Privacy policy
Responsible party in terms of data protection laws, especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:
Hermann Kuhler GmbH & Co. KG
Amboßweg 1
42855 Remscheid
Your Rights as a Data Subject
Under the provided contact details of our data protection officer, you can exercise the following rights at any time:
– Information about your stored data and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR)
– Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR)
– Deletion of your stored data (Art. 17 GDPR)
– Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR)
– Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
– Data portability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).
If you have given us consent, you can revoke it at any time with future effect.
You can always contact a supervisory authority with a complaint, e.g., the supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the responsible entity.
Cookies
Like many other websites, we also use so-called „cookies.“ Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.
You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how these cookies can be deleted or their storage can be blocked in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you can find the necessary information under the following links:
– Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
– Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
– Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
– Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
– Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
Storage Duration and Used Cookies:
To the extent that you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:
Necessary Cookies
Nature and Purpose of Processing:
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can also be identified after a page change.
The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser can be recognized again after a page change.
We need cookies for the following applications:
– Language settings
– Items in a shopping cart
– Log-in information
Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:
The processing takes place according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who are involved in the operation and maintenance of our website as order processors.
Provision Prescribed or Required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. Without this data, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or restricted.
Objection:
Please refer to the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR below.
Non-Necessary Cookies
Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to improve it based on statistical evaluations in general.
Please refer to the information on the used display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis technologies below for details on which providers set cookies.
Legal Basis:
The legal basis for these processing operations is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who are involved in the operation and maintenance of our website as order processors.
For details on further recipients, please refer to the information on the used display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis technologies below.
Transfer to Third Countries:
Please refer to the lists of the individual display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis providers for information on this.
Provision Prescribed or Required:
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies in principle. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see revocation of consent).
Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.
Revocation of Consent:
You can revoke your consent at any time using our cookie consent tool.
Profiling:
To what extent we analyze the behavior of website visitors with pseudonymous user profiles, please refer to the information on the used display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis technologies below.
Use of Script Libraries (Google Web Fonts)
In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use „Google Web Fonts“ from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter „Google“) to display fonts.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
SSL Encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption methods (e.g., SSL) via HTTPS according to the current state of the art.
Information about Your Right to Object Pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
Case-by-Case Right to Object
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing based on a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision in the sense of Art. 4(4) GDPR.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Recipient of an Objection:
Hermann Kuhler GmbH & Co. KG
Amboßweg 1
42855 Remscheid
Phone: +49 (0) 21 91 / 24 00-0
Email: kontakt@hermann-kuhler.de
Changes to Our Data Protection Provisions
We reserve the right to adjust this data protection declaration in order to comply with current legal requirements at all times or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g., when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration will then apply for your next visit.
Questions to the Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:
This data protection declaration was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (Version #2020-09-30).
