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 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.