• first name, last name, date of birth, email address, country, job title, phone number, fax number, company name, used products of GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHand additional information that you provide when contacting us using our websites, especially information provided in free text fields of contact forms (“contact data”);
• additional data that you provide to GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHin comments on the GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHwebsites, especially in forms of discussion boards and using the comment features of blogs (“comment data”);
• additional data that you provide to GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHwhile applying for a job, e.g. your CV, certificates, attestations, etc. (“job application data”);
• email address, phone number, name, company name and country provided when subscribing to a newsletter or other marketing information of GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbH(“direct marketing data”) (see section 7).

Besides that we also process the following personal data, which is passively collected:

• personal data sent by your web browser, i.e. information about your type of web browser, your operating system and selected settings (e.g. language, region, font size, font types and other configuration) may be collected (“browser data”);
• your IP address, information about the amount of data transferred, stored in access log files (“usage data”).

4.Purposes and Lawfulness of the Data Processing

GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHcollects, processes, and uses your personal data to the extent required to fulfill the respective purposes.

The purposes for processing your contact data, comment data and job application data are: Providing services that you make use of using the GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHwebsites. These are amongst others: downloads, discussion boards, job applications, individual requests (e.g. using a contact form), blogs, and the registration for courses or other offerings of GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbH. The lawfulness for the data processing is the performance of a contract or steps prior to entering into a contract. Using this personal data is required to provide the contractual obligations. Without this personal data you would not be able to receive the services offered by GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbH.

In so far that you have given the consent, GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHwill also use your personal data for marketing purposes, e.g. to send newsletters (see section 7). The lawfulness for processing this data is our legitimate interest, e.g. to improve our services, or your consent.

In so far that you have given the consent, we will also use your browser data for market research and the improvement of our websites and services, and to improve your user experience. The lawfulness for processing this data is your consent or our legitimate interest.

In so far that you have given the consent, we will also collect your usage data for statistical purposes, for the analysis of advertisement on our websites, and for adapting the advertisement for our products and services to better match your interests. Log files are only used for statistical analysis of the visitors of the GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHwebsites. The data is deleted after having been analyzed. The lawfulness for processing this data for statistical purposes is our legitimate interest, e.g. internal organization, or your consent.

Providing the direct marketing data and browser data is optional. If you do now provide this data, you will not receive any direct marketing information from us and your data will not be used to improve your user experience and will not be used for statistical purposes.

We will also use your usage data for internal system-specific purposes to secure the websites and IT systems from malicious attacks by third parties. The lawfulness is a balancing of interests of the conflicting interests of the security of the IT systems on our part and your potentially conflicting interests in a non-processing of the usage data by us. Taking into account the security and organizational measures of the processing of the usage data by GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbH, we consider your rights and interests appropriately taken into account and protected.

Beyond these purposes, we use and process your data only if you have expressly granted your prior consent thereto and if you have been informed about such purposes. For example, you may stipulate in an online job application whether we may also review such application with respect to other positions in our company. Only if this is the case, we will use such data for the respective purpose.

In particular, GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHdoes not use your personal data for automated individual decisions and profiling.

5.Data recipients

Your personal data will be processed by persons of GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHin the respective departments who need to know the personal data.

contact data: any departments that might be involved to process your request
comment data: marketing or the respective product departments that are responsible for operating the blogs or discussion boards
job application data: HR and the departments that are responsible for the job position that you apply to direct marketing data: marketing and sales departments responsible for your region browser data and usage data: marketing and the IT departments that are responsible for operating the respective websites GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHhas contracted external data processing service providers to collect, process, or use personal data on behalf and according to the instructions of GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbH. Such service providers support GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbH, especially relating to hosting and operating the websites and blogs, marketing purposes, statistical analysis, improving the websites and sending our email newsletters. If these external companies have access to personal data, respective data processing agreements are in place.

These service providers may be located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area (see section 6).

GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHis a globally operating corporation. In order to better process your matter, it might be necessary to forward your data to local subsidiaries or to local distribution partners, whose registered office might also be located in countries outside the European Union (see section 6). However, such data transfers only take place within the GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHgroup companies listed in Annex 1 and only for the aforementioned purposes. The lawfulness of the data export is our legitimate interest or legitimate interests of the recipients, e.g. internal administrative purposes, and no higher legitimate interests on your part, the fulfillment of legal obligations or your consent.

Beyond that, we do not forward your data to other third parties, unless we are obliged to do so by virtue of statutory provisions or order of any judicial or other public authorities or you have explicitly given your consent for that purpose. In particular, your personal data will not be sold, leased or exchanged.

6.Data Transfers to Third Countries

The recipients of your personal data might be located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area and therefore might not have a data protection equivalent to EU data protection law.

Unless there is an adequacy decision by the EU Commission for these states or the transfer is based on an exemption provided for by the GDPR (e.g. express consent, assertion, exercise or defense of legal rights), we take all necessary measures to ensure that transfers to such organizations are adequately protected, e.g. by signing the standard contractual clauses stipulated by the EU Commission with the data recipients. You may request a copy of these reasonable warranties by contacting our Data Protection Department at: info@german-care.com

A transfer of data to official authorities in countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area (so-called third countries) takes place, if required by law, you have given us your express consent or this is legitimated by the legitimate interest of us or the third party for data protection purposes, e.g. internal administrative purposes and no higher legitimate interests on your part.

7.Information sent by Email

Provided that you have given GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHyour email address for communication or direct marketing purposes and consented to the receipt of advertising and newsletters, we will process this personal data in order to communicate with you on the basis of your interests or to send you advertising. The legal basis for the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes is your consent or our legitimate interest in direct mail communication. You can revoke your consent at any time and object to processing for direct marketing purposes at any time (see section 12).

Providing your email address or telephone number for direct marketing purposes is voluntary. If you do not provide these to us, you will not receive any advertising from us.

8.Data Protection for Minors

The offers and services on this website are not directed at children. We therefore assume that we will not become aware of any personal data pertaining to children.

9.Technical and Organizational Data Protection

GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHimplements the technical and organizational measures that are commercially reasonable in relation to the respective purpose of data protection, in order to protect the information provided by you against abuse and loss. Such data is stored in a secure operating environment that is not accessible to the public. In addition, each of our employees is instructed on data protection and obliged to enter into a confidentiality agreement.

10.Retention Periods

Your personal data will be kept by us as long as necessary to provide you with the requested service. If GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHno longer needs your personal data to comply with contractual or legal obligations, they will be deleted from our systems or anonymized accordingly, so that identification is not possible, unless GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHhas to keep the information, including your personal data, to comply with legal or regulatory obligations (e.g. statutory retention periods which may arise from the commercial laws or tax laws and may in principle be 6 to 10 years or, if during the statutory limitation periods, which are regularly 3 years, but may be up to 30 years, evidence must be secured).

11.Data Subject Rights

Under applicable law, you have the right under certain circumstances to (i) request information about your stored personal data, (ii) rectification of your personal data, (iii) restriction of processing of your personal data, (iv) deletion of your personal data, (v) data portability, (vi) revocation of your consent for processing of your personal data .

To exercise these rights, please contact our Data Protection Department at: info@german-care.com

You also have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

Please feel free to direct any questions, comments, or complaints regarding this privacy statement or the privacy practices of GERMAN MEDICAL CARE & GTI GmbHto our Data Protection Officer:

GERMAN MEDICAL CARE GTI GmbH

Helmholtzstrasse 2-9

10587 Berlin – Germany

E.mail:  info@german-care.com