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We're here to help if you'd like to learn more about data protection and privacy, or if you have any queries about using XING.

Christian Schmidt

Data Protection Officer

Christian Schmidt makes sure that data protection at XING complies with the law while also being in the interests of XING users.

Ulf Pohlmann

Team Lead User Care - Quality & Security

Our User Care department handles the enquiries and requests our users send us. Any issues relating to data protection and privacy are dealt with in close collaboration with our Data Protection Officer.

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Christian Schmidt makes sure that data protection at XING complies with the law while also being in the interests of XING users.

Our User Care department handles the enquiries and requests our users send us. Any issues relating to data protection and privacy are dealt with in close collaboration with our Data Protection Officer.

Get in touch with us

More faces. More expertise. More security.

The Data Protection Committee at XING deals with general issues relating to privacy and data protection at XING. This includes legal, communicational and IT security considerations.
This team consists of experts from the Security team, the Legal department, the Corporate Communications team, and our Data Protection Officer. Depending on the given circumstances, this team may also receive support from specialists in other departments. The Data Protection Committee publishes regular reports on its work and findings.

More faces. More expertise. More security.

Dr. Rainer Altfuldisch

General Counsel, VP Legal & Compliance

Christian Schmidt

Data Protection Officer

Marc-Sven Kopka

VP External Affairs

Tilmann Haak

Information Security Officer

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Third country:

A country outside of the European Union.

EU GDPR:

The Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council dated 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, on the free movement of such data, and on the repeal of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

Newsletter:

Newsletters or status e-mails and advertising for XING’s own similar products and services, or surveys for the purpose of XING’s own market research.

Personal data:

Pursuant to Article 4 (1) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person 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, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Pixel:

Pixel: An image file or link to an image file that is added to the website code but not sent to your end device (e.g. PC, smartphone). Pixels are usually used in conjunction with cookies.

Profile:

The page on the XING Websites where the personal data made available by the user is displayed in the social network.

Profiling:

Pursuant to Article 4 (4) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 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 move-ments.

Social network:

The contact and communication forums belonging to the applications of the service XING.

XING:

The service XING and the applications belonging to the service XING (XING, kununu, onlyfy. etc.).

XING Websites:

All websites, subdomains, aliases, mobile applications, background applications, web services and embedding in third-party websites where the service XING is available.