Privacy Policy
I. General Information
(1) In the following, we inform you in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g., name, address, email addresses, user behavior.
(2) The controller according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
Bayerische Milchindustrie eG
E.ON-Allee 1
84036 Landshut
Email: bmi@bmi-eg.com
You can reach our Data Protection Officer at:
Bugl & Kollegen Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit mbH
Eifelstraße 55
93057 Regensburg
Email: kontakt@buglundkollegen.de
(3) When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. We delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if statutory retention obligations exist.
(4) If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We will also state the specified criteria for the storage period.
II. Your Rights
(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us regarding your personal data:
Right to information,
Right to rectification or erasure,
Right to restriction of processing,
Right to object to processing,
Right to data portability.
(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.
You can find the competent supervisory authority for data protection issues here.
III. Hosting
(1) The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, email dispatch, security services, and technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating this online offer.
(2) In this context, we, or our hosting provider, process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, interested parties, and visitors to this online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of this online offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR (conclusion of a data processing agreement).
IV. Accessing the Website
(1) When using the website for purely informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security:
IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Content of the request (specific page)
Access status/HTTP status code
Amount of data transferred in each case
Website from which the request comes
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software.
We collect and store this data for a limited time due to our legitimate interest in order to initiate a derivation to personal data in the event of unauthorized access or access attempts to local servers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
V. Use of Cookies
(1) In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive, assigned to the browser you are using, and through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookie (here, by us). They serve to make the internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.
(2) We distinguish between two categories of cookies: (a) essential cookies, without which the functionality of our website would be limited, and (b) optional cookies for statistical purposes.
The use of optional cookies is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).
In the following link and the subsequent paragraphs, we describe the optional cookies used on this website in detail:
VI. Use of Matomo
a. Type and Purpose of Processing
This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open-source software for the statistical analysis of visitor access. The provider of the Matomo software is InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand. Matomo uses so-called cookies, which are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the internet offer is stored on our server in Germany, as we host Matomo ourselves. The IP address is anonymized immediately after processing and before storage. You have the option to prevent the installation of cookies by changing the settings of your browser software. We point out that if you do so, not all functions of this website may be fully available. You can decide whether a unique web analysis cookie may be stored in your browser to enable the website operator to collect and analyze various statistical data. Further information on the privacy settings of the Matomo software can be found at the following link: matomo.org/docs/privacy/.
b. Legal Basis of Processing
The data is processed based on the user’s consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).
c. Data Categories
Time of previous user visit
Screen resolution
Files clicked or downloaded
Links clicked outside the domain
User ID
Page speed
Page URL
Number of user visits
User agent
Browser information
Time zone
Time of first user visit
Date and time of visit
Page title
Referrer URL
Usage data
Device information
Geographical location
IP address (anonymized)
d. Recipients
Recipients of the data are internal employees of BMI eG. Since we host Matomo ourselves, no connection is made to Matomo’s servers.
e. Storage Periods
Data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for our recording purposes or you have withdrawn your consent.
f. Legal / Contractual Requirement
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent.
g. Third-Country Transfer
Although Matomo is based in New Zealand, all data is hosted by Matomo on our own servers located in Germany. Therefore, processing does not take place outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA).
h. Withdrawal of Consent
You can withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. You can do this by changing the cookie settings via our cookie banner.
i. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
With the help of the Matomo tracking tool, the behavior of website visitors can be evaluated and interests analyzed. For this purpose, we create a pseudonymous user profile.
VII. Online Presences in Social Media
We maintain online presences within social networks to inform active users there about our services and to communicate directly via the platforms if interested. We are currently represented in the following networks:
Facebook: de-de.facebook.com/Bayerische.Milchindustrie/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/bayerische-milchindustrie-eg/
Facebook can only be accessed by visitors to the website via an external link. We do not use any plugins or other interfaces on our website that the respective networks offer for embedding their services on websites.
We have no influence on the data collection and its further use by the social networks. Thus, there is no knowledge of the extent, location, and duration of data storage, to what extent the networks comply with existing deletion obligations, what evaluations and links are made with the data, and to whom the data is passed on. We therefore expressly point out that user data (e.g., personal information, IP address) is stored by the network operators in accordance with their data usage policies and used for commercial purposes.
We process user data in social media presences insofar as they contact and communicate with us via, for example, comments or direct messages.
The legal basis for processing user data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and f GDPR.
Facebook
You can access the social media network Facebook via external links on our website. All functions within the social media network are offered by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. The Facebook channels can only be accessed via an external link.
If you are logged into Facebook with your own profile and access our social media channel, Facebook can assign your visit to your logged-in profile. If you do not wish your user account to be assigned to your IP address, please log out of your Facebook account before using our website.
For more information on the processing of your data, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy: facebook.com/privacy/explanation and our data policy “Facebook Fanpage”
