DATA PRIVACY

 

The following section provides an overview of how we use your personal data when you visit our website at https://engel-bergbau.de.

Personal data is any data that can serve to identify you personally. For further information on data privacy, please read our data privacy notice which follows on from this section.

Data collection

Data controller for this website

Data on this website is collected and processed by Gipsbergbau ENGEL GmbH, headquartered at Auf der Hill 6 a, 54295 Trier, Germany.

How we collect your data

We collect data that you share with us on the website, such as the information you provide in the contact form.

We also collect other data automatically via our IT system or with your consent when you visit our website. It is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser type, operating system, or page display time). Technical data is collected automatically when you visit our website.

How we use your data

We use some of the data we collect to ensure our website functions properly and other data to understand your browsing habits. If an agreement is initiated or concluded via our website, the information you provide will also be processed for contract offers, purchase orders or other business-related enquiries.

Your data rights

You have the right to ask us at any time and free of charge for information on how we obtained your personal data, the recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, and for what purpose your data has been or will be processed. You also have the right to update or delete your personal data. If you have agreed to the processing of your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time if you decide you no longer want your data to be processed. In certain circumstances, you also have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

We analyse data about your visits to our website for statistical purposes. To do this, we use so-called web analytics software.

Performance and third-party tools

We analyse data about your visits to our website for statistical purposes. To do this, we use so-called web analytics software.

We provide more information about this software in the data privacy notice below.

Hosting

The content of our website is hosted by the following service provider:

IONOS

The hosting service provider is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany (hereafter IONOS). When you visit our website, IONOS saves various log files, including your IP address. For more details, read IONOS’s privacy policy: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy. IONOS hosting services are used in accordance with Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It is in our legitimate interest that we optimize our website. If you have given consent, processing is carried out based on Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR and Article 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act, insofar as consent includes the storing of cookies or access to information about your device (e.g. device fingerprinting), as provided for under the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act. You may withdraw this consent at any time.

Sub-processing

We have a sub-processor agreement in place for the aforementioned service. This is an agreement provided for in data protection legislation, stipulating that the sub-processor is only authorized to process the personal data of visitors to our website according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

General and legally required information

Data privacy

We handle your data in a confidential way and in accordance with data protection legislation and regulations and this privacy notice.

When you use our website, some personal data is collected. Personal data is any data that can serve to identify you personally. This data privacy notice describes the type of data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and why we collect it.

Please be aware that any data sent via the internet (e.g. via email) is always vulnerable to security breaches. Data can never be completely protected from access by third parties.

Data controller

The data controller for data processing on this website:

Gips Bergbau ENGEL GmbH

Auf der Hill 6 a

54295 Trier, Germany

Phone: +49 651 33131

Email: info@engel-bergbau.de

The data controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of personal data processing (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Data retention period

Unless a more specific retention period is provided for in this privacy notice, we will retain your personal data until the purpose for which it is held and processed comes to an end. If you exercise a legitimate right to delete your data or withdraw your consent to data processing, your personal data will be deleted unless we have legitimate reasons for retaining it (e.g. retention periods relating to tax or commercial law), in which case, the data will be deleted once those reasons no longer apply.

General information about the lawful bases for data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we will process your personal data in accordance with Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR, or Article 9 (2) (a) if processing concerns the special categories of personal data cited under Article 9(1) of the GDPR. If you expressly consent to the transfer of personal data to a third country, data processing will be carried out in accordance with Article 49(1) (a) of the GDPR. If you have consented to cookies or the accessing of information about your device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), processing will be carried out in accordance with Article 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act. You may withdraw this consent at any time. If your data is required for the performance of a contract or to take steps prior to entering into a contract, we will process your data in accordance with Article 6(1) (b) of the GDPR. Furthermore, we will process your data in accordance with Article 6(1) (b) of the GDPR if we need to comply with a legal obligation. We can also process your data in our own legitimate interest, in accordance with Article 6(1) (b) of the GDPR. The lawful bases for processing in specific cases are explained in the following paragraphs of this privacy notice.

Personal data recipients

Our business activities require us to work with several external organizations. As a result, we sometimes need to transfer personal data to those external organizations. We only transfer personal data to external organizations, if necessary (for the performance of a contract, for example), if we are legally required to do so (e.g. information to be sent to the tax authorities), if it is in our legitimate interest to do so under Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR, or if we are otherwise legally required to do so. We only share the personal information of customers with sub-processors if a valid sub-processor agreement is in place. If there is more than one controller, a joint controller agreement will be established.

Withdrawal of consent for data processing

Several data processing operations require your express consent. You can withdraw any consent you have given for processing at any time. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing operations carried out before the withdrawal of consent.

Right to object to the collection of personal data on grounds relating to a particular situation or for marketing purposes (Article 21 of the GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT BASED ON ARTICLE 6(1) (E) OR (F) OF THE GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING IS SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY NOTICE. IF YOU OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA, WE WILL IMMEDIATELY STOP PROCESSING YOUR DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ESTABLISH, EXERCISE OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(1) OF THE GDPR). WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH MARKETING PURPOSES, WHICH INCLUDE PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT TO PROCESSING FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR SUCH PURPOSES (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(2) OF THE GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you consider that the processing of your personal data is in breach of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged breach. The complaint is lodged without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

Right to data portability

You have the right to ask us to transmit your personal data that we process using automated means, with your consent or for the performance of a contract, to you or a third party, in a commonly used and machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of personal data to another controller, we will only do this if technically feasible.

Right of access, rectification and deletion

Within the scope of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time, and free of charge, to obtain information about the data we store relating to you, how we obtained it, the recipients to whom it has been or will be disclosed and to what ends it has been or will be processed. You also have the right to rectify or delete such data. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the aforementioned provisions or other issues relating to personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You can contact us at any time to exercise this right. The right to restriction of processing is applicable under the following circumstances:

• You dispute the accuracy of the personal data we hold about you. We usually need time to verify such claims. You have the right to request that the processing of the personal data be restricted while we verify your claim.

• The processing of your personal data is or was unlawful. You can ask us to restrict the processing of your data rather than requesting we delete it.

• If we no longer need your personal data, but you require it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your data rather than requesting we delete it.

• You have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR. In that case, your legitimate interests must be balanced against ours. As long as it remains unclear whose interests prevail, you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, we can only process it – with the exception of storage operations – with your consent, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

SSL or TLS encryption

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect any confidential information, such as purchase orders or enquiries, you may send to us in our role as website administrator. You can verify whether a connection is encrypted by checking that the browser’s address bar has changed from “http://” to “https://” and that a padlock symbol is also present in the address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you send us cannot be read by third parties.

Objection to unsolicited emails

The website administrator hereby objects to the use of the contact information published in the mandatory legal notice on this website for sending unsolicited information and promotional materials, and reserves the express right to take legal action if anyone sends unsolicited promotional materials, such as spam emails.

Data collection

Cookies

We use “Cookies” on our website. Cookies are small text files that are completely harmless for your device. They are stored on your device either temporarily, for the duration of a session (session cookies), or for a longer period (persistent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Persistent cookies are stored on your device until you delete them or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

We use our own cookies (first-party cookies) and those from third parties (third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable certain services provided by third parties to be integrated into websites (e.g. cookies for handling payment services).

Cookies can do a number of things. Many cookies are essential for technical purposes, as they help websites function properly (e.g. when a website has a shopping basket or embedded videos). Other cookies are used to analyse visitor behaviour or for advertising purposes.

Cookies which are essential for the electronic communication process, for the provision of certain functions (e.g. shopping basket function), or to optimize the website (e.g. cookies to measure traffic to a website) (strictly necessary cookies) are held in accordance with Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR if no other law or regulation is mentioned. It is in the legitimate interest of the website administrator to use strictly necessary cookies to provide optimized and technically viable services. If you have consented to cookies and other similar tracking technologies, processing is carried out based on this consent (Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR and Article 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act); you may withdraw this consent at any time.

You can configure your browser settings so that you are notified when cookies are placed on your device and can authorize them on a one-by-one basis, refuse cookies in specific cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. Deactivating cookies may impact certain features on our website.

All the cookies and services we use are presented in this privacy notice.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These include:

- Browser type and browser version

- Operating system used

- Referrer URL

- Host name of the accessing computer

- Time of the server request

- IP address

The aforementioned data is not merged with data from other sources.

This data is collected in accordance with Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR. The website administrator stores server log files because it is in its legitimate interest that its website display correctly and is optimized.

Enquiries received by email, telephone or fax

If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your enquiry, along with any corresponding personal data (name, enquiry), will be held and processed by us so that we can respond to your enquiry. This data will not be disclosed without your consent.

We process the data in accordance with Article 6(1) (b) of the GDPR if your enquiry relates to the performance of a contract or is required to take steps prior to entering into a contract. In all other cases, processing is carried out in our legitimate interest to ensure the enquiries sent to us are handled efficiently (Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR) or with your consent (Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR) if requested; you may withdraw this consent at any time.

The data you share with us when you contact us will be held by us until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent to the holding of such data, or the purpose for which it is held comes to an end (e.g. when we have finished processing your enquiry). This does not impact existing mandatory statutory provisions, especially those relating to retention periods.

Web analytics and advertising tools

Matomo

This website uses an open-source web analytics service called Matomo. Matomo helps us collect and analyse data on how our website is used by visitors. It provides us with information on when visitors access our website and in which region they are located. We also collect log file data (e.g. IP address, referrer URL, browser type, operating system) and can monitor whether visitors to our website carry out certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.).

This web analytics tool is used in accordance with Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR. It is in the legitimate interest of the website administrator to analyse user behaviour to optimize our website and its promotional strategy. If you have given consent, processing is carried out based on Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR and Article 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act, insofar as consent includes the storing of cookies or access to information about your device (e.g. device fingerprinting), as provided for under the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act. You may withdraw this consent at any time.

IP anonymization

We use IP anonymization to analyse data with Matomo. This consists in removing parts of your IP address to reduce the possibility of identification.

Cookie-free analysis

We host Matomo on our own servers so that analysed data is held only by us and not disclosed to a third party.

Hosting

We host Matomo on our own servers so that analysed data is held only by us and not disclosed to a third party.

Plugins and tools

YouTube

This website contains embedded YouTube videos. The website administrator is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

When you visit our web pages which contain embedded YouTube content, a connection is established with YouTube servers. The YouTube server receives information about which of our web pages you are visiting.

In addition, YouTube may place various cookies or similar tracking technologies on your device (e.g. device fingerprinting). This means that YouTube can collect information about visitors to our website. This information is used for purposes such as generating statistics about videos, improving user experience and preventing fraud. The data collected is also processed by the Google Display network.

f you are logged in to your YouTube account, your browsing habits can be directly linked to your personal profile on YouTube. You can prevent this from happening by logging out of your YouTube account.

We use YouTube to make our website offer more attractive. It is a legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR. If you have given consent, processing is carried out based on Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR and Article 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act, insofar as consent includes the storing of cookies or access to information about your device (e.g. device fingerprinting), as provided for under the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act. You may withdraw this consent at any time.

For more information on how user data is used, please read YouTube’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America to guarantee that data processing carried out in the USA complies with European data privacy standards. All DPF-certified companies undertake to comply with these data privacy standards. You will find more information about the service provider at: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780

Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps’ services. The service provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We use this service to embed maps on our website.

Your IP address needs to be saved for you to use the map function provided by Google Maps. This information is generally transferred to a Google server in the United States for storage. We have no influence on this transfer. When Google Maps is activated, Google can use Google Fonts to harmonize the fonts used. When you access Google Maps, your browser uploads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display text and fonts correctly.

We use Google Maps to make our website offer more attractive and the locations mentioned on our website easier to find. It is a legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR. If you have given consent, processing is carried out based on Article 6(1) (a) of the GDPR and Article 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act, insofar as consent includes the storing of cookies or access to information about your device (e.g. device fingerprinting), as provided for under the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act. You may withdraw this consent at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is governed by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. More details are available here:

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/

For more information on how user data is used, please read Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

The company is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America to guarantee that data processing carried out in the USA complies with European data privacy standards. All DPF-certified companies undertake to comply with these data privacy standards. You will find more information about the service provider at: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780