Data protection is an important topic for us.

Protecting your personal data is therefore a particular concern of ours. Your personal data, which you electronically transfer to ROTORCOMP VERDICHTER GmbH when using our website, such as names, address, e-mail address or other personal information, is collected and processed in compliance with the provisions applicable under data protection law.

In this privacy policy, you can find more information about the data collected by us and the purposes of our processing of such data. Furthermore, we inform you about the rights you have due to the described data collection and processing. The legal basis here is the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), whose regulations have been applicable since 25/05/2018. It does not only extend the already existing rights to data protection and security, but also improves the protection of personal data.

Responsible party

The responsible party for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR and other provisions under data protection law is ROTORCOMP VERDICHTER GmbH:

Data Protection Officer

Our data protection officer can be contacted at datenschutzbeauftragter@datenschutzexperte.de 

Collection and Retention of Personal Data

Acc. to Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR, personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). This includes both personal information used, such as identification features (e.g. name, address and date of birth), external features or inner states, but also factual information, such as financial circumstances and ownership structures and all other relationships of the data subject to third parties and his or her environment.

Use of Our Website

Purely Informational Website Use

Use of Cookies

In addition, cookies are used when our website is accessed. Cookies are text files which are placed on the hard drive of your computer when our website is visited and are stored by your browser. Cookies cannot execute programmes or transmit viruses to your computer. Their purpose is to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall. Moreover, they serve to identify the user, contain information about websites accessed and transmit such information to the entity by which the cookie was placed.

Our legitimate interest in using cookies in the sense of Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR is to make our website more user-friendly, effective, stable and secure. Based on the use of cookies, we are only provided with pseudonymised information on the extent to which you use our website, especially the website areas visited.

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below: (1) transient cookies and (2) persistent cookies.

Transient cookies are automatically erased when you close the browser. These include, in particular, session cookies. They retain a session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognised if you return to our website. Session cookies are erased once you close the browser.

Persistent cookies are erased automatically after a pre-defined period, which can be different depending on the cookie. You can erase the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

You can configure your browser setting according to your preferences and refuse acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies, for example. Please note that, in this case, you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics also uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and retained there.

Where IP anonymisation is enabled on this website, however, your IP address is abbreviated beforehand by Google in member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the US and abbreviated there. Google uses this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports about the website activities and to provide other services relating to the use of the website and the Internet to the website operator.

The IP address transmitted from your browser as part of Google Analytics is not amalgamated with other data from Google. By setting your browser software accordingly, you can prevent cookies from being retained; however, we point out that you may not have full access to all website functions in this case. In addition, you can prevent the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being transmitted to and being processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. As a result, IP addresses are processed in shortened form, thus excluding reference to a particular individual. Where the data collected about you is assigned a personal reference, it is immediately excluded, and the personal data thus erased immediately.

We use Google Analytics to analyse and make regular improvements to the use of our website. With the statistics that we obtain, we can improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as user. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in the use of Google Analytics. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

For exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the US, Google has agreed to comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Information of the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html , overview of data protection: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en , and the privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB&gl=de .

AddThis-Plug-Ins

Our website contains AddThis plug-ins. These plug-ins enable you to set bookmarks or to share interesting contents with other users. By using the plug-ins, we provide you with the opportunity to interact with the social networks and other users, so that we can improve our website and make it more interesting for you as user. The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

By using the AddThis plug-ins, your web browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of AddThis and, where appropriate, the selected social network or bookmarking service. The recipients are informed that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website and receive the data specified in the “Collection and Retention of Personal Data” section of this policy. This information is processed on the AddThis servers in the US. We have agreed on standard data protection clauses with AddThis. Where you send contents on our website to social networks or bookmarking services, a connection can be made between the visit to our website and your user profile at the corresponding network. We have neither influence on the collected data and data processing procedures nor are we aware of the full scope of the data collection, the processing purposes and the retention periods. We also do not have any information on the erasure of the data collected by the plug-in provider.

The plug-in provider retains this data as user profiles and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the custom configuration of its website. Data (including data of users who are not logged in) is evaluated in this way, in particular, to provide custom advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your use of our website. You have the right to object to the creation of such user profiles; if you intend to exercise this right, please contact the respective plug-in provider.

If you do not want to be part of this process, you can object to the data collection and retention at any time with effect for the future by setting an opt-out cookie: www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. Alternatively, you can set you browser in such a way that it prevents the setting of cookies.
For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider and for more information on your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to: AddThis LLC, 1595 Spring Hill Road, Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, USA, www.addthis.com/privacy.

OpenStreetMap Maps

We use map sections of the “OpenStreetMap” service on our website (https://www.openstreetmap.de). OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping tool; the maps are offered based on the Open Data Commons Open Database licence (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).

To display the map functions, the user’s IP address is forwarded to OpenStreetMap. The data may be processed in the US. More information can be found in the OSMF privacy policy, available at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

We use OpenStreetMap based on Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR; we have a legitimate interest in such data processing, as it serves to improve the user-friendliness of our website.

Specific Establishment of Contact

E-Mail Contact

Where you contact us using the e-mail address specified above or other means, we retain the information provided by you to process any request or follow-up questions. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in processing your data acc. to Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

Use of a Contact Form

When you contact us using one of the contact forms provided on our website, the data provided by you, your first name and surname, gender and e-mail address, is processed. In addition, all other data entered by you in the form as part of the contacting process is retained and processed to such extent that it will be possible to identify you, process your request and answer your questions. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in processing your data acc. to Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR.

The data transferred to us by using the contact form is secured by SSL encryption.

Once the enquiries you made have been resolved in full, the personal data collected by us in the context of a use of the contact form is erased automatically, unless any statutory retention obligations apply. Such data is neither used for any other purpose nor disclosed to third parties.

Customer Login

Using our customer login, you can view additional documents. To access this section, you must contact us and fill out the contact form provided on this website to that end. We will then send you by e-mail the information required for the customer login, i.e. user name and password. The foregoing under “Use of a Contact Form” applies accordingly.

Data Forwarding to Third Parties

In general, we use your personal data only within our company. If and insofar as we engage third parties to fulfil contracts, these will only receive personal data to the extent necessary for providing the corresponding service. This is the case where the data must be forwarded to partner companies due to your order, your request or to meet a contractual obligation. Such partner companies may also be located outside the EU.

Where we outsource certain parts of data processing (“commissioned data processing”), we oblige the contracted data processor by contract to only use personal data in accordance with the provisions of data protection law and to guarantee the protection of the rights of the data subject.

Any transfer of data to bodies or persons outside the EU, other than in cases as listed in this policy, does not take place and is not intended.

Retention Period

Unless otherwise specified in this privacy policy, we erase your personal data stored by us once the purpose for which we have gathered your data ceases to exist. This does not apply only where we are obliged to retain data for longer periods acc. to s. 1 of point (c) of Art. 6(1) GDPR due to retention and documentation obligations under tax and commercial law (from the German Commercial Code, the German Criminal Code or the Fiscal Code of Germany). In this case, your personal data is erased after ten years at the latest. Your personal data will be further retained only where you have given your voluntary consent acc. to s. 1 of point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR.

Furthermore, the general retention period of your personal data may exceptionally be up to 30 years where this is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Your Rights as Data Subject

According to the applicable laws, you have various rights concerning your personal data. If you would like to assert such rights, please direct your enquiry by e-mail or mail to the address provided in the “Controller” section and clearly identify yourself.

Right of Confirmation and Access

You have the right to access to clear information about the processing of your personal data. In detail, this means that you receive a confirmation from us as to whether personal data about you is processed. If this is the case, you have the right to obtain from us access to information regarding the personal data stored and a copy of such data.

Right to Rectification

You have the right to request from us the rectification and, where appropriate, also completion of your personal data.

Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”)

Acc. to Art. 17 No. 1 GDPR, you have the right to request from us the erasure of your personal data.

Right to Restriction of Processing

In a number of cases, you are entitled to obtain from us a restriction of the processing of your personal data.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive, transfer or have us transfer the personal data concerning you in a machine-readable format.

Right to Object

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you that is based on Art. 6 No. 1 sentence 1 letter e and letter f GDPR. If you would like to make use of this right, you can contact us, especially by e-mail to datenschutzbeauftragter@datenschutzexperte.de .

Right of Withdrawal

Where you have consented to the storage of your data, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, especially in the member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data is unlawful.

EU ODR law

Because you can book training sessions on our internet page, we are advising that you have the option to utilize an EU Online Dispute Resolution option for consumer rights related disputes. For more information, go to  https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/odr/

You are welcome to contact us directly by e-mail with any questions you may have.

Amendment to this Privacy Policy

Should the factual and/or legal framework conditions change, we reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy. The respective current privacy policy is published at this page on our website http://www.rotorcomp.de/legal-information/privacy/ .