With this privacy policy, we inform you about our processing of your personal data. We process personal data in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – “BDSG”).
a) Fulfilment of contractual and pre-contractual obligations (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR)
The processing of personal data (Art. 4 No. 2 GDPR) is carried out to provide this website and to provide our services, in particular to conclude and process contracts, to invoice, to carry out pre-contractual measures, to answer enquiries in connection with our business relationship and for all activities necessary for the operation and administration of our company.
The purposes of the data processing depend primarily on the concrete product. Further details on the purpose of data processing within the framework of contracts can be found in the respective contract documents and terms and conditions.
b) In the context of balancing interests (Art. (1) (f) GDPR)
In addition, we process your data to protect legitimate interests of us or of third parties such as, in particular, in the following cases:
• replying to your inquiries outside of a contract or pre-contractual measures;
• assertion of legal claims and defence in legal disputes;
• guaranteeing our IT security and IT operations;
• measures for business management and further development of products.
c) Based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR)
If you have given us permission to process personal data for certain purposes, the law-fulness of this processing is given on the basis of your consent. A given consent can be revoked at any time. Please note that the revocation will only take effect in the future. Processing that took place before the revocation is not affected by this.
d) On the basis of legal requirements (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR)
In addition, we are subject to various legal obligations, i.e. legal requirements (e.g. tax laws), which require the processing of data.
Website
When you visit our website, information is automatically sent to the server of our website by your browser. This information is temporarily stored in a socalled log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted: IP address of the inquiring computer, date and time of the access, name and URL of the retrieved file, website from which the access follows ("referrer URL"), if applicable the search engine used by you, browser used and if applicable the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.
The legal basis for this type of data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The legitimate interests pursued by us are in particular:
• ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
• ensuring comfortable use of our website,
• evaluation of system safety and stability,
• for other administrative purposes.
We use technically necessary cookies on our website. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest for doing so is enabling you to use our website. The data will not be combined with other personal data. We do not use cookies for advertising or analysis purposes.
Who receives my data?
Within the company, individuals that need your data in order to fulfil a contractual and legal obligation will have access to it.
We pass on data to the following categories of recipients if this is necessary to fulfil an existing contractual relationship between you and us or to implement pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR) or to safeguard legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
• IT service provider
• logistics service provider
• financial institutions for payment purposes
Insofar as processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests, for example when using logistics and IT services, it is our legitimate interest to outsource functions.
In addition, your personal data will be forwarded or transmitted if this is required by law (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR) or if you have consented (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). We never sell your personal information to any third party.