Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protec­tion

General
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal infor­ma­tion when you visit our website. Personal infor­ma­tion is any data with which you could be person­ally iden­ti­fied. Detailed infor­ma­tion on the subject of data protec­tion can be found in our privacy policy found below.

Data collec­tion on our website

Who is respon­sible for the data collec­tion on this website?
The data collected on this website are processed by the website oper­ator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the website’s required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?
Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.

Other data are collected auto­mat­i­cally by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily tech­nical data such as the browser and oper­ating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected auto­mat­i­cally as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper func­tioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visi­tors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You always have the right to request infor­ma­tion about your stored data, its origin, its recip­i­ents, and the purpose of its collec­tion at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further ques­tions about the issue of privacy and data protec­tion. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the compe­tent regu­la­tory author­i­ties.

Analytics and third-party tools
When visiting our website, statis­tical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anony­mous, i.e. we will not be able to iden­tify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed infor­ma­tion can be found in the following privacy policy.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exer­cise your options in this regard.

2. General infor­ma­tion and manda­tory infor­ma­tion

Data protec­tion

The oper­a­tors of this website take the protec­tion of your personal data very seri­ously. We treat your personal data as confi­den­tial and in accor­dance with the statu­tory data protec­tion regu­la­tions and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal infor­ma­tion is any data with which you could be person­ally iden­ti­fied. This privacy policy explains what infor­ma­tion we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data trans­mitted via the internet (e.g. via email commu­ni­ca­tion) may be subject to secu­rity breaches. Complete protec­tion of your data from third-party access is not possible.

Notice concerning the party respon­sible for this website
The party respon­sible for processing data on this website is:

RECK­NAGEL GmbH & Co. KG
Landwehr 4
97493 Bergrhe­in­feld
Tel.: +49 (0)9721 – 94810 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)9721 – 94810 - 25
E-Mail: info@recknagel.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 (names, email addresses, etc.).

Revo­ca­tion of your consent to the processing of your data
Many data processing oper­a­tions are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is suffi­cient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

Right to data porta­bility
You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfill­ment of a contract auto­mat­i­cally deliv­ered to your­self or to a third party in a stan­dard, machine-read­able format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another respon­sible party, this will only be done to the extent tech­ni­cally feasible.

SSL or TLS encryp­tion
This site uses SSL or TLS encryp­tion for secu­rity reasons and for the protec­tion of the trans­mis­sion of confi­den­tial content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site oper­ator. You can recog­nize an encrypted connec­tion in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar.

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

Infor­ma­tion, blocking, dele­tion
As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with infor­ma­tion free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recip­ient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further ques­tions on the topic of personal data.

Oppo­si­tion to promo­tional emails
We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice require­ments with regard to sending promo­tional and infor­ma­tional mate­rials not expressly requested. The website oper­ator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unso­licited adver­tising mate­rial, such as email spam, is received.

3. Data collec­tion on our website

Cookies
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effi­cient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are auto­mat­i­cally deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recog­nize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alter­na­tively, your browser can be config­ured to auto­mat­i­cally accept cookies under certain condi­tions or to always reject them, or to auto­mat­i­cally delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the func­tion­ality of this website.

Cookies which are neces­sary to allow elec­tronic commu­ni­ca­tions or to provide certain func­tions you wish to use (such as the shop­ping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 para­graph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website oper­ator has a legit­i­mate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an opti­mized service provided free of tech­nical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated sepa­rately in this privacy policy.

Server log files
The website provider auto­mat­i­cally collects and stores infor­ma­tion that your browser auto­mat­i­cally trans­mits to us in “server log files”.

These are:
• Browser type and browser version
• Oper­ating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures prelim­i­nary to a contract.

Contact form
Should you send us ques­tions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your ques­tion and any follow-up ques­tions. We do not share this infor­ma­tion without your permis­sion.

We will, there­fore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is suffi­cient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its dele­tion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any manda­tory statu­tory provi­sions, espe­cially those regarding manda­tory data reten­tion periods, remain unaf­fected by this provi­sion.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)
We collect, process, and use personal data only insofar as it is neces­sary to estab­lish, or modify legal rela­tion­ships with us (master data). This is done based on Art. 6 (1) (b) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures prelim­i­nary to a contract. We collect, process and use your personal data when accessing our website (usage data) only to the extent required to enable you to access our service or to bill you for the same.

Collected customer data shall be deleted after comple­tion of the order or termi­na­tion of the busi­ness rela­tion­ship. Legal reten­tion periods remain unaf­fected.

4. Analytics and adver­tising

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is oper­ated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are 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.

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website oper­ator has a legit­i­mate interest in analyzing user behavior to opti­mize both its website and its adver­tising.

IP anonymiza­tion
We have acti­vated the IP anonymiza­tion feature on this website. Your IP address will be short­ened by Google within the Euro­pean Union or other parties to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Economic Area prior to trans­mis­sion to the United States. Only in excep­tional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and short­ened there. Google will use this infor­ma­tion on behalf of the oper­ator of this website to eval­uate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website oper­ator. The IP address trans­mitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser plugin
You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appro­priate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full func­tion­ality of this website. You can also prevent the data gener­ated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by down­loading and installing the browser plugin avail­able at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objecting to the collec­tion of data
You can prevent the collec­tion of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Disable Google Analytics.

For more infor­ma­tion about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Outsourced data processing
We have entered into an agree­ment with Google for the outsourcing of our data processing and fully imple­ment the strict require­ments of the German data protec­tion author­i­ties when using Google Analytics.

Demo­graphic data collec­tion by Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics’ demo­graphic features. This allows reports to be gener­ated containing state­ments about the age, gender, and inter­ests of site visi­tors. This data comes from interest-based adver­tising from Google and third-party visitor data. This collected data cannot be attrib­uted to any specific indi­vidual person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or you can forbid the collec­tion of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Refusal of data collec­tion”.

5. Plugins and tools

YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is oper­ated by Google. The oper­ator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connec­tion to the YouTube servers is estab­lished. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to asso­ciate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This consti­tutes a justi­fied interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further infor­ma­tion about handling user data, can be found in the data protec­tion decla­ra­tion of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts
For uniform repre­sen­ta­tion of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to estab­lish a direct connec­tion to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attrac­tive presen­ta­tion of our website. This consti­tutes a justi­fied interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a stan­dard font is used by your computer.

Further infor­ma­tion about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. It is oper­ated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

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

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facil­i­tate the loca­tion of places spec­i­fied by us on the website. This consti­tutes a justi­fied interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further infor­ma­tion about handling user data, can be found in the data protec­tion decla­ra­tion of Google at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.