Data Protection / Legal

General notice and mandatory information

Designation of the responsible entity
The responsible party within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:

Company: FEINMETALL GmbH
Address: Zeppelinstrasse 8, 71083 Herrenberg, Germany
Tel.: +49 7032 2001 - 0
E-mail: info@feinmetall.com

Further information about our company can be found in our imprint.

The responsible entity decides alone or jointly with others about the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, contact details or similar).

 

Security and protection of your personal data

We consider it our primary responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data you provide to us and to protect it from unauthorized access. Therefore, we apply the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data. As a company under private law, we are subject to the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) and the regulations of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the regulations on data protection are observed both by us and by our external service providers.

Definition of terms
The legislator requires that personal data be processed in a lawful manner, in good faith and in a way that is comprehensible to the data subject ("lawfulness, processing in good faith, transparency"). To ensure this, we inform you about the individual legal definitions, which are also used in this privacy policy:

1. Personal data

"Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

2. Processing
"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, filing, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

3. Restriction of processing
"Restriction of processing" means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its future processing.

4. Profiling
"Profiling" is any type of automated processing of personal data that consists of using such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects relating to that natural person's job performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location.

5. Pseudonymization
"Pseudonymization" means the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

6. File system
"File system" means any structured collection of personal data accessible according to specific criteria, whether such collection is maintained centrally, decentrally or according to functional or geographical criteria.

7. Controller
"Controller" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its designation may be provided for under Union or Member State law.

8. Processor
"Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

9. Recipient
"Recipient" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to whom personal data are disclosed, whether or not a third party. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigation mandate under Union or Member State law shall not be considered as recipients; the processing of such data by the aforementioned authorities shall be carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation, in accordance with the purposes of the processing.

10. Third party
"Third party" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body, other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who are authorized to process the personal data under the direct responsibility of the controller or the processor.

11. Consent
"Consent" of the data subject means any freely given specific, informed and unambiguous indication of his or her wishes in the form of a statement or other unambiguous affirmative act by which the data subject signifies his or her agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

 

Your data subject rights:

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
  • Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
  • deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO),
  • Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO),
  • Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

 

 

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Some data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. A revocation of your already given consent is possible at any time. An informal communication by e-mail is sufficient for the revocation. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

 

Right to complain to the competent supervisory authority

As a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of a data protection violation. The competent supervisory authority regarding data protection issues is the State Data Protection Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg.
The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg P.O. Box 10 29 32 70025 Stuttgart Königstraße 10a 70173 Stuttgart website with further contact details: https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/

 

Children

Our offer is basically directed at adults. Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.

 

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as site operator, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. This means that data that you transmit via this website cannot be read by third parties. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the "https://" address line of your browser and the lock symbol in the browser line.

 

Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions that are not answered by this privacy statement, if you would like more detailed information on any point, or if you wish to exercise any of the rights to which you are entitled, please contact our data protection officer(s) at: datenschutz(at)feinmetall.de

 

Collection of general information when visiting our website

Server log files
In server log files, the provider of the website automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • Visited page on our domain
  • Date and time of server request
  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • IP address
  • Domain name of your internet service provider

In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
  • Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
  • evaluating system security and stability, and
  • for the optimization of our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated anonymously by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended. In the case of storage of data in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized, so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.

Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website is not guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

 

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. These are small text files that your web browser stores on your terminal device. Cookies help us to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Some cookies are "session cookies." Such cookies are deleted by themselves after the end of your browser session. In contrast, other cookies remain on your terminal device until you delete them yourself. Such cookies help us to recognize you when you return to our website. With a modern web browser, you can monitor, restrict or prevent the setting of cookies. Many web browsers can be configured to automatically delete cookies when you close the program. Disabling cookies may result in limited functionality of our website. You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:

 


Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be limited.

Objection:
Please read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO below.

 

Technically unnecessary cookies

Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to generally improve it on the basis of statistical evaluations. Please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used to find out which providers use cookies.

Legal basis:
The legal basis for these processing operations is in each case your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website. For further recipients, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

Third-country transfer:
Please refer to the listings of the individual display, tracking, remarketing and web analytics providers for information on this.

Provision prescribed or required:
Of course, you can generally view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Revocation of consent). Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Withdrawal of consent:
You can revoke your consent at any time via our Cookie Consent Tool.

Profiling:
To what extent we analyze the behavior of website visitors with pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.

 

Contact form

Data transmitted via contact form will be stored, including your contact details, in order to be able to process your inquiry or to be available for follow-up questions. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the request and the subsequent response to the same. The provision of further data is optional.

Recipients:
A transfer of this data are, if necessary, order processors.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). A revocation of your already given consent is possible at any time. An informal communication by e-mail is sufficient for the revocation. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).

Storage period:
Data transmitted via the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to store it or there is no longer any need to store the data. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

 

Newsletter data

To send our newsletter we need an e-mail address from you. Verification of the specified e-mail address is necessary and the receipt of the newsletter must be consented to. Supplementary data is not collected or is voluntary. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The data provided during newsletter registration is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). A revocation of your already given consent is possible at any time. For the revocation, an informal message by e-mail or you unsubscribe via the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.

Storage period:
Data entered to set up the subscription will be deleted in the event of unsubscription. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it will continue to remain with us.

Recipients:
For the purposes described above, we use order processors who support us in the handling of our business processes. Specifically, this includes the following service providers or categories of service providers to whom we disclose personal data:

  • Hosting service provider
  • Newsletter service provider

 

YouTube

We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. In the process, YouTube is informed which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior. For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider's privacy policy, where you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy.
(https://policies.google.com/privacy).

Withdrawal of consent:

Currently, no option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission is offered by the provider. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only be able to use it to a limited extent.

Notice:
Youtube partially processes its data in the USA, which is considered an unsafe third country in terms of data protection.

 

Matomo (formerly Piwik)

Our website uses the web analytics service Matomo. Matomo is an open source solution.

Matomo uses "cookies." These are small text files that your web browser stores on your terminal device and that enable an analysis of website usage. Information generated by means of cookies about the use of our website is stored on our server. Before storage, your IP address is anonymized.

If sub-pages of our website are accessed, the following information is stored:

  • Hosting service provider
  • Newsletter service provider
  • the IP address of the user, shortened by the last two bytes (anonymized)
  • the sub-page called up and the time of the call-up
  • the page from which the user came to our website (referrer)
  • which browser with which plugins, which operating system and which screen resolution is used
  • the time spent on the website
  • the pages that are visited from the accessed sub-page

Cookies from Matomo remain on your terminal device until you delete them.

The setting of Matomo cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior in order to optimize both our website and, if necessary, advertising.

There is no disclosure of the information stored in the Matomo cookie about the use of this website. The setting of cookies by your web browser can be prevented. However, some functions of our website could be restricted as a result.

For more information on the privacy settings of the Matomo software, please see the following link: https://matomo.org/docs/privacy/.

You can deactivate the storage and use of your data here. Your browser sets an opt-out cookie, which prevents the storage of Matomo usage data. If you delete your cookies, the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be removed. When you visit our website again, the opt-out cookie to prevent the storage and use of your data must be set again.

Bootstrap CDN

On our websites we use Bootstrap technology for a modern design and display of the offered content on different devices.
To increase the loading speed of our websites, we use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) BootstrapCDN.
This is an open source service provided by jsdelivr.com of the Polish software company ProspectOne, Królewska 65A/1, 30-081, Kraków, Poland.
We use jsdelivr.com's BootstrapCDN (Content Delivery Network) to deliver so-called libraries (collections of technical instructions) to your browser. The libraries are Java Script and JQuery files.
This serves for a stable provision of a fast and well-functioning service. Furthermore, the service is integrated for the optimization of our websites in our own interest, according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.
It is very likely that you have already downloaded one of these libraries from BootstrapCDN by visiting another website. In this case, your browser can access the cached copy. If your browser does not have a cached copy or if it downloads the file from BootstrapCDN for another reason, your IP address will be transmitted to the provider during the connection to the BootstrapCDN server.
If you have enabled JavaScript in your browser and do not have a JavaScript blocker installed, your browser may transmit personal data, such as your IP address, to BootstrapCDN. We do not know what data BootstrapCDN associates with the data it receives and for what purposes BootstrapCDN uses that data. To prevent Bootstrap CDN from executing JavaScript code altogether, you may install a JavaScript blocker (e.g., www.noscript.net or www.ghostery.com).
For more information about BootstrapCDN's privacy practices, please visit https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net. And www.bootstrapcdn.com

 

Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 DSGVO

Individual right of objection You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

Please address any objections to the data controller or the data protection officer.

 

Change to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

The privacy policy was created with the help of various sources:
Source: The privacy policy was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (version #2020-09-30). Privacy configurator from mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de

Whistleblowing

Feinmetall offers the possibility to contact an independent whistleblower portal in case of suspicion or knowledge of illegal or unethical actions and thus contribute to the detection of violations of rules.
Further information on the whistleblower portal and the established reporting channels can be found under the following link: https://sgp-lumen.de/en/app/feinmetall