Privacy Policy

Name and contact of the controller pursuant to Article 4(7) of the GDPR:
Variomeat GmbH
Adress: Heinrich-Kuper-Straße 7, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)5244 904530
Mail: info@variomeat.de

SECURITY AND PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We consider it our primary task to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data you provide and to protect them from unauthorized access. Therefore, we apply the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data. We are subject to the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that data protection regulations are complied with both by us and by our external service providers.

DEFINITIONS

The legislator requires that personal data be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a manner that is comprehensible to the data subject (“lawfulness, fairness, transparency”). To ensure this, we inform you about the individual legal definitions that are also used in this privacy policy:

1.) Personal Data

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

2.) Processing

“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.

3.) Restriction of Processing

“Restriction of processing” means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

4.) Profiling

“Profiling” means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

5.) Pseudonymization

“Pseudonymization” means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

6.) Filing System

“Filing system” means any structured collection of personal data which is accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized, or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.

7.) Controller

“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

8.) Processor

“Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

9.) Recipient

“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

10.) Third Party

“Third party” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body other than the data subject, controller, processor, and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.

11.) Consent

“Consent” of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

LAWFULNESS OF PROCESSING

The processing of personal data is only lawful if there is a legal basis for the processing. According to Article 6(1) lit. a – f GDPR, the legal bases for processing may be:

1.) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes; 2.) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract; 3.) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject; processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person; 4.) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller; 5.) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

INFORMATION ON THE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

In the following, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is, for example, name, address, email addresses, user behavior.

When you contact us by email or through a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, and if applicable, your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or we restrict the processing if there are legal retention obligations.

If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We will also specify the criteria for the storage period.

YOUR RIGHTS

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

• Right to information,
• Right to rectification or deletion,
• Right to restriction of processing,
• Right to object to the processing,
• Right to data portability.

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

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE

In the case of merely informative use of the website, 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 ensure stability and security (legal basis is Article 6(1) sentence 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 in each case
• Website from which the request comes
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

Cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk in the browser you use and through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookie (in this case, us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functioning of which are explained below:

• Transient cookies (see a)
• Persistent cookies (see b).

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

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

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

CONTACT FORM AND EMAIL CONTACT

If you contact us with questions of any kind by email or contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting us. For this purpose, you must provide a valid email address. This serves to assign the request and then answer it. The specification of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions. After your request has been processed, your personal data will be automatically deleted.

USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis 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 this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before this happens. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA 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 the website operator with other services relating to website and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. 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. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating 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.

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click on this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie is stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. As a result, IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, so that a personal relationship can be ruled out. As far as the data collected about you is personal, it will be excluded immediately and the personal data will be deleted immediately.

We use Google Analytics to analyze 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 subjected itself 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 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Third-party 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, Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and Privacy Policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND CONTENT

It may happen that third-party content, such as videos from YouTube, maps from Google Maps, RSS feeds, or graphics from other websites, is integrated within this online offer. This always presupposes that the providers of this content (hereinafter referred to as “third-party providers”) perceive the IP address of the user. Because without the IP address, they could not send the content to the browser of the respective user. The IP address is therefore required for the presentation of this content. We make every effort to use only those contents whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the contents. However, we have no influence on this if the third-party providers store the IP address, e.g., for statistical purposes. As far as we know, we will inform the users about it.

DATA SECURITY

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation, and the nature, scope, circumstances, and purposes of processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk. These measures shall include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical access to, access to, inputting, disclosure, securing, availability, and separation of data. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure that data subjects’ rights are exercised, data is deleted, and we respond to any threats to the data. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development or selection of hardware, software, and processes, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and data protection-friendly default settings (Art. 25 GDPR).

The security measures include, in particular, the encrypted transmission of data between your browser and our server.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change the privacy policy in order to adapt it to changes in the legal situation or in the event of changes to the service or data processing. However, this only applies to declarations of data processing. If users’ consent is required or elements of the privacy policy contain provisions of the contractual relationship with the users, the changes will only be made with the consent of the users.

Users are requested to inform themselves regularly about the content of the privacy policy.

CONCLUSION

If you have any further questions about our data protection measures, please contact us. You will find the contact details at the top of this page. If you have any questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, information, correction, blocking, or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consents granted or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly via the contact details provided in our imprint.

Thank you for taking the time to read our privacy policy. We appreciate your trust.