PRIVACY POLICY

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations as well as this Privacy Policy.
A variety of personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data refers to data with which you can be personally identified.
This Privacy Policy provides an explanation of what data we collect, what we use it for and the purpose for which it is collected.
We would like to point out that data transmission via the internet can be vulnerable to security breaches. Complete protection of personal information from unauthorised access by third parties is not possible.

1. GENERAL NOTES AND REQUIRED INFORMATION

NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY:
Vollrath GmbH
Max-Planck-Str. 13
50354 Hürth

How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected automatically or following the provision of consent by IT systems when you visit the website. This information is technical data (internet browser, time of page view etc.) that is automatically collected when you visit the website.
Other data is collected when you provide it to us, for example, when filling in the contact form.

What do we use your data for?
We primarily collect and use your personal data solely to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Some data may also be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What are your rights?
You have the right to obtain information about the source, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time. You are also entitled to have this data corrected or deleted. If you have given your consent to data processing, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time. You are entitled to have data that we process automatically based on your consent or for the performance of a contract handed over to you or a third party in a common, machine-readable format. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.

STORAGE DURATION
Unless a specific storage period has been specified, we will store your personal data until the purpose for processing ceases to apply. If you request the legitimate deletion of your data or withdraw your consent, your data will be deleted unless other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data exist.

SSL ENCRYPTION
This website uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from http:// to https:// and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.

OBJECTION TO ADVERTISING EMAILS
The use of contact data published within the framework of the legal notice obligation to send advertising and information materials that have not been expressly requested is hereby prohibited. The operators of the site reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, as well as your rights regarding data protection, please contact:

ITU
Innovative Technologie und Unternehmensberatung GmbH & Co. KG
Michael Errens
Zechenring 10
41836 Hückelhoven
Phone: +49 2433 8050 20
E-Mail: info@itu-beratung.de

DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE
COOKIES
Our website partly uses so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.
You can configure your browser to be informed about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this website may be limited if cookies are deactivated.

SERVER LOG FILES
The provider of the website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of server enquiry
• IP address

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

CONTACT FORM
If you send us enquiries and messages via the contact form, the information you provide in the form, including the contact details you enter there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. This data will not be transferred to anyone without your consent.
This means that the data entered in the contact form is processed exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You are entitled to revoke this consent at any time. To do so, simply send us an informal message by email. The legality of the data processing operations conducted until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory provisions in particular, retention periods – shall remain unaffected.

2. ANALYSIS TOOLS AND ADVERTISING
GOOGLE MAPS
Our website uses the Google Maps service to visually display geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google collects, processes and uses data about the use of the Maps function. Detailed information on data processing by Google can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc.,1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (hereinafter: Google).
Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Google guarantees that it will follow the EU’s data protection regulations when processing data in the United States.
The Google Analytics service is used to analyze how our website is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our site.
Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, place, time, or frequency of your visits to our website will be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-called anonymization function, whereby Google truncates the IP address within the EU or the EEA before it is transmitted to the US.
The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of visits to our website and what visitors do once there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and of the internet in general.
Google states that it will not connect your IP address to other data. In addition, Google provides further information with regard to its data protection practices at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners,
including options you can exercise to prevent such use of your data.
In addition, Google offers an opt-out add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
in addition with further information. This add-on can be installed on the most popular browsers and offers you further control over the data that Google collects when you visit our website. The add-on informs Google Analytics’ JavaScript (ga.js) that no information about the website visit should be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use as detailed herein.