Privacy Policy

1) Information about the data controller collecting personal data and contact details

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified.

 

1.2 The person responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widmann solutions GmbH, Hoyerbergstrasse 67, 88131 Lindau, Germany, Tel.: 08382275744-0, Fax: 08382275744-99, Email: office@widsol .com. The person responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

 

1.3 For security reasons and to protect the transfer of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the person responsible), this website uses an SSL or. TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https: //" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

 

 

2) Data collection when visiting our website

If you use our website purely for information, i.e. you do not register or transmit information in any other way, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server logfiles”). When you call up our website we will collect the following data that we require from a technical point of view to display our website to you:

 

- Our visited website

- Date and time at the time of access

- Amount of data sent in bytes

- Source / reference from which you came to the page

- Browser used

- Operating system used

- IP address used (if necessary: ​​in anonymous form)

 

The data is processed in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not disseminated or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server logfiles retrospectively if there is concrete evidence of unlawful use.

 

 

3) Cookies

We use so-called cookies on various pages to make the user experience attractive and enable the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use will be deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser. These are so-called session cookies. Other cookies will remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies (third party cookies) to recognize your browser when you next visit our website (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they will collect and process certain user information individually, such as browser and location data as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies will be deleted automatically after a specified period; this can vary depending on the cookie.

 

If individual cookies that we have implemented are also used to process personal data, this data will be processed in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR to either perform the contract, or, in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of our website as well as a user-friendly and effective experience of your visit.

 

We may work together with advertising partners that help us to make our internet offering more interesting for you. For this purpose and in this case, cookies from partner companies (third party cookies) will also be stored on your hard drive when you visit our website. Where we work together with the above-mentioned advertising partners, you will be informed in the subsequent paragraphs individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the extent of the information collected.

 

Please note that you can set your browser such that you will be informed about cookie settings and can decide individually which cookies to accept or can reject the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. Each browser manages cookie settings in different ways. This is described in the Help menu of each browser,which also provides an explanation how you can change your cookie settings. You can find this information for the respective browsers under the following links:

 

Microsoft Edge:

https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/temporäres-zulassen-von-cookies-u nd-website-daten-in-microsoft-edge-597f04f2-c0ce-f08c-7c2b-541086362bd2
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

 

Chrome:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647 Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

 

Please note that the functionality of our website may be restricted if you reject cookies.

 

 

4) Contacting us

 When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or by email) personal data will be collected. Which data are collected when completing a contact form, can be seen in the respective contact form. These data are solely stored and used for the purpose of answering your enquiry and for making contact as well as the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest in answering your enquiry in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If you contact us for the purpose of concluding a contract, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR provides an additional legal basis for processing your data. Your data will be deleted after processing your enquiry has been concluded. This is the case when circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been concluded and resolved and if there is no legal obligation to retain the data.

 

 

5) Registration with the portal or forum

You can register on our website by providing personal data. Which personal data is processed for registration is determined by the input mask used for registration. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registration, which means that your registration is only complete if you have previously confirmed your registration in a confirmation email sent to you for this purpose by clicking on the link contained therein. If you do not confirm this within 24 hours, your registration will automatically be deleted from our database. Providing the aforementioned data is mandatory. You can provide any further information voluntarily by using our portal.

 

If you use our portal, we will save your data required to fulfill the contract, including any information on the method of payment, until you finally delete your access. Furthermore, we save the voluntary data you provide for the time you are using the portal, unless you delete them beforehand. You can manage and change all information in the protected customer area. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR.

 

In addition, we save all content published by you (such as public contributions, pin board entries, guest book entries, etc.) in order to operate the website. We have a legitimate interest in providing the website with complete user-generated content. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If you delete your account, your public statements, especially in the forum, will remain visible to all readers, but your account will no longer be accessible. In this case, all other data will be deleted.

 

 

6) Use of customer data for direct advertising

6.1 Subscribing to our email newsletter

If you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, we will send you regular information about our offers. Mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address alone. The specification of further data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. For sending the newsletter we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that we will only send you an e-mail newsletter if you have expressly confirmed that you agree to receive the newsletter. We will then send you a confirmation e-mail asking you to confirm by clicking on a link that you wish to receive the newsletter in the future.

 

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to the use of your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. When registering for the newsletter, we store your IP address entered by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace a possible misuse of your e-mail address at a later date. The data collected by us when registering for the newsletter will be used exclusively for promotional purposes by means of the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the provided link in the newsletter or by sending a message to the person named above. After the cancellation, your e-mail address will be deleted immediately in our newsletter distribution, as far as you have not expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further data use, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement ,

 

6.2 Sending the e-mail newsletter to existing customers

If you have provided us with your e-mail address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to send you regular offers for similar goods or services, such as those already purchased, from our range by e-mail. For this we do not have to obtain a separate consent from you according to § 7 Abs. 3 UWG. In this respect, data processing takes place solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in personalized direct mail in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If you have initially objected to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose, we will not send you a mail. You are entitled to object to the use of your e-mail address for the purpose described above at any time with effect for the future by a message to the person named at the beginning. For this purpose, you only have to pay delivery costs according to the basic rates. Upon receipt of your objection, the use of your e-mail address for advertising purposes will cease immediately.

 

 

7) Rights of the data subject

7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights to information and intervention) vis-à-vis the person responsible with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the respective exercise requirements:

 

- Right to information in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR;

- Right to rectification in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR;

- Right to deletion in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR;

- Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR;

- Right to information in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR;

- Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR;

- Right to revoke consent given in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR;

- Right to lodge a complaint in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR.

 

7.2 OPPOSITION RIGHT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITHIN A BALANCING OF INTERESTS AND BASED ON OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIAMTE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME WITH FUTURE EFFECT FOR REASONS EMANATING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT WE WILL TERMINATE PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FURTHER PROCESSING IF WE CAN PROVE COMPELLING PRIVILEGED REASONS FOR PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

 

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH ADVERTISING PURPOSES AT ANY TIME. YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

 

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT WE WILL TERMINATE PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

 

 

8) Storage period of personal data

The storage duration of personal data is determined by the respective legal framework, the processing purpose, and - where appropriate - additionally by the respective legal retention period (e.g. retention periods pertaining to commercial or tax legislation).

 

When processing personal data based on an explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR this data will be stored until the data subject withdraws their consent.

 

If there are statutory retention periods for data that are processed within the framework of legal or transaction-like obligations on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit and/or we have no legitimate interest in further storage.

 

When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises his or her right to object in accordance with Art. 21 Para provide evidence for the processing that outweighs the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

 

When processing personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject exercises his right of objection under Article 21 Paragraph 2 GDPR.

 

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration about specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.