Data protection policy for MELCHERS’ LinkedIn company sites
1. Joint controllers, data protection officer
As a matter of principle, the controller for the processing of personal data within the meaning of Article 4 No. 1 of the GDPR (“Data”) and in particular for a potential transfer of your data to the USA when visiting LinkedIn is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”). Further information about the processing of personal data by LinkedIn can be found at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy.
However, when you visit or follow our LinkedIn company page, LinkedIn processes personal data to provide us with anonymised statistics and insights. This provides us with insights into the types of actions people take on our page (so-called page insights). It is not possible for us to deactivate this analysis function.
The joint controllers of this processing pursuant to Art. 26 para. 1 and Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR are
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn”).
Wilton Place,
Dublin 2, Ireland
and
MELCHERS Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB (“MELCHERS” or “we”)
Im Breitspiel 21
69126 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 (0)6221 – 18 50 -0
E-mail: heidelberg@melchers-law.com
Fax: +49 (0)6221 – 18 50 -100 .
You can reach the data protection officer of MELCHERS as follows:
MELCHERS Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB.
Mr. Frank Henry Frenz (DataTrust&Safety)
Im Breitspiel 21
69126 Heidelberg
E-mail: datenschutz@k-ebbeckemelchers-law-com
You can reach LinkedIn’s data protection officer at the following link: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO
2. Type and purpose of data processing, legal basis, storage period
In order to provide us with the above-mentioned analyses, LinkedIn processes in particular such data that you have already provided to LinkedIn via the information in your profile, such as data on function, country, industry, seniority, company size and employment status. In addition, LinkedIn processes information about how you interact with our LinkedIn company page, e.g. whether you are a follower of our LinkedIn company page. With the page insights, LinkedIn does not provide us with any individual personal data about you. We only have access to the aggregated page insights. It is also not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual members using the information in the page insights.
The purpose of the data transfer to us is the evaluation of page views and visitor numbers.
The legal basis for the associated processing of your data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. We process your data to meet our legitimate interest in evaluating the types of actions taken on our LinkedIn company pages and to improve our company pages on the basis of these findings.
The analysis data is available to us on our LinkedIn profile for one month and is then rewritten with the new analysis. We do not process or store this data elsewhere, nor do we share it.
If you contact us on LinkedIn via the comment function, we read these comments. If a comment contains a request and we respond to it, depending on the communication channel of our response, together with the response we will inform you about the associated data processing. We do not copy or save comments on our LinkedIn page.
3. Essential content of the joint controller agreement
We have concluded a joint controller agreement with LinkedIn which sets out the allocation of data protection law obligations between us and LinkedIn. The agreement is available at https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.
LinkedIn and we have agreed that LinkedIn is responsible for enabling you to exercise your rights under the GDPR. You can contact LinkedIn online via the following link www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/PPQ?lang=de or contact LinkedIn via the contact details in its privacy policy. You can contact the Data Protection Officer at LinkedIn Ireland via the following link: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO. To exercise your rights in relation to the processing of personal data in the context of page insights, you may also contact us using the contact details provided. In such a case, we will forward your request to LinkedIn.
LinkedIn and we have agreed that the Irish Data Protection Commission is the lead supervisory authority overseeing processing for page insights. You always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (see at www.dataprotection.ie) or any other supervisory authority.
4. Your rights
Under the provisions of the GDPR, you have the following rights:
- Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR),
- Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR),
- Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
- Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
- Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).
You have the right to revoke consent given to us at any time with effect for the future. In addition, you can object to the processing of your data described here for the purpose of safeguarding legitimate interests at any time with effect for the future in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR. If the processing is not for direct marketing purposes, the right to object only exists for reasons arising from your particular situation. You can also complain to a supervisory authority at any time. The supervisory authority responsible for us is:
Landesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg
Heilbronner Straße 35
70191 Stuttgart
Phone: 0711/615541-0
Fax: 0711/615541-15
E-mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de
This privacy policy is dated July 2022. Should there be any changes to the processing at LinkedIn or to the legal situation, corresponding adjustments to this privacy policy will probably also be made. We therefore reserve the right to change the privacy policy at any time with effect for the future.