Privacy policy of Heinrich Hirdes GmbH

The following information provides an overview of the processing of personal data by Heinrich Hirdes GmbH and its affiliated subsidiaries as well as the rights of data subjects whose data is held and processed by the company under data protection law.

Contact for all matters relating to data processing:

Heinrich Hirdes GmbH
Data Protection Officer
Am Festungsgraben 10
21079 Hamburg
Telephone: +49 (40) 766094-00

Email: datenschutzbeauftrager@boskalis.com

This privacy policy is based on the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and is valid from 25 May 2018. The current version is valid from 26 July 2018.

1 Definitions

“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

“Processing” or “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, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. Processing refers to the corresponding activity.

2 Purposes of processing personal data

2.1 Website

When you visit the www.hirdes.boskalis.com website, personal data that your browser transmits to our servers is collected. This personal data is collected so that we can display the website to you and guarantee its stability and security. This involves the following personal data IP address; date and time of the visit; specific page of the visit; http status code; amount of data transferred; website from which the request comes; type of browser; operating system and its interface; language and version of the browser.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (fulfilment of a contract) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (protection of legitimate interests).

You can use our website without disclosing your identity. We also only use your personal data within the company. We will not pass it on to third parties without your express consent.

The use of contact data such as addresses, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses published in the legal notice or comparable information by third parties for the purpose of sending information that has not been expressly requested is not permitted. We expressly reserve the right to take legal action against the senders of so-called spam mails in the event of violations of this prohibition.

Our website uses Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service. Google Analytics uses cookies (see section 2.4 Cookies). To analyse the use of the website, the usage information generated by the cookie (including your shortened IP address) is transmitted to a server and stored for usage analysis purposes, which serves to optimise the website. Your IP address is immediately anonymised during this process so that you as a user remain anonymous to us. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is not passed on to third parties. 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.

2.2 Contract data

We process your contractual data in accordance with our list of processing activities pursuant to Art. 30 GDPR, as amended, for the preparation and/or execution of any existing or future contractual relationship with you and/or to provide you with additional information about our services, provided that you have requested this and have provided us with your data (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

If you provide us with further contact data and/or master data of third parties (e.g. employees, partners, representatives, agents, consultants or other third parties), we have a legitimate interest in also processing their data for the preparation and/or execution of any existing or future contractual relationship with you (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). This interest lies in the objective of the proper fulfilment of our contractual obligations. We will inform these third parties that we have received this data from you at the latest at the time of the first notification to you.

2.3 Contact us

If you contact us, the personal data you provide us with (e.g. name, email address or telephone number) will be stored by us in order to process your enquiry. As soon as we no longer need your personal data to process your enquiry, we will delete the personal data you have provided to us in accordance with our list of processing activities pursuant to Art. 30 GDPR in its current version, unless statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.

This applies both to contacting us via the contact form “Application form” and to contacting us by email or other means, e.g. as part of an application or general enquiry (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent)).

2.4 Cookies

When you visit the www.hirdes.boskalis.com website, cookies are stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using. As a result, certain information flows to the party that sets the cookie (in this case us). This information is used to make our website more user-friendly and effective. Cookies cannot execute programmes or transfer viruses to your computer. You can object to the use of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly. We would like to point out that you may then no longer be able to use all the functions of our website.

Legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent).

3 Transfer of personal data

If necessary, the personal data mentioned will be passed on to third parties who support us in the fulfilment of our contractual obligations or who cooperate with us or carry out actions that are necessary and you have requested this cooperation or transfer. These third parties vary depending on the product and service, so we will inform you separately about such processing.

In principle, we assume that your interest in this is in line with our interest in fulfilling the contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). In these cases, we are unfortunately unable to fulfil the contract without transferring the data to third parties.

If data is transferred to third parties outside the EU or the EEA, we will ensure that a transfer only takes place if the requirements of Art. 44 GDPR et seq. are met. We will then ensure that the recipient has an adequate level of protection, that suitable guarantees are provided, that you have given your consent or that the transfer is permissible for other reasons, e.g. at your request for the preparation and/or fulfilment of a contract with you. If we base a transfer to a third country on suitable or appropriate safeguards, you can request a copy of these via datenschutzbeauftrager@boskalis.com.

We will inform you in good time if we transfer your personal data to other third parties or grant third parties access to your personal data.

3.1 Public authorities

We may be obliged to disclose personal data in individual cases by order of a competent authority if and to the extent that this is necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, to avert danger by the police authorities of the federal states, to fulfil the statutory tasks of the federal and state constitutional authorities, the Federal Intelligence Service or the Military Counter-Intelligence Service or the Federal Criminal Police Office within the scope of its task to avert threats of international terrorism or to enforce intellectual property rights (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR in conjunction with the respective special legal regulation).

3.2 Further third parties

Third parties come into contact with personal data when they connect to software solutions of our company for service purposes, for updates or for troubleshooting on site in the company or via remote access as contractual partners of Heinrich Hirdes GmbH and within the framework of an agreement on the processing of personal data (order processing) in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. These processes do not take place on a regular basis. There is therefore no regular data transfer. Remote access is only possible after prior agreement with the specialist department and after Heinrich Hirdes IT has set up an access scenario. On-site access is also always accompanied by a specialist.

4 Storage of personal data

We only store your personal data for as long as we need it and then delete it.

Personal data from the website www.hirdes.boskalis.com in the sense of browser data in accordance with point 2.1 is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Stored personal data will be deleted if consent to storage is withdrawn, if knowledge of the data is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was stored or if storage of the data is not permitted for other legal reasons.

If you do not agree to the storage and analysis of the data from your visit to our website, you can object to the storage and use at any time. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which means that Google Analytics will not collect any session data. Please note: If you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may have to reactivate it.

We delete contract data and personal data that we have received from you in the context of establishing contact, initiating business, conducting business, following up on a transaction, including servicing and repairing vehicles, vehicle components, add-on parts and/or other tangible or intangible equipment, such as software solutions, controls and setting variants, if your consent to storage is revoked, if knowledge of this data is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was stored or if its storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons and statutory deadlines do not prevent this.

If we are not obliged to delete the personal data due to legal regulations, for example, we will restrict the processing.

5 Your rights

With regard to your personal data, you have a right vis-à-vis us

– to information about the personal data concerning you (Art. 15 GDPR),

– to rectification of your personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),

– to erasure of your personal data (Art. 17 GDPR),

– restriction of the processing of your personal data (Art. 18 GDPR),

– to object to the processing of your personal data (Art. 21 GDPR),

– to data portability of your personal data (Art. 20 GDPR).

Your data is processed on the basis of legal regulations. Only in exceptional cases do we require a separate declaration of consent from you. If you are not satisfied with the way in which we process your data, please contact our data protection officer by email (datenschutzbeauftragter@boskalis.com) or by telephone +49 (40) 766094-00. You can obtain further information here. Furthermore, you naturally have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority at any time.


Analytics services

Our website uses Matomo Analytics, a so-called web analysis service. Matomo Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files that are stored on your computer and that enable us to analyse the use of the website. For this purpose, the usage information generated by the cookie (including your shortened IP address) is transmitted to our server and stored for usage analysis purposes, which helps us to optimise our website. Your IP address is anonymised during this process so that you as a user remain anonymous to us. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is not passed on to third parties. 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.

If you do not agree to the storage and analysis of this data from your visit, you can object to its storage and use at any time by clicking below. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which means that Matomo Analytics will not collect any session data. Please note: If you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and may have to be reactivated by you.

(Quelle: www.dr-datenschutz.de)