Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General infor­ma­tion

The following infor­ma­tion will provide you with an easy to navi­gate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit this website. The term „personal data“ comprises all data that can be used to person­ally iden­tify you. For detailed infor­ma­tion about the subject matter of data protec­tion, please consult our Data Protec­tion Decla­ra­tion, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recording on this website

Who is the respon­sible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e. the „controller“)?

The data on this website is processed by the oper­ator of the website, whose contact infor­ma­tion is avail­able under section „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law“ on this website.

How do we record your data?

We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be infor­ma­tion you enter into our contact form.

Our IT systems auto­mat­i­cally record other data when you visit our website. This data comprises primarily tech­nical infor­ma­tion (e.g. web browser, oper­ating system or time the site was accessed). This infor­ma­tion is recorded auto­mat­i­cally when you access this website.

What are the purposes we use your data for?

A portion of the infor­ma­tion is gener­ated to guar­antee the error free provi­sion of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­tion is concerned?

You have the right to receive infor­ma­tion about the source, recip­i­ents and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are recti­fied or erad­i­cated. Please do not hesi­tate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law“ on this website if you have ques­tions about this or any other data protec­tion related issues. You also have the right to log a complaint with the compe­tent super­vising agency.

More­over, under certain circum­stances, you have the right to demand the restric­tion of the processing of your personal data. For details, please consult the Data Protec­tion Decla­ra­tion under section „Right to Restric­tion of Data Processing.“

Analysis tools and tools provided by third parties

There is a possi­bility that your browsing patterns will be statis­ti­cally analysed when your visit this website. Such analyses are performed primarily with cookies and with what we refer to as analysis programmes. As a rule, the analyses of your browsing patterns are conducted anony­mously; i.e. the browsing patterns cannot be traced back to you.

You have the option to object to such analyses or you can prevent their perfor­mance by not using certain tools. For detailed infor­ma­tion about the tools and about your options to object, please consult our Data Protec­tion Decla­ra­tion below.

2. Hosting

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta­data and commu­ni­ca­tions, contract infor­ma­tion, contact infor­ma­tion, names, web page access, and other data gener­ated through a web site.

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

Our host will only process your data to the extent neces­sary to fulfil its perfor­mance oblig­a­tions and to follow our instruc­tions with respect to such data.

Execu­tion of a contract data processing agreement

In order to guar­antee processing in compli­ance with data protec­tion regu­la­tions, we have concluded an order processing contract with our host.

3. General infor­ma­tion and manda­tory information

Data protec­tion

The oper­a­tors of this website and its pages take the protec­tion of your personal data very seri­ously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confi­den­tial infor­ma­tion and in compli­ance with the statu­tory data protec­tion regu­la­tions and this Data Protec­tion Declaration.

When­ever you use this website, a variety of personal infor­ma­tion will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to person­ally iden­tify you. This Data Protec­tion Decla­ra­tion explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the infor­ma­tion is collected.

We here­with advise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the Internet (i.e. through e‑mail commu­ni­ca­tions) may be prone to secu­rity gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third party access.

Infor­ma­tion about the respon­sible party (referred to as the „controller“ in the GDPR)

The data processing controller on this website is:

BÜFA Reini­gungssys­teme GmbH & Co. KG
August-Hanken-Straße 30
26125 Olden­burg

Phone: +49 441 9317–938
E‑mail: info@ks-chemie.de

The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-hand­edly or jointly with others makes deci­sions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e‑mail addresses, etc.).

Desig­na­tion of a data protec­tion officer as mandated by law

We have appointed a data protec­tion officer for our company.

Dr. Uwe Schläger
c/o Daten­schutz Nord GmbH
Konsul-Smidt-Straße 88/88 a
28217 Bremen

Phone: +49 421 6966320
E‑mail: office@datenschutz-nord.de

Revo­ca­tion of your consent to the processing of data

A wide range of data processing trans­ac­tions are possible only subject to your express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal noti­fi­ca­tion via e‑mail. This shall be without prej­u­dice to the lawful­ness of any data collec­tion that occurred prior to your revocation.

Right to object to the collec­tion of data in special cases; right to object to direct adver­tising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 SECT. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR UNIQUE SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. TO DETERMINE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PROCESSING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CONSULT THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PRESENT COMPELLING PROTECTION WORTHY GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING IS THE CLAIMING, EXERCISING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 SECT. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS AFFILIATED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 SECT. 2 GDPR).

Right to log a complaint with the compe­tent super­vi­sory agency

In the event of viola­tions of the GDPR, data subjects are enti­tled to log a complaint with a super­vi­sory agency, in partic­ular in the member state where they usually main­tain their domi­cile, place of work or at the place where the alleged viola­tion occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regard­less of any other admin­is­tra­tive or court proceed­ings avail­able as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we auto­mat­i­cally process on the basis of your consent or in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third party in a commonly used, machine read­able format. If you should demand the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cally feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For secu­rity reasons and to protect the trans­mis­sion of confi­den­tial content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website oper­ator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryp­tion programme. You can recog­nise an encrypted connec­tion by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from „http://“ to „https://“ and also by the appear­ance of the lock icon in the browser line.

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

Infor­ma­tion about, recti­fi­ca­tion and erad­i­ca­tion of data

Within the scope of the applic­able statu­tory provi­sions, you have the right to at any time demand infor­ma­tion about your archived personal data, their source and recip­i­ents as well as the purpose of the processing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data recti­fied or erad­i­cated. If you have ques­tions about this subject matter or any other ques­tions about personal data, please do not hesi­tate to contact us at any time at the address provided in section „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law.“

Right to demand processing restrictions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­tion of restric­tions as far as the processing of your personal data is concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time at the address provided in section „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law.“ The right to demand restric­tion of processing applies in the following cases:

• In the event that you should dispute the correct­ness of your data archived by us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this inves­ti­ga­tion is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you have the option to demand the restric­tion of the processing of your data in lieu of demanding the erad­i­ca­tion of this data.
• If we do not need your personal data any longer and you need it to exer­cise, defend or claim legal enti­tle­ments, you have the right to demand the restric­tion of the processing of your personal data instead of its eradication.
• If you have raised an objec­tion pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been deter­mined whose inter­ests prevail, you have the right to demand a restric­tion of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with the excep­tion of their archiving – may be processed only subject to your consent or to claim, exer­cise or defend legal enti­tle­ments or to protect the rights of other natural persons or legal enti­ties or for impor­tant public interest reasons cited by the Euro­pean Union or a member state of the EU.

4. Recording of data on this website

Cookies

In some instances, our website and its pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The purpose of cookies is to make our website more user friendly, effec­tive and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called „session cookies.“ They are auto­mat­i­cally deleted after your leave our site. Other cookies will remain archived on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recog­nise your browser the next time you visit our website.

You can adjust the settings of your browser to make sure that you are noti­fied every time cookies are placed and to enable you to accept cookies only in specific cases or to exclude the accep­tance of cookies for specific situ­a­tions or in general and to acti­vate the auto­matic dele­tion of cookies when you close your browser. If you deac­ti­vate cookies, the func­tions of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are required for the perfor­mance of the elec­tronic commu­ni­ca­tions trans­ac­tion or to provide certain func­tions you want to use (e.g. the shop­ping cart func­tion), are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website oper­ator has a legit­i­mate interest in storing cookies to ensure the tech­ni­cally error free and opti­mised provi­sion of the operator’s services. If a corre­sponding agree­ment has been requested (e.g. an agree­ment to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclu­sively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be revoked at any time.

Set your cookie settings again here.

If other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your browsing patterns) should be stored, they are addressed sepa­rately in this Data Protec­tion Declaration.

Cookie Consent with Borlabs Cookie

Our website uses the Borlabs cookie consent tech­nology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and for their data privacy protec­tion compliant docu­men­ta­tion. The provider of this tech­nology is Borlabs — Benjamin A. Born­schein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg, Germany (here­inafter referred to as Borlabs).

When­ever you visit our website, a Borlabs cookie will be stored in your browser, which archives any decla­ra­tions or revo­ca­tions of consent you have entered. These data are not shared with the provider of the Borlabs technology.

The recorded data shall remain archived until you ask us to erad­i­cate them, delete the Borlabs cookie on your own or the purpose of storing the data no longer exists. This shall be without prej­u­dice to any reten­tion oblig­a­tions mandated by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data processing poli­cies, please visit https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/

We use the Borlabs cookie consent tech­nology to obtain the decla­ra­tions of consent mandated by law for the use of cookies. The legal basis for the use of such cookies is Art. 6 Sect. 1 Sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.

Server log files

The provider of this website and its pages auto­mat­i­cally collects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-called server log files, which your browser commu­ni­cates to us auto­mat­i­cally. The infor­ma­tion comprises:

• The type and version of browser used
• The used oper­ating system
• Referrer URL
• The host­name of the accessing computer
• The time of the server inquiry
• The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The oper­ator of the website has a legit­i­mate interest in the tech­ni­cally error free depic­tion and the opti­miza­tion of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

Contact form

If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form, the infor­ma­tion provided in the contact form as well as any contact infor­ma­tion provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have further ques­tions. We will not share this infor­ma­tion without your consent.

The processing of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the execu­tion of a contract or if it is neces­sary to carry out pre-contrac­tual measures. In all other cases the processing is based on our legit­i­mate interest in the effec­tive processing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO) if this has been requested.

The infor­ma­tion you have entered into the contact form shall remain with us until you ask us to erad­i­cate the data, revoke your consent to the archiving of data or if the purpose for which the infor­ma­tion is being archived no longer exists (e.g. after we have concluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be without prej­u­dice to any manda­tory legal provi­sions – in partic­ular reten­tion periods.

Request by e‑mail, tele­phone or fax

If you contact us by e‑mail, tele­phone or fax, your request, including all resulting personal data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. We do not pass these data on without your consent.

The processing of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the execu­tion of a contract or if it is neces­sary to carry out pre-contrac­tual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on your consent (Article 6 (1) a GDPR) and/or on our legit­i­mate inter­ests (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR), since we have a legit­i­mate interest in the effec­tive processing of requests addressed to us.

The data sent by you to us via contact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after comple­tion of your request). Manda­tory statu­tory provi­sions — in partic­ular statu­tory reten­tion periods — remain unaffected.

5. Analysis tools and advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses func­tions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. Cookies are text files, which are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of the use of the website by users. The infor­ma­tion gener­ated by cookies on your use of this website is usually trans­ferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored.

The storage of Google Analytics cookies and the utiliza­tion of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The oper­ator of this website has a legit­i­mate interest in the analysis of user patterns to opti­mize both, the services offered online and the operator’s adver­tising activ­i­ties. If a corre­sponding agree­ment has been requested (e.g. an agree­ment to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclu­sively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymiza­tion

On this website, we have acti­vated the IP anonymiza­tion func­tion. As a result, your IP address will be abbre­vi­ated by Google within the member states of the Euro­pean Union or in other states that have rati­fied the Conven­tion on the Euro­pean Economic Area prior to its trans­mis­sion to the United States. The full IP address will be trans­mitted to one of Google’s servers in the United States and abbre­vi­ated there only in excep­tional cases. On behalf of the oper­ator of this website, Google shall use this infor­ma­tion to analyse your use of this website to generate reports on website activ­i­ties and to render other services to the oper­ator of this website that are related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address trans­mitted in conjunc­tion with Google Analytics from your browser shall not be merged with other data in Google’s possession.

Browser plug-in

You do have the option to prevent the archiving of cookies by making perti­nent changes to the settings of your browser soft­ware. However, we have to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the func­tions of this website to their fullest extent. More­over, you have the option prevent the recording of the data gener­ated by the cookie and affil­i­ated with your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by down­loading and installing the browser plug-in avail­able under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objec­tion to the recording of data

You have the option to prevent the recording of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This will result in the place­ment of an opt out cookie, which prevents the recording of your data during future visits to this website: 

For more infor­ma­tion about the handling of user data by Google Analytics, please consult Google’s Data Privacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Contract data processing

We have executed a contract data processing agree­ment with Google and are imple­menting the strin­gent provi­sions of the German data protec­tion agen­cies to the fullest when using Google Analytics.

Demo­graphic para­me­ters provided by Google Analytics

This website uses the func­tion „demo­graphic para­me­ters“ provided by Google Analytics. It makes it possible to generate reports providing infor­ma­tion on the age, gender and inter­ests of website visi­tors. The sources of this infor­ma­tion are interest-related adver­tising by Google as well as visitor data obtained from third party providers. This data cannot be allo­cated to a specific indi­vidual. You have the option to deac­ti­vate this func­tion at any time by making perti­nent settings changes for adver­tising in your Google account or you can gener­ally prohibit the recording of your data by Google Analytics as explained in section „Objec­tion to the recording of data.“

Archiving period

Data on the user or inci­dent level stored by Google linked to cookies, user IDs or adver­tising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android adver­tising ID) will be anonymized or deleted after 14 month. For details please click the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en