1. Data Protection Overview

General Information

This overview provides a simple summary of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data includes all data that can be used to personally identify you. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website? The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator, whose contact details can be found in the website’s legal notice.

How do we collect your data? Your data is collected when you provide it to us, such as by filling out a contact form. Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This includes technical data (e.g., browser type, operating system, or the time of page access). These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for? Some of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data? You have the right to request information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time, free of charge. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address provided in the legal notice for further questions on data protection. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When you visit our website, your browsing behavior may be statistically evaluated, primarily using cookies and analysis programs. This analysis is usually anonymous and cannot be traced back to you. 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 about the objection options in this privacy policy.

2. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

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

When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g., when communicating by email) can have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the Responsible Entity

The responsible entity for data processing on this website is:

Bauer und Guse GmbH
Ober-Ramstädter Straße 98
64367 Mühltal
Telephone: 06151913053

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

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke consent that you have already given at any time. A simple notification via email is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the case of data protection violations, the affected person has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data that we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, transmitted to yourself or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser’s address line changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

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

Right to Information, Deletion, Blocking

You have the right to free information about your stored personal data, its origin, recipients, and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data at any time. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address provided in the legal notice.

Objection to Advertising Emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the transmission of advertising and information material not expressly requested. The operators of the site expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam emails.

3. Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

Some of the websites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, 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 stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. When cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are necessary for the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions you desire (e.g., shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g., cookies for analyzing your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server Log Files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. 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 cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data will not be merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which allows the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

4. Analysis Tools and Advertising

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Analytics

This website may use functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies.” These are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. 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.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its web offering and its advertising.

IP Anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate