This Website www.eip.com (“Website”) is operated by EIP Europe LLP (“EIP”, "we" or "us").
EIP takes the protection of your personal information very seriously and treats your personal information confidentially and in accordance with the legal requirements. EIP is the Controller (as defined below) of the personal information collected via or in connection with the Website.
This Privacy Policy explains what types of personal information we collect, how we collect it and how we process your information.
This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy and Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Policy may be amended by us at any time. Please check this page periodically to inform yourself of any changes. However, if we plan to use Personal data for a new purpose, we will communicate such changes to you directly before starting any new processing.
If you have any questions in relation to this Privacy Policy or EIP's handling of your information, please get in touch using the contact details outlined at the end of this Policy.
We use terms from the GDPR (article 4) and the BDSG in our privacy policy and describe them here to enable you to access the Privacy Policy.
a. "Personal data"
means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
b. "Processing"
means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal data or on sets of Personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
c. "Restriction of processing"
means the marking of stored Personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.
d. "Controller"
means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.
e. "Processor"
means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal data on behalf of the controller.
f. "Recipient"
means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the Personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive Personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.
g. “Third party"
means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process Personal data.
h. “’Consent' of the data subject"
means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of Personal data relating to him or her.
i. “Supervisory Authority"
means an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to article 51 of the GDPR.
a. General
We collect information relating to how you have accessed and used the Website, which is stored as server log files on the Website server. The server log files we store contain the following data:
Visited Website
Time of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/reference from which you reached the page
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used
We collect data on the basis of our legitimate interest without jeopardising the interests, fundamental rights or freedoms of the data subject. Optimising the Website and ensuring the security and stability of our information technology systems are the legitimate interests of EIP as the Controller.
The recipient of your Personal data is our service provider for our Website, the media agency Igloo.
The server log files are usually stored for 60 days and then deleted. The data is stored for security reasons e.g., to be able to clarify cases of misuse. The server log files may be stored for longer if this is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes, in particular for exercising our legal rights. If data must be retained for evidentiary reasons, it is exempt from deletion until the incident has been finally clarified.
b. Collection and processing of Personal data for downloading resources
EIP's Website offers some resources created by our patent specialists to help your business maximise the value of your intellectual property which downloading requires the processing of Personal data. We may collect the following Personal data: First name, last name, job title including the name of your company and contact information including your email address. We generally do not collect any of the Personal data mentioned in article 9 (1) GDPR.
The legal basis for this is article 6 (1) subparagraph 1 lit. a) GDPR.
The recipient of your Personal data is EIP.
Your Personal data will be stored for a maximum of two years after providing it to us.
You have the right to revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out until revocation.
c. Collection and processing of Personal data for the application form
EIP's Website offers you the possibility to apply for vacancies directly through the application form on our Website which requires the processing of Personal data. We may collect the following Personal data: First name, last name, job title, contact information including email address and telephone number, demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests, other information relevant to your application. We generally do not collect any of the Personal data mentioned in article 9 (1) GDPR.
The legal basis for this is article 6 (1) subparagraph 1 lit. a) GDPR.
The recipient of your Personal data is EIP.
Your Personal data will be stored for a maximum of five years after providing it to us. If there is a legal obligation to retain the data, it will be deleted after this retention period.
You have the right to revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out until revocation.
d. Collection and processing of Personal data for the contact form
The contact form is an offer from EIP. If you wish to make use of this offer, we will process the information you enter in fields such as name, company, telephone number and e-mail address and (if specified by you) additional Personal data, but only for the purposes you specify as the purpose of the contact. We generally do not collect any of the Personal data mentioned in article 9 (1) GDPR.
The legal basis for this is article 6 (1) subparagraph 1 lit. a) GDPR.
The recipient of your Personal data is EIP.
Your data will be processed for the purpose of the contact request and deleted after five years. If there is a legal obligation to retain the data, it will be deleted after this retention period.
You have the right to revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out until revocation.
e. Internet cookies
We may also obtain information about your general internet usage through the use of 'cookies' or other tracking technologies which enable us to make certain parts of the Website easier to use and to improve the functionality of the Website. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.
f. Social media plugins
We do not process any Personal data in connection with your use of social media plugins on our Website. We have no access to the data collected by the social media plugin and transmitted to the social media operator. Data processing is carried out exclusively by the network operator.
In the interests of the best possible transparency, we would nevertheless like to inform you about the processing of your Personal data in this context.
To enhance your user experience, our Website contains social media plugins from the major social networks Twitter and LinkedIn.
By opening a website on which a social media plugin is integrated, the corresponding social media operators Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland,
will collect and process information about your visit to our Website for their own business purposes. This processing is not initiated or controlled by us but is an integrated functional feature of the corresponding social media plugin.
For further information regarding the processing of Personal data especially, regarding the period of the respective storage dates, please contact the above-mentioned social media operators or take note of their respective privacy policies (for Twitter here and for LinkedIn here).
Here we present the rights that data subjects have under the GDPR. In principle, the data subject can contact us as the Controller (see below for contact details) about his or her rights at any time.
You have the right to request information free of charge about which Personal data is processed about you (article 15 GDPR).
You also have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected and completed (article 16 GDPR) and the right to have processing of your Personal data restricted (article 18 GDPR) or to have your Personal data erased (article 17 GDPR). Your right to erasure depends, among other things, on whether the data concerning you is still needed by us to fulfil our legal tasks.
If applicable, you can also exercise your right to data portability (article 20 GDPR). You may also exercise your right to object to the processing of your Personal data at any time (article 21 GDPR). You also have the right to revoke any consent given for the processing of your Personal data at any time (article 7 (3) GDPR). The lawfulness of the processing until the revocation of consent remains unaffected.
If you believe that your data has been processed unlawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (article 77 GDPR). In NRW, this is the
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia
Kavalleriestr. 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Phone: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de
How to contact us
If you have any questions, need further information about our privacy practices, or would like to let us know that your details require updating, please contact us at dusseldorf@eip.com or write to us:
EIP Europe LLP
Breite Straße 29-31
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany
T +49 (0)211 9595 8500
F +49 (0)211 9595 8544