The operators of these pages (TRIPS GmbH) take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our website, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
1. person responsible for data processing
Responsible for data processing is:
TRIPS GmbH
Hohe Heide 8-10
97506 Grafenrheinfeld
Germany
E-mail: info@trips-group.com
Phone: +49 (0) 9461 / 409 0
Data Protection Officer of TRIPS GmbH:
Ms. Melanie Petri
E-Mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@trips-group.com
2. collection and storage of personal data
a) Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.
The server log files are stored for 14 days and then deleted.
b) Contact form
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
c) Cookies
Some of the Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used 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 end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
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 restricted.
3. use of WordPress plugins
WPML Multilingual Plugins
We use the WPML plugins to make our website available in several languages. WPML does not store any personal user data, but only information about the language settings and the language used. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest). Further information can be found here: https://wpml.org/documentation/privacy-policy-and-gdpr-compliance/.
Elementor
We use Elementor for the design of our website. This plugin does not store any personal data unless you actively enter it (e.g. in forms). Further information: https://elementor.com/about/privacy/.
Borlabs Cookie
We use Borlabs Cookie to manage cookie consents. The plugin stores your selection in a cookie (“borlabs-cookie”), which is stored for a period of one year. Further information: https://de.borlabs.io/datenschutz/.
Google Analytics by MonsterInsights
We use the plugin “Google Analytics by MonsterInsights” to analyze the use of our website. Details on Google Analytics can be found below.
WP Rocket
WP Rocket optimizes the loading speed of our website. This involves the storage of cached data that does not contain any personal data. Further information: https://wp-rocket.me/privacy-policy/.
Gravity Forms Multilingual
We use Gravity Forms Multilingual for the translation of forms. This plugin processes the data you enter in the form. The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
MailChimp for WordPress
We use the MailChimp for WordPress plugin to subscribe to our newsletter. As with contact forms, processing takes place on the basis of your consent. Further information: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
Image Optimizer
The Image Optimizer is used to improve the loading times of our website by optimizing image files. No personal data is processed in the process.
WP Job Openings
This plugin is used to manage our job vacancies. Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR for applications. Further information: https://awsm.in/privacy-policy/.
4. use of external services
Google Analytics
(The information on Google as a provider and on data protection at Google applies to all Google cookies that we use, unless otherwise described below)
This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Ltd. Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4, D04 V4X7, Ireland
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
You can find more information on how Google Analytics handles user data in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?GoogleAds Remarketing
We use Google Ads Remarketing to place targeted advertising. You can find more information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Google Tag Manager
This website uses Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Ltd. Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4, D04 V4X7, Ireland. This service allows website tags to be managed via an interface. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookieless domain. This means that no cookies are used and no personal data is collected apart from the connection data. The Tag Manager is required for technical operation and is used to control the tags. The legal basis for the use of Google Tag Manager is your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data.
Google Ads Remarketing
This website uses the functions of Google Ads Remarketing. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Remarketing analyzes your user behavior on our website (e.g. clicks on certain pages) in order to classify you into certain advertising target groups and then display suitable advertising messages to you when you visit other online offers (remarketing or retargeting).
Furthermore, the advertising target groups created with Google Remarketing can be linked to Google’s cross-device functions. In this way, interest-based, personalized advertising messages that have been adapted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one end device (e.g. smartphone) can also be displayed on another of your end devices (e.g. PC, tablet, etc.).
The use of Google Remarketing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in marketing its products as effectively as possible. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.
Further information and the data protection provisions can be found in Google’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?gl=de
Microsoft Bing Ads / Universal Event Tracking (UET)
We use Bing Ads from Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (“Microsoft”). As part of the so-called conversion tracking, Microsoft sets a cookie if you have come to our website via an ad on Bing. These cookies are only valid for 30 days and are not used to personally identify our users. Microsoft Bing and we only learn the statistical number of users who have clicked on a specific advertising medium on Bing and which actions/target pages (conversions) these users have triggered. We also use the Bing UET tag. Microsoft uses this code to store non-personal data on the use of our website.
You can object to the processing of this data by Microsoft at the following link https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/. Further information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft and Bing Ads can be found on the Microsoft website: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
Microsoft Bing Ads
We use Microsoft Bing Ads for conversion tracking and statistics. You can find details here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
Use of Mouseflow ApS
This website uses Mouseflow ApS, a web analysis service. Mouseflow uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed, as well as tracking pixels and scripts. The web tracking tool Mouseflow records randomly selected individual visits (only with anonymized IP addresses). This creates a log of mouse movements and clicks with the intention of randomly playing back individual website visits and deriving potential improvements for the website from this. Mouseflow collects the following information:
- Clicks, mouse movements, hovering, scrolling
- Browser
- Device (desktop/tablet/mobile)
- Language
- Operating system
- Screen resolution
- Duration of visit
- Navigation (URLs)
- Page content (HTML)
- ISP & location (city, state/region, country)
- Keyboard entries (only for non-EU/EEA data subjects in non-EU/EEA accounts and never for passwords, numbers or excluded fields.
- Referrer URL
- Visitor type (first-time visitor/returner)
- Individual tags or variables
- Answers in the feedback tool
Here, too, you can 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 functions of this website to their full extent. If you do not wish to be tracked, you can use the following opt-out: mouse-flow.com/en/opt-out
By using the opt-out, a corresponding cookie is set on your device until it is deleted.
We use Mouseflow to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user.
Information from the third-party provider: Mouseflow ApS, Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark; datenschutz@mouseflow.com
SalesViewer®
If you have given your consent via our consent management, we use SalesViewer® technology for the anonymized analysis of visitor behaviour. You can find details here: https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out. We have concluded the necessary data protection agreements with the provider. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future via your browser or our Consent Management. In this case, you may no longer be able to use all the functions of our website without restriction.
Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps to display interactive maps and to create directions, provided that you directly click on a consent button that overlays the previously non-functional stylized Google Maps map image on our website. Google Maps is a map service from Google. By using Google Maps, information about the use of this website, including your IP address and the (start) address entered as part of the route planner function, may be transmitted to Google in the USA. When you access a web page on our website that contains Google Maps, your browser establishes a direct connection to Google’s servers. The map content is transmitted by Google directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website. We therefore have no influence on the scope of the data collected by Google in this way. To the best of our knowledge, this is at least the following data:
Date and time of the visit to the website in question,
Internet address or URL of the website accessed,
IP address,
(Start) address entered during route planning.
YouTube
Our website uses videos from the Google-operated YouTube site when you click on a consent button that overlays YouTube videos on our site, which you can recognize by the stylized YouTube Play icon. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited, the general data transmitted by your browser (IP address, browser type and version, operating system, time) and, for registered and logged-in YouTube or Google users, your Google user ID. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. According to Google, you can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
You can find more information about YouTube’s data processing at https://www.youtube.com/intl/de_be/howyoutubeworks/user-settings/privacy/
5. your rights
In accordance with data protection law, you have the right to information about the personal data processed by us, as well as the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of the processing of your personal data, the right to data portability, to object to the processing of your personal data, to withdraw your consent to data processing, and the right not to be subject to fully automated decision-making (we do not carry out such decision-making). Please contact us using the contact details above.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint regarding our processing of your personal data with a data protection supervisory authority at your place of residence, domicile, our registered office or the place of the alleged infringement.
Please note the following in connection with rights of objection:
If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object to this data processing at any time without giving reasons. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with direct advertising.
If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes. The objection is free of charge and can be made informally, if possible to: Insert contact.
In the event that we process your data to protect legitimate interests, you can object to this processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
6. transfer of data to third parties, recipient (categories) and intention to transfer data to third countries
Your data will only be passed on to third parties if we are authorized or obliged to do so (e.g. transfer of data to authorities, including law enforcement authorities). In addition, we may transfer personal data to service providers who support our business processes if necessary. If necessary, we have concluded the appropriate data protection contract with each such service provider. Such service providers may be IT service providers, for example.
Within our organization, we also ensure that only those persons and functions that objectively need to do so in order to perform their respective tasks handle your data.
Data will only be transferred to recipients in third countries outside the EU or the European Economic Area if and insofar as this is necessary to fulfill the underlying legitimate purpose. In such cases, we have also concluded suitable data protection contracts with the respective service provider before the start of the respective processing and/or agreed other necessary guarantees so that you can assume that your data will be protected to at least the same level as within the EU.
7. storage period of the data
We store your data for as long as it is required for the respective processing purpose. Please note that numerous retention periods require that data (must) continue to be stored. This applies in particular to retention obligations under commercial or tax law (e.g. German Commercial Code, German Fiscal Code, etc.). If there are no further retention obligations, the data will be routinely deleted once the purpose has been achieved.
In addition, we may retain data if you have given us your permission to do so or if legal disputes arise and we use evidence within the framework of statutory limitation periods, which can be up to thirty years; the regular limitation period is three years.
8. acquisition of existing customers
The TRIPS Group is interested in maintaining the customer relationship with you and providing you with information and offers about our products and services. We may therefore also process your data in order to send you relevant information and offers by e-mail.
If you do not wish this, you can object to the use of your personal data for the purpose of direct advertising at any time; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with direct advertising. If you object, we will no longer process your data for this purpose.
The objection can be made free of charge and informally without giving reasons and can be addressed to us in any way.
9. SSL encryption:
This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Objection to advertising e-mails:
We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of our obligation to provide a legal notice for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.
This privacy policy was last revised on January 01, 2025.