Data protection / principle / purpose / security

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. We want you to know when we collect which data and how we use it.

The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (for example, name, address, telephone number or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis. We use the personal data only to answer your inquiry, to process your orders or to provide access to information or sources of information. This data will not be passed on to third parties or marketed in any other way without your express consent. All our employees and all vicarious agents involved in data processing are obliged to comply with the Federal Data Protection Act and to handle personal data confidentially. Our security measures are continuously revised in accordance with technological developments.

We have taken technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access.

Persons who have not yet reached the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal representatives. We do not request personal data from young people and children.

We point out that data transmission over the Internet (eg communication by e-mail) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. However, security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Data subject rights / right to information

You have the right at any time to request information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing, as well as a right to rectification, blocking, restriction of processing, data portability or deletion of this data. If you have any questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. The data is stored by your browser, e.g. Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit, in order to make it easier for you to use the pages and to design them more individually. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Instructions for managing cookies on your browser can usually be found under the help function of the browser or in the operating instructions of your smartphone. When disabling cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and cannot contain viruses.

What cookies are used?

Cookies are used which, for example, remember your personal settings (e.g. selected language). The cookies used serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. We strive to constantly improve the website. For this purpose, we use cookies that provide us with aggregate statistics about the number of visitors, which areas of a page are viewed the most, information about the city or location of users, as well as the length of stay, etc.. These can be installed by external analysis providers contracted by us. With the help of these cookies, only anonymized data is collected, which enables an analysis of the use of our website.

Right of withdrawal

You can revoke your consent to the collection and storage of your personal data by us at any time. To do so, please write to us by mail or e-mail.

Use of Google Maps

On our site we use “Google Maps” of the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.

With each individual call of “Google Maps”, a cookie is set by Google in order to process user data and user settings when displaying the page on which “Google Maps” is integrated. This cookie is not deleted by closing the browser, but expires after a certain time, unless you delete it manually beforehand.

If you do not agree with this processing of your data, you have the option to deactivate the service of “Google Maps” and thus prevent the transfer of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Java Script function in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use “Google Maps” or only to a limited extent.

The following Google terms of use apply to the use of “Google Maps” and the information obtained via “Google Maps”. http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html as well as the additional terms and conditions for “Google Maps” https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Server-Log-Files / Serverdata

For technical reasons, the provider of the pages collects, among other things, the following data and automatically stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us.

– Browser type and browser version – operating system used – website from which you are visiting us (referrer URL) – host name of the accessing computer – date and time of your access / server request – your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and cannot be assigned to specific persons. A combination of this data with other data sources is not made. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use. The data is evaluated for statistical purposes in order to be able to optimize our Internet presence and our offers.

Use of reCAPTCHA

We protect input forms on our site by using the “reCAPTCHA” service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”. Through this use, it can be distinguished whether the corresponding input is of human origin or misused through automated machine processing.

To our knowledge, the referrer URL, the IP address, the behavior of website visitors, information about the operating system, browser and dwell time, cookies, display instructions and scripts, the user’s input behavior and mouse movements in the area of the “reCAPTCHA” checkbox are transmitted to “Google”.

Google uses the information obtained in this way to digitize books and other printed matter and to optimize services such as Google Street View and Google Maps (e.g., house number and street name recognition).

The IP address transmitted as part of “reCAPTCHA” will not be merged with other data from Google, unless you are logged into your Google account at the time of using the “reCAPTCHA” plug-in. If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by “Google”, you must log out of “Google” before you visit our site or use the reCAPTCHA plug-in.

The use of the service “reCAPTCHA” obtained information is in accordance with the Google Terms of Use: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Use of webfonts

This website uses external fonts, Google Fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. The integration of these fonts takes place after local storage of the corresponding fonts on the own server or web space and through a server call with the server location in Germany. A connection to Google servers does not take place. In special cases, the web fonts are integrated by a service of Google inc. (Google). The integration of these web fonts is carried out by a server call from Google in the USA. This transmits to the server which of our Internet pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of the end device of the visitor to these Internet pages is also stored by Google. You can find more information in Google’s privacy policy, which you can access here: www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about oder www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Publication of job advertisements / online job applications

Your application data will be collected and processed electronically by us for the purpose of handling the application process. If your application is followed by the conclusion of an employment contract, your transmitted data may be stored by us in your personnel file for the purpose of the usual organizational and administrative process in compliance with the relevant legal provisions. If your job application is rejected, the data you have submitted will be deleted automatically two months after notification of the rejection. This does not apply if longer storage is necessary due to legal requirements (for example, the duty of proof under the General Equal Treatment Act) or if you have expressly consented to longer storage in our database of interested parties.

Right of modification

We reserve the right to adapt our data protection provisions at any time, for example due to technical developments. If you are not satisfied with the data protection measures presented here or if you still have questions regarding the collection, processing and/or use of your personal data, we would be pleased to hear from you. We will make every effort to answer your questions as quickly as possible and to implement your suggestions. Please get in touch with us.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, the person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the state data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of the data protection officers and their contact details can be found in the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Use of third-party content on our website:

Within the framework of our Internet presence, pages/information with third-party content are also used. These originate, among others, from:

• Fotolia – Fotodatenbank – Fotolia.com
• exal
• Vuelta Germany
• Kuhnert Drahtwaren

If and to the extent that users of our homepage use external links that we make available on our homepage, our data protection declaration does not cover these external links. We have no influence on the compliance with data protection and security regulations by the respective providers of the external links. When you access these pages, your browser establishes a direct connection with the server of the external provider. This provider may store the IP address for statistical purposes. This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. The author is responsible for the content of the external pages. In this respect, we exclude any liability for third-party content.