Privacy

1. Privacy at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data includes all data with which you can be personally identified. You will find detailed information on the subject of privacy in our privacy policy listed below in this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Its contact details can be found in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected when you give it to us. For example, this could be data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. This data mainly consists of technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or the time you called the page). This information is collected automatically when you enter this website.

How do we use your data?

Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website operates without errors. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent for the future at any time. Under certain circumstances, you also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time at the address provided in the legal notice for this and other questions on the subject of data protection.

Analysis tools and third-party tools

When you visit this website, your surfing behaviour can be statistically evaluated. This evaluation is mainly carried out using so-called analysis programs.

Detailed information on these analysis programs can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. Hosting and content delivery networks (CDN)

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 IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website access attempts 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 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)) and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online service by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and will follow our instructions with regard to this data.

Conclusion of a contract for order processing

In order to guarantee processing in accordance with data protection regulations, we have concluded a contract for order processing with our host.

3. General notes and compulsory information

Privacy

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 and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data includes data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how we collect data and for what purpose.

We would like to point out that data transmission via the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the responsible party

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

Werkzeugtechnik Niederstetten GmbH & Co. KG
Hohe Buche 15
97996 Niederstetten
Germany

Phone: +49 7932 9120-0
E-mail: info@wtn.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Data protection officer required by law

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Jochen Frank
Frank-ITS GmbH
Wollreffenweg 45
74613 Öhringen
Germany

Phone: +49 7932 9120-0
E-mail: datenschutz@wtn.de

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke previously granted consent at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA IS PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION, INCLUDING PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR RESPECTIVE PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE THAT COMPELLING LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR PROCESSING EXIST WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THAT THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING, INCLUDING PROFILING, INSOFAR AS IT IS LINKED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING: IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT ADVERTISING (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, those concerned have a right of appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place where the suspected infringement was committed. The right of appeal is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data transferability

You have the right to have the data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible person, this will only take place if it is technically feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser address line changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, deletion and rectification

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correct or delete this data free of charge at any time. You can contact us at the address provided in the legal notice about this topic and other questions on the subject of personal data at any time.

Right to restrict processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You can contact us at the address provided in the legal notice at any time. The right to restrict processing exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we usually need time to verify this circumstance. For the duration of the verification process, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is carried out unlawfully, you can request that the data processing be restricted instead of deleted.
• If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data instead of deleting it.
• If you have lodged an objection under Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data, apart from being stored, may be processed only with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or on grounds of an important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

Objected to advertising e-mails

The use of contact data published within the scope of the obligation to provide a legal notice for the transmission of not expressly requested advertising and information material is hereby prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, e.g. through spam e-mails.

4. Data collection on this website

Cookies

Our Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files and do not cause any damage to your terminal device. They are stored on your terminal device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

In some cases, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your terminal device when you enter our site (third-party cookies). These cookies enable us or you to use certain services of the third party company (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary as certain website functions would not function without them (e.g. the shopping basket function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to evaluate user behaviour or display advertising.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process (necessary cookies) or to provide certain functions requested by you (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping basket function) or to optimise the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is given. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of his services. If consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the cookies in question will be stored exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR); consent may be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Insofar as cookies are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you separately about this within the scope of this privacy policy and, if necessary, request your consent.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.

Borlabs Cookie

WPML

Statistics

Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website.

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used by third-party providers or publishers to display personalised advertisements. They do this by tracking visitors across websites.

External media

Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website. If cookies are accepted by external media, access to this content no longer requires manual consent.

Google Maps

Contact form

If you send us enquiries using the contact form, your details from the enquiry form including the contact data you provide there will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR insofar as your enquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR), provided that such consent has been requested.

We store the data you enter in the contact form until you request us to delete it or revoke your consent for storage or if the purpose for which the data is stored no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

Request by e-mail, telephone or fax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your enquiry, including all personal data resulting from it (name, questions), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR insofar as your enquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR), provided that such consent has been requested.

We will store the data you sent to us via contact requests until you request that we delete it or revoke your consent for storage or if the purpose for which the data was stored no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular legal retention periods – remain unaffected.

Registration with Facebook Connect

Instead of registering directly on this website, you can register with Facebook Connect. This service is provided by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. According to Facebook, however, the data collected is also transferred to the United States and other third countries.

If you decide to register with Facebook Connect and click the “Login with Facebook”/”Connect with Facebook” button, you will automatically be redirected to the Facebook platform. There you can log in with your user data. This links your Facebook profile to this website or our services and gives us access to your data stored on Facebook. This data mainly includes the following:

• Facebook name
• Facebook profile and cover picture
• Facebook cover picture
• E-mail address saved with Facebook
• Facebook ID
• Facebook friends list
• Facebook likes
• Date of birth
• Gender
• Country
• Language

This data is used to set up, provide and personalise your account.

Registration with Facebook-Connect and the associated data processing procedures are based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

For more information, please see the Facebook Terms of Use and the Facebook Privacy Policy. You can find them under: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/ and https://de-de.facebook.com/legal/terms/.

5. Social media

Facebook plugins (Like and Share button)

Plugins of the social network Facebook are integrated on this website. This service is provided by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. According to Facebook, however, the data collected is also transferred to the United States and other third countries.

You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on this website. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.

When you visit this website, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of this website on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate the visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For more information, please refer to the Facebook privacy statement at https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign visits to this website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

The Facebook plugins are used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the widest possible visibility in the social media. If the relevant consent has been requested, processing shall be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

6. Plugins and tools

YouTube with enhanced privacy

This website incorporates videos from YouTube. The site is operated by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in advanced privacy mode. According to YouTube, this mode has the effect that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. On the other hand, the transfer of data to YouTube partners is not necessarily excluded by the extended privacy mode. In this way, YouTube connects to the Google DoubleClick network, regardless of whether you are watching a video.

As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, after starting a video, YouTube can store various cookies on your terminal device or use comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to gather video statistics, improve user experience and prevent fraud.

If necessary, after the start of a YouTube video, further data processing operations may be triggered over which we have no influence.

YouTube is used in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the scope of Art. 6 para. 1 letter f GDPR. If the relevant consent has been requested, processing shall be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

For more information about YouTube’s privacy policy, please see their privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google web fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. The Google fonts are installed locally. There is no connection to Google servers.

Further information on Google web fonts can be found under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the privacy policy of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Adobe fonts

This website uses Adobe web fonts for the uniform display of certain fonts. The provider is Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA (Adobe).

When you access this website, your browser loads the required fonts directly from Adobe in order to display them correctly on your device. Your browser connects to the servers of Adobe in the United States. This will allow Adobe to know that your IP address was used to access this website. According to Adobe, no cookies are stored when providing the fonts.

Adobe is certified according to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Privacy Shield is an agreement between the United States of America and the European Union to ensure compliance with European data protection standards. More information can be found under: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

The data is stored and analysed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of the typeface on its website. If the relevant consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), processing shall be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

More information on Adobe Fonts can be found under: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html.

The privacy policy of Adobe can be found under: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policy.html

Google Maps

This site uses map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the scope of Art. 6 para. 1 letter f GDPR. If the relevant consent has been requested, processing shall be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

7. E-commerce and payment processors

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent that they are necessary for the establishment, content or modification of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data about the use of this website (usage data) only to the extent necessary to enable or charge the user for the use of the service.

The collected customer data is deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

8. Own services

Handling of applicant data

We offer you the opportunity to apply for a job with us (e.g. by e-mail, post or online application form). In the following, we will inform you about the scope, purpose and use of your personal data collected during the application process. We assure you that the collection, processing and use of your data is carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection law and all other legal provisions and that your data is treated in strict confidence.

Scope and purpose of data collection

If you send us an application, we will process your associated personal data (e.g. contact and communication data, application documents, notes taken during job interviews, etc.) to the extent that this is necessary to decide on the establishment of an employment relationship. Here, the legal basis under German law is § 26 BDSG (new) (German Federal Data Protection Act) (initiation of an employment relationship), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (general contract initiation) and – if you have consented – Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Consent can be revoked at any time. Your personal data will only be passed on within our company to persons who are involved in the processing of your application.

If the application is successful, the data submitted by you will be stored in our data processing systems on the basis of § 26 BDSG (new) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR for the purpose of implementing the employment relationship.

Data retention period

If we are unable to make you a job offer, if you reject a job offer or if we withdraw your application, we reserve the right to keep the data you have submitted to us for up to 6 months from the end of the application procedure (rejection or withdrawal of the application) on the basis of our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). The data will then be deleted and the physical application documents destroyed. In particular, the data retention serves as evidence in the event of a legal dispute. If it is evident that the data will be required after the 6-month period has expired (e.g. due to an impending or pending legal dispute), the data will not be deleted until the purpose for further storage no longer applies.

Longer storage may also take place if you have given your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or if statutory storage obligations prevent deletion.

Admission to the applicant pool

If we do not make you a job offer, it might be possible to include you in our pool of applicants. If you are accepted, all documents and details from your application will be transferred to the applicant pool in order to contact you in case of suitable vacancies.

Admission to the applicant pool takes place exclusively on the basis of your express consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). Giving consent is voluntary and has no relation to the ongoing application procedure. The person concerned can revoke his or her consent at any time. In this case, the data will be irrevocably deleted from the pool of applicants unless there are legal grounds for retention.

The data will be irrevocably deleted from the applicant pool no later than two years after consent has been given.