Privacy Policy

I) General Information

We understand how important it is to make sure your privacy is protected while you use our website. We take the task of protecting your personal data very seriously. We therefore wanted to let you know when we save your data, which data we save and how we use it. This Privacy Policy also outlines the measures we use to protect your privacy.

 

II) Data Controller

GEHOLIT + WIEMER
Lack- und Kunststoff-Chemie GmbH

Sofienstraße 36
76676 Graben-Neudorf

Phone +49 7255 99 0
Fax +49 7255 99 199
E-mail info@geholit-wiemer.de

CEO: Dr. Frank Bayer, Dr. Hugo Brussaard 

You can contact the Data Protection Officer under the address listed above (addressed to the “Datenschutzbeauftragten”) or by e-mail to Datenschutz@geholit-wiemer.de.

 

III) Your Rights

When it comes to your personal data, you are entitled to the following:

• Right to access
• Right to rectification or erasure
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to object to processing
• Right to data portability

You are also entitled to submit complaints regarding our processing of your personal data to a data protection supervisory authority.

In the German state of Baden-Württemberg, this role is filled by the Baden-Württemberg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information at Königstrasse 10a, 70173 Stuttgart, P.O. Box 10 29 32, 70025 Stuttgart, phone: +49 711 615541-0, fax: +49 711 615541-15, e-mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de

If you wish to assert any of your rights related to personal data, simply send an e-mail to:

Datenschutz@geholit-wiemer.de

You may be required to verify your identity.

 

IV) Collection and Storage of Personal Data and the Form and Purpose of its Usage

1. When visiting the website

a. When you open our website on a device, the browser you are using will automatically send information to the website’s servers. This information is stored temporarily in something known as a log file. The following information is stored without you doing anything and is then deleted automatically, normally after one week:

• IP address
• Date and time of access
• Difference in time zone to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of query (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP-status code
• Amount of data transferred
• Directing website
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software

b. We process the specified data for the following purposes:

• To ensure that no problems occur when establishing a connection to the website
• To make sure our website is clear and simple for users
• To analyse the security and stability of our systems
• To investigate any misuse of access to our website (DoS/DDoS attacks etc.)
• To complete any other administrative tasks

c. The legal basis for these data processing activities is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 point f of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our legitimate interest is based on the aforementioned reasons for collecting your data. In general, we do not use the data collected to draw conclusions about you as a person. However, we reserve the right to do so should we need to clarify any misuse of access to our website.

2. When contacting us

a. If you have questions of any kind, we offer you the option of contacting us over the phone or by e-mail. If you have questions of any kind, we also offer you the option of contacting us using a contact form provided on our website. When using this form, you are required to enter a valid e-mail address so that we can find out who sent the enquiry and send a response to the right person.

b. Any other information in the message itself goes beyond what is actually required. When you enter this data and send it off, an encrypted e-mail is automatically generated and sent to us directly at info@geholit-wiemer.de, without being stored temporarily. Nevertheless, confidential data should not be sent using this channel.

c. Data processing activities for the purpose of contacting us are based on Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 point a GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent. For (pre-)contractual queries (e.g. related to future membership), these activities are based on Art. 6 (1) point b GDPR. The data that we collect and process when you contact us is deleted once your query has been dealt with or upon expiry of any statutory retention periods.
 

3. Newsletter

a. After submitting your consent, you are able to subscribe to our newsletter, which provides you with information about our latest interesting offers. The products and services advertised are listed in the declaration of consent.

b. The subscription process for our newsletter uses something known as the double opt-in process. This involves the following steps: When you register, we send an e-mail to the e-mail address you gave us. In this e-mail, we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you fail to confirm your registration within 72 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. We will also store the IP address you used and the times at which you first registered and then confirmed your registration. The purpose of this process is to verify your registration and to enable us to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.

c. The only information required to send the newsletter is your e-mail address. [Any other information provided in the specially marked fields is voluntary and is used so that we can address you in person.]

d. Following your confirmation, we save your e-mail address for the purpose of sending you our newsletter. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 point a GDPR.

e. You are able to withdraw your consent to receiving the newsletter at any time and thus unsubscribe from the newsletter. To withdraw your consent, simply click on the link provided in every e-mail newsletter, use this form on our website, send an email to Newsletter@geholit-wiemer.deor send a message to the contact details provided on the “Impressum” page on our website (legal notice page, only available in German).
 

4. Cookies

In several places our websites use  so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser. They can have various different functions. Cookies allow the user to use the Internet more conveniently. By setting this, the Internet gets a kind of memory - in such a way the website remembers that a user has already accessed it before and makes a new login unnecessary for an encrypted page. Cookies allow to determine a complex usage and browsing behavior. They can store usage behavior information and submit it to the user. As a result, the use of cookies enables a profile formation that must be viewed critically under data protection law.

Cookies are mainly used in the field of online marketing, for example to promote personalized advertising. The keyword "targeting" is the group of activities that are intended to enable the target group-oriented promotion of advertisements on websites. A continuation of this advertising strategy is the so-called retargeting, in which a provider/advertiser marks the customer during his visit at the company's own homepage by using  a tracking cookie and tracks him during his foray through the Internet. On third-party sites, it can then regularly be promoted its own advertising as a banner to remind to the own products and services.

We reserve the right to use the so-called targeting on our site. There are two ways to prevent this:

You prevent the storage of cookies in your browser. The procedure varies depending on the browser. In this case, your settings apply to each page you visit.

You inform us about your wish that explicitly our websites may not store cookies from you. We are happy to comply with this request. To do this, use the opposition banner for the cookies.

Most of the cookies we use are so- called session cookies. They will be deleted automatically after the end of your visit. Please refer to any special information about a cookie at explicit places of use elsewhere in this privacy policy or from dialog/banner messages (e.g. cookie notice when using Google products by banners).

 The legal basis for the use of cookies is your agreement. The basis for this is the EU cookie directive (opt-in) and § 15 (3) TMG (opt-out).

THE FOLLOWING COOKIES ARE USED:

Matomo

Matomo is a web analytics tool that collects and evaluates data regarding the behaviour of visitors at websites. Based on these findings, we can further improve our website. We operate Matomo ourselves on our server. No data will be transferred to third parties.