Privacy Notice

The protection of your personal data when visiting our website is very important to us. We protect your privacy and your private information. We collect, process and use your personal data in accordance with the content of this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection rules, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation, the ePrivacy Regulation, the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telemedia Act.

 

This privacy policy governs which personal information we collect, process and use about you. We therefore ask you to read the following instructions carefully.

  

§ 1 Information about the collection of personal data

 

  1. In the following we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior. 
  2. The person responsible according to Art. 4 Para. 7 EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DS-GVO) is ITW LLC & Co. KG, NL Mühlacker, Mühlacker Strasse 149, 75417 Mühlacker, info@itwcp.de (see our imprint). You can reach our data protection officer at akhitha.wijayasiri@rocol.comoder our postal address with the addition "the data protection officer".
  3. When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We will delete the data that arises in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are legal storage obligations.
  4. If we wish to use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you below in detail about the respective processes. We will also specify the criteria for the storage period.

 

§ 2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights with respect to the personal data concerning you:

• Right of access,

• Right to rectification or deletion,

• Right to limit the processing,

• Right to object to the processing,

•  Right to data transferability 

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

 

§ 3 Collection of personal data when you visit our website 

  1. If you only use the website for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO):

 

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Contents of the request (certain page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Amount of data transferred in each case
  • Website from which the request originates
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface 
  • Language and version of the browser software 
  1. 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 assigned to the browser you are using and by which the body that sets the cookie (here through us) receives certain information. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall. 
  2. Use of cookies: 
    1. This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and operation of which are explained below: 

Transient cookies (see b)

Persistent cookies (see c). 

2.Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser. 

3.Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

4.You can configure your browser setting according to your wishes. B. decline the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. We point out, there.

§ 4 Further functions and offers of our website

1.In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you will generally need to provide other personal information that we use to provide the service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

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

3.As far as our service providers or partners have their seat in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer. 

 

 

§ 5 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

  1. If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Such a revocation influences the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us. 
  2. As far as we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary in particular for the fulfilment of a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. In the event of 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 either discontinue or adapt the data processing or point out our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.
  3. You can of course object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us about your advertising objection under the following contact data: ITW LLC & Co. KG, NL Mühlacker, Mühlacker Strasse 149, 75417 Mühlacker, info@itwcp.de (see our imprint). 

 

 

Coverage analysis 

 

§ 6 Use of Google Analytics

1.This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is enabled on this website, Google will truncate your IP address beforehand within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator.

2. The IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google.

3.You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in full. You can also capture the information generated by the cookie and your use You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

4.This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This means that IP addresses are further processed in a shortened form, which means that it is not possible to identify individuals. If the data collected about you is related to a person, this is excluded immediately and the personal data is deleted immediately.

5.We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

6.Information of the third party provider: 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, data protection overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, as well as the data protection declaration: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

 

Social Media

 

§ 7 AddThis bookmarking

1.Our websites also contain AddThis plug-ins. These plug-ins allow you to set bookmarks or share interesting content with other users. The plug-ins allow you to interact with social networks and other users so that we can improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

2. Via these plug-ins, your Internet browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of AddThis and, if applicable, the selected social networking or bookmarking service. The recipients receive the information that you have called up the corresponding website of our online offer and the data mentioned under § 3 of this declaration. This information is processed on AddThis's servers in the USA. [We have standard privacy clauses with AddThis.]. When you submit content on our website to social networks or bookmarking services, a link may be established between your visit to our website and your user profile on that network. We have no control over the data and data processing operations collected, nor are we aware of the full scope of the data collection, the purposes of the processing, the retention periods. We also do not have any information on the deletion of the collected data by the plug-in provider.

The plug-in provider stores this data as usage profiles and uses it for advertising, market research and/or for the design of its website according to requirements. Such evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are 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, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right.

If you do not wish to participate in this procedure, you can object to the collection and storage of data at any time by setting an opt-out cookie with effect for the future: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. Alternatively, you can set your browser so that it prevents the setting of a cookie.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the plug-in provider, as well as further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy, can be obtained from AddThis LLC, 1595 Spring Hill Road, Sweet 300, Vienna, VA 22182, USA, www.addthis.com/privacy.

 

§ 8 Integration of YouTube videos

  1. We have included YouTube videos in our online offering that are saved on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all integrated in the "extended data protection mode", i.e. no data about you as a user is transferred 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 over this data transfer.
  2. When you visit the Website, YouTube is informed that you have accessed the relevant page on our Website. In addition, the data specified under § 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. This takes place regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account that you are logged in to or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in with Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not wish your profile to be associated with YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores your data as user profiles and uses them for advertising, market research and/or the design of its website to meet requirements. Such evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are 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, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.
  3. You will find further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube in the Privacy Policy. There you will also find further information on your rights and setting options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

 

Online Advertising 

§ 9 DoubleClick by Google

  1. This website continues to use the online marketing tool DoubleClick by Google. DoubleClick uses cookies to serve ads relevant to users, to improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once. Google uses a cookie ID to track which ads appear in which browser, thereby preventing them from appearing more than once. In addition, DoubleClick may use cookie IDs to collect conversions related to ad requests. This is the case, for example, when a user sees a DoubleClick ad and later uses the same browser to visit the advertiser's website and make a purchase. According to Google, DoubleClick cookies do not contain personally identifiable information.
  2. Because of the marketing tools used, your browser automatically connects directly to Google's server. We have no influence over the extent and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: Through the integration of DoubleClick, Google receives the information that you have accessed the relevant part of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider may find out and store your IP address.
  3. There are several ways in which you can prevent Google from participating in this tracking process: 
    1. By setting your browser software accordingly, in particular by suppressing third party cookies, you will not receive advertisements from third parties; 
    2. By disabling conversion tracking cookies by setting your browser to block cookies from the "www.googleadservices.com" domain, https://www.google.de/settings/ads, which is deleted when you delete your cookies; 
    3. By disabling the interest-based ads of the providers that are part of the "About Ads" self-regulatory campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies; 
    4. By permanently disabling it in your Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome browsers at the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. Please note that in this case you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of this offer.
  4. Legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. Further information on DoubleClick by Google can be found at https://www.google.de/doubleclick and http://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2839090, as well as on data protection at Google in general: https://www.google. de/intl/en/policies/privacy. Alternatively, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at http://www.networkadvertising.org Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.