Protecting your privacy
when processing personal data and the security of all transaction data is very
important to us and is something we take into account in our transaction
processes.
We would like to take this
opportunity to inform you of the nature, scope and purpose of the collection
and use of the personal data you provide us, as well as its processing and
utilisation.
PROTECTION OF
PERSONAL DATA AND CONFIDENTIALITY
Personal data is
information about your identity. These data may include information such as
your name, address, telephone number or email address. It is possible to use
our website without specifying any personal data. This may result in deviating
regulations for the use of individual services on our website. In this case,
such regulations shall be explained separately below. We only process your
personal data (e.g., name, address, email, telephone number or similar)
pursuant to the regulations of German and European data protection law.
Further personal data are
only collected and stored if you voluntarily provide such information, e.g., as
part of a request, registration or application, etc. You may object to the use
of your data at any time. Sending an email to info(at)holz-braun.de is
sufficient for this purpose.
SERVER DATA
In general, you are able to
visit our website without providing any personal data, for example if you only
wish to obtain information about our products and access the corresponding
pages. Each instance of access to our website or a file stored on our website
is logged. This storage is undertaken for internal system-related and
statistical purposes. The following is logged:
- Browser type and version
- Operating system used
- Website you are visiting us from (referrer URL)
- Website you are visiting
- Date and time of access
- Your internet protocol (IP) address
In certain cases, however,
we need your name and your address and other information so that we can provide
the required services, process orders or respond to queries, for example. This
additional personal data are only collected and stored if you voluntarily
provide such information, for example as part of a request, registration,
application to become an employee or supplier or when placing an order and during
its processing.
PURPOSE, USE AND
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
If you provide us with
personal data, we use it solely to answer your questions and follow through
with service requests (orders, participation in contests, etc.). We also use
your data to give you access to certain information or products as well as the
use of information and communications systems and for advertising purposes.
We shall only collect,
process and use the personal data you provide online for the purposes
communicated. Your personal data shall only be disclosed or sent to third
parties where necessary for the purpose of executing the request/processing,
etc. or if you have previously consented to your data being disclosed. Third
parties are not entitled to use this data for other purposes. We of course
respect your decision should you not want your personal data to be used for
supporting our customer relationships (especially for direct marketing or for
market research purposes).
We disclose personal data
about our customers where we are legally required to do so, or if and insofar
as we are obligated to do so by a court decision or if disclosure is required
to execute or protect our General Terms and Conditions or other agreements. The
same shall apply with respect to the storage of data. No data is disclosed for
economic purposes.
DELETION
Stored personal data is
deleted you withdraw your consent to such storage, if knowledge of such data is
no longer necessary to fulfil the intended purpose of such storage or if the
storage of such data is not permitted for other legal reasons unless statutory
retention regulations preclude deletion, in which case data shall be blocked
rather than deleted.
INFORMATION
We are happy to inform you
of data stored relating to you upon written request. We endeavour to take all
possible technical and organisational measures to store your personal data in
such a way that it is not accessible to third parties. When communicating by
email, complete data security cannot be guaranteed. We therefore recommend you
send confidential information by post.
COOKIES
It may be the case when you
visit our website that we store information on your computer in the form of
cookies. Cookies are small text files sent to your browser by a web server and
stored on your computer’s hard drive.
The information stored in
these cookies allows you to automatically be recognised when next you visit our
website in order to make our website more user friendly. For example, cookies
enable us to customise a website in line with your interests, or to store your
password so that you do not have to re-enter it each time.
You can also visit our
website without cookies. If you do not wish us to recognise your computer,
please adjust your web browser settings. You can set your browser to block
cookies before a cookie is saved by selecting “block all cookies”.
For full details of how this works, please read the browser manufacturer’s
instructions. If you do not accept any cookies, this may restrict the
functionality of our website.
USE OF GOOGLE
ANALYTICS
Our website uses Google
Analytics, a web analysis service operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon
House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (hereinafter referred to as “Google”).
Google Analytics uses “cookies” that are stored on your computer to help
analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie, for
example the time, place and frequency of you visiting the website, including
your IP address, shall be sent to a Google server in the US and stored there.
Our website uses Google Analytics with an IP anonymisation feature. In this
case, your IP address is first truncated by Google within the Member States of
the European Union or in other signatory states party to the Agreement on the
European Economic Area and sent to Google in an anonymised form.
Google will use this
information to evaluate your use of our website, compiling reports on website
activity for us and for the provision of other services related to website
activity and internet usage. Google may also pass this information on to third
parties if and insofar as this is required by law or if and insofar as third
parties process such data on Google’s behalf. Data processing outside the
European Union can not be ruled out.
Under no circumstances will
Google associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may
refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your
browser; however, we would point out that this may result in you not being able
to use all the features of our website
Furthermore, Google
provides a disabling option for the most commonly used browsers, which gives
you greater control over what data are recorded and processed by Google. If you
enable this option, no information on your visit to the website shall be sent
to Google Analytics. However, enabling this option does not prevent information
being sent to us or other web analysis services we may be using. Further
information on the disabling option provided by Google and on enabling this
option is available here.
USE OF GOOGLE
ADWORDS
Google Ads Conversion
We use the services of Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google Ads) on external websites. We can determine in relation to the data of the advertising campaigns how successful the individual advertising measures are. We are interested in showing you advertisements that are of interest to you, to make our website more interesting for you and to achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs.
The advertising materials are delivered by Google via so-called “Ad Servers”. For this purpose, we use ad server cookies, through which certain parameters for measuring success, such as the insertion of ads or clicks by users, can be measured. If you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads stores a cookie on your device. These cookies usually expire after 30 days and are not intended to identify you personally. For this cookie, the unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (mark that the user no longer wishes to be addressed) are usually stored as analysis values.
These cookies enable Google to recognize your Internet browser. If a user visits certain pages of an Ads customer’s website and the cookie stored on their device has not expired, Google and the customer can recognize that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Each Ads customer is assigned a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be traced via the websites of Ads customers. We do not collect and process any personal data in the aforementioned advertising measures. We only receive statistical evaluations from Google. On the basis of these evaluations we can recognize which of the used advertising measures are particularly effective. We do not receive any further data from the use of advertising material; in particular, we cannot identify users on the basis of this information.
Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically starts a direct connection to the Google server. We have no influence on the extent and the further use of the data which are raised by the use of this tool by Google and inform you therefore according to our knowledge: By the integration of Ads conversion Google receives the information that you called the appropriate part of our Internet appearance or clicked an announcement of us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may associate your visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the providers may obtain and store your IP address.
Google Ads Remarketing
We use the remarketing function within the Google Ads service. The remarketing function allows us to present to users of our website advertisements based on their interests on other websites within the Google advertising network (in Google search or on YouTube, so-called “Google ads” or on other websites). For this purpose, the interaction of users on our website is analyzed, e.g. which offers the user was interested in, in order to be able to display targeted advertising to users even after visiting our website on other pages. To do this, Google stores a number in the browsers of users who visit certain Google services or websites in the Google Display Network. This number, known as a “cookie”, is used to record the visits of these users. The number is used to uniquely identify a web browser on a particular device and not to identify a person; personal data is not stored.
You can prevent participation in this tracking process in various ways: a) by setting your browser software accordingly, in particular by suppressing third-party cookies, you will not receive any ads from third-party providers; b) by deactivating cookies for conversion tracking, by setting your browser so that cookies are blocked by the domain www.googleadservices.com, https://www.google.de/settings/ads, this setting being deleted when you delete your cookies; c) by deactivating the interest-based ads of the providers that are part of the “About Ads” self-regulation campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, this setting being deleted when you delete your cookies; d) by permanently deactivating Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome in your browsers under the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin, e) by setting your cookie preferences accordingly. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer in full.
LINKS
If and insofar as you make
use of external links provided on our website, this Privacy Policy shall not
extend to these links. When providing links, we strive to ensure that such
links comply with our data protection and security standards. However, we have
no control over other providers’ compliance with data protection and security
provisions. As such, we would request that you consult the websites of other
providers’ for their specific privacy policies.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to
amend our security and data protection measures if and insofar as this is
necessary due to technical developments. In such cases, we shall modify our
Privacy Policy accordingly. As such, please note the current version of our
Privacy Policy.
ORGANISATION
RESPONSIBLE / RIGHT OF OBJECTION / CONTACT INFORMATION
You may revoke your consent
to our collection, processing and use of your personal data at any time. Should
you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or if you have any requests
for correction or deletion regarding your data, please feel free to notify us
by email to info(at)holz-braun.de or by post to Holz Braun GmbH Co KG, Am
Südbahnhof 20, 72766 Reutlingen
Our data privacy officer:
IITR GmbH, Dr. Seabstian Kraska, Eschenrieder Straße 62c, 82194 Gröbenzell, dsb@holz-braun.de, Tel: 089-18917360