Data privacy

Notes on the data processing and data protection declaration

We are very pleased that you are interested in our company and our Internet presentation. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We would like to explain the details to you below:

Elicitation and storage of personal data, type and purpose of their use

Visiting our websites

When you visit our websites, the browser that you use automatically sends information to our server. This is saved temporarily in a so-called logfile. The following items of information are saved without your intervention and saved until being deleted automatically: IP address of the inquiring computer, date, time and URL of the access, URL from which the access is made (referrer URL), user agent (e.g. Used browser name and browser version). We can use these data to enable a trouble-free connection set-up and convenient use of the website as well as to evaluate the system security and stability.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our justified interest ensues from the above listed purposes for data elicitation. In no case do we use the elicited data for the purposes of drawing inferences about your person. The provision of the personal data concerned by you when you visit the website is not legally or contractually prescribed; it is voluntary and serves exclusively for the aforementioned purposes. We use cookies when you visit our websites. Greater details are contained in this data protection declaration.

Use of our contact form, ordering advertising literature

We offer you the possibility of making contact with us by means of a form provided on our website. Which data are elicited here is visible from the form. The data processing for the purposes of making contact takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR based on our justified interest in answering your request. If the aim of your contact is to conclude a contract, then the legal basis in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR also applies. The personal data that we elicit for the use of the contact form are deleted automatically after conclusion of the inquiry that you have made insofar as there is no legal obligation to preserve records.

You can order advertising literature with a form provided on our website. Which data are elicited here is visible from the form. Data processing takes place in this respect according to Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR based on our justified interest in the handling of your issue in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR for the execution of pre-contractual measures. The personal data that we elicit in this respect are deleted automatically after sending the requested documents insofar as there are no legal obligations to preserve records.

Subscription to our Newsletter, consent to receive advertising

Providing that you have given your consent, we will use the e-mail address given to us by you on the basis of Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter a GDPR to send you Newsletters from time to time about potentially interesting products or services of our house. You can revoke your consent at any time, for example, by the direct cancellation link contained in the respective e-mail or, if you have a user account with us, under https://www.rems.de/subscriptions/manage In this case, we will immediately delete your e-mail address from our Newsletter distributor.

Participation in campaigns

We offer you the possibility to take part in competitions or other campaigns on our website. A prerequisite for this is that you open a user account. Which data are elicited here is visible from the form. These data are surrendered voluntarily. The data processing for the purpose of opening a user account and processing your participation in a campaign is subject to Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 letter b of the GDPR for the fulfilment of a contract concluded with you or to carry out pre-contractual measures on the basis of your registration or your participation in the campaign concerned as well as in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 letter f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in cession of information and offers where this interest is justified. The provision of personal data by you is not legally or contractually prescribed but is necessary if you want us to open a user account for you and handle your participation. We will delete the personal data elicited by us in this respect as soon as you let us know that you wish (e.g. by e-mail to dataprivacy@rems.de) and no legal tax or trade obligations for preservation of records prevent it.

Opening a user account (Service-Portal https://service.rems.de)

You have the possibility of opening a personal user account on our Service-Portal so that you can access our services on-line without having to enter your data every time. Which data are elicited here is visible from the form. The data processing for the purpose of opening a user account takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter a GDPR based on your voluntarily granted consent or in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR to fulfil a contract concluded with you or for the execution of pre-contractual measures based on your inquiry. The provision of personal data by you is not legally or contractually prescribed but is necessary if you want us to open a user account for you and handle your issue. We will delete the personal data elicited by us in this respect as soon as you let us know that you wish (e.g. by e-mail to dataprivacy@rems.de) and no legal tax or trade obligations for preservation of records prevent it.

Opening a user account (Recruitment-Portal )

You have the possibility of opening a personal user account on our Recruitment-Portal so that you can apply for our job vacancies on-line. Which data are elicited here is visible from the form. These data are surrendered voluntarily. The data processing for the purpose of opening a user account and handling your application takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter a GDPR based on your voluntarily granted consent or in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR to fulfil a contract concluded with you or for the execution of pre-contractual measures based on your registration or application. If you disclose special category personal data to us in accordance with Art. 9 Par. 1 GDPR (e.g. Severe disability, health data if relevant to exercising the occupation) or if we inquire such data in the application proceedings, these data will also be processed on the basis of Art. 9 Par. 2 letter a or letter b GDPR. The provision of personal data by you is not legally or contractually prescribed but is necessary if you want us to open a user account for you and handle your application. We will delete the personal data elicited by us in this respect as soon as you let us know that you wish to, or if you withdraw your application (e.g. by e-mail to dataprivacy@rems.de). If no employment relationship ensues, we will also delete your data. This will take place at the latest six months after handling your application so that we can meet our obligations to produce proof in accordance with the General Equal Treatment Act. If travel expenses were reimbursed, archiving will take place according to the legal trade and taxation retention periods.

Postal advertising

If we send advertising literature about our products by post, such processing of personal data will take place based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR for the sending of information and offers of interest. Addressees of such advertising can revoke their consent for processing their data for such purposes in the future at any time, e.g. by e-mail to dataprivacy@rems.de. We will then delete the data concerned immediately from our distributor.

Entering and conducting contractual/delivery relationships

Insofar as suppliers, customers or other (potential) contract partners surrender personal data to us (e.g. name of the responsible contact partner), we will process such data based on Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR for executing a contract concluded with the contract partner and/or for conducting pre-contractual measures. The provision of personal data is not legally or contractually prescribed but may be necessary to conduct the contractual relationship. We will erase the personal data that we collect insofar and as soon as their erasure is not barred by any legal tax or commercial obligation to preserve records.

Data security

Our websites use an SSL encryption (Secure Socket Layer) When setting up and encrypted session, the degree of encryption depends on the capacity of the web browser, the SSL certificate of the web server and the client’s operating system. You will recognise the encryption from the closed representation of the key icon or lock icon in the address bar of your browser. Moreover, we use suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or wilful manipulations, partial or total loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in the course of technical progress.

Disclosure of data to third parties

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for any other purposes than those listed above. We will only pass on your data to third parties when you have expressly granted your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter a GDPR, the disclosure is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR for the enforcement, exercising or defence of rights and there is no reason to assume that you have a predominant interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data for the event that there is a legal obligation for disclosure in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter c GDPR and this is legally allowed and necessary in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR for the handling of contract relations with you. Insofar as third parties are contracted by us with a so-called contract processing, this will take place in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

Cookies, Social Media other on-line services of third parties

Cookies

We use cookies on our websites. These are small files which your browser creates automatically and which are stored on your terminating device (laptop, tablet, Smart phone or similar) when you visit our websites. The cookie stores information which results in connection with the specially used terminating device. This does not mean, however, that we learn your identity. The use of cookies serves, on the one hand, to make it easier for you to use our offers. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited certain contents of our websites. These are deleted automatically after leaving our site. In addition, to optimise user friendliness, we also use temporary cookies which are saved on your terminating device for a certain fixed period of time. The next time that you visit our websites to use our services, we automatically recognise that you have visited us before and what inputs and settings you made so that you do not have to enter these again.

The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are saved on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. Total deactivation of cookies can, however, lead to not being able to use all functions of the respective website.

Social Media

We use so-called Social Media plug-ins of the social networks Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram on our websites based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR. The advertising purpose behind this represents a justified interest in the sense of the GDPR.

When you visit our websites, the buttons of these Social Media plug-ins are deactivated as a default, i.e. We send no data to the respective social networks without your intervention. You have to click on these buttons to activate them. The button will remain active until you deactivate it again or delete your cookies. See our cookie notes for further information about cookies. If you share or recommend the contents of our websites on social networks, this is always voluntary. This will lead to especially your used IP address and/or further personal data being transmitted to and stored by the providers of these services or third parties. This may also take place on servers outside the European Union. After activating a button, the respective social network can already elicit data, regardless of whether you interact with the button. If you are logged into a social network, this can assign your visit to our respective website to your user account. If you are a member of a social network and do not want this to link the data collected during your visit to our website with your stored member data, you should not activate the buttons of the Social Media plug-ins. We have no influence on the scope of data which the social networks elicit with their buttons. For the purpose and scope of the data elicitation and the further processing and use of the data by the respective social networks as well as their rights and setting possibilities in this respect for the protection of your private sphere, please see the data protection notices of the respective social networks linked below.

Facebook (Provider: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland):
https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Twitter (Provider: Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA and Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland): https://twitter.com/privacy

Google+ (Provider: Google LLC, Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA): https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Instagram (Provider: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland):
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875?helpref=page_content

YouTube

YouTube contents are linked on our websites for advertising purposes based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR. The sites are operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our websites with YouTube contents, a link is established to the YouTube servers which may also be outside the European Union. The YouTube server will be notified which of our websites you have visited. All YouTube services are used by you voluntarily. This will lead to especially your used IP address and/or further personal data being transmitted to and stored by YouTube or third parties. This may also take place on servers outside the European Union. When you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. Further information about the handling of user data can be found in the YouTube data protection declaration under: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google Maps

For the adequate design of our websites, we use the product Google Maps offered by Google to visually display geographical information in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR. When you use Google Maps, Google also elicits, processes and uses data about the use of the map functions by visitors and this may also take place on servers outside the European Union. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in the Google data protection notes ($$GOOGLEPRIVACYLINK2$$ There, you can also change your personal data protection settings in the Data Protection Centre.

Google Web Fonts

For the suitable design of our Internet site, we use so-called web fonts provided by Google for displaying fonts in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR. In order to display texts properly, your browser loads the necessary Google Web Fonts into your browser cache when you open an Internet site. If your browser does not support these web fonts, they may not be displayed correctly. When you use Google Web Fonts, Google can also elicit, process and use data about the visit to our Internet sites and this may also take place on servers outside the European Union. Additional information about Google Web Fonts can be found under https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google data protection notes ($$GOOGLEPRIVACYLINK2$$). There, you can also change your personal data protection settings in the Data Protection Centre.

Your rights as person concerned

In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR you are entitled to demand information about you personal data which we process. In particular, you may demand information about the purposes of processing, the category of the personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data were or will be disclosed, the planned duration of storage, the existence of a right of rectification, erasure, restriction of the processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data insofar as they were not elicited by us as well as the existence of a automatic decision process including profiling and significant information about their details if necessary. In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, you are entitled to demand the immediate rectification of incorrect data or the immediate completion of your personal data stored by us. In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, you are entitled to erase your personal data stored by us insofar as their processing is not necessary for exercising the right of free expression of opinion and information, for fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the enforcement, exercising or defence of legal rights. In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you are entitled to demand the restriction of processing of your personal data insofar as you dispute the correctness of the data, the processing is illegal but you refuse their erasure and we no longer require the data but you need these for the enforcement, exercising or defence of legal rights or you have lodged an objection to their processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR. In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you can receive your personal data which you have provided us with in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or demand their transmission to another responsible party. In accordance with Art. 7 Par. 3 GDPR, you are entitled to withdraw your once granted consent at any time. This has the consequence that we may not longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future. In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can consult the supervisory authority of your habitual residence or our company headquarters.

Right to object

Insofar as your personal data are processed based on justified interests in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR, you have the right according to Art. 21 GDPR to lodge a complaint against the processing of your personal data insofar as there are reasons which arise from your special situation or the objection addresses direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object which will be implemented by us without specification of a special situation. If you wish to exercise your right to revoke or to object, an e-mail to dataprivacy@rems.dewill suffice.

Data of the party responsible for the processing of data and the data protection officer

This data protection declaration applies for data processing by:

Responsible: REMS GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgarter Straße 83, 71332 Waiblingen, Deutschland, Telefon +49 7151 1707-0, Telefax +49 7151 1707-110, E-Mail info@rems.de

Our company Data Protection Officer can be reached by e-mail to dataprivacy@rems.de or by post to REMS GmbH & Co KG, Datenschutzbeauftragter, Stuttgarter Straße 83, 71332 Waiblingen, Deutschland.

We reserve the right to adapt the current actual and legal requirements. You can open and print out the respective latest data protection declaration on our website at any time.