Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Website www.schulz-fördertechnik.de

 

1. Data protection objectives

We strive to build long-term relationships with our employees and maintain a consistently high level of customer satisfaction. In doing so, we focus in particular on shaping individual relationships with our customers and align all other goals of our company accordingly. An important part of these relationships is based on trust. We are therefore fully committed to protecting privacy and the right to data protection. Our goal is to offer employees, customers, and visitors a secure, risk-free service.

To ensure that personal data is only processed in accordance with the legal requirements, we align our processes and technical design with the General Data Protection Regulation, the Federal Data Protection Act, and other relevant laws. In particular, no more personal data should be collected than is necessary for the respective purpose, and it should be easy for data subjects to exercise their rights.

The following statement concerns data processing within the scope of our website. Even though we have taken organizational and technical measures to ensure the most consistent protection of our website, the occurrence of a security breach in electronic communication channels cannot be completely ruled out. For this reason, visitors to the website are free to obtain information about us or send us information by other means.

2. Terminology

Personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as “data subject”). A natural person is considered identifiable if they can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by association with an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more special characteristics that express the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

Processing

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, distribution, or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.

Pseudonymization

Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data is not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Controller or person responsible for processing

The controller or data controller is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

Processor

A processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

Recipient

Recipient means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body to which personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients.

Third

A third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor, and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.

Consent

Consent is any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Health data

“Health data” means personal data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, and which reveal information about their health status.

3. General information

Responsible party

The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation is:

Schulz Fördertechnik GmbH

Industriestr. 34

D-66914 Waldmohr

Tel.: +49 (0) 63 73 / 81 37 - 0

Fax.: +49 (0) 63 73 / 81 37 – 20

Data Protection Officer

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at:

datenschutzbeauftragter@schulz-foerdertechnik.de

Telefon: 06841 9816 0

Telefax: 06841 9816 29

Our data protection officer will help you quickly and easily with any questions you may have or with asserting your rights as a data subject.

Type and scope of the data processed

In principle, usage data (e.g., websites visited, access times) and communication data (e.g., browser information, IP addresses) are processed.

Browser and server data

Please note that your browser transmits information to us when you use the website. The purpose of this transmission is to enable you to visit the website from a technical point of view. The data is required to process the information request. The type of information transmitted also depends on your settings and technical specifications. When you access our website, the following data may therefore be collected:

  • IP address
  • Time of access
  • Page accessed or name of the file accessed (URL)
  • Status information (e.g., error codes)
  • Amount of data transferred
  • Browser information (web browser used, operating system, language settings, etc.)

The data is used for statistical and security-related purposes. It is not passed on to third parties. This website does not use any techniques that aim to evaluate the access behavior of individual users. Personal usage profiles are not created. The data is stored for a maximum of 7 days for the specified purposes.

Cookies

When using this website, cookies are stored on your computer. The legal basis for their use is Section 15 (1) TMG and Section 15 (3) TMG in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive by the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookies. Cookies are a technical means of ensuring the functionality of the website and improving the user experience. For example, they are used to store information across multiple pages. We use cookies for the following purposes: 

  • Storage of user settings.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Transient cookies (temporary use)
  • Persistent cookies (time-limited use).

The latter may be used by third-party providers. The cookies serve our interest in the ease of use and improvement of our website.

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. The deletion periods correspond to the specifications of the respective third-party provider.

You can delete cookies at any time in your browser's security settings. You can also set your browser to reject certain or all cookies. However, we would like to point out that in this case the functionality of the website may be limited. We store the information related to cookies separately from other data that may be provided to us. This data is expressly not linked to your other data.

Categories of data subjects

Visitors to the website are affected by data processing by our website.

Purpose of processing
  • Provision of an online presence
  • Interaction options for users
  • Security measures
Storage period

The criterion for the duration of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period and the purpose of processing. After expiry of the period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer necessary for the purpose of processing.

The specific storage periods are specified within this declaration for each individual data processing operation.

Legal basis

Several legal bases under the GDPR may apply: First, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR serves as the basis for processing operations for which your consent is obtained for the processing operation. For such processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, for example in cases of inquiries about our services, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. In the case of the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR. In the case of this website, the processing of data is primarily based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. This basis for permission applies if the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of the controller or a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms of the data subject do not prevail.

The specific interests are indicated at the point of processing.

Technical security measures

We maintain up-to-date technical and organizational measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data from risks during data transmission and from access by third parties. These are adapted to the current state of the art.

4. Third-party service providers

If we involve third parties in the processing, this is done exclusively on the basis of a legal permission standard and in compliance with legal provisions. This permission standard may consist of your consent, a legal obligation, or our legitimate interests.

Hosting

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, software tools, computing capacity, storage space, and maintenance services that we need for the purpose of operating this online offering.

The hosting provider processes the usage data on the basis of our legitimate interest in the effective and secure provision of this online service in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

The usage data includes the data described under “Type and scope of the data processed.” This data is deleted after seven days.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to third-party websites. This privacy policy applies only to the content of our website and does not cover third-party websites linked to this site. We have no influence on the legality of the content of these sites or their handling of personal data. If you have any questions about the content or data protection of such third-party providers, please contact the respective provider.

Plugins

Google Maps

We integrate online maps and the navigation service “Google Maps” from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA94043, USA. The privacy policy for this service is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy. A control option for the processing of your data by the provider is offered at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. This service serves to improve and clarify the presentation of our location and to make it easier for our visitors to reach us. It cannot be ruled out that data may also be transferred to other Google servers. Google LLC guarantees and offers sufficient assurances that it complies with European data protection law.

Google Fonts

We integrate fonts (“Google Fonts”) from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA94043, USA. The privacy policy for this service is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy. A control option for the processing of your data by the provider is offered at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. This service serves to improve the visual design of the website. It cannot be ruled out that data may also be transferred to other Google servers. Google LLC guarantees and offers sufficient assurances that it complies with European data protection law.

Google Apis

We use Google APIs from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA94043, USA. The service's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy. A control option for the processing of your data by the provider is offered at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. This makes our website more resistant to bottlenecks in the available bandwidth and enables our visitors to connect to our website quickly and reliably. When you visit a page, your browser loads the necessary files (especially web fonts) via the Content Delivery Network (CDN) to your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. This service enables the operator to know that our website has been accessed using your IP address. The CDN is used in the interest of a uniform and appealing website design and a fast and reliable connection to our website. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. a), f) GDPR. It cannot be ruled out that data may also be transferred to other servers. Google LLC guarantees and provides sufficient assurances that it complies with European data protection law.

Gstatic

We use a web service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA94043, USA. The privacy policy for this service is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can control how your data is processed by the provider at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (a), (f) GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in the error-free functioning of the website and in the continuous improvement and optimization as well as the economically sensible operation of our website. The use serves solely the purpose that coincides with our interests. Further information on the handling of the transferred data can be found in Google's privacy policy mentioned above. You can control how your data is processed by the provider at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. During processing, it cannot be ruled out that data may also be transferred to other servers. Google LLC guarantees and offers sufficient guarantees to comply with European data protection law.

CookieFirst

This website uses a cookie consent banner with technology from Digital Data Solutions B.V., Plantage Middenln 42a, 1018 DH Amsterdam, Netherlands (hereinafter: CookieFirst) to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. By integrating a corresponding JavaScript code, users are shown a banner when they visit the site, in which they can grant consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking the corresponding boxes. The banner blocks the setting of all cookies requiring consent until the respective user grants the corresponding consent by checking the boxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user's device if consent has been given. In order for the cookie consent banner to clearly assign page views to individual users and to individually record, log, and store the consent settings made by the user for the duration of a session, certain user information (including the IP address) is collected by the cookie consent banner when our website is accessed, transmitted to CookieFirst servers, and stored there. This data processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and, consequently, in the legally compliant design of our website. A further legal basis for the data processing described is Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR. As the responsible party, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with CookieFirst, if necessary, in which we oblige CookieFirst to protect the data of visitors to our website and not to pass it on to third parties. Further information on data use by CookieFirst can be found in the CookieFirst privacy policy at https://cookiefirst.com/legal/privacy-policy/. Further information on CookieFirst can be found here: https://cookiefirst.com/legal/cookie-declaration/ and https://cookiefirst.com/legal/data-processing-agreement/.

5. Contact form


You can use the contact form to send a message to our specialist departments. It is primarily intended for interested parties to contact us about our products and services. Please note that your message cannot initially be assigned to a specific recipient, but will be distributed by the designated department to the relevant contact persons within our company. If you wish to send your inquiry directly to a specific contact person without other contact persons at our company being notified, please send your inquiry by telephone or post, specifying the specific contact person.

The only mandatory information required to send the contact form is your email address. The provision of further, unmarked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. If you do not wish to provide your name, you may also use a pseudonym.

We delete requests if they are no longer required and there is no further legal obligation to retain them. We regularly review the necessity of retaining data, and the legal archiving obligations that may arise in particular from tax law or commercial law also apply.

6. Rights of data subjects
 

You have the right to obtain information about your data stored by us at any time, free of charge and without giving reasons, as well as about the origin, recipient or categories of recipients to whom this data is passed on and the purpose of storage. You can correct or delete your data collected by us at any time, restrict its processing, or exercise your right to data portability. Furthermore, you have the right to object.

Correction, deletion, or restriction of processing: You have the right to request that Minitec immediately correct any inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

Right to object: Insofar as the processing of personal data concerning you is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of this data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. We will then no longer process this personal data unless Minitec can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Right of withdrawal: If the processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until withdrawal. To do so, you can contact us or our data protection officer at any time using the above contact details.

Right to erasure: You have the right to request that Minitec erase personal data concerning you without undue delay, and Minitec is obliged to erase personal data without undue delay if one of the following reasons applies:

  • The personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
  • You object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing.
  • The erasure of the personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which we are subject. This does not apply if the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that requires processing under Union or Member State law to which we are subject.

Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request that Minitec restrict processing if one of the following conditions applies:

  • The accuracy of the personal data is contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
  • The processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead.
  • Minitec no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you need it to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims, or you have objected to the processing, as long as it is not yet clear whether our legitimate reasons outweigh yours.
  • If processing has been restricted, such personal data may, with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

If you have obtained a restriction on processing, we will inform you before the restriction is lifted.

Right to lodge a complaint: Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR. You can also contact Minitec's data protection officer. You can reach them at:

datenschutz@schulzfoerdertechnik.de

Phone: 06841 9816 0

Fax: 06841 9816 29

We are always happy to answer any further questions you may have about our information, data protection, and the processing of your personal data. Further information on data protection in the Federal Republic of Germany can also be found at www.bfd.bund.de.