, deleted after 6 months, provided that there are no other legitimate interests that prevent this. Other legitimate interests in this sense include, for example, the obligation to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). If your application is successful and we hire you, the application data will be deleted from the application system 24 months after the end of the application process. The data of the persons hired will remain in our personnel files; further processing and storage duration will then be based on the provisions of the employment relationship.

The legal basis for all data processing in connection with the application is the initiation of a contract in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Furthermore, individual processing operations, e.g. information that you have voluntarily provided to us and for our management of the application process, may be based on the balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and/or Art. 9(2)(a), (b) and (e) GDPR.