PRIVACY POLICY
I. Contact Information
This website and the associated online offer are provided to you by SGGC GmbH (hereinafter referred to as "SGGC" or "we"), as the responsible party under data protection law for this online offer, unless otherwise stated in this privacy poli-cy.
You can reach us at the following contact details:
Bochumer Str. 217
D-45886 Gelsenkirchen
Telefon: +49 209 - 155 19 290
Fax: +49 209 - 155 19 295
E-mail: info@sggc.com
II. Contact Details of the Data Protection Officer
You can reach our data protection officer at foamglassinfo@gmail.com.
III. Data processing operations, categories of personal data and purposes of processing
1. Visit of the Website
Each access to our website inevitably involves the collection of certain, mainly technical information, which, however, may be classified as personal by the courts. This includes the IP address, browser characteristics, date, time and duration of access, consent given (e.g. to the use of tracking cookies).
This information is required to deliver the content of our website correctly and to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack. We also use the browser characteristics to clarify and correct any errors that occur in the delivery of the website content. Further statistical or scientific eval-uations of this data (e.g. for the optimisation of our internet offer, for market analysis and for the analysis of user behaviour from our website) are only carried out after any personal reference has been removed.
The above personal data will generally be deleted after the end of the browsing session. We plan to keep the above data for analyzation purposes for a period of maximum 90 days and then delete it. The data will only be passed on to our hosting service provider, who manages the web-site on our behalf.
Our right to the aforementioned data processing results from our legitimate interest in operating an internet presence and delivering content in a disruption-free and user-friendly manner and the interest in the use of statistics and scientific research for im-provements, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. Essential data is processed in order to fulfill our Terms of Use for the Website, Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR. With regard to the use of data to provide data to law enforcement authorities, the authorisation is based on the fact that we are obliged to provide information to law enforcement au-thorities in the event of a cyber attack (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) GDPR). We are al-so legally obliged to provide proof of the lawfulness of data processing operations (e.g. through consent) (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) GDPR).
2. User Account, Contacting, User Postings
You have the option of opening a user account, for example, to create blog posts on our website or to comment on them. You can also contact us via a contact form integrated on the website. In the course of registering and using the user account and contacting us, we process the following categories of personal data:
- Mandatory master data: Name, first name, e-mail address;
- Optional master data: Company name, employer, telephone number, address;
- IP address, as well as date and time of registration, in order to document agree-ment to the contractual terms and conditions and acknowledgement of the data protection declaration.
The data is used exclusively to enable you to use our website (e.g. the comment function) without you always having to provide your data again for this purpose or to communicate with you in contractual matters (e.g. to answer enquiries). If you create or comment on blog posts, this is not done anonymously – as contractually agreed – but by publishing the master data you have entered. The processing of your data mentioned in this section is therefore justified by Art. 6 Para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR. You have the option of deleting your customer account and correcting your data at any time.
3. Mailing-list
On our website there is an option to sign up for our Mailing-list. We use the list to inform you regularly about new blogs, comments and interesting posts on our website. For these purposes, we only store and use your email address. During registration, you will receive an e-mail in which you confirm your registration for the Mailing-List again via a link ("Confirm registration" – double opt-in). Registration to Mailing-list can opted-in or opted-out anytime after registration of your account in our Me-page.
In order to manage the Mailing-list and to send the newsletters, we rely on the support of service providers who work on our behalf and on our instructions.
It is possible to unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter mail. If you unsubscribe or do not complete the subscription process, we will delete your data insofar.
4. Cookies
General Information and Cookies on our Internet Presence
Cookies are used on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer/end device when you visit an online offer. If you call up this online offer again, your browser sends the content of the cookies back to the respective provider and thus enables recognition of the terminal device. The reading of cookies enables us to optimally design our online offer for you and to make it easier for you to use. We only use so-called session cookies, which are deleted after the end of the browser session. As far as cookies are technically necessary for the functions and provision of our online offer and your utilisation options, the cookies are used for contract initiation and fulfilment as well as due to our legitimate interest in providing the online offer and the associated functions. Further cookies, in particular for the analysis of surfing behaviour, are only used by us with your consent. Your consent is voluntary and can be revoked at any time with effect for the future (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR).
Deactivating and Deleting Cookies
You can disable unnecessary cookies at any time via the privacy settings on our website. You can also delete all cookies and deactivate the setting of further cookies at any time via your browser. Please refer to the help functions of your browser for more information. Without cookies, however, you may not be able to use all the functions of this or other online services. You can also manage and deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers via the following website: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement. This website is not operated by us, so we are not responsible for and have no influence on its content and availability.
5. Third Party Cookies and Social Plugins
On certain sub-pages of our website there are interfaces to third-party services. For example, you have the option of sharing content such as blog posts on Twitter or LinkedIn via our website. We have also integrated maps from Google Maps on certain sub-pages, which show you our producer network at a glance, for example. The interaction between our website and the respective third-party service takes place via so-called social plugins, which are only activated after your explicit consent (so-called two-click solution). Only then is your data transferred to the respective service provider, which are presented in the following:
a) Google Maps
The Google Maps plugin is integrated into this website. Google Maps is operated by Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google").
Each time you call up the individual pages on which the Google Maps plugin is integrated and has been activated with your consent, the internet browser on your computer is automatically triggered to transmit data to Google for the purpose of providing the Google Maps plugin. As part of this technical process, Google obtains knowledge of personal data, such as your IP address, which is used, among other things, to track the origin of visitors and clicks. In detail, the IP address, device identification, browser characteristics, operating system details, language settings, referring URLs and geolocation data (if activated) are transmitted to Google.
The purpose of the Google Maps component is our legitimate interest in being able to provide you with an interactive map graphic with navigation function (Art. 6 para. 1 sen-tence 1 lit. f) GDPR). Activation of the Google Maps plugin is also dependent on your express and voluntary consent, which is automatically revoked upon page reloading thus with effect for the future (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR).
The transmission of data to Google may result in the processing of data by Google and other group companies in the USA - in particular Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Park-way, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google LLC"). In order to ensure an appropriate level of data protection for data processing by Google, we use EU Standard Contractual Data Protection Clauses (“SCC”) for our contractual relationship with Google, available at: https://business.safety.google/gdpr/. The requirements for technical and contractual data security and data protection measures are regularly updated and reviewed for compliance with applicable data protection law. More information and a copy of the safe-guards in place can be found in Google's privacy policy linked above and at https://business.safety.google/compliance/#gdpr.
Further general information on data use by Google, on setting and objection options and on data protection can be found on the following Google web pages https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de (data protection declaration) and https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html (Google website statistics).
b) Twitter
The plugin of Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, is integrated on our website. The responsible party for the data processing of persons living outside the USA is Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland ("Twitter"). When you call up a page of our website that contains such a plugin, which has been activated with your consent, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Twitter. By integrating and activating the plugin, Twitter receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile on Twitter or are not currently logged in to Twitter. This information (including your IP address) can be transmitted by your browser directly to a Twitter server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Twitter, Twitter can directly assign your visit to our website to your Twitter account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Tweet" button to share something, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Twitter server and stored there. The information is also published on your Twitter account and displayed there to your contacts.
The purpose of the integration is our legitimate interest in providing a website that is as interactive as possible (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR). The processing of your personal data when embedding Twitter plugins is also based on your consent, which is automatically revoked upon page reloading thus with effect for the future (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR).
Data transfer to the USA is based on SCC of the EU Commission. The privacy policy published by Twitter, which can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Twitter. If you do not want Twitter to assign the data collected via our website directly to your Twitter account, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website. You can also prevent the loading of Twitter plugins by using add-ons for your browser (see above).
c) LinkedIn
Plugins of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "LinkedIn") are integrated on this website. You can recognise the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo or the "Share Button" ("Recommend") on this website. When you visit this website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the LinkedIn server via the plugin, provided the plugin has been activated with your express consent in advance. LinkedIn thereby receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn "Share Button" while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of this website to your LinkedIn profile. This enables LinkedIn to associate your visit to this website with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.
The purpose of the integration is our legitimate interest in being able to provide you with a website that is as interactive as possible (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR). The processing of your personal data when embedding LinkedIn plugins is also based on your consent, which is automatically revoked thus with effect for the future (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR).
Data transfer to the USA is based on the SCC of the EU Commission. Details on data collection (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn's data protection information. LinkedIn provides this information at http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy&trk=hb_ft_priv.
IV. Transfer of Data
Your personal data will only be transmitted to third parties to the extent necessary for the respective purpose and only if this is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract, on the basis of your enquiry or to comply with our legal obligations. In some cases, this data may also be accessed by service providers that we engage to perform services such as sales and marketing services, contract management, programming and data hosting. We select these service providers carefully, monitor them and ensure that the data is handled with care. We only disclose your personal data to recipients outside the EEA if this is necessary to fulfil the aforementioned purposes or due to your location or access. In this case, we ensure before the transfer that either an adequate level of data protection exists at the recipient (e.g. based on an adequacy decision of the EU Commission for the respective country or the agreement of so-called EU Standard Contractual Clauses) or your consent to the transfer has been obtained.
V. Duration of storage; retention periods
We generally store your data only as long as this is necessary to provide the services of our online offer or we have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it. In all other cases – in particular if you delete your user account or unsubscribe from the Mailing-list – we delete your personal data with the exception of such data that we need to continue to store in order to fulfil legal obligations or for other purposes mentioned in thist privacy statement (e.g. we are obliged to retain documents such as contracts for a certain period of time due to retention periods under tax and commercial law).
VI. External Links
Our online offer may contain links to third-party websites. After clicking on the link, we no longer have any influence on the collection, processing and use of any personal data transmitted to the third party when the link is clicked on (such as the IP address or the URL of the page on which the link is located), as the behaviour of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We are not responsible for the processing of such personal data by third parties.
VII. Your Rights
According to the regulations of Art. 15-20 GDPR, you have the right to request information from us about the personal data stored about you. Furthermore, you have the right to request a correction, deletion or restriction of the processing of the personal data stored about you. In addition, you may have the data provided to us transferred in a structured, common and machine-readable format or - if technically feasible - request that the data be transferred to a third party.
With regard to the processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time on grounds relating to your personal situation. We will then no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims (Art. 21 DS-GVO).
If you have given us consent to process your data, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of the processing of your data until the revocation remains unaffected.
Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection law.