Datenschutzerklärung
The protection of your personal data is important to us
We strictly follow the provisions of the applicable data protection laws, particularly the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) and the German Federal Protection Act (BDSG), as well as this data protection declaration. We only process our users’ personal data insofar as this is necessary for the provision of a functioning website as well as our content, services, offers, etc.
Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
The data protection declaration provides an overview of which personal data are processed and for what purposes: Furthermore, this data protection declaration describes how we ensure the security of your personal data.
1. Controller name and contact information
The data protection information applies to data processed by:
Controller:
ETI experts GmbH
Amsterdamer Straße 133 b
50735 Cologne, Germany
Phone: +49 221 285401-0
Fax: +49 221 285401-70
Email: info@eti-experts.de
Website: www.eti-experts.de
2. Data protection officer contact information
Thoralf Schneider
Phone: +49 (0)221 285401-82
E-Mail: datenschutz@eti-experts.de
3. Collection and storage of personal data; type and purpose of use
a) When accessing our website
You can access our website www.eti-experts.de without having to share personal data (who you are).
When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e. without registering or otherwise transmitting information to us, we only collect the personal data transmitted to our server by your browser. When our website www.eti-experts.de is accessed, the browser used on your device automatically transmits information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without intervention from you and stored until automatically erased:
- IP address of the enquiring computer,
- Date and time of access,
- Name and URL of the file retrieved,
- Website initiating the access (referrer URL),
- Browser used and, where applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider, language, and browser version software
The data specified are processed by us for the following purposes:
- Ensuring smooth connection to the website,
- Ensuring convenient use of our website,
- Analysing system security and stability, as well as
- for additional administrative purposes.
The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f) EU-GDPR. Our legitimate interest arises from the above purposes of data collection. The data collected will never be used to draw conclusions about you.
Our website also uses cookies when accessed. Cookies are not harmful to your computer and do not contain viruses. For more details, please refer to section 4 of this data protection declaration.
b) When using our contact form
We provide a contact form on our website that enables you to submit questions, remarks, comments, etc. Using the form requires you to provide your email address and name to let us know who to respond to; any other information is disclosed voluntarily.
The legal basis for data processing is your voluntarily consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a) EU-GDPR).
Personal data collected for use in the contact form are deleted after processing your enquiry.
4. Transmission of data to third parties
Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties for purposes other than those specified below. Your personal data are especially not transferred to third-parties without your explicit consent, e.g. for advertising purposes.
We only share your personal data with third parties, if:
- We have your explicit consent according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a) EU-GDPR;
- it is lawful and necessary for the performance of our contract according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b) EU-GDPR, e.g. transfers to banks for handling contractually agreed payments, to logistics and shipping companies for purposes of transporting goods including tracking, for non-fulfillment of contractually agreed-upon payments for purposes of law enforcement to lawyers and legal services companies;
- in the event there is a statutory obligation for the transfer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c) EU-GDPR; and
- the transfer is necessary to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f) of the EU-GDPR and there is no reason to assume you have an overriding legitimate interest in not transferring your data.
5. Cookies
We use cookies on our website. These are small text files that are automatically created by your internet browser and stored on your end device (e.g. PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware. Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case 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 serves, among other things, to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use cookies to recognize whether you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site. In addition, we use cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to make use of our services, it is automatically recognized whether you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. A distinction must be made between cookies that are absolutely necessary to provide the services on this website (necessary cookies) and those that are not absolutely necessary (non-essential cookies). This website will not function properly without the use of necessary cookies. Such cookies are used exclusively by us (so-called first party cookies) and all information stored in these cookies is only sent to this website. Necessary cookies are used regardless of whether you have given your consent. The legal basis for data processing in this case is our legitimate interests, i.e. our interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website and our services (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) EU GDPR). Non-essential cookies used by us can be divided into the categories of preference, statistics and marketing. Marketing cookies are used by external companies (so-called third party cookies) to collect information about the websites you visit, e.g. to create target group-oriented advertising. Non-essential cookies are only used after you have given your consent. By giving your consent to the use of the cookies listed there and selected by you in a so-called consent tool provided by us on this website, you consent to the use of these cookies. The legal basis for data processing in this case is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) EU GDPR). You can customize your cookie settings at any time by activating or deactivating individual cookies – with the exception of necessary cookies – in the consent tool. You can set your web browser so that the storage of cookies on your end device is generally prevented or you are asked each time whether you agree to the setting of cookies. Once cookies have been set, you can delete them at any time. How this works is described in the help function of the respective web browser. A general deactivation of cookies may lead to functional limitations of this website.
6. Analysis tools and advertising
Our Website uses no tools for analysing users or to track ads.
7. Rights of data subjects
You have the right:
- according to Art. 7 Para. 3 of the EU-GDPR, you can revoke your previously given consent at any time. As a result, we will no longer be able to process data based on this consent in the future. However, the legitimacy of the processing conducted based on the consent until your withdrawal is unaffected;
- according to Article 15 of the EU-GDPR, you can request information about your personal data processed by us. For this, you can request information regarding the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data will be or has been disclosed, the planned retention period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, limitation of processing or revocation, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data, provided it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of an automated-decision making process including profiling and potentially meaningful information in regard to their details;
- according to Article 16 of the EU-GDPR, you can request the immediate rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
- according to Article 17 of the EU-GDPR, you can request the erasure of your personal data stored with us, unless processing is required to exercise the right of free expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims;
- according to Article 18 of the EU-GDPR, you can request the restriction of processing of your personal data, provided you contest the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful, however, you object to the erasure of said data and we no longer require the data but you require it to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims or you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 of the GDPR;
- according to Article 20 of the EU-GDPR, you can request to obtain the data you provided to us in a structured, prevalent, and machine-readable format or to have it transferred to another controller;
- according to Article 77 of the EU-GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority is the Data Protection Commissioner for the federal state in which the company headquarters are located. An overview of Data Protection Commissioners and their contact information can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/.
8. Right to object
If your personal data are processed on legitimate interest based on Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f) EU-GDPR, you have the right according to Art. 21 GDPR to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation. In the event of a legitimate objection, we examine the situation and either cease or adjust data processing, or provide you with obligatory rights to be protected due to which we continue processing.
To exercise your right to withdraw consent or to object, simply email us at info@eti-experts.de.
9. Data security
We take suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in accordance with technological developments.
Further, we use SSL or TLS encryption (SSL = Secure Sockets Layer; TLS = Transport Layer Security; SSL is the previous descriptor of TLS) for your website access. You can see that individual pages of our website are encrypted if the address bar of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the closed padlock icon in the address bar of the browser. If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, third parties cannot gain unauthorised access to the data you transmit to us.
10. Version and changes to this data protection declaration
This data protection declaration was last revised in November 2018.
Due to technical developments and/or changes in legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to make changes to this data protection declaration. You will know whether changes are made, if the “date” of the document in the first sentence of paragraph 10 has been updated.
You can access and print the latest version of the data protection declaration on our website at www.eti-experts.de/en/data-protection.
11. External hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contractual data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website. The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). Our hoster will only process your data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment of its service obligations and follow our instructions with regard to this data. We use the following hoster:
- RAIDBOXES GmbH
Hafenstraße 32
DE – 48153 Münster - Hetzner Online GmbH
Industriestr. 25
DE – 91710 Gunzenhausen
To ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded an order processing contract with our hoster.
