Privacy Statement - LinkedIn

In the following, we explain what data we collect about you and how we use this data. We also inform you about your data protection rights and explain whom you can contact for questions about the protection of your data.

Office responsible for processing your data:

FRIEDRICH KOCKS GmbH & Co KG, Neustraße 69, 40721 Hilden, Germany Tel.: + 49 2103 79 00, Fax: + 49 2103 51 24 9, Mail: fk@kocks.de

You can contact our data protection officer (DPO) if you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the processing of your data and your rights, or any other queries with regard to privacy and data protection.

Contact details of the DPO:

Data protection officer
FRIEDRICH KOCKS GmbH & Co KG
Neustraße 69, 40721 Hilden, Germany
Mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@kocks.de

This Privacy Statement applies to the page https://www.linkedin.com/company/friedrich-kocks-gmbh-co-kg and is directed at visitors to this page. It does not apply to other domains of LinkedIn or any of its subsidiaries and data processing by LinkedIn. For information on data processing by LinkedIn, please refer to the LinkedIn privacy policy and terms of use.

Our page offers further links leading to the websites of other operators, to which this Privacy Statement does not apply.

The responsibility for the insertion of advertising as banners, text or films before or during embedded videos lies with the respective operator.

We offer you the opportunity to get in touch with us. It is your decision whether or not to take advantage of this opportunity and, in doing so, provide your data. In order to comply with your request, we process the personal data that you have sent, for example, by e-mail or private message, posted on the bulletin board or communicated in a chat. The data you post on the bulletin board is publicly visible. Your data and information will be passed on to third parties, should this be necessary for completion of your request.

Please note that if you provide information about other individuals, you must have obtained their consent in advance and informed them about the purposes of disclosure as set out in this Privacy Statement.

We also ask that you share this information with any individuals you involve in using our services, such as family members or authorized representatives.

1. Data processed and processing purposes

In the following we explain the purposes for which your data is processed in the context of the business relationship or in handling a request.

Processing of Inquiries and Comments: We process your data, which we receive through your comment or your message to us (also by e-mail) or if you follow our page. This includes the data that you provide us yourself, as well as the data that LinkedIn displays as part of your public profile.

In addition, the above-mentioned data is used for the following purposes in the context of weighing up interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The interests are specified as follows:

1. If a security incident occurs in our company that affects your data, we are obliged to report the case to the relevant data protection supervisory authority (Art. 33 GDPR). Since it is in our legitimate interest to comply with this legal obligation to notify as quickly as possible, your personal data may be processed in the course of clarifying the security incident in question. Reports of such security incidents to the privacy regulators do not include any of your personal data.


2. Since it is in our interest to ensure the security of our systems, we regularly carry out security and effectiveness tests, in the course of which your above-mentioned data may be processed.


3. Since it is in our interest to resolve legal disputes, we process your data for a specific purpose in such a case. Additionally, it is in our interest to keep evidence in case of legal disputes until all relevant statutory limitation periods according to §§ 195 ff. BGB (German Civil Code) have expired. For this purpose, we will store the relevant personal data in accordance with these statutes of limitations. The deletion periods cannot be predicted, as they result from the subject matter of the dispute and the corresponding statutory limitation period, which can be up to 30 years. The regular limitation period is 3 years.


4. In addition, it is in our interest to investigate suspected cases and, in the event of the concrete suspicion of a criminal act, to hand over relevant information to the law enforcement authorities. We carry out inspections, internal audits and other control measures (e.g. monitoring by the data protection officer), since it is in our legitimate interest to comply with legal regulations, to create transparency about our business processes, to always optimize these processes and to prevent and recognize business-damaging actions. This may entail the processing of documents or files that contain your personal data.

2. Information about automated individual decisions
There are no automated individual decisions.

3. Legal basis for the use of your data

We process your data, as described under "Processing of Inquiries and Comments", in the context of the quasi-contractual relationship with you, so that we can meet your requirements. (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

4. Deletion periods (or storage period)

• The data that you send us by e-mail is deleted as soon as your request is dealt with.
• he Comments and Likes you post on our site are publicly available for as long as the site exists. Public Comments and Likes can be deleted from our site by the user at any time.
• For the preservation of evidence, we store data within the framework of the legal statute of limitations according to §§ 195 ff. BGB (German Civil Code). As a result, the storage period of your data may exceed the above-mentioned period. The statutory limitation periods can be up to 30 years. The regular limitation period is 3 years.

5. Origin of the data

There is no data collection from third parties.

The following list shows which organizations ("data recipients") receive your data and why. You can find details about the data concerned in the corresponding sections of this Privacy Statement. A transfer of your data is partly due to legal or contractual obligations. In other cases, selected agents and service providers act for us as processors (in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR) and can obtain access to your data to the extent required in each case. Processors are subject to numerous contractual obligations and, in particular, may only process your personal data on our instructions and exclusively for the fulfillment of the orders received from us.

• auditors
• data protection officers
• service providers for the destruction of data storage media
• service providers for mail and logistics (shipping)
• e-mail provider of the recipient (for communication via e-mail)
• IT service providers
• lawyers, criminal prosecution authorities, public prosecutor's office, courts, opposing lawyers, state or federal criminal investigation office (for legal disputes and concrete suspicion of a criminal act)
• telecommunication service providers (for communication by telephone)

The EU Commission determines which non-EU countries have an adequate level of data protection. The EU Commission recognizes companies in the USA that participate in the EU-US Privacy Shield as data recipients with an adequate level of data protection. This agreement between the USA and the EU ensures that the data protection regulations for the processing of data by companies in the USA that are obliged to comply with the EU-US Privacy Shield comply with the data protection level of the European Union. LinkedIn says it has joined the EU-US Privacy Shield.

You have the legal right to:

• Access and information on the personal data stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Rectification and completion of your data available to us (Art. 16 GDPR)
• Erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) (Art. 17 GDPR)
• Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
• Withdrawal of consent (Art. 7 GDPR) with effect for future processing. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
• You also have the right to express your point of view and the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (Art. 22 GDPR)
• You have the right of objection to the processing of your data to safeguard our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of third parties (Art. 21 GDPR) – You have the right to object to such processing at any time for reasons that arise from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions within the meaning of Art. 4(4) GDPR.
• Objection to direct marketing - You have the right to object at any time and without giving reasons to the processing of your data for the purpose of direct marketing.

To exercise these rights, you can contact us specifically, using the contact details given above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR).