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CLAAS KGaA mbH
Mühlenwinkel 1
33428 Harsewinkel, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)52 47-12 0

E-Mail: infoclaas@claas.com
CLAAS Group Legal Notice
CLAAS Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien mbH
Register of Companies: Gütersloh District Court,
Register of Companies (HRB) No. 3027

Individually liable shareholder: Helmut Claas GmbH
Register of Companies: Gütersloh District Court,
Register of Companies (HRB) No. 2980

Executive Board:
Jan-Hendrik Mohr (Chairman of the Group Executive Board)*
Henner Böttcher*
Dr. Martin von Hoyningen-Huene*
Christian Radons*
*General Managers of Helmut Claas GmbH
Chair of the Supervisory Board and of the Shareholders' Committee: Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser
VAT ID No.: DE 160 410 788


 

Data Privacy Statement


As at: 04.11.2022

In the following Data Privacy Statement, CLAAS KGaA mbH ("CLAAS") provides information about how your personal data is processed on our TikTok profile CLAAS Global ("TikTok profile").

We expressly point out that TikTok Technology Limited (10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland) ("TikTok") stores the data of the users of its services (e.g. personal information, IP address etc.) and may also use these for business purposes. For more information on TikTok's data processing, please see TikTok's privacy policy at: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy-eea?lang=de

A. General Data Privacy Statement

I. Controller's name and contact details

The controller is:

CLAAS KGaA mbH
Mühlenwinkel 1
33428 Harsewinkel
Germany
infoclaas@claas.com

II. Contact details of the data protection officer

The group's data protection officer can be contacted as follows:

CLAAS KGaA mbH
z. Hd. Datenschutzbeauftragter
Mühlenwinkel 1
33428 Harsewinkel
Germany
group.dpo@claas.com

III. Transfer to third countries

If we transfer your personal data ourselves or via service providers to countries based outside the European Union, we shall comply with the relevant particular requirements of Article 44 et seq. GDPR and our service providers shall also undertake to comply with these regulations. We shall therefore only transfer your data to countries based outside the European Union subject to the level of security guaranteed by the GDPR. This level of security is guaranteed in particular on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission or with suitable guarantees in accordance with Article 46 GDPR.

Data is transferred to third countries (countries outside the EU or the European Economic Area – EEA) if, for example, this
  • is required to fulfil a contract to which you are a contractual party or if this is required to respond to your requests;
  • is required to safeguard our legitimate interests;
  • is stipulated by law or you have given your consent;
  • takes place as part of contract processing when involving service providers.

If there is no European Commission decision for the country in question as to a level of data protection that is appropriate for European data protection requirements, we shall enter into corresponding contracts to ensure that your rights and freedoms are suitably protected. An agreement of this kind ensures that a suitable level of data protection exists at the data recipient, especially with the agreement on the European Union's standard contractual clauses with the recipient. Otherwise, we can also perform a data transfer based on your express consent. You can withdraw your consent with future effect at any time, see Section A.VII. We will be happy to provide you with more detailed information free of charge on request. Please use the aforementioned contact details for this purpose.

Where we permit the recipient to process data without a suitable level of data protection based on your consent alone, please note the following risks: There may not be sufficient measures in place to protect your personal data appropriately; there is no data protection supervisory authority; the implementation of your data protection rights of the data subject is impeded or has been disregarded; there is no control over the further processing of data by and transmission of data to third parties.

Any further information required can be found in our Separate Data Privacy Statement.

IV. Rights of the data subject

In accordance with Article 15 GDPR, you have the right to obtain information about the data that we hold that relates to you. If incorrect personal data has been processed, you have the right to rectification of your data in accordance with Article 16 GDPR. If the legal requirements apply, you can request erasure or restriction of processing and submit an objection to data processing (Articles 17, 18 and 21 GDPR). In accordance with Article 20 GDPR, you can exercise the right to data portability for data that is automatically processed on the basis of your consent or under a contract.
 

Information regarding your right to object in accordance with Article 21 GDPR

1. Based on grounds resulting from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data on the basis of Article 6 (1f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balancing of interests).

If you exercise your right to object, CLAAS will then cease processing your personal data unless CLAAS can provide compelling legitimate reasons for doing so which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing is used to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

2. CLAAS shall process your personal data for the purposes of direct marketing. You have the right to submit an objection vis-à-vis the processing of your personal data for the purpose of this type of marketing at any time.

If you object to your data being processed for the purposes of direct marketing, CLAAS shall cease using your personal data for these purposes.

Your objection can be submitted in any form and should be addressed to the following where possible:

privacy@claas.com
 

 

Right to withdraw your consent in accordance with Article 7(3) GDPR

If you have given your consent for your personal data to be processed, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of data on the basis of your consent before the time at which consent was withdrawn.

Consent can be withdrawn in any form. You can use the contact details provided in Section A.II. for this purpose. Should CLAAS provide any further options for exercising your right to withdraw consent (e.g. an unsubscribe link in any newsletter e-mail), you will be informed of these in the Separate Data Privacy Statement.

 

You can exercise your rights vis-à-vis CLAAS using the contact details provided under Section  A. II.

If you believe that data is being processed in violation of data protection regulations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority of your choice. (Article 77 GDPR).

You can of course also submit a complaint to the CLAAS data protection officer at any time (privacy@claas.com).

If you wish to exercise your data protection rights of the data subject, we will process your data in order to fulfil our legal obligations in accordance with Article 6(1c) GDPR in conjunction with Articles 15–22, 12(3–6) GDPR and Article 7(3) GDPR. This includes the processing of your data for the purpose of unequivocal identification of the data subject of a data processing activity, and the request for additional information to confirm identity. We do this on the basis of our legal obligation laid out in Article 12(6) GDPR. This includes the transfer of data to the data recipients within the meaning of Article 19 GDPR, as far as requests for the rectification of data, erasure or restriction of processing (Articles 16, 17(1), 18 GDPR) are concerned, and any related communications to these recipients (Article 19 GDPR) or to you as the data subject (Article 12 GDPR).

B. Separate Data Privacy Statement: Data processing via the TikTok profile

I. Providing our TikTok profile to the general public

TikTok Technology Limited,
10 Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin
D02 T380
Irland

is responsible for the collection and further processing of personal user data on TikTok websites.

Please note that TikTok collects and processes certain information about your visit to our TikTok profile even if you do not have a TikTok user account or are not logged in to TikTok. For information on how TikTok processes personal data, please refer to TikTok's privacy policy at https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=de.

Our profile is provided by TikTok in accordance with the applicable terms of use. We are solely responsible for the content posted on our TikTok profile (e.g. information about our company, products, services). TikTok is solely responsible for the technical operation of the profile. CLAAS has no influence on the data processing of TikTok.

Furthermore, it is not apparent to us to what extent, for what purposes and for how long the data is stored by TikTok and, if applicable, evaluated, linked and passed on to third parties.

II. Use of services

When you visit our TikTok profile and its contents, TikTok collects your IP address as well as other information that is available in the form of cookies on your PC. TikTok also stores information about its users' end devices (e.g. advertising ID). If you are logged in to TikTok as a user, a cookie with your TikTok ID is located on your terminal device. This enables TikTok to track that you have visited this site and how you have used it.

III. Transmission to third countries

Please note that your data may also be processed outside the European Union/European Economic Area. In order to ensure an adequate level of data protection, TikTok bases such data transfers on the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, unless there is a corresponding adequacy decision of the EU Commission for the third country concerned. Please inform yourself about the data processing by TikTok and how you can exercise your rights against TikTok via the TikTok data protection declaration and cookie policy for the TikTok platform.

IV. Interaction and communication between CLAAS and users

If you want to contact us directly, i.e. without participation of TikTok, please use the contact options on our website. If we cannot process your request because we have no influence on the data processing, we will forward your request to TikTok.

Please note that you use our TikTok profile and its functions under your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of the interactive functions (e.g. comments, sharing).

For us as the operator of this TikTok profile, only your public profile is available at TikTok. What information is visible here depends on your settings in your profile. In addition, we process your personal data (such as your name and the content of your messages, inquiries or other contributions to us) when you contact us via our TikTok profile. We then process this data for the purpose of processing your contributions accordingly and, if necessary, answering them. Depending on the occasion and content of the conversation, these processing operations are based either on our legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6 (1f) GDPR, in particular in order to be able to contact you in response to your inquiries or contributions, or on Article 6 (1b) GDPR, if your inquiry is aimed at concluding a contract with us.

V. Analysis data of the TikTok profile

TikTok provides us with analysis data. These data are anonymous statistics, which allow us to evaluate the quality of our TikTok profile and our content. These statistics are based on usage data that TikTok collects about your interaction with our TikTok site; we have no access to this usage data. These processing operations are based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6 (1f) GDPR, in particular in order to recognize usage preferences (e.g. number of so-called followers, number of views of individual page areas, user statistics according to age, geography and language) and to be able to adapt and improve the offer on our TikTok profile as far as possible to target groups.

VI. Obligation to provide personal data

You are not legally or contractually obliged to provide your personal data. If you want to visit our TikTok profile, the processing of your personal data by TikTok is unavoidable.