DATA PROTECTION

With this data protection declaration, we inform you as the data controller in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR) about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data in connection with our website.

I. DEFINITION OF TERMS

1. "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

2. "Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

3. "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;

4. "recipient" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;

II. GENERAL INFORMATION

1. controller for data processing

DMT Produktentwicklung GmbH
Carl-Benz-Straße 24
71154 Nufringen
Germany
Phone +49 7032 89436-0
Fax +49 7032 89436-20
Email info@dmtpe.com

2. contact details of the company data protection officer

OBSECOM GmbH
Königstr. 40
70173 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: 0711 / 4605025-40
Fax: 0711 / 4605025-49
Email : datenschutz@obsecom.de
Website: https: //www.obsecom.de

3. legal basis

We process personal data on the basis of at least one of the following legal bases

• Consent of the data subject to the processing of personal data concerning him/her for one or more specific purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR);

• Performance of a contract with the data subject or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR)

• Fulfillment of a legal obligation to which we are subject (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR);

• Protection of our legitimate interests or those of a third party (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR)

In this privacy policy, we refer below to the respective legal basis of individual processing operations.

4. transfer of data to recipients

We only pass on personal data to recipients (processors or other third parties) to the extent necessary and only under one of the following conditions

• The data subject has consented to the disclosure;

• The disclosure serves to fulfill contractual obligations or pre-contractual measures at the request of the data subject;

• We are legally obliged to disclose the data;

• The disclosure is based on the legitimate interests of us or a third party.

5. third countries

The transfer of personal data to a country or an international organization outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) is subject to legal or contractual permissions only in accordance with the requirements of Art. 44 et seq. GDPR. This means that an adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR exists for the country concerned, suitable guarantees for data protection pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR or binding internal data protection regulations pursuant to Art. 47 GDPR exist.

6. rights of data subjects

As a data subject, you have the following rights

• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you can request information about your personal data processed by us; you can also request information regarding the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the origin of your data if it has not been collected from you, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, where applicable, meaningful information about its logic, scope and impact, the existence of the right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you, the right to restriction of processing or to object to such processing, the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority and, finally, the right to obtain information as to whether personal data have been transferred to a third country or to an international organization and, where that is the case, as to the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer;

• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, you can request the immediate correction of incorrect or the completion of your personal data stored by us

• in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, you may request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims

• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you can request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, you no longer need the data for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, but it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons for processing the data outweigh your interests;

• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you may request the provision of your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or the transfer to another controller

• in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, you can object to the processing of your personal data if there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or if the objection is directed against direct advertising and the legal basis for the processing of personal data is legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR

• in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you can revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future;

• in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.

If you would like to assert the aforementioned data subject rights, you can contact us or our data protection officer at any time using the contact details given above.

7 Deletion and restriction of personal data

Unless otherwise stipulated in this privacy policy for individual cases, personal data will be deleted if this data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations. We also erase the personal data processed by us on request in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR if the conditions stipulated therein are met. If personal data is required for other and legally permissible purposes, it will not be erased, but its processing will be restricted in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. In the event of restriction, the data will not be processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to personal data that must be retained by us for commercial or tax law reasons. Documents pursuant to Section 257 (1) Nos. 2 and 3 HGB and Section 147 (1) Nos. 2, 3, 5 AO are stored for 6 years, documents pursuant to Section 257 (1) Nos. 1 and 4 HGB and Section 147 (1) Nos. 1, 4, 4a AO for 10 years.

8. cookies

Cookies are used on our website. Cookies are small text files that your browser automatically creates and stores on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, PC, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain viruses or other malware. Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we gain direct knowledge of your identity. Cookies are mainly used to make the website more user-friendly, effective and secure.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, if you do not want this, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your end device or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. Information on removing cookies in Internet Explorer / Edge can be found at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies. Information on removing cookies in Firefox can be found at: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored. You can find out how to remove cookies in Safari here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can also be declared for a large number of services, e.g. at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ or the deactivation page of the network advertising initiative http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

The data processed by necessary cookies is required for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in the provision and operation of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with. § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TTDSG required. The legal basis for the use of cookies for statistics, advertising, market research and the integration of external media is your voluntarily granted consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

An overview of the cookies used on our website and the option to set your cookie preferences can be found here:

III Individual processing operations

1. hosting

To provide our website, we use the competences of hosting companies, such as the provision of web servers, storage space, database services, security services and maintenance services. In doing so, we, or our hosting provider, process personal data of users of our website on the basis of our legitimate interests in the efficient and secure provision of this online service in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

2. access data and log files

When you access our website or the individual pages, the browser on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is stored in log files by us or our hosting provider and deleted after 6 months at the latest.

The following information is stored

• IP address of the requesting computer in anonymized form;
• Date and time of access;
• Name and URL of the retrieved file;
• Website from which the access was made (referrer URL);
• browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer;
• Status codes and amount of data transferred;
• Name of your access provider.

This data is processed for the following purposes

• Provision of the website, including all functions and content;
• Ensuring a smooth connection to the website;
• Ensuring a comfortable use of our website;
• Ensuring system security and stability;
• Anonymized statistical evaluation of access;
• Optimization of the website;
• Forwarding to law enforcement authorities if an unlawful intrusion/attack on our systems has occurred;
• Other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes described above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about a person.

3. general contact

If you get in contact with us using the contact details published on our website (e.g. by e-mail) and provide us with personal data, we will use this data to process your request on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, provided that your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and/or in our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries addressed to us in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The data will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

4. contact form

If you use the contact form, we need your e-mail address, name and any other contact details so that we can contact you personally. Further information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purpose of contacting us and responding to your request is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent. All personal data collected in connection with the contact form will be deleted after your request has been dealt with, unless storage is necessary for the documentation of other processes (e.g. subsequent conclusion of a contract).

5. job applications

If you are applying for a job, please send your application documents to the e-mail address martin.hagg@dmtpe.com. Data processing for the purpose of deciding on the establishment of an employment relationship is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of the consent you have voluntarily given. Application documents will be stored for a period of 6 months after completion of the application procedure, taking into account the objection periods of the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG), and then deleted. Further storage of application documents for a period of up to two years will only take place if you have consented to the data storage in advance.

6 Electronic signature

We use the external signature service provider FP-Sign for the electronic signature of contractual documents. The provider is Mentana Claimsoft GmbH, Trebuser Str. 47, 15517 Fürstenwalde, Germany (hereinafter "Mentana"). If we ask you to sign a document electronically, we will transmit your surname, first name, e-mail address and, if applicable, cell phone for the purpose of creating a signature request as part of the authentication and verification of signatures. Depending on the associated process, the legal basis for the data transfer is the establishment and execution of the contract in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR or your voluntarily granted consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR. The personal data transmitted may be stored by Mentana for further signature requests and to create a signature history. If you do not agree to this storage of your data, please send an email to support@fp-sign.com. Further information on how Mentana handles personal data can be found in the privacy policy at: app.fp-sign.com/docs/mentana/docs/de_DE/datenschutz.pdf

7. admission ticket / appointment booking for trade fair visits

If you use the registration form so that we can send you an admission ticket for a trade fair visit or you would like to arrange an appointment with us at a trade fair, you will be asked to provide your gender, name, e-mail address and any other contact details so that we can process your request. Further information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purpose of contacting us and processing your request is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent. All personal data collected in connection with the contact form will be deleted after the end of the trade fair event, unless you have consented to further storage for promotional contact by e-mail and telephone.

8. use of the Salesviewer® technology

This website uses SalesViewer® technology from SalesViewer® GmbH to collect and store data for marketing, market research and optimization purposes on the basis of the website operator's legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR). For this purpose, a javascript-based code is used to collect company-related data and the corresponding use. The data collected using this technology is encrypted using a non-reversible one-way function (known as hashing). The data is immediately pseudonymized and is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website. The data stored by Salesviewer is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations. You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future by clicking on this link www.salesviewer.com/opt-out to prevent SalesViewer® from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie for this website will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click on this link again.

IV Statistics and analysis

1. matomo

This website uses the open source software Matomo (https://matomo.org/). Matomo collects data about the visits of users to our website. The purpose of this data is to ensure the needs-based design and continuous optimization of our website, to measure the success of marketing measures and to create statistical evaluations. The legal basis is our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The information is not passed on to third parties and under no circumstances is the IP address associated with other data relating to the user. The IP addresses are anonymized so that they cannot be assigned. Usage and event data are deleted after 26 months.

If you do not want Matomo to process your visitor data, you can prevent this by using an opt-out cookie from Matomo. This cookie means that no visitor data from your browser will be processed by Matomo in future: [Integrate Do-Not-Track-Frame here]

Please note: If you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may have to reactivate it. Further information on how Matomo handles your personal data can be found in Matomo's privacy policy: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/.

V. Services from Google

The provider of the following Google services is Google Ireland Limited (registration number: 368047), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter 'Google').

The information collected by Google in connection with the provision of the respective service may be transferred to Google servers in the USA and stored there. Please also note our information above on data transfer to third countries.

Further information on how Google handles your personal data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Information on the use of data for advertising purposes by Google, setting and objection options can be found on these websites: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/partners/,https://www.google.de/policies/technologies/ads/,https://adssettings.google.de/

1. Google services for which your consent is required

The legal basis for the use of the following Google services is your voluntarily given consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis for the transfer of data to the USA is also your voluntarily granted consent in accordance with Art. 49 (1) (a) GDPR.

1.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics from Google. Google collects data about your use of this website, your usage behavior and, among other things, information about browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address), time of the server request. This data is used to ensure that our website is designed to meet requirements and is continuously optimized, to measure the success of marketing measures and to create statistical evaluations. In this context, pseudonymized user profiles are created and cookies are used. User and event data is deleted after 26 months. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are anonymized so that they cannot be assigned. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. You can prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics by clicking on the link [Disable Google Analytics] to obtain an opt-out cookie. This cookie ensures that no visitor data from your browser will be collected and stored by Google Analytics when you visit this website in the future. Please note: If you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and may have to be reactivated by you.

1.2 Google Analytics Remarketing

This website uses Analytics Remarketing from Google. Analytics Remarketing is used to present visitors with advertisements that relate to the content of previously visited websites. Google uses cookies to recognize visitors who access websites from the Google advertising network. This service records your IP address, which of our websites you have visited and any other data required by Google for the provision of Analytics Remarketing. The IP address transmitted by your browser will never be merged with other Google data. The information generated about your use of this website is stored on a server in the USA. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google. 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 wish to use Google's remarketing function, you can deactivate it by making the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

1.3 Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps from Google to display site plans, map material, terrain data or geographical maps. This service records your IP address, which of our websites you have visited and any other data required by Google to provide the maps (e.g. location data). We use this service in our legitimate interest in complying with licensing restrictions for the integration of map data. The information generated is stored on a server in the USA. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google. The terms of use for Google Maps can be found at: https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

1.4 YouTube

Our website uses media content from the YouTube platform. The purpose is to display media content from the YouTube platform on our website. This service collects your IP address and any other data required by Google for YouTube. The information generated about your use of this website is stored on a server in the USA. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google. If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, Google can assign your visit to our website directly to your user account there. If you do not want Google to be able to assign the data collected on our website to your respective YouTube user account, you must first log out of YouTube.

1.5 Google Ads Remarketing

This website uses Ads Remarketing from Google. Ads Remarketing is used to target users who have already interacted with our website with individualized advertisements when they visit a Google website or website in the Google advertising network. Google uses cookies to identify a web browser on a specific end device and to analyze website usage, e.g. which offers the user was interested in, in order to display interest-based advertising to users on other sites even after they have visited our website. You can find out what other criteria Google uses to personalize advertisements here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/1634057?visit_id=637292785957338239-1447476022&rd=1 This service collects your IP address, which of our websites you have visited and any other data required by Google to provide Ads Remarketing. The information generated about your use of this website is stored on a server in the USA. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google.

If you use a logged-in Google account, Google may link your web and app browsing history to your Google account and use information from your Google account to personalize ads, depending on the settings stored in your account. If you do not want this association with your Google account, you must log out of Google before visiting our website.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. If you do not wish to see personalized advertisements from Google, you can deactivate this function at http://www.google.com/settings/ads and manage the use of device identifiers for the personalization of advertising via the device settings, see: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/1660762#mob

2. other Google services

The legal basis for the use of the following Google services is our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interests are listed individually for each service below.

2.1 Google Web Fonts

This website uses external fonts from Google, so-called web fonts, to display fonts. We use this service in our legitimate interest in the maintenance-free and efficient use of fonts. For this purpose, your browser loads the required web font into your browser cache when you access the website. If your browser does not support this function, a standard font will be used by your computer to display the website. This service records your IP address, which of our web pages you have visited and any other data required by Google to provide the web fonts. The information generated about your use of this website is stored on a server in the USA. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google.

2.2 reCAPTCHA

This website uses reCAPTCHA from Google. reCAPTCHA is used to ensure that the forms provided are used by a natural person and not abusively by machine or automated processes. We use this service in our legitimate interest in the security of our website and the detection of bot activity. This service collects your IP address and any other data required by Google for reCAPTCHA. The information generated about your use of this website is stored on a server in the USA. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of us or Google.

VI Media content

As part of our website, we sometimes use third-party content that is loaded directly from the servers of the providers named in detail below. The purpose of integrating this content is to make our website more attractive. The purpose of making our website more attractive is also our legitimate interest in the use of such third-party content.

1. other media content

The legal basis for the use of the following media content is our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interests are listed individually for each service below.

1.1 Adobe Typekit

This website uses external fonts from Adobe Typekit to display fonts. The provider is Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, 345 Park Avenue San Jose, California 95110, USA (hereinafter "Adobe"). Your browser loads the required fonts into your browser cache when you access the website. If your browser does not support this function, a standard font will be used by your computer to display the website. This service records your IP address, which of our websites you have visited and any other data required to provide the fonts. The information generated about your use of this website is stored on a server in the USA. The transfer of data to Adobe is legitimized in accordance with Art. 45 para. 1 GDPR on the basis of an adequacy decision by the EU Commission. Adobe Inc. has been certified for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework with regard to the transfer of personal information from the European Economic Area to the USA. You can find more information about the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the certification for Adobe Inc. at https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?id=a2zt0000000TNo9AAG&status=Active. Further information on how Adobe handles your personal data can be found in the privacy policy at https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html and in the supplementary declaration for Adobe Typekit at https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/typekit.html.