Privacy Notice

Glovis Europe GmbH (hereinafter 'Glovis', 'we', 'our' or 'us') understands that your privacy is important to you. We are strongly committed to protecting your privacy - in this privacy notice we describe the processing of your personal data that you may provide as you access and use the materials found on our website.

1. Data Controller

The responsible data controller for any personal data collected and processed in connection with the use of this website is:

Glovis Europe GmbH
Frankfurter Str. 60-68
65760 Eschborn
Germany

2. Contact Information and Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about or in connection with data protection or if you would like to exercise any of your rights (see below), please contact us at any times as shown above or by sending an E-Mail to our legal department and data protection officer at GEU.Dataprotection@Glovis.eu.

3. Data Subjects, Personal Data, Purpose of the Processing, Legal Basis

This privacy notice applies to the collection and processing of personal data of users of this website.

When you visit our website only for informational reasons, i.e., without registering for any of our provided services and without providing us with personal data in any other form, we automatically collect the following personal data in order to provide you with our website and to ensure system stability and efficiency and to implement proper safeguards as to the security of our website and services.

  • Your IP address
  • The name of your internet browser
  • The date and time of your access to our website
  • The pages you visit on our website
  • Your operational system

We do this on the legal basis of our legitimate interests according to Art. 6 I lit. f) GDPR.

If you contact us via E-Mail or our contact form, we process any personal data that you provide to us strictly to comply with your request. Depending on this, our legal basis is Art. 6 I lit. a), b) or f) GDPR.

Please note that we only process your personal data for other purposes if we are obliged to do so on the basis of legal requirements (e.g., transfer to courts or authorities), if you have consented to the respective processing or if the processing is otherwise lawful under applicable law.

4. Recipients and Categories of Recipients

Any access to your personal data at Glovis is strictly restricted to those that have a need to know in order to fulfil their job responsibilities.

Additionally, we may transfer your personal data for the respective purposes to the recipients and categories of recipients listed below:

  • Private third parties that are affiliated or unaffiliated with us.
  • Data processors that are third parties, whether affiliated or unaffiliated with us, may receive your personal data to process such data on behalf of us under appropriate instructions as necessary for the respective processing purposes. The data processors will be subject to contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard the personal data, and to process the personal data only as instructed.
  • Governmental authorities, courts, external advisors, and similar third parties that are public bodies as required or permitted by applicable law.
5. Cross-border Data Transfer

Some of the recipients of your personal data will be located or may have relevant operations outside of your country and the EU where the data protection laws may provide a different level of protection compared to the laws in your jurisdiction and with regard to which an adequacy decision by the European Commission does not exist. Any data transfers to such recipients outside of the EU are accompanied by appropriate safeguards, in particular the Standard Contractual Clauses according to Art. 46 GDPR, with the recipients.

6. Storage Period

Your personal data is stored by us and / or our service providers strictly to the extent necessary for the performance of our obligations and strictly for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which the personal data is collected. When we no longer need to process your personal data, we will erase it from our systems and / or records and / or take steps to properly anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it (unless we need to keep your information to comply with legal or regulatory obligations to which we are subject - for example personal data contained in contracts, communications, and business letters may be subject to statutory retention requirements, which may require retention of up to 10 years. If applicable, any other personal data will in principle be deleted 5 years after the termination of the respective related contractual relationship between you and us).

7. Cookies
7.1 General Information

When you use our website, we may send one or more cookies - small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your device. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits of our website. Your web browser may provide you with some options regarding cookies. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies, you may not be able to utilize the features of the services provided via our website to their fullest potential.

Depending on their purpose, cookies may fall into one of the following categories:

  • Technical cookies are those, which allow the user to browse a website, platform or application and use the different options or services offered, such as, for example, controlling data traffic and communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, recalling the parts of an order, carrying out the process for purchase of an order, making a request to register for or participate in an event, using security elements during browsing, storing contents for the transmission of videos or sound or sharing contents through social networks.
  • Analytical cookies are those, which enable the manager to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by means of this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications or platforms and to draw up browsing profiles of the users of such websites, applications and platforms in order to introduce upgrades on the basis of the analysis of the personal data on the use of the service by users.
  • Advertising cookies are those, which enable the most efficient management possible of the advertising space that the editor has included in a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided on the basis of criteria such as the edited content or the frequency with which the advertisements are shown.
  • Behavioural advertising cookies are those, which enable the most efficient management possible of the advertising space that the editor has included in a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store behavioural information about users obtained through the ongoing observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be defined in order to show advertising on the basis of such profile.
7.2 Third party cookies

This website uses third party cookies in connection with the services provided via our website as well. Third party cookies are those, which are sent to the user's system from a system or domain that is not managed by us but by another company processing the personal data obtained through the cookies.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. We may not process or respond to your web browser's 'do not track' signals or other similar transmissions that indicate a request to disable online tracking of users who visit our website, or use the services provided via our website.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is enabled on this website, Google will truncate your IP address beforehand within member states of the European Union or the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator.

The IP-address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser or by denying to give us your consent. However please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out
Browser Add-on for your current web browser:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For further information on data protection in the context with Google, you can visit the following websites:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/

7.3 Cookie Settings

Any cookies stored on your device are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your consent according to Art. 6 I lit. a) GDPR.

Cookie declaration last updated on 01.10.23 by Cookiebot:

8. YouTube

On our website you can find and watch videos that are provided by the YouTube platform, a service offered by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). These videos are directly embedded into our website using YouTube's embedding function, but you may also use the link that directs you to YouTube's website.

When you click on an embedded YouTube video, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. In doing so, YouTube may set cookies and collect information such as your IP address and the pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube or Google account, this information may be associated with your user profile.

When you click on a link, you will be redirected to the YouTube website. From that point, YouTube's privacy policy and data processing practices apply independently of our website.

Further information about how YouTube and Google process your data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

9. Google Maps

On this website we use Google Maps, a service offered by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). This enables us to show you interactive maps directly on the website and allow you a comfortable use of these map features. The legal basis for the use of Google Maps is Art. 6 I I lit. f) GDPR.

By visiting our website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the personal data referred to in section 3 of this privacy notice will be transmitted. This is done regardless of whether you have a Google account that you are logged in to, or if you have no user account. When you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out of your account. Google stores your data as user profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising or market research.

Further information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and its processing by Google can be found directly within the privacy notice of Google. There you can also find out more information about your rights and privacy settings.

Google also processes your personal data in the United States and has certified itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

10. Applications

Of course, you have the option to send us your application via our online application form on this website. We process the information you send us with your application, specifically your name, contact information, resume, etc. Additionally, please note that we conduct background screenings during the application process, which may include verifying information provided in your application. This process is aimed at ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, including checks for any sanction lists including politically exposed persons (PEPs) - this may include special categories of personal data according to Art. 9 I GDPR. The legal bases for this are Art. 6 I lit. a) and b) GDPR as well as Art. 9 II, 6 I lit. c) in conjunction with specific statutory requirements. Within Glovis, only employees involved in processing and assessing your application will have access to your data.

To carry out and properly complete the application process, we will retain your application documents for six months. After this period, your documents will be securely destroyed, and your personal data will be irreversibly deleted.

However, if you give us your consent, we will retain your personal data to inform you of any future job openings that might be of interest to you. In this case, your data will be irreversibly deleted after 24 months, unless you grant us consent to store your documents for a further period.

11. Your Rights

In connection with our website, you have all the right of the data subject according to Art. 7 III, 15 pursuant, 77 GDPR:

  • Right of Access, Art. 15 GDPR:
    You may have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. The access information includes - inter alia - the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access. You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For further copies requested by you, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.
  • Right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR:
    You may have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
  • Right to Erasure, Art. 17 GDPR:
    Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing, Art. 18 GDPR:
    Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing your personal data. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.
  • Right to Data Portability, Art. 20 GDPR:
    Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.
  • Right to Object, Art. 21 GDPR:
    Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, or where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data. Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us.
  • Right to Withdraw your Consent, Art. 7 III GDPR:
    If you have declared your consent to any personal data processing activities, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal. Please also note the information about the use of cookies and the option of managing your settings above.
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint, Art. 77 GDPR:
    You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.

To exercise your rights please contact us as stated above.

12. Changes to this Privacy Notice

This privacy notice may require an update from time to time - e.g., due to the implementation of new technologies or the introduction of new services. We reserve the right to change or supplement this notice at any time.