Data protection declaration for visiting our website

The protection of your data when you visit our website is very important to us. In the following we inform you which data is recorded during your visit and how it is used. You will also receive information about the rights you have with regard to the use of your data.

For security reasons, our website is equipped with SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognize this by the small lock icon at the top left in the address line of your browser. This encryption prevents data that you transmit to us from being read by third parties.

1. Name and contact details of the person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation:

Valco Werkstoffe und Industrie-Service GmbH, Büttgenbachstr. 16, 40549 Düsseldorf,

Phone: 0211/542139-0 Fax 0211/54213916, Internet: www.valcowerkstoffe.de

Email address: info@valcowerkstoffe.de

Data protection officer: Mr. Steve Lohrbach, company address see above, phone: 0211/542139-14, email address: steve.lohrbach@valcowerkstoffe.de

2. What is personal data?

Personal data is information that can be assigned to your person. This includes, for example, information such as name, address, e-mail address and telephone number.

3. Data collection when visiting our website

(1) If the website is only used for informational purposes, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data that 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 comes

• Browser

• Operating system and its interface

• Browser software language and version.

(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 (here from 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. These include in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows 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 vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

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

(4) For the purpose of providing our website securely and efficiently, we use the services of a web hosting provider from whose server the website can be accessed. For this purpose, certain data, in particular the data mentioned under paragraph 1, is received by our hosting provider. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

4. Data collection when contacting us by email

(1) When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide (usually at least your name and e-mail address) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. If you want to work towards the conclusion of a contract through your message, the legal basis is Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Otherwise, the legal basis for the processing of the data you have provided is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

(2) We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there are statutory storage obligations.

5. Use of Google Analytics

(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

(3) You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) being sent to Google and the processing of this data by Google by using the browser plug-in available under the following link. Download and install in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". As a result, IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, which means that they cannot be linked to individuals. If the data collected about you has a personal reference, this will be excluded immediately and the personal data will be deleted immediately.

(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR.

(6) Informationen des Drittanbieters: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax:  353 (1) 436 1001. Nutzerbedingungen: Third-party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax:  353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use:

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: Data protection overview:

http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html , as well as the data protection declaration: as well as the data protection declaration:

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy .

6. Maintenance of online presences in social networks

(1) In addition to this website, we also maintain online presences on the social networks Instagram and LinkedIn. You can reach them, among other things, via the corresponding links on our website. When you visit this online presence, personal data, such as your IP address, is usually transmitted to the provider of the respective social network. If you are logged into the corresponding social network with your personal account while visiting our online presence there, the provider of the respective social network can assign the visit to our online presence to your personal account.

(2) We maintain the aforementioned online presence in order to make our online offers more versatile and to communicate with the users who are active there and to be able to inform them more effectively about our services. The legal basis for maintaining the online presence is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR. If you have consented to the processing of your data by the provider of the respective social network, the legal basis is Art. GDPR.

7. Your Rights

You have the following rights towards us with regard to your personal data:

• to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can obtain information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a Right to complain, the origin of your data, if not collected from us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about their details;

• In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;

• According to Art. 17 GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims is required;

• pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need them to assert, need to exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;

• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible;

• According to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR, to revoke your consent given to us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent for the future and

• according to Art. 77 DSGVO to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

 

8. Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation affects the admissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us.

(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary in particular to fulfill a contract with you, which is shown by us in the following description of the functions. If you exercise such an objection, we ask that you explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and will either stop or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

(3) You can declare your objection or revocation using the contact details listed under point 1.

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Due to the further development of our website or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. You can access the current data protection declaration at any time on our website.

Status: March 2022