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T-Systems International GmbH attaches great importance to protecting your personal data. We always inform you what personal data we collect, how your data is used, and how you can influence the process.

1.    What data is recorded, how is it used, and how long is it stored?

a)    Technical characteristics: When you visit our websites, the web server temporarily records the domain name or your computer’s IP address, the file requested (file name and URL) by the client, the http response code, and the website from which you are visiting us. 
The recorded data is used solely for data security purposes, particularly to protect against attempted attacks on our web server (Article 6 (1f) GDPR). We do not use it to create individual user profiles nor do we share this information with third parties. It is erased after seven days at the latest. We reserve the right to statistically analyze anonymized data records.

b)    Miscellaneous: Additional personal data, such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address, is not collected unless you provide this information voluntarily. Here you will find further information on the topic newsletter.

2. Data control when clicking on external links or links to social media platforms

Some pages contain links to other websites as well as pictograms of social media networks (such as Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Xing or LinkedIn).

Links to other websites are marked with the following symbol . By clicking on these links or the corresponding pictogram, you will be directed to external information pages or to the company page of the selected platform. The social media platforms as well as the third-party content providers that can be reached via the pictograms provide these services and the processing of their data under their own responsibility. To ensure that you have full data control, the external links and pictograms used only establish direct contact between the respective social network and the visitor when you actively click on the button. 

By clicking on the external links and the links of the pictograms, (Art. 6 para. 1a GDPR) the following data may be transmitted to persons responsible for the externally linked websites or the social media providers: IP address, browser information, operating system, screen resolution, installed browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash Player, the previous page when you followed a link (referrer), the URL of the current page, etc.

3.    Will my usage habits be evaluated, e.g. for advertising purposes or tracking?

Explanations and definitions
We want you to enjoy using our websites and take advantage of our products and services. We have an economic interest in ensuring this is the case. We analyze your usage habits on the basis of anonymized or pseudonymized data so you can find the products that interest you and so we can make our websites user-friendly. Deutsche Telekom or its contract data processors create usage profiles that comply with the legal requirements. This information cannot be traced back to you directly. The following information is intended to provide you with general information on the various purposes of processing data. The cookie message displayed when visiting our webpages gives you the opportunity to permit or reject the use of cookies. Cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the web service cannot be rejected (see explanation at 1. above).

Tag management (strictly necessary)
Tag management allows us to manage the use of tools on the different web pages of our web portal. A tag is set for each page to do this. The tag content determines which tools will be used for this page. Tag management is used to assure that the tools are in each individual case only used where appropriate.

Market research / Reach measurement (opt-in)
Reach measurement provides statistics on a website’s usage intensity and the number of users, along with comparable figures for all the connected services. Market research is designed to learn more about the target groups that use services or applications and view advertisements. Individual users are not identified at any time. Your identity is always protected. 

Profiles for a user-geared presentation of the web portal (opt-in)
The compilation of clickstream analyses assists us in continuously improving our web pages. The clickstream corresponds to your movement on the websites. Analyzing the movement provides us with an insight into usage habits on our websites. This allows us to detect any existing structural deficiencies in our web pages and thereby improve them accordingly. 

Profiles for personalized recommendations (opt-in)
Deutsche Telekom would like to offer you individually targeted and personalized take-action and click recommendations for special offers, services or products.  This involves our service providers compiling a pseudonymous profile about the services and websites accessed by you and assigning categories to the profile. The system displays content or information that matches your profile.

a)    Required cookies
These cookies are required to enable you to navigate through the web pages and use key functions. They support basic functions, such as order processing in the online shop and access to secured areas of the web page. They also serve the purpose of performing an anonymous analysis of user patterns, which we use to continuously develop and improve our web pages for you. The legal basis for these cookies is Article 6 (1) b GDPR respectively for third Countries Art. 49 (1) b GDPR.

CompanyPurposeStorage periodCountry of processing

T-Systems

Operation

Session Cookie

Germany

T-Systems

Forms

Session Cookie

Germany

T-Systems 

CMS functionality

Session Cookie

Germany

Tealium

Tag management

Cookie (3 month)

Netherlands

Mapp
(formerly Webtrekk)

Improvement Website,
failure analysis

Cookie (6 month)

Germany

b)    Analytical cookies
These cookies help us to improve our understanding of user behavior. Analysis cookies allow for the compilation of usage and identification data by the original provider or third party providers into pseudonymous usage profiles. We use analysis cookies e.g. to determine the number of individual visitors to a web page or a service, to collect statistical data on the performance of our products and to analyze the visitors’ usage patterns and visitor interactions on the basis of anonymous and pseudonymous information. This information cannot be traced back to a person. The legal basis for these cookies is Article 6 (1) a GDPR respectively for third Countries Art. 49 (1) a GDPR.

CompanyPurposeStorage periodCountry of processing
Mapp
(formerly Webtrekk)
Customized design,
marketing,
personalization,
newsletter

Cookie (30 days)

Germany

Cookie settings: You can revisit your Cookie settings at any time to manage your preferences.

c)    Marketing cookies/retargeting

These cookies and similar technologies are used to enable the display of personalized and therefore relevant marketing content. 
Marketing cookies are used to serve interesting web content and to measure the effectiveness of our campaigns.  This happens not only in Apps or on Telekom webpages, but also on the pages of other advertising partners (third party providers). This is also called retargeting. It is used to create pseudonymous content or ad profiles, to the placement of relevant advertising on other websites and to derive insights into target groups that have viewed the ads and content. This information cannot be traced back to a person. Marketing and retargeting cookies assist us in serving you advertising content that is potentially relevant for you. By suppressing marketing cookies, you will continue to see the same number of ads, but they may be less relevant for your interests. The legal basis for these cookies is Article 6 (1) a GDPR respectively for third Countries Art. 49 (1) a GDPR.

CompanyPurposeStorage periodCountry of processing
Adform

Advertising

Cookie (30 days)

Germany

Cookie settings: You can revisit your Cookie settings at any time to manage your preferences.

d)    Services by other companies (independent third party providers)
Some of our web pages feature services of third party providers, who bear the sole responsibility for their services. When you visit one of our web pages, cookies or similar technologies may collect data and send it to third parties. Some of the data may be transmitted for Deutsche Telekom’s own purposes. The legal basis for these cookies is Article 6 (1) a GDPR respectively for third Countries Art. 49 (1) a GDPR. The scope, purpose and legal basis on which further processing is carried out for the third party’s own purposes can be found in the third party’s data privacy information. Information about these independent third party providers can be found in the following.

Google
We use Google Maps for maps, locations and route planning on individual websites, e.g. in the Store Locator, which you can access via the tab “Service” and menu item “Shops” on the top section of Deutsche Telekom’s product pages. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. By embedding Google Maps your IP address is transferred directly to Google and a cookie stored as soon as you visit this kind of website. You can obtain information and opt out at any time from data processing by Google at www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.

We use the remarketing and Google AdWords function from Google Inc. (“Google”) on our websites. This function is implemented via a cookie and is used to present website users with web advertising tailored to their interests as part of the Google advertising network. Users can then be shown on these pages advertisements which relate to content users have accessed previously on websites that use the Google remarketing function. According to its own statements, Google does not collect any personal data with this process. If you, however, do not want to use Google’s remarketing function, you can disable this permanently by adjusting the relevant settings at www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively you can disable the use of cookies for targeted advertising via the advertising network initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Further information on Google remarketing and Google’s privacy policy is available at: policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de/.

If you access our websites via a Google ad, Google AdWords stores a cookie on your computer. This cookie becomes invalid after 30 days. No conclusions can be drawn about you as a person. We use the information collected with the aid of this conversion cookie to create statistics about our conversion rate. This means that we find out how many users came to our websites via a Google ad and acquire a product within 30 days.

LinkedIn
Retargeting and conversion tracking by LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland) using the LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of statistical, pseudonymous data (referrer URL, IP address (shortened), device and browser characteristics) about the website visit and the use of our website and the provision of corresponding aggregated statistics on this basis. This information is also used to display interest-specific and relevant offers and recommendations after you have shown an interest in certain products, information, and offers on our website. This information is stored in a cookie for six months. You can obtain information about data processing by LinkedIn at any time at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and object to this or revoke your consent at https://www.telekom.de/ueber-das-unternehmen/datenschutz#fragen-und-antworten. T-Systems International GmbH and LinkedIn are joint controllers for this processing in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. If you have any questions, you can contact datenschutz@telekom.de or LinkedIn via https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Deep Media GmbH
On our website, we use Deep Media Advertiser Tag, a service provided by Deep Media Technologies GmbH, Hohe Bleichen 8, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. The Deep Media Advertiser Tag is a tag management system for marketing and optimization technologies. It is used primarily to deliver ads that are relevant and interesting to you and to improve campaign performance reports. Information, such as cookies or click IDs, is processed when the advertiser tag is used. Deep Media Technologies GmbH only processes the data and, if applicable, passes on these online identifiers to providers for whom the user has given consent within the framework of the data protection settings. You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time by contacting the respective provider. Further information on the handling of data and opt-out options can be found in the relevant provider sections of this privacy notice. You can find more information on the use of data by Deep Media Technologies GmbH by visiting the following Deep Media Technologies GmbH website: https://www.deepmedia.de/en/privacy-information-advertiser-tag/

Salesforce Germany GmbH
If you use the text chat to contact customer service, various information is transmitted to the agent when the chat is initialized (Art. 6 para. 1a GDPR). 
This includes first name, surname, email address and company and current chat history, as well as the help topic you have selected, browser version, operating system version and similar information. 
In addition, the chat platform of the data processor Salesforce.com Germany GmbH transmits information about the availability of the chat service at regular intervals. 
This information is used to activate or deactivate the button to start the text chat. 
A session cookie is set for the duration of the session, which is deleted when the latter ends. 
The chat log is stored by us for 48 hours so that it can be accessed in the event of queries. 
We reserve the right to statistically evaluate anonymized data records.

Cookie settings: You can revisit your Cookie settings at any time to manage your preferences.

4.    Where can I find the information that is important to me?

This data privacy information provides an overview of the items which apply to T-Systems  processing your data in this web portal. 
Further information, including information on data protection in general  
is available at www.telekom.com/en/corporate-responsibility/data-protection-data-security/data-protection

5.    Who is responsible for data processing? Who should I contact if I have any queries regarding data privacy at Telekom?

T-Systems International GmbH acts as the data controller. If you have any queries, please contact our Customer Services department or the Global Data Privacy Officer, Dr. Claus D. Ulmer, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn, Germany, datenschutz@telekom.de.

6.    What rights do I have?

You have the right 
a)    To request information on the categories of personal data concerned, the purposes of the processing, any recipients of the data, and the envisaged storage period (Art. 15 GDPR);
b)    To request that incorrect or incomplete data be rectified or supplemented (Article 16 GDPR); 
c)    To withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR);
d)    To object to the processing of data on the grounds of legitimate interests, for reasons relating to your particular situation (Article 21 (1) GDPR);
e)    To request the erasure of data in certain cases under Art. 17 GDPR – especially if the data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or is unlawfully processed, or you withdraw your consent according to (c) above or object according to (d) above; 
f)    To demand, under certain circumstances, the restriction of data where erasure is not possible or the erasure obligation is disputed (Art. 18 GDPR);
g)    To data portability, i.e., you can receive the data that you provided to us in a commonly used and machine-readable format such as CSV, and can, where necessary, transfer the data to others (Art. 20 GDPR);
h)    to file a complaint about the data processing with the responsible supervisory authority (for telecommunications contracts: the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit); for any other matters: State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen)).

7.    Who does T-Systems International GmbH pass my data on to?

To processors, i.e., companies we engage to process data within the legally defined scope, Article 28 GDPR (service providers, agents). In this case, Deutsche Telekom also remains responsible for protecting your data. We engage companies particularly in the following areas: IT, sales, marketing, finance, consulting, customer services, HR, logistics, and printing.

To cooperation partners who, on their own responsibility, provide services for you or in conjunction with your Deutsche Telekom contract. This is the case if you order services of these partners from us, if you consent to the involvement of the partner, or if we involve the partner on the basis of legal permission.

Owing to legal obligations: In certain cases, we are legally obliged to transfer certain data to a state authority that requests it. 

8.    Where is my data processed?

Your data will be processed in Germany and other European countries. If, in exceptional cases, your data is processed in countries outside the European Union (in so-called third countries), this will take place 
a)    if you have expressly consented to this (Article 49 (1) a GDPR). (In most countries outside the EU, the level of data protection does not meet EU standards. This concerns in particular comprehensive monitoring and control rights of state authorities, e. g. in the USA, which disproportionately interfere with the data protection of European citizens, 
b)    or to the extent necessary for our service provision to you (Article 49 (1) b GDPR), 
c)    or to the extent required by law (Article 49 (1) c GDPR). 
Furthermore, your data will only be processed in third countries if certain measures ensure a suitable level of data protection (e.g., EU Commission’s adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, Art. 44 et seq. GDPR).

© T-Systems International GmbH – January 2023

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