PRIVACY POLICY

1. Introduction

We, WERK Holding GmbH, appreciate your visit to our website (hereinafter also referred to as “website”) and your interest in our company. We attach great importance to the protection and security of your personal data. With the following information, we would like to inform you which of your personal data we process for which purposes and which rights you are entitled to with regard to your personal data under the relevant data protection laws.

As the controller, we have implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection possible for personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, you are free to transmit personal data to us by alternative means.

 

2. Responsible person

The controller within the meaning of the GDPR is the:

WERK Holding GmbH

Eichlesstr. 16 – D-89129 Langenau

Phone: +49 731 141108-11

E-mail: info@absaugwerk.de

 

3. Definitions

Personal data” (hereinafter referred to as “data”) is all information that reveals something about a natural person. Personal data is not only information that allows direct conclusions to be drawn about a specific person (such as a person’s name or email address), but also information that can be used to establish a reference to a specific person with the appropriate additional knowledge.

“Processing” means any action performed on your personal data (such as the collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, use or deletion of data).

 

4. Your rights as a data subject

You are entitled to the following rights within the legally prescribed framework:

Right to information Art. 15 GDPR

You have the right to receive free information from us at any time about the personal data stored about you and a copy of this data in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Right to rectification Art. 16 GDPR

You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. You also have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, taking into account the purposes of the processing.

Erasure Art. 17 GDPR

You have the right to demand that we delete the personal data concerning you immediately, provided that one of the reasons provided by law applies and insofar as the processing or storage is not necessary.

Restriction of processing Art. 18 GDPR

You have the right to demand that we restrict processing if one of the legal requirements is met.

Data portability Art. 20 GDPR

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us to which the personal data have been provided, where the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) GDPR. 1 lit. a) GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a) GDPR or on the basis of a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR and the processing is carried out by automated means, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Furthermore, when exercising your right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 (1) GDPR, you have the right to obtain that the personal data be transferred directly from one controller to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

Objection Art. 21 GDPR

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. (e) (data processing in the public interest) or (f) (data processing on the basis of a balancing of interests) of the GDPR.

This also applies to profiling based on these provisions within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or if the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

In individual cases, we process personal data for the purpose of direct advertising. You can object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising at any time. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

You also have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out by us for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR, unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

You are free to exercise your right to object in connection with the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.

Revocation of consent under data protection law

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.

If you assert the above-mentioned rights, we ask for your understanding that in the event of doubt regarding your identity, we will require you to provide proof that you are the person you claim to be.

In addition to the rights mentioned above, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your data violates the GDPR.

 

5. Transmission of data to third parties

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.

We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

• You provide us with your data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR have given their express consent to this,
• the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data,
• in the event that the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR there is a legal obligation, as well as this
• pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR is required for the processing of contractual relationships with you.

 

As part of the processing operations described in this privacy policy, personal data may be transferred to the USA. Companies in the USA only have an adequate level of data protection if they have certified themselves under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and thus the adequacy decision of the EU Commission pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR applies. We have explicitly stated this for the service providers concerned in the privacy policy. In order to protect your data in all other cases, we have concluded data processing agreements based on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. If the standard contractual clauses are not sufficient to establish an adequate level of security, your consent may be revoked in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR serve as the legal basis for the transfer to third countries. This sometimes does not apply to data transfers to third countries for which the European Commission has issued an adequacy decision pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR.

 

6. Links to third party websites

Our website may contain links to and from websites of other providers not affiliated with us (“third parties”). After clicking on the link within our website, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any data transmitted to the third party by clicking on the link (such as IP address or the URL on which the link is located), as the behavior of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We cannot accept any responsibility for the processing of such data by third parties.

 

7. Links to social networks and messengers

Our website may contain links to share content from our website on various social networks and/or messenger services. The links we create do not lead to any data being passed on to providers of social networks or messenger services while you are using our website. Only when you click on one of the links to share content from our website will data (such as your IP address or the URL on which the link is located) be transmitted to the respective provider of the social network or messenger service. We have no influence on the further data processing by the respective provider of the social network or messenger service.

 

8. Technology & hosting

8.1 SSL/TLS encryption

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders, login data or contact requests that you send to us as the operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser contains “https://” instead of “http://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

We use this technology to protect your transmitted data.

 

8.2 Data collection when visiting the website & hosting

If you only use our website for informational purposes, if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information or do not give your consent to processing that requires consent, we only collect data that is technically necessary for the provision of the service. This is regularly data that your browser transmits to our server (“in so-called server log files”). Our website collects a range of general data and information each time you or an automated system accesses a page. This general data and information is stored in the server log files. The following can be recorded

• browser types and versions used,
• the operating system used by the accessing system,
• the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrer),
• the sub-websites that are accessed via an accessing system on our website,
• the date and time of access to the website,
• an Internet Protocol address (IP address) and,
• the Internet service provider of the accessing system.

When using this general data and information, we do not draw any conclusions about your person. Rather, this information is required in order to

• to deliver the content of our website correctly,
• optimize the content of our website and the advertising for it,
• to ensure the long-term functionality of our IT systems and the technology of our website, and
• to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber-attack.

This collected data and information is therefore evaluated by us both statistically and with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company in order to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data processed by us. The data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above.

Our website is hosted on the servers of our service provider HostPress GmbH, Bahnhofstraße 34, 66571 Eppelborn, Germany. Our service provider will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its performance obligations and follow our instructions with regard to this data. We have concluded an order processing contract with the service provider for this purpose in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

You can find more information on HostPress GmbH’s data protection provisions at: https://www.hostpress.de/datenschutz/

 

9. Cookies & use of consent management tool

9.1 General information about cookies

Cookies are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your IT system (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Information is stored in the cookie that results from the connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate our offer for you for the purpose of optimization. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you visit it again. The cookies set in this way are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. The respective storage duration of the cookies can be found in the settings of the consent tool used.

 

9.2 Required cookies

Borlabs Cookie (Consent Management Tool)

We use the WordPress cookie plugin “Borlabs Cookie” from Borlabs GmbH. This service enables us to obtain and manage the consent of website users for data processing.

Borlabs Cookie uses cookies to collect data generated by end users who use our website. When an end user gives consent, the following data, among others, is automatically logged:

• Cookie duration,
• Cookie version,
• Domain and path of the WordPress page,
• Selection in the cookie banner,
• UID (a randomly generated ID),

The consent status is also stored in the end user’s browser so that the website can automatically read and follow the end user’s consent in all subsequent page requests and future end user sessions for up to 12 months. The consent data (consent and withdrawal of consent) is stored for three years. The retention period corresponds to the regular limitation period pursuant to Section 195 of the German Civil Code (BGB). The data will then be deleted immediately.

The functionality of the website is not guaranteed without the processing described above. The user has no right to object as long as there is a legal obligation to obtain the user’s consent to certain data processing operations, Art. 7 para. 1, 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) GDPR.

The data collected will not be forwarded to Borlabs GmbH, nor will Borlabs GmbH have access to it.

Information from the service provider:

Borlabs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg, Germany

Website: https://de.borlabs.io

Privacy policy of the service provider: https://de.borlabs.io/datenschutz/

 

On what legal basis are necessary cookies used?

In order to be able to prove whether you have consented to the use of cookies requiring consent, we store the information about the granting or non-granting of consent in order to fulfill our legal obligation to provide evidence pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. 1 lit. c, para. 3 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with. Art. 7 para. 1 GDPR.

In addition, we use necessary cookies to safeguard legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Our pursued legitimate interests are:

• Ensuring the security and stability of our website and the IT security of our systems;
• Assertion, exercise and defense of legal claims;
• Providing and ensuring the proper functioning of our website.

9.3 Optional cookies

Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

On our website, we use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

In this context, pseudonymized user profiles are created and cookies are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website may include, but is not limited to

• short-term recording of the IP address without permanent storage
• Location data
• Browser type/version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL (previously visited page)
• Time of the server request

The pseudonymized data may be transmitted by Google to a server in the USA and stored there.

The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and the needs-based design of this website. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf.

These processing operations are only carried out if express consent has been granted in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

Google’s default data storage period is 14 months. Otherwise, the personal data is stored for as long as it is required to fulfill the purpose of processing. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose.

The parent company Google LLC is certified as a US company under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This constitutes an adequacy decision pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR, meaning that personal data may be transferred without further guarantees or additional measures.

Information from the service provider:

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/

Information regarding the use of data by Google Analytics: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Privacy policy of the service provider: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

 

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) – Additional information on Consent Mode, simple implementation

Under the Digital Markets Act, Google is obliged to obtain user consent before processing user data for personalized advertising. Google meets this requirement with the “Consent Mode”. Users are obliged to implement this and thus prove that they have obtained the consent of website visitors.

Google offers two implementation modes, the simple and the advanced implementation.

We use the simple implementation method of Google Consent Mode. Only if you give your consent to the use of Google Analytics (see above) will a connection to Google be established, a Google code executed and the processing described above carried out. If you refuse consent, Google will only receive information that consent has not been given. The Google code is not executed and no Google Analytics cookies are set.

 

10. Contact us

We offer you the option of contacting us directly by e-mail, telephone or fax. If you make use of this option, we will process your personal data in order to process your message or request and, if necessary, to contact you. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

 

What data do we process and for what purposes?

We process the following data:

• Last name, first name
• Company name
• E-mail address
• Phone number
• Content data (your message/request)

This data is processed exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for establishing contact and (pre-)contractual measures.

 

On what legal basis do we process your data?

The processing of your data takes place for the fulfillment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and to safeguard legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Our legitimate interests are the proper answering and processing of your message or request as well as a customer-oriented approach and communication.

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to object.

 

11. Routine storage, deletion and blocking of personal data

We only process and store your personal data for the period of time required to achieve the purpose of storage or if this is provided for by the legal regulations to which our company is subject.

If the storage purpose no longer applies or if a prescribed storage period expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

 

12. Duration of the storage of personal data

The criterion for the duration of the storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After this period has expired, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation.

 

13. Up-to-dateness and amendment of the privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status: December 2024.

It may become necessary to amend this privacy policy as a result of the further development of our website and services or due to changes in legal or official requirements. You can access and print out the current privacy policy at any time on the website at“https://werk-holding.de/Datenschutz/”.