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Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 3, 2024 at 7:54 am
Introduction
We are committed to respecting your online privacy and acknowledge your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“personal information”) you share with us. We are fully committed to ensuring that all personal data collected is managed responsibly and in accordance with data protection laws, as well as our obligations of confidentiality. Protecting your privacy is important to us as the owners of the domain.
Our website addresses are Hoffeldt.net, Hoffeldt.com, and Hoffeldt.dk. From now on named as “We”.
A first and last name, a home or other physical address, an e-mail address, or other contact details, whether at work or at home, are examples of personal information. In general, you can visit the web site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.
When registering for one or more of our services, you may be asked to provide certain personal information (such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, and credit card information) for purposes such as facilitating communications with you, applying for access to certain special features or areas of the web site, or carrying out transactions.
We may use the data we collect on the website to send you news, information, or a shopping experience, as well as to communicate with you about our products, services, and promotions.
The website only shares information with those who are required to process transactions and prevent fraud, such as your credit card company. This web site encrypts and transmits all payment information through a secure server via the payment systems attached to the selling service. We do not store payment data or card data.
It is always your choice whether or not to provide personal information. If you choose not to provide the requested personal information, you may not be able to access certain features of the web site. Additionally, if you contact us, we may keep a record of your correspondence.
In relation to your activities and interactions, we collect personal information about you. For example, you may submit a resume, respond to employment opportunities, participate in online courses, offer training sessions, register for our meetings or webinars, or provide information about yourself to our employees via e-mail or telephone.
Why do we need your personal data?
We collect your personal data so that we can inform you of possible work opportunities, relevant candidates, and/or other events that are relevant to you, such as our HR networking sessions. We offer our services to clients, candidates, or shoppers. Stay updated on global HR updates, insights, and market trends.
Maintain and promote our business or employer-employee relationships. Fulfil any applicable contractual, legislative, filing, and/or reporting obligations; manage your requests, inquiries, or complaints.
We will notify you of the purposes of holding your data at the point of collection based on contact information available at that time.
We only collect a small amount of information about you in order to provide our services.
You can contact our Data Protection Officer for any of the following matters:
- Request access to the personal data that we hold about you.
- Request that we update or make changes to your personal data;
- Questions regarding this privacy policy. Request for further information regarding this privacy policy;
- Provide your feedback or comments regarding this privacy policy.
- Withdraw your consent to us contacting you.
- Withdraw your consent to the use and disclosure of your personal data.
- Request that we remove and delete your personal data.Request to be removed from our mailing lists. A complaint about how we are handling your personal data or about a breach of this privacy policy or the Personal Data Protection Act.
Our data protection officer (DPO) has a security leadership role required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data protection officers are responsible for overseeing a company’s data protection strategy and its implementation to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements.
We aim to acknowledge receipt of your request within a maximum of 30 working days after your email has been received. We aim to comply and deliver on any request in a timely manner, and expectations and timelines will be communicated with you throughout the process. There will be no fee for these services, unless your request is unusually complex and maybe within the scope of the law.
For complaints, please provide us with sufficient details as well as any supporting evidence and/or information. We will contact you if we require any additional information and will notify you in writing of the outcome of our investigation.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you may contact us to discuss your concerns or contact the relevant data protection regulators, e.g., the Danish Personal Data Protection Commissioner or your EU supervisory authority.
If and when we sponsor sweepstakes, contests, or other promotions, or third parties sponsor such promotions in conjunction with the web site, either we or the third party may post relevant privacy information in the official rules and registration area for the promotion.
When you visit the web site, chat, or send e-mails, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receiving our communications electronically.
We will communicate with you by chat, e-mail, or by posting notices on the web site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we send to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
The web site has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to spam, and if we suspect any violation, your account will be terminated without further notice.
We will not permit any conduct by you that, in our sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the website.
You agree to use the web site only for lawful purposes. The web site prohibits you from posting or transmitting any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, fraudulent, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.
You agree not to violate any of the robot access policies and acknowledge that any violation of the policies may result in termination of your access to the web site, deactivation or deletion of your account and all related information and files in your account, and preclusion of any further access to such files or the web site without prior notice.
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the website, its use, or its access for any commercial purposes. You commit to only using the interface we provide to access the web site.
We implement appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data.
We limit access to your personally identifiable information to employees who require it in order to operate, develop, or improve our services.
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We do follow the UN’s framework: The international human rights legal framework contains international instruments to combat specific forms of discrimination, including discrimination against indigenous peoples, migrants, minorities, people with disabilities, discrimination against women, racial and religious discrimination, or discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Link: https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/thematic-areas/human-rights/equality-and-non-discrimination/
As a result, we do not select those parameters.
We kindly ask candidates not to include any information about those subjects in a cover letter or application, as well as in a resume or curriculum vitae.
You warrant that you have the authority to submit personal information about others to us and approve our use of it in accordance with this policy.
Cover letters and CVs need to be sent to the Candidatedatabank.com
The Terms of Use for the web site contain important provisions, which include disclaiming, limiting, or excluding liability for your use of the site, as well as determining the applicable law and exclusive jurisdiction for the resolution of any disputes regarding the site.
Each of those provisions has the same force and effect as a direct reproduction in this Privacy Policy, and it applies to any disputes that may arise in relation to this Privacy Policy or our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update, change, or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come into effect from the date of such update, change, or modification.
Future Amendments to the Privacy Policy
We may alter or update this policy from time to time to stay abreast of statutory and market changes. We reserve the right to make changes to this policy at any time, and we will notify you of any such alterations or updates by posting an updated version of the policy on this website.
Your continued use of our website, services, or further provision of your personal data constitutes your deemed acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
We, along with any other parties involved in the creation, production, or distribution of the web site, assume no liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages resulting from loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, even if we are aware of the potential for such damages.
The use of the web site, or the inability to use it, is subject to liability. If you purchase or obtain goods, data, information, or services, receive messages, or engage in transactions through or from the service, you bear the cost of procuring substitute goods and services. Your transmissions or data may be subject to unauthorised access or alteration. This category includes any third-party statements or actions on the website, as well as any other service-related issues. You hereby acknowledge that this paragraph shall apply to all content, merchandise, and services available through the web site. We follow Danish laws.
You agree to indemnify and hold us, our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, co-branders, other partners, and employees harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post to, or transmit through the website, your use of the website, your connection to the website, your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another.
We may elect to electronically monitor areas of the web site and may disclose any content, records, or electronic communication of any kind to satisfy any law, regulation, or government request. If such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate the web site,
We safeguard our rights, property, and the rights of users, sponsors, providers, licensors, or merchants. We are not responsible for screening, policing, editing, or monitoring such content. If we are notified of allegedly infringing, defamatory, damaging, illegal, or offensive content, we may investigate the allegation and determine, at our sole discretion, whether to remove or request the removal of such content from the web site. We may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the web site without notice for any conduct that we, in our sole discretion, believe is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to the interests of another user, a third-party provider, merchant, sponsor, licensor, service provider, or we.
Because customer service is critical to our business, we reserve the right to refuse to sell products to you if it reasonably appears to us that you intend to resell them. In addition, we reserve the right to limit the quantity of items purchased by each customer.
In Denmark, we control the website. We do not guarantee the appropriateness or availability of the website’s content in other locations, and we prohibit access from territories where it is illegal.
Other users accessing the website at their own risk must follow local laws.
You cannot use or export the content in violation of Denmark’s laws and regulations. Denmark’s laws, without reference to its choice of law provisions, shall govern any claim relating to the website, the services provided through the website, or the content.
You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Denmark. Lyngby, or Copenhagen.
We welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement at the contact address provided on the website. Should there be any concerns about the violation of this privacy policy, we will employ all commercially reasonable efforts to address them.
A first and last name, a home or other physical address, an e-mail address, or other contact details, whether at work or at home, are examples of personal information. In general, you can visit the website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.
We may use the data we collect on the website to enhance your shopping experience and communicate with you about our products, services, and promotions.
The website only shares information with those necessary to process transactions and prevent fraud, such as your credit card company. This website encrypts and transmits all payment information through a secure server.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can not download images. But it is technically possible to extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. For convenience, you don’t have to enter your information again when commenting. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. When you close your browser, we discard this cookie, which contains no personal data.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
Your browser will save an additional cookie if you edit or publish an article. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who do we share your data with?
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long do we retain your data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where do we send your data?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data related to recruitment
All recruitment and related projects and organisations are made via www.4selection.com, and the jobs will be placed on the . 4selection.com recruitment website, www.candidatedatabank.com.
4selection Edvard Grieg’s Gade 72100 Copenhagen, OE, Denmark
Website: www.4selection.com
Office hours are by appointment.
Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Danish time zone.
4selection is a registered company in Denmark with a registered company number. DK-29741239. Permission to have a recruitment company governed by Danish and European legislation. Danish Data Protection Agency approval/reg number: 2006-46-0353.
Generally, we collect your personal data directly from you. For example, when you: Supply us with your resume. Deal with us in person, by phone, by letter, email, via our website, or any other forms of communication. Connect via publicly accessible channels, such as social media, networking groups and sites, published sites and papers, etc.
Occasionally, and with your consent, we may use your information in company announcements and direct marketing materials. We may from time to time send emails, articles, white papers, proposals, engagement letters, surveys, and other information regarding our services. For reporting purposes, we may aggregate or deidentify personal information in such a manner that the end product does not personally identify you or any other individual, for example, to generate norms by industry, geography, level, etc.
Do we send your personal data overseas?
The nature of our business requires us to transfer or have your information accessed by our clients, candidates, and/or employees who may be based in other countries. When we do so, we shall take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipient complies with the Personal Data Protection Regulation and this policy. We are utilising cloud-based platforms.
Although privacy laws may vary among countries, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that your personal data is protected and handled in accordance with the respective legal requirements as well as this privacy policy.
The Danish Data Protection Agency
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The key laws from the EU
Conditions for consent
Link to Article 7: Article 7 – EUR-Lex
Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e2544-1-1
Data Subject Rights
The GDPR grants individuals various rights regarding their personal data, including the right to access, rectify, and delete their data, as well as the right to restrict or object to processing.
Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e1394-1-1
Rights of the data subject
Link to Chapter 3: Chapter 3 – EUR-Lex
Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e3132-1-1
Data Protection
Organisations are required to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a high level of data protection.
Link to Article 32 (Security of processing): Article 32 – EUR-Lex
Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e3194-1-1
Breach Notification
Organisations must notify the relevant supervisory authority of certain types of data breaches within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach.
Link to Article 33 (Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority): Article 33 – EUR-Lex
Link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj