Privacy - K + G Tectronic GmbH

General notes

Thank you for your interest in our website, our company and our products and services. We are aware that the protection of your privacy when using our websites is an important concern for you. Therefore, it goes without saying that we comply with the legal regulations on data protection. Furthermore, it is important to us that you, as a visitor to our website, know at all times when and how we collect and store which of your data and how we use it. The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified.

1. Name and address of the responsible party

The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations is:

K + G Tectronic GmbH
In der Krause 48
52249 Eschweiler, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 24 03 / 99 50 – 0
E-mail: info@kg-tectronic.de

2. Contact details of the data protection officer

The data protection officer of the responsible party can be reached via

K + G Tectronic GmbH
Data Protection Officer
In der Krause 48
52249 Eschweiler, Germany

Phone: P.: +49 (0) 24 03 / 99 50 0
E-mail: datenschutz@kg-tectronic.de

3. General notes on data processing
a. What is personal data?

Personal data is any information relating to the personal and material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person (cf. Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR). This includes, for example, the name and (e-mail) address of a person, but also their IP address and all other information that “belongs” to the person or that allows a conclusion to be drawn about the identity of the person.

b. Scope of the processing of personal data

As a matter of principle, we only process personal data of our users insofar as this is necessary for the provision of a functional website as well as our contents and services. The processing only takes place within the scope of the legal permissions. This includes, in particular, your consent and the need to process your data in order to fulfil a contractual obligation towards you. Processing without your consent takes place if this is required by legal regulations. This applies, for example, to the storage of data due to existing tax retention obligations.

c. Legal basis for the processing of personal data

The permissibility of the processing results from Art. 6 GDPR and in detail as follows:

With consent: Art. 6 No. 1 lit. a GDPR
When processing for the preparation or performance of a contract to which you are a party: Art. 6 No. 1 lit. b GDPR
When processing for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject: Art. 6 No. 1 lit. c GDPR
Where vital interests of yourself or another natural person require personal data to be processed: Art. 6 No. 1 lit. d GDPR
Safeguarding a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and our interest outweighs your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms:

Art. 6 No. 1 lit. f GDPR

d. Data deletion and storage period

The personal data of the subject shall be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of the storage ceases to apply. Further storage may also take place if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the person responsible is subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a necessity for the continued storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract.

4. Provision of the website and creation of log files
a. Description and scope of data processing

When using our website, information is automatically stored in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

browser type and browser version
operating system in use
referrer URL
host name of the accessing computer
time of the server request
IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. The collected data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

The processing is based on Art. 6 No. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of our website – for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

The data is stored in the log files of our system. IP addresses are only stored in a pseudonymised form. This is done by storing the IP addresses in the log files as a standard by replacing the last three digits, which are selected at random. It is no longer possible to establish a personal reference.

Insofar as we also use personal data when you visit our site, this is done using cookies and analysis tools. Information on this can be found in section 7 and in our cookie consent solution.

b. Legal basis for the processing

The legal basis for the temporary storage of the data and the log files is Art. 6 No. 1 lit. f GDPR.

c. Purpose of the data processing

The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable delivery of the website to the user’s computer. For this purpose, the user’s IP address must remain stored for the duration of the session.

Log files are stored to ensure the functionality of the website and the technical administration of the network infrastructure. In addition, we use the data to optimise the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. We also use the data to create and evaluate internal statistics. An evaluation of the data for marketing purposes does not take place in this context.

These purposes are also our legitimate interest in data processing according to Art. 6 No. 1 lit. f GDPR.

d. Duration of storage

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended. Something else only applies if there are statutory retention obligations.

5. Telephone and e-mail contacta.
a. Description, scope and purpose of data processing

You can contact us by entering a callback number, if necessary also an e-mail address. In this case, the data you have provided will be stored.

It is stored for the purpose of contacting you. This regularly involves information about our company, in particular about our products and services. The data will not be passed on to third parties.

b. Legal basis for the processing

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 No. 1 lit. a GDPR. If the e-mail contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 No. 1 lit. b GDPR.

c. Duration of storage

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. For personal data sent by e-mail, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is ended when the circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified.

d. Possibility of objection and removal

The user has the possibility to object to the processing of personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued. The objection can be declared to us informally by e-mail. In this case, all personal data stored in the course of contacting us will be deleted.

6. Registration on this website

You can register on our website to use additional features on the site. We use the data entered for this purpose only for the respective offer or service for which you have registered.

For important changes, for example in the scope of the offer or in the case of technically necessary changes, we use the e-mail address provided during registration to inform you in this way.

The processing of the data entered during registration is based on your consent (Art. 6 No. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke any consent you have given at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal message by e-mail. The legality of the data processing already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data collected during registration will be stored by us for as long as you are registered on our website and will then be deleted. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

7. Cookies & analytics tools

7.1 Google Analytics

On our website we use the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics allows us to analyse the behaviour of website visitors. In doing so, we receive various usage data, such as page views, length of stay, operating systems used and the origin of the user. This data is assigned to the respective end device of the user. There is no assignment to a user ID.

Google Analytics also allows to record your mouse movements, scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Google Analytics uses modelling approaches in this context to supplement the data records collected. Machine learning technologies are used for data analysis.

Google Analytics uses technologies that enable the recognition of the user for the purpose of analysing user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google about the use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6 No. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 section 1 TTDSG (Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act). The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found on Google’s regularly updated page at: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

IP anonymisation

We have activated the IP anonymisation function on this website. This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states subject to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser plugin

You can prevent the collection and processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

You can find more information on how Google Analytics handles user data in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order processing

We have concluded an order processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

7.2 Google Ads

Google Ads is used on our website. Google Ads is an online advertising programme of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Ads enables us to play advertisements in the Google search engine or on third-party websites when you enter certain search terms on Google (so-called keyword targeting). Furthermore, targeted advertisements can be displayed on the basis of the user data available at Google (e.g. location data and interests) (target group targeting). As website operators, we can evaluate this data quantitatively by analysing, for example, which search terms led to the display of our advertisements and how many advertisements led to corresponding clicks.

The use of this service is only based on your consent according to Art. 6 No. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 No. 1 TTDSG (Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act). The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. You can find details here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

Google Ads Remarketing

Within the scope of Google Ads, we also use the so-called remarketing function (Google Ads Remarketing). The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

With Google Ads Remarketing, we can assign people who interact with our online offering to specific target groups in order to subsequently display interest-based advertising to them in the Google advertising network (remarketing or retargeting).

Furthermore, the advertising target groups created with Google Ads Remarketing can be linked with Google’s cross-device functions. In this way, interest-based, personalised advertising messages that have been adapted to you on one end device (e.g. mobile phone) depending on your previous usage and surfing behaviour can also be displayed on another of your end devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have a Google account, you can object to personalised advertising using the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

Further information and the data protection provisions can be found in Google’s data protection declaration at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de.

Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Conversion Tracking allows Google and us to see whether the user has taken certain actions. For example, we can evaluate which buttons on our website were clicked how often and which products were viewed or purchased particularly frequently. This information is used to create conversion statistics. We learn the total number of users who have clicked on our ads and what actions they have taken. We do not receive any information with which we can personally identify the user. Google itself uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies for identification purposes.

Further information on Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google’s data protection provisions: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

8. Your rights
a. Right to access

You can ask us to confirm whether personal data relating to you is being processed by us.

If there is such processing, you can request information from us about the following:

the purposes for which the personal data is processed;
the categories of personal data which is processed;
the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been or will be disclosed;
the planned duration of the storage of the personal data relating to you or, if concrete information on this is not possible, criteria for determining the storage duration;
the existence of a right to rectify or erase personal data concerning you, a right to have processing restricted by the responsible party or a right to object to such processing;
the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
any available information on the origin of the data if the personal data is not collected from the data subject;
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, according to Article 22 No. 1 and 4 GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

You have the right to request information on whether personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. In this context, you may request to be informed about the appropriate safeguards according to Art. 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer.

b. Right to rectification

You have the right to rectification and/or completion if the personal data processed concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete. The responsible party shall carry out the rectification without delay.

c. Right to deletion
I. Obligation to delete

You can demand that we delete the personal data relating to you without delay. We will comply immediately if one of the following reasons applies:

The personal data concerning you are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
You revoke your consent on which the processing was based according to Art. 9 No. 1 lit. a or Art. 9 No. 2 lit. a GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
You object to the processing according to Art. 21 No. 1 GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 No. 2 GDPR.
The personal data concerning you has been processed unlawfully.
The deletion of the personal data concerning you is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under EU or member state law to which the responsible party is subject.
The personal data concerning you was collected in relation to information society services according to Art. 8 No. 1 GDPR.

II. Information to third parties

If we have made the personal data concerning you public and we are obliged to erase it pursuant to Article 17 No. 1 GDPR, we shall, taking into account the available technology and the costs of implementation, take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform responsible parties which process the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested that they erase all links to or copies or replications of such personal data.

III. Exceptions

The right to deletion does not exist as long as the processing is necessary

to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under EU or member state law to which the responsible party is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the responsible party;
for reasons of public interest in the area of public health according to Art. 9 No. 2 lit. h and i as well as Art. 9 No. 3 GDPR;
for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 No. 1 GDPR, where the right referred to in section a) is likely to render impossible or seriously prejudice the achievement of the purposes of such processing, or
for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

d. Right to restriction of processing

You may request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you under the following conditions:

if you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period enabling the responsible party to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
if the processing is unlawful and you refuse the erasure of the personal data and instead request the restriction of the use of the personal data;
if the responsible party no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
if you have objected to the processing according to Art. 21 No. 1 GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate grounds of the responsible party outweigh your grounds.

Where the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, those data may be processed, with the exception of their storage, only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of substantial public interest of the EU or of a member state.

If the processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by the responsible party before the restriction is lifted.

e. Right to information

If you have asserted the right to rectification, deletion or restriction of processing against the responsible party, the responsible party is obliged to communicate this rectification or deletion of the data or restriction of processing to all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.

You have the right to be informed of these recipients by the responsible party.

f. Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to the responsible party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another responsible party without hindrance from the responsible party to whom the personal data was provided, provided that

the processing is based on a consent according to Art. 6 No. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 No. 2 lit. a GDPR or on a contract according to Art. 6 No. 1 lit. b GDPR and
the processing is done with automated processes.

In exercising this right, you also have the right to obtain that the personal data concerning you be transferred directly from one responsible party to another, where this is technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other persons must not be affected by this.

The right to data portability shall not apply to processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the responsible party.

g. Right to objection

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6 No. 1 lit. e or f DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

The responsible party shall no longer process the personal data concerning you unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for these purposes.

You have the possibility, in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to exercise your right to objection by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.

h. Right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law

You have the right to revoke your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

i. Automated decision in individual cases including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision
is necessary for the completion or performance of a contract between you and the responsible party,
is authorised by legislation of the EU or the member states to which the responsible party is subject and if legislation contains adequate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests, or
is made with your express consent.

However, these decisions must not be based on special categories of personal data according to Art. 9 No. 1 GDPR, unless Art. 9 No. 2 lit. a or g GDPR applies and appropriate measures have been taken to protect the rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests.

With regard to the cases referred to in (I) and (III), the responsible party shall take reasonable steps to safeguard the rights and freedoms, and your legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person on the part of the responsible party, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.

j. Right to complain to a supervisory authority

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 residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR.

The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Art. 78 GDPR.

9. Data security

We make every effort to store your personal data in such a way that it is not accessible to third parties by taking all technical and organisational measures. When communicating by e-mail, we cannot guarantee complete data security, so we recommend that you send confidential information by post.

This site uses TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

10. Updating the privacy policy

Insofar as we introduce new products or services, change Internet procedures or if Internet and EDP security technology develops further, the “privacy policy” is to be updated. We therefore reserve the right to amend or supplement the policy as required. We will publish the change here. You should therefore visit this website regularly to check the current status of the privacy policy.

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