Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is

GERADTS GmbH
Kleiner Ort 8
28357 Bremen

Represented by
Werner Geradts, Managing Director

Editor of website
Dipl. Ing. Guy Zoll (address s.o. see above)

Contact
Telephone: +49 (0) 421 207400
Fax: +49 (0) 421 2074040
E-Mail: info@geradts.de

Incorporation
Commercial register entry
Registry court: Bremen
Registration number: HRB 9938

VAT ID
Value added tax identification number
according to §27a sales tax law:
DE811394301

 

Your rights concerning your personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Concerning your personal data, you are granted the following rights by the European legislator. If you wish to avail yourself of any of the following rights, you may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

  • the right of confirmation:
    the right to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed
    the right of access:
    the right to obtain from the controller free information about your personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information, the purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
    the right to rectification
    the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
  • the right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
    the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay.  The controller shall have the obligation to erase your personal data without undue delay where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
  • the right of restriction of processing
    the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies: the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
    the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead.
    the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
    you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override yours.
  • the right to object
    the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The GERADTS GMBH shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  • the right to data portability
    the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
  • the right to withdraw data protection consent
    If you consented in us processing your personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.

You can always lodge a complaint with a list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

 

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only share your personal information with third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent
  • processing is required to fulfill a contract with you,
  • the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,

processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your information.

 

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or as called for by the various storage periods defined by law. After discontinuation of the respective purpose or expiration of these deadlines, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with applicable law.

 

Collecting general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, a cookie automatically records information of a general nature. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This information does not allow conclusions about your person.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the contents of web pages requested by you and is mandatory when using the internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • ensuring a hassle-free connection of the website,
  • ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • Evaluation of system security and stability as well
  • for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest for the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your information to draw conclusions about you. The recipient of the data is only the controller and possibly the processor.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated to optimize our website and the underlying technology.

 

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically gives us certain data, such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies can not be used to launch programs or to transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate navigation and enable the correct display of our websites.

In no case will the data collected by us be made available to third parties or be linked to your personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies.

You may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers.

Please refer to the help function of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that if you have disabled the use of cookies, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.

 

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption techniques (such as SSL) ) via HTTPS.

 

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", ie text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the EU. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the controller, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the controller. The IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data provided by Google.

The purposes of data processing are is to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the internet, other related services will be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the controller.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may object to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link  Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking on this link.

An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting this site and browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

 

Using Adobe Typekit

We use Adobe Typekit to visually customize our site. Typekit is a service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. which grants us access to a font library. To integrate the fonts we use, your browser needs to connect to an Adobe server in the US and download the font we need for our website. Adobe receives the information that your website has been called from your IP address. For more information about Adobe Typekit, please refer to the Adobe privacy policy, which can be found here: www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html

 

Using Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of map features by visitors. For more information about Google's data processing, please refer to the Google Privacy Notice.

You can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center. For detailed instructions on how to manage your personal data related to Google products, please click here.

 

Changing our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy to always comply with the latest legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. Your new visit will be subject to the new privacy policy.

 

Questions to the data controller

If you have any questions about privacy, please email us or contact the person responsible for privacy in our organization:
datenschutz@geradts.de

 

Content deviations between German and English texts of this privacy policy may occur. Only the German version of this statement is legally binding.

 

The privacy policy has been created with the privacy statement generator of activeMind AG.