Data Protection
We’re glad that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest! Protecting your private sphere during the use of our website is important to us Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the following information about how we handle your data:
- The intended use of personal data
We collect and use your personal data exclusively within the limits of the provisions of the EU-DSGVO as well as Data Protection Laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (BDSG).
You can visit our website without disclosing any information about your person. Every time you access our website, user data will be communicated by the browser in use and in log files, the so-called Server-Logfiles. These data will be saved and will include e.g. date and time of the access, name of the page visited, data volume transmitted and the provider who sent the query. These data cannot be assigned to any specific person and serve only to provide a smooth operation of our website and improve our range of offers.
Personal data will be collected when you voluntarily provide them to use for the purpose of executing a contract or when you set up a customer/supplier account. Which data are collected will be clear from the specific input forms. Your customer/supplier account can be deleted at any time and this can be initiated by using the contact option given below under 11. We store and use the data that you provide to execute the contract. Once the contract has been completely executed or you have deleted your customer/supplier account, your data will be blocked with due consideration for the retention periods required under tax law and commercial law and once these periods have expired, they will be deleted, to the extent that you have not given consent for continued use of these data or a legally permissible continued use of these data is reserved for our part. We will inform you about that below.
Personal data will be collected in the framework of making contact with us (e.g. using the contact form or e-mail). What data are collected in the case of a contact form will is clearly visible in the contact form. These data are saved and used exclusively to respond to your request and the therewith associated technical administration. Your data will be deleted on request once they have been processed to the extent that you want this done and deleting the data does not violate any legal retention obligations.
We reserve the right to save your first and last names, your postal address and - to the extent that we have received these additional disclosures from you in the framework of our contractual relationship – your title, academic degree, birth year and the name of your industry or business for our own advertising purposes in summary lists and use these to send you interesting offers and information about our products in the regular mail. You can refuse to allow storage and use of your data for this purpose at any time by sending a message to the contact option given under 11. - Sharing personal data for processing purposes
The data we collect in the framework of processing the contract will be shared with other companies that are involved in execution and implementation of the contract to the extent that this is necessary for the implementation of the contract. Furthermore, we will share your payment data with the assigned credit institution in the framework of settling payments. - Sharing personal data to confirm creditworthiness and identity and for scoring for purchasing on account
3.1 Should we enter into advance performance (e.g. delivery on account), we reserve the right to carry out a credit check based on mathematical statistical procedures in order to protect our legitimate interests. The personal data required for a credit check will be sent to the following service provider:
Atradius Kreditversicherung,
Niederlassung der Atradius Crédito y Caución S.A. de Seguros y ReasegurosRegistered office
Opladener Straße 14
50679 Köln
The credit report can include probability values (so-called score-value). To the extent that score values are included in the results of the credit report, they will be based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure Address data among other sorts of data will be included in the calculation of the score data. The result of the credit check with respect to the statistical likelihood of default is used for the purpose of making a decision concerning the establishment, execution or termination of a contractual relationship.
3.2 Should we enter into advance performance (e.g. delivery on account), we reserve the right to carry out a credit check based on mathematical statistical procedures in order to protect our legitimate interests. The personal data required for a credit check will be sent to the following service provider:
Creditsafe Deutschland GmbH
Schreiberhauer Straße 30
10317 Berlin
The credit report can include probability values (so-called score-value). To the extent that score values are included in the results of the credit report, they will be based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure Address data among other sorts of data will be included in the calculation of the score data. The result of the credit check with respect to the statistical likelihood of default is used for the purpose of making a decision concerning the establishment, execution or termination of a contractual relationship.
3.3 Should we enter into advance performance (e.g. delivery on account), we reserve the right to carry out a credit check based on mathematical statistical procedures in order to protect our legitimate interests. The personal data required for a credit check will be sent to the following service provider:
Creditreform Hamburg von der Decken KG
Wandalenweg 8-10
D-20097 Hamburg
The credit report can include probability values (so-called score-value). To the extent that score values are included in the results of the credit report, they will be based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure Address data among other sorts of data will be included in the calculation of the score data. The result of the credit check with respect to the statistical likelihood of default is used for the purpose of making a decision concerning the establishment, execution or termination of a contractual relationship. - Cookies
To make the use of our website attractive and facilitate the use of certain functions, we use so-called Cookies on various pages. These are small text files which are stored on your end-device. Some of the Cookies we use will be deleted after the end of the browser session, that is, after you close your browser (so-called session-cookies). Other Cookies will stay on your end-device and make it possible for use or our partner companies to recognise your browser the next time you visit (persistent Cookies). You can set your browser such that you are informed when Cookies are set and decide to accept them (or not) in certain cases or block them generally. If you reject Cookies, the functionality of our website can be limited.
- Use of videos (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo)
This website uses the Youtube-embedding function for the display and replay of videos from the provider “Youtube”. Hereby the extended data protection mode is used which according to the information from the provider only initiates any storage of user information after the video begins playing. Once the replay of an embedded Youtube-video is started, the provider uses “Youtube” Cookies in order to collect information about user behaviour. According to information from “Youtube” these serve among other things to record statistics about videos, improve user-friendliness and prevent abuses. Regardless of whether an embedded video is played or not, a connection with the Google-network “DoubleClick” is established evert time this website is called up, which can trigger data processing procedures beyond our influence.
You can find additional information about data protection in “YouTube” in the provider’s Data Protection Statement: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
- Content of the Website
The author provides no guarantees for the currency, accuracy, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against the author which make reference to any damages of a material or ideal kind that were allegedly caused by the use or non-use of the information provided and/or through the use of incorrect or incomplete information, are strictly excluded, to the extent that there is no demonstrable intentional or grossly negligent fault on the part of the author. All offers are subject to change and non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to change, amend or delete parts of the pages or the entire website without any prior notice, or temporarily or permanently end publication. - References and Links
In the case of direct or indirect references to external websites („Links”), which lie outside the author’s scope of responsibility, compulsory liability would only apply in the event that the author was aware of the contents and it was technically possible and reasonable for him to prevent access in the event of illegal content. The author therefore expressly declares that at the time the links were set the corresponding linked sites were free of illegal content. The author has no influence of any kind of the future design and content of the linked/connected sites. For this reason, he expressly distances himself from the content of all linked/connected sites that were changed after the links were set. This statement applies to all links and references within his own website as well as externally authored entries in guestbooks, discussion forums and mailing lists set-up by the author. The provider of the page to which reference is made is solely and entirely responsible for any illegal, deficient or incomplete content and especially for damages that arise from the use or non-use of such information as is offered, and not the party who merely refers to such publications via links. - Copyright and Trademark Right
The author strives in all publications to respect the copyrights on the graphics, sound recordings, video sequences and texts used and to make use of graphics, sound recordings, video sequences and texts that he generated or to use public domain graphics, sound recordings, video sequences and texts. All trademarks and brand identifiers mentioned or referred to within the website and possible protected third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and ownership rights of the registered owner. The mere fact that it is mentioned does not imply that the trademark is not protected by third-party rights!
The author of these pages holds the copyright on any objects that are published and were created by the author himself. Any reproduction or use of such graphics, sound recordings, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications without the expressed consent of the author is prohibited. - Legal Enforceability of this Liability Exclusion
This liability exclusion is to be regarded as part of the online content which was referred to on this page. To the extent that parts or individual formulations of this text do not conform to applicable legal situation, no longer conform to it or no longer filly conform to it, the remaining parts of the document are not impacted in either their content or their validity. - Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “Cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and which make it possible to analyse your use of the website. The information generated about your use will as a rule be transferred to a server owned by Google in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP-address will first be abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union and other contract states to the agreement on the European Economic Region. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP-address be sent to a server owned by Google in the USA and abbreviated there. Google will use this information on commission for the operator of this website in order to evaluate your use of the website, to generate reports about website activities and to perform other services associated with the use of the website and the internet for the website operator. The IP-address identified by Google Analytics from your browser in this context will not be combined with other data by Google. You can prevent Cookies from being stored with the matching setting in your browser software; however, we must notify you that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in their full scope. You can also prevent the recording of the data generated by the Cookie and referring to your use of the website (incl. your IP-address), its being sent to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and installing it: (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de)
You can find more detailed information about the terms of use and data protection at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
We remind you that on this website Google Analytics was expanded by the code „gat._anonymizeIp();“ in order to assure anonymous recording of IP-addresses (so-called IP-masking).
- Your Rights and Contact Information
You have the right to free disclosure of the data stored about you as well as a right to the correction, blocking or deletion of this data in the framework of the provisions of law. If you have other questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact us. The same applies for disclosures, blocking, deletion and correction requests with respect to your personal data as well as for any consents that you have given in the past. Please contact the Data Protection Officer named in the publisher’s information here.