We have taken the necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure that data protection regulations are observed by both us and our external service providers.
In order to improve our service to you, we are constantly striving to further develop our websites and implement new technologies. This may necessitate adjustments to this privacy policy. We therefore recommend that you review this privacy policy from time to time.
Access to the website of the Minimum Wage Office
This website can be used without providing any personal information. No complete IP addresses are stored permanently. Each time you access this website, data about this process is automatically stored in a log file. This data is logged by us exclusively for technical security reasons, in particular to defend against or identify attacks on our web server, and for statistical purposes. The statistical evaluation of the data is carried out exclusively in anonymized form, i.e., no connection to your person can be established. There is no comparison with other data sets or transfer to third parties, even in excerpts.
Specifically, the following data is stored on our own servers in Germany for a period of 14 days:
- Full IP address of the requesting computer
- Date and time of access
- Name of the resource accessed
- Page from which the file was requested
- Access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.)
- Web browser and operating system used
- Size of the accessed resource.
Personal data
If you send us an email or enter personal and/or business data using a form provided by us, this data will be used exclusively for correspondence with you. It is your decision whether you provide us with this data. We store your data on specially protected servers in Germany. Access to this data is only possible for a few specially authorized persons who are involved in the technical, commercial, or editorial support of the servers.
Your rights
You have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your personal data stored and processed by us, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose for which we process your data.
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Furthermore, you have the right to have your personal data corrected, restricted or deleted free of charge.
Furthermore, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for reasons arising from your particular situation.
If you have given us separate consent to process your personal data, you can revoke this consent at any time. The lawfulness of the processing of your data until revocation remains unaffected by a revocation.
If you believe that we are not processing your data in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, you have the right to contact the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI), Graurheindorfer Str. 153, 53117 Bonn, Germany.
If you have any further questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact us or our official data protection officer. You will find the contact details at the end of this statement.
Transfer of personal data to third parties
Personal data logged when accessing the website of the Business and Information Center for the Minimum Wage will only be passed on to third parties if we are obliged to do so by law or by a court decision, or if the disclosure is necessary in the event of attacks on our Internet infrastructure for legal or criminal prosecution. Data will not be passed on for other non-commercial or commercial purposes.
Use of cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. They are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. As a user, you therefore have full control over the use of cookies. They serve to make our website more user-friendly and effective. You can delete cookies that have already been saved in your browser at any time.
The following cookie is technically necessary and is automatically deleted at the end of your visit:
- Session cookie, e.g. for search and login functions
The following cookie is stored permanently and enables us to recognize your browser on your next visit and to continuously improve your user experience on our website:
- Cookie for managing the display of windows (so-called lightboxes, formerly pop-ups) or banners
You can make further settings for data protection in your browser. You can set your browser so that
- you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases,
- exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and
- enable the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser.
Web analysis with Matomo software
We use the open source software tool Matomo (formerly PIWIK) on our website to analyze the surfing behavior of our users in order to optimize the website for you and to continuously improve it.
Your IP address is shortened by two bytes immediately after processing and before storage, thereby anonymizing it. No personal data is stored for web analysis. The data collected by Matomo is not and will never be transferred to other servers or passed on to third parties.
Protection of minors
Persons under the age of 18 should 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. We do not knowingly collect such data and do not pass it on to third parties.
Links to websites of other providers
Our online offering contains links to websites of other providers. We have no influence on whether these providers comply with European and national data protection regulations.
Responsible party pursuant to Art. 4 (7) EU General Data Protection Regulation
Business and Information Centre for the Minimum Wage
c/o Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25
44149 Dortmund
E-mail: geschaeftsstelle@mindestlohn-kommission.de
Contact details of the data protection officer
Mathias Thielen
Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25
44149 Dortmund
E-mail: bds@baua.bund.de