Berger Group

PRIVACY POLICY

of Heinz Berger Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. It goes without saying that we always treat your personal data in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations. We have appointed a competent and reliable external data protection officer. The external data protection officer is UIMC Dr. Voßbein GmbH & Co KG(https://datenschutz.uimc.de [external site]).

In the following, we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data.

COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
In principle, you can use our online services without disclosing your identity. If we request personal data (such as name, address or e-mail address) on the website, e.g. in the context of contact forms or during registration, this is done on a voluntary basis. We use this information for our own business purposes (such as sending the requested materials/information).

For questions of any kind, we offer you the opportunity to contact us via a form provided on the website. The data marked as mandatory is required in order to be able to assign and answer the request. Further information can be provided voluntarily. Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntarily given consent.

The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be deleted after your inquiry has been dealt with and after the retention obligations under tax and commercial law have expired.

Once you have given your consent – for example for the purpose of receiving a newsletter or other interesting information from our company – you can revoke it at any time without giving reasons with effect for the future. To do so, you can use the above-mentioned contact form or another method mentioned in the newsletter.

DATA SHARING
Your data will not be shared with third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes without your express consent. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if this is legally permissible [e.g. on the basis of Article 6 GDPR] and/or necessary. In some cases, we use service providers as part of order processing in accordance with Article 28 GDPR; for example, the website is hosted by sector27 GmbH and maintained by at computational design GmbH, and in some cases also hosted by ALL-INKL.COM – Neue Medien Münnich. The full responsibility for data processing remains with us. We also use plugins from other providers on our website; you can find more details below.

COOKIES
This website uses “cookies”. Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of the use of the website and automatically recognize you on your next visit. You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. You also have the option of revoking your consent at any time in the cookie banner or cookie settings (link at the bottom of the page). This may mean that you will not be able to make full use of all offers.

WEB ANALYSIS WITH MATOMO (PREVIOUSLY PIWIK)
We use the “Matomo” software (www.matomo.org) on this website, an open source software for the statistical analysis of visitor access. The software places a cookie (a text file) on your computer, which enables us to analyze the use of our website. The following data is stored:

  • IP address of the user, shortened by the last two bytes
  • Subpage accessed and time of access
  • Page from which the user reached our website (referrer)
  • which browser with which plugins, which operating system and which screen resolution is used
  • Time spent on the website
  • Pages that are accessed from the accessed subpage.

The data collected with Matomo is stored on our own servers. It is not passed on to third parties.

The legal basis on which we process personal data using Matomo is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a of the GDPR, which you can give in the cookie switch. Matomo is used exclusively after you have given your consent and for the purpose of improving the quality of our website and its content. This enables us to find out how the website is used and to constantly optimize our offer. The data is never used to personally identify the user of the website and is not merged with other data.

The data will be deleted when it is no longer required for our purposes.

LOGGING
Every time the website is accessed, logs are created and processed for statistical purposes, whereby the individual user remains anonymous:

Referrer (page from whose link you came to this website)
Search terms (as referrer for search engines)
IP is analyzed to determine the country of origin and the provider
Browser, operating system, installed plug-ins and screen resolution
Time spent on the pages
The aforementioned data is processed by us on the basis of our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
  • To ensure convenient use of our website,
  • Evaluation of system security and stability and
    for other administrative purposes.

We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use. The data will be deleted immediately if it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

STORAGE AND DELETION OF DATA
Your data will be stored for as long as is necessary for the respective above-mentioned purposes. The data will be deleted at the latest after termination of the contractual relationship and after expiry of the statutory retention periods under civil, commercial and tax law.

LIABILITY FOR OWN CONTENT
The content of these pages has been created with the utmost care. However, we cannot accept any liability for the accuracy, completeness and topicality of the content. As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with general legislation.

LIABILITY FOR LINKS (CONTENT OF OTHER PROVIDERS)
Cross-references (“links”) to content provided by other providers are to be distinguished from our own content. We have no influence on their content; the respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages.

RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS
We hereby inform you that in accordance with Article 15 et seq. GDPR, you have the right of access to the personal data concerned, the right to rectification or erasure, the right to restriction of processing, the right to object to processing and the right to data portability under the conditions defined therein. In accordance with Article 77 GDPR, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates this regulation. If the processing is based on Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR (consent), you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

RIGHT TO INFORMATION, ART. 15 GDPR
You have the right to request information about whether and to what extent your personal data is being processed (in particular the purpose of processing, recipients of the data, storage period, etc.).

RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION, ART. 16 GDPR
You have the right to request the rectification of your stored data if it is incorrect or incomplete. This includes the right to completion by means of supplementary declarations or notifications.

RIGHT TO ERASURE, ART. 17 GDPR
You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. This is possible, for example, if the data is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected or if the data must be deleted due to legal obligations. However, this right may be excluded in individual cases.

RIGHT TO RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING, ART. 18 GDPR
You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. This is possible, for example, if your data has been recorded incorrectly or the data processing is unlawful. If processing is restricted, the data may only be processed in strictly limited cases.

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY, ART. 20 GDPR
You have the right to request that data concerning you be handed over to you or to a controller designated by you in a commonly used electronic, machine-readable format if you have provided this data yourself.

RIGHT TO OBJECT, ART. 21 GDPR
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you with effect for the future, provided that the data processing is carried out to safeguard legitimate interests (cf. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e), f) GDPR). In the event of your objection, we will check whether the legal requirements for the processing of your data are met and, if this is not the case, we will refrain from any further processing of your data.

RIGHT TO LODGE A COMPLAINT WITH THE DATA PROTECTION SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY, ART. 77 GDPR
You have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with the competent supervisory authority of the Union or of the Member States concerning possible infringements of data protection regulations.

Contact details of the competent supervisory authority:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia:
P.O. Box 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 38424-0
Fax: +49 211 38424-10
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

CONTACT THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer directly, who is also available with his team in the event of requests for information, applications or complaints.

The external data protection officer Dr. Jörn Voßbein (UIMC Dr. Voßbein GmbH & Co. KG) can be contacted at:
by post: Otto-Hausmann-Ring 113, 42115 Wuppertal
by telephone: +49 202 946 7726 200
by email: datenschutz.heinz-berger-maschinenfabrik@uimc.de
URL: www.uimc.de/datenschutz [external site]

GOOGLEMAPS
To simplify your journey, we offer you the use of Google Maps to display maps and create directions. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. These pages are marked accordingly. When you access a website on which Google Maps is embedded on our website, a connection to Google’s servers is established and your IP and browser data are transmitted to Google. By using this service, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the data collected and entered by you by Google. The terms of use for Google Maps can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html [external site].