Privacy policy

Data protection at Upgradeyourjob.de

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. At this point we would like to inform you about data protection at Upgradeyourjob.de (for a more detailed definition see under 1.). Of course we observe the statutory provisions of the data protection laws. Your personal data is encrypted by digital security systems and transmitted to us. Our websites are protected by technical measures against damage, destruction or unauthorized access. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Subject of data protection

The subject of data protection is personal data. This is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.

A natural person is considered identifiable if he or she 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 special characteristics that express the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. This includes, for example, information such as name, postal address, email address or telephone number, but also usage data such as your

IP address.

1. PRIVACY POLICY Upgradeyourjob.de - Websites -

(As of December 2021)

Upgradeyourjob.de collects and uses your personal data exclusively within the framework of the statutory data protection regulations, such as the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG) or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The employees and agents of expertum are obliged and trained to comply with the data protection regulations. Below you will find information about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of your personal data on our web instances (www.upgradeyourjob.de) as well as your corresponding rights. This information can be viewed at any time on the Internet at www.upgradeyourjob.de/datenschutzhinweise.

1.1 Scope of data collection and storage

Serial No. Data Purpose of use and legitimate interest Legal basis

1. Browser data (date and time of access, URL (address) of the referring website, retrieved file, amount of data sent, browser type and version, operating system, IP address) Establishing a connection to the website Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR

2. Google Maps:

· Date and time of visit to the website in question

· Internet address or URL of the website accessed

· IP address

· Address entered during route planning

Display of interactive maps and for creating directions

Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR

3. Web analysis* Reach measurement, website optimization, interest-based advertising, remarketing, detection of click fraud & bots (both mobile and desktop) Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR

4. Use of the Limit Login Attempts plugin Storage of IP addresses for the purpose of brute force protection in the WordPress database Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR

Web analysis through Google Analytics – Cookie Banner technology via borelabs.io

In order to continually improve and optimize our content and user-friendliness, we use analysis technologies from Google LLC with the product "AdWords Conversion Tracking" on all of our websites. The session and interaction data of our website visitors is collected and statistically evaluated. Cookies are used for this purpose. The session and interaction data is never processed in personal form, but only anonymously.

In some cases, analysis data is transferred to and stored on a server of the respective analysis service in an EU member state or outside the EU (e.g. in the USA). The information may be transferred to third parties if this is legally permissible or if third parties process this data on behalf of our service provider. Neither we nor the web analysis services will associate your IP address with other data stored by us or the service provider. You can read about which analysis services are used in the following sections.

*The duration of cookies used is limited to a maximum of 1 year. A cookie is a tiny text file that enables a website to recognize a browser. Cookies are stored in a text file on the computer and are called up and read again the next time the web server is accessed. As a user, you can use your browser settings to decide whether and which cookies you want to allow, block or delete. You can find instructions for your browser here: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Chrome mobile, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Safari mobile.

However, the data collection and storage for the purposes of website analysis & optimization can also be revoked at any time with effect for the future via the following opt-out link on

www.upgradeyourjob.de (or other site access)

and with reference to

WordPress Cookie Plugin for GDPR & ePrivacy compliance (borlabs.io)

be contradicted.

You can manage your preferences regarding usage-based online advertising (marketing, statistics, external media or accept all) using the links above. If you object to usage-based online advertising from a specific provider using the preference manager, this only applies to the specific business data collection via the web browser you are currently using. Preference management is cookie-based. Deleting all browser cookies will also remove the preferences you have set using the preference manager.

No. Data Purpose of use and legitimate interest Legal basis Storage period

5. Google Analytics

(approx.: Two bytes of the IP address of the user's calling system

· The website accessed

· The website from which the user accessed the website (referrer)

· The subpages accessed from the website accessed

· The time spent on the website

· The frequency of visits to the website

· Analysis of the surfing behavior of our users

· Obtaining information about the use of the individual website components

· Optimization of the website and its user-friendliness

Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR

Deletion: As soon as they are no longer required for our recording purposes and at least after 12 months

Possibility of objection and removal

Cookies are stored on the user's computer and transmitted from there to our website. Therefore, you as the user have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission 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 our website, it may no longer be possible to fully use all of the website's functions.

We offer our users the option of opting out of the analysis process on our website. To do this, you must follow the corresponding link. This will place another cookie on your system, which signals our system not to save the user's data. If the user deletes the corresponding cookie from their own system in the meantime, they must set the opt-out cookie again.

Anti-spam feature “Clean Talk”

Web security through the use of spam technology for web forms

In order to prevent and reduce the amount of spam, the websites described above use the provider “Clean Talk” as an effectively deployed data processor in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. The legal basis for this is the legitimate interest of the website operator expertum within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) of the applicable General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The aim of the use is to ensure security reasons and spam protection. For this purpose, your data is processed in the Clean Talk Cloud Service and stored as log files for a maximum of 45 days. All log files are automatically and independently deleted after the defined period of 45 days. Based on the accumulation of spam for IP addresses and email addresses, Clean Talk Inc. can use this information to improve the service used on this website. For more detailed information on data collection and its use, please refer to the data protection information of the company “Clean Talk Inc.”: https://cleantalk.org/publicoffer#privacy. A transfer impact assessment was carried out in advance (see also the regulations on data transfer outside the EEA in section 1.3.).

Google AdWords and conversion tracking

We use the online service “Google AdWords” and, as part of Google AdWords, conversion tracking. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”):

In order to draw attention to our services, we place Google Adwords ads and use Google Conversion Tracking for the purpose of personalized, interest- and location-based online advertising. The option to anonymize IP addresses is controlled by an internal setting in Google Tag Manager that is not visible in the source code of this page. This internal setting is set in such a way that IP addresses are anonymized. The ads are displayed after search queries on websites in the Google advertising network. We have the option of combining our ads with certain search terms. Cookies allow us to display ads based on a user's previous visits to our website.

When you click on an ad, Google places a cookie on the user's computer. Further information on the cookie technology used can be found in Google's information on website statistics and in the privacy policy at http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ and http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

With the help of this technology, Google and we as the customer receive the information that a user has clicked on an ad and was redirected to our websites. The information obtained is used exclusively for statistical analysis for ad optimization. We do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify visitors. The statistics provided to us by Google include the total number of users who have clicked on one of our ads and, if applicable, whether they were redirected to a page on our website with a conversion tag. Using these statistics, we can understand which search terms were used to click on our ad particularly often and which ads lead to the user contacting us via the contact form.

If you do not want this, you can prevent the storage of the cookies required for these technologies, for example, via your browser settings. In this case, your visit will not be included in the user statistics.

You also have the option of selecting the types of Google ads or deactivating interest-based ads on Google via the ad settings. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third parties by accessing the Network Advertising Initiative's deactivation tool.

However, we and Google will continue to receive statistical information about how many users visited this site and when. If you do not want to be included in these statistics, you can prevent this by using additional programs for your browser.

Web analytics - Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, California 94043, USA). The IP anonymization function in Google Analytics sets the last octet of user IP addresses of type IPv4 and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses in memory to zero shortly after they are sent to the Analytics data collection network for collection. In this case, the full IP address is therefore never written to the hard disk. You can find more information about anonymization here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=de.

Here you can deactivate the collection of data by Google Analytics for this website

Remarketing or “Similar Audiences” function of Google Inc.

We use the remarketing or "similar target groups" function of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google") on our websites. This function serves the purpose of analyzing visitor behavior and visitor interests.

Google uses cookies to carry out the analysis of website usage, which forms the basis for creating interest-based advertisements. The cookies record visits to the website as well as anonymized data about website usage. No personal data of website visitors is stored. If you then visit another website within the Google Display Network, you will be shown advertisements that are highly likely to take into account previously viewed product and information areas.

Your data may also be transferred to the USA. The European Commission has issued an adequacy decision for data transfers to the USA.

You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=de

Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies by third parties by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out tool and implementing the additional opt-out information provided there.

Further information on Google Remarketing and the associated privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Google Maps

By using Google Maps, information about the use of this website, including the IP address and the (start) address entered as part of the route planner function, may be transmitted to Google (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA). When you visit a page on our website that contains Google Maps, your browser establishes a direct connection to Google's servers. Google transmits the map content directly to the browser, which integrates it into the website. Further processing, use of the data and the storage period are the responsibility of Google. If you do not want Google to collect, process or use data about you via our website, you can deactivate JavaScript in your browser settings. In this case, however, you will not be able to use the map display.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Google, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/

Microsoft advertising (“BingAds”), conversion tracking & remarketing

Bing Universal Event Tracking (UET) -

On our website (see above), data is collected and stored using Bing Ads technologies, from which user profiles are created using pseudonyms. This is a service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. This service enables us to track the activities of users on our website if they have accessed our website via Bing Ads ads.

If you access our website via such an ad, a cookie will be placed on your computer. A Bing UET tag is integrated into our website. This is a code that, in conjunction with the cookie, stores some non-personal data about the use of the website. This includes, among other things, the length of time spent on the website, which areas of the website were accessed and which ad users accessed the website via. Information about your identity is not recorded.

The information collected is transferred to Microsoft servers in the USA and stored there for a maximum of 180 days. You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website as well as the processing of this data by deactivating the setting of cookies. This may limit the functionality of the website.

In addition, Microsoft may track your usage behavior across multiple electronic devices through so-called cross-device tracking and is therefore able to display personalized advertising on or in Microsoft websites and apps. You can deactivate this behavior at http://choice.microsoft.com/de-de/opt-out.

For more information about Bing's analytics services, please visit the Bing Ads website (https://help.bingads.microsoft.com/#apex/3/de/53056/2

). For more information about data protection at Microsoft and Bing, please see Microsoft's privacy policy (https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement).

LinkedIn Analytics and LinkedIn Ads

We use conversion tracking technology and the retargeting function of LinkedIn Corporation on our website. For this purpose, we use the so-called “LinkedIn Insight Tag” implemented via the Google Tag Manager to record interactions on our websites.

This technology enables visitors to this website(s) to be shown personalized advertisements on LinkedIn. It also makes it possible to create anonymous reports on the performance of advertisements and information on website interaction. For this purpose, the Insight Tag is integrated on this website, which establishes a connection to the LinkedIn server if you visit this website and are logged into your LinkedIn account at the same time.

You can find further information on data collection and use as well as the options and rights to protect your privacy in LinkedIn's privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

If you are logged in to LinkedIn, you can deactivate data collection at any time using the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/enhanced-advertising.

Online presence on Facebook

Our presence on the Facebook social network serves to improve and actively communicate with our customers, interested parties and visitors. We will inform you there about all topics relating to Upgradeyourjob.de. Upgradeyourjob.de also has its own Facebook presence (www.facebook.com/upgradeyourjob.de). The following regulations apply to all data processing operations.

The data processing on all Facebook presences is based on an agreement between joint controllers in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR, which you can view here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

When you visit one of our Facebook online presences, your data may be automatically collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes.

Different categories of statistical data can be viewed via Facebook page statistics (so-called “Page Insights”). These statistics are provided by Facebook. Facebook provides us with various data relating to our Facebook group for a selectable period of time and for the categories fans, subscribers, people reached and people interacting. You can find more information about the types of data collected here.

In addition, with effect from February 1, 2021, the principles described under 1.5 for the secure transfer of data to third countries outside the EEA and compliance with a recognized and equivalent level of protection apply.

For detailed information on the processing and use of data by the providers on their websites, as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, in particular the option to object (opt-out), please refer to the data protection information linked below. If you still need help in this regard, you can contact us.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Opt-out option:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads

Further information on the safe use of social networks can be found on the website of the Federal Office for Information Security at https://www.bsi-fuer-buerger.de/BSIFB/DE/DigitaleGesellschaft/SozialeNetze/sozialeNetze_node.html

1.2 Sources of third-party data collection, Art. 14 GDPR (“job board providers”)

In individual cases, Upgradeyourjob.de receives data from so-called third-party sources. Assuming traceable sources and positive knowledge, the principles for handling personal data defined in sections 1 and 2 apply to all further data processing operations by expertum as the responsible body. Art. 14 GDPR applies accordingly to the processing operations.

Section 1.1 Current No. Source

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 job providers “job boards”, multiposting, organic search via search engines or similar

1.3 Disclosure and use of personal data

Recipients or categories of recipients

IT service provider

In some cases, we use IT service providers to maintain hardware, maintain software and provide technical services, which may then come into contact with your data depending on the respective service.

Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

When using Google Maps, anonymized data for AdWords and conversion tracking see above. Google is subject to the EU/US Privacy Shield (see also 1.4 and adjustments 1.5).

1.4 Transfer to third countries

A transfer to third countries takes place. This is subject to the guarantee of the EU standard contractual clauses of the online services listed below.

1.5 Adjustments to transmission to third countries – effective from 1 February 2021

For this purpose, with effect from February 1, 2021 and based on the decision of the ECJ (see 1.5.2), Upgradeyourjob.de will rely on the so-called EU standard contractual clauses with regard to any processing operations by third parties and the transmission to third countries.

1.5.2 On the ECJ ruling

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc

1.5.1 Recommendations for action:

https://www.gdd.de/eu-us-privacy-shield-schrems-ii-urteil/handlungsempfehlungen-eugh-eu-us-privacy-shield-und-eu-standardvertragsklauseln

The standard contractual clauses hereby effectively incorporated into candidate, employee and customer management are available at the following URL for the respective additional data processing companies (“Joint Controllers or Processors”):

Use of Microsoft online services (see 1.1 for address details)

https://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=46

Use of Google online services:

https://business.safety.google/compliance/?hl=de and

Use of the LinkedIn “Insight Tag” and other LinkedIn online services:

https://de.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa

Use of Facebook online services (address details see 1.1)

https://de-de.facebook.com/business/gdpr

1.6 Links to other websites

Our websites/applications may from time to time contain links to third-party websites or to other websites (landing pages, sub-domains, etc.) of our own. If you follow a link to one of these websites, we would like to point out that these websites have their own privacy policies in individual cases and that we accept no responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these privacy policies before you disclose personal data to these websites.

1.7 References to third-party websites

This website contains references to third-party websites in the form of so-called links. Only when you click on such a link will data be transferred to the link destination. This is technically necessary. The data transferred includes in particular: your IP address, the time at which you clicked the link, the page on which you clicked the link, information about your Internet browser. If you do not want this data to be transferred to the link destination, do not click on the link.

2. DATA PROTECTION INFORMATION Upgradeyourjob.de - Ralf Gegenfurtner - Applicant and contact management -

(As of December 2021)

2.1 Data protection information - applicant management

The following regulations apply to applicant management at Upgradeyourjob.de (see above).

2.1.1. Scope of data collection and storage on the legal basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 No. b) GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG

As soon as you contact us, especially if you apply for a vacant position or would like to be included in the applicant management system, we require personal data from you. Upgradeyourjob.de only collects, stores, processes and uses personal data to the extent necessary, for example to initiate, establish and process employment contracts based on your job application. If you have agreed that we may inform you about vacancies and information on professional development by email and/or telephone, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future using the contact details below. The revocation of the consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.

Data purpose and legitimate interest pursued

contact details

(First and last name, address, salutation)

· Personal speech