Data protection

The protection of your data is important. In order to comply with our legal obligations to provide information and clarification, we inform you below about how we process your data when you use this website and what rights you are entitled to with regard to data processing.

This declaration serves to inform and explain which data is collected, processed or stored when using the website and how we want to ensure the protection of your personal and personal data. The handling of the data collected, processed and stored when using this website is governed by the German data protection regulations, e.g. the BDSG, but also by European data protection regulations such as the GDPR.

Name and contact details of the controller

ED-Technik GmbH
represented by the managing director:

Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Martin Tillmann
Levinstraße 162
45356 Essen

Commercial register: Essen Local Court HRB 29710

Phone: +49 201 185270 0
Fax: +49 201 185270 05

Email:

Definitions

Defining explanations of the GDPR terms used below can be found directly in the text of Art. 4 of the GDPR, available e.g. at the following link https://dsgvo-gesetz.de/art-4-dsgvo/.

Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of its use when accessing the website

This website collects and stores information that your browser transmits. What information this is also depends on the settings of the browser you are using. Transmitted information can be, for example

• Browser type,
• Browser version,
• operating system used,
• Referrer URL (indicates from which website you have reached this website),
• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
• Name and URL of the retrieved file,
• Time of the server request (timestamp).

A comparison with other data in order to carry out identification or profiling does not take place. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The stored data will be deleted after 21 days at the latest.

We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes

• Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
• To ensure a comfortable use of our website,
• Control of server utilization,
• Detection of illegal attacks on the servers on which the website is hosted,
• Evaluation of system security and stability and
• for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. . Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

Cookies

Cookies are used on this website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the user’s computer (PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.). Information is stored in the cookie that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. For example, we use a so-called session cookie (“name”: “PHPSESSID”) to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. This is automatically deleted after you leave our site,

The data processed by cookies is required for the purposes mentioned in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 para. required.

You can usually see that we use these cookies in the settings of the browser you are using or in the website information that your browser displays at the top next to the URL line.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate settings “do not accept cookies” in your browser. You can usually find the settings for this in the “Data protection”, “Privacy” or “Security” section

However, if you do not allow cookies to be stored, you may not be able to use all the functions of our website.

Google Fonts

We integrate the fonts (“Google Web Fonts”) of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This is done so that our content is displayed correctly and graphically appealing in all browsers. For this purpose, we use Google Webfont(https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. These are transferred to the cache of your browser to avoid multiple loading. If the browser you are using does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, our content will be displayed in a standard font. Accessing Google Web Fonts automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. This informs Google that our website has been accessed via your IP address.

Here, too, you have the option of preventing the integration of Google web fonts by opting out at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

You can find the provider’s privacy policy for Google Fonts at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Bootstrap CDN

On our website we integrate the CSS framework Bootstrap of the company LLC. NetDNA, 3575, Cahuenga Blvd Suite 630, Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA (hereinafter: Bootstrap CDN) in order to optimally display the content we offer on the various end devices and to reduce the loading speed of our website. Bootstrap CDN is a public content delivery network (CDN) for the provision of content. Bootstrap CDN users can load CSS, JavaScript and images remotely from their servers. The use or integration of Bootstrap CDN is necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. . Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR required.

If Java Script is activated in your browser and no (Java) Script blocker is installed, your browser will transmit personal data (e.g. your IP address and browser) to Bootstrap CDN when you load our site.

You can find the provider’s privacy policy at https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/

jQuery

We also integrate jQuery and jQueryUI technologies on our website to further optimize loading speeds. This means that when you access our website, program libraries are retrieved from servers of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, and downloaded from Google’s content delivery network. Personal data (e.g. your IP address and browser) is transferred to Google in the process. The use or integration of jQuery is necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Art. 6 para. required.

You can find more information about jQuery at: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/#jquery

You can find Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Contact form

If you send us messages via the contact form on our website, we will store the information and details you send us in order to process your request. This processing takes place acc. Art 6 para. to carry out pre-contractual measures at your request.

Rights of data subjects

You have the right:

• to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, 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
  , as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
• in accordance with 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
• to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
• to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with 18 GDPR, insofar as 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 to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• in accordance with 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 controller
• according to 7 para. to revoke your consent once given to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future and
• to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or our company headquarters.

Data security

We use the widespread TLS (Transport Layer Security) method in conjunction with the 128-bit encryption level when you visit our website. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the status bar of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Right of objection

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. processed, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.
If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to

Deletion of data

The data collected, stored and/or processed by us will be deleted or restricted in their processing in accordance with the provisions of Art. 17 GDPR and Art. 18 GDPR . The data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

If data is not deleted because it is required for other and legally permissible purposes, its processing is restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons.

According to the requirements of the German legislator, storage is carried out in particular for 6 years in accordance with § Section 257 (1) (commercial letters, accounting vouchers, opening balance sheets, annual financial statements, …) and for 10 years in accordance with § Section 147 (1) (commercial letters, business letters, books, records, any documents relevant for taxation, …).

Up-to-dateness and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and was last updated in September 2019. It may become necessary to amend this privacy policy as a result of the further development of our website and services or due to changes in legal or official requirements. You can access and print out the current privacy policy at any time on the website https://www.ed-t.de/kontakt/datenschutz.html.