In this privacy policy, we inform you about the processing of your data when you use our website.
By "your data" we mean personal data. Personal information is information that helps us identify you. Be it directly or by combining it with other data. This includes, for example: your name, your address, your e-mail address, your phone number or your customer number.
Statistical data that we collect when you visit our website, for example, and which cannot be associated with your person, does not fall under the term personal data.
You can print or save this privacy policy by using the usual functionality of your browser.
The data controller within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is
Südwolle Group GmbH Wieseneckstr. 26 90571 Schwaig Germany Phone: +49 911 504 800 E-Mail: yarns@suedwollegroup.de
(hereinafter referred to as "Südwolle Group", "we" or "us")
Please contact the above office with any questions or requests regarding the protection of your data.
Südwolle Group GmbH Wieseneckstr. 26 90571 Schwaig Germany Phone: +49 911 504 800 E-Mail: privacy@suedwollegroup.de
You have the option of contacting us, for example, by phone or e-mail. In this context, we process your telephone or mobile phone number and/or your e-mail address exclusively for the purpose of communicating with you, e.g. so that we can contact you if you have any queries regarding your request. The provision is voluntary. However, if you do not provide it, we will not be able to contact you if you have any questions. If you use our contact form to contact us, you will be required to provide your name, a valid e-mail address, the country and the corresponding segment. Further information about yourself can be provided voluntarily. On our contact form, we use the service of "Friendly Capcha" (see below).
When you place an order with our employees or via our webshop, we collect your order or purchase data.
Order or purchase data includes, for example:
We will only use your data to the extent necessary to process your enquiries and for further correspondence with you. The data collected by us will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions and will be deleted under data protection law after the enquiry you have made has been completed, unless there is another statutory retention obligation.
The legal basis for the aforementioned data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR.
Every time you use our website, we collect the data that your browser automatically transmits in order to enable you to visit the website. These are in particular:
The data processing is necessary to enable visitors to visit the website and to ensure the long-term functionality and security of our systems. For the purposes described above, the aforementioned data is also temporarily stored in internal log files in order to compile statistical information about the use of our website, to further develop our website with regard to the usage habits of our visitors (e.g. if the proportion of mobile devices used to access the pages increases) and to maintain our website in general administratively.
The legal basis for the aforementioned data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR.
This website uses the consent technology of Usercentrics to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your terminal device or to the use of certain technologies and to document this consent in accordance with data protection law. The provider of this technology is Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich, Germany, website: https://usercentrics.com/de/ (hereinafter "Usercentrics").
When you enter our website, the following personal data is transferred to Usercentrics:
Furthermore, Usercentrics stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to assign the consent given to you or its revocation. The data collected in this way is stored until you request us to delete it, delete the Usercentrics cookie yourself or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory legal storage obligations remain unaffected.
Usercentrics is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of certain technologies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.
We have concluded a contract on order processing (AV) in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that the provider only processes the personal data of our website visitors in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
We use cookies in order to be able to implement certain technically required functions of our website, to be able to track the use of our offers and for the continuous optimisation of the websites and to be able to provide content tailored to your wishes. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer, they cannot run programs and they do not contain viruses. Instead of cookies, so-called tracking pixels or comparable common technologies may also be used, which serve to (temporarily) store information about specific users or usage processes (collectively referred to as "cookies"). You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer at any time via the settings of your browser, please use the settings or the help function of your browser. The function of our website may then be limited.
Technically necessary cookies
These cookies are mainly used to enable you to use the site's functions, e.g. to hold form data (e.g. as part of the contact form) or to control the display of information (e.g. the cookie banner). The legal basis for the data processing carried out in connection with the technically necessary cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in enabling you to use our website comfortably and individually and to make the use as time-saving as possible. In certain cases, these cookies may also be necessary for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, then the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b) GDPR. Deactivating these technically necessary cookies is not offered.
Cookie for Analysis and Marketing purposes
We also use cookies for website analysis, advertising and marketing purposes, to enable personalised advertisements and also to show you promotional content on external websites (e.g. Google or You Tube) for our products and offers that you have been interested in on our website or that matches content that we believe is that they are interesting for you. General information about possible interests of users of our website and other interested parties, which has been collected by third parties on other websites, is also used in the context of the personalized advertising of our content (so-called re-targeting). The information is stored on cookie identifiers. You will not be identified as a person but will be recognized solely on the basis of the end devices you use. If the cookies are deleted, the personalization of the advertising content will also be eliminated. We only use these cookies if you agree to their use. The legal basis for the data processing carried out in connection with marketing cookies is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR).
If personal data is transferred to the USA, you will obtain your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 sentence a) via the cookie banner for this data transfer. GDPR. The associated risks can be found below under "Data transfer to third countries". You can withdraw your consent by going to the cookie settings and changing the appropriate selection there.
You can also access the cookie settings from any page of this website via the footer.
We would like to point out that some pages of our website may also contain cookies that are not directly related to Südwolle Group. If you visit a page with content embedded by third parties, those third parties may have set their own cookies. Südwolle Group has no influence on the use of these cookies and cannot access them due to the way cookies work, as access to cookies is only possible for the person who originally set them.
Use of Google Analytics
Our website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of the web analysis service is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses "cookies." These are small text files that your web browser stores on your device and enable an analysis of website use. Information generated by cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. The server is usually located in the USA.
Google Analytics cookies are set on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in optimising our website in order to optimise our website and, if necessary, advertising.
IP anonymization
We use Google Analytics in conjunction with the IP anonymization feature. It ensures that Google shortens your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. There may be exceptional cases in which Google transmits the full IP address to a server in the USA and shortens it there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Google.
Browser Plugin
The setting of cookies by your web browser can be prevented. However, some features of our website may be limited as a result. You can also prevent the collection of data relating to your website use, including your IP address, including subsequent processing by Google. This is possible by downloading and installing the browser plugin accessible via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objecting to data collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the collection of your data on future visits to our website: Deactivate Google Analytics.
Details on the handling of user data by Google Analytics can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Data processing
In order to fully comply with the statutory data protection requirements, we have concluded a contract processing agreement with Google.
Demographics on Google Analytics
Our website uses the "demographics" feature of Google Analytics. It can be used to create reports that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. It is not possible to assign the data to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time. This can be done via the ad settings in your Google account or by generally prohibiting the collection of your data by Google Analytics, as explained in the section "Objection to data collection".
Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows us to integrate tracking or statistics tools and other technologies on our website. The Google Tag Manager itself does not create user profiles, does not store cookies and does not carry out any independent analyses. It is only used to manage and display the tools integrated via it. However, Google Tag Manager does collect your IP address, which may also be transmitted to Google's parent company in the United States.
The use of Google Tag Manager is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the quick and uncomplicated integration and management of various tools on its website. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
This website uses Clarity. Provider is Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA98052-6399 (USA), https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/ (hereinafter "Clarity").
Clarity is a tool for analyzing user behavior on this website. Here Clarity collects especially mouse movements and creates a graphical representation of which part of the website users scroll particularly frequently (heat maps). Clarity may also record sessions so that we can view site usage in the form of videos. Furthermore, we receive information about the general user behavior within our website.
Clarity uses technologies that allow the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing the user behavior (e.g. cookies or use of device fingerprinting). Your personal data is stored on Microsoft servers (Microsoft Azure Cloud Service) in the USA.
The use of Clarity is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in effective user analysis. Insofar as a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as defined by the TDDDG. The consent can be revoked at any time.
More details about Clarity's privacy policy can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq.
On our site, we use the Bing service of the company Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, 18 Dublin, Ireland, website: https://www.bing.com/
The Bing service is used to speed up searches on our site or the Internet and links search engine content to our website.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, which you have given on our website.
The transfer of personal data also takes place to the USA. With regard to the transfer of personal data to the USA, there is an adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework of the EU Commission within the meaning of Art. 45 GDPR (hereinafter: DPF - https://commission.europa.eu/document/fa09cbad-dd7d-4684-ae60-be03fcb0fddf_en ). The operator of the service is certified under the DPF, so that the usual level of protection of the GDPR applies to the transmission.
The certification of the parent company Microsoft within the framework of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework can be found at https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/list.
You can revoke your consent at any time. You can find more information on how to withdraw your consent either at the time of consent itself or at the end of this privacy policy.
Further information on the handling of the transmitted data can be found in the provider's privacy policy under https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
Our website uses "Instagram" which is operated by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. The "Instagram" buttons featured on our website will notify Instagram that you opened an according page of our website. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram may assign your visit to our website to your Instagram account and link your data.
Instagram will save the data transmitted by your browser when the "Instagram" button is activated. For the purpose and extent of data collection, further processing and use of data by Instagram and your respective rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, please see Instagram’s Privacy Policy at https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
If you do not want Instagram to assign your visit to our website to your Instagram account, please log out of your Instagram account before visiting our website.
Our website uses LinkedIn's insight tag. The provider of this service is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
With the help of the LinkedIn Insight Tag, we obtain information about the visitors of our website. If a website visitor is registered with LinkedIn, we can, among other things, analyse the key professional data (e.g. career level, company size, country, location, industry and job title) of our website visitors and thus better target our page to the respective target groups.
We can also use LinkedIn Insight Tags to measure whether visitors to our websites make a purchase or take another action (conversion measurement). Conversion measurement can also be done across devices (e.g., PC-to-tablet). LinkedIn Insight Tag also offers a retargeting feature that allows us to display targeted advertising to visitors to our website outside of the website, whereby, according to LinkedIn, there is no identification of the advertising addressee.
LinkedIn itself also collects so-called log files (URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties and time of access). The IP addresses are shortened or (if they are used to reach LinkedIn members across devices) hashed (pseudonymised). LinkedIn members' direct identifiers will be deleted from LinkedIn after 7 days. The remaining pseudonymized data is then deleted within 180 days.
The data collected by LinkedIn cannot be assigned to specific individuals by us as the website operator. LinkedIn will store the collected personal data of website visitors on its servers in the USA and use it as part of its own advertising measures.
Details can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy#choices-oblig.
LinkedIn Insight is used on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in effective advertising measures, including social media. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission.
Details can be found here:
Object to the analysis of user behavior and targeted advertising by LinkedIn under the following link:
In addition, LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal information for advertising purposes in their account settings. To avoid linking data collected on our website by LinkedIn and your LinkedIn account.
We offer you the payment methods by invoice, by PayPal and by credit card. Depending on which payment method you select in the order process, we pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, payment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service provider for the purpose of processing payments. Without these payment data and payment service providers, payment and contract processing is not possible.
The data processed by the payment service providers includes inventory data, such as name and address, credit card numbers, passwords, TANs and checksums, as well as contract, sum and recipient-related information. The information is required to carry out the transactions. However, the data entered will only be processed by and stored by the payment service providers. This means that we do not receive any account or credit card-related information, but only information confirming or negative information about the payment. Under certain circumstances, the data may be transmitted by the payment service providers to credit agencies. The purpose of this transfer is to check identity and creditworthiness. For this purpose, we refer to the terms and conditions and the data protection information of the payment service providers.
The terms and conditions and data protection notices of the respective payment service providers, which can be accessed within the respective websites or transaction applications, apply to the payment transactions. We also refer to them for the purpose of further information and assertion of rights of revocation, information and other data subjects.
The legal basis for the aforementioned data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR for the performance of the contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures or Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR due to our legitimate interests in being able to offer you additional payment options.
We use the information you provide as part of the whistleblower system or the ombuds service for purposes such as verifying and documenting reports, for internal investigations, for forwarding to external lawyers, auditors or other professionals bound by professional secrecy and, if necessary, for forwarding to government agencies (such as the police, public prosecutor’s office or courts). We assure all whistleblowers that their information will be handled confidentially.
We only process your personal data if you provide it to us voluntarily. Data of a reported person will be processed within the framework of the requirements of the German Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG) in order to follow up and document the report.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data by the internal reporting office is Article 6 para. 1 lit. c (fulfillment of a legal obligation) in conjunction with Section 10 Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG) or Section 8 of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) for notifications under the Supply Chain Act.
The legal basis for the operation of the reporting system is Article 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO (legitimate interest of the controller); our legitimate interest is to establish appropriate reporting channels in order to comply with legal requirements and to be able to follow up on violations within the company. If you disclose your identity when submitting a report, the legal basis for processing your data is your consent pursuant to Article 6 lit. a DSGVO.
Furthermore, you are entitled to the data subject rights mentioned in this data protection information.
In principle, the data collected by us will only be passed on if:
Part of the data processing may be carried out by our service providers. In addition to the service providers mentioned in this Privacy Policy, this may include, but is not limited to, data centers that store our website and databases, IT service providers that maintain our systems, consulting firms, suppliers, freight forwarders and postal service providers. If we pass on data to service providers, they may only use the data to perform their tasks. The service providers have been carefully selected and commissioned by us. They are contractually bound by our instructions and have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to protect the rights of the data subjects.
Within our group of companies, many systems and technologies are shared. This enables us to implement our processes efficiently and in a right-hand manner in the Group. Therefore, within our group of companies, only those companies and departments that need it to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations or to fulfil their respective functions will have access to your data.
We transmit your data in encrypted form within our group of companies:
In order to fully comply with the statutory data protection requirements, we have concluded a contract for order processing within our group of companies.
In addition, disclosure may take place in connection with official requests, court orders and legal proceedings if it is necessary for legal prosecution or enforcement (the legal basis for this data processing is, depending on the individual case, Art. 6 para. 1 c) or f) GDPR).
Data transfer to third countries
As explained in this privacy policy, we use services whose providers are partly located in so-called third countries (such as the USA), i.e. countries whose level of data protection does not correspond to that of the European Union. To the extent that this is the case and the European Commission has not issued an adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR) for these countries, we have taken appropriate precautions to ensure an adequate level of data protection for any data transfers. These include, among others, the standard contractual clauses of the European Union or binding internal data protection regulations.
Where this is not possible, we base the data transfer on exceptions to Art. 49 GDPR, in particular your explicit consent (Art. 49 para. 1 a) GDPR) or the necessity of the transfer for the performance of the contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 49 para. 1 b) GDPR).
If a transfer to a third country is provided for and there is no adequacy decision or suitable safeguards, it is possible and there is a risk that authorities in the respective third country (e.g. intelligence services) can gain access to the transmitted data in order to collect and analyse it, and that the enforceability of your rights as a data subject cannot be guaranteed. If you obtain your consent via the cookie banner, you will also be informed about this.
In principle, we only store personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected the data. After that, we delete the data immediately, unless we still need the data until the expiry of the statutory limitation period for evidentiary purposes for civil law claims or because of statutory retention obligations.
For evidentiary purposes, we must retain contract data for another three years from the end of the year in which the business relationship with you ends. According to the statutory standard limitation period, any claims become statute-barred at this point in time at the earliest.
Even after that, we still have to store your data for accounting reasons. We are obliged to do so due to legal documentation obligations that may result from the German Commercial Code, the German Fiscal Code, the German Banking Act, the Money Laundering Act and the Securities Trading Act. The periods specified there for the retention of documents are two to ten years.
You have the following statutory data protection rights under the respective legal requirements:
To exercise your rights described here, you can contact the contact details above at any time.
You also have the right to complain to the data protection supervisory authority responsible for us. In Schwaig near Nuremberg, where we are based, the supervisory authority responsible is: Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, P.O. Box 606, 91511 Ansbach. Alternatively, you can contact the data protection authority in your place of residence, which will then forward your request to the competent authority.
Right of revocation and objection
In accordance with Art. 7 (2) GDPR, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time from us. As a result, we will no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent for the future. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent before the revocation.
Insofar as we process your data on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR and to give us reasons that arise from your particular situation and which, in your opinion, speak for an outweigh of your interests worthy of protection. If you object to data processing for direct marketing purposes, you have a general right to object, which we will implement even without giving reasons.
If you would like to make use of your right of revocation or objection, an informal message to the contact details mentioned above is sufficient.
Further developments in the Internet and in the relevant case law may also affect this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy (including sections specific to this website) in the future to ensure it complies with current legal requirements and/or to reflect any additions or changes to our website.
The current version of this privacy policy applies to your visit; you can access it on every subpage via the “Privacy Policy” link.
Date of this privacy policy: August 2026
Product recommendations (existing customers)
As an existing customer, you will receive regular e-mails with products of interest to you within the framework of the legal requirements, regardless of whether you have already opted out of our newsletter, unless you have already objected to this in the past. In this way, we want to send you information about products from our range that you may be interested in based on your recent purchases from us. If you no longer wish to receive such e-mails from us with product recommendations based on your purchasing behaviour in the past, you can object to this at any time free of charge with effect for the future. Please contact us in writing at the above contact details. Alternatively, you will of course also find an unsubscribe link in every e-mail. The legal basis for the aforementioned data processing is our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR to send you product recommendations in the form of direct advertising for similar products, in conjunction with § 7 para. 3 German Act Against Unfair Competition (UWG).
E-mail newsletter
You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter, which regularly informs you about specialist articles on our products and events. To subscribe to the newsletter, we collect your e-mail address and, in the case of events, also your name and company name.
To order our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure, i.e. we will only send you newsletters by e-mail if you confirm in our notification e-mail by clicking on a link that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided. If you confirm your e-mail address, we will store your e-mail address, the time of registration and the IP address used for registration for the duration of the subscription and then archive it for a limited time after unsubscribing or revocation. The storage serves the sole purpose of sending you the newsletter and being able to prove your registration. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. A corresponding unsubscribe link can be found in every newsletter. A message to the contact details provided above or in the newsletter (e.g. by e-mail or letter) is of course also sufficient for this purpose.
In our newsletters, we use so-called pixels (tiny, invisible image files) that can be used to measure the opening rate, as well as links that allow us to measure the click on the link before it is forwarded to the target page. This data processing is carried out exclusively on an aggregated basis for statistical evaluation as well as for the optimization and further development of our content and customer communication. There is no usage analysis at the level of individual recipients of the newsletter. In addition, it is also recorded whether newsletters could be delivered and for which email addresses delivery was not possible. There is no link to other data. You can prevent the measurement of the opening rate by deactivating the loading of images in your email client. As soon as you unsubscribe from the newsletter, your registration data will be deleted. Deletion will also take place promptly if you have not confirmed your subscription to the newsletter.
To send our newsletter we use Inxmail GmbH, Wentzingerstr. 17, 79106 Freiburg, Germany, („Inxmail“).
We use Inxmail for e-mail marketing in the event of a subscription to the newsletter on our website as well as for transactional e-mails, for example in the case of downloading one of our brochures. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Inxmail. Your data will be stored by Inxmail in Germany or the European Union and transmitted in encrypted form. Insofar as Inxmail works with sub-processors whose parent company is not based in the European Union, the adequacy decision applies to US companies certified in accordance with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and/or Inxmail and its sub-processors have concluded standard contractual clauses and taken additional measures to protect the data. As part of the use of Inxmail, anonymised data on the use of the newsletter (e.g. clicks, opens) is used for aggregated statistical analysis. The legal basis for sending the newsletter, the aggregated usage analysis and determining deliverability is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
Competitions and surveys
If you take part in one of our surveys, we use your data for market and opinion research. We generally use the data anonymously for internal purposes. If surveys are not conducted anonymously, the personal data will be collected exclusively with your consent. Data protection law does not apply to anonymous surveys. In the case of exceptional personal data, the legal basis for the aforementioned data processing is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR. In the context of competitions, we use your data for the purpose of conducting the competition and notifying you of the prize. Detailed information can be found in the terms and conditions of participation for the respective competition. The legal basis for the aforementioned data processing for the performance of the competition contract with you is Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR.