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Privacy policy

We take the protection of your personal data when you visit our website very seriously. All personal details such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, account number, etc. and all information that can be traced back to you are referred to as personal data. This also includes the IP address that is automatically transmitted when you visit a website. This is technically mandatory.

We want you to know if and when we collect which data and how we use it. We have taken technical and organisational measures to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by any external service providers. In particular, we also take into account the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU), which has been implemented since 25 May 2018, and the national TTDSG.

In principle, personal data is only collected on this website to the extent necessary for the purposes listed below. We provide you with information on what data is collected during your visit to the website and how it is used.

If you wish to assert your rights (see below), please contact us as the controller responsible for data processing on this website - the contact details can be found at the imprint.

If you have any fundamental questions or concerns regarding data protection, please contact our external data protection officer (DPO) Thomas Schneider of DSB Baden GmbH in writing at dsb(at)interfer.de. Please include our company name in the subject line so that the external DPO can allocate it.

I. Legal basis

Personal data may only be "processed" if there is a valid legal basis for this. The processing is linked to a specific purpose. We process personal data that we may collect from you via this website on the basis of the following legal bases:

  1. Balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR
    If tools are used with the aim of making our website more customer-friendly, efficient and secure, this can be done as part of a balancing of interests, as user behaviour is not profiled and the visitor's IP address is only stored non-anonymised for a short time.
    We also process information that you provide to us for the purpose of a potential or existing business relationship (B2B relationship) as part of the balancing of interests.
     
  2. Contractual relationship pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR
    If you provide us with your personal information as a private individual (e.g. as part of an application), we process this data as part of the initiation of a contract or to process the contractual relationship.
     
  3. Legal requirement pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit c GDPR
    Insofar as we are subject to legal requirements for which we must use your personal data, this is done within the scope of this legal basis.
     
  4. Consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR 
    In rare cases, it may be possible that we wish to use personal data provided by you for a purpose other than that for which it was intended. If this should occur and there is no other legal basis, we require your voluntary consent - which can be revoked at any time for the future - which we will then ask you for separately.

II. Website access

When you visit our website, your IP address and other information is automatically transmitted. We do not store this data ourselves, but our hosting service provider requires this information for the technical provision of the website. It automatically logs every access to our website and every possible retrieval of a file stored on the website.

The following are logged: URLs retrieved, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval and web browser. As part of its role as a telecommunications service provider, the hosting service provider also logs the accessing IP address in accordance with Section 12 TTDSG (disruption of telecommunications systems and misuse of telecommunications services). This information is not passed on to other recipients (exception: requests from law enforcement authorities on the basis of existing legal bases). The log data is deleted after a reasonable period of time. 

The processing on our responsibility is carried out within the framework of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

We use the IP address transmitted by you exclusively for the provision of our website. We do not create any personal user profiles.

Please note that telecommunications service providers are legally obliged to store connection data within a reasonable framework (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR).

III. Information obligations according to Art 13 GDPR 

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, we are obliged to provide appropriate information whenever personal data is collected directly from the data subject. We collect personal data from you on our website and would therefore like to inform you accordingly. This collection takes place, for example, when we

  • collect your IP address for the technical provision of the website
  • use a tracking tool that uses the IP address
  • receive your entries in a contact module for communication with us.

Basic procedure:

If you have provided us with personal data, we will only use it to answer your enquiries and for technical administration.

Your personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transmitted to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of contract processing, for billing purposes, if we are legally obliged to do so, in the context of order processing by subcontractors or if you have given your prior consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

The stored personal data will be deleted if you revoke your consent to storage, if knowledge of the data is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was stored, i.e. the process has been completed and there are no statutory deletion periods to the contrary, or if its storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons. If the data cannot be deleted for technical reasons, we will anonymise it so that a personal reference can no longer be established in the future.

All data collection and processing on this website is the responsibility of our company.

Additional detailed information can be found in the following points. 

IV. Contact form

We do not use a contact form. Please use the e-mail addresses provided by us to contact us.

V. Cookies

We do not use any cookies. However, if you leave this website via a link, subsequent pages of other providers may set cookies. We are not responsible for this. Please also note our information on the tools used on the website. 

VI. Links to other websites

Our website contains links to external third-party websites over whose content we have no influence. Therefore, we cannot accept any liability for this third-party content. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking. Illegal content was not recognisable at the time of linking (please also read our comments on the special links: XING and LinkedIn). However, permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of an infringement. If we become aware of any legal infringements, we will remove such links immediately. Please note the data protection declarations of the third parties to whose site the link is made.

  1. Special links: Xing company profile and LinkedIn company profile
    We have included links to the company profile of Interfer Edelstahl Handelsgesellschaft GmbH on XING and LinkedIn on our website. Please note that by clicking on these links you will leave our website. If you use these links to XING or LinkedIn, XING or LinkedIn will receive, among other things, information about where you have accessed their website from. Details can be found in the terms of use for XING or the terms of use for LinkedIn. Please note that by visiting their terms of use, XING and LinkedIn already receive information about your web visit, which they can use for their own purposes in accordance with their terms and conditions.
     
  2. Map display
    We have placed a map on our website so that you can better determine our locations. When you use this map, no personal data is transmitted to external map services such asOpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
     

  3. Your rights - rights of the data subject under the GDPR
    Art. 12 - 23 GDPR regulate the rights of the data subject, i.e. your rights regarding the handling of your personal data. These are essentially vis-à-vis us:

    • Right to information at the latest at the time of collection in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, which we fulfil through this privacy policy.
    • Right to information in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR
    • Right to erasure in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR
    • Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR
    • Right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
    • Where applicable: Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR

    We will support you in asserting your rights in accordance with the GDPR and other legislation.

    For enquiries regarding the exercise of your rights, please contact the office specified in the imprint. Please understand that, in the interests of the rights of other persons, we can only provide personal information if you can identify yourself appropriately.

    You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent authority is usually the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based - in our case, this is the state data protection officer of Baden-Württemberg. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found in the following link:

    https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

  4. Safety note
    We make every effort to store your personal data in such a way that it is not accessible to third parties by taking all technical and organisational measures. In the case of communication via an unencrypted e-mail, we cannot guarantee complete data security, so we recommend that you send confidential information via an encrypted channel or by post.
     
  5. SSL or TLS encryption
    Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from http:// to https:// and by the lock symbol in the browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.