1. Data Protection Summary General information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website.
Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information about data protection can be found in our data privacy policy stated below this text.
Data collection on this website. Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the contact details of the website operator in the “Information on the responsible party” section of this privacy policy.
How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected by you providing it to us. This can be, for example, data that you enter a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected in order to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you may revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You may contact us at any time about this and other questions about data protection.
2. Hosting
We host the contents of our website with the following provider:
Strato
The provider is Strato AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, D-10249 Berlin (hereinafter referred to as “Strato”). When you visit our website, Strato collects various log files including your IP addresses.
For further information, please refer to Strato’s privacy policy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/.
The use of Strato is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website is presented as reliably as possible. Insofar as a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG (Telecommunication and Telemedia Data Privacy Act), insofar as the consent allows the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent may be revoked at any time.
3. General information and compulsory privacy information
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps.
Gapless protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Information on the responsible party
The responsible party for data processing on this website is:
DWS GmbH Heidestraße 90
D-25462 Rellingen
Phone: +49 (0)4101-84 51 838 E-mail: info@dws-gmbh.de
The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
Storage period
Unless a more specific storage period has been specified within this data privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for processing the data does no longer apply. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke a consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the data will be deleted after these reasons have ceased to exist.
General information on the legal basis for data processing on this website
If you have given consent to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, if special categories of data are processed according to Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR. In the event of express consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you consent to the storage of cookies or to the access to information in your terminal device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), data processing is also carried out on the basis of Section 25 (1) TTDSG. The consent may be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the fulfilment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. In addition, we process your data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. The data processing may also be based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The relevant legal basis in each individual case is explained in the following paragraphs of this data privacy policy.
Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke consent already given at any time. The legality of data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
IF DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 ABS. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION AT ANY TIME; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS DATA PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU RAISE AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED, UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OVERRIDING YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA 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 ADVERTISING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING, INSOFAR AS IT IS CONNECTED WITH SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU RAISE AN OBJECTION, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).
Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority
In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to raise a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The right of appeal shall be without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
Right to data portability
You have the right to transfer data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract to yourself or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.
Information, correction and deletion
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data. For this purpose as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data you can contact us at any time.
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. In this regard, you may contact us at any time. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:
If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to check this. You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data for the duration of the check.
If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing.
If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing instead of deletion.
If you have lodged an objection in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests shall prevail, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data may – apart from being stored – only processed with your consent or for the assertion, 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 European Union or a member state.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You may recognise an encrypted connection by the address line of the browser changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
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