DEFINITIONS

• ‘Personal Data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("Data Subject") ; an identifiable natural persons is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifiers, or to one or more factors specific to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of the natural person:
• ‘Processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
• ‘Restriction of Processing’ means the marking of stored Personal Data with the aim of limiting their Processing in the future;
• ‘Profiling’ means any form of automated Processing of Personal Data consisting of the use of Personal Data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements;
• ‘Pseudonymisation’ means the Processing of Personal Data in such a manner that the Personal Data can no longer be attributed to a specific Data Subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the Personal Data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person;
• ‘Filing system’ means any structured set of Personal Data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis;
• ‘Controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data; where the purposes and means of such Processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the Controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;
• ‘Consent’ of the Data Subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the Data Subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the Processing of Personal Data relating to him or her;
• "Archive" means a collection of Personal Data that are no longer necessary to achieve the Purposes for which the Employee Data originally were collected or that are no longer used for general business activities, but are used only for historical, scientific or statistical purposes, dispute resolution, investigations or general archiving purposes after having pseudonymised or set that is subject to appropriately enhanced security and has restricted access (e.g., only by the system administrator and the Data Protection Officer, );
• "GDPR" means REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 0F THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 27 April 2016 on the protection of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.
• "Data Protection Officer means the officer appointed to the extent the Group satisfies the conditions under Article 38 of German Act to Adapt Data Protection Law to GDPR (i.e. at least 10 persons dealing with the automated processing of personal data) .
• "Purpose(s)" means the purposes for Processing that are set out in Annexes 1A and 1B hereto and that were communicated to the Data Subject;
• "Sensitive Personal Data" means as provided for in Article 9 of GDPR Personal Data as the Special Categories of Personal Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the Processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation as well as Criminal information;