Privacy Policy

The responsible party in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:

best-blu consulting with energy GmbH
Anne-Conway-Straße 6
28359 Bremen

Telefon: +49 (421) 491 811 80
Telefax: +49 (421) 491 811 81
Internet: https://www.best-blu.de
E-Mail: info@best-blu.de

Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details:

1. Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO)
2. Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO)
3. Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO)
4. Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO)
5. objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
   Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO)
6. If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You may at any time lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the controller.

You can contact the supervisory authority responsible for us (for the non-public sector) at the following address: State Commissioner for Data Protection of the State of Lower Saxony: Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz des Landes Niedersachen

Collection of general information when visiting our website

Nature and purpose of processing:

When you access our website, i.e., when you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

1. Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website
2. Ensuring a smooth use of our website
3. evaluation of system security and stability, and
4. for other administrative purposes.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal basis:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period:

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.

Provision prescribed or required:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website is not guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

Cookies

Since we, as in our projects, are very committed to our customers and interested parties, we do not use cookies. 

Social Media

Our website does not use any social media plugins. It is merely a matter of forwarding to the corresponding websites. In doing so, no data is transmitted to Facebook, Twitter, Xing or LinkedIn etc. from our website. Once they use these websites, the provider processes the data according to the respective privacy policy and terms of use.

YouTube

Our website provides links to YouTube videos. It is merely a matter of forwarding to the YouTube website (the best-blu YouTube channel). In doing so, no data is transmitted to YouTube from our website. Once you use YouTube, the provider processes the data according to the respective privacy policy and terms of use.

Contactform

Nature and purpose of processing:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the request and the subsequent response to the same. The provision of further data is optional.

Legal basis:

The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO).

By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO).

Recipient:

The recipient of the data is best-blu consulting with energy GmbH.

Storage period:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after the request has been processed.

If a contractual relationship arises, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after these periods have expired.

Provision mandatory or required:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.

Security measures

The bbc uses extensive technical and organizational security measures to protect data against misuse, accidental or intentional manipulation or against access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Contact and registration for events

Contact forms and contact by e-mail

If you contact us via the contact form or by e-mail or register for an event, the contact details you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and answering any follow-up questions. When contacting us, you can decide whether you would like to be informed about our services in the future and, if so, which ones.

Our range of services is generally aimed at business customers. As a rule, this is therefore business contact data provided to a person by their respective employer. We reserve the right to delete contact data if we determine that this is not the case.

The following data is collected by the bbc in the context of establishing contact and registering for an event according to relevance; mandatory fields are marked accordingly in the form and include:

• Salutation
• First name
• Last name
• E-mail address
• Company name

The data will be processed for the purposes of processing and responding to your request. The data will be deleted depending on your request and the legal requirements of the GDPR – in particular if you request us to do so (see section Your rights). Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Contacting and making appointments via Microsoft Bookings

We use Microsoft Bookings, a service of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as “Microsoft”), to arrange consultation appointments with you and to manage appointments. Microsoft Bookings is part of the overall office solution Microsoft Office 365 also offered by Microsoft.

By clicking on the corresponding button you will be directed to our Microsoft Teams Booking Page. The following data is collected:

• date of the appointment
• Your name
• Your E-mail address
• Your address
• Your telephone number
• Your adviser preferrence
• Your Notes to us

In addition to your IP address, Microsoft Bookings also processes meta/communication data (e.g. device and browser information).

The processing with regard to appointment scheduling and appointment management is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The processing of all other data is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to provide our customers with an easy way to book appointments and to use the services of a professional provider for this purpose.

You can view Microsoft’s privacy policy here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement

Event participation and appointment scheduling via Microsoft Forms or Microsoft Teams

We use Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Teams, a service provided by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as “Microsoft”) for event participation and appointment management. Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Teams are part of the overall office solution Microsoft Office 365 also offered by Microsoft.

By embeding via iFrame you will be directed to our Microsoft Forms and Booking pages. The following data is collected:

• First name
• Last name
• E-mail address
• Professional position
• Company name
• Confirmation of the event date

In addition to your IP address, Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Teams also process meta/communication data (e.g. device and browser information).

The processing with regard to event participation and appointment management is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The processing of all other data is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to provide our customers with an easy way to participate and to use the services of a professional provider for this purpose.

You can view Microsoft’s privacy policy here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement

Events with partners

At regular intervals, the bbc organizes campaigns in cooperation with its partners in which, for example, webinars, live formats and white papers are provided. You can benefit from these events as a prospective or existing customer of the bbc or our partners. In return, we would like to contact you to give you the opportunity to get to know our service portfolio and our contacts. Your contact details will be passed on to partners or the technical organizer in accordance with the organizer’s conditions for the individual event. For tracking measures for advertising purposes, a corresponding consent to the use of cookies and other tracking technologies is required and is at your own discretion.
You can revoke your consent at any time via a link in the emails we send and contact us again yourself. The information from the forms, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored for a maximum of 180 days for the purpose of transmitting the requested information and in the event of follow-up questions. If we have aroused your interest and if you remain in active contact with us, we will only delete your contact details after the business purpose or statutory retention obligations no longer apply.

For individual events or campaigns, this procedure may be deviated from if an event-specific contact must be made by our partners or the bbc, if this is intended as a prerequisite for participation. In such cases, you will be informed of the data collection by the partner and, if you are interested, you consent to the data collection by our partners and the bbc. Our partners process the data collected in accordance with their data protection declarations.

Data processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1, lit. a and f GDPR. You can withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Newsletter

You have the option of registering for the free newsletter on our website. We would like to point out that our range of services is generally aimed at existing and potential business customers and not at private individuals. We therefore reserve the right to prevent you from being included in the list of recipients. For registration to be effective, we require your legally valid consent. In order to verify that the registration is actually made by the owner of the e-mail address, you will receive a confirmation e-mail during the registration process with a link that you must click in order to complete the registration. This contains a link to our website’s privacy policy so that you can find out more about data protection. We keep a record of the newsletter subscription registration as proof of your consent. In addition, we send newsletters to existing customers to inform you about our services and current topics. You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter or object to receiving the newsletter at any time by clicking on the clearly visible link at the end of the respective newsletter and unsubscribing in the subscription center or contacting us by email. As a result, you will not receive any further newsletters in future unless you ask us to do so again. The bbc uses CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Schafjückenweg 2, 26180 Rastede, Germany (hereinafter referred to as “CleverReach”). CleverReach is a service with which the newsletter dispatch can be organized and analyzed. The data you enter for the purpose of receiving the newsletter (e.g. e-mail address) is stored on CleverReach’s servers in Germany or Ireland. The statistical surveys also include determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. Although this information can technically be assigned to individual newsletter recipients, an analysis of personal data is disabled and information about newsletter recipients is only evaluated in pseudonymized form and cannot be decrypted and assigned to individual persons. In the case of interested parties without contractual relationships, data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Newsletters may be sent to existing customers on the basis of Section 7 (3) UWG in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR; tracking is also carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The storage of data to prove your consent is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.
The sending of the newsletter and the use of pseudonymized tracking is generally based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Newsletters are sent to existing customers for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Section 7(3) UWG in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. You have the right to object to future data processing at any time. The storage of data as proof of your consent is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Your rights

When processing personal data, the GDPR grants you the following rights as a website user:

Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR):

SYou have the right to request confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed; if this is the case, you have the right to information about this personal data and to the information listed in detail in Art. 15 GDPR.

Right to rectification and erasure (Art. 16 and 17 GDPR):

You have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data/information concerning you and, where applicable, the completion of incomplete personal data/information.
You also have the right to demand that personal data concerning you be deleted immediately if one of the reasons listed in Art. 17 GDPR applies, e.g. if the data is no longer required for the purposes pursued.

Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR):

You have the right to request the restriction of processing if one of the conditions listed in Art. 18 GDPR is met, e.g. if you have objected to the processing, for the duration of any review.

Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR):

In certain cases, which are listed in detail in Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request the transmission of this data to a third party.

Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR):

If data is collected on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f (data processing to safeguard legitimate interests), you have the right to object to the processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. We will then no longer process the personal data unless there are demonstrably compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Right to withdraw consent (Art. 7 GDPR):

You have the right to withdraw your consent to data processing on our website at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. You were informed of this by the link to this privacy policy before giving your consent.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR):

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of data concerning you infringes data protection regulations. The right to lodge a complaint can be exercised in particular with a supervisory authority in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement. The supervisory authority for data protection in Lower Saxony (State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony) is responsible.
You also have the right to contact the bbc’s data protection officer directly in this regard.

Data protection in the application process

In the course of your application, you provide us with personal data in the sense of data protection law. A legal basis is required for this. This legal basis is as follows:

• DSGVO Art. 88 para. 1
• BDSG §26 para. 1, 2
• Priority: Your express consent to the use of your application documents in our applicant selection process

Regardless of where your data is accessed, best-blu ensures the protection of your personal data and complies with data protection laws.

Your data will be stored in the European Economic Area in accordance with the requirements of the EU-DSGVO.

Voluntariness

Your input of data in the online form on our website and the sending of personal data and in particular your consent to our data processing are voluntary. Your consent is required so that we can include and process your data in our applicant management system.

Consent

By entering your data, you consent to the storage and processing of your personal data within best-blu ans BTC-Group for the purpose of filling a vacancy.

The usual categories of data collected are:

• Cover letter with contact details (telephone, mail, postal address)
• curriculum vitae
• Certificates and professional / technical qualification certificates

If you do not want to or cannot consent, please contact our process manager directly (see below). Please note that we cannot consider your application without your consent.

Purpose of collecting and processing your personal data
With your application, you are showing us your interest in working for our company and providing us with your personal data beyond your specific application for the purpose of filling a position.

The personal data collected from you will be used exclusively for the purpose of filling a position in the applicant selection process in order to check your suitability for the position applied for as well as alternative job offers.

Your personal data will not be made available to third parties outside of best-blu / BTC-Group, unless there is an official order to do so.

Revocation

Should you no longer wish this from a certain point in time, you can send an e-mail to bewerbung@best-blu.de with your contact details for the purpose of verifying your identity. Your data will be deleted immediately after confirmation of your identity.

Access rights

As part of the application process, your data will be processed by the person responsible for recruiting at best-blu / BTC-Group as well as other authorized persons in the selection process, in particular the managers involved in the application process within the BTC-Group.

Your rights

We would like to point out that you generally have the following rights:

• Information about your personal data
• Correction of your personal data
• Deletion of your personal data
• Restriction of the processing of your personal data
• Right to object to the processing
• Right to data transfer

To exercise your rights, please send an email to bewerbung@best-blu.de with your contact details (identification and feedback) and, where possible, the context of your request.

If you have a reason to complain about our data processing, you can contact our data protection officer appointed in accordance with legal requirements (details below).

Retention of your personal data

We store your personal data for as long as it is necessary to carry out the application process and only for as long as you agree (revocation). If after twelve months your application is no longer part of an application process, your application documents and records as well as correspondence will be deleted.
If we are able to offer you a position in your interest, we will ask for your consent again before the end of the period and, if necessary, in consultation to update your details.

Consent of applicants (up to 15 years of age)

If you are under 16 years of age, we must insist on the consent of your legal guardian (usually your parents) by informally providing their contact details and signature on this document and enclosing it in your application documents. If you are unable to do this for valid reasons, please contact the person responsible for the process.

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection statement will then apply to your next visit.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

Company Data Protection Officer best-blu consulting with energy GmbH:

Anne-Conway-Straße 6
28359 Bremen

Telefon: +49 (421) 491 811 80

E-Mail: info@best-blu.de