Legal Notes

Data protection

The contents of the website are made available by the thyssenkrupp AG, so that website visitors can read information about our product range and our company. The handling of personal data of the site visitors follows the strict requirements of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the GDPR.

We take the protection of your privacy when using website very seriously, as this is important to us. In the following we are pleased to inform you about the collection of personal data.

Collection and processing of personal data

In general, you can visit the website of thyssenkrupp AG on an anonymous basis, i.e. without informing us of who you are. When you visit our website, our web servers in Germany save as standard:

the IP address of your internet service provider via which you access website,
the site from which you access our website
and the files you access from us,
as well as the date of your visit
and general information about your browser (e.g. your [shortened] IP address, the website which you came from, (tk) websites that you visit through our site, the pages you click, as well as time of the page view, name of your internet service provider, your browser type and version, operating system of your device, date and duration of the visit).

These data are processed to ensure the security of the web server and to adapt the output of the information retrieved to your output medium (e.g. your phone, laptop or other device). These data are only analyzed in anonymized form for statistical purposes.

Personal data is stored and processed only if you provide us with this information, e.g. when completing a contact form or registering for personalized services. On the respective page you will be informed about the intended use and, if necessary, your consent to the storage and processing requested.

Disclosure will only take place at thyssenkrupp companies and service providers affiliated with us, for example to send you the requested written information. Of course, all service providers are committed to data secrecy and confidentiality. A transfer to other third parties does not take place. Your data is always encrypted before transmission and processing to protect this data against unauthorized access

Controller for the processing of your data is the:

thyssenkrupp AG
thyssenkrupp Allee 1
D-45143 Essen

CO CPL-DP / Data Protection Officer
Dr J. Horney
thyssenkrupp Allee 1
D-45143 Essen
Phone: +49 201 844-536282
Mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@thyssenkrupp.com

Cookies

Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer or other end device. The use of cookies helps us to analyze your website usage, to improve services and products offered, to improve security and to prevent fraud. We differentiate between various cookies:

Session cookies are temporary cookie files that are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies are cookie files that are stored until they are actively deleted or automatically removed after a certain amount of time.
First-party cookies are cookies that are set directly by us.
Third party cookies are cookies set by a third party

Cookies can be used for different purposes.

Functional cookies are used to provide you with standard services on our pages. Without the use of cookies, our website may work only very limited and possibly incorrect.
Optimization cookies enable us to analyze the use of our website. If you have not consented to the use of your personal data for this purpose, this will be anonymous. The analysis helps us to improve our services and offered products and services.
Personalization cookies allow us to determine your personal preferences, such as your preferred language. We use these cookies to improve usability and offer you a customized experience.
Security-relevant cookies are cookies that are necessary to protect the website against attacks and to prevent fraud.

On individual pages, personal data may be stored in cookies if you have previously expressly consented to such, e.g. to not have to re-enter access data. In principle, you can also access all information on our website if you have deactivated cookies in your Internet browser. If you do not accept cookies, this may result in functional limitations of our offers.

Contact Form

To respond to your request thyssenkrupp AG will process the following personal data if provided in the contact form: form of address, first name, last name, email, street, zip code, town/city, telephone number and content of your request.

We will forward your personal data to recipients where this is necessary to meet your request. The legal basis for processing your personal data depends on your request and may take the form of a contract with you (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR), your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or our legitimate interests in providing you with a good service based on a balance of interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

We will process your data – where processing is based on your consent – until your consent is withdrawn or – where processing is based on a balance of interests – until you object to this or your request has been completed.

Unless you provide the data required to contact you and to understand and process your request, we will not be able to process your request. All other information is optional. This service is only for persons over the age of 18.

Newsletters

We collect and process the information you provide, such as your name and e-mail address, when you order our newsletter. The mandatory information required to send the newsletter is marked as such. The legal basis for processing your personal data depends on your request and may take the form of a contract with you (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR), your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or our legitimate interests in providing you with a good service based on a balance of interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Newsletters might technologies use tracking technologies. These technologies are used to collect data on whether our emails are opened and which links you click on. Unless we inform you otherwise at registration, this is done without collecting personal data.

If we have received your e-mail address in connection with the sale of a product, we use it to provide you with information on similar products on the basis of legitimate interests (article 6 f GDPR). Our legitimate interest lies in advertising directly to you.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This happens anonymously. Your IP address will be anonymized on the web server before being sent to Google. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and anonymized there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

The anonymized IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.

You can prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent future collection of your information when you visit this site: Disable Google Analytics.

For more information about Terms of Use and Privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html or https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

We point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).

Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager, which allows site tags from applications such as Google Analytics to be managed over a surface. The tool Google Tag Manager (which implements and activates the tags on this page) itself is a cookie-free domain and does not collect personal data. The tool ensures the triggering of other tags that, in turn, collect data under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access this data.

If deactivation was performed on domain or cookie level, this will remain for all tracking tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager. http://www.google.de/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

Links to third Parties

The website may contain links to third-party websites, including social media sites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this policy. These third party websites are governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites. thyssenkrupp AG is not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites.

Google+ operated by Google LLC

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA. Privacy information is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active Google guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

Facebook operated by Facebook Inc

1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, operated within the EU by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. Privacy information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active Facebook guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

Twitter operated by Twitter Inc

795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Privacy information can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy. Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active Twitter guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

Facebook plug-in

Our website uses the plug-in of the Facebook social network. Facebook.com is a service provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. In the EU, this service is also operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, hereinafter both referred to as “Facebook”.

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active Facebook guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website.

Further information about the possible plug-ins and their respective functions is available from Facebook at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages you visit on our website, your browser will download an icon for the plug-in from Facebook’s servers in the USA. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Facebook to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website will also be recorded.

If you are logged in to Facebook while visiting one of our plugged-in websites, the information collected by the plug-in from your specific visit will be recognized by Facebook. The information collected may then be assigned to your personal account at Facebook.

If, for example, you use the Facebook Like button, this information will be stored in your Facebook account and published on the Facebook platform. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our website or use an add-on for your browser to prevent the Facebook plug-in from loading.

Further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in Facebook’s privacy policy found at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Twitter plug-in

Our website uses the plug-in of the Twitter social network. The Twitter service is operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (“Twitter”).

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active Twitter guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website.

If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages you visit on our website, your browser will download an icon for the plug-in from Twitter’s servers in the USA. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Twitter to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of your visit to our website will also be recorded.

If you are logged in to Twitter while visiting one of our plugged-in websites, the information collected by the plug-in from your specific visit will be recognized by Twitter. The information collected may then be assigned to your personal account at Twitter.

If, for example, you use the Twitter Tweet button, this information will be stored in your Twitter account and may be published on the Twitter platform. To prevent this, you must either log out of Twitter before visiting our site or make the appropriate settings in your Twitter account.

Further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in Twitter’s privacy policy found at https://twitter.com/privacy.

YouTube

We use YouTube on our website. This is a video portal operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, hereinafter referred to as “YouTube”.

YouTube is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active Google and its subsidiary YouTube guarantee that they will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.

We use YouTube in its advanced privacy mode to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website. According to YouTube, the advanced privacy mode means that the data specified below will only be transmitted to the YouTube server if you actually start a video.

Without this mode, a connection to the YouTube server in the USA will be established as soon as you access any of our webpages on which a YouTube video is embedded.

This connection is required in order to be able to display the respective video on our website within your browser. YouTube will record and process at a minimum your IP address, the date and time the video was displayed, as well as the website you visited. In addition, a connection to the DoubleClick advertising network of Google is established.

If you are logged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the connection information to your YouTube account. To prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our site or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube account.

For the purpose of functionality and analysis of usage behavior, YouTube permanently stores cookies on your device via your browser. If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser. Further details can be found in the section about cookies above.

Further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in Google’s privacy policy found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Requests

According to Articles 15 to 21 and 77 of the GDPR if the legal conditions are met, you are entitled to the following rights:

Information

You may at any time request that we provide you with information about which of your personal data we process and provide a copy of the personal data we have stored, Art. 15 GDPR. Please note that additional copies of the personal data we have stored may be subject to a charge.

Correction

You may request the correction of incorrect personal data and completion of incomplete personal data, Art. 16 GDPR.

Deletion/Erasure

For the deletion of your personal data: Please note, excepted from the deletion are data that we need for the execution and execution of contracts and for the assertion, exercise and defense of legal claims and data for which statutory, regulatory or contractual retention obligations exist, Art. 17 GDPR.

Blocking of personal data

You may, under certain circumstances, require the restriction of processing, such as: For example, if you believe your data is incorrect, if the processing is unlawful or if you object to the data processing. As a result, your data may be processed only to a very limited extent without your consent, e.g. for the assertion, exercise and defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of other natural and legal persons, Art. 18 GDPR.

Right to revoke

We process your data in order to safeguard legitimate interests and consent. You may object to this processing for reasons that arise from your particular situation. We will then no longer process your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the purpose of enforcing, pursuing or defending legal claims.

Withdrawal

You may revoke any consent given in the processing of your data at any time without detriment to your employment relationship with future effect. Please note that the revocation does not affect the legality of the previous data processing and that it does not extend to such data processing, for which there is a legal reason for permission and which therefore can be processed without your consent.

Questions and suggestions on data protection

If you have any questions or comments regarding data protection, please contact our data protection officer at thyssenkrupp AG:

thyssenkrupp AG
Der Datenschutzbeauftragte
thyssenkrupp Allee 1
D-45143 Essen

or send an e-mail to: datenschutzbeauftragter@thyssenkrupp.com.

Complaints

You have the option of complaining to the above-mentioned Data Protection Officer or to a data protection supervisory authority. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is:

The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia
Kavalleriestrasse 2-4
D-40213 Düsseldorf

Changes to the privacy policy

If we decide to change the content of this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here.

Copyrights

Copyright 2018 thyssenkrupp AG. All rights reserved. The content including pictures and the design of the thyssenkrupp AG website are subject to copyright protection and other laws for the protection of intellectual property. No dissemination or alteration of the content of these pages or of the frames or similar measures are permitted. Moreover, these contents may not be copied, disseminated, modified or made available to third parties for commercial purposes.

Liability

The information that thyssenkrupp AG presents to you on this website is compiled and updated periodically. It is impossible to guarantee freedom from all errors. For this reason, thyssenkrupp AG disclaims and excludes all liability or warranty with regard to the accuracy, completeness and up-to-dateness of the information provided on this website. There is no warranty of merchantability, no warranty of fitness for a particular use, and no other warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the information or any aspect of this website.

This website provides links to other websites. thyssenkrupp AG disclaims all liability and warranty with respect to any information obtained from and your interaction with any website that you reach by means of a link from this website. These websites are operated by separate companies. thyssenkrupp AG is also not responsible for the data protection precautions of the operators of such websites. thyssenkrupp AG urges you to check the privacy policy, terms and conditions disclaimers on such websites before using such websites.

In no event will thyssenkrupp AG or other companies mentioned at this site be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of the use, inability to use, or the results of use of this site, any websites linked to this site, or the content contained at any or all such sites, including but not limited to damages to computer system, data or any personal objects resulting from the downloading of material and/or data from this website or from websites reached by links from this website. thyssenkrupp AG reserves the right to undertake alterations or additions to the information or data provided at all times without further notice. Insofar as our Internet pages contain forward-looking statements, these statements are based on opinions and estimations of thyssenkrupp AG Management and are subject to risks and uncertainties. thyssenkrupp AG is not obliged to update such forward-looking statements. All liability for such statements is expressly excluded.

Trademarks

Unless otherwise indicated, all trademarks used on thyssenkrupp AG Internet pages are protected by trademark law. The same applies to company logos and signs.

Licensing rights

The intellectual property contained on this website is legally protected through patents, trademarks and copyrights. This website does not grant any license to use the intellectual property owned by companies of the thyssenkrupp Group. Duplication, dissemination, reproduction and further transmission and other use are prohibited without the written consent of thyssenkrupp AG.