We are pleased that you are interested in the services we offer.

From the point of view of data protection, we would like to inform you about our working methods and ask for your consent if your personal data is processed.

Schollmeyer & Steidl attaches great importance to compliance with the data protection regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) in its currently applicable version. In this context, the protection of your data and the protection of your privacy is particularly important to us.

To ensure that you are fully informed about the collection and processing of your personal data in our company, please note the following information and agree to it.

1.) Use of cookies

Our website partially uses so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are only used to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective, and more secure.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit and to ensure that the website is built more easily/quickly.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, accept cookies for certain cases or generally exclude them and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. However, we would like to point out that the functionality of this website may be restricted if these technically necessary cookies are deactivated.

2.) Contact form and registration

If you send us applications or inquiries via the contact form or register your profile with us, your details from the form/registration, including the data you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The data entered in the contact form/registration is therefore processed exclusively based on your consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. An informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out up to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you enter in the contact form/registration will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your application has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

3.) Collection and processing of personal data from active applicants

We only collect, store and process personal data from active applicants as part of the recruitment process if you actively communicate this to us as part of an application.

In this case, we are committed to the fundamental principles of data protection in accordance with Art. 5 GDPR.

This means that personal data will only be collected within the framework of your express permission ("permission reservation"); the collection and storage takes place exclusively for the approved purpose ("purpose limitation"); only data that is required for the permitted purpose is collected ("data minimization"); the data is stored on storage media that are secured as best as possible against misuse and loss and that comply with the legal requirements ("data security"); the data is only stored for as long as is necessary for the approved purpose or the person concerned revokes his or her consent ("storage limitation").

Specifically, this means:

a) We only store and process data that is required for the services offered, their implementation or for technical administration.

This is basically your personal information (e.g., name, address, telephone, e-mail, date of birth, data and documents on your professional career, curriculum vitae, certificates as well as data and information on your career goals, desired position, industry, salary details) or Your company contact details if you contact us as a potential customer.

b) The data is only passed on in the context of specific projects and only to authorized persons on the customer or applicant side. Before each individual transfer, applicants are informed in full about the transfer (customer, contact person, project, etc.) and of course have the right not to agree to the transfer in each individual case. It will not be passed on without your knowledge.

c) We are not planning any newsletters or other unspecific e-mail communication with applicants and candidates in the context of which personal data will be collected and processed. Should such or comparable communicative measures take place in the future, these will only take place based on a documented consent of the recipient, which can be revoked at any time.

d) The applicant data and the applicant communication are generally stored for the duration of the recruitment process and for reasons of evidence preservation up to 6 months after the end of the project. However, applicants and candidates have the option of authorizing us to store their data permanently.

In the case of permanent storage of the data, we will consult before the end of 5 years at the latest whether there is still interest in the storage of the data and ask for an extension of the permission.

The period of 5 years is chosen because this period is usually the necessary period that is to be estimated in the context of a professional reorientation. If an applicant or candidate only wants to give their consent to data processing for a specific recruitment project, the consent is given for a period of 6 months.

4.) Collection and processing of personal data in the active search

We occasionally also carry out an active search for potential candidates, including on career networks. The search takes place only and exclusively in the "publicly accessible area" approved by users of these career networks.

If interesting candidates are found here, we will contact you.

Our identity and interests are already clearly formulated during this initial contact and the candidate has the option of disclosing further information to us in addition to the publicly accessible data (name, company, place of work, job title) or not.

If a candidate is interested in the position to be filled and/or in working with us, our data protection declaration will be sent to the candidate. We only process this data in accordance with the consent if the latter expressly agrees to the storage and processing of his data to the extent described there.

Section 3 applies accordingly.

Only in exceptional cases, in which initial contact with the candidate is not possible, will the data be stored or processed without express consent. In these cases, we assume that the processing of the data is in the interests of the data subject pursuant to Art. Information for the candidate, which is also not possible now, is initially refrained from and the procedure is hereby made transparent on the website and thus publicly accessible in accordance with Article 14 (5) (b) GDPR.

5.) Rights of Data Owners

As the owner of the personal data processed by us, you have extensive rights in accordance with Art. 12 to Art. 23 GDPR. The following rights are particularly relevant for you:

a) You can object to the storage of your data and documents at any time, revoke consent you have already given and request deletion.

Otherwise, the data will be deleted within the framework of the statutory provisions.

b) Upon request, you will receive information at any time about all personal data that we have stored about you, as well as their origin, recipients, or categories of recipients to whom this data was passed on and the purpose of storage.

c) It is always possible to correct and/or update any incorrect or outdated data.

d) In the event of difficulties in enforcing your rights, you can also contact our data protection officer using the contact details below to assert the above rights:

Compliance Officer Services Legal

Attorney Stephan Rheinwald
Telemannstraße 22
53173 Bonn
Tel 0228 35036291
Fax 0228 35036292

Email: s.rheinwald@cos-legal.eu

6.) Data security

Communication on the Internet (also via e-mail) can have security gaps.

However, we do our utmost to protect your data. The website and other systems, but especially the personal data of customers, candidates, and applicants, are protected against loss, destruction, access, modification, or dissemination by unauthorized persons using all reasonable technical and organizational measures.

7.) Responsible body within the meaning of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG)

The responsible body within the meaning of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) in its current version is:

Schollmeyer & Steidl GmbH
Liebigstraße 51
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Data protection declaration of Schollmeyer & Steidl GmbH