Data protection

Data protection declaration

§ 1 Information about the collection of personal data

(1) In the following we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. B. Name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) Responsible acc. Art. 4 para. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the responsible body named in the imprint. You can contact our data protection officer at Datenschutz@westphal-mechanik.de or at our postal address with the addition “the data protection officer”.

3) When you contact us by e-mail or using a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and your telephone number) will be saved by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data that arises in this context after it is no longer required to store it, or we limit processing if there are statutory retention requirements.

(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 below about the respective processes. We also state the specified criteria for the storage period.

§ 2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to your personal data:

- right to information,

- right to correction or deletion,

- right to restriction of processing,

- right to object to processing,

- Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us. You can reach the responsible data protection authority at https://www.lfd.niedersachsen.de

§ 3 Collection of personal data when you visit our website

(1) If you only use the website for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you would like to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit.f GDPR ):

-   IP address

- Date and time of the request

- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

- content of the request (specific page)

- Access status / HTTP status code

- Amount of data transferred in each case

- Website from which the request came

- browser

- Operating system and its interface

- Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the place that sets the cookie (in this case by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

- Transient cookies (see b)

- Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This enables your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which can differ depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and e.g. B. reject the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.