Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest in our site. Protecting your personal data is very important to us. As a result, we would like to provide you with information concerning data protection at our company. We comply with the legal regulations of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG) and other statutory provisions related to data protection.

Our websites are protected from damage, destruction or unauthorized access through technical measures.

The material subject to data protection is personal information. According to Section 3, Paragraph 1 of the BDSG, this is information concerning personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, data such as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number. If applicable, it may also include usage data, such as your IP address.

Generally, it is not necessary for you to enter personal data to use our website. However, we may need your personal information in order to provide our services. This applies to the mailing of informational materials or ordered goods as well as to responses to individual queries.

If you request us to provide services or to mail goods, we collect and store your personal information only to the extent required for provision of the services or performance of the contract. It may be necessary to pass on your personal information to companies we use in providing the services or executing the contract. These are, for example, transportation companies or other service providers. If we should need to collect or store your personal data for particular activities or services, we will request your express consent in the relevant area of our website.

Following completion of the contract, your data will be blocked and – when the retention periods required by tax and commercial law have elapsed – deleted unless you have expressly agreed to allow continued use of these data.

In order to optimize our website, we collect and store data such as the date and time of the page view, the site from which you accessed our site and similar information. This occurs anonymously, without personally identifying the site user. If applicable, user profiles may be created using a pseudonym. Even here, no connection is made between the existing natural person behind the pseudonym and the collected usage data. We use cookies to collect and store usage data. These are small text files saved on your computer and used to store statistical information such as operating system, your internet browser, IP address, the previously accessed website (referrer URL) and time. These data are collected exclusively for statistical purposes in order to optimize our website and to enable us to improve the attractiveness of our internet presence.

Collection and storage takes place only anonymously or with a pseudonym and cannot be traced back to your natural person.

We follow the principle of purposeful use of data and collect, process and use your personal data only for those purposes for which you have provided them to us. Your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties without your express consent, unless this is necessary for provision of the services or performance of the contract. Even transmission to state institutions and authorities entitled to receive information will occur only in accordance with legal disclosure requirements or if a court order obliges us to such disclosure.

We also take data protection within the company very seriously. Our employees and our contracted service providers are obliged to secrecy and to compliance with legal data protection requirements.

Without indicating a reason, you may request information regarding your data stored by us free of charge at any time. You are entitled to have the data that we have collected about you blocked, corrected or deleted. You may also withdraw the consent you provided us for collecting and using data, without indicating a reason. To do so, you can either contact the address found in the corporate information section or write directly to datenschutz(at)schottel.de. We are available to answer any further questions you might have regarding data protection or the processing of your personal information. 

Please note that data protection provisions may be subject to change. It is therefore advisable and necessary to remain informed of the changes to legal regulations and company practices.

You can find further information under the following link from the Data Protection Officer for the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate:

http://www.datenschutz.rlp.de/