Privacy policy
acc. Art. 13 u. 14 DSGVO§1 Information on the collection of personal data
(1) In the following, we would like to inform you about how we process your personal data when you use our website and, at the same time, comply with our legal obligations, in particular those under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Personal data refers to any data that can be linked to you, such as your name, address, email addresses, or user behavior.
(2) Responsible person acc. Art. 4 par. 7 DS-GVO ist ELP GmbH European Logistic Partners, Nützenberger Str. 359, 42115 Wuppertal, Germany, E-Mail:elp@elp-gmbh.de, Web: www.elp-gmbh.de | www.elp-gmbh.com (siehe unser Impressum).
You can reach our data protection officer at datenschutzbeauftragter@elp-gmbh.de or at our postal address with the note “To the data protection officer”.
(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and telephone number and home address) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. Your name is important for us to address you correctly. Your phone number is needed to contact you quickly and easily. We need your address for any information sent to you by mail. We delete the data accruing in this context, if the request is assigned to a contract, after the time limits for the term of the contract, otherwise after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there are legal obligations to retain data. Confidentiality is maintained from the beginning.
(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will always carefully select and monitor these service providers and inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In doing so, we also state the specified criteria for the storage period.
(5) The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (information and intervention rights) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the legal basis stated for the respective exercise requirements:
- Right to information pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
- Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
- Right to information pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
- Right to withdraw consent granted pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.
(6) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
(7) This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.
§2 Hosting & Content Delivery Network
(1) For the hosting of our website and the presentation of the page content, we use a provider that provides its services itself or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers within the European Union.
(2) All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.
(3) We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Cloudflare
(1) We use a content delivery network from the following provider: Cloudflare Inc, 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
(2) This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content or scripts more quickly via a network of regionally distributed servers. The processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits its unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
(3) For data transfers to the USA, the provider has signed up to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
§3 Processing of personal data when visiting our website
(1) When you use the website for informational purposes—that is, simply viewing it without registering and/or without providing us with any other information—we process the personal data that your server transmits to us. The data described below is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security, and must therefore be processed by us. This is done on the legal basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR:
- Date and time of the request
- IP address
- Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Contents of the request (page visited)
- Data volume transferred in each case
- Access status/http status code
- Browser
- previously visited page
- Operating system
- Language and version of the browser software
§4 Further functions and offers of our website
(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this purpose, you usually have to provide further personal data or we further process such data that we use to perform the respective service. For all data processing purposes described herein, the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These are carefully selected by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly inspected.
§5 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data
(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time. Such revocation will affect the reliability of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us. The permissibility of processing your data until the time of your revocation remains unaffected.
(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the performance of a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data in the way we have carried out. In the event of your objection, we will review the merits of the case and either discontinue or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue the processing.
(3) Of course, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. Please send us your objection to the aforementioned contact details under §1 para. (2).
§6 Duration of the storage of personal data
(1) The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if relevant – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
(2) When processing personal data on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, the data in question will be stored until you withdraw your consent. If there are statutory retention periods for data processed in connection with contractual or quasi-contractual obligations pursuant to Article 6( 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.
(3) When processing personal data on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(1) of the GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
(4) Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration on specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
§7 Processing of data from your end devices (“Cookie Policy”)
(1) In addition to the aforementioned data, we use technical aids for various functions when you use our website, in particular cookies, which may be stored on your terminal device. When you access our website and at any time later, you have the choice of whether you generally allow cookies to be set or which individual functions you would like to select. You can make changes in your browser settings or via our Consent Manager. In the following, we first describe cookies from a technical point of view before we go into more detail about your individual choices by describing technically necessary cookies and cookies that you can voluntarily select or deselect.
(2) Cookies are text files or information in a database that are stored on your hard drive and associated with the browser you are using so that certain information can flow to the entity that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer, but are primarily used to make the Internet offer faster and more user-friendly. This website uses the following types of cookies, whose functioning and legal basis we will explain below:
- Transient cookies: Such cookies, especially session cookies, are automatically deleted when the browser is closed or by logging out. They contain a so-called session ID. In this way, various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session and your computer can be recognized when you return to our website.
- Persistent cookies: Such cookies are automatically deleted after a predefined duration, which varies depending on the cookie. You can view the legal cookies and the runtimes at any time in the settings of your browser and delete the cookies manually.
(3) Many cookies are technically necessary, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the display of videos). Other cookies may be used to evaluate user behavior or for advertising purposes.
(4) Cookies that are necessary for carrying out the electronic communication process, for providing certain functions you have requested (e.g., for playing videos), or for optimizing the website (e.g., cookies for measuring web traffic) (necessary cookies), are stored on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified.
(5) Our website uses Borlabs Cookie Consent technology to obtain your consent to store certain cookies in your browser or to use certain technologies and to document this in accordance with data protection law. The provider of this technology is Borlabs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg (hereinafter Borlabs). When you enter our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser, which stores the consents you have given or revoked. This data is not shared with the provider of Borlabs Cookie. The collected data will be stored until you request us to delete it or delete the Borlabs cookie yourself, or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected. Details about Borlabs Cookie data processing can be found at https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/.
(6) The use of Borlabs cookie consent technology is done to obtain the legally required consents for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is also Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.
§8 Web analysis
Matomo
(1) On our website, we use the open source software web analysis tool Matomo from the following provider: InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, (“Matomo”) to analyze the surfing behavior of our users. When individual pages of our website are accessed, the following data is stored:
- 3 bytes of the IP address of the user’s calling system
- the website accessed
- the website from which the user accessed the website (referrer)
- the subpages that are accessed from the accessed website
- the time spent on the website
- the frequency of visits to the website
- The software is set so that the IP addresses are not saved in full, but the last byte of the IP address is masked (e.g.: 192.168.100.xxx). In this way, it is no longer possible to assign the shortened IP address to the calling computer. The data is not passed on to third parties.
The pseudonymized information generated by the Matomo cookie is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym. If data is also transferred to the provider’s server and the web analysis service is not installed locally on our server, we have concluded an order processing contract with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
(2) The legal basis for the processing of users’ personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
(3) The processing of this personal data enables us to analyze the surfing behavior of our users. By evaluating the data obtained, we are able to compile information about the use of the individual components of our website. This helps us to continuously improve our website and its user-friendliness. These purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in processing the data in accordance with Art. 6 para. Article 1(f) of the GDPR. By anonymizing the IP address, the users’ interest in the protection of their personal data is adequately safeguarded.
(4) On our website, we offer our users the option of placing a Matomo deactivation cookie in their browser. To do this, you must remove the opt-out tick highlighted in blue. This sets a cookie on your system that signals our system not to store the user’s data. If you delete the corresponding cookie from your own system in the meantime, you must repeat the process. You can find more information on the privacy settings of the Matomo software at the following link: https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/.
Sie haben die Möglichkeit zu verhindern, dass von Ihnen hier getätigte Aktionen analysiert und verknüpft werden. Dies wird Ihre Privatsphäre schützen, aber wird auch den Besitzer daran hindern, aus Ihren Aktionen zu lernen und die Bedienbarkeit für Sie und andere Benutzer zu verbessern.
Matomo Opt-Out
Your visit to this website is currently recorded by Matomo web analytics. If you wish to opt out, click on the opt-out tick highlighted in blue to place a Matomo deactivation cookie in your browser.
SalesViewer
(1) This website uses SalesViewer® technology provided by SalesViewer® GmbH, Huestr. 30, 44787 Bochum, Germany, is used to collect and store data for marketing, market research, and optimization purposes based on the website operator’s legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
(2) Using cookies and/or similar technologies (tracking pixels, web beacons, algorithms for reading device and browser information), the service collects and stores pseudonymized visitor data, including information about the device used—such as the IP address and browser information—in order to evaluate it for statistical analyses of usage behavior on our website and to create pseudonymized usage profiles. Among other things, this enables the analysis of navigation patterns (so-called heat maps), which show the duration of page visits as well as interactions with page content (e.g., text entries, scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs).
Pseudonymization fundamentally precludes direct identification of individuals. Your data will not be combined with unmasked data collected about you through other means.
(3) All processing described above—in particular, the retrieval or storage of information on the device you are using—will only take place if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may object to the collection and storage of data at any time with future effect by clicking this link https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out to prevent SalesViewer® from collecting data on this website in the future. This will place an opt-out cookie for this website on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you will need to click this link again.
(4) We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
§9 Social media plug-ins
(1) We have a profile on LinkedIn. The provider is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. LinkedIn uses advertising cookies.
(2) Every time you visit one of our pages that contains LinkedIn features, a connection is established with LinkedIn’s servers. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our website using your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn “Recommend” button while logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn can associate your visit to our website with you and your user account. Please note that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how LinkedIn uses it.
(3) If you would like to disable LinkedIn advertising cookies, please use the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.
(4) For details on how LinkedIn handles your personal data, please refer to LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
§10 Handling of applicant data
(1) We offer you the opportunity to apply to us (e.g. by e-mail, post or via online application form). In the following, we inform you about the scope, purpose and use of your personal data collected during the application process. We assure that the collection, processing and use of your data will be in accordance with applicable data protection law and all other legal provisions and that your data will be treated in strict confidence.
(2) When you submit an application to us, we process your associated personal data (e.g., contact and communication information, application documents, notes taken during job interviews, etc.) to the extent necessary to decide whether to establish an employment relationship. The legal basis for this is Section 26 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) under German law (initiation of an employment relationship), Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR (general pre-contractual steps), and—if you have given your consent—Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time. Your personal data will be disclosed within our company exclusively to those individuals involved in processing your application.
(3) If your application is successful, the data you submitted will be stored in our data processing systems pursuant to Section 26 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the purpose of administering the employment relationship.
(4) If we are unable to offer you a position, if you decline a job offer, or if you withdraw your application, we reserve the right to retain the data you have provided, based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) for up to 6 months from the conclusion of the application process (rejection or withdrawal of the application). Afterward, the data will be deleted and the physical application documents will be destroyed. Retention serves, in particular, as evidence in the event of a legal dispute. If it becomes apparent that the data will be required after the 6-month period has expired (e.g., due to an impending or pending legal dispute), the data will not be deleted until the purpose for its continued retention no longer applies.
(5) Data may also be retained for a longer period if you have provided your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR) or if statutory retention requirements prevent its deletion.
(6) If we do not make you a job offer, we may be able to include you in our pool of applicants. In case of acceptance, all documents and information from the application will be transferred to the applicant pool in order to contact you in case of suitable vacancies.
(7) Inclusion in the applicant pool occurs exclusively on the basis of your express consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). The submission of the consent is voluntary and is not related to the current application process. The data subject may revoke his/her consent at any time. In this case, the data will be irrevocably deleted from the applicant pool, unless there are legal reasons for retention.
(8) The data from the applicant pool will be irrevocably deleted no later than two years after consent has been given.
§11 Notes on video surveillance
(1) Video surveillance systems are used on our company premises to protect our property, enforce our right to control our premises, protect the life and health of individuals, and prevent theft. This is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Please refer to §1(1) for the contact information of the data controller. (2).
(2) The stored records are regularly overwritten, a deletion takes place at the latest after 14 days, insofar as no further storage becomes necessary for the preservation of evidence.
(3) The data will only be processed internally in ELP GmbH European Logistic Partners, a transmission will not take place.
(4) The data subject has the right to request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning him or her is being processed; if so, he or she has the right to access such personal data and to receive the information specified in Article 15 of the GDPR.
(5) The data subject has the right to request that the controller promptly rectify inaccurate personal data concerning the data subject and, where applicable, complete any incomplete personal data (Art. 16 of the GDPR).
(6) The data subject has the right to request that the controller erase personal data concerning him or her without delay if any of the grounds specified in Article 17 of the GDPR apply, e.g., if the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected (right to erasure).
(7) The data subject has the right to request that the controller restrict processing if any of the conditions listed in Article 18 of the GDPR are met, for example, if the data subject has objected to the processing, for the duration of the controller’s review.
(8) The data subject has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him or her. The controller shall no longer process the personal data unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (Art. 21 GDPR).
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, every data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if the data subject believes that the processing of personal data concerning him or her violates the GDPR (Art. 77 GDPR). The data subject may exercise this right with a supervisory authority in the Member State of his or her habitual residence, place of work, or the location of the alleged infringement. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the competent supervisory authority is: LDI NRW
§12 Whistleblower system
(1) The purpose of data processing within the whistleblower system is to receive and investigate anonymous reports of suspected compliance violations, in particular criminal acts in the area of white-collar crime, such as fraud and corruption. This is done on the legal basis of Articles 13 and 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
(2) The whistleblower reporting portal can be found at. https://lean-compliance.eu/hinweis/HGMW/elp
(3) The information you provide in the whistleblower system will be used, among other things, for the purpose of verifying and documenting the reports and for further internal investigations. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is the legitimate interest in the detection and prevention of wrongdoing and the associated prevention of damage and liability risks for our company in accordance with the German Data Protection Act. Art. 6 par. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.
(4) The following data are processed within the framework of the whistleblower system:
● Information about the accused person and any witnesses (e.g., name, contact information, position, and employment information); and
● Details of the (alleged) compliance violations and the relevant facts.
As our reporting procedure allows for anonymous reporting, no personal data is collected about whistleblowers unless they voluntarily provide personal information.
(5) We will ensure that your personal data is accessible only to a limited number of authorized persons who need to know such data for the processing purposes mentioned above. Any person who gains access to the data is bound to confidentiality. A transfer or other transmission of your personal data to third parties, such as law enforcement agencies, will not take place without your prior consent. If required by law or order of governmental authorities, we may have to disclose personal data to them without your consent.
(6) Personal data shall be retained for the period necessary to clarify and conclusively assess the tip. After completion of the investigations, the personal data is deleted in accordance with the legal requirements. In the event that judicial and/or disciplinary proceedings are initiated, retention may occur until the conclusion of the proceedings or the expiration of appeal periods. Personal data in connection with unfounded tip-offs will be deleted immediately.
§13 Sanction list check
We process personal data as part of sanctions list checks in order to comply with applicable sanctions and embargo regulations and to avoid legal and liability risks. In doing so, we compare identification data of customers, business partners and their contact persons and – where necessary – of employees with relevant sanctions and restriction lists. Relevant lists may originate in particular from Germany and the EU and – where necessary – from the United Kingdom, the USA, Australia and Canada
(1) Legal basis
Depending on the specific case, processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR (legal obligation) and/or Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (legitimate interest in conducting business in compliance with the law and in risk prevention).
(2) Data categories
In particular, name, any other identifying features (e.g. date of birth), contact details, company affiliation/function and result/record data of the audit.
(3) Recipients
. Where necessary, we engage service providers as data processors in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR. Data is disclosed to government authorities only to the extent required by law.
(4) Storage period
We only store data and evidence for the sanctions list check for as long as is necessary to fulfill legal obligations, for documentation and to defend against/prosecute legal claims; they are then deleted, provided there are no legal retention obligations to the contrary.
§14 Spam bot protection
Friendly Captcha
(1) We use Friendly Captcha on our website, a service provided by Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3-5, 82237 Wörthsee, Germany. Friendly Captcha GmbH acts as our processor.
The legal basis for the use of Friendly Captcha is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in protecting the website from abusive, automated crawling and spam.
(2) Friendly Captcha is a data protection-friendly spam protection solution to make it more difficult for automated programs and scripts (so-called “bots”) to use websites. Friendly Captcha thus protects websites from abuse.
(3) For this purpose, we have integrated a program code from Friendly Captcha in certain areas of our website, e.g. in a contact form. This causes the visitor’s end device to establish a connection to the Friendly Captcha servers in connection with the protected area (e.g. sending a contact form).
(4) The visitor’s browser receives a calculation task from Friendly Captcha. The complexity of the calculation task depends on various risk factors. The visitor’s end device solves the calculation task, which requires certain system resources, and sends the calculation result to our web server. This contacts the Friendly Captcha server via an interface and receives a response as to whether the puzzle has been solved correctly by the end device.
(5) In addition, the visitor’s browser transmits connection data, environmental data, interaction data and functional data to Friendly Captcha. Friendly Captcha evaluates this data and determines how likely it is that it is a human user or bot and transmits the result to our web server.
(6) Friendly Captcha does not store any personal data of the visitor. Data that could identify the visitor (such as IP addresses) is anonymized using one-way hashing. Friendly Captcha does not use HTTP cookies and does not store any data in the persistent browser memory. Friendly Captcha does not use the data to identify a natural person or for marketing purposes. All data is used exclusively for the detection and treatment of potential bots and risks as described above. The purpose of the processing is therefore to ensure the security and functionality of websites.
Further information on data protection at Friendly Captcha can be found at https://friendlycaptcha.com/de/privacy/
Actuality and change of this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy was drafted in part by the attorneys at IT-Recht Kanzlei, is protected by copyright (https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de), and is current as of August 26, 2026.
Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to change this privacy policy. Die jeweils aktuelle Datenschutzerklärung kann jederzeit auf der Website unter https://www.elp-gmbh.de | www.elp-gmbh.com von Ihnen abgerufen und ausgedruckt werden.
