Data Protection Declaration

Responsible entity as defined by the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

Hermann Otto GmbH
Krankenhausstraße 14
D-83413 Fridolfing
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0) 86 84-908-0
Fax: +49 (0) 86 84-908-1840
E-mail: info@otto-chemie.de

General data protection notice regarding the duty to inform according to the GDPR

Your rights as a data subject

You can execute the following rights at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the contact details below:

• Receive information about your data we have saved and their processing;
• The correction of incorrect personal data;
• Deletion of your personal data stored by us;
• Restriction to the processing of the data if, due to legal obligations, we may not delete your data;
• Revoke the processing of your data held by us; and
• The transferability of data if you have consented to the processing of data or if you have concluded a contract with us.

If you have granted us your consent, you can revoke it at any time for the future.

You may contact the competent supervisory authority at any time should you have a complaint. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state of your place of residence, your place of employment or the alleged violation. You can find a list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with address at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

The purposes of the data processing by the competent entity and third parties

We process your personal data for the purposes specified in this Data Protection Declaration only. Your personal data will not be forwarded to third parties for any purposes other than the specified purposes. We only forward your personal data to third parties if:

• You have granted your express consent;
• The processing is necessary in order to process a contract with you;
• The processing is necessary in order to comply with a legal obligation;
• The processing is necessary in order to maintain justified interests and there is no cause to assume that you do not have an interest which is predominantly worth protecting in the non-forwarding of your data.

The collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected via cookies. This information (server log files) includes, for instance, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain names of your Internet service provider and similar information. Only that information which does not allow your identity to be inferred is used.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly provide you with the contents you have requested and which is mandatorily generated when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

• For ensuring the smooth establishment of the connection of the website;
• For ensuring the smooth use of our website;
• For evaluating the security and stability of the system, and;
• For further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our justified interest from the aforementioned purposes for the collection of data. We don’t use your data to allow your identify to be inferred. The recipients of the data are only the responsible entity and, if required, the order processor.

Anonymous information of this nature is evaluated by us if necessary in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files which are transmitted to your hard disk from a website server. By these means, we automatically receive certain data such as the IP address, the browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or to transmit viruses to a computer. By using the information contained in the cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable the websites to be displayed correctly.

We will never forward the data collected by us to third parties or generate a link with personal data without your consent.

Naturally, it is also possible for you to view our website without the use of cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set so that they accept cookies. As a rule, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time by means of your browser’s settings. Please use the Help functions of your Internet browser in order to find out how you can change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website might not function if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Necessary (7)

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Statistics (11)

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Marketing (23)

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Registering on our website

When registering for the use of our personalised services, some personal data is collected: this includes your name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and e-mail address. If you are registered with us, you can access contents and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting at any time the data provided at registration if necessary. Naturally, we also provide you at any time information about the personal data we have stored about you. At your request, we will gladly correct/delete this information unless barred by legal duties to preserve this data. In order to contact us in this regard, please use the contact data provided at the bottom of this Data Protection Declaration.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use a state-of-the-art encryption method (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Newsletter

Based on your expressly granted consent, we regularly send you our newsletter / comparable information by e-mail to the e-mail address you have specified.

The provision of your e-mail address is sufficient for receiving the newsletter. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers might also be informed by e-mail about matters relevant for the service or the registration (such as changes to the newsletter service or technical issues).

We require a valid e-mail address for an effective registration. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the “double opt-in” method. To this end, we record the ordering of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation mail and the receipt of the requested reply. No further data are collected. The data are used exclusively for sending the newsletter and are not forwarded to third parties.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and their use for the sending of the newsletter at any time. Each newsletter contains a relevant link. Furthermore, you can unsubscribe at any time directly on this website or inform us about your request via the contact options provided at the end of this data protection notice.

Contact form

If you contact us via e-mail or the contact form with questions of any nature, you grant us your voluntary consent for the purposes of establishing contact. The provision of a valid e-mail address is necessary for this. This serves the purpose of assigning the enquiry and the subsequent reply. The provision of further data is optional. The information provided by you is saved for the purposes of processing the enquiry and for any follow-up queries. Once the enquiry has been resolved, personal data are automatically deleted.

Google Analytics 4

We use Google Analytics to measure and analyse the use of our online offer on the basis of a pseudonymous user identification number. This identification number does not contain any unique data, such as names or email addresses. It is used to assign analysis information to a terminal device in order to recognise which content users have accessed within one or various usage processes, which search terms they have used, accessed again or have interacted with our online offer. The time of use and its duration are also stored, as well as the sources of the users who refer to our online offer and technical aspects of their end devices and browsers. This involves creating pseudonymous profiles of users with information from the use of different devices, which may involve the use of cookies. In analytics, higher level geographic location data are provided by collecting the following metadata based on IP search: "City" (and the derived latitude and longitude of the city), "Continent", "Country", "Region", "Subcontinent" (and the ID-based equivalents). To ensure the protection of user data in the EU, Google receives and processes all user data via domains and servers within the EU. The IP address of the user is not logged and is shortened by the last two digits by default. The IP address is truncated on EU servers for EU users. In addition, all sensitive data collected from users in the EU will be deleted before they are collected through EU domains and servers;

Service providers: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland;
Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) GDPR);
Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Order processing contract: https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms/; Standard contractual clauses (guaranteeing the level of data protection when processing in third countries): https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms;
Possibility to object (opt-out): Opt-out plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de,
Settings for the display of advertisements: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated;
Further information: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/adsservices (types of processing and data processed).

Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a solution with which we can manage so-called website tags via an interface and thus integrate other services into our online offer (please refer to further information in this data protection declaration). The Tag Manager itself (which implements the tags) therefore does not yet create user profiles or store cookies, for example. Google only learns the IP address of the user, which is necessary to run the Google Tag Manager.

Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; 
Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a) GDPR);
Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com;
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy;
Order processing contract: https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms; 
Standard contractual clauses (guaranteeing the level of data protection in the case of processing in third countries): https://business.safety.google/adsprocessorterms.

The use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on your computer and which permit analysis of your use of the website. The information on your use of this website obtained via the cookie is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Due to the activation of the IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be abridged in advance by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contractual states of the agreement pertaining to the European Economic Area. It is only in exceptional cases that the full IP address is sent unabridged to a Google server in the USA, where it is abridged. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing the operator of the website with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google will not amalgamate the IP address transmitted as part of Google Analytics by your browser with other Google data.

The purposes of the data processing are the evaluation of the use of the website and the compilation of reports about activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, the idea is to then perform further associated services. The processing is based on the justified interest of the operator of the website.

You may refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate setting of your browser software: however, please note that if you do this you might not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available from the following link: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link This installs an opt-out cookie on your device. This prevents the collection of data by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

The use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps API in order to visually depict geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of the map functions by visitors. For further information about data processing by Google, please see Google Privacy Policy. By accessing this link, you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection centre.

For detailed instructions about the administration of your data in conjunction with Google products, see here.

Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on some of our websites. The operator of the relevant plug-in is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit a page with the YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. YouTube is informed about which pages you visit. If you are logged in your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behaviour to your personal account. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

If a YouTube video is launched, the provider uses cookies in order to collect information about the user behaviour.

Any user that has deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google-Ad program will not have to reckon with such cookies even when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also installs non-personal user information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you have to block the “Save cookies” function in your browser.

You can find further information on data protection on “YouTube” in the Data Protection Declaration of the provider at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Change to our data protection conditions

We reserve the right to adapt this Data Protection Declaration so that it always complies with the current legal regulations or in order to implement changes to our services, such as in the event of the introduction of new services. The new Data Protection Declaration then applies for your next visit.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

Should you have questions pertaining to data protection, please send us an e-mail or directly contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation:

Niels Rabe
Tel: +49 (0) 86 84-908-2365
E-mail: niels.rabe@otto-chemie.de