Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our services. To make you feel secure and comfortable when you visit our website, we take the protection of your personal data and its confidential treatment very seriously.

With this declaration on data protection, we would like to inform you when we store which data and for what purpose we use it - naturally in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations in accordance with Art. 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Should you have any further questions regarding the handling of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection coordinator.

1. general information

responsible for data acquisition

Responsible in the sense of the GDPR and other national data protection laws as well as other data protection regulations: WP GROUP BV as operator of the website www.wp-group.com.de.

Subsidiaries - WP Energy GmbH, WP Service Solutions GmbH, WP Offshore GmbH and SIA Baltic DIA belong to the WP GROUP. This data protection declaration applies to all subsidiaries.

data protection officer

We have appointed an external data protection officer: Rene Rautenberg GmbH, Hermann-Ritter-Str. 106 - 114, 28197 Bremen, Germany. For more detailed information and suggestions, please contact our company data protection coordinator by e-mail: datenschutz@wp-group.com.de .

data integrity

To protect your data from unwanted access as comprehensively as possible, we take technical and organizational measures. We use an encryption method on our pages. Your information is transmitted from your computer to our server and vice versa via the Internet using TLS encryption. You can recognize this by the fact that the lock symbol in the status bar of your browser is closed and the address line starts with https://.

2. data collection on our website

user information

The use of our website www.wp-group.com.de is generally possible without providing personal data. When it comes to such personal data as name, address or e-mail address , as far as possible, it is always provided on voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your expressed consent.

We would like to clearly point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) is not encrypted and therefore not access-protected. Please use our applicant portal for sending applications.

cookies

Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your Internet surfing behaviour) are stored, these will be treated separately in this data protection declaration.

server log files

When you visit our websites, so-called usage data is temporarily stored on our web server for statistical purposes as a protocol to improve the quality of our websites. This data set consists of:

• page from which the file was requested,
• name of the file,
• date and time of the query,
• amount of data transferred,
• access status (file transferred, file not found),
• description of the type of web browser used,
• IP address of the requesting computer, which is shortened in such a way that a reference to a person can no longer be established.

The log data mentioned will only be stored anonymously and deleted after seven days.

contact by e-mail or form

If you contact us by e-mail or contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for establishing contact. A valid e-mail address is required for this purpose. This is used to assign the request and then reply to it. The specification of further data is optional. The information you provide will not be passed on to third parties.

3. data processing order

For the administration of our website we transmit your data within the scope of an order processing according to Art. 28 GDPR to service providers who support us in the operation of our website and the associated processes. Our service providers are strictly following our instructions and are accordingly contractually-bound. We use the following service providers:

• Internet service provider
• provider of recruitment software.

Data will not be transmitted to third parties within the meaning of Art. 4 par. 10 of the GDPR.

4. applicant’s data:

On our website, we offer applicants the opportunity to register, stating their personal data. Relevant personal data are your surname, first name, date of birth and your full address, your contact details, your current professional status, as well as your desired location, your availability and your career aspirations. In addition, for a successful placement, we need all the information usually found in a CV (including qualifications and knowledge) and those necessary for a successful placement. Your online application will be forwarded directly to the HR department via an encrypted connection and will of course be treated confidentially. We will only use your details to process your application and will not pass them on to third parties.

Your personal data will be deleted immediately after completion of the application process or after a maximum of 6 months, unless you have expressly given us your consent for a longer storage of your data.

Insofar as we obtain your consent for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lt. a of the GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing of your personal data.

You can request deletion by sending an e-mail to our internal data protection coordinator at datenschutz@wp-group.com.de stating your full name. If the data is required to fulfil a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures, premature deletion of the data is only possible insofar as there are no contractual or statutory obligations.

For the administration of our job advertisements and the offer of a secure transfer of applicant data we use a recruitment software. In doing so, we transmit your data to a service provider within the framework of order processing in accordance with Art. 28 of the GDPR. The service providers are strictly following our instructions and are accordingly contractually-bound. Data will not be transmitted to third parties within the meaning of Art. 4 para. 10 of the GDPR. Further information on data processing within the application procedure can be found in the data protection declaration of our application portal.

5. statistics function: Google Analytics

We use the web analysis tool Google Analytics for the demand-oriented design of our website. Google Analytics is a web analysis service of Google Inc. “(“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, Google will shorten your IP address within Member States of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended to include IP anonymisation to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://google.de/intl/de/policies/ .

purposes of the processing

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 relating to the website and Internet use to the website operator.

legal basis

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent according to the GDPR Art. 6 par.1.

recipients / categories of recipients

The recipient of the collected data is Google.

transfer to third countries

The personal data is protected under the EU-US Privacy Shield based on the appropriateness of the information provided. https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI abrufen.

duration of data storage

The data sent by us and linked with cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data retention period of which has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

revocation

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by preventing the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookies and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. To prevent Universal Analytics from collecting data across different devices, you must opt-out on all systems used. If you click here, the opt-out cookie is set: Google Analytics deaktivieren

6. Google Maps

On this website we use the services of Google Maps. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). This enables us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function. You can find more detailed information about data processing by Google in the Google data protection information under point 5. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection centre. We do not collect any personal data through the integration of Google Maps.

7. changes to the data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is constantly being adapted during the further development of the Internet offer. Changes will be announced on this page in due time. To keep up to date with the status of our data usage regulations, this page should be visited regularly.

8. rights to information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to be informed about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing as well as the rights to correction, blocking or deletion of these data at any time. You can contact our internal data protection coordinator at any time by sending an e-mail to datenschutz@wp-group.com.de if you have any further questions regarding personal data.