Privacy Policy

The controller responsible for data processing is:

Tetraktys Bauunternehmen GmbH
Oeserstrasse 86
65934 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
+49 172 531 9999

We are pleased that you are interested in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information about how we handle your personal data.

1. Access Data and Hosting

You may visit our website without providing any personal information.

Whenever a webpage is accessed, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file containing, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data), and records the access.

This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring the trouble-free operation of the website and improving our services. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our services, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (f) GDPR.

All access data is processed for as long as necessary for the purposes described above.

Hosting

The services for hosting and displaying our website are provided in part by our service providers as part of processing carried out on our behalf.

Unless otherwise explained in this Privacy Policy, all access data and all data collected through forms provided on this website are processed on their servers.

If you have any questions regarding our service providers or the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined by decision that an adequate level of data protection exists:

Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America.

The adequacy decision for the United States serves as the basis for third-country data transfers insofar as the respective service provider is certified. Such certification is in place.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries:

Brazil, Mexico, India, Ukraine.

No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation with these service providers is based on the following safeguards:

Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Union.

2. Data Processing for Contact and Customer Communication

Contact

When you contact us, we collect personal data for the purpose of processing your enquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (b) GDPR, provided that you voluntarily supply such data when contacting us, for example via a contact form, live chat tool or email.

Mandatory fields are marked as such because, in these cases, we require the relevant data in order to process your enquiry. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms.

Once your enquiry has been fully processed, your data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (a) GDPR or unless we reserve the right to further use your data in a manner permitted by law and about which we inform you in this Privacy Policy.

Following the complete processing of your customer enquiry, further processing of your data will be restricted and the data will be deleted after expiry of the retention periods required under tax and commercial law pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (c) GDPR, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (a) GDPR or unless we reserve the right to further use your data in a manner permitted by law and about which we inform you in this Privacy Policy.

3. Cookies and Other Technologies

General Information

In order to make visits to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use various technologies on different pages, including so-called cookies.

Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. when you close your browser (so-called session cookies).

Other cookies remain stored on your device and enable us to recognize your browser when you next visit our website (persistent cookies).

Protection of Privacy on End Devices

When you use our online services, we use technologies that are strictly necessary in order to provide the telemedia service expressly requested by you.

The storage of information on your device or access to information already stored on your device does not require your consent insofar as such technologies are strictly necessary.

For functions that are not strictly necessary, storing information on your device or accessing information already stored on your device requires your consent.

Please note that if you do not provide your consent, certain parts of the website may not be fully usable.

Any consent you provide will remain valid until you adjust or reset the relevant settings on your device.

Subsequent Data Processing Through Cookies and Other Technologies

We use technologies that are strictly necessary for the use of certain functions of our website, for example website preference settings.

These technologies collect and process information such as your IP address, time of visit, device and browser information, as well as information regarding your use of our website, for example information relating to your preferences.

This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimized presentation of our services, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (f) GDPR.

If you have consented to the use of technologies pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (a) GDPR, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.

4. Use of Cookies and Other Technologies for Web Analytics and Advertising Purposes

We use the cookies and other third-party technologies described below on our website.

Unless otherwise stated in relation to the individual technologies, such use is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (a) GDPR.

Once the respective purpose no longer applies and we cease using the respective technology, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.

Further information regarding your options for withdrawing consent can be found in the section entitled “Cookies and Other Technologies.”

Further information, including the basis of our cooperation with individual providers, can be found in the information concerning the respective technologies.

If you have any questions regarding the providers or the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy.

5. Social Media

5.1 Social Media Buttons for Facebook (by Meta), X (formerly Twitter) and WhatsApp

Our website uses social media buttons from social networks.

These are integrated into the website solely as HTML links. Therefore, when you access our website, no connection is initially established with the servers of the respective provider.

If you click on one of these buttons, the website of the respective social network will open in a new window of your browser. There, you may, for example, use the Like or Share button.

5.2 Our Online Presence on Facebook (by Meta) and LinkedIn

Where you have given your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1), sentence 1, point (a) GDPR to the respective social media operator, your data will automatically be collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes when you visit our online presence on the social media platforms mentioned above.

Usage profiles are created from this data using pseudonyms. These profiles may be used, for example, to display advertisements within and outside the respective platforms that are presumed to correspond to your interests.

Cookies are generally used for this purpose.

Detailed information regarding the processing and use of data by the respective social media operator, as well as contact information, your rights in this regard and the available settings for protecting your privacy, can be found in the privacy policies of the providers linked below.

If you nevertheless require assistance in this regard, you may contact us.

Facebook (by Meta) is a service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Block J, Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Meta Platforms Ireland”).

Information automatically collected by Meta Platforms Ireland regarding your use of our Facebook (by Meta) online presence is generally transferred to and stored on a server operated by Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.

Data processing in connection with visits to a Facebook (by Meta) fan page is carried out on the basis of an agreement between joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR.

Further information regarding Insights Data can be found in the information provided by Facebook.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined by decision that an adequate level of data protection exists:

United States of America, Canada, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Argentina.

The adequacy decision for the United States serves as the basis for third-country data transfers insofar as the respective service provider is certified. Such certification is in place.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries:

Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico.

No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation with these service providers is based on the following safeguards:

Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission.

LinkedIn is a service provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”).

Information automatically collected by LinkedIn regarding your use of our LinkedIn online presence is generally transferred to and stored on a server operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following country for which the European Commission has determined by decision that an adequate level of data protection exists:

United States of America.

The adequacy decision for the United States serves as the basis for third-country data transfers insofar as the respective service provider is certified. Such certification is in place.

6. Contact Options and Your Rights

6.1 Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information regarding your personal data processed by us within the scope specified therein;
pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to request without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data or completion of personal data stored by us;
pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing is necessary:
- for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
- for compliance with a legal obligation;
- for reasons of public interest; or
- for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data where:
- you contest the accuracy of the data;
- the processing is unlawful, but you oppose deletion of the data;
- we no longer require the data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
- you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request transmission of such data to another controller;
pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you may contact the supervisory authority responsible for your usual place of residence, your place of work or the registered office of our company.

Right to Object

Where we process personal data as described above in order to safeguard our legitimate interests, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, you may object to such processing with effect for the future.

Where data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you may exercise this right at any time as described above.

Where processing is carried out for other purposes, you have the right to object only on grounds relating to your particular situation.

Once you have exercised your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

This does not apply where processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. In such cases, we will no longer process your personal data for that purpose.

6.2 Contact Options

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or if you wish to request access to, rectification, restriction or deletion of your data, withdraw consent you have previously granted, or object to a particular use of your data, please contact us directly using the contact details provided in our Legal Notice.