Facebook Privacy Policy

GEA values you as a visitor of our Facebook fan page who is interested in GEA and our products, technologies and services. When you interact with our Facebook fan page, we will process your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains, how GEA uses your personal data and which rights and options you have in this regard.

1. Who is responsible for your personal data? 

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, Peter-Müller-Straße 12, 40468 Dusseldorf, Germany (in the following mentioned as “we“ or “GEA“) and Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (in the following mentioned as “Facebook“) are joint controllers within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (in the following mentioned as “GDPR”) regarding the data processing explained under 3. This means, that we are the legal entities, who jointly determine the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data in connection to your visit of our Facebook fan page. 

The joint control agreement concluded between GEA and Facebook is available here.

2. How can you reach our data protection officer?

You can reach our data protection officer by using the following contact details:

Email: GroupDataProtection@gea.com

3. Processing of your personal data on our Facebook fan page

When you use our Facebook fan page, so-called Insights data are processed on Facebook pages. Please click on this link to find out in detail, which data are processed in this context. Facebook uses these data to create page statistics („Page Insights“) and makes them available to us. Please find further information about the content of these Page Insights here

These statistics help us to understand the interests of our users and to design our fan page accordingly. The purpose of the processing is thus to provide a platform that is tailored to your interests as far as possible and which displays current and interesting information about us. The data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. Facebook only provides Page Insights to us which contain the statistics of the last two years.

Your Insights data, which are used to create these statistics, are exclusively processed by Facebook. In this regard, the Facebook’s Privacy Policy applies. Further Information on the other data processing operations in connection with your use of our Facebook fan page, for which Facebook is solely responsible, are available here.

4. Your data protection rights

As a data subject, you have rights under the GDPR in connection with the processing of your personal data. Please visit the following link to learn more about your respective rights and how to exercise them.

5. Updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated in January 2020. We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy at any time in order reflect the way in which we use your personal data or changes of legal requirements. In case of any of such changes, we will publish the updated Privacy Policy on our Facebook fan page. All changed information is valid upon the date it is published on this Facebook fan page.

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