Privacy Policy

Data Protection Notice

ITK Engineering GmbH (hereinafter “ITK Engineering“ or “We“ or “Us”) welcomes you to our internet pages and mobile applications (together also referred to as “Online Offers”). We thank you for your interest in our company and our products.

ITK Engineering respects your privacy 
The protection of your privacy throughout the course of processing personal data as well as the security of all business data is an important concern to us. We process personal data that was gathered during your visit of our Online Offers confidentially and only in accordance with statutory regulations.
Data protection and information security are included in our corporate policy.

Controller
ITK Engineering is the controller responsible for the processing of your data; exceptions are outlined in this data protection notice. Our contact details are as follows: ITK Engineering GmbH, Im Speyerer Tal 6, 76761 Rülzheim, info@itk-engineering.de.

Collection, processing and usage of personal data
Processed categories of data
The following categories of data are processed:

Principles
Personal data consists of all information related to an identified or identifiable natural person, this includes, e.g. names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, contractual master data, contract accounting and payment data, which is an expression of a person’s identity.

We collect, process and use personal data (including IP addresses) only when there is either a statutory legal basis to do so or if you have given your consent to the processing or use of personal data concerning this matter, e.g. by means of registration.

Processing purposes and legal basis
We; as well as the service providers commissioned by us; process your personal data for the following processing purposes:

Use and disclosure of personal data for the purpose of processing applications and recruitment 
The personal data you share with us will be collected, processed, and used by ITK Engineering solely for the purpose of processing applications and recruitment. ITK ensures data confidentiality by storing and processing your data in accordance with applicable data protection regulations. Recruitment at ITK is carried out in collaboration with the relevant HR representative and department manager. The data shared will be deleted within the statutory period stipulated by law.

Log files
Each time you use the internet, your browser is transmitting certain information which we store in so-called log files.
We store log files for a short period of time to determine service disruptions and for security reasons (e.g., to investigate attack attempts) and delete them afterwards. Log files which need to be maintained for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident is resolved and may, on a case-by-case basis, be passed on to investigating authorities.

Log files are also used for analysis purposes (without the IP address or without the complete IP address). See module “Advertisements and/or market research (including web analysis, no customer surveys)”.

In log files, in particular the following information is saved:

Children
This Online Offer is not meant for children under 16 years of age.

Data transfer to other controllers
Principally, your personal data is forwarded to other controllers only if required for the fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or if we ourselves, or a third party, have a legitimate interest in the data transfer, or if you have given your consent. Particulars on the legal bases can be found in the Section – Purposes of Processing and Legal Basis. Third parties may also be other companies of the Bosch group. When data is transferred to third parties based on a justified interest, this is explained in this data protection notice.
Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers when we are obliged to do so due to statutory regulations or enforceable administrative or judicial orders.

Service providers (general)
We involve external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management, payment handling, programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have chosen those service providers carefully and monitor them on a regular basis, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they store. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply to the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be other Bosch group companies.

Transfer to recipients outside the EEA
We might transfer personal data to recipients located outside the EEA into so-called third countries. In such cases, prior to the transfer we ensure that either the data recipient provides an appropriate level of data protection or that you have consented to the transfer.

You are entitled to receive an overview of third country recipients and a copy of the specifically agreed-provisions securing an appropriate level of data protection. For this purpose, please use the statements made in the Contact section.

Duration of storage; retention periods
Principally, we store your data for as long as it is necessary to render our Online Offers and connected services or for as long as we have a justified interest in storing the data (e.g. we might still have a justified interest in postal mail marketing after fulfillment of our contractual obligations). In all other cases we delete your personal data with the exception of data we are obliged to store for the fulfillment of legal obligations (e.g. due to retention periods under the tax and commercial codes we are obliged to have documents such as contracts and invoices available for a certain period of time).

Usage of Cookies
In the context of our online service, cookies and tracking mechanisms may be used. Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when visiting our online service.

Tracking is possible using different technologies. In particular, we process information using pixel technology and/or during log file analysis.

Categories
We distinguish between cookies that are mandatorily required for the technical functions of the online service and such cookies and tracking mechanisms that are not mandatorily required for the technical function of the online service.

It is generally possible to use the online service without any cookies that serve non-technical purposes.

Technically required cookies
By technically required cookies we mean cookies without those the technical provision of the online service cannot be ensured. These include e.g. cookies that store data to ensure smooth reproduction of video or audio footage.

Such cookies will be deleted when you leave the website.

Cookies and tracking mechanisms that are technically not required
We only use cookies and tracking mechanisms if you have given us your prior consent in each case. With the exception of the cookie that saves the current status of your privacy settings (selection cookie). This cookie is set based on legitimate interest.

Marketing cookies and tracking mechanisms
General
By using marketing cookies and tracking mechanisms we and our partners are able to show you offerings based on your interests, resulting from an analysis of your user behavior:

Name: Google Analytics
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland
Function: Analysis of user behavior (page retrievals, number of visitors and visits, downloads), creation of pseudonymous user profiles based on cross-device information of logged-in Google users (cross-device tracking), enrichment of pseudonymous user data with target group-specific information provided by Google, retargeting, UX testing, conversion tracking and retargeting in conjunction with Google Ads

Name: Google Tag Manager
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland
Function: Administration of website tags via a user interface, integration of program codes on our websites

Name: Google Ads
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland
Function: Placements of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking

Name: Facebook-Pixel
Provider: Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
We are jointly responsible with Facebook for processing your personal data as part of the processing of your personal data on our online offering via Facebook Pixel. We have entered into a joint responsibility agreement with Facebook in order to determine our respective responsibilities for fulfilling obligations under the GDPR with regard to joint processing. The essential content of the agreement can be accessed at any time via the following link: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum This regulates in particular which security measures Facebook must observe (https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/data_security_terms) and how data subject rights can be asserted against Facebook.
Function: Facebook processes your personal data based on your consent via the Facebook Pixel to create campaign reports, track conversions, click events, and target advertising outside of our websites (retargeting) using HTTP headers (including IP address, device and browser properties, URL, referrer URL and your person), pixel-specific data (including pixel ID and Facebook cookie), click behavior, optional values (for example, conversions, page type), form field names (such as “email”, “address”, “quantity” for the purchase of a product or service).

We do not receive any personal data about you from Facebook, only anonymized campaign reports about the website target group and ad performance.
You can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from Facebook by changing your advertising preferences on Facebook’s website. Alternatively, you can opt out of the use of cookies by third parties by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page at  http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN or page http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
You will find more information at: https://www.facebook.com/policy

Name: LinkedIn Insight Tag
Provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
Function: LinkedIn processes your personal data based on your consent via the pixel “LinkedIn Insight Tag” for the creation of campaign reports, tracking of conversions, click events as well as targeted advertising outside our websites (retargeting) based on URL, referrer URL, shortened or hashed IP address (for cross-device retargeting), devices and browser properties (user agent) and time stamp. We do not receive any personal data from you from LinkedIn, only anonymized campaign reports on website audience and ad performance.
LinkedIn storage period: pseudonymization after 7 days, final deletion after 180 days.
For more information, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy 

Name: Google Ads Remarketing Tag
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Google processes your personal data on the basis of your consent through “Google Ads Remarketing Tag” Pixel for the generation of campaign reports, conversion tracking, click events and targeted advertising outside our website (retargeting) on the basis of URL, referrer URL or inclusion on remarketing lists defined through us, for example. Using the above information, it is also possible for you to be associated with your Google account and included in remarketing lists. We do not receive any personal data concerning you from Google, but rather receive anonymized campaign reports about the target audience and ad performance. You can stop getting interest-based ads from Google by changing your advertising preferences on the Google website at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb#display_optout. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of third-party cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or managing the use of device identification in the device settings.
You can find instructions at https://support.google.com/ads/ans-wer/1660762#mob.
You can find more information at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Further information is available at: (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

Management of cookies and tracking mechanisms
You can manage your cookie and tracking mechanism settings in the browser and/or our privacy settings.
Note: The settings you have made refer only to the browser used in each case.

Deactivation of all cookies
If you wish to deactivate all cookies, please deactivate cookies in your browser settings. Please note that this may affect the functionality of the website.

Management of your settings with regard to cookies and tracking mechanisms not required technically
When visiting our websites, you will be asked in a cookie layer whether you consent to our using of any Comfort cookies, marketing cookies or tracking mechanisms, respectively.
In our privacy settings, you may withdraw the consent with effect for the future or grant your consent at a later point in time.

YouTube
Our Online Offers use the YouTube video platform which is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland („YouTube”). YouTube is a platform which allows the playback of audio and video files.

When you access a respective site of our Online Offers that contains an embedded YouTube player, this creates a connection to YouTube so that the video or audio file can be transmitted and played back. In do-ing so, data is transferred to YouTube as a data processor. We are not responsible for the processing of such data by YouTube.

Additional information on the scope and purpose of collected data, on further processing and usage of data by YouTube, on your rights and the privacy options available to be cho-sen by you, can be found in YouTube’s data protection notice.

Newsletter with opt-in; Right of withdrawal
Within the scope of our Online Offers you can sign up for newsletters. We provide the so-called double opt-in option which means that we will only send you a newsletter via email after you have explicitly confirmed the activation of the newsletter service to us by clicking on the link in a notification. In case you wish to no longer receive newsletters, you can terminate the subscription at any time by withdrawing your consent. You can withdraw your consent to email newsletters by clicking on the link which is sent in the respective newsletter mail, or in the administrative settings of the online offer. Alternatively, please contact us via the contact details provided in the Contact section.

External links
Our Online Offers may contain links to third party internet pages – by providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is naturally beyond our supervision. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.

Security 
Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.

User rights
To enforce your rights, please use the details provided in the Contact section. In doing so, please ensure that an unambiguous identification of your person is possible.

Right to information and access:
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us about whether or not your personal data is being processed, and, if this is the case, access to your personal data.

Right to correction and deletion: 
You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning yourself without undue delay from us. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
This does not apply to data which is necessary for billing or accounting purposes or which is subject to a statutory retention period. If access to such data is not required, however, its processing is restricted (see the following).

Restriction of processing:
As far as statutory requirements are fulfilled you have the right to demand for restriction of the processing of your data.

Data portability:
You are entitled to receive data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or – if technically feasible – to demand that we transfer those data to a third party.

Objection to direct marketing:
Additionally, you may object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time. Please take into account that due to organizational reasons, there might be an overlap between your objection and the usage of your data within the scope of a campaign which is already running.

Objection to data processing based on the legal basis of “legitimate interest”:
In addition, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time, insofar as this is based on a legitimate interest. We will then terminate the processing of your data, unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds according to legal requirements which override your rights.

Withdrawal of consent:
In case you consented to the processing of your data, you have the right to revoke this consent with immediate effect. The legality of data processing prior to your revoca-tion remains unchanged.

Right to lodge complaint with supervisory authority:
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You can appeal to the supervisory authority which is responsible for your place of residence or your state of residency or to the supervisory authority responsible for us. This is:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kugelmann

Address:

Hintere Bleiche 34
55116 Mainz, GERMANY

Postal address:

P.O. Box 30 40
55020 Mainz, GERMANY

Phone: +49 (6131) 208-2449
Fax: +49 (6131) 208-2497
Email: poststelle@datenschutz.rlp.de

Changes to the Data Protection Notice
We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures if this is required due to technical development. In such cases, we will amend our data protection notice accordingly. Please, therefore, notice the current version of our data protection notice, as this is subject to change.

Contact
If you wish to contact us, please find us at the address stated in the “Controller” section.

To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please use the following link: https://www.bkms-system.net/bkwebanon/report/clientInfo?cin=18rbds19&language=eng.

For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer:

Data Protection Officer
Information Security and Privacy (C/ISP)
Robert Bosch GmbH
P.O. Box 30 02 20
70442 Stuttgart, GERMANY
or DPO@bosch.com

Date of last revision: 07 September 2022

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