We are pleased that you are visiting our website https://www.strahlktechnik-express.de and thank you for your interest in our company! Protecting your privacy and personal data when you use our website is very important to us. Through this Privacy Policy, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process, and to explain your rights under this Privacy Policy. Please therefore take note of the following information regarding how we handle your data.
Privacy Policy
1) Information Regarding the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Information for the Data Controller
a) We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we provide information about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data refers to any data that can be used to personally identify you.
b) The data controller for this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ABS Strahltechnik | Owner Anne Ebel, Liedekerker Str. 9, 48565 Steinfurt, Germany, Tel.: 02551/5030, Fax: 02551/1829445, Email: info@strahltechnik-express.de. The data controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
c) For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the data controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “https://” prefix and the lock icon in your browser’s address bar.
2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
When you use our website for informational purposes only—that is, if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information—we collect only the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- The website we visited
- Date and time of access
- Amount of data transmitted in bytes
- Source/link from which you arrived at this page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
Data processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be disclosed or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively should there be concrete indications of unlawful use.
3) Cookies
To make your visit to our website more enjoyable and to enable the use of certain features, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session—that is, when you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). When cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information—such as browser and location data as well as IP addresses—to varying degrees. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.
In some cases, cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by storing settings (e.g., remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website). If personal data is also processed through individual cookies we have implemented, such processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, either for the performance of a contract, or in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in ensuring the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective user experience.
We may work with advertising partners who help us make our website more interesting for you. For this purpose, when you visit our website, cookies from partner companies may also be stored on your hard drive (third-party cookies). If we collaborate with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in each case in the paragraphs below.
Please note that you can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set and allow you to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept them, or to block cookies in specific cases or generally. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in each browser’s Help menu, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers at the following links:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
4) Contact Us
When you contact us (e.g., via the contact form or email), personal data is collected. The specific data collected when using the contact form is indicated on the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. If your contact is aimed at entering into a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your inquiry has been fully processed; this is the case when it is evident from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively resolved and provided that no statutory retention obligations preclude such deletion.
5) Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account and for Contract Fulfilment
In accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide it to us for the purpose of fulfilling a contract or when opening a customer account. The data collected is specified in the respective input forms. You may delete your customer account at any time by sending a message to the above-mentioned address of the data controller. We store and use the data you provide for the purpose of contract fulfillment. After the contract has been fully fulfilled or your customer account has been deleted, your data will be blocked in accordance with retention periods under tax and commercial law and deleted upon the expiration of these periods, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we have reserved the right to further use your data as permitted by law, about which we will inform you accordingly below.
6) Data Processing for Order Fulfillment
a) To process your order, we work with the service providers listed below, who assist us, in whole or in part, in fulfilling the contracts we have entered into. Certain personal data is transferred to these service providers in accordance with the following information.
The personal data we collect is shared with the shipping carrier responsible for delivery as part of contract fulfillment, to the extent necessary for the delivery of the goods. We share your payment information with the designated financial institution as part of the payment processing, to the extent necessary for processing the payment. If payment service providers are used, we will explicitly inform you of this below. The legal basis for the transfer of data in this case is Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR.
b) To fulfill our contractual obligations to our customers, we work with external shipping partners. We will disclose your name and shipping address to a shipping partner selected by us exclusively for the purpose of delivering goods, in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR.
c) Use of payment service providers
- PayPal
When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or—if offered—“purchase on account” or “installment payment” via PayPal, we will disclose your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”). This transfer is made in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR and only to the extent necessary for payment processing.
PayPal reserves the right to conduct a credit check for the following payment methods: credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or—if offered—“purchase on account” or “installment payments” via PayPal. For this purpose, your payment data may be shared with credit bureaus in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, based on PayPal’s legitimate interest in determining your creditworthiness. PayPal uses the result of the credit check—specifically, the statistical probability of payment default—to determine whether to provide the respective payment method. The credit report may contain probability values (so-called “score values”). To the extent that score values are included in the credit report’s result, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical method. The calculation of the score values includes, among other things but not exclusively, address data. For further information regarding data protection, including details on the credit bureaus used, please refer to PayPal’s Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
You may object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for payment processing in accordance with the contract.
- IMMEDIATELY
If you select the “SOFORT” payment method, payment processing is handled by the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany (hereinafter “SOFORT”), to whom we will disclose the information you provided during the ordering process, along with information about your order, in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. SOFORT GmbH is part of the Klarna Group (Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 11134 Stockholm, Sweden). Your data is transferred exclusively for the purpose of processing payments with the payment service provider SOFORT and only to the extent necessary for this purpose. You can find further information about SOFORT’s privacy policy at the following web address: https://www.klarna.com/sofort/datenschutz
7) Use of Social Media
The data controller has integrated components from Facebook into this website. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is an online social gathering place, an online community that generally enables users to communicate with one another and interact in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences or enable the online community to share personal or business-related information. Among other things, Facebook allows users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos, and connect with others through friend requests.
Facebook is operated by Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If a data subject resides outside the United States or Canada, the controller responsible for the processing of personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Each time a user accesses one of the individual pages of this website—which is operated by the data controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated—the internet browser on the data subject’s IT system is automatically prompted by the respective Facebook component to download a representation of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. A complete overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE. As part of this technical process, Facebook learns which specific subpage of our website the data subject is visiting.
If the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognizes which specific subpage of our website the data subject is visiting each time the data subject accesses our website and throughout the entire duration of their visit to our website. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the data subject’s respective Facebook account. If the data subject clicks one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website—for example, the “Like” button—or posts a comment, Facebook associates this information with the data subject’s personal Facebook user account and stores this personal data.
Facebook receives information via the Facebook component whenever the data subject visits our website, provided that the data subject is logged into Facebook at the time of accessing our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If the data subject does not wish for this information to be transmitted to Facebook, they can prevent the transmission by logging out of their Facebook account before visiting our website.
The Data Policy published by Facebook, available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about Facebook’s collection, processing, and use of personal data. It also explains the settings options Facebook offers to protect the data subject’s privacy. In addition, various applications are available that make it possible to prevent data from being transmitted to Facebook. The data subject may use such applications to prevent data from being transmitted to Facebook.
- Google+
The data controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component on this website. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is a social gathering place operated on the Internet—an online community that generally enables users to communicate with one another and interact in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences or enable the online community to share personal or business-related information. Among other things, Google+ allows users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos, and connect with others through friend requests.
Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Each time a user visits one of the individual pages of this website—which is operated by the data controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated—the Google+ button automatically prompts the web browser on the data subject’s computer system to download a display of the corresponding Google+ button from Google. As part of this technical process, Google learns which specific subpage of our website the data subject is visiting. More detailed information about Google+ is available at https://developers.google.com/+/ .
If the data subject is logged into Google+ at the same time, Google recognizes which specific subpage of our website the data subject is visiting each time the data subject accesses our website and throughout the entire duration of their visit to our website. This information is collected via the Google+ button and assigned by Google to the data subject’s respective Google+ account.
If the data subject clicks one of the Google+ buttons integrated into our website and thereby submits a Google+1 recommendation, Google associates this information with the data subject’s personal Google+ user account and stores this personal data. Google stores the data subject’s Google+1 recommendation and makes it publicly accessible in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. A Google+1 recommendation submitted by the data subject on this website is subsequently stored and processed together with other personal data—such as the name of the Google+1 account used by the data subject and the photo associated with that account—in other Google services, for example, in the search results of the Google search engine, the data subject’s Google Account, or in other locations, such as on websites or in connection with advertisements. Furthermore, Google is able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored by Google. Google also records this personal information for the purpose of improving or optimizing its various services.
Google receives information via the Google+ button that the data subject has visited our website whenever the data subject is logged into Google+ at the time of accessing our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Google+ button or not.
If a data subject does not wish to have their personal data transmitted to Google, they can prevent such transmission by logging out of their Google+ account before visiting our website.
Further information and Google’s applicable privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Additional information from Google regarding the Google+1 button can be found at https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
8) Online Marketing
Use of Google AdWords Conversion Tracking
This website uses the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and, as part of Google AdWords, conversion tracking provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). We use Google AdWords to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites through advertisements (so-called Google AdWords). Based on the data from the advertising campaigns, we can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are. Our goal is to show you advertisements that are relevant to you, to make our website more interesting for you, and to ensure a fair calculation of advertising costs.
The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an AdWords ad displayed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies typically expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are informed of the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can block this functionality by disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie in your web browser’s user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. We use Google AdWords based on our legitimate interest in targeted advertising pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
Google LLC, headquartered in the U.S., is certified under the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield framework, which ensures compliance with the data protection standards applicable in the EU.
You can find more information about Google’s privacy policy at the following web address: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
You can permanently disable cookies for advertising purposes by adjusting the settings in your browser software or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:
http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de
Please note that certain features of this website may not be available or may be limited if you have disabled cookies.
9) Online Marketing Privacy Policy Regarding the Use of Google Analytics (with Anonymization Feature)
The data controller has integrated the Google Analytics component (with anonymization) into this website. Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics refers to the collection, gathering, and evaluation of data regarding the behavior of website visitors. Among other things, a web analytics service collects data on which website a data subject came from to access a particular website (known as a “referrer”), which subpages of the website were accessed, and how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. Web analytics is primarily used to optimize a website and to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of online advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
The data controller uses the suffix "_gat._anonymizeIp" for web analytics via Google Analytics. This suffix causes Google to truncate and anonymize the IP address of the data subject’s Internet connection when access to our website occurs from a member state of the European Union or from another signatory state to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze visitor traffic on our website. Google uses the data and information collected, among other things, to evaluate the use of our website, to compile online reports for us that show activity on our website, and to provide other services related to the use of our website.
Google Analytics places a cookie on the data subject’s information technology system. What cookies are has already been explained above. By placing this cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. Each time a user visits one of the individual pages of this website—which is operated by the data controller and on which a Google Analytics component has been integrated—the web browser on the data subject’s information technology system is automatically prompted by the respective Google Analytics component to transmit data to Google for the purpose of online analysis. As part of this technical process, Google obtains personal data, such as the data subject’s IP address, which Google uses, among other things, to track the origin of visitors and clicks and, consequently, to facilitate commission settlements.
Cookies are used to store personal information, such as the time of access, the location from which access originated, and the frequency of visits to our website by the data subject. Each time our website is visited, this personal data—including the IP address of the internet connection used by the data subject—is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. This personal data is stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may, under certain circumstances, disclose this personal data—collected through technical means—to third parties.
As described above, the data subject can prevent our website from setting cookies at any time by adjusting the settings of the web browser being used, thereby permanently objecting to the setting of cookies. Such a setting in the user’s web browser would also prevent Google from setting a cookie on the data subject’s computer system. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the web browser or other software programs.
Furthermore, the data subject has the option to object to the collection of data generated by Google Analytics regarding the use of this website, as well as to the processing of this data by Google, and to prevent such collection and processing. To do so, the data subject must download and install a browser add-on from the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This browser add-on uses JavaScript to instruct Google Analytics that no data or information regarding website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics. Google considers the installation of the browser add-on to be an objection. If the data subject’s computer system is subsequently deleted, formatted, or reinstalled, the data subject must reinstall the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or deactivated by the data subject or by another person within their control, it is possible to reinstall or reactivate the browser add-on.
Further information and Google’s applicable privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html. Google Analytics is explained in more detail at this link: https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.
As an alternative to the browser plugin or when using browsers on mobile devices, please click the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future (this opt-out cookie works only in this browser and only for this domain; if you delete your cookies in this browser, you will need to click this link again): Disable Google Analytics
10) Rights of the Data Subject
a) Applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:
- Right of Access pursuant to Article 15 of the GDPR: In particular, you have the right to obtain information about the personal data we process about you, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned retention period or the criteria for determining the retention period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us directly from you, the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved, the significance for you, and the intended consequences of such processing, as well as your right to be informed of the safeguards in place pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries;
- Right to rectification pursuant to Article 16 of the GDPR: You have the right to have inaccurate personal data concerning you rectified without delay and/or to have incomplete personal data stored by us completed;
- Right to erasure under Article 17 of the GDPR: You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if the conditions set forth in Article 17(1) of the GDPR are met. However, this right does not apply, in particular, if the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, to comply with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
- Right to Restriction of Processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data while the accuracy of your data—which you dispute—is being verified; if you object to the erasure of your data due to unlawful processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data; if you need your data to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims, after we no longer need this data once the purpose has been fulfilled, or if you have objected on grounds relating to your particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate grounds override your interests;
- Right to be informed pursuant to Article 19 of the GDPR: If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing with the controller, the controller is obligated to notify all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed of these recipients.
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 of the GDPR: You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to request that it be transmitted to another controller, provided this is technically feasible;
- Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7(3) of the GDPR: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of data at any time with future effect. In the event of withdrawal, we will delete the relevant data immediately, unless further processing can be based on a legal basis that does not require consent. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent prior to such withdrawal;
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have—without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy—the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, your workplace, or the place where the alleged infringement occurred.
b) RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF, AS PART OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THIS RIGHT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
11) Retention Period for Personal Data
The duration of personal data storage is determined by the applicable statutory retention period (e.g., retention periods under commercial and tax law). Upon expiration of this period, the relevant data is routinely deleted, provided it is no longer necessary for the performance or initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it.
12) Existence of automated decision-making
As a responsible company, we do not use automated decision-making or profiling.
