Data protection

Martens & Partner

For more than 25 years we have been filling positions in owner-managed companies, in medium-sized companies and in international groups of companies with commitment and passion. As a partner, we find solutions for your very individual objectives. In goal-oriented, open and lively processes.

Headoffice Hamburg

Martens & Partner Personalberatung GmbH

General Manager: Stefan Martens
Jungfernstieg 4-5
D-20095 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 – 3680 29-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 – 3680 29-29
Email: info@martensundpartner.de

Contact person for data-related items: Stefan Martens (phone number above)

Data Protection

The protection of your personal data is important to us. We treat your data confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we process when you visit our website, why we process it, and what rights you have.

1. Data Controller

The controller responsible for processing personal data on this website is:

Martens & Partner Personalberatung GmbH
Managing Director: Stefan Martens
Jungfernstieg 4-5
20095 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 36 80 29-0
Email: info@martensundpartner.de

Contact for data protection enquiries:
Stefan Martens, available through the contact details provided above.

2. Hosting and Server Log Files

Our website is hosted by STRATO GmbH, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany.

When you access our website, the hosting provider automatically processes technical information transmitted by your browser. This may include:

* IP address of your device
* Date and time of access
* Pages and files requested
* Browser type and version
* Operating system
* Referrer URL
* Technical status and error messages

This information is necessary to provide the website, ensure its technical stability, and identify potential security incidents.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to ensure the secure and reliable operation of our website.

Data is retained in accordance with the hosting provider’s technical and contractual arrangements. Where necessary to investigate security incidents, certain data may be retained for longer.

Where legally required, a data processing agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR is in place with the hosting provider.

3. Website Security and Wordfence

We use the Wordfence security plugin to protect our website against unauthorised access, malware, and automated attacks.

Wordfence may process security-related information, including IP addresses, access times, requested URLs, and technical characteristics of incoming requests.

This information is used to identify suspicious activity, prevent attacks, and maintain website security.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to protect our website, technical systems, and the data processed through them.

Depending on the technical configuration, security-related information may also be transmitted to infrastructure operated by the plugin provider, Defiant Inc., in the United States.

Any transfer of personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area must comply with Articles 44 et seq. GDPR.

Security logs are retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes described above.

4. Cookies and Consent Management

Our website uses cookies and, where applicable, similar technologies to provide certain functions.

Technically necessary cookies may be used to ensure the secure operation of the website and its essential functionality.

The storage of information on your device, or access to information already stored on it, is governed by Section 25 of the German TDDDG.

Where consent is required, the relevant technology will only be used after you have given your consent.

We use the WordPress plugin Complianz to manage consent preferences.

Complianz allows you to grant, refuse, or subsequently change your consent where required.

Information about your consent decision, the time of your decision, and technical details necessary to manage your preferences may be stored.

Where this involves the processing of personal data, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR, insofar as processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations.

You may change or withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future using the “Manage Consent” function.

Further information about the cookies used and their retention periods is available through our consent management system.

5. Website Analytics

We use the free standard version of the WordPress plugin Independent Analytics to analyse the use of our website.

The plugin enables us to evaluate page views and website usage. Statistical processing takes place within our WordPress installation.

We do not use additional tracking extensions.

The purpose of this analysis is to better understand how our website is used and to improve our online information and services.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, insofar as personal data is processed. Our legitimate interest is to improve the functionality and relevance of our website.

The plugin does not transmit statistical usage data to Google Analytics or comparable external analytics services.

6. Contact by Email and Contact Form

If you contact us by email or through our website’s contact form, we process the information you provide in order to respond to your enquiry.

This information may include:

* Name
* Company
* Email address
* Telephone number, if provided
* Content of your message
* Any additional information voluntarily submitted

Our contact form is provided using Elementor Pro.

Submitted information is forwarded to us by email. Additional storage of form submissions within Elementor’s submission management system is not enabled.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to a contract or pre-contractual measures. Other business enquiries are processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to respond to enquiries and maintain business communications.

Personal data is deleted when it is no longer required to process the enquiry, unless statutory retention obligations or other legitimate reasons require longer storage.

Where no further business relationship develops and no special circumstances apply, we aim to delete the information no later than six months after the enquiry has been concluded.

Protection Against Automated Form Submissions

We use the WordPress plugin WP Armour to protect our contact form against automated spam submissions.

The plugin uses a technique known as a honeypot to identify automated entries.

Its purpose is to protect our website and prevent misuse of our communication systems.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, insofar as personal data is processed. Our legitimate interest is to maintain the security and functionality of our communication systems.

7. Fonts

The fonts used on our website are installed locally on our web server.

External loading of Google Fonts through Elementor has been disabled.

Consequently, providing these locally hosted fonts does not require a connection to Google’s servers.

8. External Links and Social Media

Our website contains links to external websites and services, including Google Maps and social media platforms.

These services are linked externally. We do not use embedded Google Maps or social media plugins that automatically load external content when you visit our website.

When you click an external link, you leave our website and access the respective provider’s service.

The provider’s own privacy information applies to the processing of personal data on its website.

9. Submission of Application Documents

As an executive search and recruitment consultancy, we specialise in the placement of professionals and executives.

Our website does not provide an applicant portal or a dedicated facility for submitting application documents.

If you nevertheless send us application documents or other personal information by email without being requested to do so, we initially process this information to review and assess your message.

If this results in further communication or a candidate relationship, we will provide you with the relevant additional data protection information.

The processing of candidate data in connection with our recruitment consultancy services is not covered in detail by this general website Privacy Policy.

10. Recipients and International Data Transfers

We process or disclose personal data to third parties only where necessary for the purposes described, where required by law, or where another applicable legal basis exists.

Recipients may include technical service providers supporting the operation, maintenance, and security of our website.

Where service providers process personal data on our behalf, we enter into the necessary data processing agreements pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.

Transfers of personal data to countries outside the European Union or European Economic Area are carried out only in accordance with Articles 44 et seq. GDPR.

11. Your Rights

Under applicable data protection law, you have the following rights, subject to the relevant statutory conditions:

Right of access: Under Article 15 GDPR, you may request information about the personal data we process concerning you.

Right to rectification: Under Article 16 GDPR, you may request the correction of inaccurate personal data.

Right to erasure: Under Article 17 GDPR, you may request the deletion of your personal data.

Right to restriction of processing: Under Article 18 GDPR, you may request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

Right to data portability: Where the legal requirements are met, Article 20 GDPR entitles you to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or to have it transmitted to another controller.

Right to object: Under Article 21 GDPR, you may object to processing based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on grounds relating to your particular situation.

Withdrawal of consent: Under Article 7(3) GDPR, you may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

You may exercise your rights by contacting us using the details provided above.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

Under Article 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable data protection law.

The supervisory authority responsible for our registered office in Hamburg is:

Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI)
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 22, 7th Floor
20459 Hamburg
Germany

You may also contact another competent data protection supervisory authority.

12. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We review this Privacy Policy as necessary and update it when legal requirements or the processing of personal data on our website change.

Last updated: November 2026

Data Protection

We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations (DSGVO/GDPR) and this data protection declaration.

Contact person for questions about data protection is Mr. Stefan Martens, who you can reach via the e-mail address info@martensundpartner.de or via the telephone number 040-36 80 29-0.

Our website can usually be used without providing any personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses > e-mail) is collected on our website, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

Data security

To protect our website and our visitors, we use the data protection tool „Wordfence“ as a WordPress extension. Wordfence is GDPR compliant. More about this here. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

SSL encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from „http://“ to „https://“ and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

The websites of Martens & Partner do not use cookies from third parties, or use them as little as possible. For example, instead of Google Analytics, we use the data protection-compliant statistics tool „Statify“, which enables anonymous data collection.

Further information on the WordPress plugin „Statify“ can be found here.

Social media

We have not activated any social media extensions and have not created any links to social media sites. Therefore, no user data is collected via cookies here either.

Google fonts

In order to increase the attractiveness of our pages and to match our company design, we use Google Fonts (Wikipedia). These are fonts that Google offers for free use on websites. The fonts are loaded from Google servers. Google does not set any cookies. The IP address is transmitted; according to Google, a user analysis that goes beyond statistical evaluations and linking to other user data should not take place.

Google Maps

“Google Maps” functionality is installed as a service on this website. The plugin also enables route planning from your location to the location of Martens & Partner Personalberatung. Google services abroad are integrated for this purpose. Personal data is transmitted to Google here. More information on how it works on Wikipedia. If you object to the use of cookies via the so-called „opt-out“ procedure in your browser, the functionality of Google Maps may be impaired or impossible.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

– Browser type and browser version
– operating system used – Referrer URL
– Host name of the accessing computer
– Time of server request

These data are not assignable to any persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently check this data if we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the e-mail links, your transmitted information, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent. The data will be deleted after the process has been completed, usually after six months at the latest.

Right to information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data at any time. You can contact us at any time using the e-mail address given here or the postal address given in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

Objection to promotional mails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the imprint obligation to send unsolicited advertising and information material. The site operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising being sent, such as spam e-mails.

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