Data Privacy

You have the right to receive the data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or to fulfill a contract and the right to have it transmitted to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you require the data to be transmitted directly to another controller, this will only be done if technically feasible.

Within the context of the legally applicable provisions, you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing and, where necessary, the right to rectification, restriction, or erasure of this data. For further information and questions on personal data you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the obligation to provide a legal notice to send advertising and information materials unless explicitly requested. The operators of the site expressly reserve the right to take legal action if advertising information, such as spam mail, is sent unsolicited.

If you have questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, for information, rectification, restriction, or erasure of data or revocation of consent or objection to certain data use, please contact the respective data protection officer of the legal entities.

Responsible per Legal Entity 

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. An encrypted connection can be recognized by the change from “http://” to “https://” in the URL bar of your browser and by the lock icon in your browser bar.

When SSL or TSL encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

The web pages use so-called “cookies.” These do not damage your computer and do not carry viruses. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. They serve to make our website more user-friendly, more effective, and more secure.

Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies.” They are automatically erased at the end of your session. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

Your browser allows you to change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie and only permit it in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain circumstances or generally, and activate the automatic erasure of cookies when the browser is closed.

Important: Deactivating cookies may restrict the functionality of this website.

Cookies that are necessary to run the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you want to use (such as the download collection) are stored on the basis of art. 6 (1) f of the GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the purposes of error-free and optimized provision of their services.

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither prescribed by law nor required by contract. However, the functionality of our website is not ensured if such data are not stored.

If other cookies (e.g. cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are stored, they require your voluntary consent. 

When you visit our site for the first time, you can already set your cookie preferences. These can be changed at any time afterwards by clicking on "Configure Cookies" in the footer of the page, simply by selecting or deselecting the desired checkboxes and saving the settings. If you delete your browser history, the settings must be made again.

You can find out exactly which cookies we use and for what purpose as well as further information here.

The data entered in the contact form is only processed based on your consent (art. 6 (1) a of the GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. An informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data entered by you in the contact form will remain with us until you request its erasure, revoke your consent to processing, or the purpose for data processing no longer exists (e.g. after your request has been processed).

This does not affect mandatory legal provisions – especially periods of retention.

Your personal data is provided on a voluntary basis. However, we can only process your inquiry if you tell us your name, email address and the reason for your inquiry.

If you would like to use the email service on activities and developments of SGL Carbon SE offered on our website, we need your e-mail address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the indicated e-mail address and agree to receive the newsletter. The news service registrations are stored by EQS Group.

No additional data is collected, or if so only on a voluntary basis. We use these data solely to send the requested information, to be able to address you personally, or for positive identification in the event of a cancellation. We do not forward this data to third parties.

The data entered in each application form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 1 (6) letter a of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)). The consent given to store the data and email address and their use for sending the newsletter can be revoked at any time, for example by means of the opt-out process in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing steps already taken is not affected by the cancellation.

The data furnished to us by you for the purpose of receiving the newsletter are stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and are deleted by us after the newsletter is cancelled.

Your personal data is provided on a voluntary basis and only with your consent. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the offered e-mail service without existing consent.

The newsletter is sent via the EQS Group website. The data entered by you for the purpose of receiving the newsletter are stored on EQS Group's servers.

Data analysis by EQS Group
After sending newsletters via the EQS Group website, we can determine whether a newsletter message has been delivered or blocked and which links, if any, were clicked. In this case, a counting mechanism is activated without reference to the contact/recipient upon opening and no personal data is processed. If you do not wish to be analyzed, you must cancel your subscription to the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a corresponding link in each newsletter message.

You can find more information in the providers' data protection provisions:
https://www.eqs.com/about-eqs/data-protection/

Processing contract
We have concluded a processing contract with the EQS Group.

Insofar as you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. In the European area, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland is responsible (hereinafter: "Google"). 

The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) a) DSGVO. The provision is voluntary, as long as you do not provide any pers. related data, you will not suffer any disadvantages. 

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. Google will use this information on behalf of this website’s operator to analyze your use of the website so that reports about website activity can be compiled and other services related to website and internet use can be performed for the website operator. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be conflated with other Google data. Automated decision-making, including profiling, does not take place with the collected data.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.

a) IP anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

b) Demographic features on Google Analytics
This website uses the "demographic features" function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be created that contain information on the age, gender and interests of visitors to the site. This data comes from interest-related advertising by Google and from visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time through the ad preference settings in your Google Account or generally opt-out of Google Analytics collecting your information as described in the "Revocation of consent" section.

c) Order processing
We have signed an order processing agreement with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the GDPR for the use of Google Analytics.

d) Revocation of consent
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link:

This website uses the LinkedIn Insight Tag, an analytics tool provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (https://www.linkedin.com, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland).

LinkedIn processes your personal data based on your consent via the pixel "LinkedIn Insight Tag" to

• create campaign reports and
• track conversions, click events as well as targeted advertising outside our websites (retargeting) based on URL, referrer URL, IP address shortened or hashed (for cross-device retargeting), devices and browser properties (user agent) and timestamp. 

We do not receive any personal data from you from LinkedIn, only anonymized campaign reports on website audience and ad performance. 

LinkedIn storage period: pseudonymization after 7 days, final deletion after 180 days. 

For more information, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

This website uses Hotjar, an analysis software program by Hotjar Ltd. ("Hotjar") (https://www.hotjar.com, 3 Lyons Range, 20 Bisazza Street, Sliema SLM 1640, Malta, Europe). With Hotjar it is possible to gauge and evaluate usage behavior (clicks, mouse movements, scroll height, etc.) on our website.

The information that is thereby generated by the tracking code and cookie regarding your visit to our website is sent to the Hotjar server in Ireland, where it is stored. The following information is collected by the tracking code:

a) Device-dependent data: The following information can be recorded by your device in your browser:

• Your device's IP address (collected and stored in an anonymous format)
• Your device's screen size
• Device type and browser information
• Geographic location (only the country)
• The preferred language in which to present our website
• Log data

b) The following data is automatically generated by our server when Hotjar is used:

• Referring domain
• Webpages visited
• Geographic location (only the country)
• The preferred language in which to present our website
• Date and time of access

Hotjar will use this information to evaluate your use of our website and to generate reports on your use as well as to provide other services related to your use of the website and internet analyses of the website.

Hotjar also uses third-party services to provide its service, for example Google Analytics and Optimizely. These third-party entities can store information that your browser sends during your visit to our website, for example cookies or IP inquiries. For more information on how Google Analytics and Optimizely store and use data, please see their corresponding data protection declarations.
Optimizely's data protection declaration can be found under the following link: https://www.optimizely.com/de/privacy/

By continuing to use this website, you agree to the aforementioned processing of the data generated there by Hotjar and its third-party providers as part of their data protection declarations.

The cookies used by Hotjar have different lifespans; some remain valid for up to 365 days, others only during the current visit.

You can prevent Hotjar from recording data by clicking on the following link and following the instructions: https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out.

SGL Carbon has a company page on several social media platforms. Through this, we would like to offer further opportunities for information about our company and for exchange. SGL Carbon has company pages on the following social media platforms:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Xing

When you visit or interact with a profile on a social media platform, personal data about you may be processed. Information associated with a social media profile used also regularly constitutes personal data. This also covers messages and statements made while using the profile. In addition, during your visit to a social media profile, certain information is often automatically collected about it, which may also constitute personal data.

a) Facebook

We maintain a Facebook fan page for our company.

A simple link will take you from our website to our Facebook fan page. This platform is operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd (Ireland/EU - Meta). We maintain this Facebook company page in order to inform users or interested parties as well as customers about our company. We provide information via our Facebook profile and offer users the opportunity to communicate with us.

Furthermore, we would like to point out that as the operator of a Facebook fan page, we are jointly responsible with Meta for processing the personal data of page visitors (Art. 26 DSGVO). For this purpose, we have entered into a corresponding joint responsibility agreement with Meta, which specifies the distribution of data protection obligations between us and Meta. You can access this contract here. In accordance with this contract, Meta is responsible for responding to data subject inquiries. To exercise these data subject rights, you can contact Meta online or via the contact information in the Privacy Policy.

As soon as you visit our Facebook fan page, follow this page or engage with this page, Meta processes personal data. As a result, Meta provides us with insights and statistics in an anonymous form, after which we are informed about the types of actions visitors take on our site. It is not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual users based on this information. Meta processes data that you have entered in your profile based on your own published information. In addition, Meta processes in particular data about how you interact with our Fanpage company site.

The processing of your personal data is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p.1 lit.a DSGVO, which you have given to Meta in the context of your registration.

Further information on the processing of your data by LinkedIn can be found in the privacy policy of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.

We cannot exclude that a third country transfer, e.g. to servers located in the USA, takes place when you call up our Fanpage - company presence.

b) LinkedIn

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Ireland/EU - "LinkedIn") is the sole responsible party for the processing of personal data when you visit our LinkedIn page. For more information about the processing of personal data by LinkedIn, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy.

When you visit, follow or engage with our LinkedIn company page, LinkedIn processes personal data to provide us with anonymized statistics and insights. This provides us with insights into the types of actions that people take on our site (so-called page insights). For this purpose, LinkedIn processes in particular such data that you have already provided to LinkedIn via the information in your profile, such as data on function, country, industry, seniority, company size and employment status. In addition, LinkedIn will process information about how you interact with our LinkedIn company page, such as whether you are a follower of our LinkedIn company page. With the page insights, LinkedIn does not provide us with any personal data about you. We only have access to the aggregated Page Insights. It is also not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual members via the information in the Page Insights. This processing of personal data in the context of the Page Insights is carried out by LinkedIn and us as joint controllers. The processing serves our legitimate interest to evaluate the types of actions taken on our LinkedIn company page and to improve our company page based on these insights. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have entered into a joint controller agreement with LinkedIn, which sets out the distribution of data protection obligations between us and LinkedIn. The agreement is available at: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum. Thereafter, the following applies:

• LinkedIn and we have agreed that LinkedIn is responsible for enabling you to exercise your rights under the GDPR. You can contact LinkedIn to do so online via the following link (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/PPQ?lang=en) or reach LinkedIn via the contact details in the Privacy Policy. You can contact the Data Protection Officer at LinkedIn Ireland via the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO. You may also contact us at our provided contact details about exercising your rights in connection with the processing of personal data in the context of the Page Insigts. In such a case, we will forward your request to LinkedIn.
• LinkedIn and we have agreed that the Irish Data Protection Commission is the lead supervisory authority overseeing processing for Page Insights. You always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (see at www.dataprotection.ie) or any other supervisory authority.

Please note that according to the LinkedIn Privacy Policy, personal data is also processed by LinkedIn in the US or other third countries. LinkedIn transfers personal data only to countries for which an adequacy decision has been issued by the European Commission pursuant to Article 45 of the GDPR or on the basis of appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR.

c) XING

We maintain a company profile on XING.

A simple link will take you from our website to our presence on XING. This platform is operated by New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany. We maintain this XING company page in order to inform users or interested parties as well as customers about our company. We provide information via our XING profile and offer users the opportunity to communicate with us. 

In order to meet our obligations under data protection law, we have concluded corresponding contracts with XING. To assert your data subject rights, you can contact XING online or reach XING via the contact details in the privacy policy. 

As soon as you visit our XING company profile, connect to this site or engage with this site, XING processes personal data. As a result, XING provides us with insight and statistics in anonymized form, after which we are informed about the types of actions visitors take on our site. It is not possible for us to use this information to draw conclusions about individual members.
On the one hand, XING processes data that you have stored in your profile on the basis of your own published details. In addition, XING processes data in particular about how you interact with our XING company site.

The processing of your personal data is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit.a DSGVO, which you have given to XING as part of your registration. 

For further information on the processing of your data by XING, please refer to XING's privacy policy.

We also process information that you have provided to us via our company page on the respective social media platform. Such information may be the username used, contact details or a message to us. We regularly process this personal data only if we have previously expressly requested you to provide us with this data. These processing operations by us are carried out as the sole responsible party. We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interest in contacting inquiring persons. The legal basis for the data processing is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. 

In addition, we may process such data for evaluation and marketing purposes. This processing is carried out on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR and serves our interest in further developing our offer and informing you specifically about SGL Carbon's offers. Further data processing may take place if you have consented (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a) GDPR) or if this serves the fulfillment of a legal obligation (Art. 6 para. 1 letter c) GDPR).