Data Privacy

Privacy Policy

Introduction and general information

Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. Below you will find information on the handling of your data that is collected through your use of our website. Your data will be processed in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations.

Please note: This translation is just for better understanding, only the German version is legally binding.

Responsible within the meaning of the GDPR

E.E.P.D. Electronic Equipment Produktion & Distribution GmbH
Gewerbering 3
85258 Weichs
mail@eepd.de
08136 22820

Contact details of the data protection commissioner

Proliance GmbH / www.datenschutzexperte.de
Datenschutzbeauftragter
Leopoldstr. 21
80802 München
datenschutzbeauftragter@datenschutzexperte.de

Definitions

Our privacy policy should be simple and understandable for everyone. As a general rule, the official terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are used in this privacy policy. The official definitions are explained in Article 4 GDPR.

Server logfiles

When you visit our website, it is technically necessary for data to be transmitted to our web server via your Internet browser. The following data is recorded during an ongoing connection for communication between your Internet browser and our web server:

Date and time of request
Name of the requested file
Page, from which the file was requested
Access status
Web browser and operating system used
(Full) IP address of the requesting device
Amount of data transferred

We collect the data listed in order to ensure a smooth connection to the website and to enable users to use our website conveniently. The log file is also used to evaluate system security and stability as well as for administrative purposes. The legal basis for the temporary storage of the data / log files is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies, which are stored by the browser on your device and which contain certain settings for the use of the website (e.g. for the current session). Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them or the storage period expires. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit. In some cases, cookies are used to simplify website processes by storing settings (e.g. keeping options already selected). If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the execution of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The cookie settings can be managed for the respective browsers under the following links.

Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

You can also individually manage the cookies of many companies and functions that are used for advertising. To do this, use the corresponding user tools, available at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
Most browsers also offer a "do-not-track" feature that allows you to indicate that you do not want to be "tracked" by websites. If this function is activated, the respective browser informs advertising networks, websites and applications that you do not wish to be tracked for the purpose of behavior-based advertising and the like. For information and instructions on how to edit this function, please refer to the following links, depending on your browser provider:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=de
Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/dnt/
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17288/windows-internet-explorer-11-use-do-not-track
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21416?locale=de_DE
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/de/notrack.html

You can also prevent scripts from loading by default. NoScript allows the execution of JavaScripts, Java and other plug-ins only on trusted domains of your choice. Information and instructions on how to edit this function can be obtained from the provider of your browser (e.g. for Mozilla Firefox at: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/noscript/).
Please note that the functionality of this website may be restricted if cookies are deactivated.

You can change your cookie settings yourself via this link: https://www.eepd.de/?showOptIn=1

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, whereby a personal reference can be excluded. Google is certified for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", which guarantees compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR or § 15 para. 3 TMG on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.
Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. The terms of use of Google Analytics and information on data protection can be accessed via the following links: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the URL tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Clicking on the following link prevents Google Analytics from collecting data by setting an opt-out cookie:
Deactivation of Google Analytics
Information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's privacy policy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Google Maps

Our website uses the online map service provider Google Maps via an interface. The provider of the map service is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. The use of the Google Maps map service is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online services and to make it easier to find the addresses listed on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active). Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Google's privacy policy:
https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the Google-operated YouTube site. The operator of the pages is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube's privacy policy:
https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy

Bing Ads

We use the conversion and tracking tool "Bing Ads" from Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA, within our online offering. Microsoft stores cookies on users' devices in order to analyse the use of our online offering by users, provided that users have reached our online offering via a Microsoft Bing ad (so-called "conversion measurement"). In this way, Microsoft and we can recognise that someone has clicked on an ad, has been redirected to our online offering and has reached a previously determined target page (so-called "conversion page"). We only receive the total number of users who clicked on a Bing advert and were then forwarded to the conversion page. No IP addresses are stored. No personal information about the identity of the users is communicated.

If we ask users for their consent (e.g. as part of a cookie consent), the legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a. GDPR. Otherwise, users' personal data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR).

Microsoft is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thereby assures compliance with European and Swiss data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000KzNaAAK&status=Active)

If users do not wish to participate in the Bing Ads tracking process, they can also deactivate the setting of cookies required for this via browser settings or use the Microsoft opt-out page: http://choice.microsoft.com/de-DE/opt-out

Further information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft Bing Ads can be found in Microsoft's privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement

Data transfer and recipients

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties unless
- we have explicitly indicated this in the description of the respective data processing.
- you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
- the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,
- in the event that there is a legal obligation for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR and
- it is necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

We also use external service providers for the processing of our services, which we have carefully selected and commissioned in writing. They are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored by us. If necessary, we have concluded order processing contracts with them in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. These are service providers for web hosting, sending e-mails and maintaining and servicing our IT systems, etc. The service providers will not pass this data on to third parties.

Data security

In accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk, taking into account the state of the technology, the costs of implementation and the type, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons. This website uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content.

Duration of the storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the relevant statutory retention periods (e.g. from commercial law and tax law). After expiry of the respective period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted. If data is required for contract fulfilment or contract initiation or if we have a legitimate interest in further storage, the data will be deleted if it is no longer required for these purposes or if you exercise your right of revocation or objection.

Your rights

Below you will find information on which data subject rights the applicable data protection law grants you towards the responsible party with regard to the processing of your personal data:
The right to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details.
The right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR.
The right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
The right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.
The right, pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another responsible party.
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. In general, you can contact the supervisory authority of the federal state of our registered office stated above or, if applicable, that of your usual place of residence or workplace.
The right to withdraw consent granted in accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of revocation, we will delete the concerned data immediately, unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Right to object

If your personal data is processed by us on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that this is done for reasons arising from your particular situation. If the objection is directed against the processing of personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, you have a general right of objection without the requirement to specify a particular situation.
If you wish to exercise your right of cancellation or objection, simply send an e-mail to datenschutz@eepd.de.

External links

Social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Xing) are only integrated on our website as links to the corresponding services. After clicking on the integrated text/image link, you will be redirected to the page of the respective provider. User information is only transferred to the respective provider after you have been forwarded. For information on the handling of your personal data when using these websites, please refer to the respective privacy policies of the providers you use.

Subject to change

We reserve the right to amend or update this privacy policy if necessary in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. In this way, we can adapt it to the current legal requirements and take into account changes to our services, e.g. when introducing new services. The latest version applies to your visit.

Status of this privacy policy: 09.04.2019