Privacy Policy

Privacy and Cookie Policy

KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH

This Privacy Policy describes how KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH (hereinafter: KYOCERA) processes personal data (see also definition in Part D, I. ) when you use its websites. It also explains the choices you have regarding your personal data ("your rights") and how you can contact us.

Within the scope of our responsibility under data protection law, additional obligations have been imposed on us by the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679; hereinafter: "GDPR") in order to ensure the protection of personal data of the data subject (we also refer to you as data subject hereinafter as "customer", "user", "you", "you" or "data subject").

Insofar as we decide either alone or jointly with others on the purposes and means of data processing, this includes above all the obligation to inform you transparently about the nature, scope, purpose, duration and legal basis of the processing (cf. Art. 13 and 14 DS-GVO). With this declaration (hereinafter: "data protection notice"), we inform you about the manner in which your personal data is processed by us.

Our data protection notices have a modular structure. They consist of a general part for all processing of personal data and processing situations that come into play every time a website is called up (A - General) and a special part, the content of which only relates to the processing situation specified there with the designation of the respective offer or product, in particular the visit to websites specified in more detail here (B - Visit to and use of our Internet offers / social media; C - Cookie policy; D - Data protection declaration for business partners and interested parties; E - Information for applicants; F - Webshop; G - Competitions).

In order to be able to find the parts that are relevant to you, please refer to the following overview for the subdivision of the data protection notices:

Part A

General

This part is always relevant for you.

Part B

Plugin, Tools and Social Media

This section is relevant for you if you use our German website, including our social media presence.

Part C

Cookie Policy

This part is always relevant for you.

Part D

Business partners and interested parties

This part is relevant for you if you want to work with us as a service provider, supplier or similar partner,

are already in an ongoing business relationship with us or have been in the past.

Part E

Applicants

This part is relevant for you if you apply for employment as an employee or trainee with us.

Part F

Webshop

This part is relevant for you if you use our webshop.

Part G

Raffles

This section is relevant to you if you enter a competition or prize draw offered by us.

Part A

General

I. Who is responsible and how can I contact the Data Protection Officer?

The responsible person within the meaning of the DSGVO is

KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH

Steinzeugstraße 92

68229 Mannheim

Tel.: +49 (0)621 - 40547-300

E-mail: info@kyocera-fineceramics.de

Commercial register number: HRB 734232, Mannheim Local Court

Managing Directors: Dr Carsten Rußner, Armin Kayser

Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Kunihiko Ueki

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data by us or about data protection in general, please contact the data protection officer as follows:

KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH Data Protection Officer

Mr Richard Büsker

Stoneware Road 92

68229 Mannheim

E-mail: datenschutz(at)kyocera-fineceramics.de

II. Purposes and legal bases for the processing of personal data

Unless otherwise stated, the legal basis for the processing of your data is Article 6 (1) (a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). Accordingly, we are permitted to process the data required to fulfil a task incumbent upon us.

III. duration of the storage of personal data

Your data will only be stored for as long as is necessary for the fulfilment of tasks, taking into account statutory retention periods.

IV. Your rights as a data subject

If we process your personal data, you have the following rights as a data subject:

If your personal data is processed, you have the right to obtain information about the data stored about you (Art. 15 DSGVO).
If inaccurate personal data is processed, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 DSGVO).
If the legal requirements are met, you can request the deletion or restriction of processing (Art. 17, 18 DSGVO).
If you have consented to the processing or if there is a contract for data processing and the data processing is carried out with the help of automated procedures, you may have a right to data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO).
If you have consented to the processing and the processing is based on this consent, you can revoke the consent at any time for the future. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected by this. You have the right to object to the processing of your data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation if the processing is based on Article 6(1)(e) of the GDPR (Article 21(1)(1) of the GDPR).

V. Note on data transfer to the USA

Among other things, tools from companies based in the USA are integrated on our website. If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to the US servers of the respective companies. We would like to point out that the USA is not a safe third country in the sense of EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as a data subject being able to take legal action against this. It can therefore not be ruled out that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) process, evaluate and permanently store your data located on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

VI. Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent you have already given at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. Right to object to data collection in special cases as well as to

a. Direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

If the data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) e or f DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this data protection declaration. If you object, we will 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 purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims (objection under Article 21(1) of the GDPR).

If your personal data are processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of the personal data concerned for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for the purpose of direct advertising (objection pursuant to Art. 21. para. 2 DSGVO).

a. Right of complaint to the supervisory authority

The contact details of the supervisory authority responsible for our company's registered office are:

The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Baden-Württemberg

Home address:

Königstrasse 10 a

70173 Stuttgart

Postal address:

PO Box 10 29 32

70025 Stuttgart

Tel.: 0711/615541-0

FAX: 0711/615541-15

E-mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de

Part B

Visit and use of our internet offers / social media

In the following, we would like to give you an overview of how we ensure the protection of your personal data when you visit our website and which types of personal data we process for which purposes and to what extent.

I. Special notes on the internet offer

1. external hosting

Our web server is operated by the company bitzinger GmbH. The personal data you transmit when visiting our website is therefore processed on our behalf by the company bitzinger GmbH.

Contact details:

Name of processor: bitzinger GmbH

Postal address: Ossecker Str. 174, 95030 Hof

E-mail: info@bitzinger.de

The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster's servers. This may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contractual data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 b DSGVO) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO).

Our hoster will only process your data to the extent that this is necessary for the fulfilment of its service obligations and will follow our instructions with regard to this data.

In order to ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded an order processing contract with our hoster.

Remark:

Bitzinger GmbH uses Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG, Königsberger Str. 4-6, 32339 Espelkamp, Germany, as a subcontractor with regard to hosting.

For details, please refer to Mittwald's privacy policy: www.mittwald.de/datenschutz.

The use of Mittwald is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website is presented as reliably 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 DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as defined by the TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

2. logging

When you access this or other Internet pages, you transmit data to the web server via your Internet browser. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server:

- IP address

- Directory protection user

- Date

- Time

- pages viewed

- Protocols

- Status code

- Data volume

- Referrer

- User Agent

- called hostname

The access logs of the web servers record which page requests have taken place and when.

The IP addresses are stored anonymously. For this purpose, the last three digits are removed, i.e. 127.0.0.1 becomes 127.0.0.*. IPv6 addresses are also anonymised. The anonymised IP addresses are retained for 60 days. Details of the directory protection user used are anonymised after one day.

Error logs, which record faulty page views, are deleted after seven days. In addition to the error messages, these contain the accessing IP address and, depending on the error, the accessed website.

The mail logs for sending emails from the web environment are anonymised after one day and then retained for 60 days. During anonymisation, all data on the sender/recipient etc. is removed. Only the data on the time of sending and the information on how the email was processed are retained (queue ID or not sent).

Mail logs for sending via the mail server are deleted after four weeks. The longer retention period is necessary to ensure the functionality of the mail services and to combat spam.

This data is not merged with other data sources.

The collection of this data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of its website - for this purpose, the server log files must be collected.

3. processing of data when accessing our website - log files

When you visit our website, 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 and similar. In addition, the IP address is transmitted and used to access the service you have requested. This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the content of web pages requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet.

According to our IT security concept, the resulting log file data is generally stored for a period of 30 days in order to be able to detect and analyse any attacks against our website. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

We also use contracted, carefully selected and controlled service providers outside the EU. To ensure the adequacy of the level of data protection, we have agreed the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission with these service providers, unless the Commission has determined by decision the equivalence of the level of data protection in the recipient country or the exemptions of Art. 49 GDPR are applicable.

4. processing of data when using the website - your requests

If you send us an enquiry by e-mail or via the contact form, we collect the data you provide for the purpose of processing and responding to your request. We store your enquiry for a period of up to two years for verification purposes. Depending on the nature of your enquiry, a longer storage period may apply; we provide information on this in the respective purposes of processing. Legal basis for data processing Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f DSGVO.

II. Notes on ensuring data security

We take technical and operational security precautions on our sites to protect the personal data we store from access by third parties, loss or misuse and to enable secure data transfer.

We must point out that, due to the structure of the Internet, unauthorised access to data by third parties may occur. It is therefore also your responsibility to protect your data against misuse by encrypting it or in any other way. Without appropriate protective measures, unencrypted data in particular, even if transmitted by e-mail, can be read by third parties.

III. Plugins, tools and social media

1. integration of YouTube videos on our website

This website embeds videos from the website YouTube. The operator of the pages is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in extended data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. However, the disclosure of data to YouTube partners is not necessarily excluded by the extended data protection mode. Thus, YouTube establishes a connection to the Google DoubleClick network - regardless of whether you watch a video.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, after starting a video, YouTube may store various cookies on your end device or use comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve the user experience and prevent fraud attempts.

If necessary, further data processing operations may be triggered after the start of a YouTube video, over which we have no influence.

YouTube is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

For more information about privacy at YouTube, please see their privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

2. google maps

This site uses the map service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission. If Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Fonts for the purpose of uniform display of fonts. When you call up Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. Insofar as a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.

More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

3. Google reCAPTCHA

We use "Google reCAPTCHA" (hereinafter "reCAPTCHA") on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated programme. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent by the website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not notified that an analysis is taking place.

The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as defined by the TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA, please see the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service at the following links: policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=de.

4. newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected or only on a voluntary basis. For the handling of the newsletter, we use newsletter service providers, which are described below.

CleverReach

This website uses CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co KG, Schafjückenweg 2, 26180 Rastede, Germany (hereinafter "CleverReach"). CleverReach is a service with which the newsletter dispatch can be organised and analysed. The data you enter for the purpose of receiving newsletters (e.g. email address) is stored on CleverReach's servers in Germany or Ireland.

Our newsletters sent with CleverReach allow us to analyse the behaviour of the newsletter recipients. Among other things, we can analyse how many recipients have opened the newsletter message and how often which link in the newsletter was clicked. With the help of so-called conversion tracking, it can also be analysed whether a predefined action (e.g. purchase of a product on this website) has taken place after clicking on the link in the newsletter. For more information on data analysis through CleverReach newsletters, please visit: www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/.

The data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

If you do not want any analysis by CleverReach, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a corresponding link in every newsletter message.

The data you provide us with for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.

After you have unsubscribed from the newsletter distribution list, your email address will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider in a blacklist if necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). The storage in the blacklist is not limited in time. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

For more details, please refer to CleverReach's privacy policy at: www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.

Job processing

We have concluded a contract on order processing (AVV) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that this service only processes the personal data of our website visitors in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

5. contact form ( request )

If you enter personal or business data (e-mail addresses, names, addresses, etc.) on our website, this data will be used exclusively for sending the requested information or for the purposes stated in the form. Your data is encrypted during transport to the mail server using software (SSL) and is protected from being read by third parties. The transmission by mail afterwards is not encrypted (see point 15). The data will not be passed on to third parties. The use of the services offered there is on a voluntary basis.

Data category:
First and last name (mandatory)

E-mail address (mandatory)
Area selection (mandatory)
Message (mandatory)

6. KYOCERA profiles on social networks

KYOCERA continues to use various other presences in so-called social media platforms. We currently operate these presences with the following providers:

Facebook, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland; privacy information available at de-de.facebook.com/privacy/policy; account URL: https://www.facebook.com/Kyoceracuisinefrance/ https://www.facebook.com/KFEGMA and https://www.facebook.com/kyocera.selb/

YouTube, Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, privacy information available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
LinkedIn, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, privacy information available at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Instagram, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland; privacy information available at help.instagram.com/397451835844752, URL of the account: https://www.instagram.com/kyocera.mannheim/ and https://www.instagram.com/kyocera_selb/

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. can usually comprehensively analyse your user behaviour when you visit their website or a website with integrated social media content (e.g. like buttons or advertising banners). By visiting our social media presences, numerous data protection-relevant processing operations are triggered.

a. In detail:

If you are logged into your social media account and visit our social media presence, the operator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. However, your personal data may also be collected under certain circumstances if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respective social media portal. In this case, this data collection takes place, for example, via cookies that are stored on your end device or by recording your IP address.

With the help of the data collected in this way, the operators of the social media portals can create user profiles in which your preferences and interests are stored. In this way, interest-based advertising can be displayed to you inside and outside the respective social media presence. If you have an account with the respective social network, the interest-based advertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are or were logged in.

Please also note that we cannot track all processing operations on the social media portals. Depending on the provider, further processing procedures may therefore be carried out by the operators of the social media portals. For details, please refer to the terms of use and data protection provisions of the respective social media portals.

Legal basis

Our social media presences are intended to ensure the most comprehensive presence possible on the internet. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The analysis processes initiated by the social networks may be based on different legal grounds, which are to be stated by the operators of the social networks (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

b. Responsible person and assertion of rights

If you visit one of our social media sites (e.g. Facebook), we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. In principle, you can assert your rights (information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and complaint) both vis-à-vis us and vis-à-vis the operator of the respective social media portal (e.g. vis-à-vis Facebook).

Please note that despite the joint responsibility with the social media portal operators, we do not have full influence on the data processing operations of the social media portals. Our options are largely determined by the corporate policy of the respective provider.

c. Storage period

The data collected directly by us via the social media presence is deleted from our systems as soon as the purpose for storing it no longer applies, you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Stored cookies remain on your end device until you delete them. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

We have no influence on the storage period of your data, which is stored by the operators of the social networks for their own purposes. For details, please contact the operators of the social networks directly (e.g. in their privacy policy, see below).

d. Social networks in detail

Facebook

We have a profile on Facebook. The provider of this service is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. According to Facebook, the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

We have entered into a joint processing agreement (Controller Addendum) with Facebook.

This agreement sets out the data processing operations for which we or Facebook are responsible when you visit our Facebook page. You can view this agreement at the following link: www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

You can adjust your advertising settings yourself in your user account. To do so, click on the following link and log in: www.facebook.com/settings.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum and en-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

For details, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy: www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

YouTube

We have a profile on YouTube. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Details on how they handle your personal data can be found in YouTube's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

LinkedIn

We have a profile on LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. LinkedIn uses advertising cookies.

If you would like to deactivate LinkedIn advertising cookies, please use the following link: www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa and www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs.

For details on how they handle your personal data, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy: www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

The providers describe what information the social media platform receives and how it is used in their data protection declarations (see link in the table). There you will also find information on contact options as well as on the settings options for advertisements. Further information on social networks and how you can protect your data can also be found at www.youngdata.de.

Instagram

We have a profile on Instagram. The provider is Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. For details on how they handle your personal data, please refer to Instagram's privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 and de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

7. use of Facebook Pixel and Facebook Custom Audience (Remarketing)

We use the so-called "Facebook pixel" of the company "Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd." (Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland) on our websites. The Facebook pixel enables us to classify visitors to our website into specific target groups in order to display corresponding advertisements ("ads") to you on Facebook. The data collected (e.g. IP addresses, information on the web browser, the location of the website, buttons clicked, pixel IDs if applicable and other characteristics) are not visible to us ourselves, but can only be used in the context of displaying certain advertisements. So-called cookies are also set as part of the use of the Facebook pixel code.

If you have a Facebook account and are logged in, your visit to this website will be assigned to your Facebook user account.

In some cases, we also use the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" of the company "Facebook". This allows users of the website to be shown interest-based advertisements ("Facebook ads") when visiting Facebook or other websites that also use this procedure. In this way, we pursue the interest of showing you advertisements that correspond to your interests in order to make our website more interesting for you.

In order to exchange the respective data, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Facebook through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our state of knowledge: Through the integration of Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives the information that you have called up the corresponding web page of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a "Facebook" service, "Facebook" can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider may obtain and store your IP address and other identifying features.

If you have consented to this, we may pass on your telephone number or email address to "Facebook" in order to be able to show you advertisements that correspond to your interests.

You can find out how the Facebook pixel is used for advertising campaigns at www.facebook.com/business/learn/facebook-ads-pixel.
More information on Facebook's data policy can be found at www.facebook.com/policy.php.
For more information on data processing by Facebook, please visit www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

Purposes of data processing

We use these functions in order to provide you with advertising offers that correspond to your interests.

Legal basis

We process your data because you have consented to this or because we have a legitimate interest in processing the data, Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a. and f DS-GVO.

Storage duration and control options

We store your data as long as we need it for the respective purpose (display of interest-based advertising) or you have not objected to the storage of your data or revoked your consent.

Deactivating the "Facebook Custom Audiences" function is possible for logged-in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_.
You can change your Facebook ad settings at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen as long as you are logged into Facebook.

Part C

Our Cookie Policy

I. General information on the use of cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal device and saved by your browser. They serve to make our offers more user-friendly, effective and secure. We use both so-called temporary cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser ("session cookies"), and persistent (permanent) cookies.

You have the choice of whether to allow cookies to be set. You can make changes in your browser settings. In principle, you have the choice of accepting all cookies, being informed when cookies are set or rejecting all cookies. If you choose the latter option, it is possible that you will not be able to make full use of our services.

When cookies are used, a distinction must be made between cookies that are absolutely necessary and those for more extensive purposes (measuring access figures, advertising purposes).

II. Mandatory cookies when using the website

When you access this website, we store technical cookies (small files) on your device that are valid for the duration of your visit to the website, so-called session cookies. We only use these during your visit to our website and only store the current session ID of the browser.

This cookie is removed again when the browser session is ended.

IP addresses are not stored.

III. Use of cookies with your consent with Usercentrics Consent Management

This website uses the consent technology of Usercentrics to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your end device or to the use of certain technologies and to document this in a data protection compliant manner. The provider of this technology is Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich, website: usercentrics.com/en/ (hereinafter "Usercentrics").

When you enter our website, the following personal data is transferred to Usercentrics:

Your consent(s) or the revocation of your consent(s)
Your IP address
Information about your browser
Information about your terminal
Time of your visit to the website

Furthermore, Usercentrics stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to allocate the consents granted to you or their revocation. The data collected in this way is stored until you request us to delete it, delete the Usercentrics cookie yourself or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory legal storage obligations remain unaffected.

Usercentrics is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of certain technologies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO.

Job processing

1. evaluation of user behaviour (web tracking systems; reach measurement)

a. Google Tag Manager

We use the Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The Google Tag Manager is a tool that enables us to integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. The Google Tag Manager itself does not create user profiles, does not store cookies and does not perform any independent analyses. It only serves to manage and play out the tools integrated via it. However, the Google Tag Manager collects your IP address, which may also be transmitted to Google's parent company in the United States.

The use of the Google Tag Manager is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in a quick and uncomplicated integration and management of various tools on his website. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as defined by the TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

b. Google Analytics 4

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyse the behaviour of website visitors. In doing so, the website operator receives various usage data, such as page views, length of stay, operating systems used and the origin of the user. This data is summarised in a user ID and assigned to the respective end device of the website visitor.

Furthermore, Google Analytics allows us to record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Furthermore, Google Analytics uses various modelling approaches to complement the data sets collected and uses machine learning technologies in the data analysis.

Google Analytics uses technologies that enable the recognition of the user for the purpose of analysing user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google about the use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

Browser plugin

You can prevent the collection and processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can find more information on how Google Analytics handles user data in Google's privacy policy: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

c. Google signals

We use Google signals. When you visit our website, Google Analytics collects, among other things, your location, search history and YouTube history, as well as demographic data (visitor data). This data can be used for personalised advertising with the help of Google signals. If you have a Google account, the visitor data from Google Signal will be linked to your Google account and used for personalised advertising messages. The data is also used to create anonymised statistics on the user behaviour of our users.

Job processing

We have concluded an order processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

d. Google Analytics E-Commerce Measurement

This website uses the "e-commerce measurement" function of Google Analytics. With the help of e-commerce measurement, the website operator can analyse the purchasing behaviour of website visitors to improve its online marketing campaigns. This involves recording information such as orders placed, average order values, shipping costs and the time from viewing to purchasing a product. This data can be summarised by Google under a transaction ID that is assigned to the respective user or their device.

e. Google AdSense

This website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

With the help of Google Adsense, we can display targeted advertisements from third-party companies on our site. The content of the advertisements is based on your interests, which Google determines on the basis of your previous user behaviour. Furthermore, contextual information such as your location, the content of the website you visited or the Google search terms you entered are also taken into account when selecting the appropriate advertisement.

Google AdSense uses cookies, web beacons (invisible graphics) and similar recognition technologies. This can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on these pages.

The information collected by Google Adsense about the use of this website (including your IP address) and delivery of advertising formats will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. This information may be passed on by Google to Google's contractual partners. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data stored by you.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

f. LinkedIn Insight Tag

This website uses the Insight tag from LinkedIn. The provider of this service is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Data processing by LinkedIn Insight Tag

With the help of the LinkedIn Insight Tag, we receive information about the visitors to our website. If a website visitor is registered with LinkedIn, we can, among other things, analyse the key professional data (e.g. career level, company size, country, location, industry and job title) of our website visitors and thus better tailor our site to the respective target groups. Furthermore, we can use LinkedIn Insight Tags to measure whether visitors to our websites make a purchase or take any other action (conversion measurement). Conversion measurement can also be done across devices (e.g. from PC to tablet). LinkedIn Insight Tag also offers a retargeting function that allows us to display targeted advertising to visitors to our website outside of the website, whereby, according to LinkedIn, no identification of the advertising addressee takes place.

LinkedIn itself also collects so-called log files (URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties and time of access). The IP addresses are shortened or (if they are used to reach LinkedIn members across devices) hashed (pseudonymised). The direct identifiers of LinkedIn members are deleted by LinkedIn after seven days. The remaining pseudonymised data is then deleted within 180 days.

The data collected by LinkedIn cannot be assigned to specific individuals by us as the website operator. LinkedIn will store the collected personal data of website visitors on its servers in the USA and use it in the context of its own advertising measures. For details, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Legal basis

Insofar as consent has been obtained, the above-mentioned service is used exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, the use of this service is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO; the website operator has a legitimate interest in effective advertising measures including social media.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: www.linkedin.com/legal/l/dpa and www.linkedin.com/legal/l/eu-sccs.

Objection to the use of LinkedIn Insight Tag

You can object to the analysis of usage behaviour and targeted advertising by LinkedIn at the following link: www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

Furthermore, LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes in their account settings. To prevent LinkedIn from linking data collected on our website to your LinkedIn account, you must log out of your LinkedIn account before visiting our website.

Job processing

g. Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel)

This website uses the visitor action pixel from Facebook/Meta for conversion measurement. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. However, according to Facebook, the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

In this way, the behaviour of page visitors can be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider's website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This allows the effectiveness of the Facebook ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimised.

The data collected is anonymous for us as the operator of this website, we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with the Facebook data usage policy (https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/). This enables Facebook to display advertisements on Facebook pages as well as outside of Facebook. This use of the data cannot be influenced by us as the site operator.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

We use the advanced matching function within the meta pixel.

Advanced matching allows us to transmit to Meta (Facebook) various types of data (e.g. place of residence, state, postcode, hashed email addresses, names, gender, date of birth or phone number) of our customers and prospects that we collect through our website. This activation allows us to tailor our advertising campaigns on Facebook more precisely to people who are interested in our offers. In addition, advanced matching improves attribution of website conversions and enhances Custom Audiences.

Insofar as personal data is collected on our website with the help of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 DSGVO). The joint responsibility is limited exclusively to the collection of the data and its forwarding to Facebook. The processing by Facebook that takes place after the forwarding is not part of the joint responsibility. The obligations incumbent on us jointly have been set out in a joint processing agreement. The text of the agreement can be found at: www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing the data protection information when using the Facebook tool and for the data protection-secure implementation of the tool on our website. Facebook is responsible for the data security of the Facebook products. You can assert data subject rights (e.g. requests for information) regarding the data processed by Facebook directly with Facebook. If you assert the data subject rights with us, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook.

You can find more information about protecting your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy: en.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You can also deactivate the "Custom Audiences" remarketing function in the ad settings section at www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/. To do this, you must be logged in to Facebook.

If you do not have a Facebook account, you can disable usage-based advertising from Facebook on the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website: www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

h. SalesViewer®

This website uses SalesViewer® technology from SalesViewer® GmbH on the basis of the website operator’s legitimate interests (Section 6 paragraph 1 lit.f GDPR) in order to collect and save data on marketing, market research and optimisation purposes.

In order to do this, a javascript based code, which serves to capture company-related data and according website usage. The data captured using this technology are encrypted in a non-retrievable one-way function (so-called hashing). The data is immediately pseudonymised and is not used to identify website visitors personally.

The data stored by Salesviewer® will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and there are no legal obligations to retain them.

The data recording and storage can be repealed at any time with immediate effect for the future, by clicking on https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out in order to prevent SalesViewer® from recording your data. In this case, an opt-out cookie for this website is saved on your device. If you delete the cookies in the browser, you will need to click on this link again.

i. Google Ads
The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising programme of Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads enables us to display adverts in the Google search engine or on third-party websites when the user enters certain search terms into Google (keyword targeting). Furthermore, targeted adverts can be displayed based on the user data available at Google (e.g. location data and interests) (target group targeting). As the website operator, we can evaluate this data quantitatively by analysing, for example, which search terms led to the display of our advertisements and how many advertisements led to corresponding clicks.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/

j. Google Ads Conversion Tracking
The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising programme of Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads enables us to display adverts in the Google search engine or on third-party websites when the user enters certain search terms into Google (keyword targeting). Furthermore, targeted adverts can be displayed based on the user data available at Google (e.g. location data and interests) (target group targeting). As the website operator, we can evaluate this data quantitatively by analysing, for example, which search terms led to the display of our advertisements and how many advertisements led to corresponding clicks.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/

Part D

Privacy policy for business partners and interested parties

In this document, we explain which of your personal data we process when you contact us or when we have a business relationship with your company. With this information - valid since 25 May 2018 - we would like to comply with the obligations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and inform you transparently about our data processing.

This data protection notice applies to all companies listed below. The responsible person according to Art. 4 No. 7 DSGVO is named in the imprint.

KYOCERA Europe GmbH

Address: Fritz-Müller-Str. 27, 73730 Esslingen, Germany

KYOCERA Fineceramics Italy S.r.l.

Address: Viale delle Industrie 20/5, 20020 Arese (MI), Italy

KYOCERA Fineceramics S.A.S.

Address: Parc Icade Orly - Rungis, 21 rue de Villeneuve, 94150 Rungis, France

KYOCERA Fineceramics Ltd.

Address: Prospect House, Archipelago, Lyon Way, Frimley, Surrey GU16, 7ER, England

KYOCERA Automotive and Industrial Solutions GmbH

Address: Waldstrasse 41, 63128 Dietzenbach, Germany

KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH

Address: Steinzeugstraße 92, 68229 Mannheim, Germany

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data by us or about data protection in general, please contact our data protection officer at the above address or by e-mail at privacy@kyocera.de (or for KYOCERA Automotive and Industrial Solutions GmbH - privacy.kas@kyocera.de and for KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH datenschutz@kyocera-fineceramics.de.

I. Personal data processed about you

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, (business) contact details and relationship with a company and your interaction/activities with us.

We process the data that we receive from you in the context of your enquiries or existing contractual relationships. This includes, in addition to your (business) contact data, in particular all information exchanged, such as e-mails, orders, requests for our products, payment data. In the case of business relationships, you must provide the personal data that is required for the preparation or execution of the contracts or which we are legally obliged to process; otherwise we cannot fulfil the contracts.

II. scope of data processing and purposes of use

1. contract implementation

KYOCERA Europe GmbH Group (hereinafter: KEG Group) processes the data provided in the context of placing an order for the performance of the contract and may use specialised, carefully selected and monitored service providers for this purpose (e.g. financial service providers, hosting of data, service/maintenance). Data processing in the context of contract performance includes the use of data to provide the contractually owed service, including the processing of payments via our payment service providers/banks, provision of services in the context of service contracts or the processing of any warranty claims. In addition, in the context of a financing enquiry, the data required to prepare an offer may be used by KEG Group and, if necessary, passed on to the contractual partners. Further details on the purposes can be found in the respective contract documents. This data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter b DSGVO.

The data collected by KEG Group regarding the purchase of our products or the use of services may also be passed on to the external auditors and/or tax consultants of KEG Group for their consulting and auditing purposes. KEG Group stores the data collected for the performance of the contract in the operational system for as long as warranty claims exist or for other purposes indicated in this declaration. Subsequently, the data subject to the retention obligations according to §§ 146 ff. Tax Code (Abgabenordnung) or § 257 of the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch) are archived and deleted after expiry of these retention obligations. All other data will be deleted immediately, unless there are further purposes for the use of the data as indicated in this declaration. The data processing is carried out with regard to warranty claims on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b DSGVO as well as for the fulfilment of legal obligations according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. c DSGVO.

2. audio-video conferencing and e-mail

Data processing

One of the tools we use to communicate with our business partners is online conferencing. The individual tools we use are listed below. If you communicate with us by video or audio conference via the Internet, your personal data will be collected and processed by us and the provider of the respective conference tool. The conferencing tools collect all data that you provide/enter to use the tools (e-mail address and/or your telephone number).

Furthermore, the conference tools process the duration of the conference, start and end (time) of participation in the conference, number of participants and other "contextual information" related to the communication process (metadata). Furthermore, the provider of the tool processes all technical data required to handle the online communication. This includes in particular IP addresses, MAC addresses, device IDs, device type, operating system type and version, client version, camera type, microphone or loudspeaker and the type of connection.

If content is exchanged, uploaded or otherwise made available within the tool, this is also stored on the servers of the tool providers.

Such content includes, but is not limited to, cloud recordings, chat/instant messages, voicemails uploaded photos and videos, files, whiteboards and other information shared while using the Service.

Please note that we do not have full influence on the data processing procedures of the tools used. Our options are largely determined by the corporate policy of the respective provider. For further information on data processing by the conference tools, please refer to the data protection statements of the respective tools used, which we have listed below this text.

Purpose and legal basis

The conference tools are used to communicate with prospective or existing contractual partners or to offer certain services to our customers (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. B DSGVO). Furthermore, the use of the tools serves the general simplification and acceleration of communication with us or our company (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

Insofar as consent has been requested, the tools in question are used on the basis of this consent; consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

Storage period

The data collected directly by us via the video and conference tools is deleted from our systems as soon as you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Stored cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them. Mandatory legal retention periods remain unaffected. We have no influence on the storage period of your data, which is stored by the operators of the conference tools for their own purposes. For details, please contact the operators of the conference tools directly.

We use the following conference tool:

Microsoft Teams

We use Microsoft Teams. The provider is Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. For details on data processing, please refer to the Microsoft Teams privacy policy:

privacy.microsoft.com/en/privacystatement.

Conclusion of a contract on order processing

We have concluded an order processing contract with the Microsoft Teams provider and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Microsoft Teams.

Job processing

Electronic mail (e-mail)

Information that you send to us unencrypted by electronic mail (e-mail) can possibly be read by third parties during transmission. As a rule, we are also unable to verify your identity and do not know who is hiding behind an e-mail address. Legally secure communication by simple e-mail is therefore not guaranteed. We use - - filters against unwanted advertising ("SPAM filters"), which in rare cases may also automatically classify normal e-mails as unwanted advertising by mistake and delete them. E-mails containing harmful programs ("viruses") are automatically deleted by us in any case.

If you wish to send messages to us that are worthy of protection, we recommend that you encrypt and sign them in order to prevent unauthorised knowledge and falsification on the transmission path or send the message to us by conventional mail.

Please also let us know whether and how we can send you encrypted e-mails in order to reply to your mailings. If you do not have the option of receiving encrypted e-mails, please let us know the method of contact you would like to use in order to reply to your messages that are worthy of protection.

3. address and creditworthiness check

In order to check your address and creditworthiness, KEG Group calls up the address data stored in the databases of your company from credit agencies and credit insurers as well as creditworthiness data, including those determined on the basis of mathematical-statistical procedures (scoring). This is done if KEG Group enters into an economic risk with the conclusion of the contract and wants to protect itself by means of the creditworthiness query. With the help of this information, KEG Group can grant a goods delivery or service credit.

Various credit agencies and credit insurers provide KEG Group with addresses and creditworthiness data. We will be happy to inform you on request which credit agencies and credit insurers we use for your company. To do so, please contact us using the contact details above.

The information from the credit agencies and credit insurers and the internal information on payment behaviour are evaluated by the KEG Group and thus an own rating is created as a basis for the allocation of a credit limit. The credit rating data is deleted 5 years after the last delivery of goods. For these purposes, credit information may also be forwarded to KYOCERA Corporation, 6 Takeda, Tobadono-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8501, Japan, as part of the contract initiation process. Japan provides an adequate level of protection, as confirmed by decision of the EU Commission. The data processing referred to here is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f DSGVO in order to provide you with a goods delivery or service credit.

4. promotional use of data by the KEG Group

KEG Group as well as commissioned, carefully selected and monitored service providers (printers, lettershops, etc.) use the name, address of you as a contact person in ongoing business relationships and interested parties, as well as the data accruing within the scope of the business relationship (contact data, products purchased, services ordered, etc.) for advertising purposes. The KEG Group provides further information on products and services from the KEG Group and carries out analyses for marketing purposes (so-called advertising scoring). In addition, data may be used for data analysis for advertising purposes, which KEG Group receives from you on the basis of your consent. Through this promotional approach, we want to continue to inform you about current developments in our products and services, ensure that we can provide you with the services you need and thus build a long-lasting business relationship.

The KEG Group uses your telephone number for advertising purposes if consent has been given or the conditions for presumed consent - for example within the framework of an existing business relationship or after prior contact - are met. In addition, the KEG Group uses the e-mail address collected from the contact persons in the course of concluding a contract to advertise similar offers. Of course, you have the right to object to these advertising approaches, which you can most easily assert by contacting us using the above-mentioned contact details. We refer to the right to object to advertising separately in each case.

For the achievement of the objectives associated with the promotional use, the data will be processed during the term of our products and your capacity as a customer. Exceptions apply if longer use is permitted by consent and/or data is subject to statutory retention obligations. In the latter case, the data will be deleted after the retention period has expired. Exercising your right to object, which we inform you about under IV, may result in a shorter processing period.

The legal basis for the advertising use is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f DSGVO or, if you have given your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter a DSGVO. We inform you about your rights regarding the use of advertising, in particular the right to object to advertising, below.

5. data processing for press work

If you are a journalist and contact us (e.g. by phone or in writing), we will store your data to handle the communication and to keep track of the process. We may send you emails or mail with information about KYOCERA companies, products and services if you are on our press mailing list. We may also share the information with monitored and controlled agencies with whom we work. You can object to receiving press information or revoke your wish at any time - simply inform us of this wish using the contact details provided above or in the emails. The described data processing for the purposes of press relations is based on your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter a DSGVO or, in particular in the case of advertising by post, according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f DSGVO.

6. processing of personal data due to legal obligations

KEG Group - like every company in Europe - is subject to various legal obligations to carry out checks on the data of our customers and business partners. We process your personal data in these cases only to the extent necessary for these legal requirements. In order to fulfil the legal obligations, it may be necessary to process your data in part automatically with the aim of evaluating personal aspects (profiling). Automated case-by-case decisions are made - unless you are expressly informed of this. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c DSGVO in conjunction with the relevant statutory provisions.

These legal requirements refer in particular to:

Fraud and money laundering prevention
Control and reporting obligations under tax law
Assessment and management of risks in the Group
Sanctions lists

III. Disclosure of data within the KEG Group and to distributors

KEG Group may share your master data (company name, contact person, address and contact details such as telephone number and email address) with other KEG Group companies as well as KYOCERA Corporation (address: 6 Takeda, Tobadono-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8501, Japan, tel. +81 75 604 3500; fax +81 75 604 3501) (hereinafter: KC) and KYOCERA International Inc. (address: 8611 Balboa Avenue, San Diego, Ca. 92123 Tel. +1 858-576-2626) (hereinafter: KII) to ensure that all KEG Group, KC or KII companies involved in a transaction with you (e.g. processing a contract) have uniform master data about you. This serves to simplify our processes and may exempt you from having to provide the master data again when contacting another group company. This data processing is carried out on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter b or f DSGVO. Your rights are safeguarded by regulations that ensure a high standard of data protection.

In addition to master data, order data may also be transferred to other KEG Group companies, KC or KII if required by your order. The various products are manufactured by different KYOCERA companies (mostly KC), so that a transfer of delivery data may take place to simplify order processing and delivery. In this case, you will be informed of the transfer as part of the conclusion of the contract. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter b DSGVO.

The data you provide may also be passed on during the contract initiation process: In some cases, the products/services you have requested may not be distributed by our company, but by other companies within the KEG Group or by external (independent of Kyocera) companies (in particular distributors). In such cases, we may forward your request directly to the relevant company, with the purpose that the company can contact you directly with its expertise and assist you in your request in the best possible way. It is possible that the relevant companies are based outside the EU, in particular they may be based in Japan. It is agreed with the companies that have their registered office in Japan that they comply with a comparable level of data protection, in particular within the KEG Group by concluding EU standard contractual clauses. Further information can be obtained directly from the companies to which we have forwarded your data or from us using the contact details above. The legal basis for this procedure is either Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b or (if the forwarding is not part of your request) lit. f DSGVO.

The processing operations described above may result in your master data also being processed by KEG Group companies or other cooperating companies outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA). Japan provides an adequate level of protection, as confirmed by decision of the EU Commission. If an adequate level of data protection has not been determined by the EU Commission, we have taken contractual safeguards, usually we have concluded the EU standard contractual clauses.

IV. Your rights

The easiest way to exercise your rights is to contact us at the above address. Every data subject has the following rights:

Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 DSGVO)
Right to erasure (Art. 17 DSGVO)
Right to restrict the processing of personal data (Art. 18 DSGVO)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO)
Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO).

You may object to the processing of personal data for advertising purposes, including the analysis of customer data or the transmission to third parties for advertising purposes, at any time without giving reasons.

Part E

Privacy notice for all applicants of KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH

I. About your personal data processed

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, your name, your (official and private) contact details, your address, hobbies or information about illnesses and tax status (with religious affiliation). We treat all information you send us as applicant data, in addition to your curriculum vitae, if applicable also your photo, any information on your state of health or other private information. We process your personal data that you provide to us as part of your application. This applies both to your application documents and to the information you provide in person during the application process, e.g. in telephone interviews, personal interviews or during a visit to a trade fair. For a comprehensive assessment of your application, we always need your curriculum vitae as well as references or corresponding certificates. Further information, including a photo, is voluntary.

II. scope of data processing and purposes of use

We process the data provided as part of your application for the purpose of checking your application and suitability for the advertised position. We may use specialist service providers to assess your application. In the event that these service providers are located outside the European Economic Area, we assure you that appropriate security measures are in place. Suitable applications for a position will be forwarded by the HR department to the relevant specialist department or national company for closer examination. We delete your application data 6 months after completion of the application process, i.e. after the position has been filled. This data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter b DSGVO. Your application data will only be stored in the applicant pool if you give your consent to this. We will store your application data for a period of 12 months unless you extend the period. In the event of your consent, we will check in connection with the application process whether you are eligible for another position within the company that matches your qualifications. This data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 letter a DSGVO.

If you are under 18 years of age, we require the consent of your legal guardian when concluding a contract with you. Your application data will also only be stored for a longer period of time (e.g. for a later study internship) with your consent and the consent of your legal guardians.

Longer storage may also take place if you have given your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO) or if legal storage obligations prevent deletion.

To receive, review and manage your application, we may use specialised service providers that we have carefully selected and contractually obliged to comply with strict data protection regulations.

III. Your rights during the application process

As an applicant, you have various rights. To exercise your rights, please contact our data protection officer using the contact details below. Every data subject has the following rights:

Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 DSGVO)
Right to erasure (Art. 17 DSGVO)
Right to restrict the processing of personal data (Art. 18 DSGVO)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO)
Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO).

In addition, every data subject has a general right to object (cf. Art. 21 (1) DSGVO). In this case, the objection to data processing must be substantiated. If data processing is based on consent, your consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. Please note that if you object to the data processing, we will no longer be able to consider you in the current application process and in the future filling of positions that may be suitable for you.

Part F

Use of our webshop

I. Description of the data processing

If you would like to order in our webshop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need for the processing of your order. This data is stored in a customer account. You can always delete all the data you have provided, including your user account, in the customer area. Mandatory information required for the processing of contracts is marked separately, other information is voluntary.

II. legal basis of the processing

The legal basis for data processing for the purpose of contract management is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DS-GVO, or if the use of data is for advertising purposes Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

III. purpose of the data processing

We process the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we may pass on your payment data to our house bank or credit agencies to check your creditworthiness. We may also process the data you provide to inform you about other interesting products from our portfolio or to send you e-mails with technical information.

IV. Duration of storage

We are obliged by commercial and tax law to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. However, we restrict processing after two years, i.e. your data is only used to comply with legal obligations.

V. Encryption during the order process

To prevent unauthorised access by third parties to your personal data, in particular financial data, the ordering process is encrypted using SSL technology.

Part G

Participation in raffles / prize draws

I. Responsible

If you take part in a competition or prize draw organised by us, we would like to inform you below about the handling of your data and your rights. KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH, Steinzeugstr. 92, 68229 Mannheim, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0)621 - 40547-300, info@kyocera-fineceramics.de, Managing Director: Armin Kayser is responsible for data processing.

II. Description, purpose, duration and place of data processing

We process and store the data that you transmit to us as part of your participation. The processing and storage serves the implementation of the competition. The legal basis for further data processing is § 6 No. b) DSGVO. We store your data for this purpose until you request the deletion of the data. After the end of the competition period, we will continue to store your data for as long as is necessary to determine the winners. We will then delete this data

Data processing takes place exclusively in data centres in the Federal Republic of Germany.

III. Your rights

Your rights correspond to the rights mentioned in Part A II. Under Part A I you will find the details of how to contact our data protection officer.

Last revision: August 2023

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