General data privacy statement for the ‘metallbaut-zukunft.com’ website

1.    Collection of personal data

We are delighted that you are interested in visiting the ‘www.metallbaut-zukunft.com’ website, provided by Schüco International KG (Schüco). Protecting your personal data is important to us. For this reason, this website contains information about what personal data we collect from you when you use this site, for example. Personal data is any data relating to you as an individual, e.g. your name, your address, your e-mail addresses and you user behaviour.

Our website uses SSL and TLS encryption when transferring confidential content.

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2.    Controller for data collection and processing

The controller in accordance with Article 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

Schüco International KG
Karolinenstraße 1-15
33609 Bielefeld, Germany
Germany
Tel.: 0521 783-0
E-mail: pct_branchenkampagnenoSpam@schueco.com
Website: https://www.metallbaut-zukunft.com/

The contact details of the data protection officer are as follows:

Schüco International KG
Data protection
Karolinenstraße 1-15
33609 Bielefeld, Germany
Germany

If you have any questions or suggestions about data protection, please e-mail:
datenschutz@schueco.com

3.    Your rights

3.1 You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

a)    Right of access
b)    Right of rectification
c)    Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
d)    Right to restriction of processing
e)    Right to data portability
f)    Right to object
g)    Right to withdraw consent regarding data protection rights

3.2 You also have the right to make a complaint to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

4.    Collection of personal data when visiting our website

4.1 When using the website purely for information purposes, i.e. when you do not register or transfer other information, we only collect the personal data which your browser transfers to our server. All data collection and processing is carried out for specific purposes. This may be on grounds of technical necessity, contractual requirements or your express wish. If you make use of specific services on our website, we shall obtain your consent regarding the collection and processing of the data.

When you look at our website we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to be able to show you our website and ensure stability and security. The data is also used to rectify faults on the website. The legal basis of the data processing is therefore Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR:

• IP address of the requesting end device
• Date and time of access
• Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Name and URL of the requested files
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Notification of successful access
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Search engine used
• Transferred amount of data
• Website from which the request originated
• Browser type and version
• End device operating system
• Referrer URL (source of a link)

4.2 In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you may use if you are interested and if you consent to data processing (legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

To use these services, you will need to provide additional personal data that we will then use to provide the relevant service or to contact you. The data processing principles set out in this data privacy statement apply to this personal data. If you do not provide the required information, we may not be able to provide our service.

4.3 Cookies

In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and ascribed to the browser you are using so that specific information can be sent to the party that has set the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. Their purpose is to make the website more user-friendly and efficient.

Use of cookies:
a) This website uses the following types of cookies, with the scope and function described below:

Transient/session cookies (see b)
Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser. This type of cookie includes session cookies in particular. These cookies store a session ID, which allows various requests made by your browser to be assigned to the same session. This means that your computer is recognised if you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies (e.g. those that perform the function 'stay logged in on this computer’) remain on your end device and are automatically deleted after a defined period of time, which may differ depending on the cookie.  You can delete cookies at any time via the security settings in your browser.

4.4 The legal bases for the storage and use of essential cookies and log data are Section 25(2)(2) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act (Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutzgesetz – TTDSG) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Your consent is required for the processing of optional cookies and log data. The legal bases are Section 25(1) TTDSG and Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR accordingly. You can also prevent and therefore permanently object to the use of cookies in the cookie settings and by configuring the relevant settings in your browser accordingly.

You can change your individual cookie settings at any time: Change settings

4.5 Cookie Notice

Required cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Marketing Cookie

Marketing Cookie Google User

More info: How Google uses cookies - Privacy policy & terms of use - Google

Cookies Logged in Google users

In addition to the above info: Privacy Policy - Privacy Policy & Terms of Use - Google

Note: Third party cookies can be changed without our knowledge. Please let us know if you find cookies on the website that are not on our list.

5.    Deletion and blocking of personal data

Your data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. When you use the website purely for information purposes, the IP address is deleted from all systems used in connection with the operation of this website within 7 days. We will no longer be able to identify you from the remaining data.

If you use other services on our website, your data is usually stored on our systems for user management purposes. This data is regularly reviewed to determine whether it can be deleted. If data is no longer required in a relationship with a customer or interested party or if there is an overriding conflicting interest, we will delete the data concerned, provided that this is not prohibited by statutory retention obligations.

We will also delete your data if the storage of this data is not permitted (e.g. if the data is incorrect and it is not possible to correct it). Your data will be blocked instead of deleted if there are legal or factual obstacles preventing its deletion (e.g. special retention obligations).

6.    Data transfer

6.1 As a general rule, we do not pass on the data that you provide to us to third parties. In particular, data is not passed on to third parties for their own advertising purposes.

6.2 However, we do use service providers, for example to operate this website or to provide other products. These are carefully selected and commissioned by us; they are bound to follow our instructions and are regularly monitored.

7.    Contact form

7.1 If you submit an enquiry using the contact form, we will store the data that you provide in this form, including your contact details, for the purposes of processing and coordinating your enquiry. The data entered in this form is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in contacting you (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). A further legal basis may be the initiation of a contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

7.2 We will store the data that you enter in the contact form until you request its deletion or until the purpose of storing this data no longer applies.

7.3 If you contact us via the application portal, we will forward the data that you provide in the contact form directly to your selected company so that they contact you.

8.    Social media icons in the website footer

Usually, when a user visits a website with an integrated social media button, the button solutions provided by the social networks (such as the Like button on Facebook) will transmit personal data to the respective social network as soon as the user visits the site.

For us, this is not the case. No plug-in buttons are incorporated into the footer of our website. Only icons are featured there. Upon clicking on these, they direct you to external links within the corresponding social media platforms. You are actively connected with the respective platforms only if you yourself activate them by clicking and, where applicable, log into the respective platform. No transfer of personal data takes place as a result of the integration of icons for social media platforms when our website is accessed.

9.    Integration of OpenStreetMap

We use OpenStreetMap on this website. This enables us to display interactive maps directly on the website and allows you to use the convenient map functions. OpenStreetMap is provided by Open-Street-Map Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom.

When you visit a website that incorporates OpenStreetMap, your IP address and other information relating to your behaviour on this website is forwarded to OSMF. To do this, OpenStreetMap may store cookies in your browser or use similar recognition technology.

Your location may also be recorded if you have enabled the relevant permission in your device settings, e.g. on your mobile phone. The provider of this website does not have any control over this transfer of data. For further information, please refer to the OpenStreetMap privacy policy at the following link: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

OpenStreetMap is used in order to provide an attractive website and to make it easier to find the locations that we mention on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. If corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), the relevant data will be processed exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). This consent may be revoked at any time.

10.  Data privacy statement on the use of YouTube

We have integrated YouTube components on our website. YouTube is an online video portal that enables video publishers to post free video clips and allows other users to view, rate and comment on these video clips – also free of charge. YouTube allows the publication of all kinds of videos: entire films and TV programmes, as well as music videos, trailers and home-made videos, can be accessed via the online portal.

YouTube is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.  YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Every time that you visit a page on this website that is operated by us and incorporates a YouTube component (YouTube video), the web browser on your IT system will automatically be prompted by the relevant YouTube component to download a version of that YouTube component from YouTube. For further information about YouTube, please go to: www.youtube.com/yt/about/. During this technical process, YouTube and Google will learn which specific sub-page you are visiting on our website.

If you are already logged into YouTube, YouTube will detect which specific sub-page of our website you are visiting when you go to a page that contains a YouTube video. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and linked to your YouTube account.

YouTube and Google therefore always receive the information that you have visited our website via the YouTube component if you are logged into YouTube when you access our site, regardless of whether or not you click on a YouTube video. If you do not want this information to be sent to YouTube and Google, you can prevent the data from being transmitted by logging out of your YouTube account before visiting our website.

YouTube’s privacy policies, which are available at policies.google.com/privacy, provide further information on how YouTube and Google collect, process and use personal data.

11.    Legal basis of processing

For processing activities carried out by Schüco for which we require consent for a specific purpose (e.g. marketing correspondence), the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.  If the processing of personal data is necessary in order to perform a contract where the data subject is a party to the contract, such as processing activities that are required to deliver goods or provide another service or consideration, this processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.  The same applies to processing activities that are required for pre-contractual measures. In the case of enquiries about our products or services, for example, we have a legal obligation to process personal data, for instance to fulfil tax obligations; these processing activities are carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be required to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were to be injured and their name, age, health insurance details and other vital information needed to be given to a doctor, hospital or other third party.  The basis for this data processing would be Art. 6(1)(d) GDPR.  Finally, processing activities may be carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Processing activities that are not covered by any of the aforementioned legal bases are carried out on this legal basis if the processing activity concerned is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided that such interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject. We are permitted to carry out such processing activities in particular because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. The legislator considers that a legitimate interest could exist if the data subject is a customer of the controller (Sentence 2 of Recital 47 GDPR).

12. Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data that is collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers.  In particular, this may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website access data and other data that is generated via a website.

The hoster is used for the purposes of performing a contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interests of providing a secure, fast, efficient website via a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

If corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TTDSG, provided that this consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent may be revoked at any time.

Our hoster will process your data only to the extent required to fulfil its performance obligations and in accordance with our instructions concerning this data.

We use the following hoster:

IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Str. 57
56410 Montabaur
E-mail address: infonoSpam@ionos.de
https://www.ionos.de/

Commissioned data processing
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the aforementioned provider. This contract is required by data protection law. It ensures that the provider processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Issued: February 2023