Privacy Statement
Information about the collection of personal data
(1) Below we provide information on the collection of personal information when using this website. Personal data is all information personally referable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.
(2) Responsible data collector in the sense of Art. 4, par. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is vapic GmbH, Reiner Wolf, Harry-à-Wengen-Straße 6, D-75387 Neubulach-Oberhaugstett, Email: info@vapic.de (please refer to the legal information).
(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, and if applicable your name and your telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context once the storage is no longer needed or limit its processing if statutory retention obligations exist.
(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also specify the defined criteria for the storage period
Your rights
(1) You have the following rights towards us regarding your personal data:
– right to be informed
– right to correction or deletion
– right to limit the processing
– right to object the processing
– right to data portability
(2) You also have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority concerning our processing of your personal data.
Collection of personal data when visiting our website
(1) If you use the website for information purposes only and thus do not otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which we technically require to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6, par. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR):
– IP address
– date and time of inquiry
– time zone deviation to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– content of inquiry (specific site)
– access status/HTTP status code
– respective volume of data transferred
– the website forwarding the inquiry
– browser
– operating system and GUI
– language and version of browser software.
(2) In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website and services. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk in association with the browser you’re using and by which the party which sets the cookie (i.e. us) receives specific information. Cookies cannot run programmes or deliver viruses to your computer. They serve to make our internet presence more user-friendly and effective (legal basis is Art. 6, par. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR).
Additionally, we make use of so-called Local Storage and Session Storage technologies (also referred to as “local data”, “local memory” and “session memory”). For Local Storage, data are locally stored in your browser’s cache. They remain available and readable even after the browser window or the program has been closed unless you do not clear the cache actively. Local Storage saves your preferences on your computer while you use our website and thus allows you to use them. The functions of Session Storage generally correspond to those of the Local Storage explained, except that respective data are automatically removed from your browser’s cache immediately as soon as the browser (“session”) is being closed.
Third parties have no access to data saved in the Local Storage or Session Storage. Suchlike data won’t be disclosed to third parties and/or used for promotional purposes. The technology will in particular be used to present you our content in interesting graphical form (e.g. pop-up windows etc.) and to adjust our services and website navigation to your specific needs. You can organize the Local Storage-content in your browser settings for “history” or “local data” (depending on the type of browser you use). However, restricting the above features can result in limited functionality.
(3) In general, we exclusively use the technologies mentioned above to improve our website’s ease-of-use and functions. We use these technologies for the legitimate interest of offering you interesting and fully functional services based on Art. 6, subp. 1, lit. f, GDPR. If, in addition, your consent to the use of cookies should be required we will ask for it when necessary. Legal base for your consent to the possible use of cookies is Art. 6, subp. 1, sentence 1, lit. a, GDPR. If you do not want the above technologies to be used your browser settings allow for preventing this. In your browser settings you will also find a list of the cookies used, if any.
Additional functions and services provided on our website
(1) Apart from the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if interested. For this purpose, you will usually have to disclose further personal data which we use to provide the respective service and to which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
(2) In some cases we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and checked regularly.
(3) Furthermore, we may disclose your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in campaigns and prize games, contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more detailed information on this when you provide your personal data or through the below specification of the services.
(4) If our service providers or partners are located in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the service.
Objection to or revocation of the processing of your data
(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Once communicated to us, such revocation affects the permissibility of the processing your personal data.
(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is in particular not necessary to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the below description of the functions. When such objection is raised, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. If your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and either cease or adjust the data processing or explain to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, on the basis of which we will continue processing.
(3) Of course you may object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You may inform us about your objection to promotional purposes at the below contact data: vapic GmbH, Reiner Wolf, Harry-à-Wengen-Straße 6, D-75387 Neubulach-Oberhaugstett, Email: info@vapic.de.
Term of storage of personal data
We will store personal data in accordance with the retention periods stipulated by law (e.g. under commercial or tax law). Thereafter, the respective data will be deleted if it is no longer needed to fulfil the contract and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in further storage.
Google Web Fonts
For the uniform appearance this website uses external fonts provided by the third-party provider Google, Inc., https://www.google.com/fonts („Google Fonts“). The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. The integration of the Google fonts is performed by a request on Google’s server (usually in the USA). Google sets a cookie in order to process the user configuration and data when the page with the integrated webfont component is displayed. By transmitting the data Google becomes aware of your IP is using our website. The use of Google fonts is necassary for the uniform and appealing appearance of this website.
Google LLC based in the United States is certificated for the EU-US data protection agreement „Privacy Shield“, which garantees the EU data protection standard. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/. Further informations are published at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
