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LinkedIn: Privacy

We, the City of Stuttgart, Marktplatz 1, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany, maintain an online presence at www.linkedIn.de.

For this purpose, we use the services of the technical platform of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (hereinafter: LinkedIn).

The use of this service is not required to contact us or to receive our information. Information that we publish via this service can also be accessed in the same or similar form at  www.stuttgart.de (opens in a new tab).

Data Protection Officer of the State Capital Stuttgart

You can reach our data protection officer at:

We therefore point out that you use the service offered here and its functionalities on your own responsibility. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions, such as sharing.

In principle, LinkedIn is solely responsible for the processing of personal data when you visit our LinkedIn page. Further information about the processing of personal data by LinkedIn can be found at  https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy. (opens in a new tab)

When you visit, follow or engage with our LinkedIn company page, LinkedIn processes personal data to provide us with anonymized statistics and insights. This provides us with insights into the types of actions that people take on our page (so-called page insights). For this purpose, LinkedIn processes in particular such data that you have already provided to LinkedIn via the information in your profile, such as data on function, country, industry, seniority, company size and employment status. In addition, LinkedIn will process information about how you interact with our LinkedIn company page, such as whether you are a follower of our LinkedIn company page. With the page insights, LinkedIn does not provide us with any personal data about you. We only have access to the aggregated Page Insights. It is also not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual members via the information in the Page Insights. This processing of personal data in the context of Page Insights is carried out by LinkedIn and us as joint controllers. The processing serves the performance of a public task. The evaluation of the types of actions taken on our LinkedIn company page serves in the context of public relations to improve our company page based on these insights. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 (1) (e) DSGVO. We have entered into a joint controller agreement with LinkedIn, which sets out the distribution of data protection obligations between us and LinkedIn. The agreement is available at:  https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum. (opens in a new tab)

Thereafter, the following applies:

  • LinkedIn and we have agreed that LinkedIn is responsible for enabling you to exercise your rights under the GDPR. You can contact LinkedIn online via the following link (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/PPQ?lang=de) (opens in a new tab) or contact LinkedIn via the contact details in the Privacy Policy. You can contact the Data Protection Officer at LinkedIn Ireland via the following link:  https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO. (opens in a new tab) You may also contact us at our provided contact details about exercising your rights in connection with the processing of personal data in the context of the Page Insigts. In such a case, we will forward your request to LinkedIn.

  • LinkedIn and we have agreed that the Irish Data Protection Commission is the lead supervisory authority overseeing processing for Page Insights. You always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (see  www.dataprotection.ie (opens in a new tab) or any other supervisory authority.

Please note that according to the LinkedIn Privacy Policy, personal data is also processed by LinkedIn in the USA or other third countries. According to its own information, LinkedIn only transfers personal data to countries for which an adequacy decision has been issued by the European Commission in accordance with Art. 45 DSGVO or on the basis of appropriate guarantees in accordance with Art. 46 DSGVO.

You can obtain further data protection information, in particular on your data subject rights, at:  www.stuttgart.de/datenschutzerklaerung.php. (opens in a new tab)

You can find the current version of this data protection declaration under the item "Data protection" on our LinkedIn company page.

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