DATA PROTECTION POLICY

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following information provides a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data by which you can be identified. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our data protection policy set out below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The website operator processes data on this website. The operator’s contact details can be found in the legal notice to this website.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is mainly collected when you send it to us. This may be, for example, data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is predominantly technical data (e.g. web browser, operating system or the time at which you view a page). This data is collected automatically when you enter this website.

For what purpose do we use your data?

Part of the data is collected to guarantee the availability of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

Which rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to access information on the source, recipient, and purpose of your retained personal data at any time and free of charge. You also have a right to request rectification or erasure of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address specified in the legal notice on this and other questions regarding data protection. You shall also be entitled to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You shall also have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. Details of this can be found in the data protection policy under “Right of restriction of processing”.

2. Hosting und Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This mainly concerns IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website visits, and other data generated by a website.

The hoster is engaged for the purposes of performing a contract to which our potential and existing customers are party (point (b) of Article 6 (1) GDPR) and in the interests of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our website by a professional provider (point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR).

Our hoster will only process your data insofar as this is necessary to perform its service obligations and to follow our instructions in relation to this data.

Conclusion of a processing contract

In order to ensure that processing complies with data protection provisions, we have concluded a processing contract with our hoster.

3. General information and required information

Data protection

The operators of this site take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection provisions and those of this data protection policy.

Various personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data is data by which you can be identified. This data protection policy explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose we do this.

Please note that data transfer via the internet (e.g. when communicating via email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Seamless protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on controllers

The controller for data processing on this website is:

SI-KA-TEC® GmbH engineering coating
Ascher Straße 26
95100 Selb

Phone: +49 – (0)9287 – 9963-0
Email: office@si-ka-tec.de

The controller is a natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Withdrawal of consent to data processing

Many data processing operations can only be performed with your explicit consent. You can withdraw consent granted at any time. This can be done by informal communication with us via email. The lawfulness of the data processing completed up to the withdrawal of consent shall remain unaffected by the withdrawal.

The right to object to data collection in special cases and for direct marketing purposes (Article 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS PERFORMED ON THE BASIS OF POINT (E) OR (F) OF ARTICLE 6 (1) GDPR, YOU SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS SHALL ALSO APPLY TO PROFILING BASED ON THOSE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING CAN BE FOUND IN THIS DATA PROTECTION POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS THE AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF PROCESSING IS REQUIRED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 21 (1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR SUCH MARKETING; THIS SHALL ALSO APPLY TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA SHALL NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 21 (2) GDPR.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

In the case of infringements of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the data that we process by automated means based on your consent or in performance of a contract, or to have it delivered to a third party in a commonly used machine-readable format. If you request direct transmission of data to another controller, this shall only be done where technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator for example, this site uses SSL and TLS encryption. An encrypted connection is identified by a change in the browser’s address bar from “http://” to “https://”, and by the lock icon in your browser bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Access, erasure, and rectification

You have the right of access to your retained personal data free of charge, the right to obtain confirmation of source, recipient and the purpose of the data processing, and the right to rectification or erasure of this data at any time pursuant to the statutory provisions. You can contact us at any time at the address specified in the legal notice on this and other questions regarding personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time regarding this at the address specified in the legal notice. Right to restriction of processing shall exist in the following cases:

If you contest the accuracy of your personal data retained by us, we normally require time to verify this. You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data for the duration of the verification process.
If your personal data is/has been processed unlawfully, you may request restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
If we no longer require your personal data, but you need it for exercise, defence or establishment of legal claims, you have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data instead of erasure.
If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Article 21 (1) GDPR, your and our legitimate interests must be balanced. Until it is determined whose interests are overriding, you have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data may, with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

Objection to advertising emails

This is an objection to the use of published contact details provided as part of the legal notice requirement for the transmission of unsolicited advertising and information materials. The site operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event that unsolicited advertising information, such as spam emails, is sent.

4. Data collection on this website

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in server log files which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

Browser type and version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Host name of accessing computer
Time of server request
IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is collected on the basis of point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in technically flawless presentation and optimisation of its website. Server log files must be created for this purpose.

Request via email, phone or fax

If you contact us via email, phone, or fax, your request, including all personal data (name, request) arising from it, is stored and processed for the purposes of handling your enquiry. We do not disclose your data without your consent.

This data is collected on the basis of point (b) of Article 6 (1) GDPR if your request relates to the performance of a contract or is required in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract. In all other cases, processing is based on your consent (point (a) of Article 6 (1) GDPR and/or our legitimate interests (point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR) as we have a legitimate interest in the effective handling of requests sent to us.

We retain the data transmitted to us via contact requests until you request that we erase it, withdraw your consent to retention, or the purpose of the data retention no longer applies (e.g. after closure of your enquiry). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – shall remain unaffected.

5. Plugins and tools

Google Fonts

In order to standardise the rendering of font types, this site only uses web fonts provided by Google. Google Fonts are installed locally. No connection is made to the Google servers.

More information on Google Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.