Data Privacy Information


1. General Policy

SCHOTT Solar and its affiliates within the SCHOTT Solar group as listed on these websites (hereinafter referred to as "SCHOTT Solar") aim to give you as much control over your personal data as possible. You will usually be able to visit our SCHOTT Solar websites without having to enter any personal details. However, in certain sections of the SCHOTT Solar website, you will be asked to enter personal data, which will allow us to increase the site's utility to you and helps us to stay in contact with you. Examples of when you will be asked for such information include when you subscribe for the newsletter, request explanatory brochures or information, send us suggestions using our specialised contact forms, or if you participate in any online surveys. If you ask us not to use this information to contact you, we will respect your wishes, just as we would if you unsubscribed from the newsletters. The personal data provided by you for the aforementioned purposes will be treated confidentially and solely used in connection with dealings between you and SCHOTT Solar. In accordance with Section 33 of the German Federal Privacy Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), we advise you that we will store personal data insofar as it relates to our commercial relationship with you. The information provided by you will not be made available or sold to any non-affiliated third parties of other organisations not forming part of the SCHOTT Solar group.


2. Storage of access data
 
With each access by a user on a page from the SCHOTT Solar online content as well as with each file download, the access data referring to this procedure will be stored in a log file on our server.

Every data record comprises:

the page from where the file was downloaded;
the file name;
the download date and time;
the access status (file transmitted, file not found, etc.);
a description of the type of web browser used;
the client's IP address

In regards to the geographic location of the user, an estimate based on the IP number will be made, which will subsequently be evaluated for statistics. Accrued user and connection data will be analyzed only for trends and statistics and evaluated anonymously solely for the purpose of optimizing our Internet presence. There will be no disclosure of data to third parties for any commercial or non-commercial purposes.

The user is entitled to obtain free information on any stored personal data relating to him/her upon request. In addition, the user has the right to correction, blockage and deletion of such personal data as provided for by law.

 
3. Cookies

3.1 General

Cookies are small text files transmitted from the Internet to your computer together with the presently accessed data. These data will be stored on your computer and held ready for future access. We use cookies in some areas. On linked pages cookies may also be used without any possibility on our part to advise you about this.

Most browsers are set so that they automatically accept cookies. You may, however, deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser in a manner that it will notify you as soon as cookies are set.

3.2 Session cookies

In the course of registration, so-called session cookies are required, since such data is needed for the user's convenience during authentication and for controlling the access to various areas of our portal.

3.3 Permanent cookies

Permanent cookies are used by us, for example, in order to be able to directly transfer our visitors to regionally relevant contents, as well as to record the percentage of recurrent visitors to our web presence.

3.4 Validity

The validity of session cookies is limited to the duration of your visit on our portal. They will automatically be deleted when the browser is deactivated. There will be no link to personal data. The validity of permanent cookies is limited to a period of 10 years.


4. Use of facebook Social Plug-ins

The SCHOTT Solar websites use social plug-ins (“plug-ins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“facebook”). The plug-ins are marked either by the facebook logo, the “Like” or “I Like” button, or the notice “facebook Social Plug-ins”.

When you visit a page of a SCHOTT Solar website that contains a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to facebook servers. facebook directly transfers the plug-in content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling facebook to receive information about your access to the respective page of the SCHOTT Solar website. If you are logged in to your facebook account while visiting the page of SCHOTT Solar, your visit can be assigned to your facebook account. If you interact with the plug-ins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged in to your facebook account, it is possible that the plug-in transmits your IP-address to facebook.

For further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy, please visit facebook's privacy policy. If you are a facebook member and do not want facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by facebook, please log off your facebook account before entering a SCHOTT Solar website.

5. Code of Procedure for the Data Protection Officer

Schott AG's public code of procedure on processing personal data

The German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) stipulates in Section 4g that the data protection officer must, upon request, provide information pursuant to Section 4e BDGS to anyone in an appropriate form.
In order to give an overview, we have compiled the most important information below.

5.1 Name of the responsible party

SCHOTT Solar AG

5.2 Executive Board

Dr. Martin Heming (CEO)
Hans-Peter Karpenstein
Dr. Robert Kuba
Jörg M. Henkel

Data Protection Officer

Dr. Roland Leroux

5.3 Address of the responsible party

SCHOTT Solar AG
Hattenberg Strasse 10
55122 Mainz, Germany

5.4 Purpose of data collection, processing and utilization

SCHOTT Solar AG, as a subsidiary of SCHOTT AG, develops, manufactures and markets highly efficient receivers, one of the key components for solar power plants using parabolic trough technology and innovative, high-quality photovoltaic products.  Offering crystalline solar wafers, solar cells, solar modules and a-Si thin film modules, SCHOTT Solar contributes core components to the value chain of photovoltaic power generation.
Data is collected, processed and utilized in order to carry out the purposes listed above Personal data is mainly processed by the following departments:
•    Personnel (Administration and R&D)
•    Vendors (Administration)
•    Customers (Administration and Customer Service)
•    Management processes (Administration and Production)

5.5 Description of the groups of persons concerned and the data or data categories in this regard

Customer data, employee data, data from employment applicants as well as vendor data, if such is needed to fulfill the purposes listed under 5.4.

5.6 Recipients or categories of recipients, who may be notified of the data collected

Public offices if overriding legal provisions exist, third-party clients in accordance with Section 11 BDSG as well as external offices and departments of SCHOTT Solar or SCHOTT AG in order to fulfill the purposes listed under 5.4.

5.7 Standard deadlines by when data is deleted

Data is deleted upon expiration of the legal, statutory or contractual retention period. Unless data is not effected by this, it will be deleted if the purposes listed under 5.4 do not apply.

5.8 Planned data transmission (also to third-party countries)

In order to process transactions to fulfill the business purpose, data may be transmitted in accordance with the aforementioned international regulations to affiliated companies, public agencies, customers and vendors located in different countries.

5.9 Security measures

SCHOTT Solar AG assures that the security measures provided for in Section 9 BDSG are guaranteed by applying due care when awarding contracts, by following the relevant quality regulations and by training its employees accordingly.

SCHOTT Solar AG
Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about our data protection policy, please contact us using the following e-mail address: info.datenschutz@schottsolar.com.

SCHOTT Solar knows how important it is for the information that you transmit to us via the Internet to be protected and handled with discretion. Data security on our e-commerce sites is one of our highest priorities. For this reason, we have taken great pains to ensure that our online security measures are effective. SCHOTT Solar shopping sites are encrypted using SSL technology. Websites that request commerce-related data (such as a credit card number) are transmitted in encrypted form using SSL technology. SCHOTT Solar endeavours to continually update its encryption technology in line with technological progress in order to do as much as possible and necessary that the data transmitted by you via the Internet remains confidential.

Information published by SCHOTT on its own sites may contain references to products and services that may not be advertised or available in your country. Such references do not imply any intention on the part of SCHOTT Solar to offer these products and services in your country as well as in Germany. If you are interested in these products or services, please contact our regional distribution company, which will gladly provide you with information about the availability of these products and services.

In certain places we make references to the websites of third parties and have provided links to these websites. We only make such references if we are satisfied of the relevant provider's reliability and respectability. However, SCHOTT Solar is not responsible for the privacy policy or the content of these websites.

Trademarks in which SCHOTT Solar or third parties hold rights are used on the SCHOTT Solar websites. These trademarks may not be used without the consent of the trademark holder.

SCHOTT Solar holds and reserves all rights in the information contained in and the design of its websites.

As far as SCHOTT Solar is concerned, it goes without saying that your data will be handled responsibly and that all applicable domestic and international privacy laws will be complied with. Personal data will only be collected, stored or processed to the extent permitted by law, subject to the necessary data security standards and your rights to request information and to object to further use.

If you have any queries or suggestions in relation to our privacy policy, please contact us at Email.

This Web site may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed. Information on this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice. SCHOTT Solar may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the programs described in this information at any time without notice. SCHOTT Solar does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through our Web site. Please note that any information or material sent to SCHOTT Solar will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By sending SCHOTT Solar any information or material, you grant SCHOTT Solar an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information, and you also agree that SCHOTT Solar is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose. However, we will not release your name or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless: (a) we obtain your permission to use your name; or (b) we first notify you that the materials or other information you submit to a particular part of this site will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or (c) we are required to do so by law. You can learn more about SCHOTT Solar privacy practices on the Web. Information SCHOTT Solar publishes on the World Wide Web may contain references or cross references to SCHOTT Solar products, programs and services that are not announced or available in your country. Such references do not imply that SCHOTT Solar intends to announce such products, programs or services in your country. Consult your local SCHOTT Solar business contact for information regarding the products, programs and services which may be available to you. SCHOTT Solar's obligations with respect to its products and services are governed solely by the agreements under which they are provided. If you obtain a product or service from SCHOTT Solar off this web site that is provided without an agreement, that product or service is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties whatsoever, express or implied, and your use of that product or service is at your own risk. SCHOTT Solar makes no representations whatsoever about any other Web site which you may access through this one. When you access a non-SCHOTT Solar R Web site, even one that may contain the SCHOTT Solar-logo, please understand that it is independent from SCHOTT Solar, and that SCHOTT Solar has no control over the content on that Web site. In addition, a link to a non-SCHOTT Solar Web site does not mean that SCHOTT Solar endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such Web site. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature. IN NO EVENT WILL SCHOTT Solar BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, OR ON ANY OTHER HYPER LINKED WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.