Privacy statement
- Data protection at one glance
General notices
The following notices give a simple overview of what happens with your personal data, when you visit this website. Personal data are all data, with which you can be identified personally. Please refer to our privacy statement provided under this text for detailed information pertaining to the topic of data protection.
Data entry on this website Who is responsible for the data entry on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Please refer to the Masthead of this website for its contact data.
How do we record your data?
Your data are collected on the one hand by the fact that you communicate these to us. This can e.g. concern data, which you enter in a contact form. Other data are automatically entered by our IT systems, when you visit the website.These are above all technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time when the site is called). These data are entered automatically as soon as you access this website.
What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected in order to guarantee an error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used in order to analyse your user behaviour.
Which rights do you have with regard to your data?
You have the right to receive free information at all times regarding the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You additionally have a right to request rectification, or erasure of these data. For this purpose, as well as regarding further questions relating to the topic of data protection, you can contact us at all times at the address stated in the Masthead. Furthermore, you are entitled to a right to lodge a complaint at the responsible supervisory authority. In addition, you have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the limitation to the processing of your personal data. Please refer to the privacy statement under “Right to limitation of the processing” for details in this respect.
Analysis tools and tools of third party providers
When you visit this website, your surfing behaviour may be evaluated statistically. This happens above all, with cookies and with so-called analysis programmes. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is, as a rule, carried out anonymously; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis, or prevent it by the non-use of certain tools. You can find detailed information regarding these tools and about your possibilities for filing an objection in the following privacy statement.
- Hosting
External hosting
This website is hosted at an external service provider (hoster). Personal data, which are entered on this website, are stored on the servers of the hoster. This can above all, concern IP addresses, contact enquiries, meta- and communication data, contractual data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data, which are generated via a website. The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling contracts towards our potential and existing customers, (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Our hoster will only process your data to the extent that this is necessary to fulfil its service obligations and shall comply with our instructions with regard to these data.
Conclusion of a contract regarding contract data processing
In order to guarantee the processing conform to data protection we have concluded a contract regarding contract data processing with our hoster.
- General notices and obligatory information
Data protection
The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations, as well as this privacy statement. Various personal data are collected when you use this website. Personal data are data, with which you can be identified personally. This privacy statement explains which data we collect and what we use these for. It also explains how and for which purpose this takes place. We would like to point out, that the data transmission in the internet (e.g. with the communication by email) may feature security gaps. A consistent protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.
Reference to the data controller
The data controller for the data processing on this website is: Ingenieurbüro Karl Heinz Goerke GmbH Schönbeinstraße 4 74076 Heilbronn Phone: +49 (0) 7131 9681–0 Email: info@ibgoerke.de The data controller is the natural person, or legal entity that decides solely, or together with others about the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar details).
Data protection officer stipulated by law
We have appointed a data protection officer for our company. DSS-connect GmbH Salinenstr. 23/1 74177 Bad Friedrichshall Phone: +49 (0) 7136 9657 599 Email: dsb@dss-connect.de
Revocation of your consent to the data processing
Many of the data processing activities are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke an already granted consent, at all times. An informal notification to us by email is sufficient for this purpose. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation shall remain unaffected by the revocation.
Right to object to the data collection in special cases as well as to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ON ART. 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ALL TIMES, FOR REASONS WHICH ARISE FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO FILE AN OBJECTION AGAINST THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS SHALL ALSO APPLY TO PROFILING, THAT IS SUPPORTED ON THESE PROVISIONS. PLEASE REFER TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH A PROCESSING IS BASED. IF YOU FILE AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED, UNLESS WE CAN PROVE ESSENTIAL REASONS WORTHY OF PROTECTION FOR THE PROCESSING, WHICH OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED IN ORDER TO CONDUCT DIRECT MARKETING THEN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FILE AN OBJECTION AT ALL TIMES AGAINST THE PROCESSING OF THE PERSONAL DATA RELATING TO YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS SHALL ALSO APPLY TO PROFILING, INSOFAR AS IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).
Right to lodge a complaint at the responsible supervisory authority
In the event of breaches of the GDPR the data subjects are entitled to a right to lodge a complaint at a supervisory authority, in particular, in the member state of their customary place of abode, their workplace, or the location of the presumed breach. The right to lodge a complaint shall exist irrespective of other legal remedies, under administrative law or in court.
Right to data portability
ou have the right to have data, which we process using automated procedures on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract, handed over to yourself or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another data controller, this will only be carried out if it istechnically possible.
SSL or TLS encryption
This site uses an SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transfer of confidential contents, such as,orders or enquiries, which you send to us as the site operator. 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 your browser line. If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated the data, which you transmit to us, cannot also be read by third parties.
Information, erasure and rectification
Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions you have the right to free information at all times about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to rectification or erasure of these data. For this purpose, as well as regarding further questions relating to the topic of personal data, you can contact us at all times at the address stated in the Masthead.
Right to limitation of the processing
You have the right to request the limitation of the processing of your personal data. For this purpose you can contact us at all times at the address stated in the Masthead. The right to limitation of the processing shall exist in the following cases:
- If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored in our company we shall, as a rule, need time in order to check this. For the duration of the examination you have the right to request limitation of the processing of your personal data.
- If the processing of your personal data took place/takes place unlawfully you can request the limitation of the data processing instead of the erasure.
- If we no longer require your personal data, however you require these for the exercising, defence or assertion of legal claims, you have the right to request limitation of the processing of your personal data instead of the erasure.
- If you have filed an objection according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR your and our interests must be weighed up. As long as it has not been determined yet whose interests outweigh, you have the right to request limitation of the processing of your personal data.
If you have limited the processing of your personal data these data may – apart from their storage – only be processed with your consent or for the assertion, exercising or defence of legal claims or in order to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or of a member state.
- Data entry on this website
Cookies
The websites partly use so-called “cookies”. Cookies do not cause any damages on your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve to making our offer more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer by your browser. The majority of the cookies used by us are so-called “Session Cookies”. They will be deleted automatically after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete these. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser again, on the next visit. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and so that you only allow cookies in an individual case, you exclude the acceptance of cookies, for certain cases or generally as well as activate the automatic deletion of the cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this website may be restricted if cookies are deactivated. Cookies, which are necessary in order to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions requested by you (e.g. shopping basket function), will be stored on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technical error-free and optimised provision of its services. Insofar as a corresponding consent was requested (e.g. a consent to the storage of cookies), the processing will be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is revocable at all times. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored these will be treated separately in this privacy statement.
Server logfiles
The provider of the sites collects and stores information automatically in so-called server logfiles, which your browser transmits to us automatically. These are:
- Browser type and browser version
- used operating system
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP address
An aggregation of these data with other sources of data will not be carried out. The entry of these data is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technical error-free presentation and the optimisation of its website –the server logfiles must be entered for this purpose.
Contact form
If you have requests sent to us by using the contact form your details from the request form including the contact data entered by you therein will be stored in our company for the purpose of processing the request and for the event of follow-up questions. We will not forward these data without your consent. The processing of these data shall be carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR insofar as your request is in connection with the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests directed at us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) insofar as this was requested. The data entered by you in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to erase these, you revoke your consent to the storage, or the purpose for the data storage ceases to exist (e.g. after the completed processing of your request). Obligatory statutory provisions – in particular storage deadlines – shall remain unaffected hereby.
Request by email, telephone or fax
If you contact us by email, telephone or fax your request including all personal data ensuing from this (name, request) will be stored and processed in our company for the purpose of processing your concern. We will not forward these data without your consent. The processing of these data shall be carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR insofar as your request is in connection with the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) and/or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR) as we have a legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests directed at us.
The data sent by you to us by contact requests will remain with us until you request us to erase these, you revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage ceases to exist (e.g. after the completed processing of your request). Obligatory statutory provisions – in particular storage deadlines – shall remain unaffected hereby.
- Analysis tools and advertising
Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is, as a rule, transferred to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. The storage of Google-Analytics cookies and the use of this analysis tool are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of the user behaviour in order to optimise both its web offer as well as its advertising. If a corresponding consent was requested (e.g. a consent to the storage of cookies), the processing will be exclusively carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is revocable at all times.
IP anonymisation
We have activated the function IP anonymisation on this website. Your IP address is therefore abbreviated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a server of Google in the USA and abbreviated there. By order of the operator of this website Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website in order to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services towards the website operator associated with the website use and the internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be aggregated with other data of Google.
Browser plugin
You can prevent the storage of the cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however we would like to point out to you that, in this case, you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website to the full extent. You can, in addition prevent the transfer of the data generated by the cookie and, which refer to your use of the website (incl. your IP address), to Google as well as to the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Objection to data entry
You can prevent the entry of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the entry of your data with future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics.
You can find more information relating to the handling of user data with Google Analytics in the privacy statement of Google:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Contract data processing
We have concluded a contract regarding contract data processing with Google and fully implement the strict stipulations of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Storage duration
Data stored at Google on the user and event level, which are linked with cookies, user identifiers (e.g. User ID) or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick-Cookies, Android Advertising ID), will be anonymised or erased after 14 months. You can view details in this respect under the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en
Google Analytics Remarketing
This website uses the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing, in conjunction with the cross-device functions of Google Ads and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.This function makes it possible to link the advertising target groups created with Google Analytics Remarketing with the cross-device functions of Google Ads and Google DoubleClick. This way interest-related, personalised advertising messages, which were adjusted to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behaviour on a terminal device (e.g. mobile phone) can also be displayed on another of your terminal devices (e.g. tablet or PC). If you have granted a corresponding consent Google will, for this purpose, link your web and app browser history with your Google account. This way, the same personalised advertising messages can be placed on each terminal device on which you register with your Google account.
In order to support this function Google Analytics enters google-authenticated IDs of the users, which are temporarily linked with our Google-Analytics data in order to define and create target groups for the cross-device advertisements. You can permanently object to the cross-device Remarketing/Targeting by deactivating personalised advertising; for this purpose please follow this link:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/. The summarisation of the entered data in your Google-account is exclusively carried out on the basis of your consent, which you can submit, or revoke at Google (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). In case of data entry activities, which are not aggregated in your Google account (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or, you have objected to the aggregation) the entry of the data shall be based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest can be derived from the fact that the website operator has an interest in the anonymised analysis of the website visitors for advertising purposes.
You can find further information and the data protection provisions in the privacy statement of Google under:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en
Google Ads and Google Conversion-Tracking
This website uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising programme of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Within the scope of Google Ads we use the so-called Conversion-Tracking. If you click on an advertisement placed by Google a cookie will be set for the Conversion-Tracking. Cookies are small text files that are stored by the Internet browser on the user’s computer. These cookies will cease to be valid after 30 days and do not serve to personally identify the users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired yet Google and we can recognise that the user clicked on the advertisement and was forwarded to this page. Each Google Ads customer will receive a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of Google Ads customers. The information obtained with the help of the Conversion-Cookie serves to create Conversion statistics for Google Ads customers, which have decided in favour of Conversion-Tracking. The customers will find out the total number of users, who have clicked on their advertisements and were forwarded to a site fitted with a Conversion-Tracking tag. However, they will not receive any information, with which users can be personally identified. If you would not like to take part in the Tracking you can object to this use by easily deactivating the cookie of the Google Conversion-Tracking via your internet browser under user settings. You will subsequently not be included in the Conversion-Tracking statistics. The storage of “Conversion-Cookies” and the use of this tracking tool are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing the user behaviour in order to optimise both its web offer as well as its advertising. Insofar as a corresponding consent was requested (e.g. a consent to the storage of cookies), the processing will be exclusively carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent is revocable at all times. You can find more information relating to Google Ads and Google Conversion-Tracking in the data protection provisions of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and so that you only allow cookies in an individual case, you exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally as well as activate the automatic deletion of the cookies when closing the browser. The functionality of this website may be restricted if cookies are deactivated.
- Plugins and tools
Google Web Fonts
For the standard presentation of fonts this site uses so-called web fonts, which are made available by Google. The Google fonts are installed locally. A connection to servers of Google will not take place in this case.
Adobe Fonts
For the standard presentation of certain fonts this website uses web fonts of Adobe. The provider is Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110–2704, USA (Adobe). When calling this website your browser loads the required fonts directly from Adobe in order to be able to display these to your terminal device correctly. Your browser establishes a connection hereby to the servers of Adobe in the USA. This way Adobe gains knowledge of the fact that this website was called via your IP address. According to the statement of Adobe no cookies are stored with the provision of the fonts. Adobe has a certification according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield. The Privacy-Shield is an agreement between the United States of America and the European Union, that should guarantee the compliance with European data protection standards. You can find more detailed information under:
https://www.adobe.com/privacy/eudatatransfers.html#. The use of Adobe Fonts is necessary, in order to guarantee a standard typeface on this website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
You can receive more detailed information relating to Adobe Fonts under: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html. You can find the privacy statement of Adobe under: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html
Google Maps
This site uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. It is necessary to store your IP address in order to use the functions of Google Maps. As a rule, this information is transferred to a server of Google in the USA and is stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.
The use of Google Maps is carried out in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and in an ability to find the locations stated by us on the website easily. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
You can find more information relating to the handling of user data in the privacy statement of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. With reCAPTCHA it should be examined whether the data input on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is carried out by a person, or by an automated programme. For this purpose reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor, based on various features. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (e.g. IP address, dwell time of the website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data entered during the analysis are forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place. The data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers against improperly used automated spying and against SPAM. For further information relating to Google reCAPTCHA, please refer to the Google data protection provisions and the Google terms of use under the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en und https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.