Privacy Policy and Consent
Table of contents
1. Purpose and responsible controller
2. Basic principles of data processing
3. Processing of personal data
4. Collection of access data
5. Cookies & reach measurement
6. Links to third-party services and content
7. User rights and erasure
8. Changes to the privacy policy
9. Information, erasure, blocking
10. Objection to advertising emails
1. Purpose and responsible controller
This privacy policy provides information on the nature,
extent and purpose of personal data processing
(incl. collection, processing and use as well as obtaining consent) within our online offering and associated websites, functions and contents (in the following referred to jointly as “online offering” or “website”). The privacy policy applies irrespective of the domains, systems, platforms and terminal devices (e.g. desktop or mobile phone) you use and on which the online offering is provided.
The provider of the online offering and the entity responsible for data protection is VETEC GmbH Verbindungstechnologie für Versorgungssysteme, owners: Luciano Sgarra, Patrick Mainhart, Taubenstrasse 5, 42857 Remscheid (in the following referred to as “offering party”, “we” or “us”). To find our contact details,
see our Legal Notes
The term “user” covers all customers and visitors to our online offering. The terms we use, e.g. “user”,
are gender-neutral.
2. Basic principles of data processing
We only process personal user data in compliance with the relevant data protection regulations and observing the principles of data economy and data avoidance. This means we only process user data as permitted by law. This is in particular when the data is necessary for providing our contractual services, when it is legally required or when you have given your consent.
We take organisational, contractual and technical safety measures in accordance with the current state of technology to ensure that the provisions of current data protection laws are observed and to protect the data that we have processed against random or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorised persons.
If, within the context of this privacy policy, contents,
tools or other means of other offering parties (in the following referred to jointly as “third-party suppliers”) are used, and their domicile is abroad, it can be assumed that data is transferred to the country of domicile of the third-party supplier. The transfer of data to third countries takes place either on the basis of a statutory authorisation, permission by the user or special contractual provisions that ensure legally required security of the data.
3. Processing of personal data
We process personal data, apart from the purposes expressly stated in this privacy policy, for the following purposes based on statutory permission or consent by users:
– The provision, execution, updating, optimisation and securing of our services and user services;
– To ensure effective customer services and technical support.
We only pass on user data to third parties if this is necessary for payment purposes (e.g. transfer to a payment service provider) or for other purposes if this is necessary in order to meet our contractual obligations to users
(e.g. passing on address data to delivery service providers).
When users contact us (by contact form or email),
their details are stored in order to deal with their query and in case of follow-up queries.
Personal data is deleted as soon as it has served its purpose and no retention obligations prohibit this.
4. Collection of access data
We collect data on every access to the servers that host our service (server logfiles). Included in this access data are the name of the website accessed, the file, date and time of the access, the data volume transferred, information on successful access, browser type and version, user’s operating system, referrer URL (previously visited website),
IP address and the accessing provider.
We use log data without personal allocation of the user or other profiling according to statutory regulations and only for statistical analyses. This enables us to operate,
preserve the security of and optimise our online offering. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check log data if there are concrete indications that raise justified suspicions of illegal use.
5. Cookies & reach measurement
Cookies consist of information that our webserver or third parties’ webservers transfer to the user’s web browser,
where it is stored for later retrieval. This privacy policy informs users about the use of cookies in pseudonymised reach measurement.
It is also possible to view our online offering without cookies. If users do not want cookies to be saved on their computer, they should disable the corresponding option in the system settings of their browser. Cookies that have been saved can be deleted in the system settings of the browser.
If you do not accept cookies, this may restrict the functions of this online service.
You can administer many online ad cookies from companies using the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/.
6. Links to third-party services and content
Within our online offering, content or services from third-party suppliers may be included, e.g. street maps or fonts from other websites. Links to third-party-supplier content always requires that the third-party supplier detects the user’s IP address. This is because it is not possible to send the content to the user’s browser without the IP address. Therefore, the IP address is necessary for presentation of this content. Furthermore, linked third-party suppliers may set their own cookies and process the user data for their own purposes. User profiles can be compiled from the processed data. We use these contents applying as much data economy and data avoidance as possible, and select third-party suppliers who provide reliable data security.
Here is an overview of third-party suppliers and their contents alongside links to their privacy policies,
which give further details on data processing as well as
opt-out options, some of which we have already mentioned here:
– External fonts from Google, Inc., https://www.google.com/fonts (“Google Fonts”). Google Fonts are used via access to the Google server (usually in the USA). Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/,
opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/.
– Maps from “Google Maps” are supplied by the third-party supplier Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/,
opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/.
– “YouTube” videos from the third-party supplier Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/,
opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/.
7. User rights and erasure
Users have the right to obtain details of the personal data relating to them that we have stored free of charge and on request.
Furthermore, users have the right to rectification of incorrect data, retraction of consent, blocking and erasure of their personal data as well as the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority if they suspect illegal data processing.
We delete the data we have saved as soon as it has served its purpose and no retention obligations prohibit this.
8. Changes to the privacy policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy in order to adapt it to a changed legal situation or different services or data processing. However, this only applies with regard to policy statements regarding data processing. If consent from the user is required or parts of the privacy policy affect the terms of the contractual relationship with users,
the changes are only made with the consent of the users.
Users are requested to regularly check the contents of the privacy policy.
9. Information, erasure, blocking
You have the right, at all times, to complimentary information about your saved personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to rectification, blocking or erasure of the data in question. Any queries you may have in this regard, or on the topic of personal data, can be directed to us at any time by using the address provided in the “Legal Notice” section.
10. Objection to advertising emails
We hereby reject the use of the contact data published in our statutory legal notice for the transmission of advertising and information material that has not been expressly requested. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event that unsolicited promotional material is sent to us, for example via spam emails.
As of: 13:59, 20 July 2018
