Data Privacy Statement of FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH

1. Controller
2. Processing of Personal Data
3. Protection of Your Personal Data
4. Purposes for Processing Personal Data
5. Data Collected Automatically When Visiting Our Website
6. Cookies
7. Use of Google Analytics
8. Use of Google Maps
9. Children and Young People
10. Security
11. Changes to Our Data Privacy Statement
12. Consent
13. Newsletter
14. Contact Form
15. Application Process
16. Data Subject Rights
    1. Right to Information
    2. Right to Rectification
    3. Right to Erasure
    4. Right to Restriction of Processing
    5. Right to Data Portability
17. Right to Object
18. Questions, Suggestions, Complaints to the External Data Protection Officer
19. Right to Submit a Complaint to a Supervisory Authority

1. Controller

   As the operator of this website (http://www.fair-computer.de/), FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH, Ostendstraße 132, 90482 Nuremberg, Germany, is the controller in the sense of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) who individually or jointly makes decisions on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, hereafter referred to as "data."

2. Processing of Personal Data

   According to the General Data Protection Regulation, personal data is any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier (such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person).
   
   Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
   
   Use of our website does not require you to provide data. However, in certain cases, we will need your name, address and additional information to perform your requested services.
   
   The same applies to, e.g., the sending of information material and ordered goods and to responses to individual inquiries. We will notify you when required. Furthermore, we only process data you provide to us voluntarily and data that is collected automatically when our website is visited (e.g., your IP address and the names of the pages you opened, your browser and operating system, time and date of access, search engines used or names of downloaded files).
   
   If you request our services, usually only the data required for us to perform the service will be collected. Any additional data we may request may be provided voluntarily.
   
   Data will only be processed to perform requested services and to safeguard our legitimate business interests.

3. Protection of Your Personal Data

   Thank you for your interest in our company and our products and services. We want you to feel safe about your data when visiting our website. We take the protection of your data very seriously and strictly adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation and the German Federal Data Protection Act [Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG] in its respectively valid form.
   
   We have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure compliance with data protection regulations by both us and our commissioned external service providers. We require our employees and commissioned service providers to maintain confidentiality and adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation and the German Federal Data Protection Act in its respectively valid form.
   
   As part of our obligation to provide information, we want this Data Privacy Statement to be as transparent as possible and will explain the purposes for processing your data and use of tracking/analysis tools, cookies and social media plugins hereafter.

4. Purposes for Processing Personal Data

   We will process the data you provide in accordance with the principles of data economy and purpose limitation. The principle of purpose limitation states that data shall be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. Further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes is not considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes.
   
   We only process your data to answer inquiries, handle your orders and provide access to certain information or offers to you. Maintaining customer relationships may also require us or a commissioned service provider to use this data to inform you about product offers or to conduct online surveys to fulfill the tasks and requirements set by our customers.
   
   We will only process the data you provide online for the stated purposes. Your data will not be transferred to third parties without your express consent.
   
   Data will only be collected or transmitted to authorized state institutions and officials in accordance with applicable laws or if we are required to do so due to a court order.
   
   We respect that you may not wish to provide your data to support our customer relationship (especially not for direct marketing or market research purposes). We will not sell your data to third parties or otherwise market your data without your consent.

5. Data Collected Automatically When Visiting Our Website

   When using our website, the following data may be processed for technical and organizational reasons: The names of the pages you opened, your browser and operating system, time and date of access, search engines used or names of downloaded files and your IP address.

6. Cookies

   When visiting our website, we may save information on your computer in form of a (session) cookie. Cookies are small text files transmitted by a web server to your browser and saved on your computer's hard disk.
   
   Except for your IP address, no personal user data will be saved. This information allows you to be automatically recognized during your next visit to our website and makes navigation easier. Cookies enable us to, e.g., adjust our website to your interests and to save your password so that you won't have to re-enter it every time you visit our website.
   
   You may also visit our website without the use of cookies. If you do not want us to recognize your computer, you may prevent cookies from being saved on your hard disk by setting your browser to "Disable cookies." For detailed instructions, please see your browser's help function. However, please note that disabling cookies may prevent you from fully using every function of our offers.

7. Use of Google Analytics

   Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files saved onto your computer that allow your use of the website to be analyzed.
   
   The information on your website use generated by cookies is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA where it is saved. If IP-anonymisation is activated on our website, your IP address will partially be made unidentifiable by Google within a Member state of the European Union or in another state party to the European Economic Area Agreement (so-called IP masking).
   
   Only in exceptions will your full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the US and be made unidentifiable there. On behalf of the operators of this website, Google will use this information to assess your use of this website, to compile reports about website activity and to perform additional services related to use of the website and the Internet for the website operators.
   
   The IP address transmitted by your browser through Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent cookie storage through your browser settings at any time. However, please note that you may not be able to use every function of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of cookie-generated data (including your IP address) on your use of the website and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
   
   As an alternative to the browser plugin and on browsers on mobile devices, you may also prevent data collection by Google Analytics by activating the following link which will install an opt-out cookie that will block any future collection of your data when visiting our website. Please note that this link must be activated again if you delete your cookies.
   
   For Google's Data Privacy Statement, please see https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. For the Google Terms of Service, please see https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en (in German).

8. Use of Google Maps

   This website uses Google Maps of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Maps provides information about locations that are of interest to you through search requests and retrieved maps.
   
   By using this website, you agree to the automated processing of the data collected by Google Inc., its representatives and third parties. We have no influence on Google's automated processing when you use Google Maps.
   
   For more information, please see https://policies.google.com/privacy.
   
   For Google Maps' Additional Terms of Service, please see: https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html.

9. Children and Young People

   Our website is aimed exclusively at potential applicants/customers, business partners and media representatives.
   
   Persons under 16 years of age should not transmit data to us without the permission of a parent or guardian. We do not request data from children or youths under the age of sixteen. We do not collect such data or provide such data to third parties.

10. Security

    We have implemented technical and operational protective measures in accordance with the applicable legal regulations to protect your data from, loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access. Our security measures are reviewed regularly and adjusted to technological advances. All our employees and all persons participating in data processing are required to adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation, the German Federal Data Processing Act in its respectively valid form and other laws relevant for data protection and must treat data confidentially.
    
    Furthermore, we conclude according agreements with any external service providers we commission.
    
    Our security measures are regularly reviewed and adjusted in accordance with technological advances.

11. Changes to Our Data Privacy Statement

    We reserve the right to make changes to our security and data protection measures if required due to technical developments. In such cases, we will also adjust our Data Privacy Statement. Therefore, please note the respectively current version of our Data Privacy Statement.

12. Consent

    Should the processing of your data require your consent, we will obtain it from you and use your data for the stated purposes for which we requested your consent. Your consent will be documented digitally.
    
    You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. To do so, please write us at FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH, Ostendstraße 132, 90482 Nuremberg, Germany, or email us at info@fair-computer.com.

13. Newsletter

    If you subscribed to our newsletter and agreed to regularly receive interesting offers and information from the FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH, you expressly granted your consent for us to use your email address for direct marketing purposes. You will receive newsletters and information about the following topics: products/new products, solutions, events, webcasts/webinaries.
    
    We documented your consent and are required to keep it retrievable at all times.
    
    You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. To do so, please write us at FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH, Ostendstraße 132, 90482 Nuremberg, Germany, or email us at info@fair-computer.com.

14. Contact Form

    If you contact us through our contact form, we will request personal information. A valid email address is required to respond to your inquiry. Additional personal information may be provided voluntarily.
    
    Your information will be processed further by email.
    
    Information submitted through the contact form is transmitted through end-to-end encryption.
    
    Data for contacting us is processed on the basis of your voluntary consent. By activating the "Send" button, you agree to our processing of your contact information for the above-stated purposes. If you do not agree, you must abort this process. No information will then be transmitted through our contact form and no data will be processed.
    
    You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect.
    
    We only use your data to the extent required for handling your inquiry and for further correspondence with you. We save data collected through your use of our contact form to process your inquiry and for subsequent questions and will delete your data in accordance with data protection regulations after completing your request, unless other legal storage obligations apply. We use a ticket system to process your inquiry.

15. Application Process

    By transmitting your applicant data, you consent to the processing of your data for the respective application process. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect.

16. Data Subject Rights

    If we process your data, you are entitled the following extensive rights as a data subject:
    
    

    1. Right to Information

       Under Art. 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to information about the data processed by us. You may especially obtain information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the categories of possible recipients and the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored.
       
       Please submit information requests to FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH, Ostendstraße 132, 90482 Nuremberg, Germany, or by email to info@fair-computer.com

    2. Right to Rectification

       Under Art. 16 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to obtain rectification or completion of your data from us.
       
       You may exercise this right by contacting the above-stated addresses.

    3. Right to Erasure

       Under Art. 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to obtain erasure of personal data concerning you if storage of the data is no longer required and if there is no other legal ground for its processing. You may also obtain erasure if you object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing and if your data was processed unlawfully or if the personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation under EU or national law.
       
       You may exercise this right by contacting the above-stated addresses.

    4. Right to Restriction of Processing

       Under Art. 18 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to obtain the restriction of processing if you contest the accuracy of your personal data for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of your personal data; if the processing is unlawful, but you oppose the erasure of your personal data; the purposes for the processing cease to apply, but the data is required for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or if you objected in accordance with Art. 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation and if whether the legitimate grounds of the controller outweigh your interests has not yet been determined.
       
       You may exercise this right by contacting the above-stated addresses.

    5. Right to Data Portability

       Under Art. 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (data portability). In addition, under certain circumstances, you may also receive your data directly from a controller if technically possible.
       
       You may exercise this right by contacting the above-stated addresses.

17. Right to Object

    You have the right to object to use of your data for the above-stated purposes at any time (Art. 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation). This is possible for objections to direct marketing or on grounds relating to your particular personal situation. If you object to direct marketing, we will implement your general objection right without information about your particular personal situation.
    
    To exercise your right to object, please write us at FCS Fair Computer Systems GmbH, Ostendstraße 132, 90482 Nuremberg, Germany, or email us at info@fair-computer.com.

18. Questions, Suggestions, Complaints to the External Data Protection Officer

    Should you have any questions about our Data Privacy Statement, data protection or the processing of your personal data, please contact our data protection officer directly:
    
    Law Firm Costard
    Law Firm for IT Law and Data Protection
    Attorney at Law Thomas P. Costard
    EUROCOM Businesspark
    Lina-Ammon-Straße 9
    90471 Nuremberg, Germany
    tel.: +49 (0) 911 / 790 30 34
    fax: +49 (0)911 / 790 30 35
    e-mail: info@it-rechtsberater.de
    www.it-rechtsberater.de
    
    Information requests, suggestions and complaints may also be submitted to the data protection officer.

19. Right to Submit a Complaint to a Supervisory Authority

    Please also note that, irrespective of other administrative or legal remedies, you have the right to submit complaints to supervisory authorities, especially in the Member state of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes on the GDPR.
    
    A list of (non-public sector) supervisory authorities and their addresses is provided (in German) at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.