DATA PROTECTION
Data Protection Policy
The protection of your personal data during collection, processing and use in connection with your visit to our website is an important concern for us and is carried out in accordance with the statutory provisions, which you can find, for example, at www.bfd.bund.de.
Below, we explain which information we collect during your visit to our website and how it is used:
1. Collection and storage of personal data as well as the type and purpose of their use
a) When visiting the website
Every time a customer (or other visitor) accesses our website, the internet browser used on your end device (computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone etc.) automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file.
The following data is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:
IP address of the requesting computer, as well as device ID or individual device identifier and device type,
Name of the file accessed and volume of data transferred, as well as date and time of access,
Notification of successful retrieval,
Requesting domain,
Description of the type of internet browser used and, where applicable, the operating system of your end device as well as the name of your access provider,
Your browser history data as well as your standard web log information,
Location data, including location data from your mobile device. Please note that on most mobile devices you can control or deactivate the use of location services in the device’s settings menu.
Our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in collecting this data is based on the following purposes: ensuring a smooth connection to the website and a comfortable use of the website, evaluation of system security and stability, as well as for further administrative purposes.
Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.
b) When using our contact form
For any kind of questions, we offer you the opportunity to contact us via a form provided on the website. At least the following information is required: name, company, website, email, phone number, interest in our services, so that we know who the request is from and can answer it.
Additional information can be provided voluntarily.
The data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntarily granted consent.
The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted once your enquiry has been dealt with.
c) When entering into a contractual relationship
When entering into a contractual relationship via our website, we ask you to provide the following personal data:
– Data that personally identify you, such as name and email address
– Further personal data that we are legally obliged or entitled to collect and process and that we require for your authentication, identification or for verifying the data we have collected.
The aforementioned data is processed for the purpose of handling the contractual relationship. The processing of the data is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The storage period is limited to the contractual purpose and, where applicable, statutory and contractual retention obligations.
e) When subscribing to our newsletter
If you have expressly consented pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, we use your email address to send you our newsletter on a regular basis.
You can unsubscribe at any time, for example via a link at the end of a newsletter. Alternatively, you can send your unsubscribe request to us at any time by email (ideally with the subject line: “Unsubscribe newsletter”).
2. Disclosure of personal data
Your data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.
We only pass on your data to third parties if:
you have given your express consent to this (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR),
this is necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR),
there is a legal obligation to pass on the data (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR),
the disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR).
In these cases, however, the scope of the transmitted data is limited to the minimum necessary.
Data protection
Our data protection provisions comply with the applicable data protection regulations and data is only processed in the Federal Republic of Germany / the European Union. Data is not transferred to third countries and is not intended to be.
3. Rights of data subjects
Upon request, we will be happy to inform you whether and which personal data relating to you is stored (Art. 15 GDPR), in particular regarding 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, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling.
You also have the right to have any incorrectly collected personal data rectified or incompletely collected data completed (Art. 16 GDPR).
Furthermore, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data, provided that the legal requirements for this are met (Art. 18 GDPR).
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request the transfer of such data to another controller (Art. 20 GDPR).
In addition, you have the so-called “right to be forgotten”, i.e. you may request that we delete your personal data, provided that the legal requirements for this are met (Art. 17 GDPR).
Irrespective of this, your personal data will be automatically deleted by us if the purpose for data collection no longer applies or if the data processing has been carried out unlawfully.
Pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you have the right to revoke any consent you have given us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future.
You also have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data, insofar as a right to object is legally provided for. In the event of a valid objection, your personal data will also be automatically deleted by us (Art. 21 GDPR).
If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, it is sufficient to send an email to: privacy@zierhut.com.
In the event of breaches of data protection regulations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.
4. Duration of data storage
The data collected will be stored by us for as long as this is necessary for the performance of the contracts entered into with us or you have not exercised your right to deletion or your right to transfer data to another company.
5. Cookies
We use cookies on our website. These are small text files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your end device when you visit our website. Information is stored in the cookie that results in connection with the specific end device used.
However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.
The use of cookies primarily serves to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you:
For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. Thus, if you have registered, your password is stored during your visit to our website and when changing between sub-pages so that you do not have to re-enter it each time. These session cookies are automatically deleted after you leave our website.
We use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a certain specified period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already been with us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.
We also use cookies in order to statistically record and evaluate the use of our website and to optimise our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already visited our website when you return. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period.
The data processed by cookies is necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Most browsers accept cookies automatically.
If you do not want us to recognise information about your computer, please set your internet browser so that it deletes cookies from your computer’s hard drive, blocks all cookies or warns you before a cookie is stored. You can find out how to delete or block cookies in the help and support area of your internet browser.
There you will find instructions on how to find the file or directory in which cookies are stored. In any case, please note that completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.
Java applets and JavaScript are used in the provision of our online offering. If you do not wish to use these auxiliary programs or active content for security reasons, you should deactivate the corresponding setting in your browser.
6. Online marketing / analysis tools
The tracking measures we use are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, § 15 para. 3 TMG. With the tracking measures used, we aim to ensure needs-based design and the continuous optimisation of our website. We also use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate and optimise our internet presence. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.
Google Analytics
For the purpose of demand-oriented design and continuous optimisation of our websites, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”).
In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies are set (see also section 5). The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL (the previously visited page), host name of the accessing computer (IP address) and the time of the server request are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide other services associated with website use and internet use for the purposes of market research and needs-based design of these websites.
Our legitimate interest in data processing also lies in these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is § 15 para. 3 TMG in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
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. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other data from Google. The IP addresses are anonymised so that an assignment is not possible (so-called IP masking).
The data we send and that is linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. User ID) or advertising IDs is automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.
Further information on the terms of use and data protection of Google Analytics can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
You can prevent the installation and storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in full.
You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents your data from being collected when you visit this website in future: deactivate Google Analytics. The opt-out cookie applies only in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again.
Google AdWords / Conversion Tracking
We also use the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and, within Google AdWords, conversion tracking. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service provided by Google. If you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is stored on your end device.
These cookies lose their validity after 30 days, do not contain any personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification. If you visit certain internet pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognise that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to this page.
Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Thus, there is no possibility that cookies can be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking.
In doing so, the customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.
Our legitimate interest in data processing also lies in these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google AdWords / conversion tracking is § 15 para. 3 TMG in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by preventing the installation of cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com” by setting your browser software accordingly (opt-out option).
In that case you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ and http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
Google Remarketing
This website uses Google Remarketing, an advertising service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Third-party providers, including Google, serve ads on websites on the internet. Third-party providers, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this website.
Users can deactivate the use of cookies by Google by visiting the page for deactivating Google advertising: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Alternatively, users can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers by visiting the opt-out page of the Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Google Plus
Our website uses the “G+1” button provided by Google for the Google+ social network. You can recognise the Google+ plugin by the “Google+” sign or the “G+1” addition. When you click the plugin, a connection is established to the servers of Google Plus.
The content of the plugin is transmitted by Google directly to your browser and integrated into the website. This forwards the information that you have visited our website to Google+.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of our website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data nor of its use by Google+. According to Google, no personal data is collected without a click on the plugin. While you are logged into your Google+ account, data, including the IP address, is collected and processed.
If you wish to prevent such data transmission, you must log out of your Google+ account before visiting our website.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Google+ as well as your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Google’s and Google+’s data protection notices: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”). When you open our website with the plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook. This transmits the information to Facebook that you have accessed the page.
If you are logged into your Facebook account, clicking the plugin can directly associate your visit to our website with your profile. Even if you do not have a profile, it cannot be ruled out that your IP address will be stored by Facebook.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).
If you are a member of Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our online offering and link it to your member data stored with Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website and delete the corresponding Facebook cookies. It is also possible to block Facebook social plugins with add-ons for your browser, for example with the “Facebook Blocker”.
Functions of the Twitter service are also integrated on our website. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “re-tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users.
In doing so, data is also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of our website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data nor of its use by Twitter.
Further information can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your privacy settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
To prevent Twitter from collecting data when you visit our website, log out of Twitter before visiting our website. To prevent Twitter from generally accessing your data via websites, you can exclude Twitter social plugins by using an add-on for your browser (e.g. “Twitter Blocker”, https://disconnect.me).
Plugins of the social network Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) are integrated on our website. You can recognise the Instagram plugin by the “Instagram button” on our website. If you click the Instagram button while logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our web pages to your Instagram profile. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our pages with your user account.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of our website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data nor of its use by Instagram. For more information, please refer to Instagram’s privacy policy at http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
Plugins of the social network XING (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany) are integrated on our website. When you click the XING button on our website, your browser briefly establishes a connection to the servers of XING, with which the “XING Share Button” functions (in particular the calculation/display of the counter value) are provided in order to possibly track your visit behaviour in relation to the “XING Share Button”.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the actual transmitted data nor of its use by XING. Further information and the latest version of the privacy policy for the “XING Share Button” can be found at: https://dev.xing.com/plugins/share_button/privacy_policy
Plugins of the social network Pinterest (Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA) are integrated on our website. When you click the “Pin it” button, a connection to the servers of Pinterest is established. The plugin transmits log data to the Pinterest server in the USA.
These log data may include your IP address, the address of the websites you visit that also contain Pinterest functions, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the request, how you use Pinterest and cookies.
If you are logged into your Pinterest account, clicking the “Pin it” button can directly associate your visit to our website with your profile. Even if you do not have a profile, it cannot be ruled out that your IP address will be stored by Pinterest.
This allows Pinterest to associate your visit to these pages with your user account. To prevent Pinterest from collecting data when you visit our website, you must log out of your Pinterest account before clicking the “Pin it” button.
Further information, including settings options to protect your privacy, can be found in Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.
Plugins of the social network LinkedIn are integrated on our website. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you click the LinkedIn button, a connection to the servers of LinkedIn is established.
The content of the plugin is transmitted by LinkedIn directly to your browser and integrated into the website. This forwards the information that you have visited our website to LinkedIn.
If you are logged into your LinkedIn account, clicking the LinkedIn button can directly associate your visit to our website with your profile. Even if you do not have a profile, it cannot be ruled out that your IP address will be stored by LinkedIn.
We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data nor of its use by LinkedIn. Further information on LinkedIn’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
YouTube
Plugins from YouTube (belonging to Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) are used on our website. When you open our website, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of YouTube.
This transmits the information to YouTube that you have accessed our website. If you are logged into your YouTube account, your visit to our website and all your interactions in connection with the plugin (e.g. clicking the YouTube button) can be assigned to your YouTube profile and stored by YouTube – even if you do not have a YouTube profile, it cannot be ruled out that YouTube will store your IP address. Please also note YouTube’s privacy policy in this respect: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
To prevent YouTube from collecting data when you visit our website, log out of YouTube before visiting. To prevent YouTube from generally accessing your data via websites, you can exclude YouTube plugins by using an add-on for your browser (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/disconnecters).
Data security
We make every effort to take all necessary technical and organisational security measures to store your personal data so that it is not accessible to third parties or the public. If you wish to contact us by email, we would like to point out that the confidentiality of the information transmitted via this communication channel cannot be fully guaranteed. We therefore recommend that you send confidential information to us exclusively by post.
Currency and amendment of this Privacy Policy
Due to the further development of our website and the offerings on it or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this Privacy Policy.