Privacy Policy
Thank you very much for visiting our website and for your interest in our products and services. We take the protection of your privacy and your personal data very seriously. That is why it is important to us to inform you about what personal data we collect from you and how we use that data.
The entity responsible for processing your data on this website is the
Power Plus Communications AG
Dudenstraße 6
68167 Mannheim
Phone: +49 621 40165-126
Email: info@ppcbeta.d-f.cc
In our Privacy Policy, we use terms and definitions from the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), specifically Article 4 of the GDPR. Under this regulation, we are the “data controller” and you are the “data subject.” “Personal data” refers to specific information about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person, such as your name, address, and email address. We collect only the personal data that you provide to us yourself. This personal data is collected, processed, or used solely for the purpose related to your contact with us. In all other cases, personal data is collected, processed, or used only with your prior consent.
Right to Access, Withdraw Consent, Correct, and Delete Your Data
You have the right to request, free of charge, information about the data we have stored about you. You also have the right to have your data corrected, deleted, and/or blocked. Please note that you may revoke any consent you have given for the use of your data at any time, free of charge.
To do so, please contact our Data Protection Officer in writing:
Ms. Beatrice Bod
Power Plus Communications AG
Dudenstraße 6
68167 Mannheim, Germany
Tel.: +49 621 40165-126
Fax: +49 621 40165-111
Email: datenschutz@ppcbeta.d-f.cc
Similarly, you may also revoke your consent to the continued storage, processing, and use of your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy at any time, free of charge.
Server Log Files
As the provider of these pages, we automatically collect and store information in what are known as server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:
Your computer’s IP address; the name of your web browser and operating system; your browser’s request (URL and filename); the website from which you came to us; the date and time of your visit; and, if you arrived via a search engine, the search term(s) you used to find our website; information indicating whether your access to our website was successful; the name of your Internet service provider; and the amount of data transmitted. This data cannot be attributed to specific individuals, and we do not use it to create user profiles. Nor do we transfer this data to your computer’s hardware via a so-called “session ID.”
In various places on our website, we provide links to third-party websites and note that we have no control over these third parties’ privacy practices.
We implement technical and organizational security measures to protect the data we manage from accidental or intentional tampering, loss, destruction, or unauthorized access. We continuously improve our security measures in line with technological advancements.
This data is not combined with any other data sources. The legal basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the purpose of fulfilling a contract or taking steps prior to entering into a contract.
Online Application
Thank you very much for your interest in our online job posting. PPC is committed to ensuring the highest possible level of protection for your personal data. Therefore, we provide the following information regarding the collection, processing, and use of your data in connection with your online application, in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.
Collection and Use of Personal Data
As part of your online application, we will collect and process the following personal application data from you:
- Last Name, First Name
- Address
- Phone number
- Application materials (cover letter, resume, transcripts, certificates, etc.)
Your personal application data is collected and processed solely for the purpose of filling positions within our company. As a general rule, your data will only be forwarded to the internal offices and departments of our company responsible for the specific application process. Your application data will not be used for any other purpose or disclosed to third parties.
Furthermore, we may process personal data about you to the extent necessary to defend against legal claims asserted against us arising from the application process. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR; the legitimate interest includes, for example, the burden of proof in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
Storage
Your application documents are generally deleted automatically six months after the application process has ended. This does not apply if legal provisions prevent deletion, if further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes, or if you have expressly consented to longer-term storage.
Saved for Future Job Postings
If we are unable to offer you a position at this time but your profile may be of interest for future openings, your application materials will be retained for twelve months, provided that you have consented to the retention of your data beyond the legally required period of 6 months.
Data Security
We implement technical and organizational security measures to protect the data we manage from accidental or intentional tampering, loss, destruction, or unauthorized access. We continuously improve our security measures in line with technological advancements.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. The cookies on our website do not collect any personal data.
You have the option to accept or disable cookies through your browser settings. For more information on this, please refer to your browser’s instructions or help section. If you disable cookies, some features of the website may be limited. You can delete stored cookies at any time in your browser’s settings.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics refers to the collection, gathering, and analysis of data regarding the behavior of website visitors. Among other things, a web analytics service collects data on which website a user came from (known as a “referrer”), which subpages of the website were accessed, and how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. Web analytics is primarily used to optimize a website and to perform a cost-benefit analysis of online advertising. The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. IP anonymization has been enabled on this website, so that the IP addresses of users within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area are truncated by Google beforehand. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data held by Google.
Google Analytics cookies are set in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize our website and, where applicable, our advertising.
You can prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting your browser settings accordingly; however, please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as from processing this data, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: For more information, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de (general information about Google Analytics and data protection).
Order Processing
To ensure full compliance with statutory data protection requirements, we have entered into a data processing agreement with Google.
Demographic Characteristics in Google Analytics
Our website uses the “demographic characteristics” feature of Google Analytics. This feature allows us to generate reports that provide insights into the age, gender, and interests of website visitors. This data is derived from Google’s interest-based advertising as well as from visitor data provided by third parties. It is not possible to link this data to a specific individual. You can disable this feature at any time. You can do this through the ad settings in your Google Account or by generally preventing Google Analytics from collecting your data, as explained in the section “Objecting to Data Collection.”
Google reCAPTCHA
On this website, we also use the reCAPTCHA feature provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is designed to verify whether data entry on our website (e.g., in a contact form) is performed by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the website visitor’s behavior based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (e.g., IP address or the length of time the website visitor spends on the website). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background; website visitors are not notified that an analysis is taking place.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated scraping and spam. For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s Privacy Policy, please visit the following link: https://policies.google.com/?hl=de
Contact Forms
On our contact forms, we collect personal data that we need to respond to your inquiry. The legal basis for processing your name, email address, and the content of your inquiry is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, “Contractual and pre-contractual purposes.” We process additional information you provide voluntarily—such as your company, address, phone number, and fax number—on the legal basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR in improving communication with our customers. Our employees will forward the content of the completed contact form to the relevant departments.
Your request will be processed by the appropriate department and subsequently retained for the statutory retention period as defined in Section 147 of the German Fiscal Code (AO)—either as business correspondence for 6 years or as an invoice document for 10 years. During the retention period, access to the data is restricted. If the data constitutes neither business correspondence nor billing documents, it will be immediately blocked after processing until it is promptly deleted.
Newsletter
To send you our newsletter, we need your email address. You must verify the email address you provide and consent to receiving the newsletter. No additional data is collected, and any other information is provided voluntarily. The data is used exclusively for the purpose of sending the newsletter.
The data provided when you subscribe to the newsletter is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time. To withdraw your consent, simply send an informal email or click the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of any data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the withdrawal of consent.
Any data entered to set up the subscription will be deleted upon cancellation. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes or through other channels, we will continue to retain it.
CleverReach
We use CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede. This service allows us to organize and analyze the distribution of our newsletters. The data you provide to subscribe to the newsletter—such as your email address—is stored on CleverReach’s servers. The servers are located in Germany or Ireland.
Sending newsletters with CleverReach allows us to analyze the behavior of newsletter recipients. Among other things, the analysis shows how many recipients opened their newsletter and how often links in the newsletter were clicked. CleverReach supports conversion tracking to analyze whether a predefined action—such as a product purchase—occurred after a link was clicked. For details on data analysis by CleverReach, please visit: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/.
Data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time. To withdraw your consent, simply send an informal email or click the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of any data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the withdrawal of consent.
If you do not want CleverReach to analyze your data, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. To unsubscribe, simply send us an informal email or click the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter.
Data entered when setting up the subscription will be deleted from our servers and CleverReach’s servers upon cancellation. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes or to other parties, it will remain in our possession.
For details on CleverReach’s privacy policy, please visit: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.
Order Processing
To ensure full compliance with statutory data protection requirements, we have entered into a data processing agreement with CleverReach.
Events
Events include both in-person events and webinars and digital formats held online, for which you can register.
By registering for an event, you consent to the processing of your personal data collected as part of this registration for the purpose of organizing and conducting this event. This consent is required for participation.
Furthermore, you agree that Power Plus Communications AG may use your personal data to contact you for marketing purposes by phone or email, as well as to send you information such as event announcements or newsletters via email. For this purpose, your data is stored in a CRM system.
Power Plus Communications AG uses the personal data collected from you during registration to organize its own events and to provide information about other events, which we send via email. Furthermore, your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties without your express consent.
You may revoke the above consents at any time, effective for the future. You also have the right to receive information about your stored data free of charge, as well as the right to have such data corrected, restricted, or deleted, if applicable.
We use edudip for webinars. The provider is edudip GmbH, Jülicher Straße 306, 52070 Aachen. edudip allows us to organize and analyze webinars. The analysis shows when you registered for the webinar and how long you were present during the webinar. We save any questions you ask in the edudip chat so that we can respond to your inquiries personally after our webinars. The server is located in Germany.
Details regarding edudip’s privacy policy can be found at: https://www.edudip.com/de/datenschutz.
Order Processing
To ensure full compliance with statutory data protection requirements, we have entered into a data processing agreement with edudip.
Social Plug-ins
Our website incorporates features from the Twitter service. These features are provided by Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “Retweet” feature, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transmitted to Twitter in the process. Please note that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how Twitter uses it. For more information, please see Twitter’s Privacy Policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Our website uses features provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you visit our pages that contain Facebook plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and Facebook’s servers. Data is transmitted to Facebook as soon as this connection is established. We use social plug-ins from facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc. The plug-ins can be identified by the Facebook logo or the label “Facebook Social Plug-in.” The data exchange does not occur only when you click the “Like” button; it begins as soon as the code generated by Facebook on ppcbeta.d-f.cc is loaded. As the site operator, PPC cannot view or modify this data in aggregate form. If you have a Facebook account, this data may be linked to it. If you do not want this data to be associated with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before visiting our site. Interactions, particularly the use of a comment function or clicking a “Like” or “Share” button, are also shared with Facebook. You can learn more at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy.
Our website uses social plug-ins from the social network linkedin.com (“LinkedIn”), which is operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to LinkedIn’s servers. The content of the plug-in is transmitted directly from LinkedIn to your browser and integrated into the webpage by your browser. Through the integration of the plug-ins, LinkedIn receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page on our website. If you are logged in to LinkedIn, LinkedIn can associate your visit with your LinkedIn account. For information on the purpose and scope of data collection, as well as the further processing and use of the data by LinkedIn, and your related rights and privacy settings, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
LinkedIn Conversion Tracking
We use the LinkedIn Insight Conversion Tool provided by LinkedIn Corporation, which allows us to obtain information about how our website is used and to display advertising content tailored to your interests on other websites. To do this, a cookie with a validity period of 120 days is placed in your browser, which enables LinkedIn to recognize you when you visit a website. LinkedIn uses this data to generate anonymous reports for us on ad activity and information about how you interact with our website.
You can opt out of the LinkedIn Insight Conversion Tool and interest-based advertising by clicking the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out
This website uses the “XING Share Button.” When you visit this website, your browser briefly establishes a connection to XING SE (“XING”) servers, which provide the “XING Share Button” functions. XING does not store any of your personal data when you visit this website. In particular, XING does not store IP addresses. Furthermore, your usage behavior is not analyzed through the use of cookies in connection with the “XING Share Button.” You can access the current privacy policy regarding the “XING Share Button” and additional information on this website: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
Our website incorporates features from the Instagram service. These features are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. When you visit our website using Instagram plug-ins, a connection is established between your browser and Instagram’s servers. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content on our website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our website with your user account. Please note that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how Instagram uses it. For more information, please see Instagram’s Privacy Policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
YouTube
Our website incorporates YouTube components. YouTube is an online video portal that allows video publishers to upload video clips for free and enables other users to view, rate, and comment on them, also free of charge. YouTube is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
As soon as you visit pages on our website that include a YouTube plug-in, a connection is established with YouTube’s servers. In the process, the YouTube server is informed which specific page on our website you have visited.
If you are also logged into your YouTube account, you would be allowing YouTube to associate your browsing activity directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this association by logging out of your account beforehand. For more information on how YouTube collects and uses your data, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy at www.youtube.com.
The entity responsible for processing your data on this website is the
Power Plus Communications AG
Dudenstraße 6
68167 Mannheim
Tel.: +49 621 40165-126
Email: info@ppcbeta.d-f.cc