1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy below.

Data Collection on This Website

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the “Controller” section of this privacy policy.

Some of your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data you enter into a contact form or send to us by email.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page visit).

2. Hosting

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hosting provider). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hosting provider’s servers. This may include, in particular, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access data and other data generated through a website.

The hosting provider is used for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR).

3. General Information and Mandatory Disclosures

Data Protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

Controller

Werbe- & Haustechnik Kirsten GmbH
August-Schanz-Straße 46
60433 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Phone: +49 6074 – 81 406 1
Email: info@whtk.de

Represented by the Managing Director: Timo Kirsten

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

Storage Period

Unless a more specific storage period has been stated within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for processing it no longer applies. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or withdraw your consent, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for retaining it.

Withdrawal of Your Consent

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority

In the event of a breach of data protection law, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority is the data protection officer of the German federal state in which our company is based.

Right to Access, Erasure and Rectification

Within the scope of applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, as well as, where applicable, a right to have this data rectified or erased.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format.

4. Data Collection on This Website

Cookies

Our website partly uses so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and saved by your browser.

Where other cookies are used (e.g. cookies to analyse your browsing behaviour), these are addressed separately in this privacy policy.

Server Log Files

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

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

This data is not combined with other data sources.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in case of any follow-up questions.

Enquiries by Email or Phone

If you contact us by email or phone, your enquiry, including any personal data resulting from it, will be stored and processed for the purpose of handling your request.

5. Analysis Tools

Web Analytics

This website may use web analytics services to analyse user behaviour and improve our offering. Cookies or similar technologies may be used for this purpose.

This processing is carried out on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR.

6. Plugins and Tools

Google Fonts (Local Hosting)

This website uses so-called Google Fonts for the consistent display of typefaces, which are installed locally. No connection to Google’s servers is made in this process.

Google Maps

This website may use the Google Maps mapping service. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server and stored there.

YouTube

This website may embed videos from the YouTube platform. The operator of the platform is Google Ireland Limited. When you visit a page containing a YouTube video, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established.

7. SSL and TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://”.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services.