Privacy Policy
Welcome to BTA International GmbH, your specialist for innovative plants and processes for efficient biological treatment and energy recovery of organic residues. The protection of your data is also a matter of concern to us. For transparent cooperation, we draw your Attention to important processing activities and special features.
Purpose and legal basis of data processing
The data processing by BTA International GmbH is carried out for the fulfilment of the contract / technicaloffer and for the execution of the contract in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR and, unlessthe claim is based on a contract, in the context of the reconciliation of interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, whereby the legitimate interest is related to:
• Answering enquiries
• Quotation preparation, order processing
• Sending information material
• The Administration and Administration
• Maintaining business relationships
As a company, we are subject to various legal obligations. In order to fulfil these obligations, processing of personal data may be necessary, pursuant to Article 6(1c) GDPR legal obligations or pursuant to Article 6(1e) GDPR in the public interest.
• Control and reporting obligations
• Creditworthiness, age and identity checks
• Prevention/defence of criminal acts
Controller pursuant to Article 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
BTA International GmbH
Hauptplatz 12
85276 Pfaffenhofen/Germany
Tel. +49 8441 8086-100
Fax +49 8441 8086-690
E-Mail info(at)bta-international.de
Managing director:
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Eike Liekweg, Dipl.-Ing. Roland Pellegrini
We have appointed an external data protection officer.
Werk3 für Datenschutz GmbH
Sandra Leist
Letteallee 3
13409 Berlin
www.datenschutz-werk.de
Tel.: +49 30 403 6336 60
If you have any questions about data protection, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Scope
This data protection notice applies to the following offers:
• our website
• our social media page
• whenever reference is made to this data protection information from any of our offers, regardless of the way in which you access or use it.
Collection of personal data when you contact us
If you send us an e-mail or contact us by phone, we collect, process and store the following data from you and use it for the purpose of answering your request. (Legal basis is point (f) of the first sentence of Article 6(1) GDPR):
• First name, Surname
• address
• Landline/mobile phone number
• E-mail address
Collection of personal data when visiting our website
(1) When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, 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 is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):
• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (concrete page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request comes
• browsers
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.
(2) We do not use cookies for our website.
(3) We do not use tracking – technologies that collect and store personal data.
(4) When visiting our website, no automated decision-making, the so-called profiling, takes place.
(5) We process your personal data only for the purpose stated here. Any further processing for other purposes requires your prior consent.
Consent management
For certain processing on our website, your consent is required. To obtain and manage These consents, we use the Usercentrics Consent Management Service of Usercentrics GmbH,Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich.
The legal basis is point (c) of the first sentence of Article 6(1) GDPR, as we are legally obliged to provide a documentedconsent solution.
When accessing our website, the Consent Manager determines which categories of Cookies and services are technically necessary and which may onlybe used after your consent. Your selection is stored in a consent cookie. This cookie contains information about your decision (granted or revoked consents), timingand technical metadata necessary for proper documentation. A transfer of this information to Usercentrics in the sense of an Independent Nutzung does not take place.
The data will remain stored until you revoke your consent, delete the storage in the browser or the purpose of the documentation no longer applies. Legal storageobligations remain unaffected. Detailed information on data processing by User-centrics can be found at usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/
Right of withdrawal when consent is given
In various cases, you have the option of granting us your consent to further processing in connection with the processing described below (possibly for part of the data). In this case, in connection with the submission of the respective declaration of consent, we will inform you separately about all modalities and the scope of the consent and about the purposes we pursue with these processing operations. We inform you that the revocation of the consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.
Transmission of data
Our hosting provider with the server location in Europe and those abbeyand employees receive your data, which they need to fulfil contractual and legal obligations as well as
legitimate interests.
In addition, contract processors commissioned by us (in particular IT service providers) receive your data if and to the extent that they need the data to fulfil their respective
services. If there are legal obligations or legitimate interests, public bodies (e.g. courts, authorities) may be recipients of your personal data. Recipients may also be third parties to
whom we transfer your data for the aforementioned purposes. Your data will only be passed on to third parties on the basis of the above-mentioned legal bases.
For security purposes, we have concluded an order processing agreement with the hosting provider. This includes a compliant handling of your personal data in accordance with the EU
General Data Protection Regulation.
Our hosting provider processes technical access data (server log files) to ensure technical operation and to detect errors. The log files are loud Provider stored for 14 days and then deleted. For internal evaluation of accesses, we use the server-side statistics tools AWStats and Webalizer. These work without cookies and only access anonymized log data.
Link to YouTube channel
On our website we link to our YouTube account. The platform is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. If you follow the link, you will be redirected to the pages of YouTube. It may be that data is already transmitted to the provider, in particular your IP address and, if necessary, other device-related information.
Please note that we have no influence on the type and scope of data processing by YouTube. Information on this can be found in Google's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
The linking takes place exclusively to give you the opportunity to access our content via YouTube. The legal basis is point (a) of the first sentence of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. Byclicking here you take an implied action and agree to the processing of data.
Videoconferencing
For communication with our customers, we communicate, among other things, via onlineconferences. If you communicate with us via video or audio conference via the Internet, your personal data will becollected and processed by us and the provider of the conference tool.
The conference tool collects all data that you provide/use to use the tools (email address and/or your telephone number). In addition, the conferencetools process the duration of the conference, the start and end (time) of participation in the conference, thenumber of participants and other "contextual information" related to the communicationprocess (metadata).
Furthermore, the provider of the tool processes all technical data necessary for the processing of online communication. This includes in particular IP addresses, MACaddresses,
device IDs, device type, operating system type and version, client version, cameratype, microphone or speaker as well as the type of connection.
If content is exchanged, uploaded or otherwisedisplayed within the tool, it is also stored on the servers of the tool providers. Such content includes, in particular, cloud recordings,
chat/immediate messages, voice mails uploaded photos and videos, files, whiteboards and other information sharedwhile using the Service.
The conference tools are used to communicate with prospective or existing contract partners or to offer certain services to our customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Furthermore, the use of the tools serves the general associationand speeds up communication with us or our company (legitimateinterest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Insofar as consent has beenrequested, the use of the relevant tools takes place on the basis of this consent; the consent is voluntary and can be revoked at any time with effect for the future.
The data collected directly by us via the video and conference tools will be deleted from our systems as soon as you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose
for data storage no longer applies. Stored cookies remain on your device until you delete them. Mandatory statutory retentionperiods remain unaffected.
We have no influence on the storage period of your data, which is stored by the operators of the conference tools for their own purposes. For details, please contact the conference tool
operators directly.
Microsoft Teams: Messenger and conference software; Service provider: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399 USA;
Website: products.office.com;
Privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement, safety instructions: www.microsoft.com/de-de/trustcenter. Standard contractual clauses (ensuring data protection level when processing in third countries):To be read at https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Microsoft-Products-and-Services-Data-Protection-Addendum-DPA?lang=14
Collection of personal data in the application process
Personal data that you provide to us as part of an application by e-mail, post or via our online form will be collected and processed for the purpose of processing the application process.
The personal data you provide will only be processed for the purpose of processing your application and not for other purposes. The processing is carried out for the performance of
the contract or for legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b or f GDPR. If you also provide us with special categories of personal data pursuant to Article 9 GDPR,
such as the status of severely disabled person, the processing is carried out on the basis of Article 9(2)(b) GDPR, as the processing of these data is necessary for the exercise of a
profession. If we ask you for special categories of personal data in accordance with Article 9 GDPR, the processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 9(2)(a) GDPR and is
always voluntary.
Processing by electronic means is possible, especially in the case of applications received by electronic means.
If the application is transferred to an employment relationship, the application documents will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment contract. In the event that no
employment relationship is established, the application documents will be automatically deleted six months after completion of the application procedure, unless legitimate interests
under Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR preclude the deletion. Such a legitimate interest exists, for example, if proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) are pending. In
this case, we will store the data until the end of the procedure.
In addition, you can give us your consent for an extended storage period of your applicant data, so that we can take you into account for the future when assigning a job. A maximum
storage period of two years takes place here.
Social media
For another possibility of contacting and publishing our current offers, we maintain a social media account. The legal basis is provided in accordance with Article 6(1)(f), the legitimate
interest of customer communication in conjunction with Article 26 GDPR of joint responsibility.
Within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and other data protection regulations, the joint controllers for the operation of this social media site are:
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland
and
BTA International GmbH, Hauptplatz 12 in 85276 Pfaffenhofen/Germany
Links to our profile on LinkedIn are integrated on this website. By clicking on the link you will be redirected to LinkedIn. The link itself does not trigger any data transfer to LinkedIn on my
website. Processing takes place only when you actively click on the link and thus call up the platform.
Only with this click does LinkedIn process personal data under its ownresponsibility. This may include, among other things, the IP address, technical data of the end device and information
about your user behaviour.
Responsible for data processing on the platform is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland). Further information on LinkedIn'sdata processing can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Opt-Out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.
We operate this site in order to draw attention to our services and products and to contact you as a visitor and user as well as our website. Further information about us as well as about
our activities in the company can be found on our website.
As the operator of the social media site, we have no interest in the collection and further processing of your individual personal data for analysis or marketing purposes. The operation
of this social media page including the processing of the personal data of the users is based on our legitimate interests in a modern and supportive information and interaction
opportunity for and with our users and visitors in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The legal basis is supplemented by Article 45(1) GDPR, the adequacy decision between the USA and Europe. At https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
Right to object
If you no longer wish the data processing described here to be carried out in the future, please cancel the connection of your user profile to our site by using the functions ‘I no
longer like this page’ and/or ‘No longer subscribe to this page’.
No obligation to provide & Consequences of non-provision
The provision of personal data is not required by law or contract and you are not obliged to provide data. As part of the input process, we will inform you if the provision of personal
data is necessary for the respective service (e.g. by naming it as a ‘mandatory field’). Failure to provide the required data means that the service in question cannot be provided.
Storage period of your data
We process your personal data, as far as necessary, for the duration of the business relationship, or as long as it is necessary for the aforementioned purposes, as well as in
accordance with the statutory retention and documentation obligations, which arise in particular from the Fiscal Code and the Commercial Code and usually amount to 10 years. In
addition, personal data may be stored and retained for as long as the data is relevant to a pending judicial or administrative proceeding in which the controller has a party status.
Your rights
(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to the your personal data concerning:
• Right to information about which data we have collected and stored from you;
• the right to rectification or erasure of your already existing data, after examination of any retention periods;
• Right to restriction of processing, in relation to your data, if it is no longer needed to the extent necessary;
• Right to object to the processing, so that we have to stop the processing and the
• Right to data portability if you want to take records to another institution.
(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority of your choice about the processing of your personal data by us. For our federal state, the following supervisory authority can be reached at www.lda.bayern.de.
Contradiction
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data atany time. Please send it in writing by e-mail or by post to the above address.
Since legal provisions may change, we kindly ask you to read this data protection information regularly. We will make changes in a timely manner in order to be able to pass on
transparent information to you.
As of Dezcmber 2025
created with Werk3 für Datenschutz GmbH
