Privacy policy

1) Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the responsible person

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following we will inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The person responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is BCS UG (limited liability), Andreasstrasse 5, 59929 Brilon, Germany, Tel .: + 49- (0) 2961 / 91091-0, Fax: +49 - (0) 2961 / 91091-99, email: sales@bcs-computer.com. The person responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or together with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

1.3 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the person responsible), this website uses an SSL or. TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https: //" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2) Data collection when visiting our website

In the case of merely informative use of our website, ie if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you visit our website, we collect the following information that is technically necessary for us to display the website:

  • Our visited website
  • Date and time at the time of access
  • Amount of transmitted data in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you accessed the site
  • Used browser
  • Operating system used
  • Used IP address (possibly in anonymous form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. A transfer or other use of the data does not take place. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server logfiles should concrete evidence point to unlawful use.

3) Cookies

In order to make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, ie after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our affiliate (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process individual user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values ​​on an individual basis. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie.

If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR either to implement the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

We may work with advertising partners to help us make our web site more interesting to you. For this purpose, in this case, when you visit our website, cookies from partner companies are stored on your hard disk (third-party cookies). If we cooperate with aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in the following paragraphs.

Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and individually decide on their acceptance or can exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the Help menu of each browser, which explains how to change your cookie settings. These can be found for the respective browser under the following links:

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/cookies-allow-and-dispose
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4) contact us

When you contact us (e.g. using the contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected when a contact form is used can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention requirements.

5) Registration with the portal or forum

You can register on our website by providing personal data. Which personal data are processed for the registration results from the input mask that is used for the registration. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registration. H. Your registration is only complete if you have previously confirmed your registration via a confirmation email sent to you for this purpose by clicking on the link contained therein. If you do not receive your confirmation within 24 hours, your registration will be automatically deleted from our database. The specification of the aforementioned data is mandatory. You can provide all further information voluntarily by using our portal.

If you use our portal, we will save your data required to fulfill the contract, including any information on the method of payment, until you finally delete your access. Furthermore, we save the voluntary data you provide for the time you are using the portal, unless you delete them beforehand. You can manage and change all information in the protected customer area. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR.

In addition, we save all content published by you (such as public contributions, pin board entries, guest book entries, etc.) in order to operate the website. We have a legitimate interest in providing the website with complete user-generated content. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If you delete your account, your public statements, especially in the forum, will remain visible to all readers, but your account will no longer be accessible. In this case, all other data will be deleted.

6) Use of customer data for direct advertising

6.1 Registration for our e-mail newsletter

If you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, we will send you regular information about our offers. Mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address alone. The specification of further data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. For sending the newsletter we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that we will only send you an e-mail newsletter if you have expressly confirmed that you agree to receive the newsletter. We will then send you a confirmation e-mail asking you to confirm by clicking on a link that you wish to receive the newsletter in the future.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to the use of your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. When registering for the newsletter, we store your IP address entered by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace a possible misuse of your e-mail address at a later date. The data collected by us when registering for the newsletter will be used exclusively for promotional purposes by means of the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the provided link in the newsletter or by sending a message to the person named above. After the cancellation, your e-mail address will be deleted immediately in our newsletter distribution, as far as you have not expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further data use, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement ,

6.2 Newsletter dispatch via rapidmail

The dispatch of our E-Mail-Newsletter takes place via the technical service provider rapidmail GmbH, Augustinerplatz 2, 79098 Freiburg ("rapidmail"), to which we pass on your data provided during the newsletter registration. This transfer is made in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO and serves our legitimate interest in the use of a promotional, secure and user-friendly newsletter system. The data entered by you in order to receive the newsletter (eg e-mail address) will be stored on the servers of rapidmail in Germany.

rapidmail uses this information for the dispatch and statistical evaluation of the newsletter on our behalf. For the evaluation, the e-mails sent include so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which represent one-pixel image files that are stored on our website. This will determine if a newsletter message has been opened and which links may have been clicked. With the help of so-called conversion tracking, it can also be analyzed whether a predefined action (eg purchase of a product on our website) has taken place after clicking on the link in the newsletter. In addition, technical information is collected (eg time of retrieval, IP address, browser type and operating system). The data are collected exclusively pseudonymized and are not linked to your other personal data, a direct personal reference is excluded. This data is for statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns only. The results of these analyzes can be used to better tailor future newsletters to the interests of the recipients.

If you want to object to the data analysis for statistical evaluation purposes, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter.

We have concluded a contract processing contract with rapidmail, in which we commit the rapidmail to protect the data of our customers and not to pass them on to third parties.

You can read more about the privacy of rapidmail in the privacy statement of rapidmail: https://www.rapidmail.de/datenschutz

7) web analytics services

– Matomo (formerly Piwik)
This website uses the web analysis service software Matomo (www.matomo.org), a service provided by InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, ("Matomo") on the basis of our legitimate interest in statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR data is collected and stored. Pseudonymised usage profiles can be created and evaluated from this data for the same purpose. Cookies can be used. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. The cookies enable, among other things, the recognition of the Internet browser. The data collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) is processed on our servers.
The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymous user profile is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.
If you do not agree to the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, you can object to the storage and use for the future at any time with a mouse click. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, with the result that Matomo does not collect any session data. Please note that if you completely delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may have to reactivate it.
As far as legally required, we have your consent to the processing of your data described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO caught up. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. To exercise your withdrawal, please follow the above mentioned possibility to make an objection.

8) Use of a live chat system

Own live chat system
On this website, for the purpose of operating a live chat system that serves to answer live inquiries, your communicated chat name and your communicated chat content are collected as data and saved for the course of the chat. The chat and your specified chat name are only saved in the so-called RAM (Random Access Memory) and deleted immediately as soon as we or you have ended the chat conversation, but no later than 2 hours after the last message in the chat history. Cookies are used to operate the chat function. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. Cookies enable the website visitor's Internet browser to be recognized in order to ensure that the individual users of the chat function on our website are differentiated.
If the information collected in this way is personally identifiable, processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in effective customer care and the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization purposes.
In order to avoid the storage of cookies, you can set your internet browser so that in future no cookies can be stored on your computer or cookies that have already been stored will be deleted. Disabling all cookies can, however, mean that the chat function on our website can no longer be carried out.

9) Tools and Miscellaneous

Applications for job advertisements by email

On our website, we are currently advertising vacancies in a separate section, to which interested parties can apply by e-mail to the contact address provided.

In order to be included in the application process, applicants must provide us with all the personal data required for a well-founded and informed assessment and selection together with the application by email.
The required information includes general information about the person (name, address, telephone or electronic contact options) as well as performance-specific evidence of the qualifications required for a job. If necessary, health-related information is also required, which, in the interest of social protection, must be given special consideration in the person of the applicant in terms of labor and social law.

The respective job advertisement shows which components an application must contain in individual cases in order to be considered and in which form these components are to be sent by email.

After receipt of the application sent using the specified email contact address, we will save the applicant data and evaluate it exclusively for the purpose of processing the application. For any queries that arise in the course of processing, we use either the e-mail address provided by the applicant with his application or a specified telephone number.

The legal basis for this processing, including the establishment of contact for queries, is Article 6 (1) lit. b GDPR (for processing in Germany in conjunction with Section 26 (1) BDSG), in the sense of which going through the application process is considered to be the initiation of an employment contract.

Insofar as special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 para. 1 DSGVO (eg health data such as information on the severely disabled property) are requested from applicants in the context of the application process, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 9 para. 2 lit. b. DSGVO, so that we can exercise the rights arising from employment and social security and social protection legislation and fulfill our obligations in this regard.

Cumulatively or alternatively, the processing of the special data categories may also be based on Art. 9 para. 1 lit. h DSGVO if it is used for health or occupational health purposes, for assessing the applicant's ability to work, for medical diagnosis, care or treatment in the health or social sector or for the administration of systems and services in the health or social sector he follows.

If the applicant is not selected in the course of the evaluation described above, or if an applicant withdraws his application prematurely, his data transmitted by email and all electronic correspondence including the original application email will be deleted after a corresponding notification after 6 months at the latest. This time limit is based on our legitimate interest in answering any follow-up questions to the application and, if necessary, in being able to meet our obligations to provide evidence from the regulations on equal treatment of applicants.

In the event of a successful application, the data provided will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (for processing in Germany in conjunction with Section 26 (1) BDSG) further processed for the purpose of carrying out the employment relationship.

10) rights of the person concerned

10.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights of data subjects (information and intervention rights) to the person responsible with regard to the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:

  • Right of access according to Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have the right to obtain information about the personal data processed by us, the processing purposes, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data was or is being disclosed Period of storage or the criteria for determining the duration of storage, the right of rectification, deletion, limitation of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data, if they were not collected by us, the Existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, where appropriate, meaningful information about the logic and scope involved and the intended effects of such processing, as well as your right to be informed of what guarantees under Art. 46 DSGVO in case of assignment your data to third countries;
  • Right to correction according to Art. 16 GDPR: You have the right to immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and / or completion of your incomplete data stored by us;
  • Right to cancellation according to Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to demand the deletion of your personal data in the presence of the requirements of Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR. However, that right does not apply, in particular, where the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the pursuit, exercise or defense of rights;
  • Right to restriction of the processing according to Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, as long as the correctness of your data challenged by you is checked, if you refuse a deletion of your data because of inadmissible data processing and instead the Restricting the processing of your data require, if you need your data for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal rights, after we no longer need these data after purpose or if you have objected for reasons of your particular situation, as long as it is not certain, whether our entitled Reasons predominate;
  • Right to be informed in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR: If you have the right to rectify, delete or limit the processing to the controller, he / she is obligated to rectify or delete the data or all recipients to whom the personal data relating to you have been disclosed Notify of limitation of the processing, unless this proves to be impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.
  • Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible, as far as technically feasible;
  • Right to revoke granted consent in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR: You have the right to revoke a consent once given in the processing of data at any time with future effect. In the case of withdrawal, we will delete the data concerned immediately, as far as further processing can not be based on a legal basis for consentless processing. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation;
  • Right to complain under Art. 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the case of any other administrative or judicial remedy Member State of your whereabouts, place of work or place of alleged infringement.

10.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF, IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEREST ACCOUNTABILITY, WE PROCESS OUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR MAJOR LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE ANY PRESENT RIGHT TO SUBMIT AGAINST THIS PROCESSING FOR CONSEQUENCES WITH EFFECT ON THE FUTURE FOR REASONS OBTAINED FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION.
MAKE USE OF YOUR OPPOSITION RIGHT, WE FINISH THE PROCESSING OF THE AFFECTED DATA. FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS SUBJECT TO EXERCISE WHEN WE MAY PROVIDE IMPERATIVE REASONABLE REASONS FOR PROCESSING WHICH EXCEED ITS INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE PRESENTATION, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CHARGES.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US TO OPERATE DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO INTRODUCE ANY CONTESTING AGAINST THE PROCESSING OF YOU OF PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE OPPOSITE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

MAKE USE OF YOUR CONTINGENCY RIGHT, WE FINISH THE PROCESSING OF THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT ACCEPTANCE.

11) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and - if applicable - additionally based on the respective legal retention period (eg commercial and tax retention periods).

In the processing of personal data based on an explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, these data are stored until the person withdraws his consent.

There are statutory retention periods for data which, in the context of legal or similar obligations, are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO are processed, these data are routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, if they are no longer required for fulfillment of the contract or for initiating a contract and / or if there is no legitimate interest in the re-storage on our part.

In the processing of personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, these data will be stored until the person concerned exercises his right of objection under Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the person concerned, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

In the processing of personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO these data will be stored until the person concerned exercises his right of objection under Art. 21 para. 2 DSGVO.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this Declaration on Specific Processing Situations, stored personal data will be erased if they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.