Privacy Policy

We are pleased about your visit to our website. The responsible party in terms of the data protection regulations for the processing of personal data on the occasion of your visit to our website is PNE AG, Peter-Henlein-Str. 2-4, 27472 Cuxhaven. Further contact information can be found in the provider identification ("Imprint") of these Internet pages. We attach great importance to the subject of data protection. PNE AG processes your personal data exclusively within the framework of the applicable data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). In the following, we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of your personal data. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please note: This data protection declaration applies to the processing of personal data within the scope of your use of this website. For our other websites, the data protection information provided there applies.

Basic information

In the case of purely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not transmit information to us in any other way, only the personal data that your browser transmits to the server is processed when you visit this website. When you call up our website, information is transmitted that we need to display and provide these Internet pages to you, such as

Browser type/version
The current IP address of the Internet connection you are using
Operating system used
Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
Date and time of the server request.

As a rule, this data cannot be assigned to a specific person. This data is not merged with other data sources, the data is deleted after a statistical evaluation and used exclusively to provide and improve the content and functionality of our websites. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO, whereby the legitimate interest of the controller is the secure, stable, efficient provision of the functions of the website and the information that can be accessed via it. If the controller fulfils a contractual obligation towards you by providing the website, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR.

Processing of personal data at inducement

In addition to the purely informative use of our offers, you can send us or provide us with questions, orders or other information relating to our offers and services, existing contractual relationships or our company. For this purpose, you will usually have to provide further personal data, which we process to handle your request, to answer your enquiries, to fulfil contracts concluded with you, to assert and realise our claims and, if necessary, to respond to your complaint. In addition, we process personal data insofar as we have to in order to fulfil our legal obligations, for example to comply with our documentation and storage obligations under tax or commercial law.

When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, we store the data you provide (in particular your e-mail address, name and telephone number as well as your enquiry or message) in order to answer your questions and process your request. We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

If the user has given his or her consent, the legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. If the processing serves the fulfilment of a contract to which the data subject is a party or the implementation of pre-contractual measures, the legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. If we process personal data in order to deal with non-contract-related requests or enquiries, we do so for the purpose of optimal and efficient communication with you, to improve our offers and our customer service, to maintain and optimise existing customer relationships and, if necessary, to clarify and rectify technical problems. The aforementioned purposes constitute our legitimate interests within the meaning of the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

If we process personal data to fulfil our storage and documentation obligations or to fulfil other legal obligations, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR.

To enable us to carry out background checks and screening activities, to comply with our legal obligations and for other purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, we may collect data from third party providers, such as LexisNexis GmbH. LexisNexis GmbH is responsible for all personal data it collects about you and holds it until we receive it. To find out more about how LexisNexis GmbH collects and uses your personal data, please read their privacy policy: www.lexisnexis.com/global/privacy/de/article-14-bis.page. If no contractual relationship exists, we process your personal data if this is necessary to protect our legitimate interest, pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to pursue our main business purpose, the planning and implementation of renewable energy projects. If we fulfil our legal obligations in the area of compliance and risk management with the processing and disclosure, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

We may also pass on your data to carefully selected service partners who work on our behalf (e.g. IT service providers or providers of other technical solutions that we use as part of our website). In these cases, however, the scope of the transmitted data is limited to the necessary minimum. Data is not used for any other purpose or passed on to third parties, or only to the extent informed about.

Rights of data subjects

You have the right at any time

to revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time or object to the processing of your data.
to receive information about your data stored by the data controller.
to have incorrect data about you corrected.
that data about you which is no longer required is deleted.
that the processing of your data is restricted under certain conditions; this may be the case, for example, if deletion is not possible but the data may not be further processed.
that your data is transferable; this right applies in particular if you have given your consent to the processing of your data or if the processing of the data is necessary to fulfil a contract. The right to data portability does not exist insofar as your data is processed within the framework of the statutory fulfilment of tasks.

To exercise your rights, please contact the data controller or our company data protection officer, who you can reach by post at our address given above with the letter suffix "THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER" or by e-mail at: datenschutz(at)pne-ag.com.

If you believe that the processing of your data violates the law, you have the right to complain to a competent supervisory authority.

The data controller may, in certain cases, request additional information from you in response to privacy-related requests in order to establish your identity and to ensure that information is not released to unauthorised persons.

Use of cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the internet browser on the user's terminal device. A cookie usually contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.

Cookies are used to make the website more user-friendly, to optimise the functions and services of the website and to provide you with content tailored to you.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to enable and simplify the use of the website. Some functions of this website cannot be offered without the use of cookies.

The user data collected through technically necessary cookies are not used to create user profiles.

In addition, with your separate consent, cookies may be used to provide external media, such as films and maps, and to analyse the use of the website.

The user data collected in this way is pseudonymised by technical precautions.

Therefore, it is no longer possible to assign the data to the calling user. The data is not merged with other personal data of the user.

You can deactivate or restrict the use of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for the website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions of the website to their full extent.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using technically necessary cookies is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, whereby the legitimate interest of the controller is the secure, stable, efficient provision of the functions of the website and the information that can be accessed via it. If the controller fulfils a contractual obligation towards you with the respective function, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies for advertising or analysis purposes is Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR if the user has consented to this.

You have the possibility to order a newsletter or other publications of PNE AG on this website. To do this, we require your e-mail address as well as information which allows us to check that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected. This data is transferred to our service provider CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede, who will then send the newsletter on our behalf.

Otherwise, this data will not be passed on to third parties and will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time free of charge with effect for the future vis-à-vis PNE AG, e.g. via the link "Unsubscribe" in the newsletter or the following e-mail address datenschutz(at)pne-ag.com.

Use of Cookiebot

Cookiebot is an online service that helps us to ensure that our use of cookies and online tracking of them is privacy compliant. By using the web service Cybot A/S (Havnegade 39, 1058 Copenhagen, Denmark), your browser transmits personal data to the above-mentioned company. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The legitimate interest lies in the error-free functioning of the website. The data is deleted as soon as the purpose of its collection has been fulfilled. Further information on the handling of the transmitted data can be found in the data protection declaration of cookiebot.com: www.cookiebot.com/de/privacy-policy/.

You can prevent the collection as well as the processing of your data by cookiebot.com by deactivating the execution of script code in your browser or by installing a script blocker in your browser (you can find this, for example, at www.noscript.net or www.ghostery.com). You have the right to change your consent or revoke it at any time.

Webanalysis with Matomo (former: PIWIK)

On this website, data is collected and stored for marketing and optimisation purposes using the web analysis service software Matomo (www.matomo.org) with your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. From this data, user profiles are created under a pseudonym; cookies are used for this purpose. The data collected with Matomo (including your anonymised IP address) is transmitted to our server and stored for usage analysis purposes, which serves website optimisation on our part. The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymous user profile is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

You may refuse the use of cookies and thus the participation in tracking by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

If you no longer agree to the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, then you can revoke your consent at any time by clicking on the mouse below.

Google Maps

This site uses the mapping service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we indicate on the website.

This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

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Data protection in applications and the application process

We process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of handling the application procedure. The processing may also take place electronically. This is the case in particular if an applicant submits the relevant application documents to the data controller electronically, for example by e-mail or via a web form on the website. If we conclude an employment contract with an applicant, the transmitted data will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the statutory provisions. If we do not conclude an employment contract with the applicant, the application documents will be automatically deleted four months after notification of the rejection decision, provided that no other legitimate interests of the person responsible oppose deletion. Other legitimate interest in this sense is, for example, a duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). The legal basis for the processing of personal data in the context of application procedures is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. DSGVO, insofar as your consent has been given, otherwise Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG and, in addition, insofar as the processing serves the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Security of your data

PNE AG uses technical and organisational security measures in accordance with the legal requirements, in order to protect the data provided by you against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons to the best possible extent.

Data processing in third countries

We also maintain offices outside the European Union. We only transfer your personal data there if this is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or to carry out pre-contractual measures on the basis of your request or if another legal basis in accordance with Art. 44 and the following GDPR permits such processing and it is necessary.

We will only transfer your personal data outside the European Union if this is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations towards you or to carry out pre-contractual measures on the basis of your request or if another legal basis in accordance with Art. 44 and the following GDPR permits such processing and the processing is necessary.

Duration of storage

Unless otherwise stated in the respective individual information, the data controller processes personal data in accordance with the statutory provisions for the purposes outlined here in each case and only for as long, as long as a personal identification of the data subject is necessary for the respective purpose. Subsequently, the data is deleted or neutralised/anonymised in accordance with data protection.

Linked content / sharing functions

This website may contain links to third-party websites. By clicking on the respective link, you leave our website and the scope of this data protection declaration. The respective data protection declarations and data protection notices of the respective operators of the linked websites apply. The respective operator is responsible for the data processing practices on third-party platforms.

XING und LinkedIn

We use XING, a service of New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, as well as LinkedIn, a service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, to communicate with you and other interested parties and to be able to inform you there about us, for example, about our business activities or vacancies.

In the process, cookies may be stored on your computers by the respective service provider, in which the usage behaviour is stored. This user data is made available to us by XING/LinkedIn anonymised and aggregated for evaluation. Furthermore, we only process the data records that you provide to us via XING/LinkedIn.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in the context of providing the XING or LinkedIn service is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our interest lies in informing you about current job offers. It is also possible that we want to inform you about current events via the respective service.

If you also provide data records via XING/LinkedIn, the legal basis is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If we use information provided by you to establish, implement or process a contractual relationship, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, and in the case of employment relationships Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG.

We delete the data you have provided to us via XING/LinkedIn when the purpose no longer applies. Since contacting us via XING/LinkedIn can have different purposes, the storage period depends largely on the reason for your contact.

For the time of deletion of your data, for which XING or LinkedIn is responsible, please refer to the privacy policy of XING/LinkedIn:

XING: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

As a rule, we do not pass on data that we have received from you via XING/LinkedIn to third parties. With regard to the transfer of data by the respective service provider, we refer to the respective privacy policy of the provider.

Revocation of data processing based on consent is possible at any time. With regard to the assertion of rights (e.g. data subject rights), we point out that these can ideally be asserted against the respective service provider. This is because the respective service providers have access to the users' data and can directly take appropriate measures and provide information. You can additionally prevent data processing by neither clicking on the XING/LinkedIn icon on our website nor visiting our channel via XING/LinkedIn.