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This privacy policy describes how we process personal data when you visit our website.
1. What is personal data?
Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This may involve data that can be personally related to you, for example names, addresses, email addresses, or user behaviour.
2. Data Controller
The data controller pursuant to Article 4 no. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is G-TEKT Deutschland GmbH, Walter-Gropius-Str.23, 80807 München, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
3. What personal data do we collect?
Our website is primarily for informational use. Interested users can inform themselves about our com-pany and our products and services. The data and information we collect can be categorized as fol-lows:
Automatically collected data: When you access and use our website, we automatically collect in-formation, including personal data, about the technologies you use and information about how you use these and our website.
Log files and device information: Log files contain data that your browser automatically transmits to our web server. These log files contain information about
- your IP address;
- the date and time of the request;
- the requested URL (the specific webpage);
- the access status/HTTP status code;
- the extent of transmitted data;
- the referrer-URL;
- the browser type and the browser language settings.
Cookies: We use cookies and also allow our business partners to use these tracking technologies on our website. Cookies are small pieces of information that your browser automatically stores in your device's memory. Cookies contain a variety of data, such as information about the websites you visit, the frequency of page views and the actions you take on our website. We use cookies also for age verification. These data are pseudonymized, so that an allocation of the data to a par-ticular user is no longer possible. For more information about the cookies we use and how we use these technologies, please see our cookies policy.
Data and information provided by you: If you contact us with general questions about our company and our products or write to us in case of issues with products, we will store and process your person-al data transmitted with the inquiry. It is your free decision which information and data you provide to us. However, we reserve the right to reject inquiries which do not contain minimum information on your identity. If necessary, we will contact you and request further data and information in order to process your inquiry to your full satisfaction.
4. How do we use the data we collect from you? On what legal basis is the use based?
We use, store and process information, including personal data, on you, for the following purposes and on the following legal basis:
Provision, improvement, development and security of the websites: We use log files to make the website, including its functionalities, available to you. We also use the information and data to optimize our website and to ensure the security of our IT systems. For this purpose, your IP address must re-main stored for the duration of the session.
Cookies used by us or our partners also serve the purpose of offering you more functionalities and extensions within the website.
We use log files as well as cookies as part of our legitimate interest in the availability and continuous development as well as the presentation of our website. The legal basis for the use of the log files is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Communication: We use the data that we request from you or that you provide to us in connection with your enquiry when you contact us in order to respond to your enquiry as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The use of your data in the context of communication with you corresponds to our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. As far as it concerns a concrete inquiry to our products, in particular in case of an order, the use of your data is required for performance of the contract and/or for the per-formance of pre-contractual measures on your request in accordance with Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
5. Will the data and information on me be shared with others?
Google Maps: To display our location and to enable you to plan your route to our offices, our websites include maps provided by Google Maps. When you visit a page of our websites that contains Google Maps, Google will collect, process and use information about your use of that feature. You can find more information about Google's data processing in the Google Privacy Policy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the Data Protection Center. For detailed instructions on managing your own data related to Google products, please visit https://support.1d5920f4b44b27a802bd77c4f0536f5a-gdprlock/accounts/topic/7188671?hl=en&ref_topic=3382254.
Easyfeedback: To provide you with a survey to optimize our services and products, our website includes a form provided by easyfeedback Gmbh, Ernst-Abbe-Straße 4, 56070 Koblenz. In case you are answering the survey form easyfeedback will process the following personal data: your e-mail address, your answers, your device type (with which you participated), a session ID, a cookie, the IP address (encrypted and illegible), reference text and/or an access code. The collection of the survey data is, as a standard feature, secured by means of the SSL encryption process SHA256 (SSL 3.0 fall-back de-activated) and is available to the author only via an identically secured connection. In accordance with the data protection provisions in force your responses and data are stored in Germany in the Strato AG Data Processing Service Centre. You can find easyfeedback’s privacy notice here: https://easy-feedback.com/privacy/privacy-policy. We have concluded a Data-Processing-Agreement with easyfeedback, in which we oblige them to protect our customers’ data and not to pass them on to third parties. The use of your data in this context corresponds to our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR in corresponding surveys to optimize our services and products.
Google Analytics: This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Irland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland („Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users interact with the site. The information generated by the cookie, such as
- Browser type/version,
- operating system used,
- referrer URL,
- host name of the accessing computer,
- time of the server request etc.
are usually sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
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 pur-pose 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 trans-mitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate setting in our consent tool by clicking on "Cookie policy" at the bottom left of the window. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (tools.1d5920f4b44b27a802bd77c4f0536f5a-gdprlock/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). Please note that due to American laws such as the Cloud Act, American authorities, such as intelligence agencies, could possibly gain access to personal data that is inevitably exchanged with Google due to the Internet Protocol (TCP) when this service is used. The legal basis for the data processing associated with the use of the web analysis service is your consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Furthermore, we would like to point out that the data protection supervisory authorities assume a joint controllership pursuant to Article 26 GDPR when a web analytics service is used. We have concluded such an agreement with Google.
Google Tag Manager: This website uses Google Tag Manager, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google. The Google Tag Manager is an auxiliary service that loads other components, which in turn may collect data (see above for Google Analytics). The Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
6. How long will my data be stored?
We only store your data provided to us for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the respective purpose for which you have transmitted your data to us or to comply with legal requirements.
Log files are erased once the respective session has ended. Log files for security purposes and as a precaution against attacks on our websites are automatically erased after 7 days at the latest. The retention period of cookies varies and depends on the service used. It can range from 24 hours to 20 years.
7. What rights do I have?
In accordance with applicable data protection law, you have the right to access, rectification, portability and erasure of your personal data.
As far as we process data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you have a right of objection. How-ever, this does not apply in connection with the use of log files, which are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website.
Your right of complaint to a supervisory authority: Without prejudice to the rights described above, you have the right of complaint to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, work or suspected infringement, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is contrary to the GDPR.
The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and results of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Article 78 GDPR.
8. Contact
Please contact us in case of any questions and suggestions in terms of data protection:
G-TEKT Deutschland GmbH
Walter-Gropius-Str.23
80807 München
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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