PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US

For us it is a matter of course to handle your personal data responsibly when you use our websites and communicate with us electronically. We take all necessary measures to protect the personal data you have provided and comply with the national and European data protection regulations in force. 
In this Data Privacy Statement we wish to inform you of the way in which we process your personal data. Please note that the body responsible for your personal data in connection with a website is the company named in the legal information of the website concerned.

Contact Data Protection Officer
Sandro Berger
VdE Service GmbH
Eduard-Pfeiffer-Straße 48
70192 Stuttgart
datenschutzbeauftragter@griesson.de

WHAT DATA IS COLLECTED AND HOW IS IT COLLECTED WHEN YOU VISIT THIS WEBSITE?
We only record personal data that you wish to provide us or that is necessary so we can provide our service to you. When you visit our website, by default our web servers save amongst other things

• details of the browser and operating system you are using
• the website from which you are visiting us
• the websites of ours that you visit
• the date of your visit
• also for security reasons, e.g. to recognise attacks on our websites and for a period of seven days the Internet Protocol address (IP address) that was allocated to you by your Internet Service Provider.

Other personal data are stored if you give these to us voluntarily. Thus you provide us with your email address, your name, your postal address, your phone number and as the case may be other data in order to receive information about our products, take part in competitions or surveys, buy products or simply keep up to date on the products that interest you.

When you access our website and enter something in free text fields and for example comment, our systems will store your IP address. We need this information for security reasons, to prevent misuse and for other risk prevention purposes.

SECURITY
We take technical and organisational security measures to protect the data belonging to you that we manage against manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological development.

Only authorised employees have access to your personal data. As the case may be, these can also be authorised employees of our service providers who process the data on our behalf or have access to these data. In this case we will have concluded a so-called “contract data processing agreement” with the service provider.

FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We use your personal data for purposes of the technical administration of the website, for customer management, for answering your questions as part of our consumer service, for product enquiries and surveys, and for marketing only to the extent necessary for this at any time. We only use your personal data for the purposes for which you have provided them to us. 

If you have given us your consent to process your personal data, these data will also be used for the purposes stated in the corresponding consent, e.g. sending a newsletter, sending you products. You can retract your consent to this at any time with future effect.

In terms of individual use, we want to make our advertising media, such as our newsletter and your visit to our websites, as user-friendly and individual as possible. Automatically generated information and the information you have provided help us here to provide individual and customised information for you. Amongst other things, this information includes “technical data” (e.g. IP address, the operating system, browser), date and time of your visit to our website and “behavioural data” (service history, recipes and products you have viewed). 

TRANSMISSION OF YOUR DATA TO THIRD PARTIES AND OTHER COUNTRIES
We will not make your personal data available to any other company wishing to use them for direct marketing activities unless you have given us your permission to do so. Furthermore we will provide your personal data to the other bodies below to a greatly limited extent:

• Our service providers, so that they can assist us for example in administering our website or sending out products and newsletters. We have contractually obliged these companies to take the same security measures as we have with regard to your personal data, to preserve the confidentiality of your data and only to process them on our express instructions. 
• Other companies in our group, provided you have consented to this or these companies work on our behalf as our service providers and we have contractually obliged them in the same way as our service providers.
• Transmissions of personal data to government institutions and authorities take place only in the context of obligatory valid legal provisions.

Your personal data can be transmitted to other countries if one of our service providers has its registered office abroad. In this case a so-called “contract data processing agreement” is concluded with the service provider to ensure that the same degree of data protection and data security exists as prevails in Germany. This is guaranteed among other things by the fact that the service provider is obliged to act exclusively on our instructions and to continuously take all technical measures to protect your personal data to the same extent as here.

If personal data are processed in a country outside the EU and the EEA, we either ensure the appropriate level of data protection by concluding the standard agreement provided for this by the EU or an adequacy decision from the EU Commission is in place for the country concerned. 

LEGAL BASES
Your personal data are processed on the basis of declarations of consent you have actively issued, e.g. for being sent newsletters.

RIGHTS OF PERSONS AFFECTED
Your rights in respect of your personal data are stated below:

• The right to information, correction, deletion restriction of processing, objection to processing and the right to data transferability.
• You also have the right to retract any consent you have granted for the processing of your personal data at any time with future effect.
• To assert these rights please contact our data protection officer using the contact details stated above. 
• In addition we would like to draw your attention to the fact that in every one of our newsletters you have the option of unsubscribing from this service and thus retracting your consent.
• Unfortunately due to the lack of clear identification it is not possible to obtain information about your personal data by phone.
• In addition you have the right of complaint to a data protection supervisory authority.

COOKIES
When you use our website, you agree to the use and storage of cookies on your end device. However, you can also view our website without cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent cookies being stored on your end device by selecting *Do not accept cookies* in your browser settings, and at any time you can delete cookies that have already been placed on your end device. Please refer to the instructions from your browser or end device manufacturer to see how this works in detail. If you use different computers in different locations, you must ensure that every browser corresponds to your preference regarding cookies. 

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your end device. We use cookies for instance to collect information such as the browser type and operating system, page concerned, route to our website etc. and to understand the use of our website. Cookies help us to adapt our website to the needs of our consumers and offer particular services and functions, such as information customised to you. Personal data can be stored in cookies if you have consented or if this is necessary technically, e.g. to enable a protected login. 

Functional cookies
These cookies enable us to improve the convenience and performance of websites and make various functions available.

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Purpose: This cookie is set when the filter function is used in the Jobs overview. With the cookie, the selection of the filtering is retained. The cookie is valid for 24 hours.

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Purpose: This cookie shows us that you have taken note of the information to the use of cookies on our website. It is placed when you close the information overlay about the use of cookies.

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Purpose: This cookie is set when you change the language in the language menu to save this setting.

Third-party cookies
These cookies are placed by third parties. When you access third-party services, the third-party suppliers can use cookies to store and/or access data, which is outside our control.

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Purpose: Cookie belonging to the web analysis tool Matomo. For details see following paragraph.

WEB ANALYSIS BY MATOMO

This website uses the web analysis tool Matomo. Matomo uses cookies to carry out analyses. The information gathered through the cookies, e.g. time, location and frequency of your visit to the website, including your IP address, are transferred to our own analysis server and stored there. During this process, your IP address will be immediately anonymised so that you can remain anonymous as a user. No data is sent to external analytics or tracking services. You can prevent cookies from being installed by choosing appropriate settings on your browser software; however, we must make you aware that in this case, you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.