Privacy Policy

General information

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We therefore ask you to read the following privacy policy carefully.

The purpose of this policy is to inform you about the reason for and extent to which your personal data will be processed when you visit our website. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the controller.

Name and address of the controller

(1) Controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter: “GDPR"), other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is:

Charles Barker Corporate Communications GmbH
Gräfstrasse 99
60487 Frankfurt am Main
Deutschland
069 794 09 00
E-Mail: info at charlesbarker.de
Website: http://www.charlesbarker.de

(2) Contact details of the data protection officer: Datenschutz at charlesbarker.de

Your rights

(1) According to the applicable laws, you have various rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to obtain confirmation and access
- Right to request rectification
- Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')
- Right to request restriction of processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object
- Right to withdraw the given consent
If you wish to assert these rights, please send your request by e-mail or by post to the address mentioned above.

(2) You also have the right of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data with us.

Collection of personal data when you visit our website

(1) When using our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). If you want to visit our website, we collect the following information that is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure the stability, functionality and security of our website:
- our visited website
- used IP address (in anonymous form, if applicable)
- date and time of accesss
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Access status / HTTP status code
- the amount of data transferred in bytes
- Webseite, von welcher Sie auf die Seite gelangten (Quelle/Verweis)
- used browser
- the operating system used and its interface
- Language and version of the browser software.

(2) The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way.

Cookies

(1) Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and through which certain information flows to the institution that places the cookie (in this case the institution is us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are intended to make the website more user-friendly and effective and to enable the use of certain functions. When using this common data and information we do not draw any conclusions about the person concerned. This information is just required to deliver the contents of our website correctly. This anonymously collected data and information is therefore evaluated by us statistically and with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company to ensure an optimum level of protection for the personal data processed by us. If certain cookies process personal data, processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

(2) This website uses so-called session cookies, i.e. transient cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These cookies store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to a joint session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

(3) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. You can also decide to be informed about the setting of cookies and may decide individually whether to accept them. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings.
Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

Contact and contractual relationship

(1) When you submit an inquiry via our contact form, your information is retained to facilitate the processing of your request and to address any subsequent questions that may arise. Please provide your name, email address, telephone number, the preferred date for a call-back, and details of your request. This data will be stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in answering your request pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

(2) When you submit an inquiry via e-mail, your information is retained to facilitate the processing of your request and to address any subsequent questions that may arise. Please provide your name and email address. The provision of further data is voluntary. This data will be stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in answering your request pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

(3) Your data will be deleted once the inquiry has been processed, provided that it can be inferred from the circumstances that the facts in question have been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no legal grounds for retention.

(4) We also collect personal data that you voluntarily share with us in the context of the fulfilment and processing of the contractual relationship with us. As a rule, the following data is involved: name, position, employer, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number and address of the employer. We process the data you provide solely for the fulfilment and execution of our contractual obligations, without requiring additional consent from you. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the expiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data. At no time will your data be passed on to third parties, unless this is necessary for contractual fulfillment, mandated by law, or upon your explicit consent.

LinkedIn

On our website you will find links to our LinkedIn profile as well as to the profiles of our employees. Clicking on these links will redirect you to LinkedIn. We have no influence on the collection and processing of your data by LinkedIn when you use their services. For more information about LinkedIn's privacy practices, please refer to LinkedIn's Privacy Policy.

Objection and withdrawal against the processing of your data

(1) If you have consented to the processing of your data, it is possible at any time to withdraw this processing for the future. As a result, your data will no longer be processed for the agreed purpose.

(2) If your data are processed on the basis of a weighing of interests in accordance with the legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you can object to this if you have special reasons against processing the data.