Privacy

General information on the purposes of data processing

We primarily process personal data in order to make available information about our products and services and to meet our contractual obligations to our customers.

We provide a variety of services which involve processing personal data. It is not possible for us to describe every detail of every type of processing. This is why we are giving you the essential information about data processing.

We primarily process data in order to meet our contractual obligations to our customers and users. Apart from that, we process your data for the purposes of our legitimate interests, taking into consideration your interests. In many cases, we are legally obliged to process data (for example, to provide data to investigating authorities). In all other cases, we obtain separate consent from you to your data being processed (for example, in smart home applications).

Information that you share with us 

These are data that we obtain directly from you and information that you enter or submit on Viega websites and microsites, such as:

• Contact data (for example telephone number, email address)
• Address and payment data
• Access details for portals and applications (for example, user name and password)
• News, newsletter subscription, participation in events

Information that we obtain automatically as a result of your visits to Viega websites 

When you use or visit the web-based offerings of the Viega Group, your data is automatically collected by tracking technologies. Here you can find out:

• How tracking works
• Why we use tracking (to guarantee security, provide our services, assess the success of advertising and improve it and collect statistics).

Information about you that we obtain from other sources

We also process data relating to you that we have not collected directly from you. This may be information provided by third parties or data that we have obtained from other sources.

Who has access to your data? 

Here you can find out who we disclose your data to, what purpose this is for and how we protect your privacy at Viega. We only pass your personal data to third parties if:

• We need to do this for business purposes, for example, when we give you the option of choosing among several payment service providers.
• You have given your consent (for example, to the use of an external application).
• We are obliged to by law, by a court or by an official body.

What are your rights? 

Here you can find detailed information about your rights:

• Your right to object
• Your right to access your data
• Your right to erasure
• Other rights

Binding Corporate Rules

As an international company, we may also process personal data cross-border. In order to ensure a uniform and adequate level of data protection worldwide in such cases, we have implemented binding internal data protection regulations, known as Binding Corporate Rules (BCR).

These BCR have been comprehensively reviewed and approved by European data protection authorities. They set binding standards for the processing of personal data for our entire group of companies and comprehensively safeguard your rights as a data subject.

You can find our BCR here: 

We have explained the terms used in the privacy statement for you to understand: 

Viega: A company in the Viega Group that provides a service to a customer or potential customer. Unless otherwise stated, this refers to Viega GmbH & Co. KG.

Viega Group: All the companies in the Viega Group, regardless of whether or not they have Viega in their name.

Data Protection Manager: The person responsible for the Viega Group's Data Protection Management System.

Data Protection Officer: The person designated for one or more companies in accordance with Article 37 GDPR who performs the tasks described in Article 39 GDPR.

GDPR: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

BCR: The Binding Corporate Rules of the Viega Group (BCR) are a binding internal data protection policy.

Personal data: In accordance with Article 4 (1) GDPR, any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Profile: Viega platforms where the personal data entered by users are stored, displayed or otherwise processed.

Cookies: Small files that allow us to provide you, the user, with specific information that is relevant to you on your end device. You can block the storage of cookies via your browser settings.

Profiling: In accordance with Article 4 (4) GDPR, any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

Newsletter: Newsletters, status emails and adverts for our own similar products and services or our own market research surveys.

Third country: A country outside the EU and the EEA.

When you visit our Facebook pages, we collect the personal data described below in order to communicate with the interested parties and users active there and to inform them about Viega.

Account data

Interaction with Viega on the corresponding Facebook pages requires a user account created there with personal data stored by you.

Category

• User name
• Other data that you disclose about yourself in your profile, e.g. first name and surname, mobile phone number or e-mail address, date of birth, gender, profile photo 

Disclosure

Any comments that you leave on posts, together with your user name and any profile photo, are public and can be seen by anyone who watches that post. You can decide whether and to what extent your personal data can be seen by others viewing your profile by going to your account settings and configuring the information that you share.

Private messages are not visible to third parties and are not forwarded.

Storage period

Your visible account data will be deleted when a site is closed. 

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Data controller

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

You can find the privacy policy at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

We collect the personal data described below in order to communicate with the interested parties and users active there and to be able to inform them about Viega.

Account data 

Interaction with Viega on the corresponding Instagram pages requires a user account created there with personal data stored by you.

Category

• User name
• Other data that you disclose about yourself in your profile, e.g. first name and surname, gender, profile photo 

Disclosure

Any comments that you leave on posts, together with your user name and any profile photo, are public and can be seen by anyone who watches that post. You can decide whether and to what extent your personal data can be seen by others viewing your profile by going to your account settings and configuring the information that you share.

Private messages are not visible to third parties and are not forwarded.

Storage period

Your visible account data will be deleted when a site is closed. 

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Data controller

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

You can find the privacy policy at: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect.

When you visit our YouTube channels, we collect the following personal data in order to communicate with users and potential customers who are active on the channels and to inform them about Viega.

Account data

Interacting with Viega on the Viega YouTube channels requires a Google or YouTube user account. To create an account, you must provide personal data. 

Category

Data of the Google account or the specially created YouTube channel:

• Username
• First name, surname
• Mobile number or e-mail address
• Other data that you disclose about yourself in your profile, e.g. profile photo

Disclosure

Any comments that you leave on videos, together with your user name and any profile photo, are public and can be seen by anyone who watches that video. You can decide whether and to what extent your personal data can be seen by others viewing your profile by going to your account settings and configuring the information that you share.

Private messages are not visible to third parties and are not forwarded.

Storage period

Your visible account data are deleted when you change your account's privacy settings.

Legal basis

The legal basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Data controller

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

You can find YouTube's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

When you visit our LinkedIn page, we collect the personal data described below in order to communicate with the interested parties and applicants active there and to inform them about Viega as an employer.

Account data

Interaction with Viega on the corresponding LinkedIn page requires a user account created there with personal data provided by you.

Category

• First name, surname
• E-mail address
• Data about your professional career and other data that you disclose about yourself in your profile or CV

Disclosure

Your likes and comments left on the Viega LinkedIn page are visible to all page visitors. You decide via your account settings whether and to what extent your personal data is visible when others visit your profile.

Private messages are not visible to third parties and are not forwarded.

Storage period

Your visible account data will be deleted when the site is closed.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Data controller

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

You can find the privacy policy at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

When you visit our Xing page, we collect the personal data described below in order to communicate with the interested parties and applicants active there and to inform them about Viega as an employer.

Account data

Interaction with Viega on the corresponding Xing page requires a user account created there with personal data provided by you.

Category

• First name, surname
• E-mail address
• Data about your professional career and other data that you disclose about yourself in your profile or CV

Disclosure

Your likes and comments left on the Viega Xing page are visible to all page visitors. You decide whether and to what extent other personal data is visible when you visit your profile using your account settings.

Private messages are not visible to third parties and are not forwarded.

Storage period

Your visible account data will be deleted when the site is closed.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Data controller 

New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

You can find the privacy policy at: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

We have an online presence on the employer review platform kununu. We do not receive any information about users. User reviews are submitted anonymously. 

Category

• Required: Employment Status
• Optional: Position, Department

Disclosure

Your anonymous review is visible to all visitors to the kununu website. 

Storage period

Your review will be deleted when the site is closed.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Data controller 

kununu GmbH, Arabellastraße 23, 81925 München, Germany.

You can find the privacy policy at: https://www.kununu.com/de/info/datenschutz?x-lang=en_US.