Privacy policy

Company: Wehrspohn GmbH & Co. KGAddress: Otterstadter Straße 50, D-68219 MannheimPhone: +49 621 14626754Email: info@wehrspohn.de

We regard it as our foremost duty to preserve the confidentiality of the personal data you provide and to protect it against unauthorized access. We therefore apply the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data.

We operate this website in accordance with the GDPR and other applicable legal provisions on the protection of personal data.

When you access our website, information is automatically transmitted to the server of our website. This data is temporarily stored in what are known as log files. It is retained until it is automatically deleted. This data comprises:

• IP address of the requesting computer
• Date and time of access,
• Name and URL of the file retrieved,
• Website from which access was made (referrer URL)
• Browser used and, where applicable, operating system.

The data is used for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection setup,
• Ensuring convenient use of the website,
• Evaluating system security and stability.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The logged data is deleted promptly.

In individual cases, we collect personal data such as name, address, telephone number or email address only where you voluntarily provide this data to us (for example, through contact inquiries) and we are entitled or obliged to process, store and use it on the basis of the consent given or on the basis of a statutory provision, or where the data is required to carry out the contractual relationship and there is no reason to assume that there is an overriding legitimate interest in the data not being disclosed (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a, b, c, f GDPR).

We use the data provided to us only for the purpose for which it was provided, namely to respond to your inquiry, to provide informational materials, to supply further information, and to process orders. Data processing takes place pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Data you provide to us in the course of an inquiry is deleted once the inquiry has been dealt with and any statutory retention obligations have expired. Data is not passed on to third parties unless you have consented to such disclosure or we are legally authorized to do so. Third parties may, for example, include our service providers.

These third parties may be located in countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area (third countries) where the same level of data protection is not legally mandated. In such cases, we will take measures to ensure an equivalent level of protection.

We use cookies to operate the website. These are files that your browser stores on your device when you visit our website. They serve to store data about your visit, to recognize you on return visits, and for statistical recording, improvement and assurance of the operation of our website. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Temporary cookies are deleted after you leave the website. You can configure your browser settings so that it rejects cookies, accepts them only according to certain rules, or deletes them again. In this case, however, malfunctions of the website may occur.

Tracking tools are used to improve our offering and for statistical recording. Their use is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google"). For this purpose, a data processing agreement has been concluded with Google. By transmitting various data such as browser type and identifier, operating system, origin of the request, IP address and time, and by setting cookies, this service creates pseudonymized usage profiles. The data is also transferred abroad, in particular to the USA, and evaluated there by Google, and may also be passed on to third parties. You can prevent the use of the tracking software through your browser settings. You can also prevent Google from processing the data by installing a browser add-on, available at (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics help pages (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

When using the Google AdWords conversion tracking service, a cookie is set on your device if you reached this page via a Google advertisement. This serves to analyze and statistically evaluate the use of the website. The cookie is valid for 30 days. No identification of the person takes place; however, it is tracked whether the user reached the page via a Google advertisement. You can prevent this by rejecting the setting of corresponding cookies in your browser settings.

On the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f), plug-ins, links and buttons to social media websites are used for advertising and information purposes. By embedding these elements, data is transmitted to the respective social media providers when our page is accessed, potentially also to third countries. This data is stored and processed by the providers; in particular, a provider may recognize your visit to our website if you are simultaneously logged in with the social media provider. Even if you "share" or otherwise redistribute ("like") posts from our website on the social network, this is transmitted to the provider and stored by it, potentially also linked to your user profile. Social networks use this data for business purposes, marketing, advertising and other purposes, in particular also to create and build profiles about you and to provide personalized advertising. Please refer to Facebook's privacy notices (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) for the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your related rights and settings options for protecting your privacy.

To ensure data security, the content of our website is transmitted in encrypted form using the SSL method in accordance with the current state of the art. To secure the data, we and the service providers we engage, with whom corresponding contractual agreements have been made, take appropriate measures in accordance with the current state of the art, in particular to restrict access to the data.

You have the right:Pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of automated decision making including profiling and, where applicable, meaningful information about the details thereof, as well as information about the measures used, in accordance with the state of the art, to protect against alteration and loss and to ensure confidentiality.

• Pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, to request without delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data stored by us or the completion of such data;
• Pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, to request restriction of the processing of personal data if you contest the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful, if you refuse erasure and we no longer need the data but you require it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, or if you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR.
• Pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or to request that it be transmitted to another controller.
• Pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR, to withdraw any consent you have given to us at any time. As a result, we will no longer be permitted to continue the data processing based on this consent for the future, and
• Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for our firm.

This privacy policy is dated May 2018. It may be adapted at any time to reflect current legal and technical developments.