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Data Protection Statement
Hawle Armaturen GmbH appreciates your interest in our company and our products and services.
In the following Data Protection Statement, we would like to inform you of which personal data we collect, process and, if applicable, transfer, as well as the scope and purpose thereof, when you visit our website and access the products and services available there.
Where this website contains links to the external sites of other providers, you leave our website when you follow these links. The providers of these linked sites, not Hawle Armaturen GmbH, are solely responsible for compliance with legal data protection provisions on them.
Data protection principles of Hawle Armaturen GmbH
The protection of your privacy and the security of all commercial data are very important to us and we take them into consideration in our business processes. Data protection and information security are part of our company policy.
We place great importance on protecting your personal data and only process it in compliance with the laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany and superordinate European legislation, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Your personal data is processed within the scope described below for the purposes explained. This means that we only use your personal data if this is explicitly permitted by data protection laws or you have already given us explicit consent.
Definition of terms
The EU General Data Protection Regulation uses specific terms, which are defined in Article 4, e.g. personal data, processing, pseudonymisation, controllers, processors, recipients, third parties and consent.
Name and contact details of the controller
The controller in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, other national data protection laws of the Member States and other legal data protection provisions is:
Hawle Armaturen GmbH
Liegnitzer Straße 6
83395 Freilassing
Germany
Tel.: +49 8654 6303 - 0 (main point of contact)
Fax: +49 8654 6303 - 111
Email: info@hawle.de
Website: www.hawle.de
Name and address of the data protection officer
The controller’s data protection officer is:
Nicolas Kurze
Liegnitzer Straße 6
83395 Freilassing
Germany
Tel.: +49 8654 6303 - 0
Email: datenschutz@hawle.de
General information on the processing of personal data
Scope of the processing
In principle, we only process our users’ personal data when it is necessary to do so in order to provide a functioning website and for the content and services we offer. Personal data is only processed on the basis of currently applicable legal foundations.
Purposes of the processing
The purposes of the processing of personal data lie in conducting the business of the Hawle Armaturen GmbH and all associated secondary business.
- Legal basis for the processing
- The legal basis for processing personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party is Article 6 (1)(b) GDPR. This also applies for processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.
- If the processing is necessary for the protection of the legitimate interests of our company or a third party and such interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, Article 6 (1)(f) GDPR forms the legal basis for the processing.
- When we obtain consent for processing operations for personal data from the data subject, Article 6 (1)(a) GDPR forms the legal basis.
- When the processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Article 6 (1)(c) GDPR forms the legal basis.
- In the event that the processing of personal data is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person, Article 6 (1)(d) GDPR forms the legal basis
Statutory or contractual duties to provide personal data
There may be statutory or contractual requirements for you to provide personal data under certain circumstances, or it may be necessary to do so in order to enter into a contract.
In particular, you may be obliged to provide personal data to us when entering into contracts. Failure to provide the personal data could mean it is not possible to enter into the contract with you.
Transfer of personal data
We only share your personal data with third parties when
- it is necessary for the performance of an existing contract with you.
- it is necessary for the protection of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, unless such interests are overridden by your (the data subject’s) interests or fundamental rights and freedoms requiring the protection of personal data.
- we are legally required to do so.
- it is necessary for the enforcement of our claims and rights.
- we receive requests from official institutions (e.g. supervisory authorities or law enforcement authorities, when transfer is necessary for the prevention of threats to public security and order and the prosecution of criminal offences).
However, in the case of such transfer, the personal data may only be used for the purpose concerned.
Involvement of external service providers
Like most other companies, we are not specialists in everything. We therefore use service providers to support us in some areas of our business activity, e.g.
- IT service providers to maintain our infrastructure
- IT developers to develop our applications
- computer centres to securely run our services
- agencies and printers to send out email newsletters or printed information
We have entered into the legally required contracts on processing that specifically state what the service provider may do with which data. In particular, transfer to third parties is also excluded here. In these contracts, service providers are placed under obligation to comply with the applicable data protection provisions.
Data erasure and storage period
Personal data will be erased or made unavailable as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Storage can also be carried out if this is provided for by the European or national legislator in Union regulations, laws or other rules to which the controller is subject. Data will only be made unavailable or erased if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards lapses, unless continued storage of the data is necessary.
Operation of the website and creation of log files
In principle, you can visit our website without registering or logging in. When you visit our website, data is collected by the web server for the transfer of data (information on the system of the computer used) and sometimes stored in log files on the web server. This data is so-called “usage data”.
Learn more about the creation of log files when you visit our website
Use of cookies
In principle, cookies are not bad; they actually enable user interaction and other useful things when visiting websites. Cookies do not damage your computer or contain viruses.
In order to make the visit to our website appealing and to enable usage of certain functions, we use cookies on various pages. Cookies are small text files that your browser saves on your device at our website’s command.
Learn more about the use of cookies
Contact forms and email contact
On our website there is a contact form that can be used to contact us electronically. If you choose this option, the data entered into the entry form will be transferred to us and stored.
Learn more about the processing of data entered when making contact electronically
Processing of business contacts
We receive business contact information from employees and managing directors of other companies on various occasions. This information, which is usually provided personally, is stored in our contact database as a business contact.
Learn more about processing and storing business contacts
Subscription to our newsletter
On our website there is the option to subscribe to a free newsletter. When signing up for the newsletter, data from the entry form is transferred to us and stored.
Learn more about the processing of personal data when you sign up for our newsletter
Use of third-party providers’ add-ons
Like many other companies, we use add-ons from third-party providers (social media, analytics tools, marketing tools, etc.). They enable personal data (e.g. IP numbers, information from pseudonymised cookies, geodata, etc.) to be passed on or automatically transferred to the third-party providers. The nature, scope, purpose and duration of such processing of personal data can differ from case to case.
Learn more about the processing of data by third-party add-ons we use
When you make an application online
You have the option to make an application via our website. We solely process the personal data that you send us during an online application to carry out the application process.
Learn more about the processing of personal data when you send us an application online
Your rights as a data subject
If your personal data is processed, you are a data subject in accordance with GDPR and you have the following rights against the controller:
Right of access
You can request confirmation as to whether and which personal data concerning you is processed by us.
Right to rectification
You have a right to rectification and/or completion if the processed personal data concerning you is incorrect or incomplete.
Right to erasure (“Right to be forgotten”)
You can request the personal data concerning you to be erased immediately and the controller is obliged to erase this data immediately where certain grounds apply.
Right to restriction of processing
Under certain circumstances, you can request restriction of processing of personal data concerning you (e.g. block processing)
Right to information
If you have enforced the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive personal data concerning you that you have provided to the controller in machine-readable format.
Right to object
You have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you that is performed in accordance with Article 6 (1)(e) or (f) GDPR.
- This concerns in particular the objection against direct advertising.
Right to withdraw the legal data protection declaration of consent
You have the right to withdraw your legal data protection declaration of consent at any time.
Automated decision-making including profiling
Automated decision in individual cases including profiling:- In certain cases scoring and profiling may not be carried out without the involvement of an examining person.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. However, we ask you to contact us first to exercise your rights.
Learn more about your rights as a data subject
Changes to the data protection declaration
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration when new services are introduced or changed so that it always complies with current legal requirements. When you return to our website, the current version will apply.
Version 26.09.2022