1. Basic Information

We are delighted to have you visit our website, and we would like to thank you for your inter-est. In the following, we would like to inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our web services, like our website and our online shops. The following infor-mation also relates to the use of our websites on mobile devices, e.g. smartphones or tab-lets. Personal data includes all data which could be used to identify you personally, or which make you identifiable via a username or identification code, such as your IP address. 

This Privacy Statement explains the legal basis and the purpose for this collection or pro-cessing of your data. We would like to inform you of your rights regarding the use of your personal data. If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal data, please contact us as the responsible entity — Controller under data protection law (for contact de-tails see Clause 2).

For security reasons and to protect the transfer of personal data and other confidential infor-mation (e.g., orders or queries sent to Controllers), these online services use SSL or TLS en-cryption. You can identify an encrypted connection by checking that the letters “https://” and a lock symbol appear in your browser address line.

2. Who we are (Controller for Data Privacy)

The Controller for the processing of data on our online services pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (Datenschutz-Grundverordnung — GDPR) is:

Worlée-Chemie GmbH/Worlée NaturProdukte GmbH, 
Represented by the Executive Directors Reinhold von Eben-Worlée und Joachim Freude,
Grusonstraße 26
D-22113 Hamburg
Germany

Telefon: +49 40 733 33-0
E-Mail: service@do-not-spam.com@worlee.de 

Contact information for our company Data Protection Officer: datenschutz@do-not-spam.com@worlee.de

3. Data collection when accessing our online services

Accessing our web pages (without registration) will result in the automatic anonymised collec-tion of the following data on our servers:

• masked IP address,
• access date/ time/ time zone,
• access status,
• type of access,
• type of protocol,
• type and number of pages accessed on our site,
• name and size of accessed files,
• referring website,
• web browser,
• operating system. 

The listed non-personal data is collected automatically as part of the normal operations of our internet services. The information gathered about the use of our pages is not combined with any personal information provided through the online registration form. We do not have any personal references in our usage data.

We use the above data for the purposes of troubleshooting, generating statistics and measur-ing website activity with the aim of improving the value and use of our services. As such, we have a legitimate interest to justify the data processing activity pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Within our company, our IT Administrator is the only person with access to this data for the purposes listed above. We work with SUNZINET GmbH (Schanzenstraße 23, 51063 Köln) to maintain and program our online services and have an agreement with them for the purpose of data processing. 

The above data is only collected for the period of use; once the use has ended, the data shall be deleted without delay, after seven days at the latest. 

We use cookies and web analysis services to obtain information as soon as your web brows-er accesses our website. These identifiers enable a range of our website’s service functions and are automatically transferred to the hard drive of your computer or other mobile device via your browser. This function can be deactivated in the settings of your browser. Should cookies be disabled, personalised service will be unavailable. In this case, your anonymised IP address may be transferred to the USA. For more information on the cookies and web analysis tools we use, see the “Use of cookies and tools” section below.

4. Contact

On our pages, we have provided an online form which enables you to make contact with us electronically. The form requires your first name and family name, your email address and tel-ephone number as well as a box for entering a message to us. We need this data to process your request. You can also choose to provide us with your postal address. Additionally, you can contact us at any time via email. Contacting us is always voluntary.

This data is solely used for the purpose of answering your request or responding to your request for contact, and the technical administration involved. This processing is lawful pur-suant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, as we require the data listed above for the initiation, conduct or termination of a contractual relationship with you. 

You request is logged by our internal customer service.  

If you have contacted us during a trade fair and have given us your consent to do so, we will process your data using the “Speedlead” app by the provider move elevator GmbH (Zum Aquarium 6 a, 46047 Oberhausen). This service provider may also receive access to the above data in the event of support. We have concluded a data processing agreement with this service provider. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

We do not pass on your requests to third-parties or to organisations outside of the EU.

After your request has been processed, we delete your contact information, at the latest, 72 hours after your request has been dealt with. This period of storage may be subject to statu-tory storage periods, for example, when your request is in connection with the processing of a contract or a warranty or guarantee. In this case, we store your request beyond 72 hours on-ly for the purpose of complying with our legal obligations (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR). In this case, we delete your data on termination of the statutory storage period (Section 147 (3) Fiscal Code of Germany (Abgabeordnung - AO)), i.e. after a period of 10 years, beginning at the conclusion of the contract. We will delete your data at the end of this retention period without any request to do so on your part.

5. Use of your data for advertising purposes (product recommendations to existing custom-ers/ newsletter subscription)

5.1 Recommending products to existing customers

If you have ordered products from us and provided your email address, we allow ourselves under the law to send you product recommendations for similar products which could be of interest to you, where you have not objected this use during the purchase process. This form of contact will only occur for the purpose of sending product recommendations via email to you as an existing customer. In this, we are pursuing our legitimate interest in sending per-sonalised direct advertising to existing customers. This is consistent with our legitimate inter-est in direct advertising to existing customers under Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with Section 7 (3) German Unfair Competition Act (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb - UWG). If you have initially objected to this use of your email address, we will not send this in-formation to you via email. You may withdraw your consent to the use of your email address to receive such messages from us at any time and with future effect. After receipt of your withdrawal of consent, we will cease the use of your email address for this purpose without delay.

5.2 Newsletter subscription

You can register for our email newsletter on our website. Our newsletter provides regular up-dates on new items, interesting offers and new promotions and campaigns. To receive our newsletter, you must only provide your email address. You may also choose to provide your name, to allow us to address you personally. We use the double opt-in process for our news-letter subscription. For this purpose, we will send you a confirmation email after we have re-ceived your consent to a newsletter subscription. In this email, we will ask you to confirm your subscription via a provided link. You will only receive our newsletter after this (second) activa-tion of the service. 

5.3 Consent to newsletter subscription

The address you provided for our newsletter subscription and any other data you provided such as your name will solely be used for the purposes of sending advertisements to you via electronic mail. This sending of electronic advertising is lawful pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. 

You can withdraw your consent to the use of your email to receive newsletters at any time with future effect by sending an email or using our online contact form, or the link provided in the email. After cancellation of this service, we will delete your email address without delay from our distribution list, unless you have expressly consented to another use of your data, or we reserve the right to use your data for lawful purposes and of which you have been informed appropriately.

Your declaration of consent will be recorded electronically for the purposes of verification. You can see your declarations of consent at any time online in your account. On registration for the newsletter we also store the IP address provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of your subscription to trace any potential misuse of your email address at a later date.

If you have not consented to the newsletter subscription or withdrawn said consent, you will only receive electronic mail from us in connection with the processing of orders you have placed with us.

5.4 Service providers for sending electronic advertising

Product recommendations and our newsletter are sent via email using our own proprietary software. Your email address and your name where provided, will be processed on our serv-ers located in Germany.

We store your email address and name if provided along with the declaration of consent for newsletter delivery for the period of your subscription, or until you withdraw your consent (cancel subscription).

There is no automated decision making or profiling. 

6.  Automated decision-making and profiling

We do not use automated decision-making. Profiling only takes place in the cases described in this privacy policy if you have given us your consent to do so. You may revoke your con-sent at any time with future effect. The revocation may be simply sent to us at any time, e.g., by an informal email to privacy@domain.de. Processing of your data which occurred prior to the withdrawal of consent is not affected. No further profiling will take place.

7. Use of cookies and tools

7.1 What are cookies?

To improve the look of our website and to enable certain functions, we use cookies on vari-ous pages. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. These text files are used for the temporary storage of information. Your browser stores cookies in the form of a readable text file once you access our site. If you are registered with us, cookies help us to recognise you, your device (computer, tablet or smart phone) the next time you access one of our pages. Some cookies may contain personal data. 

7.2 What cookies do we use?

According to function, we classify our cookies as Required, Functional, Analysis & Statistics, and Advertising and Marketing. Some of the cookies we use are required for you to use our web pages (so called session cookies). If you disable this cookie, our pages may not be ac-cessed. The authentication cookie provides you with access to the log-in page. Without this cookie, you cannot register or access the log-in page. These session cookies will be deleted when you close your browser. 

Other cookies remain on your device and allow us and our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a certain period of time, which differs from cookie to cookie. For advertising purposes, we use a retargeting cookie which allows us to show you interesting offers, even outside of our web pages. For more information, see the following overview of cookies used. 

7.3 What is the purpose and the legal basis for using cookies?

Most of the cookies we use do not store any information that can identify you personally or that makes you identifiable. Rather, these cookies provide us with general and anonymised information regarding the use of our websites, the pages that are visited, the browsers and operating systems used and the cities our visitors are located. We only collect masked IP addresses which make it impossible to recognise individual users or be assigned to any one individual. 

Some of these cookies make the ordering process easier, by saving specific website settings (e.g. noting the content(s) of a virtual shopping basket for a subsequent visit to the website). Where our cookies do process personal data, this processing is done in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR to fulfil our contract with you. 

Any cookies we collect are for the purposes of gathering information for improving the func-tioning and content of our online services. These functional cookies serve a legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) as they enable the technical adaptation of our service and make it easier for you to use our pages. We also use cookies to measure the success of our online market-ing. Using statistical data, we can also identify disruptions and understand cost calculations for advertising media. We only understand this processing when you have granted us consent for the use of these cookies for analysis and statistics or for advertising and marketing (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. The processing of your data remains lawful until your consent is withdrawn.

Click on the cookie icon at the bottom left to view and change your cookie settings.

7.4 How to disable cookies

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and whether you wish to accept cookies individually, or to accept specific kinds of cookies, or to disable all cookies. Each browser is different in the way it administers its cookie settings. The Help menu of your browser provides information on how to change your cookie settings. You can find this in-formation for your browser using the links below. When following some of these links, you must first select your browser version to see the specific instructions for changing your cook-ie settings

• Internet Explorer: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d (if you are still using Internet Explorer, we recommend switching to an up-to-date browser)
• Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/trackers-and-scripts-firefox-blocks-enhanced-track
• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
• Safari: support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/12.0/mac/10.14 (via "Select version" you can request information for your operating system version)
• Opera: help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/;

Alternatively, the Digital Advertising Alliance provide information on cookies and settings at www.aboutads.info.

7.5 Do we use cookies from third parties?

We sometimes work with web partners who help us to make our web pages more interesting for you. For this purpose, when you access some of our pages online, cookies from our partner companies may also be stored in your device (Third-party Cookies). This section pro-vides more information regarding the use of these kinds of cookies, their scope, and the data they collect. 

We use some cookies or tools because they are necessary for us to provide you with our online services. In this case, the legal basis for the processing is the user agreement con-cluded with you (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter b GDPR) or our legitimate interest, provided that no con-flicting interests are discernible, and no contradiction exists (Art. 6 Para. 1 letter f GDPR). We use all other cookies exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a GDPR).  

The third-party cookies used by us partially lead to data processing in the USA. In this case, too, we only use cookies with your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a GDPR). The use of these providers is permitted under the adequacy decision of the EU Commission (COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) of July 10th 2023 pursuant to Directive 2016/679 of the Eu-ropean Parliament and of the Council on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US data privacy framework, notified under document number C(2023)4745 final). These pro-viders participate in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (so-called  DPF). The EU and the U.S. have concluded the agreement for the transfer of personal data from the EU and the EEA to organizations in the U.S.. To the extent that these U.S. or-ganizations participate in the DPF, the level of protection in the U.S. is deemed adequate. For more information on partici-pation in the EU-U.S. data protection framework, please visit the website established by the U.S. Department of Commerce to implement the agreement: www.dataprivacyframework.gov.

7.6 Cookie overview

Below is an overview of the cookies used by us:

7.7 Services and Tools

7.7.1  Google Analytics

We use online services provided by the web analysis service Google Analytics. Google Ana-lyt-ics is a service offered in the EU and EEA by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Bar-row Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, and in the USA by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Moun-tain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your computer to analyse the use of our online web presence.  

The information collected by the cookie regarding your use of our online web presence (in-cluding your masked IP address) is transferred to and stored in a Google server in the USA. Google uses this information to evaluate the use of our website to prepare reports about the activities in our online presence and provide us with additional services associated with that use. The IP address provided by your browser as part of the Google Analytics service is not added to any other Google data.
We use Google Analytics in our online presence for web analysis purposes exclusively with an add-on that provides an "anonymise IP" function. This setting ensures that Google Analyt-ics erases the last part of your IP address. This anonymisation of your IP address removes any direct trace of you personally. When using this feature, Google masks your IP address within the member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transferring that information outside of the EU. The full IP address will only be sent to a Google server for masking in the USA in exceptional cases. In this way, we do not receive data that provides us with a way to identify you personally. 

We also use the Universal Analytics function with Google Analytics. Universal Analytics allows us to analyse the use of our online services across devices (e.g. access via a laptop and then later from a tablet). As a user, you will be given a pseudonymous User ID on registration, when you access our site from another device. This is how the system recognises your User ID when you access our site from another device. We do not allocate any names to the User ID. We do not provide Google with any personal data. Privacy measures such as IP masking and Browser Add-ons are not restricted by the use of the Universal Analytics function.

You can prevent the installation of cookies using the settings in your browser software. You can also prevent the collection and processing of the data created by the use of cookies and related to your use of our online services (including your IP address) by Google by download-ing and installing the browser plugin available at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en

This will prevent all future collection of data by Google Analytics within our website. This opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain. 

If you undertake any of the above cookie deactivation measures, you may not be able to use all the functions of our website to their full extent.

For more information regarding how Google Analytics deals with user information, please refer to Google's Privacy Statement: policies.google.com/privacy

7.7.2 Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager in our online services for the purpose of providing a personal-ised, interesting, and locally relevant online advertising. This service is operated in the EU, the EEA and Switzerland by Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4., Ire-land and in the USA by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Tag Manager allows us to administer website tags using a single interface. Alt-hough we use cookies for this, we do not collect any personal data. The Tag Manager was specially developed for retailers and is a system with which elements (tags) from Google and other providers can be marked and administered. In this way, data may be sent to cookies or other tools. Tags can be used for conversion tracking, web site analysis, and other purposes. 

Google participates in the EU-US data protection framework: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Wir haben mit Google einen Vertrag nach den Standarddatenschutzklauseln der EU abgeschlossen.

More information on Google Tag Manager is available at: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/tag-manager/

Further information and the Google Privacy Policy are available at: www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ and policies.google.com/privacy.

7.7.3 Google Consent Mode (Google-Einwilligungsmodus von Google)

We use the Google Consent Mode. This is a service that is offered in the EU, EEA and Switzer-land by Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland. In the USA, this service is offered by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (together "Google").

Google Consent Mode introduces two new tag settings, namely: tags that trigger data transfer to Google when consent to advertising or analytics cookies has been given, and tags that prevent cookies when consent has been denied. Once you have given consent on a website, Google uses the consent mode to manage cookies from Google services for advertising and analysis purposes for all connected advertisers who use the global website tag or the Google Tag Man-ager. Consent mode is available in the following Google services: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, the Google Marketing Platform and Google Ads.

The purpose of the Google consent mode is that a technical interaction takes place between this mode and our cookie consent banner in order to obtain the consent of visitors to our web-site. We use Google's “basic” consent mode. If you give your consent via our cookie consent banner for the Google services mentioned there, Google tags are loaded. Data will only be transmitted to Google on the basis of your consent. The consent status is transmitted to Google via the Google tags as "default status" or "updated status". This status is retained on all web-sites that you visit or access after visiting our website. Once consent has been given, Google dynamically adjusts the behavior of its own tools (e.g. Analytics, Google Ads and third-party tags).

If you do not give your consent to the Google services, the Google tags are blocked and no data is transmitted to Google, not even the consent status. Instead, the consent status and user ac-tivity are sent to the Google server using tags by sending pings without cookies. Pings are used in Google products to model measurement values in the analysis tools used and thereby close gaps in data collection. Pings are used to request the consent status of other websites that you have visited and on which the Google consent mode is used. If you have given your consent in the cookie consent banner on one of these websites, the consent status for you also changes from "refused" to "granted" for our website. Pings with information on a conversion (information on purchases) can also be transmitted. Google collects the following data:

Function-related information (timestamp, user agent (only web - visit to our website), referrer URL (websites from which our website was accessed). 

Summarized (aggregated), non-personal data: References to information about an ad click in the URL of a visited website.

Boolean information on consent status (mathematical algebraic structure that generalizes the properties of the logical operators AND, OR, NOT).

Random number generated each time a page is loaded.

Information about the consent management platform used by the website owner.

IP addresses are used to derive the IP country. However, they are not logged by Google Ads and Floodlight systems but are deleted immediately after collection. In Google Analytics, IP ad-dresses are recorded as part of normal internet communication but can be masked here (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052).

We use the Google consent mode for the purpose of checking and optimizing the Google adver-tising systems we use. This involves assigning purchase processes to specific advertising campaigns in order to measure the success of the advertising campaigns. Insofar as this as-signment is personalized, e.g. by assigning the purchases you have made to specific advertis-ing campaigns, the legal basis for this is the consent you have expressly given (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a GDPR). Consent is given via the cookie consent banner and is voluntary. You can with-draw your consent at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. A simple, informal decla-ration to us at datenschutz@worlee.de is sufficient for the revocation. 

If you do not give your consent, the allocation of the visiting of a landing page to specific adver-tising campaigns will take place without the use of personal data. In this case, we measure the success of our advertising campaign without cookies or identifiers, using estimates and aggre-gated data on visiting a landing page. We can use this data, for example, to optimize our landing pages, advertising texts or advertising budgets in order to promote our campaigns. The legal ba-sis for this is our legitimate interest in assigning purchase processes to specific advertising campaigns (so-called conversion modelling) and thus being able to measure the success of our advertising campaigns in order to continuously improve our offer (Art. 6 para. 1 letter f GDPR). We assume that your interest does not conflict with this because no personal or personally iden-tifiable data is collected. You can object to such use of your data for the purpose of the afore-mentioned statistical analysis at any time by notifying us.

It cannot be ruled out that the aforementioned data will be transmitted to Google LLC in the USA. Google participates in the EU-US data privacy framework: www.dataprivacyframework.gov. We have concluded a contract with Google in accord-ance with the EU standard contractual clauses.

You can obtain further information about Google's data protection provisions regarding Google Consent Mode at the following Internet address: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10031513

8. Social Media

On our website we refer to our accounts in social networks. 
We do not use social plug-ins as active buttons on our website. We only use icons to refer to our presence in the following social networks: 

• YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
• LinkedIn, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
• Xing: New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany

We only display social media icons on our website. To ensure your privacy, we are using icons that merely link to the social media websites in question.

If you click on an icon on our website, this indicates your consent to connect with these third parties via a separate tab in your browser, and allows these third-parties to follow your visit to our website. If you are a member of a social network, you can share the content of our web-site with other members of that social media network by clicking the button. 

Your data may be processed outside of the EU if you are a member of a social network or when you visit or access one of our social media acounts. This may carry risks, for example, by making it harder for you to enforce your rights. 

When you access a social work, cookies are generally set to collect data on your user behav-iour which is then stored in your end device. As long as you have a user account on any net-work, and are logged in, your user behaviour can be saved to your user account. The social networks may use this user behaviour information for market research and advertising pur-poses. This may result in your being advertisements both inside and outside of your social networks. We have no influence over this. 
We have no influence over the personal data collected and stored by social networks. We re-ceive evaluations of user behaviour from the social media sites listed above and may use this to send relevant advertising to users. If users interact with our social media accounts and are logged into a user account, we can also recognise the user profile and see the content of comments or postings on our website. The processing of this data is carried out in joint re-sponsibility with the provider of the social network in question. We have concluded an agree-ment with the individual providers of our social media pages on joint responsibility for the evaluation of data collected in connection with our social media pages (Art. 26 GDPR). In it, we have committed ourselves to providing you with this privacy information. More information is available from the privacy policies of the individual social networks. You may also exercise the rights to which you are entitled against us. However, as the social network provider stores and evaluates your data, they are able to more comprehensively fulfil your rights. 

The use of these providers from the USA is permitted under the EU Commission's adequacy decision (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1795 of 10 July 2023 pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequacy of the level of protection of personal data under the EU-U.S. Data Protection Framework (pub-lished under file number C(2023) 4745)). These providers participate in the EU-U.S. Data Pri-vacy Framework (DPF). The EU and the USA have concluded this agreement for the transfer of personal data from the EU and the EEA to organizations in the USA. To the extent that these US organizations participate in the DPF, the level of protection in the USA is consid-ered adequate. Further information on participation in the EU-US data protection framework can be found on the website that the U.S. Department of Commerce has set up to implement the agreement: www.dataprivacyframework.gov.

8.1 YouTube

We have integrated YouTube videos into our website that can be played on YouTube directly from our website. This uses the “expanded privacy mode” which only allows YouTube access to your data when you play the video. The transmission of your data to YouTube will therefore only take place with your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a GDPR).

YouTube is a service operated in the EU, the EEA and Switzerland by Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4., Ireland and in the USA by Google LLC, 1600 Amphi-theatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

We have used the privacy-enhanced mode to integrate YouTube videos into our site. Opening one of our pages which include YouTube videos, and clicking on a video, does not result in your data being provided to Google. Your consent will be sought before such data provision takes place, using the consent declaration that we have provided.

Once you have given your consent, or if you have browsed to a video on YouTube itself (e.g., in our YouTube channel), your data may be sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google uses this data to evaluate your use of our videos on YouTube, to create anonymised reports about the videos watched and to offer video-use related services to us. 

Google participates in the EU-US data protection framework: www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail
Wir haben mit Google, den von Google angebotenen Vertrag nach den Standarddatenschutz-klauseln der EU abgeschlossen. Googles Auftragsverarbeitungs-bedingungen finden Sie hier: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms_dataprocessing

More information on data protection for the Google service "YouTube" is available in the pro-vider's Privacy Statement at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en

8.2 LinkedIn

We maintain a social media presence at www.linkedin.com/company/worleechemie, where we present photos and posts about our company, provide information on our services, publish job advertisements and communicate with customers. When using and accessing our LinkedIn site, your personal data is processed by both LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, based in Ireland, and LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, based in the USA (hereinafter "LinkedIn"). 

In addition to the processing described above, LinkedIn processes your personal da-ta for analysis and advertising purposes, including personalised advertising. 

We analyse all access and interactions on our LinkedIn page. LinkedIn creates user profiles for this purpose, but only provides us with anonymised data in this regard. This involves ag-gregated data which provides us with insights of how users interact with our LinkedIn page. The resulting statistics are only provided to us in anonymised form. We have no access to the underlying data. We process your data in conjunction with LinkedIn to provide this insight ser-vice. For this reason, we have concluded an agreement with Facebook between our respec-tive Controllers (Art. 26 GDPR). 

Our LinkedIn page can be accessed whether or not you have an LinkedIn user account. We only process personal data when you interact with our LinkedIn page, e.g. if you leave a comment, click a Like button or send us a message. We do not provide this data to other third parties. The LinkedIn Terms of Use are available at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement?trk=hb_ft_userag

This use is lawful pursuant to either your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or due to our legitimate interest in providing tailored marketing to our customers (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). LinkedIn users may withdraw consent on publishing their comment or Like at any time with future effect by deleting the comment or content in question. The legality of any processing that has occurred prior to the revocation of that consent remains unaffected.

LinkedIn offers you the opportunity to object to certain data processing; the relevant infor-mation and possibilities to opt-out can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out?trk=microsites-frontend_legal_cookie-policy. 

LinkedIn users can influence the extent to which their user behaviour may be recorded on our LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/advertising. 

You can also use the settings in your browser to prevent the processing your data using LinkedIn cookies.
To the best of our knowledge, LinkedIn only transfers user data to countries which have been granted an Adequacy Decision by the European Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR or based on guarantees offered pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR. The LinkedIn Corporation and all its affiliated companies are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield but this alone does not provide an appropriate level of data protection (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active).

8.3 Xing

We maintain a social media account at www.xing.com/companies/worl%C3%A9e-chemiegmbh, where we present photos and posts about our company, provide information about our services, publish job advertisements and communicate with customers. When using and accessing our Xing site, your personal data is also processed by New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany (hereafter "Xing"). Xing enables a system in which Xing distributes advertising via its network.

We analyse all access and interactions on our Xing page. Xing creates user profiles for this purpose, but only provides us with anonymised data in this regard. This involves aggregated data which provides us with insights of how users interact with our Xing page. The resulting statistics are only provided to us in anonymised form. We have no access to the underlying data. We process your data in conjunction with Xing to provide this insight service. For this reason, we have concluded an agreement with Facebook between our respective Controllers (Art. 26 GDPR).  

Our Xing page can be accessed whether or not you have a Xing user account. We only pro-cess personal data when you interact with our Xing page, e.g. if you leave a comment, click a Like button or send us a message. We do not provide this data to other third parties. The Xing Terms of Use are available at:  https://www.xing.com/terms are also applicable.

This use is lawful pursuant to either your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or due to our legitimate interest in providing tailored marketing to our customers (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Xing users may withdraw consent on publishing their comment or Like at any time with future effect by delet-ing the comment or content in question. The legality of any processing that has occurred prior to the revocation of that consent remains unaffected.

Xing offers the opportunity to object to certain data processing; the relevant information and possibilities to opt-out can be found at https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung/druckversion. 

Xing users can influence the extent to which their user behaviour may be recorded on our Xing page at privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy/information-we-automatically-receive-through-your-use-of-xing/determination-of-statistics/tracking-in-embedded-external-content and https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy/information-we-automatically-receive-through-your-use-of-xing/measurement-and-optimisation-of-advertising.

You can also use the settings in your browser to prevent the processing your data using Xing cookies.

To the best of our knowledge, Xing uses service providers located in the USA to provide its services. The European Court of Justice has determined that the USA does not have a level of data protection comparable to that in the EU (ECJ, judgment of 16 July 2020 - C-311/18, para. 200, Facebook/Schrems II).
There is a risk that regulatory authorities will access and evaluate that data on a mass scale. There are no legal remedies or efficient legal proceedings available in the USA against such surveillance.

9. Your rights as a data subject

Please read the following information about your rights as a data subject regarding the pro-cessing of your personal data.

9.1 The right of access 

You have the right to request a confirmation whether your personal data is being processed. Should this be the case, you have the right to be informed of the personal data that has been collected, stored or processed, as well as to the following information:

• the processing purpose,
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom this data has been disclosed or will be disclosed,
• if possible, the intended duration of storage of your personal data or if this is not possi-ble the criteria for determining that duration,
• your additional rights (see below),
• if the personal data has not been collected from you, all available information regarding its source,
• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and where existent, fur-ther relevant information

You have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards available pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR against the transfer of your data to a third country or international organisation.

9.2 The right to rectification

You have the right to request the correction without delay of incorrect or incomplete personal data. 

9.3 Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)

You have the right to request that we delete the personal data concerning you without delay. To request the deletion of personal data, you can send an e-mail to datenschutz@worlee.de.  We are obliged to delete your personal data without delay where one of the following grounds applies:

• Your personal data are no longer required for the purpose for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
• You are withdrawing your consent and there are no other legal grounds for processing that data.
• You are filing an objection (see below) to the data processing.
• Your personal data were unlawfully processed.
• The deletion of your personal data is necessary to fulfil an obligation under EU law or the law of the Member States.
• A child has provided consent to the collection of personal data.

9.4 Right to restriction of processing:

You have the right to request a restriction of our data processing when one of the following conditions is met:

• you are contesting the accuracy of the personal data,
• the data processing is unlawful, but you do not agree to the deletion of the personal data, instead requesting a restriction of its use,
• we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need the data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
• you have objected to processing (see below) and it is not yet clear whether our legitimate interest will prevail.

9.5 Right to notification

If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against us, we are obliged to inform all recipients to whom personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed of those recipients.

9.6 Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transfer this data to another controller without interference on our part provided that:

• the processing is based on consent granted pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Art.9 (2) (a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR; and
• the processing is carried out using automated methods.

In exercising this right, you may request that personal data related to you be transferred di-rectly from us to another controller insofar as this is technically feasible and does not infringe on the freedoms and rights of any other person. The right to data portability does not apply to the processing of personal data required for fulfilling a task carried out in the public inter-est or in the exercise of an official authority invested in the controller.

9.7 Right to object

You have the right, based on grounds relating to your particular personal situation to object at any time to the processing of your personal data, unless it is based on one of the following grounds:

• the processing of your personal data by us is required for the fulfilment of a task that lies in the public interest or in the exercise of public authority that has been delegated to us; or
• the processing is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interest or the legitimate interest of a third-party, in so far as your interests or basic rights require that protection of your personal data prevail.

The right to object also applies to profiling based on these processes.

If the personal data that concerns you is being processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct marketing. 

You also have the right, on grounds arising from your particular personal situation, to object to the processing of your personal data undertaken by us for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes, unless such processing is necessary for the perfor-mance of a task in the public interest.

9.8 Right to withdraw consent and data protection law

You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. The revocation may be simply sent to us at any time, e.g., an informal email. Processing of your data which occurred prior to the withdrawal of consent is not affected.

9.9 Right of appeal to the supervisory authority

Do you think that the processing of your personal data was illegal? Then you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in your country of residence or country of work, or at the location the alleged breach took place. If you are in doubt, contact the agency responsible for us at Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Ludwig-Erhard-Str 22, 7 OG, 20459 Hamburg, Tel.: 040 428 544040, Fax: 040 / 428 54 - 4000, E-Mail: mailbox@datenschutz.hamburg.de). Other administrative or judicial remedies are not affected by the exercise of these rights.

Last updated: May 2025
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