DATA PROTECTION
1. Data protection at a glance
General information
The following information provides an overview of how your personal data is processed when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. Detailed information regarding data protection can be found in our privacy statement below this text.
Data collection on our website
Who is responsible for data logging on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The contact data of the operator can be found in the legal notice of this website.
How do we collect your data?
On one hand, your data will be collected when you provide it to us. This may concern data that you have entered in a contact form, for example.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. These are mostly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or the time of the page view). The data will be collected automatically as soon as you access our website.
How do we use your data?
A part of the data is collected to ensure the flawless provision 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 obtain information free of charge and at any time on the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You further have the right to demand the rectification, blocking or erasure of these data. Please do not hesitate to contact us under the address provided in the legal notice for questions regarding this subject and other questions on data protection. Furthermore, you have a right of complaint at the responsible inspectorate.
Analysis tools and tools of third-party providers
Your surfing behavior can be statistically analyzed when you visit our website. This is mostly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually done anonymously; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information on this can be found in the following privacy statement.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you regarding your options for objection in this privacy statement.
2. General information and compulsory information
Data protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We will treat your personal data with confidentiality and in accordance with the legal data protection requirements as well as this privacy statement.
Various personal data will be collected when you use this website. Personal data is data that can be used to personally identify you. The privacy statement on hand explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also describes how and for what purpose this is done.
We would like to point out that data transmission on the internet (e.g. during communication by e-mail) can have security flaws. End-to-end protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Information on the controller
The controller for data processing on this website is:
ArgillaTherm GmbH
Wagenstieg 9
37077 Göttingen
Phone: +49 551-3893560
E-Mail: info@argillatherm.de
The controller is the natural or legal person that decides on the purpose and type of processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses etc.) either alone or together with others.
Withdrawal of your consent for data processing
Many data processing actions are only possible with your explicit consent. You can withdraw already given consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient for this. The legitimacy of the data processed prior to the withdrawal will remain untouched by the withdrawal.
Right of complaint at the responsible inspectorate
In case of violations of data protection law, the person affected has a right of complaint at the responsible inspectorate. The responsible inspectorate for data protection concerns is the state data protection officer of the state where our company is located. A list of data protection officers as well as their contact data can be gathered under 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 the data, which we have automatically processed on basis of your consent or fulfillment of a contract, handed out to you or to a third party in a common machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to another responsible person, this will only be implemented if it is technically feasible.
SSL and/or TLS encryption
This site uses SSL and/or TLS encryption for security reason and to protect the transmission of confidential contents, e.g. orders or inquiries which you sent to us as site operator. You can identify an encrypted connection by the change of the browser’s address line from “https://” to “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.
When the SSL and/or TLS encryption is activated, your transmitted data cannot be read by third parties.
Information, blocking, erasure
Within the scope of the applicable legal regulations, you have the right to obtain information free of charge and at any time on your stored personal data, its origin and recipients as well as the purpose of data processing and possibly a right for rectification, blocking or erasure of this data. Please do not hesitate to contact us under the address provided in the legal notice for questions regarding this subject and other questions on personal data.
Objection against advertisement e-mails
We hereby explicitly object to the utilization of the contact data published within the scope of the legal notification obligation for transmission of advertising and information material, which was not specifically solicited. The operators of the page expressly reserve the right to initiate legal proceedings in case of unsolicited transmission of advertising information, e.g. by spam e-mails.
3. Data collection on our website
Cookies
The internet sites partially use so-called cookies. Cookies will not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. 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 saved on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser at your next visit.
You can change the settings of your browser so that you will be informed on the placing of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The deactivation of cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
Cookies required for the performance of the electronic communication process or the provision of certain functions you desire (e.g. shopping cart function) will be saved in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. F, DSGOV. The website operator has a legitimate interest to save cookies for the technically flawless and optimized provision of their services. The scope to which other cookies (e.g. cookies to analyze your surfing behavior) are saved, will be addressed separately in this privacy statement.
Borlabs Cookie
This website uses Borlabs Cookie, a technically required cookie (borlabs-cookie) to memorize your cookie consents.
Borlabs Cookie does not process any personal data.
The consent you gave when accessing the website is stored in the Cookie borlabs-cookie. If you wish to recall these consents, you simply have to delete the cookie in your browser. When you reenter / reload the website, you will be asked for your cookie consent again.
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits. Those are:
- Browser type and version
- Used operating system
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of server request
- IP address
This data will not be combined with other data sources.
The data is collected in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, DSGOV. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically flawless presentation and optimization of its website – the server log files must be collected for this purpose.
Contact form
When you send your inquiries via the contact form or our sample site, we will store your information on the inquiry form including the provided contact data to process your inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not disclose this information without your consent.
Thus, the processing of the data entered in the contact form will be exclusively implemented in accordance with your consent (Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. a, DSGOV). You can withdraw this consent at any time. An informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient for this. The legitimacy of the data processing actions prior to the withdrawal will remain untouched by the withdrawal.
The data you provided in the contact form will remain with us until you request its erasure, withdraw your consent for saving or the purpose of the data logging no longer applies (e.g. after completed processing of your inquiry). Mandatory legal regulations – in particular retention periods – will remain untouched.
Data processing (customer and contract data)
We collect, process and use your personal data only to the extent as this is necessary for the justification, content design or change of legal relationships (inventory data). This is based on Art. 6, Para. 1. Let. b, DSGVO, which allows for the processing of data to fulfill a contract or preliminary contract measures. We only collect, process and use personal data through the use of our internet sites (usage data) as far as this is required to enable the user to take advantage of the service or to invoice those.
The collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the contract or termination of the business relations. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
4. Analysis tools and advertisement
Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the web analyzing service “Google Analytics”. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. Those are text files that will be saved on your computer and enable the analysis of your usage of this website. Information regarding your usage of the website generated by the cookies is usually forwarded to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Saving of the Google Analytics cookies is done in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, DSGOV. The website operator has a legitimate interest to analyze the user behavior to both optimize their web offer and their advertisement.
IP anonymization
We have activated the function “IP anonymization” on this website. With this, your IP address will be abridged by Google in member states of the European Union or other contractual states of the European Economic Area Agreement prior to forwarding to the USA. The full IP address will only be forwarded to a Google server in the USA in exceptional cases and abridged there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to assess your usage of the website, to compile reports regarding the website activities and to provide the website operator with further services associated with the use of the website and the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.
Browser plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by the corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we would like to point out that you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website if you do so. You can further prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie with reference to your usage of the website (incl. your IP address) for Google as well as the processing of that data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objection against data collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie will be placed which inhibits the collection of your data during future visits of this website: deactivate Google Analytics.
Further information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics can be found in the privacy statement of Google: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Order data processing
We have concluded a contract with Google for order data processing and fully comply with the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Google Analytics Remarketing
Our websites use the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in connection with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
This function enables the interconnection of the advertisement target groups developed with Google Analytics Remarketing with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. In this way, interest-related, personalized advertisements, which were adjusted to you depending on your former usage and surfing behavior on a terminal device (e.g. mobile phone), can also be displayed on another one of your terminal devices (e.g. tablet or PC).
With your provision of consent, Google will link your web and app browser history with your Google account for this purpose. In doing so, the same personalized advertisements can be shown on any terminal device on which you log in with your Google account.
To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs of the users, which are temporarily connected to our Google Analytics data, in order to define and develop target groups for the cross-device advertisements.
You can permanently object to cross-device remarketing / targeting by deactivating personalized advertisement in your Google account; to do so, just follow this link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
The compilation of the data recorded on your Google account is exclusively based on your permission, which you can provide and withdraw at Google (Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. a, DSGVO). During data collection processes, which will not be combined with your Google account (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or you have objected to the consolidation of data), data will be collected in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, . The legitimate interest is based on the interest of the website operator in the anonymized analysis of the website visitors for advertising purposes.
Further information and data protection regulations can be found in the privacy statement of Google under: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
We use so-called “conversion-tracking” within the scope of Google AdWords. If you click on an advertisement placed by Google, a cookie will be set for conversion-tracking. This cookie is a small text file, which will be stored by the internet browser on the computer of the user. These cookies will expire after 30 days and do not serve for the personal identification of the user. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired yet, Google and we can see that the user has clicked on the advertisement and has been forwarded to this page.
Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be traced via the websites of AdWords customers. Information obtained by means of the conversion cookie is used to prepare conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion-tracking. The customers will be informed on the total number of users who clicked on the ad and have been forwarded to a page provided with a conversion-tracking-tag. However, they will not be provided with information that would allow for a personal identification of the user. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this utilization by simply deactivating the Google conversion-tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings. Then you will not be included in the conversion-tracking statistics.
Saving of the conversion cookies is done in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, DSGOV. The website operator has a legitimate interest to analyze the user behavior to both optimize their web offer and their advertisement.
Further information on Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking can be found in the data protection regulations of Google: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
You can change the settings of your browser so that you will be informed on the placing of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The deactivation of cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
5. Plugins and tools
YouTube
Our website uses plugins of the page YouTube, which is operated by Google. Operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our websites with YouTube plugin, a connection will be established to the YouTube servers. In the process, the YouTube server receives information on which of our pages you have visited.
When you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly assign your surfing behavior to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This is a legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, DSGOV.
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in the privacy statement of YouTube: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Google Web Fonts
For a uniform presentation of the fonts, this page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google. When a page is opened, your browser will load the required web fonts in your browser cache so that texts and fonts can be displayed correctly.
For this purpose, your browser will have to establish a connection to the Google servers. This will provide Google with the information that our website was opened via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This is a legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, DSGOV.
A standard font on your computer will be used, if your browser does not support web fonts.
Further information on Google web fonts can be found under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the privacy statement of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Google Maps
This page uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Your IP address must be saved to use the functions of Google Maps. Normally, this information will be forwarded to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this website has not influence on this data transmission.
Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to simplify finding the locations indicated on our website. This is a legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6, Para. 1, Let. f, DSGOV.
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in the privacy statement of Google: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.