Data Privacy Statement

We appreciate your interest in our websites. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below, we will be informing you in detail about the handling of your data.

Responsible according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU-DSGVO

ZELTWANGER Holding GmbH

Jopestr. 3
72072 Tübingen
Germany
Phone: +49 7071 3663-3011
Fax: +49 7071 3663-333
Email: holding@zeltwanger.de

Data protection officer of the responsible person

Dr. Ralf W. Schadowski

Phone: +49 241 44688-0
Email: datenschutz@zeltwanger.de

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time a web page is retrieved, the Web server just automatically stores a so-called server log file, which contains such data as the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of the retrieval, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data), and the Web server documents the retrieval.

This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring a trouble-free operation of the site as well as the improvement of our offer. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests) in correctly presenting our offer. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your webpage visit.

Hosting services by a third party: Within the context of processing on our behalf, a third party provides the services of hosting and displaying the website. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests) in correctly presenting our offer. All the data that is collected in the context of the use of this website or in forms that are collected for that purpose as described below will be processed on the servers of the above-mentioned third-party provider. Processing on other servers only takes place within the herein explained context.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

2. Data collection and use for the purposes of contracting and contacting

We collect personal information if you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order or when contacting us (for example, by contact form or e-mail). Obligatory fields are marked as such, since in these cases, we need the data for contract processing and/or to process your contact, and since you cannot send the order and/or contact without this information. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data provided by you to process the contract and your inquiries. After the processing of the contract or of your contact request has been completed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after expiry of the fiscal and commercial retention periods, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further data use which is legally permitted and about which we are informing you in this Data Privacy Statement.

3. Advertising via e-mail and post

a) Advertising via e-mail

If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of a good or service and you have not objected thereto, we reserve the right to send you regular offers for similar products, such as those already purchased, from our range via e-mail. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests) in making promotional contact with our customers.

You may object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link (provided for this purpose) in the e-mail message, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs pursuant to the basic tariffs.

The newsletter is sent as part of a processing on our behalf by a service provider, to which we transfer on your e-mail address. This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

b) Advertising via post

In addition, we reserve the right to use your first and last name as well as your postal address for our own advertising purposes, such as to send interesting offers and information about our products by letter. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests) in making promotional contact with our customers.

4. Cookies and web analysis

In order to make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various webpages. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests) in optimally presenting our offer. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and allow us to recognize your browser upon your next visit (persistent cookies). The duration of the storage can be found in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the placing of cookies so that you can individually decide upon their acceptance or you can exclude the acceptance of cookies either for specific cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the Help menu of each browser, which explains how to change your cookie settings. These can be found for the respective browser under the following links:

Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=en_US

Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

By not accepting cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis:

For website analysis, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (www.google.com). This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests) in optimally presenting our offer. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods (such as cookies) that allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address will be shortened within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address provided by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not combined with any other data provided by Google.

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA A and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here As a result of this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an appropriate level of data protection for companies which are certified under the Privacy Shield.

You may prevent both the collection of the generated data related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google via the cookie as well as the processing of this data by Google in that you download and install the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click on this link to prevent the collection by Google Analytics on this website in the future. . An opt-out cookie will be stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you will have to click on the link again.

5. Advertising via marketing networks: Google AdWords Remarketing

Further data processing only takes place if you have agreed with Google that your web and app browsing history is to be linked to your Google account by Google and that the information from your Google Account can be used to personalize advertisements that you see on the Web. In this case, when you log in to Google during the page visit of our website, Google uses your data in connection with Google Analytics data in order to create and define target-group lists for cross-device remarketing. To do so, your personal information is temporarily linked by Google to Google Analytics data in order to create target groups.

Google AdWords Remarketing is an offer from Google LLC (www.google.com). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA A and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. As a result of this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an appropriate level of data protection for companies which are certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can disable the Remarketing cookie via this Link. In addition, you can become informed about the placing of cookies and make settings in this regards at the Digital Advertising Alliance.

6. Rights of the data subject and contact options

Below you will find information on your rights as a person concerned in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. You can exercise these rights at any time and therefore contact us directly. If you demand these rights from us, we will examine them in detail, considering the related legal requirements and requirements. We may ask you for further information. We will explain in detail the results of our audit and our procedure for fulfilling your request. It is possible that we may not be able to fully meet your wishes in the manner you request.

This should not prevent you from claiming your rights from us or asking us about them. We will be happy to answer all your questions.

(1) Right to information
You have the right to request information from us at any time as to whether and which of your personal data is processed by us. This also includes information on the purposes of processing, if applicable on recipients to whom we have disclosed data about you, the planned storage period and, if applicable, information on the origin of this data, unless we have collected this data directly from you. In addition, you have the right to a one- time free copy of your personal data stored by us. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate administration fee for the following copies.

(2) Right to correction
You have the right to request us to correct any inaccurate information we hold about you. This also includes the right to complete incomplete personal data.

(3) Right to cancellation
You have the right to request the deletion of data that we have stored about you. If we have published data about you, this also includes our obligation to forward all links to this data as well as copies or replications of this data concerning to other persons responsible for the processing of this published personal data within the framework of the "right to be forgotten" pursuant to Art. 17 para. 2 GDPR, considering available technology and the implementation costs.

(4) Right to limitation of processing
You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of data that we have stored about you. Thereafter, processing of these data is only possible with your consent or for a few, legally defined purposes.

(5) Right of opposition to processing
If we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is not necessary to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, based on which we will continue processing.

Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us about your advertising contradiction using the contact channels listed above.

(6) Right to revoke consent under data protection law
If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation influences the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us.

(7) Right to data transferability
You have the right to receive information about yourself that you have provided to us from us in a structured, common and machine-readable format for transfer to another person responsible. At your request and considering the available technical possibilities, this also includes the direct transfer from us to the other person responsible.

(8) Right of appeal to a supervisory authority
You have the right to complain at any time to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

(9) Automated decision making including profiling
They have the right to obtain information on the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 para. 1 and 4 GDPR and - at least in these cases - meaningful information on the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information regarding data or for the correction, blocking or deletion of data as well as to revoke granted consent or to object to a particular use of data, please contact us directly via the contact details in our legal notice.

Right to object

If we process personal data as explained above in order to safeguard our legitimate interests (which are predominant in a balancing of interests), you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for the purpose of direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing takes place for other purposes, you only have a right to object if there are reasons that arise from your particular situation.

After exercising your right of objection, we will not process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or if the processing is for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing occurs for the purposes of direct marketing. In such a case, we will no longer process your personal data for that purpose.

May 25, 2018