Privacy Policy

General information

The following information provides a basic overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is all data that could identify you individually. You can find comprehensive information regarding data protection in the Privacy Policy below this text.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is performed by the website operator. You can find their contact details on the Imprint of this website. They are also responsible for data protection.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected from the information you provide us. This can, for example, be data that you enter on a contact form. Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when visiting the website. Above all, this is technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system and time of page visit). This data is collected automatically as soon as our website is accessed.

What do we need your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the faultless provision of our website. Other data is used to analyze your user behavior. If you are an existing customer and have not objected to receiving promotions, we will also send you informative material at irregular intervals. You can opt-out of this at any time.

What are your rights regarding your data?

You reserve the right to obtain disclosure regarding the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time and free of charge. You also reserve the right to request this data is corrected, blocked or erased. You can contact us at the address provided in the Imprint regarding this or any other questions you may have concerning data protection. Furthermore, you reserve the right to appeal with the relevant supervisory authority.

How do we collect your data?
We collect some data when you make it available to us. This can, for example, be when you enter it on a contact form. Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This data is primarily technical data, like the browser and operating system you are using or the time-stamp of when you visited the site. This data is collected automatically as soon as you visit the website.

Analysis tools and third-party provider tools

Where you have provided us with your consent, your surfing behavior can be statistically assessed when you visit our website. This occurs, above all, with cookies and so-called analysis programs. This analysis of your surfing behavior is performed anonymously, the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to your personal data. You can withdraw your provided consent at any time. You can likewise prevent the use of cookies by using certain tools. You can find detailed information on this in later paragraphs.

Data protection

We handle your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection provisions, as well as this Privacy Policy. We recommend that this Privacy Policy is viewed regularly as it is being constantly further-developed. If you use this website, different personal data will be collected. Personal data is data that could identify you individually. This Privacy Policy explains the data we are collecting and what we are collecting it for. It also explains how this occurs and its purpose. We would like to highlight that the transfer of data online (e.g. through communication by e-mail) can exhibit security loopholes. It is not possible to seamlessly protect data against third-party access.

Note on the responsible authority

The responsible authority for data processing on this website is:

Weidemann GmbH
Elfringhäuser Weg 24
34497 Korbach
Phone: +49 (0) 5631 501694 - 0
E-mail: info@weidemann.de

The responsible authority is the natural or legal person who decides upon the purpose and means of processing personal data (e.g. name, e-mail addresses, etc.) either along or with others.

Duration of storage

Where no special duration of storage is named within this Privacy Policy, your personal data will be stored by us until the purpose for the data processing elapses. If you assert your right to erasure or withdraw your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted if we do not have any other legally permissible reason to store your personal data (e.g. Tax or trade storage terms); in the instance last listed, data will be erased as soon as this reason elapses.

Note on data transfer in the USA

Embedded in our website are, among others, tools by companies based in the USA. If these tools are active, your personal data can be transferred to the US server of the respective company. We would like to highlight that the USA is not a safe third country in terms of the EU data protection law. US companies are obligated to issue personal data to security authorities without you as the person concerned being able to legally do anything against it. It is therefore not possible to exclude the possibility that US authorities (e.g. secret services) will process, assess and store the located data long-term on the US servers. We have no influence on these processing activities.

Withdrawal of your consent for data processing

It is only possible to perform many of the data processing procedures with your express consent. You can withdraw the consent you have already provided at any time. To do this, send us an informal notification by e-mail. The lawfulness of the data processing performed up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The right to object to data collection in specific cases, as well as to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS PERFORMED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 (1) 1 LIT. E OR F, YOU RESERVE THE RIGHT FOR REASONS RESULTING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION TO OBJECT AGAINST THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO PROFILING SUPPORTED BY THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE TAKEN FROM THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT TO THIS, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA, OTHER THAN IF WE CAN PROVIDE URGENT PROTECTION-WORTHY EVIDENTIAL REASONS FOR THE PROCESSING, WHICH WOULD OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, OR THE PROCESSING SERVICES THE ASSERTION OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 (1) GDPR). IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED TO CONDUCT DIRECT MARKETING, YOU RESERVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AGAINST THE PROCESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR THE PURPOSE OF THAT TYPE OF MARKETING; THIS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO PROFILE WHERE THIS IS IN DIRECT CORRELATION TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL THEN NO LONGER USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 (2) GDPR).

Right of appeal with the relevant supervisory authority

Where there are data protection violations, the individual affected is entitled to the right of appeal with the relevant supervisory authority. Relevant supervisory authority in data protection questions is the Data Protection Commissioner of the Federal State in which our company is based. A list of the data protection officers and their contact details can be found using the following link: www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

The supervisory authority responsible for Weidemann GmbH is:

The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1
65189 Wiesbaden, Germany

Right to data transfer

You reserve the right to have data that we automatically process on the basis of your consent or to fulfill a contract issued to you or to a third party in a conventional, machine-readable format. Where you request the direct transfer of your data to another responsible party, this shall only be performed where it is technically possible.

Disclosure, blocking, erasure

Within the framework of the applicable, legal provisions, you reserve the right to free disclosure about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, and, where applicable, a right to rectification, blocking or erasure of this data. You can contact us at the address provided in the Imprint regarding this or any other questions on the matter of personal data. Please be aware that erasure, where applicable, cannot be performed if we are legally obligated to store the data.

The right to restriction of processing

You reserve the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at the address provided in the Imprint regarding this. The right to restriction of processing arises in the following instances:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally need time to check this. For the duration of checking, you reserve the right to restrict the processing of your personal data.

• If the processing of your personal data occurred/is occurring unlawfully, you restrict the data processing rather than erase it.

• If we no longer require your personal data for processing purposes, however it is still necessitated for exercising, defending or asserting legal claims, you reserve the right to restrict the processing of your personal data rather than erase it.

• If you have filed an objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, an assessment of both your and our interests must be made. So long as it is still not determined whose interests prevail, you reserve the right to restrict the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data - aside from their storage - may only be processed with your consent or for asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal persons or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

SSL- and/or TLS encryption

For reasons of safety and to protect the transfer of confidential content, for example orders or inquiries sent to us as the site operator by you, this page uses an SSL and/or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection in that the browser address changes from “http://” to “https://” and there is a padlock symbol in the browser line. If the SSL and/or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Legally required data protection officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company:

Max-Ferdinand Kussberg
Data Protection Officer for Weidemann GmbH
Elfringhäuser Weg 24
34497 Korbach
Phone: +49 (0) 5631 501694 – 0
E-mail: datenschutz@weidemann.de

Cookies

Our web pages use so-called “Cookies”. Cookies are small text files and do not cause your end device any damage. They are either temporarily stored for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your end device. Session cookies are automatically erased after you visit has ended. Permanent cookies remain stored on your end device until you erase them yourself or an automatic erasure is performed on your web browser.

Cookies have different functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary as specific website functions would not work without them (e.g. the display of videos). Other cookies serve to assess user behavior or display adverts. Cookies that are required for the implementation of electronic communicative procedures (required cookies) or for the provision of particular functions (functional cookies, e.g. for language selection) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, where no other legal basis is provided. The website operator has a justifiable interest in the storage of cookies for the technically faultless and optimized provision of their services. Where consent has been requested for the storage of cookies, the storage of the specific cookies occurs exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR); consent can be withdrawn at any time. You can set your browser up in such a way that you are informed when cookies are placed and that cookies are only permitted in isolated cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific instances or generally, as well as activating the automatic erasure of cookies when closing the browser. When deactivating cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited. We will inform you separately in later sections of the Privacy Policy about the extent to which cookies are placed by third-party companies or for the purposes of analysis, and we will request your consent for this.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically gathers and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

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

This data is not amalgamated with other data sources. The basis for the data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or contractual actions.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries using the contact form, your information on the inquiry form, including the contact information provided by you, will be stored with us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. To be able to process and answer your inquiry, we pass this on internally to our sales companies (as affiliated companies) and to the sales partner responsible for you, exclusively for this purpose. Where you are based in a country outside of the European Union, you are potentially assigned to a sales partner in a third country. In this instance, the data you entered on your contact form will also be transferred there. We take your voluntary first contact likewise as your consent of the transfer the applicable third country, where necessary (Art. 49 (1) GDPR).

The data entered on the contact form is thus processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. To do this, send us an informal notification by e-mail. The lawfulness of the data processing procedures performed up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal. The data entered by you on the contact form shall remain with us until you request erasure, withdraw your consent for storage or the purpose of the data storage elapses (e.g. after the processing of your inquiry is concluded). Urgent legal conditions - in particular storage terms - remain unaffected.

etracker

The website operator uses services of etracker GmbH from Hamburg, Germany (www.etracker.com) to analyse usage data. We do not use cookies for web analysis by default. Insofar as we use analysis and optimisation cookies, we obtain your explicit consent separately in advance. If this is the case and you give your consent, cookies will be used to enable statistical coverage analysis of this website, measurement of the success of our online marketing measures and test procedures, e.g. to test and optimise different versions of our online offering or its components. etracker cookies do not contain any information that enables identification of a user.

The data generated by etracker is processed and stored by etracker on behalf of the provider of this website exclusively in Germany and is therefore subject to the strict German and European data protection laws and standards. etracker has been independently audited and certified in this respect and awarded the ePrivacyseal data protection seal of approval.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of Art. 6 (1) lit. f (legitimate interest) of the German Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our concern in terms of the GDPR (legitimate interest) is the optimisation of our online offer and our web presence. Since the privacy of our visitors is important to us, data that may allow a reference to an individual person, such as the IP address, login or device identifiers, are anonymised or pseudonymised as soon as possible. No other use is made of the data, nor is it merged with other data or passed on to third parties.

Further information on data protection at etracker can be found here.

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and which enable the analysis of use of the website by you. The storage of Google Analytics cookies occurs exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). Your consent also means that the information generated from the cookies about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there (Art. 49 (1) GDPR). To maintain the so-called “suitable guarantees” in this data traffic in the USA, Google adheres to the standard contractual clauses. Google answers further questions on their help pages on Google Analytics: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

IP anonymization

On this website we have activated the IP anonymization function. As a result, your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union Member States or other contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transfer to the USA. It is only in exceptional circumstances that the full IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to assess your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide the website operator with more services linked to website and Internet usage. The IP address transferred by your browser within the framework of the Google Analytics is not brought together with other data from Google.

Browser plugin

Alongside the use of our Cookie Control Banner, you can prevent the storage of cookies using a corresponding setting on your browser software; however, we would like to highlight that in this case, it is possible not all functions on the website will be available for use in full. You can furthermore prevent the gathering of data generated by the cookies and relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) for Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available using the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Order data processing
We have concluded a contract with Google for the order data processing in terms of Art. 28 GDPR.

Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking

This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

We use the so-called Conversion Tracking within the framework of Google AdWords. If you click on an advertisement operated by Google, a cookie is placed for conversion-tracking. Cookies are small text files that are deposited on the user’s computer by the Internet browser. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve to personally identify the user. If the user visits certain pages of the website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user has clicked on the advertisement and has been transferred to this page.

Every Google AdWords customer receives another cookie. The cookies cannot be traced via the websites of AdWords customers. The aid of the information obtained from conversion-cookies serves to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have decided upon conversion-tracking. The customers discover the overall number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and have been transferred to the intended page with a conversion-tracking-day. However, they do not receive any information from which the user can be personally identified. The storage of “conversion cookies” occurs exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. If despite your consent, you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by deactivating the cookie of the Google conversion tracking via the Internet browser under the User Settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

More information on Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking can be found in the Privacy Policy by Google: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

You can set your browser up in such a way that you are informed when cookies are placed and that cookies are only permitted in isolated cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific instances or generally, as well as activating the automatic erasure of cookies when closing the browser. Please see the respective help pages of the browser you are using. Furthermore, you have the option to actively impact the placing of corresponding cookies by using our Cookie Control Banner. With the deactivation of cookies and/or where consent has not been provided, the functionality of this website can be limited, subject to circumstances.

Newsletter on the basis of your registration in the registration form

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we necessitate your e-mail address and information that enables us to check that you are the owner of the provided e-mail address and that you agree with receiving the newsletter. More information is not gathered unless it is provided on a voluntary basis. We exclusively use this data for sending the requested information and we do not pass it onto third parties. The data entered on the newsletter registration form is thus processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. To do this, send us an informal notification by e-mail: info@weidemann.de. The lawfulness of the data processing procedures performed up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Newsletter on the basis of your other consent

You can make the decision to receive the newsletter on the grounds of the consent your have provided. This is the case if, for example, you have signed our consent form and checked the option for “e-mail”. The data entered on this form is thus processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. To do this, send us an informal notification by e-mail: info@weidemann.de. The lawfulness of the data processing procedures performed up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Withdrawal of consent for newsletter distribution

Your provided consent to store the data, e-mail address, and its use to send the newsletter can be withdrawn at any time simply by selecting the “unsubscribe” link on the newsletter or by sending an e-mail to: info@weidemann.de. The lawfulness of the data processing procedures already performed remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data provided by you for the purpose of the newsletter subscription are stored by us until you unsubscribe, and after unsubscribing from the newsletter it is erased from all mailing lists. Data that is stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the member area) remain unaffected by this.

After you have unsubscribed from the newsletter mailing list, your e-mail address will be stored, where applicable, on a black-list to effectively prevent future mailing. The data from the black-list is only used for this purpose and not collated with other data. This serves both your interests and our interests in maintaining the legal provisions when sending newsletters (justifiable interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR). Storage on the black-list is not temporally restricted. You can withdraw the storage if your interests outweighs our justifiable interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us in this instance by e-mail: info@weidemann.de.

Newsletter on the basis of the existing customer attributes

If you have provided your e-mail address when procuring goods or services, we keep you on our system as an existing customer. In this instance, we assert our justifiable interest to inform you about similar goods and services, and potentially send you our newsletter (justifiable interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f in conjunction with the recital 47 GDPR, as well as in conjunction with Section 7 (3) UWG). You can withdraw your consent to receive this if your interests outweigh our justifiable interest. To do this, click on the field “Unsubscribe newsletter” or contact us by e-mail: info@weidemann.de.

After you have unsubscribed from the newsletter mailing list, your e-mail address will be stored, where applicable, on a black-list to effectively prevent future mailing. The data from the black-list is only used for this purpose and not collated with other data. This serves both your interests and our interests in maintaining the legal provisions when sending newsletters (justifiable interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR). Storage on the black-list is not temporally restricted. You can withdraw the storage if your interests outweighs our justifiable interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us in this instance by e-mail: info@weidemann.de.

E-mails for package tracking (“Track & Trace”)

If you have provided us with your e-mail address in conjunction with the procurement of goods, we will send you e-mails with delivery information about the goods you have ordered. This delivery information contains links to our logistics partners with the option to track the status of the delivery (known as “Track & Trace”). These e-mails are either sent, because you have provided your consent to the relevant sales partner (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR) or, because the sales partner is asserting their justifiable interests to provide smooth order processing and delivery (Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR). Should you no longer wish to receive the corresponding delivery information, please inform the relevant sales partner and withdraw you provided consent or object to further receipt. Furthermore, you can assert your withdrawal or objection to our Data Protection Officer (see above).

YouTube

Our website uses plugins to the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit our sites equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection is created to the YouTube servers. In doing so, the YouTube server is informed about which of our ages you have visited.

If you are logged into your own YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by signing out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube occurs in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This presents a justifiable interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. You will find more information on the handling of user data in Google’s Privacy Policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Google Maps

This page uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use of the functions of Google Maps it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site bears no influence on this Privacy Policy.

The use of Google Maps occurs in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers, and the easy retrievability of the locations indicated by us on the website. This presents a justifiable interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

You will find more information on the handling of user data in Google’s Privacy Policy at:https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Mapbox

We use the map service by Mapbox Inc., 1999 Bryan Street Suite 900, Dallas, Tx 75201, USA.

On the map service, you have the option to search for the closest branch or sales partner that is providing our goods and services, by entering addresses, zip codes, etc. The data entered by you is transferred to Mapbox, converted into geo-coordinates, and compared with the maps. The map section is then displayed in your browser on end device, which comes closest to your search, and we embed the appropriate branches or sales partners on the basis of the geo-coordinates. The entry of corresponding data by you to calculate the geo-coordinates is exclusively performed voluntarily.

Alternatively, your location can be recorded if your have permitted this in your device settings, e.g. on you browser or end device. We have no influence on this transfer of data (see next sections).

The use of Mapbox occurs in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers, and the easy retrievability of the locations indicated by us on the website. This presents a justifiable interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Where you enter data on the sites, the processing occurs exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. To do this, send us an informal notification by e-mail. The lawfulness of the data processing procedures performed up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Please see more details in Mapbox’s privacy policy using the following link: www.mapbox.com/legal/privacy/

Location sharing

It may be requested of you by the named map service to provide the location of your respective browser or end device. The use of location sharing is entirely voluntary. In the use of location sharing, it is possible that other data is transferred to the provider of the browser and/or end device, which we cannot influence or be held responsible for. Please see the help pages for the relevant browser or end device you are using for more information.

Weidemann GmbH Privacy Policy, last updated: June 2023