Data Privacy Notice
This notice explains how your personal data is processed when you use our website www.korte-profiles.com
Data controller
KORTE Bauteile GmbH (Mühlingstrasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg) is the data controller responsible for this website. You will find further information about our company and its authorized representatives on our Imprint pages.
What data are processed?
Lawful basis for processing data
In order to be able to offer you our website and its associated services, we process personal data on the following lawful basis:
- Consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 item a) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR))
- Performance of a contract (Art. 6 Par. 1 item b) GDPR)
- Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Par. 1 item f) GDPR)
- Compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 6 Par. 1 item c) GDPR)
Whenever we process data, we will refer to one of the reasons stated above so that you can identify the lawful basis according to which we process your personal data.
If personal data are processed based on consent given by you, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with future effect.
If we process data based on legitimate interests, you as the data subject have the right to object to your personal data being processed as defined by the stipulations of Article 21 GDPR.
Access data
When you visit our website, personal data is processed so that you can view the contents of the website on your terminal.
In order to be able to display the pages in your browser, the IP address of the terminal that you are using must be processed. Additional information about the browser on your terminal is also processed.
We are obliged by data protection law to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of the personal data processed with our IT systems.
For this purpose and with this interest in mind, the following data is recorded based on legitimate interests:
- IP address of your PC (for maximum 7 days)
- Operating system of your PC
- Browser version of your PC
- Name of the retrieved file
- Date and time of the retrieval
- Transferred data volume
- Referring URL
The IP address will be deleted after no later than 7 days from all systems that are used in connection with the operation of this website. We are then no longer able to link the remaining data to a specific person.
The data are also used to identify and eliminate errors on the website.
Contact form
On our website, we provide a contact form with which you can request information about our products or services or generally make contact with us. Any data that we definitely need to be able to reply to your inquiry are marked as mandatory fields by us. Data entry in any other fields is voluntary.
We need this information in order to be able to process your inquiry, to address you correctly and ensure that our reply reaches you. Data is processed in response to specific inquiries to fulfil or bring about a contract. In the case of general inquiries, processing is performed based on legitimate interests.
Inquiries that we receive via the contact form on our website are processed electronically by us in order to reply to your inquiry. As part of that process, further persons or departments and possibly third parties may receive information about the content that you sent in the contact form.
Data provided in the contact form is transmitted via the Internet in encrypted form.
Cookies
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal from your browser. Cookies are required to enable certain functions on our website.
You can block cookies by making certain settings in your browser. However, we would like to point out that use of our website may then be restricted. Cookies do not install or start programs or other applications on your PC.
We use both session cookies, which are automatically deleted from your browser when you leave our website.
And, if you accept them, we also use so-called persistent cookies for web analysis, which are not automatically deleted when you leave our website.
Before we process data or have data processed as part of cookie use, we request consent from the user. You can withdraw this consent at any time. Until that consent is granted, only cookies will be used that are necessary to operate our online offering. Use of those cookies is based on the interest of both ourselves and the user in the expected functionality of our online offering.
The use of necessary cookies is based on legitimate interests. Our interests are the user-friendly use of our website.
If you consent to the use of cookies, the lawful basis for processing your data is your declared consent.
Web analysis
This website uses the web analysis tool „Google Analytics“ if you have consented to the use of this service. Its purpose is to adapt this website to your needs. Web analysis also helps us to detect and eliminate errors on the Internet page, e.g., incorrect links. Google Analytics uses so-called „cookies“. These are text files that are stored on your computer and permit analysis of how you use the website. As part of this process, „client IDs “ are used, which create pseudonym user profiles that collate the use of the website by a user from a desktop computer or mobile device.
The information about use of this website generated by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Because we have activated something called IP anonymization on this website and have concluded an order processing contract with Google to this effect, your IP address is first truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or other treaty states of the European Economic Area agreement. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a server in the USA by Google and truncated there.
Google is certified according to the so-called „Privacy Shield“ (List entry). Adequate data protection standards are guaranteed by Google.
You can prevent the acquisition of the data that is generated by the cookie and refers to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) to Google and processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).
Alternatively, and this applies in particular to mobile devices, you can block data collection by Google Analytics by clicking the following link. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be set, which will block collection of your data when you visit this website in the future: Deactivate Google Analytics.
You will find more detailed information about the conditions of use of Google Analytics and data protection notices here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Purposes of the processing of personal data
We process personal data in order to operate our website and to fulfil our contractual obligations with respect to our customers and to uphold our legitimate interests.
If you make inquiries outside an active customer relationship, we process that data for sales and advertising purposes. You can object to your personal data being used for advertising purposes at any time.
Voluntary information
Any data that you provide to us voluntarily, e.g. in forms, and which is not required to fulfil our contractual obligations, we process on the justified assumption that the processing and use of that data is in your interests.
Recipient / Transfer of data
Any data that you provide to us will not be passed on to third parties. In particular, your data will not be passed on to third parties for advertising purposes.
However, we may use service providers to operate this website or other products or services. In this case, it is possible that a service provider may obtain knowledge of personal data. We select our service providers with care, especially with respect to data protection and data security, and take all measures required by data protection law to ensure reliable data processing.
Data processing outside the European Union
If personal data are processed outside the European Union, you can see this from the preceding statements.
Data protection officer
We are not obliged by law to designate a data protection officer acc. to Art. 37 GDPR and Art. 38 of the German Federal Data Protection Law (BDSG) (new) and have not designated one voluntarily.
Your rights as a data subject
You have the right to access personal data stored about you. You can contact us at any time to access this data.
If you request access to data in a non-written form, please understand that we may request proof of identify that you are the person who you claim to be.
Furthermore, you have the right to rectification or erasure or restriction of processing of data if you have a legal right to do so.
After all, you have the right to object to this processing within the framework of the statutory provisions. The same applies to the right of data portability.
Erasure of data
We always erase personal data when no grounds for their continued storage are exist. One ground for keeping data stored may be when data are still required to meet contractual commitments, in order to be able to assess, grant, and deny guarantee and possibly warranty claims. In the case of a statutory retention obligation, erasure can only be performed after the relevant retention period has expired.
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of personal data by us with a supervisory authority for data protection.
Changes to this data privacy notice
We revise this data privacy notice when we make changes to this website or for any other reason that makes it necessary. You will always find the most up-to-date version on this website.
Version: 2019-11-28