Data protection

The responsible agency within the meaning of data protection legislation, in particular the EU General Data Protection regulation (GDPR), is:

RSA cutting technologies GmbH
Adolph-Kolping-Straße 14
58239 Schwerte
GERMANY
Tel.: +49 / 2304 9111 0
Fax: +49 / 2304 9111 100
email: rsa.d(at)rsa.de

 

Your rights as a person affected

You can exercise the following rights at any time via the contact details of our data protection officer indicated below:

  • Information about your data saved by us and its processing,
  • Correction of incorrect personal data,
  • Deletion of your data that we have saved,
  • Limitation of data processing, insofar as we are not yet permitted to delete your data owing to statutory obligations,
  • Withdraw of consent to processing of your data by us and
  • Data portability, insofar as you have consented to data processing or concluded a contract with us.

Insofar as you have granted us consent, you can withdraw this at any time with effect for the future.

You can direct a complaint to the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. Your responsible supervisory authority will depend on the Federal State of your place of residence, your work or the suspected breach. You can find a list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with the address at: www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible agency and a third party

We will process your personal data only for the purposes mentioned in this data protection declaration. There will be no transfer of your personal data to a third party for purposes other those mentioned. We will transmit your personal data to a third party only if:

  • You have granted your express consent for this,
  • Processing is necessary to implement a contract with you,
  • Processing is required to satisfy a legal obligation,

Processing is necessary to safeguard justified interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overwhelming interest in the non-transmission of your data, which is worthy of protection.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore save your personal data only for as long as this is required to achieve the purposes mentioned here or for the wide-ranging periods of retention envisaged by the legislator. When the relevant purpose is discontinued or the end of these periods has been reached, the corresponding data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when visiting a website

When you access our website, general information is collected automatically by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) contains for example the nature of the web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service-provider and similar details. This is exclusively information from which it is impossible to draw any conclusions about you personally.

This information is technically necessary to supply the consent request from websites correctly and must occur when you use the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Providing a trouble-free link connection to the website,
  • Ensuring problem-free use of our website,
  • Assessment of the system security and stability as well as
  • For additional administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our justified interest in data collection arising from the above-mentioned purposes. We will not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. Recipients of the data are only the responsible agency and contracted processors, if applicable.

Anonymous information of this nature may be assessed by us statistically to optimise our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files, which are transferred from a website server to your hard disc. Through this we automatically receive certain data such as the IP address, the browsers used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. By using the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate navigation for you and make sure our web pages are displayed correctly.

Under no circumstances is the data collected by us passed on to a third party or is a link with personal data created without your consent.

Naturally you can in principle also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set up so that they accept cookies. In general you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings in your browser. Please use the Help functions on your Internet browser to find out how you can change these settings. Please be aware that individual functions of our website may not function if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Registration on our website

When registering for the use of our personalised services, some personal data is collected, such as your name, address, contact and communication data like the telephone number and email address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services, which we offer only to registered users. Registered users also have the opportunity to amend or delete the data provided during registration if necessary. Naturally we will additionally provide you with information about the personal data we have saved about you at any time. We are happy to correct or delete this data at your request, insofar as this is not contrary to any statutory obligations for retention. Please use the contact details given at the end of this data protection declaration to make contact in this connection.

Provision of chargeable services

Additional data is requested by us for the provision of chargeable services, such as payment details in order to be able to carry out your order. We save this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data when they are transmitted, we use the latest encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Newsletter

On the basis of your consent, which has been granted expressly for this purpose, we will send you our Newsletter or comparable information by email to the email address you have provided on a regular basis.

The provision of your email address is sufficient to receive the Newsletter. When registering to subscribe to our Newsletter, the data you have provided will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers can also be informed by email about circumstances, which are relevant for the service or registration (for example changes to the Newsletter content or technical issues).

We require a valid email address for effective registration. In order to verify that a registration has actually been made by the holder of an email address, we use the “double opt-in” procedure. We therefore record the order of the Newsletter, the dispatch of a confirmation email and receipt of the response requested by the latter for this purpose. Additional data are not collected. The data will be used exclusively for the dispatch of the Newsletter and not passed to a third party.

You can withdraw the consent to save your personal data and its use for dispatch of the Newsletter at any time. You will find a corresponding link for this in every Newsletter. Furthermore, you can also unsubscribe at any time directly on this website or notify us of your wish using the contact details at the end of this data protection information.

Contact form

If you contact us regarding questions of any kind by email or the contact form, you grant us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. Provision of a valid email address is required for this. This is used to assign the inquiry and the subsequent response to the latter. The provision of additional data is optional. The details you provide will be saved for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for possible follow-up questions. After completion of the inquiry you have made, personal data will be deleted automatically.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, in other words text files, which are saved on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will generally be transmitted to a server belonging to Google in the USA and saved there. Owing to the activation of IP-anonymisation on these web pages, your IP-address will however be abbreviated beforehand by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP-address be transferred to a server of Google in the USA and abbreviated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to assess your use of the website, to compile reports about the website activities and to provide additional services associated with the website use and Internet use with regard to the website operator. The IP address transmitted from your browser by Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

The purposes of the data processing are the assessment of the use of the website and in compiling reports about activities on the website. Additional associated services are then to be provided on the basis of the use of the website and the Internet. The processing is based on the justified interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the cookies being saved through a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in full. In addition, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can disable tracking by Google Analytics on our web pages, by clicking on this link. In doing so, an opt-out cookie is installed on your device. This will prevent the future collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser, as long as the cookie remains installed on your browser.

Use of script libraries (Google web fonts)

So that content across browsers is displayed correctly and in a way that is graphically appealing, we use script libraries and font libraries on this website such as Google web fonts (www.google.com/webfonts/). Google web fonts are transferred to the cache of your browser to avoid repeated loading. If the browser does not support Google web fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a standard font.

Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a link to the operator of the library. It is therefore theoretically possible – although it is currently also unclear whether and for what purposes – that operators collect the corresponding library data.

You can find the data protection guideline of the library operator Google here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of Adobe Typekit

We use Adobe Typekit for the visual design of our website. Typekit is a service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd., which gives us access to a library of font types. In order to incorporate the types of font we use, your browser must establish a connection to a server from Adobe in the USA and download the font type required for our website. This means that Adobe receives the information, which was called up from your IP address on our website. You can find further information about Adobe Typekit in the data protection policies of Adobe, which you can see here: www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html

Use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps API to display geographical information visually. When using Google Maps, Google will also collect, process and use data about the use of the map functions by visitors. You can find out more information about the data processing by Google from the Google data protection policies. There you can also amend your personal data protection settings in the data protection centre.

You can find detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products here.

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed Youtube videos on some of our web pages. The operator of the corresponding plug-ins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit a page with a YouTube plug-in, a connection is established to the servers of Youtube. This will inform Youtube of which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your Youtube account, Youtube can personally assign your surfing behaviour to you. You can prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account beforehand.

If a Youtube video is started, the provider will use cookies, which will collect information about the user behaviour.

Anyone who has deactivated the saving of cookies for the Google ad-program, will also not face such cookies when viewing Youtube videos. However, Youtube also files non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you would like to prevent this, you must block cookies being saved in the browser.

You can find further information about data protection at “Youtube” in the data protection declaration of the provider at: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google Conversion-Tracking. If you have reached our website via an advert run by Google, a cookie will be set on your computer by Google Adwords. The cookie for Conversion-Tracking is set when a user clicks on an advert run by Google. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can identify that the user has clicked on the advert and has been transferred to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the help of the conversion cookie is used to compile the conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have selected conversion tracking. Customers discover the total number of users, who have clicked on their advert and were transferred to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However they will not receive any information with which users can be identified personally.

If you do not wish to be involved in tracking, you can refuse the setting of a cookie required for this – for example through the browser setting, which will deactivate the automatic setting of cookies or set your browser in such a way that cookies remain blocked from the domain “googleleadservices.com”.

Please note that you must not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not wish measuring data to be displayed. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must re-set the relevant opt-out cookie again.

Use of Google Remarketing

This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The function is used to present interest-related adverts to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is saved in the browser of the website visitor that makes it possible to recognise the user when the latter calls up these web pages, which belong to the advertising network of Google. On these pages adverts can be presented to visitors, which refer to content that the visitor has previously called up on websites, which use the remarketing function of Google.

By its own account, Google collects no personal data during this process. Should you nevertheless not wish to have the remarketing function of Google, you can in principle deactivate this by undertaking the corresponding settings at www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-related advertising via the advertising network initiative, by following the instructions at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Amendment of our data protection provisions

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

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have questions regarding data protection, please write an email to us or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

Uwe Röben
uwe.roeben@brandvital.de

The data protection declaration was compiled with the Data protection declaration generator of activeMind AG.