Privacy Statement

1. Information about the collection of personal data

(1) In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) The responsible party according to Art. 4 para. 7 DS-GVO is:

Wilkhahn
Wilkening+Hahne GmbH+Co.KG
Fritz-Hahne-Strasse 8
31848 Bad Münder
Germany
Telephone: +49 5042 999-0
Fax: +49 5042 999-226
info@wilkhahn.de
www.wilkhahn.com

(3) Name and address of the data protection officer

The data protection officer of the responsible party is:

Jörg Hagen - Jhcon.de, Veilchenweg 6a, D-30989 Gehrden
hagen@jhcon.de, www.jhcon.de 

(4) When you contact us by e-mail, via our social media channels or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, name and telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are legal retention obligations.

(5) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In doing so, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

(6) We commission external service providers with tasks such as marketing services, programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have carefully selected these service providers and monitor them regularly, in particular their careful handling and safeguarding of the data stored with them. All service providers are obligated by us to maintain confidentiality and to comply with legal requirements. Service providers may also be other companies of the Wilkhahn Group.

(7) Transfer to recipients outside the EEA

We may also disclose personal data to recipients who are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in so-called third countries. In this case, we ensure before the transfer that either an adequate level of data protection exists at the recipient or that your consent to the transfer has been obtained.

You can obtain from us an overview of the recipients in third countries and a copy of the specifically agreed regulations to ensure the appropriate level of data protection.

2. Your rights

(1) You have the following rights with respect to us regarding personal data concerning you:

- Right to information
- Right to correction or deletion
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right to object to processing
- Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

3. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

(1) During the mere informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not log in to use the website, register or otherwise transmit information to us, we do not collect any personal data, with the exception of the data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO):

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status / HTTP status code
  • amount of data transferred in each case
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser - operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the previously mentioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive associated with the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case by us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer as a whole more user-friendly and effective.

(3) Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

  • Transient cookies (for this purpose b)
  • Persistent cookies (c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are deleted automatically after a specified period of time, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

(4) Marketing cookies and tracking mechanisms.

We also use marketing cookies and tracking mechanisms. However, we only use such technically unnecessary cookies and tracking mechanisms if you have given us your consent in each case beforehand. The exception to this is the cookie that stores the current status of your privacy setting (selection cookie). This is set due to legitimate interest.

(5) General

The use of marketing cookies and tracking mechanisms enables us and our partners to show you personalized offers based on an analysis of your interests and usage behavior.

In the following, we explain which mechanisms and tools we use on this online offer:

(6) Statistics

By using statistics tools, we measure, for example, the number of your page views.

(7) Conversion tracking

Our conversion tracking partners place a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via an advertisement of the partner in question. These cookies usually expire after 30 days. If you visit certain pages of ours and the cookie has not yet expired, we and the respective conversion tracking partner can recognize that a certain user clicked on the ad and was thus redirected to our site. This can also take place across devices. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics and to record the total number of users who clicked on the relevant ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag.

(8) Retargeting.

These tools create usage profiles with the help of advertising cookies or third-party advertising cookies, so-called web beacons (invisible graphics also called pixels or tracking pixels) or comparable technologies. These are used for interest-based advertising and to control the frequency with which the user sees certain ads. The providers of the tools may also pass on information to third parties for the aforementioned purposes. In this context, please refer to the data protection information of the respective provider.

Please note that when using the tools, your data may be transferred to recipients outside the European Economic Area (e.g. USA).

Details can be found in the descriptions of the individual marketing tools under point 8.

(9) Matomo (self-hosted web analysis/reach measurement)

We use the open-source software Matomo to analyze and statistically evaluate the use of the website.
Matomo is a data protection-friendly web analysis software that is used without cookies and in which the recognition of returning users is carried out with the help of a so-called “digital fingerprint”, which is stored anonymously and changed every 24 hours. In this process, user movements within our online offering are recorded with the help of pseudonymized IP addresses in combination with user-side browser settings in such a way that it is not possible to draw conclusions about the identity of individual users (IP masking).

The information generated about the use of the website is transferred to our server and summarized in pseudonymous user profiles. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website and to enable a needs-based design of our website. The information is not passed on to third parties. Under no circumstances will the IP address be associated with other data relating to the user. The IP addresses are anonymized so that an assignment is not possible (IP masking).

4. Further functions and offers of our website

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this purpose, you usually have to provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

(3) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

5. Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time. Such revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the performance of a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will review the situation and either discontinue or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us of your advertising objection using the following contact data: .

7. Newsletter

(1) With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you about our current interesting offers. The advertised goods and services are named in the declaration of consent.

(2) For the registration to our newsletter we use the so-called double-opt-in procedure. This means that after your registration, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address you provided, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 72 hours, your information will be automatically deleted. In addition, we store your respective IP addresses used and times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify a possible misuse of your personal data.

(3) The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we store your e-mail address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DS-GVO.

(4) You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter email, by email to or by sending a message to the contact details provided in the imprint.

8. Marketing Tools

a. Use of Google Analytics

(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

(3) You may refuse the use of cookies 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. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This means that IP addresses are processed in abbreviated form, thus excluding the possibility of personal references. Insofar as the data collected about you is related to a person, this is therefore immediately excluded and the personal data is thus immediately deleted.

(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, we have agreed standard contractual clauses with Google for the correct and secure transfer of personal data.

(6) Information of the third party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. User conditions: www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, as well as the data protection declaration: policies.google.com/privacy.

(7) This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under "My Data", "Personal Data".

(8) The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) a DS-GVO.

(9) Privacy: policies.google.com/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US-DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.

b) Use of the Google Tag Manager

(1) We use the Google Tag Manager of the company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services.

(2) The Google Tag Manager is an organizational tool that allows us to integrate and manage website tags centrally and via a user interface. Tags are small program sections that, for example, record (track) your activities on our website. The tags often originate from Google-internal products such as Google Ads for the placement of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking or Google Analytics, but tags from other companies can also be integrated and managed via the manager. Such tags perform different tasks. They can collect browser data, feed marketing tools with data, embed buttons, set cookies and also track users across multiple websites.

(3) We use Google Tag Manager to make our website as good as possible for you. To do this, we need various tracking tools such as Google Analytics. The collected data from these tools show us what you are most interested in, where we can improve our services and which people we should still show our offers to.

The Tag Manager itself is a domain that does not set any cookies or store any data. It acts as a mere "manager" of the implemented tags. The data is collected by the individual tags of the various web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics. Depending on the analytics tool, various data about your web behavior is usually collected, stored and processed with the help of cookies. For this, please read our privacy texts on the individual analysis and tracking tools that we use on our website.

(4) In the account settings of the tag manager have set so that Google receives only anonymized data from us. However, this is only the use and usage of our Tag Manager. We allow Google and others to receive selected data in anonymized form. Google aggregates the data with hundreds of other anonymous website data and, as part of benchmarking efforts, creates user trends. Benchmarking involves comparing the company's own results with those of its competitors. Processes can be optimized on the basis of the information collected.

(5) Google stores the data on its own Google servers. The servers are distributed all over the world. Most of them are located in America. At www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can read exactly where the Google servers are located.

(6) How long the individual tracking tools store data from you can be found in our individual privacy texts for the individual tools.

(7) The Google Tag Manager itself does not set cookies, but manages tags from various tracking websites. In our data protection texts for the individual tracking tools, you will find detailed information on how you can delete or manage your data.

(8) The legal basis for the use of the Google Tag Manager is your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DS-GVO. Standard contractual clauses have been agreed with Google for the correct and secure transfer of personal data. If you want to learn more about the Google Tag Manager, we recommend the FAQs at www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html.

(9) Privacy: policies.google.com/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.

c) Google Ads Remarketing Tag

(1) Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

(2) Google processes your personal data on the basis of your consent via the pixel "Google Ads Remarketing Tag" for the creation of campaign reports, tracking of conversions, click events as well as targeted advertising outside our websites (retargeting) based on e.g. URL, referrer URL, membership of remarketing lists defined by us. With the help of the above-mentioned information, you may also be assigned to your Google account and included in remarketing lists. We do not receive any personal data from you from Google, only anonymized campaign reports on the target group and ad performance. You can opt out of receiving interest-based ads from Google by either changing your advertising preferences on Google's website at adssettings.google.com/anonymous?hl=de#display_optout. Alternatively, you can opt-out of third-party cookie use by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or by managing your use of device identifiers through your device settings. Instructions can be found at support.google.com/ads/answer/1660762#mob. For more information, please visit: policies.google.com/privacy.

(3) For more information about Google Ads, please visit: adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

d) DoubleClick by Google

(1) This website continues to use the online marketing tool DoubleClick by Google. DoubleClick uses cookies to serve ads that are relevant to users, to improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once. Via a cookie ID, Google records which ads are displayed in which browser and can thus prevent them from being displayed more than once. In addition, DoubleClick can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions that are related to ad requests. This is the case, for example, when a user sees a DoubleClick ad and later calls up the advertiser's website with the same browser and buys something there. According to Google, DoubleClick cookies do not contain any personal information.

(2) Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Google's server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our state of knowledge: Through the integration of DoubleClick, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, there is the possibility that the provider learns your IP address and stores it.

(3) You can prevent participation in this tracking process in various ways: a) by setting your browser software accordingly, in particular the suppression of third-party cookies will result in you not receiving ads from third-party providers; b) by disabling cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com", "adssettings.google.com", in which case this setting will be deleted when you delete your cookies; c) by disabling the interest-based ads of the providers that are part of the self-regulatory campaign "About Ads" via the link www.aboutads.info/choices, in which case this setting will be deleted when you delete your cookies; d) by permanently disabling them in your Firefox, Internetexplorer or Google Chrome browsers at the link support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155656#turn-on-or-off-personalized-ads. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer in full.

(4) The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DS-GVO. For more information on DoubleClick by Google, please visit www.google.de/doubleclick and support.google.com/adsense, and on data protection at Google in general: policies.google.com/privacy. Alternatively, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at www.networkadvertising.org.

(5) Privacy: policies.google.com/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the U.S. and has submitted to the EU-US DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.

e) Facebook Pixel

Provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. We are jointly responsible with Meta for processing operations on your personal data as part of the processing of your personal data on our online offering via Facebook Pixel. In order to determine the respective responsibilities for fulfilling the obligations under the GDPR with respect to joint processing, we have entered into a joint responsibility agreement with Meta. They can access the main contents of the agreement at any time under the following link: www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum.

In particular, it regulates which security measures Meta must observe (www.facebook.com/legal/terms/data_security_terms) and how data subject rights can be asserted against Meta.

Function: Meta processes your personal data on the basis of your consent via the Facebook pixel to create campaign reports, track conversions, click events as well as targeted advertising outside our websites (retargeting) using HTTP headers (including IP address, device and browser properties, URL, referrer URL, your person), pixel-specific data (including pixel ID and Facebook cookie), click behavior, optional values (for example, conversions, page type), form field names (such as "email", "address", "quantity" for the purchase of a product or service). We do not receive any personal data from you from Meta, only anonymized campaign reports about website audience and ad performance. You can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from Facebook by changing your advertising preferences on Facebook's website. Alternatively, you may opt-out of third-party cookie use by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page at optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN or by visiting www.youronlinechoices.com. For more information, please visit: www.facebook.com/policy.

Meta also processes your personal data in the United States and has submitted to the EU-US DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.

f) LinkedIn Insight Tag

Provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Function: LinkedIn processes your personal data based on your consent via the "LinkedIn Insight Tag" pixel to create campaign reports, track conversions, click events as well as targeted advertising outside our websites (retargeting) based on URL, referrer URL, IP address shortened or hashed (for cross-device retargeting), devices and browser properties (user agent) and timestamp. We do not receive any personal data from you from LinkedIn, only anonymized campaign reports on website audience and ad performance. LinkedIn storage period: pseudonymization after 7 days, final deletion after 180 days. For more information, please visit: www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

g) Pinterest Tag

Our website uses the conversion tracking technology of the social network Pinterest (Pinterest Europe Ltd., Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland), which enables us to display ads and offers relevant to our website visitors who are Pinterest members on Pinterest. For this purpose, a so-called conversion tracking pixel from Pinterest is integrated on our pages, via which Pinterest is informed when you visit our website that you have called up our website and in which parts of our offer you were interested. With the help of the Pinterest tag, we can also track the effectiveness of the Pinterest ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Pinterest ad (so-called "conversion") or whether users have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products determined on the basis of the web pages visited), which we transmit to Pinterest (so-called "ActALike Audiences").

The Pinterest tag is directly integrated by Pinterest when you call up our websites and can save a so-called cookie, i.e. a small file, on your device with your consent. If you subsequently log in to Pinterest or visit Pinterest while logged in, the visit to our online offer will be noted in your profile. The data collected about you is anonymous for us, so it does not offer us any conclusions about the identity of the user.

Pinterest is responsible for processing the data. Accordingly, you will find information on the display of Pinterest ads, in the data statement of Pinterest: policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.

You can object to the collection by the Pinterest tag and use of your data for the display of Pinterest ads. To adjust which types of ads are displayed to you within Pinterest, you can visit the page set up by Pinterest and follow the instructions there regarding the settings for usage-based advertising: www.pinterest.com/settings/privacy.

The legal basis for the use of the Pinterest tag is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. a DS-GVO.

h) Salesforce Marketing Automation

(1) Salesforce Account Engagement is a marketing automation software provided by Salesforce.com Germany GmbH (Salesforce), located at Erika-Mann-Straße 31-37, 80636 Munich, Germany. Our Salesforce instance is hosted in the AWS Europe region (Frankfurt).

(2) Wilkhahn uses Salesforce Account Engagement as a marketing analytics service to maintain, measure and optimize our web offering and marketing communications and to improve our website content. In addition, this service enables the detection and, if necessary, defense against fraud and security risks to protect our users and partners.

(3) Personal data is stored in Salesforce Account Engagement when our visitors, for example, fill out a registration form for an event or contact or inquiry forms, subscribe to our e-mail communication offer or when other "opt-in offers" are used to enter into a relationship with us in the area of sales and marketing.

(4) The legal basis for the use of Salesforce Marketing Automation is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

(5) The personal data you voluntarily provide will be stored in Salesforce Account Engagement and, if necessary, processed in the Salesforce CRM system for the purpose of contacting you and/or sending you information. Salesforce does not store IP addresses, but uses individual assignment features such as the "unique visitor ID" and the "unique identifier".

(6) Further information on the processing of your data by Salesforce when you visit our websites can be found here: help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=pardot_basics_cookies.htm&type=5

(7) The Salesforce Marketing Automation privacy policy can be found here: www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/

i) You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

j) We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.

9. Integration of YouTube videos

(1) We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offer, which are stored on www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website with your consent. [These are all integrated in "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data mentioned in paragraph 2 be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transmission].

(2) By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under No. 3 of this declaration are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account via which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

(3) For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube, please refer to the privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights and setting options for the protection of your

(4) Privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US-DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.

10. Integration of Google Maps

(1) On this website, we use the offer of Google Maps with your consent. This allows us to show you interactive maps directly in the website and enables you to use the map function comfortably.

(2) By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under No. 3 of this declaration are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

(3) For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the provider's privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US-DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.

11. Marketing service providers

Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal data about you on our behalf as described below:

We regularly engage digital marketing service providers to perform marketing activities on our behalf. These activities may also process personal data. The data processors we engage include:

(a) Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733 You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: sopro.io 

Sopro is registered with the ICO, Reg: ZA346877. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted by email at: .

For more information on Sopro's compliance with the GDPR, please visit sopro.io/legal/#gdpr-compliance.

b) Runtime Collective Limited (trading as Brandwatch), Reg. UK Co. 03898053. You can contact Brandwatch and view their privacy policy here: www.brandwatch.com/legal/user-privacy-policy/. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted by email at: .

c) Qubeeo Ltd (trading as StoryStream), Reg. UK Co. 7632560. You can contact StoryStream and view their privacy policy here: storystream.ai/privacy-policy/. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted by email at: .

12. External links

For your optimal information, you will find links on our site that refer to third-party sites. As far as this is not obviously recognizable, we point out that it is an external link. The website operator has no influence on the content and design of these pages of other providers and therefore refer to their privacy statements. The guarantees of this data protection declaration therefore naturally do not apply there.

13. Children

This offer is not intended for children under the age of 16.

14. Use of our configurator

We offer you the possibility of configuring a product and requesting a quotation from Wilkhahn for this purpose. If you would like to receive an offer, it is necessary for you to provide your personal data in order for us to process your request. Mandatory information required for processing is marked separately, other information is voluntary. We process the data you provide for processing your request on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DS-GVO.

Depending on the requested quantity, the inquiries will either be processed by Wilkhahn itself, or your inquiry will be forwarded to our authorized dealers for processing and further handling in the case of small quantities. This forwarding is also necessary for the execution of your request on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DS-GVO. In this case, you will also receive the offer directly from the sales representative.

15. Whistleblower Protection Act

The Whistleblower Protection Act regulates the protection of natural persons who have obtained information about violations in the course of their professional activities and pass this information on to internal or external reporting bodies. In addition, the Whistleblower Protection Act prohibits any reprisals or retaliation against whistleblowers. As a whistleblower, you can choose whether to report your report via the internal reporting office of Wilkhahn Wilkening+Hahne GmbH+Co.KG or via the external reporting office of the Federal Office of Justice.

The Whistleblower Protection Act regulates the procedures to be followed following receipt of a report. These include, in particular, documentation requirements, deadlines for providing feedback to the whistleblower and follow-up measures such as internal investigations. In addition, the Whistleblower Protection Act stipulates that the identity of the whistleblower and also of the persons affected by the report may only be known to the person responsible for the report. Only in exceptional cases may your identity or that of the person who is the subject of a report be disclosed, e.g. in criminal proceedings at the request of the prosecuting authorities.

Wilkhahn provides you with the following channels for reporting:

(1) Internal reporting office Wilkhahn
wilkhahn.hinweisgeberportal-mittelstand.de/  

(2) Telephone number whistleblower portal for medium-sized businesses - HGPM -
+49 7531-584 79 93

(3) External reporting office Federal Office of Justice
www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/MeldestelledesBundes/MeldestelledesBundes_node.html