Data protection at beegy
Data protection information according to GDPR
We appreciate your interest in our company and our products and services and would like you to feel secure when visiting our website, also with regard to the protection of your personal data.
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously.
Compliance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-new) is a matter of course for us.
This data protection notice informs you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data on this website and your rights in connection with this.
The data protection information is updated at regular intervals.
To keep yourself informed, we recommend that you consult the data protection information regularly.
Contact details of the controller and the data protection officer
Responsible body
beegy GmbH
Katharina-Paulus-Straße 6B
65824 Schwalbach am Taunus
E-mail: info@beegy.com (further details in the imprint)
Data Protection Officer
You can contact our Data Protection Officer using the following email address: datenschutz@beegy.com.
The competent supervisory authority is:
The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
You can reach them at
House address:
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1
65189 Wiesbaden
or by post:
Postfach 31 63
65021 Wiesbaden
Tel.: 0611/14080
E-mail: poststelle@datenschutz.hessen.de
General information on the scope and purpose of the processing of personal data on our website
Personal data is information about your personal and factual circumstances.
This includes, for example, information such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
In principle, it is not necessary for you to actively disclose personal data in order to use our website.
However, when you visit our website, the following data is stored anonymously: Browser type/version, operating system used, name of your internet provider, number of visits to our websites over the course of the day and week, number of visits per page, average time spent per page, number of feedbacks, website from which you visit us and your shortened IP address.
This data is analyzed to ensure trouble-free operation of the website and to improve our offering.
Personal user profiles are not created in this way.
If you make use of our services, we will only collect the data (e.g. name and address) that we need to provide these services.
If we ask you for further data, this is voluntary information.
Children
It is not in our interest to collect personal data from children under the age of 16.
We do not knowingly or intentionally collect data about children and are aware that the processing of children’s personal data is only permitted with the consent of their legal guardians.
If you are of the opinion that we have collected data about your child, you as the legal guardian can inform us of this at datenschutz@beegy.com. The data will then be deleted.
The data will then be deleted.
Purpose of the processing
Your data will be processed (in particular collected, used and stored) by us for the following purposes:
- pursuant to Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
b) GDPR to answer your inquiries, process your orders or provide you with access to certain information or offers. - pursuant to Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
f) GDPR to protect the legitimate interests of us or third parties, including in the context of advertising or market research, to improve services, to offer customized products or in the context of credit reports and to investigate or prevent crimes (e.g. electricity theft). - pursuant to Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
a) GDPR within the scope of your consent, provided that you have given us such consent. - pursuant to Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
c) GDPR due to legal requirements that apply to us as a company, esp.
commercial and tax law requirements or requirements of the Energy Industry Act or the Metering Point Operation Act.
Transmission of personal data
Insofar as it is necessary to process your inquiries and to provide our services to you, we transmit the personal data collected to IT and telecommunications service providers and service providers for telephone customer support as well as to companies of the MVV Energie Group.
Further transmission will only take place if you have expressly consented to this in advance.
Duration of storage
Your data will be processed by us for the first time from the time it is collected, insofar as you or a third party provide it to us.
We delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer required, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.
Your rights
You have the right at any time to
- to request information as to whether and which personal data concerning you are processed by us, Art. 15 GDPR,
- to request rectification, erasure and restriction of processing of personal data concerning you, Art. 16 – 18 GDPR,
- to exercise your right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR, and
- to object to the processing of personal data concerning you, Art. 21 GDPR.
Please address the aforementioned requests to beegy GmbH or send an e-mail to info@beegy.com.
We will inform you by sending you copies or – if you make the request electronically – in an electronic format.
If you believe that the processing of your personal data by us is unlawful or violates data protection law for other reasons, you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
You can contact a supervisory authority in the member state of your place of residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
Right of revocation if consent has been granted
If you have expressly given us your consent to process your data, you are entitled to revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.
This also applies to the revocation of declarations of consent that you gave us before the GDPR came into force on May 25, 2018.
The withdrawal of consent is effective for the future and does not affect the lawfulness of the data processed until the withdrawal.
If necessary, please write to beegy or send an email to datenschutz@beegy.com.
Right of objection
If we carry out processing to protect our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.
This also includes the right to object to processing for advertising purposes.
Additional information on individual website offers
Contact by e-mail or other means
When you contact us by e-mail or in any other way (e.g. handing over a business card, contacting us by telephone), the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions.
By sending your request to contact us, you consent to the processing of your transmitted data (e.g. e-mail address and name) for the purpose of answering your request and for us to contact you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
b) GDPR.
Your personal data will be used exclusively for the stated purpose and will only be stored for as long as is necessary to fulfill this purpose.
If statutory retention periods must be complied with, the processing of the data will be restricted once the purpose has been fulfilled.
Online forms
We use online forms that you can use to contact us or take advantage of our offers.
When you contact us via an online form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us to answer your questions.
By submitting your request to contact us, you consent to the processing of your transmitted data (including e-mail address and name) for the purpose of answering your request and contacting you by us in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Art. 6 para.
1 lit.
b) GDPR.
Your personal data will be used exclusively for the stated purpose and will only be stored for as long as is necessary to fulfill this purpose.
If statutory retention periods must be complied with, the processing of the data will be restricted once the purpose has been fulfilled.
Notes on cookies and tracking
The legal basis for cookies that are technically absolutely necessary in order to provide you with the expressly requested service is § 25 para. 2
No.2
TTDSG.
Any use of cookies that is not absolutely technically necessary for this purpose constitutes data processing that can only be carried out with your express and active consent in accordance with Section 25 (1) GDPR.
§ 25 para.1
TTDSG i.V.m. Art. 6 para. 1
S.1 lit.a DSGVO is permitted.
This applies in particular to the use of performance, advertising, targeting or sharing cookies.
In addition, we only pass on your personal data processed by cookies to third parties if you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1
S.1 lit.a DSGVO have given your express consent to this.
You can find more detailed information on the individual services under the respective headings.
Use of cookies
Cookies are used on our website.
Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the visitor’s Internet browser.
They are used, for example, to make websites more user-friendly or to preset the language and enable us to recognize your Internet browser.
If you do not want cookies to be set, you usually have to change your browser settings.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically.
You can prevent cookies from being stored on your device by selecting “Do not accept cookies” in your browser settings.
You can delete cookies already stored on your device at any time.
You can find the details in the instructions for your browser or device manufacturer.
If you reject the use of cookies, we will only be able to track your visit to our website with restrictions.
However, you may also only be able to use our website to a limited extent.
Cookies from third-party providers
Third-party cookies are also set on our website.
This can also be prevented in the browser settings.
The following cookies are used:
1. google marketing services and google adwords conversion
The “Google Marketing Services” of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, (“Google”) are used on our website.
With the help of Google Marketing Services, we can show users advertisements that are likely to match their interests.
Remarketing” is the term used when a user is presented with advertisements for products that they have viewed on other websites.
In order to be able to do this technically, a code from Google is executed directly on our website and on other websites (which use Google marketing services) and certain (re)marketing tags are integrated into the website (these can be invisible graphics or code snippets).
This saves an individual cookie for the user (comparable technologies can also be used instead of cookies).
These cookies contain information about which websites the user has visited and what they were interested in.
In addition, technical information on the browser and operating system, referring websites, time and other information on the use of the websites and the IP address are stored.
The user data is processed pseudonymously.
This means that Google does not store or process the user’s name or email address, but processes the relevant data within pseudonymous profiles.
(This does not apply if a user has expressly allowed Google to process the data without pseudonymization).
The information collected by Google marketing services about users is transmitted to Google and stored on Google servers in the USA.
In the case of Google AdWords (online advertising program), each AdWords customer is assigned a different “conversion cookie”.
The cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers.
AdWords customers find out the total number of users who have clicked on their ad.
However, they do not receive any information that can be used to identify users.
Further information on the use of data for marketing purposes by Google can be found on this overview page.
You can find Google’s privacy policy .
To object to interest-based advertising by Google marketing services, you can use the opt-out options provided by Google.
2. google universal analytics
We also use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
Google uses cookies.
The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the user is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
We use Google Analytics in the form of “Universal Analytics”.
“Universal Analytics” refers to a Google Analytics process in which the user analysis is based on a pseudonymous user ID and thus a pseudonymous profile of the user is created with information from the use of different devices (so-called “cross-device tracking”).
We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization.
This means that the IP address of Google users within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area is shortened.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.
The IP address transmitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other Google data.
Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offer to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available here.
Further information on the use of data by Google as well as setting and objection options can be found in Google’s privacy policy and in the settings for the display of advertisements by Google.
3. facebook
We operate a Facebook page on the basis of a “” with Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. The processing of users’ personal data is based on our legitimate interest in effectively informing users and communicating with them in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If the platform provider has obtained consent for data processing, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (a) and Art. 7 GDPR.
Facebook pixel, custom audiences and Facebook conversion
Within our online offer, the so-called “Facebook pixel” of the social network Facebook is used, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are resident in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”).
With the help of the Facebook pixel, it is possible for Facebook to determine the visitors of our online offer as a target group for the display of ads (so-called “Facebook ads”).
Accordingly, we use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook ads placed by us only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offering or who have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products determined on the basis of the websites visited) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called “custom audiences”).
With the help of the Facebook pixel, we also want to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interest of users and are not annoying.
With the help of the Facebook pixel, we can also track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called “conversion”).
Facebook processes the data in accordance with Facebook’s data usage policy.
General information on the display of Facebook ads can be found in Facebook’s data usage policy.
Specific information and details about the Facebook pixel and how it works can be found in Facebook’s help section.
You can object to the collection by the Facebook pixel and use of your data to display Facebook ads.
To set which types of ads are displayed to you within Facebook, you can go to the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions on the settings for usage-based advertising.
The settings are platform-independent, i.e. they are adopted for all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices.
beegy.com uses “Shariff” social media buttons with data protection
With Shariff, you can use social media without unnecessarily compromising your privacy.
The c’t project Shariff replaces the usual share buttons of social networks and protects your surfing behavior from prying eyes.
Nevertheless, a single click on the button is enough to share information with others.
You don’t have to do anything else – the webmaster has already taken care of everything.
The usual social media buttons transmit user data to Facebook & Co. every time you visit a page and provide the social networks with precise information about your surfing behavior (user tracking).
You do not need to be logged in or a member of the network to do this.
In contrast, a Shariff button only establishes direct contact between the social network and the visitor when the latter actively clicks on the share button.
In this way, Shariff prevents you from leaving a digital trail on every page you visit and improves data protection.
You can then like, +1 or tweet as you wish – the social network does not receive any more information.
Thanks to Shariff, the “Likes” are displayed by the operator of the page with the buttons.
Because Shariff is integrated by the webmaster, you as a visitor do not have to do anything else.
Read the full article on heise.de here.
Notes on the security of your data
We have taken technical and organizational security measures to protect your data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access.
All our employees and all persons involved in data processing are obliged to comply with the GDPR, the BDSG-new and other laws relevant to data protection and the confidential handling of personal data.
If personal data is collected and processed, the information is transmitted in encrypted form to prevent misuse of the data by third parties.
Our security measures are continuously revised in line with technological developments.