Data protection at a glance

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1. Introduction

With the following information, we would like to give you as a “data subject” an overview of the processing of your personal data by us and your rights under data protection laws. In principle, it is possible to use our Internet pages without entering personal data. However, if you want to use special services of our enterprise via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from you.

The processing of personal data, such as your name, address, or e-mail address, shall always be in line with the Data Protection Regulation (Datenschutz- Grundverordnung – DS-GVO), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to “ewimed GmbH”. By means of this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process.

As the controller, we have implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, you are free to submit personal data to us by alternative means, such as by telephone or mail.

You, too, can take simple and easy-to-implement measures to protect against unauthorized third-party access to your data. Therefore, we would like to provide you with some information on the secure handling of your data:

• Protect your account (login, user or customer account) and your IT system (computer, laptop, tablet or mobile device) with strong passwords.
• Only you should have access to the passwords
• Make sure that you always use your passwords for one account only (login, user or customer account).
• Do not use one password for different websites, applications or online services.
• Especially when using publicly accessible IT systems or IT systems shared with other people, it is essential that you log back in after each login to a website, application or online service.

Passwords should consist of at least 12 characters and be chosen so that they cannot be easily guessed. Therefore, they should not contain common words from everyday life, your own name or names of relatives, but upper and lower case, numbers and special characters.

2. Person in charge

The responsible person in the sense of the DS-GVO is the:

ewimed GmbH

Dorfstr. 24

72379 Hechingen-Boll

Germany

3. Data protection officer

You can reach the data protection officer as follows:

Reiner Brown

Phone: 0172-7005556

E-mail: datenschutz@ewimed.com

You can contact our data protection officer directly at any time with all questions and suggestions regarding data protection.

4. Definitions

The data protection declaration is based on the terms used by the European Directive and Ordinance when issuing the Data Protection Regulation (DS- GVO). Our privacy policy should be easy to read and understand for the public as well as for our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terminology used in advance.

We use the following terms, among others, in this Privacy Policy:

1. Personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. 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.

2. Person concerned

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data are processed by the controller (our company).

3. Processing

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, filing, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

4. Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing.

5. Profiling

Profiling is any type of automated processing of personal data that consists of using such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects relating to that natural person’s job performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location.

6. Pseudonymization

Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separate and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data is not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

7. Order processor

Processor means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the Controller.

8. Receiver

Recipient means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to whom Personal Data is disclosed, whether or not a third party. However, authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigation mandate under Union or Member State law are not considered recipients.

9. Third party

Third party means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons authorized to process the personal data under the direct responsibility of the controller or the processor.

10. Consent

Consent is any expression of will in the form of a declaration or other unambiguous affirmative action made voluntarily by the data subject in an informed and unambiguous manner for the specific case, by which the data subject indicates that he or she consents to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

5. Legal basis of the processing

Art. 6 par. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO (in conjunction with Section 25 (1) TTDSG) serves our company as the legal basis for processing operations in which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose.

If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, as is the case, for example, with processing operations that are necessary for a delivery of goods or the provision of another service or consideration, the processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, for example in cases of inquiries about our products or services.

If our company is subject to a legal obligation by which a processing of personal data is required, such as for compliance with tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR.

In rare cases, the processing of personal data might become necessary to protect vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were to be injured on our premises and as a result his or her name, age, health insurance data or other vital information had to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d) DS-GVO are based.

Ultimately, processing operations could be based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO are based. Processing operations not covered by any of the aforementioned legal bases are based on this legal basis if the processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not overridden. Such

Processing operations are permitted to us in particular because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. In this respect, he took the view that a legitimate interest could be assumed if you are a customer of our company (recital 47 sentence 2 DS-GVO).

Our offer is basically aimed at adults. Persons under the age of 16 may not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We do not request personal data from children and young people, do not collect them and do not pass them on to third parties.

6. Technology

6.1 SSL/TLS encryption

To ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders, login data or contact requests that you send to us as the operator, this site uses an SSL or SSL protocol. TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that there is a “https://” instead of a “http://” in the address line of the browser and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

We use this technology to protect your transmitted data.

6.2 Data collection when visiting the website

When you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (in so-called “server log files”). Our website collects a series of general data and information each time you or an automated system access a page. This general data and information is stored in the server’s log files. The following can be recorded

1. 1. browser types and versions used,
2. 2. the operating system used by the accessing system,
3. 3. the website from which an accessing system arrives at our website (so-called referrer),
4. 4. the sub-websites that are accessed via an accessing system on our website,
5. 5. the date and time of an access to the website,
6. 6. an abbreviated Internet Protocol address (anonymized IP address) as well as,
7. 7. the Internet service provider of the accessing

When using this general data and information, we do not draw any conclusions about your person. Rather, this information is needed to

1. 1. to deliver the contents of our website correctly,
2. 2. to optimize the content of our website and the advertising for it,
3. 3. to ensure the permanent operability of our IT systems and the technology of our website, and
4. 4. to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyberattack.

Therefore, the data and information collected will be used by us for statistical purposes only and, on the other hand, for the purpose of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise so as to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from any personal data provided by a data subject.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above.

7. Cookies

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7.1 General information about cookies

Cookies are small files that are automatically created by your browser and stored on your IT system (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our site.

Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case from the context of the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we thereby obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies serves to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after leaving our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already been with us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate our offer for you for the purpose of optimization. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. The cookies set in this way are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. The respective storage period of the cookies can be taken from the settings of the consent tool used.

7.2 Legal basis for the use of cookies

The data processed by the cookies, which are required for the proper functioning of the website, are thus necessary to protect our legitimate interests as well as those of third parties pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO required.

For all other cookies, you must give your consent to this via our opt-in cookie banner in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR have given.

7.3 Notes on avoiding cookies in common browsers

You can delete cookies, allow only selected cookies or completely disable cookies at any time via the settings of the browser you are using. For more information, please visit the support pages of the respective providers:

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?tid=311178978.
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-at/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac?tid=311178978.
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-und-website-daten-in-firefox- loschen?tid=311178978.
• Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft- edge-l%C3%B6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09.

7.4 Borlabs Cookie (Consent Management Tool)

We use the Wordpress cookie plugin “Borlabs Cookie” from Borlabs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg, Germany. This service allows us to obtain and manage the consent of website users for data processing.

Borlabs Cookie uses cookies to collect data generated by end users who use our website. When an end user provides consent, the following data, among others, is automatically logged:

• Cookie Runtime,
• Cookie version,
• Domain and path of the wordpress site,
• Selection in the cookie banner,
• UID (a randomly generated ID),

The consent status is also stored in the end user’s browser so that the website can automatically read and follow the end user’s consent in all subsequent page requests and future end user sessions for up to 12 months. The consent data (consent and revocation of consent) is stored for three years. The retention period corresponds to the regular limitation period pursuant to

• 195 BGB. The data will then be deleted immediately.

The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the described processing. There is no possibility for the user to object as long as there is a legal obligation to obtain the user’s consent to certain data processing operations, Art. 7 Para. 1, 6 par. 1 p. 1 lit. c) GDPR.

The collected data will not be forwarded to Borlabs GmbH, nor will it be accessed.

For more information, please visit: https://de.borlabs.io/borlabs-cookie/.

8. Contents of our website

8.1 Data processing for order processing

The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery as part of the contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution within the framework of payment processing, insofar as this is necessary for payment processing. If payment service providers are used, we explicitly inform about this below. The legal basis for the transfer of the data is here Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

8.2 Contacting / Contact form

When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of the use of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. If your contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request, this is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been conclusively clarified and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

8.3 Application management / job exchange

We collect and process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of handling the application process. The processing may also be carried out electronically. This is particularly the case if an applicant sends us the relevant application documents electronically, for example by e-mail or via a web form on the website. If we conclude an employment or service contract with an applicant, the data transmitted will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the statutory provisions. If we do not conclude a contract with the applicant, the application documents will be automatically deleted two months after notification of the rejection decision, provided that no other legitimate interests on our part prevent deletion. Another legitimate interest in this sense is, for example, a duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).

The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 88 DS-GVO in conjunction with. § 26 para. 1 BDSG.

9. Newsletter dispatch

9.1 Newsletter dispatch to existing customers

If you have provided us with your email address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to periodically email you offers for goods or services similar to those you have already purchased from our product line. For this purpose, we must, in accordance with § 7 para. 3 UWG, we do not need to obtain separate consent from you. In this respect, the data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in personalized direct advertising pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. If you have initially objected to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose, we will not send you any e-mail. You are entitled to object to the use of your e-mail address for the aforementioned advertising purpose at any time with effect for the future by notifying the responsible person named at the beginning. You will only incur transmission costs in accordance with the prime rates. Upon receipt of your objection, the use of your e-mail address for advertising purposes will cease immediately.

9.2 Rapidmail

For the purpose of analysis, the e-mails sent with Rapidmail, a service of rapidmail GmbH, Wentzingerstraße 21, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, contain a so-called “tracking pixel”, which connects to the servers of Rapidmail when the e-mail is opened. In this way, it is possible to determine whether a newsletter message has been opened.

Furthermore, with the help of Rapidmail, we can determine whether and, if so, which links in the newsletter message have been clicked. All links in the email are so-called tracking links, which can be used to count your clicks.

For more details about Rapidmail’s analytics features, please see the following link: https://de.rapidmail.wiki/kategorien/statistiken/.

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

You can revoke the consent you have given at any time. You can also prevent the processing at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your web browser accordingly. You can also prevent the storage and transmission of personal data by deactivating JavaScript in your web browser or installing a JavaScript blocker (e.g. https://noscript.net or https://www.ghostery.com). We would like to point out that these measures may mean that not all functions of our website are available.

The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from our servers as well as from the servers of Rapidmail after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the member area) remain unaffected by this.

You can view Rapidmail’s privacy policy at: https://www.rapidmail.de/datensicherheit.

10. Our activities in social networks

So that we can also communicate with you in social networks and inform you about our services, we are represented there with our own pages. If you visit one of our social media pages, we are jointly responsible for the processing operations triggered thereby, within the meaning of Art. 26 DS-GVO, with the provider of the respective social media platform.

We are not the original provider of these pages, but only use them within the scope of the possibilities offered to us by the respective providers.

Therefore, as a precaution, we point out that your data may also be processed outside the European Union or the European Economic Area. Use may therefore be associated with data protection risks for you, as it may be more difficult to protect your rights, e.g. to information, deletion, objection, etc., and processing in the social networks often takes place directly for advertising purposes or for analysis of user behavior by the providers, without this being able to be influenced by us. If usage profiles are created by the provider, cookies are often used or the usage behavior is assigned to your own member profile of the social networks.

The described processing operations of personal data are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO on the basis of our legitimate interest and the legitimate interest of the respective provider in order to be able to communicate with you in a timely manner or to inform you about our services. If you have to give your consent to data processing as a user with the respective providers, the legal basis refers to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO in conjunction with. Art. 7 DS-GVO.

As we do not have access to the providers’ databases, we would like to point out that it is best to assert your rights (e.g. to information, correction, deletion, etc.) directly with the respective provider. We have listed further information on the processing of your data in the social networks below with the respective social network provider used by us:

10.1 Facebook

(Co-) Responsible for data processing in Europe:

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland

Privacy policy (data policy): https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

10.2 Instagram

(Co-) Responsible for data processing in Germany:

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland

Privacy policy (data policy): https://instagram.com/legal/privacy/

10.3 LinkedIn

(Co-) controller for data processing in Europe: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

Privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

10.4 YouTube

(Co-) Responsible for data processing in Europe:

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland

Privacy Policy:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

11. Social media plugins

11.1 Facebook plugin

We have integrated components of the company Facebook on this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is a social meeting place operated on the Internet, an online community that usually allows users to communicate and interact with each other in virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences or enable the Internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Facebook allows users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos, and network via friend requests, among other features.

The operating company of Facebook is Meta Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If a data subject lives outside the USA or Canada, the controller of personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Each time you call up one of the individual pages of this website that is operated by us and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plugin) has been integrated, the Internet browser on your IT system is automatically prompted by the respective Facebook component to download a representation of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. A complete overview of all Facebook plugins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE. As part of this technical process, Facebook receives information about which specific subpage of our website is visited by you.

If you are logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognizes which specific subpage of our website you are visiting each time you visit our website and for the entire duration of your respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the respective Facebook account. If you click on one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example the “Like” button, or if you post a comment, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account and stores this personal data.

Facebook always receives information via the Facebook component that you have visited our website if you are logged into Facebook at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether you have clicked on the Facebook component or not. If you do not want this information to be transmitted to Facebook, you can prevent it from being transmitted by logging out of your Facebook account before accessing our website.

This US company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

A processing of personal data by means of the social media buttons takes place exclusively after your explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS- GVO.

The data policy published by Facebook, which is available at https://de- de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains which setting options Facebook offers to protect privacy. In addition, different apps are available that allow you to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can be used by you to suppress data transmission to Facebook.

11.2 Instagram plugin

We have integrated components of the service Instagram on this website. Instagram is a service that qualifies as an audiovisual platform and allows users to share photos and videos and also to redistribute such data on other social networks.

The operating company of the Instagram services is Meta Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

Each time you call up one of the individual pages of this website that is operated by us and on which an Instagram component (Instagram button) has been integrated, the internet browser on your IT system is automatically prompted by the respective Instagram component to download a representation of the corresponding component from Instagram. As part of this technical process, Instagram receives information about which specific subpage of our website is visited by you.

If you are logged in to Instagram at the same time, Instagram recognizes which specific subpage you are visiting each time you visit our website and for the entire duration of your respective stay on our website. This information is

collected by the Instagram component and assigned to your Instagram account by Instagram. If you click on one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, the data and information thus transmitted will be assigned to your personal Instagram user account and stored and processed by Instagram.

Instagram always receives information via the Instagram component that you have visited our website if you are logged into Instagram at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether you have clicked on the Instagram component or not. If you do not want this information to be transmitted to Instagram, you can prevent the transmission by logging out of your Instagram account before accessing our website.

This US company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

A processing of personal data by means of the social media buttons takes place exclusively after your explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS- GVO.

Further information and the applicable privacy policy of Instagram can be found at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 andhttps://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

11.3 LinkedIn plugin

We have integrated components of the LinkedIn Corporation on this website. LinkedIn is an Internet-based social network that allows users to connect with existing business contacts and make new business contacts.

The operating company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. For privacy matters outside the U.S., LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.

With each individual call-up of our website that is equipped with a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plugin), this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from LinkedIn. Further information on the LinkedIn plugins can be found at https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. As part of this technical process, LinkedIn receives information about which specific subpage of our website you have visited.

If you are logged in to LinkedIn at the same time, LinkedIn recognizes which specific subpage of our website you are visiting with each call to our website and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the LinkedIn component and assigned to your LinkedIn account by LinkedIn. If you click on a LinkedIn button integrated on our website, LinkedIn assigns this information to your personal LinkedIn user account and stores this personal data.

LinkedIn always receives information via the LinkedIn component that you have visited our website if you are logged into LinkedIn at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether you have clicked on the LinkedIn component or not. If you do not want this information to be transmitted to LinkedIn, you can prevent the transmission by logging out of your LinkedIn account before accessing our website.

A processing of personal data by means of the social media buttons takes place exclusively after your explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS- GVO.

LinkedIn offers the ability to unsubscribe from email messages, SMS messages, and targeted ads, as well as manage ad settings athttps://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls. LinkedIn also uses partners such as Quantcast, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua and Lotame, which may set cookies. Such cookies can be rejected athttps://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applicable privacy policy of LinkedIn is available athttps://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn’s cookie policy is available athttps://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.

11.4 YouTube plugin

We have integrated components from YouTube on this website. YouTube is an Internet video portal that allows video publishers to post video clips free of charge and other users to view, rate and comment on them, also free of charge. YouTube allows the publication of all kinds of videos, which is why complete film and TV shows, but also music videos, trailers or videos made by users themselves can be accessed via the Internet portal.

The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

By each call of one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by us and on which a YouTube component (YouTube plugin) has been integrated, the

Internet browser on your IT system is automatically prompted by the respective YouTube component to download a representation of the corresponding YouTube component from YouTube. Further information on YouTube can be found athttps://www.youtube.com/yt/about/de/. As part of this technical process, YouTube and Google receive information about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by you.

If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube recognizes which specific subpage of our website you are visiting when you call up a subpage that contains a YouTube plugin. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to your YouTube account.

YouTube and Google always receive information via the YouTube component that you have visited our website if you are logged into YouTube at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether you click on a YouTube video or not. If you do not want this information to be transmitted to YouTube and Google, you can prevent the transmission by logging out of your YouTube account before accessing our website.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of a comfortable and easy use of our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

This US company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

A processing of personal data by means of the social media buttons takes place exclusively after your explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS- GVO.

The privacy policy published by YouTube, which is available athttps://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

12. Web analysis

12.1 Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel)

This website uses the “Facebook pixel” of Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Meta”). In the event that explicit consent is granted, this allows the behavior of users to be tracked after they have

have seen or clicked on a Facebook ad. This procedure is used to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and can help to optimize future advertising measures.

The data collected is anonymous for us and therefore does not allow us to draw conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Meta so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Meta can use the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with the Facebook Data Usage Policy(https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).

Meta and its partners are thus enabled to place advertisements on and outside of Facebook. Furthermore, a cookie may be stored on your computer for these purposes.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

This US company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

12.2 Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

On our websites, we use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

In this context, pseudonymized usage profiles are created and cookies (see point “Cookies”) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website may include:

• a short-term recording of the IP address without permanent storage
• Location data
• Browser type/version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL (previously visited page)
• Time of the server request

The pseudonymized data may be transferred by Google to a server in the USA and stored there.

The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity.

website use and Internet use for the purposes of market research and demand-oriented design of these Internet pages. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. In no case will your IP address be merged with other data from Google.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The parent company Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

For more information about privacy when using GA4, please visit: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12017362?hl=de.

12.3 Matomo

We have integrated the Matomo component of the provider InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, on this website. Matomo is a software tool for web analysis, i.e. for the collection and evaluation of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, data is collected about the website from which a data subject has accessed a website (so-called referrer), which sub-pages of the website have been accessed or how often and for how long a sub-page has been viewed. This is used to optimize the website and for cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.

The software is operated on the server of the data controller, and the data protection-sensitive log files are stored exclusively on this server.

Matomo sets a cookie on your IT system. By setting the cookie, we are enabled to analyze the use of our website. Each time you access one of the individual pages of this website, the Internet browser on your IT system is automatically prompted by the Matomo component to transmit data to our server for the purpose of online analysis. As part of this technical procedure, we obtain knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the data subject, which we use, among other things, to track the origin of visitors and clicks.

By means of the cookie, personal information is stored, for example, the time of access, the place from which access originated and the frequency of visits to our website. Each time you visit our Internet pages, this personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection you are using, is transmitted to our server. This personal data is stored by us. We do not share this personal data with third parties.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Matomo’s privacy policy can be viewed at: https://matomo.org/privacy/.

13. Advertising

13.1 Google Ads with conversion tracking

We have integrated Google Ads on this website. The operating company of the Google Ads services is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Ads is an Internet advertising service that allows advertisers to place ads both in Google’s search engine results and in the Google advertising network. Google Ads allows an advertiser to specify certain keywords in advance, by means of which an ad is displayed in Google’s search engine results exclusively when the user retrieves a keyword-relevant search result using the search engine. In the Google advertising network, the ads are distributed on topic-relevant websites by means of an automatic algorithm and in compliance with the previously defined keywords.

The purpose of Google Ads is to advertise our website by displaying interest-relevant advertisements on the websites of third-party companies and in the search engine results of the Google search engine and to display third-party advertisements on our website.

If you access our website via a Google ad, a so-called conversion cookie is stored on your IT system by Google. A conversion cookie expires after thirty days and is not used to identify you. The conversion cookie is used to track whether certain subpages, for example the shopping cart of an online store system, have been called up on our website, provided that the cookie has not yet expired. The conversion cookie allows both us and Google to track whether a user who arrived on our website via an AdWords ad generated a sale, i.e. completed or cancelled a purchase.

The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie are used by Google to compile visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are in turn used by us to determine the total number of users who have been referred to us via Ads, i.e. to determine the success or failure of the respective Ads ad and to make our Ads adverts available to the

Optimize the future. Neither our company nor other advertisers of Google Ads receive information from Google by means of which you could be identified.

By means of the conversion cookie, personal information, for example the web pages visited by you, is stored. Each time you visit our website, personal data, including the IP address of the internet connection you are using, is therefore transmitted to Google in the United States of America. This personal data is stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may share this personal data collected through the technical process with third parties.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The parent company Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

You can view the privacy policy and further information of Google AdSense at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

14. Plugins and other services

14.1 Google Maps

On our website we use Google Maps (API). The operating company of Google Maps is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Ireland Limited is part of the Google group of companies headquartered at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (land) maps to visually represent geographical information. By using this service, for example, our location can be shown to you and a possible journey can be made easier.

Already when calling up those sub-pages in which the map of Google Maps is integrated, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers in the USA and stored there, provided that you have given your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR have given. Additionally, Google Maps reloads the Google Web Fonts. The provider of Google WebFonts is also Google Ireland Limited. When you access a page that embeds Google Maps, your browser loads the web fonts required to display Google Maps into your browser cache. Also for this purpose, the browser you use establishes a connection to Google’s servers. Through this, Google obtains knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists.

If you are logged in to Google, your data is directly assigned to your account.

If you do not want the assignment with your profile at Google, you must log out of your Google user account. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact Google to exercise this right.

If you do not agree with the future transmission of your data to Google in the context of the use of Google Maps, you also have the option to completely disable the Google Maps web service by turning off the JavaScript application in your browser. Google Maps and thus the map display on this website can then not be used.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You can view Google’s terms of use athttps://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html and the additional terms of use for Google Maps athttps://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html.

The parent company Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

You can view the privacy policy of Google Maps at: (“Google Privacy Policy”): https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

14.2 Google Tag Manager

On this website we use the Google Tag Manager service. The operating company of Google Tag Manager is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Ireland Limited is part of the Google group of companies headquartered at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Through this tool, “web page tags” (i.e. keywords which are included in HTML elements) can be implemented and managed through an interface. By using the Google Tag Manager, we can automatically track which button, link or personalized image you have actively clicked on and can then record which contents of our website are of particular interest to you.

The tool also ensures the triggering of other tags, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. When you click on domain or

If you have deactivated your cookies at the cookie level, this remains the case for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The parent company Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

Further information on Google Tag Manager and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

14.3 YouTube (videos)

We have integrated YouTube components on this website. The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube recognizes which specific subpage of our website you are visiting when you call up a subpage that contains a YouTube video. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to your YouTube account.

YouTube and Google always receive information via the YouTube component that you have visited our website if you are logged into YouTube at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether you click on a YouTube video or not. If you do not want this information to be transmitted to YouTube and Google, you can prevent the transmission by logging out of your YouTube account before accessing our website.

These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon the granting of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The parent company Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is an appropriateness resolution pursuant to sec. Article 45 of the GDPR, so that a transfer of personal data may also take place without further guarantees or additional measures.

You can view YouTube’s privacy policy athttps://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

14.4 hCaptcha

We use hCaptcha (hereinafter “hCaptcha”) on this website. The provider is Intuition Machines, Inc, 2211 Selig Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA (hereinafter “IMI”). The purpose of hCaptcha is to verify whether data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters a website with activated hCaptcha. For the analysis, hCaptcha 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 IMI. If hCaptcha is used in “invisible mode”, the 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 GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is based exclusively on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, 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 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. Data processing is based on standard contractual clauses included in the Data Processing Addendum to IMI’s General Terms and Conditions or Data Processing Contracts.

For more information about hCaptcha, please see the privacy policy and terms of use at the following links: https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy and https://hcaptcha.com/terms

15. Your rights as a data subject

15.1 Right to confirmation

You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed.

15.2 Right to information Art. 15 DS-GVO

You have the right to receive from us at any time free of charge information about the personal data stored about you, as well as a copy of this data in accordance with the statutory provisions.

15.3 Right of rectification Art. 16 DS-GVO

You have the right to request that inaccurate personal data concerning you be corrected. Furthermore, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

15.4 Deletion Art. 17 DS-GVO

You have the right to demand that we delete the personal data concerning you without delay, provided that one of the reasons provided for by law applies and insofar as the processing or storage is not necessary.

15.5 Restriction of processing Art. 18 DS-GVO

You have the right to demand that we restrict processing if one of the legal requirements is met.

15.6 Data portability Art. 20 DS-GVO

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which has been provided to us by you, in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from us, to whom the personal data has been provided, provided that the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a) DS-GVO or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO and the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Furthermore, when exercising your right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 para. 1 DS-GVO the right to obtain that the personal data be transferred directly from one controller to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible and insofar as this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

15.8 Revocation of consent under data protection law

You have the right to revoke consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.

15.9 Complaint to a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing of personal data with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.

16. Up-to-dateness and modification of the privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status: September 2023.

Due to the further development of our Internet pages and offers or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. You can access and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on the website at ewimed.com/en/privacypolicy/.

This privacy policy was created with the support of the data protection software: audatis MANAGER.