Privacy notice

Privacy Policy

SECTION 1 INFORMATION ON THE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

(1) Below, we inform about the processing of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be personally related to you, e.g., name, address, email addresses, user behavior. Through this, we aim to inform you about our processing operations and at the same time fulfill the legal obligations, particularly from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

(2) The responsible party according to Art. 4 para. 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is WITTE TUBE + PIPE SYSTEMS GMBH, Schafjückenweg 5, D-26180 Rastede, info@witte-tube.com. You can reach our data protection officer at Datenschutz@witte-tube.com or our postal address with the addition „the data protection officer“.

(3) When you contact us by email or through a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name, and phone number) are stored by us to answer your questions. The data collected in this context will be deleted after storage is no longer required or processing will be restricted if there are statutory retention obligations.

(4) If we rely on commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also specify the defined criteria for the storage duration.

SECTION 2 YOUR RIGHTS

(1) You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
• Right to information,
• Right to correction or deletion,
• Right to restriction of processing,
• Right to object to processing,
• Right to data portability. (2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

SECTION 3 COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE

When using the website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. The following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security, must therefore be processed by us. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR:

IP address,
Date and time of the request,
Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
Content of the request (specific page),
Access status/HTTP status code,
Amount of data transferred,
Website from which the request comes,
Browser,
Operating system and its interface,
Language and version of the browser software.

SECTION 4 FURTHER FUNCTIONS AND OFFERS OF OUR WEBSITE

(1) Besides the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if interested. To use them, you usually need to provide further personal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In part, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions, and are regularly inspected.

(3) Insofar as our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

SECTION 5 Objection or Revocation against the Processing of Your Data

(1) If you have given consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract with you, as we each describe in the following description of the functions. In exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and will either stop or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on which we continue the processing.

(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us about your advertising objection using the contact details provided above.

SECTION 6 PROCESSION OF DATA FROM YOUR END DEVICES („COOKIE POLICY“)

(1) In addition to the data mentioned above, when you use our website, we use technical aids for various functions, particularly cookies, which can be stored on your end device. You have the choice when accessing our website and at any time afterward whether to generally allow the setting of cookies or which individual additional functions you wish to select. Changes can be made in your browser settings or via our Consent Manager. We first describe cookies from a technical perspective (2), before going into detail about your individual selection options by describing technically necessary cookies (3) and cookies that you can optionally select or deselect (4).

(2) Cookies are text files or information in a database stored on your hard disk and associated with the browser you are using, allowing the entity that sets the cookie to receive certain information. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer but are primarily used to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and efficient overall. This website uses the following types of cookies, whose function and legal basis we will explain below: a) Transient cookies: These, particularly session cookies, are automatically deleted when you close the browser or log out. They contain a so-called session ID, allowing various requests from your browser to be assigned to the common session and your computer can be recognized when you return to our website. b) Persistent cookies: These are automatically deleted after a specified duration, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can view the set cookies and their durations at any time in your browser settings and manually delete the cookies.

(3) Mandatory for displaying the website, technically necessary functions: The technical structure of the website requires that we use techniques, particularly cookies. Without these techniques, our website cannot be displayed (fully or correctly) or certain support functions could not be enabled. Generally, these are transient cookies that are deleted when you end your visit to our website by closing your browser. These cookies cannot be deselected if you wish to use our website. The individual cookies are visible in the Consent Manager. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

(4) Optional cookies upon your consent: Various cookies are only set after receiving your consent, which you can select during your first visit to our website via the so-called Cookie Consent Tool. The functions are only activated in the case of your consent and can, for example, serve to analyze and improve visits to our website, facilitate use across different browsers or devices, recognize you on a subsequent visit, place advertisements, or to show advertising based on interests, measure the effectiveness of ads, or display interest-based advertising. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR. Your consent can be revoked at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.

SECTION 7 USE OF OUR WEBSHOP

(1) If you wish to place an order in our webshop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need for the processing of your order. Mandatory information required for the execution of the contracts is marked separately, other information is voluntary. We process the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we may pass on your payment data to our house bank. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR.

(2) You can voluntarily create a customer account through which we can store your data for later purchases. When creating an account under “My Account,” the data you provide will be stored revocably. All other data, including your user account, can always be deleted in the customer area.

SECTION 8 USE OF WEBFONTS

On these web pages, external fonts, Google Fonts, are used. Google Fonts is a service of Google Inc. The integration of these web fonts is carried out by a server call, usually a server of Google Inc. in the USA. This process transmits to the server which of our web pages you have visited. Also, the IP address of the visitor’s browser of these web pages is stored by Google Inc. More information can be found in Google’s privacy notices, which you can access here: www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about and www.google.com/policies/privacy/

SECTION 9 INTEGRATION OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS

(1) We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offering, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in the “extended privacy mode,” which means that no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data referred to in paragraph 2 be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transfer. The legal basis for displaying the videos is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR, i.e., the embedding only occurs with your consent.

(2) By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned in section 3 of this statement are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account that you are logged into or whether no user account exists. If you are logged into Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not wish the assignment with your profile on YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research, and/or customized website design. Such evaluation is carried out (even for users not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must direct your objection to YouTube.

(3) The information collected is stored on Google’s servers, also in the USA. In these cases, the provider has imposed a standard that corresponds to the former EU-US Privacy Shield, according to its own statements, and has committed to comply with applicable data protection laws in international data transfer.

SECTION 10 INTEGRATION OF GOOGLE MAPS

(1) On this website, we use the offer of Google Maps. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to use the map function conveniently. The legal basis for the use of the maps is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR, i.e., the embedding only occurs with your consent.

(2) By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. In addition, the data mentioned in section 3 of this statement are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged into or whether no user account exists. If you are logged into Google, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not wish the assignment with your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research, and/or customized website design. Such evaluation is carried out (even for users not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must direct your objection to Google.

SECTION 11 USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is usually transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, Google will truncate your IP address within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage.

(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

(3) You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. You can prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: Disable Google Analytics

(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. As a result, IP addresses are processed in a shortened form, thus excluding the possibility of personal references. As far as the data collected about you contains a personal reference, this is immediately excluded, and the personal data are deleted immediately.

(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. Through the statistics, we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. (6) Third-party provider information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Overview of data protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, as well as the privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

(7) This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows conducted through a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under „My data“, „Personal data“.

SECTION 12 Google Ads

We use Google Ads from the Conversion Tracking analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, to promote our website in a way that is relevant to your interests.

Google Ads is used to display advertisements in Google search engines and Google advertising networks. With the help of this advertising tool, we can specify certain keywords that, when entered in the Google search engine, will result in an advertisement being placed. Our advertisements are also placed on thematically relevant websites of third-party companies using the specified keywords. The reason for this is that Google Ads creates statistics for us on the advertising effectiveness of our advertisements. The total number of clicks on our advertisements, the determination of which of our websites were visited and whether a purchase was completed or canceled are recorded. If you came to our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie (see above for cookies) is stored on your computer. The cookies are created for the purpose of creating visitor statistics and stored to analyze the total number of clicks on advertisements. These cookies are valid for thirty days and are not used to personally identify you. If you visit our website before the cookie expires, we and Google Ads will recognize that you clicked on one of our Google ads and thus came to our website. Information on the types of cookies used by Google can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types .
The following data is collected for this purpose:
• browser type and version used
• operating system and interface used
• source from which you accessed our website (referrer URL)
• date and time of your request
• (IP) address used
Your determined (IP) address, your device and domain data are not assigned to other data and are usually anonymized before transmission by shortening or encrypting them so that individual assignment is no longer possible.
This data can be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored in the USA. The USA is not a member state of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) and is therefore a so-called third country. There is no adequacy decision by the EU Commission for the USA as a country. Google may transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.
The transfer to the USA depends on the function in which personal data is transferred. As the responsible party, we ourselves can transfer data to Google in the USA for further use.
There is no adequacy decision in accordance with Art. 45 GDPR.
The transfer can, however, be based on standard contractual clauses. Google has committed itself to complying with the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC (Standard Contractual Clauses – SCC).
Further information on the standard contractual clauses can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractuals-clauses-scc_de and at
https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de
The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 I lit. a GDPR, provided that we ask for your consent to the use of third-party providers. Otherwise, the legal basis is Art. 6 I lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in analyzing website visitor behavior in order to create statistics and thereby make our website attractive and user-friendly and optimize advertising measures.
You can revoke your consent at any time without giving reasons.
If you do not want Google Ads to collect data via our website, you can prevent or restrict the storage or installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. The provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually required and is not necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your personal data. However, if you deactivate cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.
You also have the option of activating the “Off” button at http://www.google.de/settings/ads.
Further information on Google’s use of data for advertising purposes, setting options and objection options can be found on Google’s websites:
http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

SECTION 13 Microsoft Clarity

We use the Microsoft Clarity service on our website from Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmont, Washington 98052, USA (represented in the EU by: Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd., One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 D18 P521, Ireland).
Microsoft uses cookies for this web analysis (see above for cookies). The cookies are stored across devices for the purpose of analyzing your usage behavior while visiting our website by logging mouse movements.
The following data is collected for this purpose:
• browser type and version used
• operating system and interface used
• source from which you accessed our website (referrer URL)
• date and time of your request
• (IP) address used
This data can be transmitted to a Microsoft server in the USA and stored in the USA. The USA is not a member state of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) and is therefore a so-called third country. There is no adequacy decision by the EU Commission for the USA as a country. Microsoft may transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Microsoft.
The transfer to the USA depends on the function in which personal data is transferred. We as the responsible party can ourselves transfer data to Microsoft in the USA for further use. There is no adequacy decision in accordance with Art. 45 GDPR. However, the transfer can be based on standard contractual clauses. Microsoft has committed to complying with the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC (Standard Contractual Clauses – SCC). Further information on the standard contractual clauses can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractuals-clauses-scc_de.
Your (IP) address determined by Microsoft is not assigned to other Microsoft data and is usually anonymized before being sent to the USA by shortening it by the last 8 bits so that an individual assignment is no longer possible. Your (IP) address is shortened within the (EU) or in contracting states of the EEG.

Microsoft analyzes your personal data on our behalf with regard to your usage behavior on our website and creates logs for us about the activities of users on our website. With the help of the transmitted data, logs of website visitors are created, which we use to optimize, further develop and adapt our website. In this way, we attract new visitors to our website and increase our level of awareness.

Microsoft itself pursues the purpose of being able to offer and optimize further services in connection with website and internet usage. Microsoft may transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Microsoft.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 I lit. a GDPR, if we ask you for your consent to the use of third-party providers. Otherwise, the legal basis is Art. 6 I lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in analyzing website visitor behavior in order to create statistics and thereby make our website attractive and user-friendly.
If you do not want Microsoft to collect data via our website, you can prevent or restrict the storage or installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.
You can find more information about data usage by Microsoft, setting options and objection options on the Microsoft website: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

SECTION 14 Google Tag Manager

On our websites we use the Google Tag Manager, provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google does not use cookies for this tag manager and does not collect any personal data.
We use the Google Tag Manager to manage website tags. However, the Google Tag Manager can trigger other tags that may collect personal data. You will find a corresponding note about this in this privacy policy for the respective providers. The Google Tag Manager itself does not access this data. If deactivation has been carried out at domain level or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 I lit. a GDPR, provided that we ask for your consent to the use of third-party providers. Otherwise, the legal basis is Art. 6 I lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in analyzing website visitor behavior in order to create statistics and thus be able to make our website attractive and user-friendly.
If you do not want Google Tag Manager to use our website, follow the link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You can find more information about Google’s use of data for advertising purposes, settings and options for objecting on Google’s websites:
http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/

SECTION 15 INTEGRATION OF TUERCHEN

On our website we use content from the provider “Türchen” represented by “Die Schittigs GmbH” Am Floßhafen 47 63739 Aschaffenburg. When you access the content, your IP address is transmitted to Türchen and Türchen learns that you have accessed the content. We have no knowledge of the possible collection and use of your data by Türchen and have no influence on it. You can find more information in Türchen’s data protection declaration under Data protection | Türchen – as of July 31, 2023 – Türchen.

SECTION 16 NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION

We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter on our website. If you have given us separate consent to inform you about our own products and services via email, such processing is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR. With your consent, you agree to receive our newsletter irregularly. By subscribing to the newsletter, you consent to us measuring your click and opening behavior to provide you with an optimal offer of our newsletter dispatch. If we process your personal data based on your consent, you can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out until the revocation. If consent is revoked, we will stop the corresponding data processing. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter in the future, you can unsubscribe at any time, e.g., via email info@witte-tube.com or via the unsubscribe link found in every newsletter email. Your data for the newsletter dispatch will be deleted within 3 months after the end of the newsletter reception, unless the deletion is opposed by statutory retention obligations.

SECTION 16a USE OF CLEVER REACH SOFTWARE

This website uses CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Schafjückenweg 2, 26180 Rastede, Germany (hereinafter “CleverReach”). CleverReach is a service that can be used to organize and analyze newsletter distribution. The data you enter to receive the newsletter (e.g. email address) is stored on CleverReach’s servers in Germany or Ireland.
Our newsletters sent with CleverReach enable us to analyze the behavior of newsletter recipients. This can be used to analyze, among other things, how many recipients opened the newsletter message and how often which link in the newsletter was clicked. With the help of so-called conversion tracking, it can also be analyzed whether a predefined action (e.g. purchase of a product on this website) was carried out after clicking on the link in the newsletter. Further information on data analysis by CleverReach newsletters can be found at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/.
The data processing is carried out on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.
If you do not want an analysis by CleverReach, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a corresponding link for this in every newsletter message.
The data you provide to us for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data that has been stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected.
After you unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution list, your email address may be stored in a blacklist by us or the newsletter service provider if this is necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist is only used for this purpose and is not merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with the legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not time-limited. You can object to storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.
For more information, see CleverReach’s data protection regulations at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.