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Privacy policy

When you visit our web pages on www.hansa.com, our web server automatically saves the IP address assigned to you by your internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, our web pages visited by you and the date.  

You may be requested to provide personal information. Answering these questions is voluntary.

Within the scope of its business operations, HANSA also collects and processes personal data relating to current, former and potential customers and suppliers, and also that of their employees and representatives. In this respect, each individual natural person is considered to be "a data subject". This Privacy Policy is intended to ensure transparency and to show how the personal data of the respective data subjects is processed.

CONTROLLER

The controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is:

Hansa Armaturen GmbH
Sigmaringer Strasse 107
D-70567 Stuttgart

Tel: +49 (0)711 1614-0
Email: INFO@HANSA.COM

Should you have any questions concerning the processing of personal data, please contact the above-mentioned address or send an e-mail to GDPR@HANSA.COM.  

PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is for the most part collected directly from the data subject or with his consent. We may also process personal data which we receive from the company which represents the data subject, from authorities and our other co-operation partners (e.g. our sub-contractors) or which we obtain from publicly accessible sources (e.g. websites and commercial registers). Personal data includes:

  • identification data such as the name, the company which represents the data subject and his title;
  • contact details such as business address, telephone number and e-mail address; and
  • personal data acquired in the course of the business relationship, such as communications, details contained in orders, information concerning campaigns, special offers, joint activities or a co-operation and also the details necessary for invoicing and payments, the processing of deliveries, the fostering of customer and supplier relationships and our business development.

LEGAL BASIS AND PURPOSES OF THE PROCESSING

We process personal data, in so far as necessary, in order to protect our legitimate interests which arise when the data subject is our customer or supplier or acts on behalf of the latter, or in order to fulfil a legal obligation with which we are bound to comply.

Personal data is processed for investigations and negotiations with potential customers and suppliers, for the purpose of submitting and negotiating offers, processing orders, delivering products and providing services for our customers, and also for taking receipt of products and services from our suppliers, for the purpose of invoicing, for shipping purposes and for the issue of consignment notes, for the conclusion, implementation and maintenance of business agreements, for the purpose of organising and performing activities within the scope of such agreements and also for the publication of marketing communications concerning our business operations.

TRANSMISSION AND STORAGE LOCATION OF DATA

Within the scope of our business operations, we may, where appropriate, transmit personal data to companies within our group and to our co-operation partners, such as e.g. supplier companies and distribution partners.

The personal data remains in the European Union or in the European Economic Area. Should we transmit your personal data to a location outside the EU / the EEA, we will inform you of this.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is retained by us as long as is necessary for

  • the realisation and performance of the relevant business agreements or for the submission and soliciting of offers and business proposals from existing and potential customers and suppliers and
  • other legitimate purposes in regard to the existing or potential business relationship, such as e.g. the preparation of financial data or
  • compliance with laws.

If the relationship with the relevant customer or supplier ends, the personal data will be retained by us in so far as necessary for our business operations, e.g. for the purpose of maintaining our contract archive and for the purpose of handling any complaints.

Furthermore. personal data is retained by us if this is prescribed for the performance of legal obligations by which we are bound such as e.g. in connection with accounting records.

As soon as the retention of personal data is no longer necessary, it will be erased or securely anonymised.

CO-OPERATION WITH COMMISSION PROCESSORS, CONTROLLERS JOINTLY RESPONSIBLE AND THIRD PARTIES

Where, within the scope of our processing, we disclose data to other persons and companies (commission processors, controllers jointly responsible or third parties), transmit such data to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this only takes place either on the basis of statutory permission (e.g. when transmission of the data to third parties, such as a payment service provider, is necessary for the performance of the contract), where users have issued their consent, where a legal obligation provides for this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in the involvement of authorised agents, web hosts, etc.).

In so far as we disclose, transmit or otherwise grant access to other companies within our corporate group, this occurs in particular for administrative purposes as a legitimate interest and furthermore on the basis of a corresponding statutory stipulation.

RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECTS

As a data subject, you have, vis-à-vis ourselves, the following rights:

  • a right to information concerning your personal data;
  • the right to rectification or erasure of your personal data;
  • the right to restriction of processing relating to you;
  • a right of objection to the processing and
  • in certain circumstances, the right to data portability, i.e. you may receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and may transmit this data to another controller.

If your consent was obtained to the processing, you are, as a data subject, entitled to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note that the lawfulness of the processing carried out prior to the withdrawal of your consent remains unaffected by this withdrawal.

Any application is to be addressed to the above-mentioned point of contact.

We will use our best endeavours to comply with your wish. However, occasionally we may also need to refuse your application. In this case, we will notify you of the reasons for our refusal.

Should you be of the opinion that our processing of personal data is not carried out in compliance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation or other applicable laws, you may apply to the competent supervisory authority in order to clarify the appropriateness of the processing of your personal data.

ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION MEMORY OF YOUR TERMINAL DEVICES (USE OF COOKIES)

So that we can follow your preferences when visiting our websites and hence continuously optimise the content in accordance with your individual wishes, HANSA uses cookies. Cookies are small text files which are saved on your hard disk. They enable the identification of your computer but do not collect or save any of your personal data. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and cannot contain viruses. You can prevent cookies being saved on your computer at any time via your browser settings. This may, however, impair the performance of the website under some circumstances.

Cookies are also used for our virtual trade fair tour, which is integrated into the service area of the website.

ADMINISTRATION OF COOKIES

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can reject or block the use of cookies by changing your browser settings. The method for deactivating cookies varies from browser to browser. Please note your browser’s ‘help function’. 

CUSTOMER ACCOUNT / REGISTRATION FUNCTION

If you set up a customer account with us via our website, we will collect and store the data which you enter upon registration (that is to say, for example, your name, your address or your e-mail address) exclusively for pre-contractual services, for the performance of the contract or for the purpose of customer care (for example in order to provide you with an overview of your previous orders from us or in order to be able to offer you the so-called memo function). At the same time, we then store the IP address and the date and time of your registration. Naturally, we do not forward this data to third parties.

Within the scope of the further registration process, your consent is obtained to this processing, and reference is made to this Privacy Policy. The data collected by us in this connection will be used exclusively for the provision of your customer account.

In so far as you consent to this processing, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the data processing.

To the extent that the opening of the customer account additionally serves pre-contractual measures or the performance of the contract, the legal basis for this processing is also Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

You may at any time withdraw the consent you have issued to the opening and maintenance of the customer account with effect for the future pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR. For this purpose, you need only inform us of the withdrawal of your consent.

The data collected in this connection will be erased as soon as the processing is no longer necessary. However, we must in this respect observe the tax and commercial law retention periods.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our web pages use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google'). Google Analytics uses cookies that support analysis of your use of our websites and the selective display of advertisements by means of retargeting / remarketing. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our websites will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Please note that on our websites the Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking). Due to the activation of the IP anonymization on our websites, Google will truncate the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of us, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the websites, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google Analytics. You may prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser (see above). Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data generated by the cookie that relates to your use of our web pages (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided via the following link: HTTPS://TOOLS.GOOGLE.COM/DLPAGE/GAOPTOUT?HL=DE. You will find more information about this at HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/INTL/DE/ANALYTICS/PRIVACYOVERVIEW.HTML(general information on Google Analytics and data protection). You can also suppress data collection by Google Analytics and Google Remarketing by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie is activated that suppresses collection of your data when you visit this site in future: Disabling Google Analytics Disabling Google Adwords We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords for statistical purposes. If you do not wish this to take place, you can disable it via the Advertising Settings Manager (HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/SETTINGS/ADS/ONWEB/?HL=DE).

Deactivate Google Analytics

DEACTIVATE GOOGLE ADWORDS

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords for statistical purposes. If you do not wish this to take place, you can disable it via the Advertising Settings Manager (HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/SETTINGS/ADS/ONWEB/?HL=EN).

RETARGETING / REMARKETING

This website uses retargeting technologies that are operated by other providers (e.g. remarketing via the Google Display Network). By means of retargeting, users who have already shown interest in our brand and our products can be addressed with targeted advertising on our partners’ websites. On the basis of research results, we know that displaying personalized, interest-related advertising is more interesting for users than advertising that has no personal reference. With retargeting, the advertising is displayed on the basis of a cookie-based analysis of the user's previous actions. Self-evidently, no personal data are stored and equally self-evidently the retargeting technology is used in compliance with applicable data protection legislation. Should you not consent to the display of advertising in this form, you can disable cookies via your internet browser settings and/or delete existing cookies. You may also express non-consent with the cookie-based analysis with effect for the future by installing an opt-out cookie on your end device in accordance with the information that follows. No other use or forwarding to third parties takes place. 

GOOGLE MAPS

On our website, we use Google Maps to show our location and also to provide directions for finding us. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter only referred to as "Google".

Through its certification under the "EU-US Privacy Shield" („EU-US PRIVACY SHIELD“) Google guarantees that the data protection stipulations applicable in the EU are also observed in the processing of data in the USA.

In order to enable certain fonts to be presented on our website, a connection to the Google server in the USA is established when our website is visited.

Where you call up the component Google Maps integrated in our website, Google stores a cookie on your terminal equipment via your Internet browser. Your user settings and data are processed in order to show our location and to prepare directions for finding us. In this connection, we cannot rule out that Google utilises servers in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimising the functionality of our website.

Through the connection to Google established by these means, Google can ascertain from which website your request was sent and to which IP address the directions for finding us are to be transmitted.

Should you not be in agreement with this processing, you have the possibility of preventing the installation of the cookies through the corresponding settings in your Internet browser. Above, you will find further details in this connection under the section "Cookies".

In addition, the use of Google Maps and also of the information gained through Google Maps is subject to the GOOGLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE and the GOOGLE MAPS TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS.

Besides this, Google offers further information under

HTTPS://ADSSETTINGS.GOOGLE.COM/AUTHENTICATED

HTTPS://POLICIES.GOOGLE.COM/PRIVACY.

GOOGLE RECAPTCHA

On our website, we utilise Google reCAPTCHA in order to check and avoid interactions on our websites through automated accesses, for instance, through so-called bots. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter only referred to as "Google".

Through its certification under the "EU-US Privacy Shield" („EU-US PRIVACY SHIELD“) Google guarantees that the data protection stipulations applicable in the EU are also observed in the processing of data in the USA.

Through this service, Google can ascertain from which website a request is sent and also from which IP address you use the so-called reCAPTCHA input box. In addition to your IP address, it is possible that further information which is necessary in order to offer and ensure the provision of this service will be recorded by Google.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the security of our website and also in warding off unwanted, automated accesses in the form of spam or such like.

Under

HTTPS://POLICIES.GOOGLE.COM/PRIVACY

Google offers further-reaching information in relation to its handling of your user data in general.

GOOGLE FONTS

On our website, we utilise Google fonts to present external fonts. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter only referred to as "Google".

Through its certification under the "EU-US Privacy Shield" („EU-US PRIVACY SHIELD“) Google guarantees that the data protection stipulations applicable in the EU are also observed in the processing of data in the USA.

In order to enable certain fonts to be presented on our website, a connection to the Google server in the USA is established when our website is visited.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the optimisation and commercial operation of our website.

Through the connection to Google established by visiting our website, Google can ascertain from which website your request was sent and to which IP address the presentation of the font is to be transmitted.

Under

HTTPS://ADSSETTINGS.GOOGLE.COM/AUTHENTICATED

HTTPS://POLICIES.GOOGLE.COM/PRIVACY

Google provides further information, in particular in regard to the possibilities of prevention of the use of the data.

HOTJAR (TRACKING ONLINE BEHAVIOUR)

We use HOTJAR in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on THIS LINK.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this OPT-OUT LINK.

SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK PIXEL, YOUTUBE ETC.) 

FACEBOOK, GOOGLE+ AND YOUTUBE 

This website implements social media plugins from Facebook and Google (Google+ and YouTube). This concerns functionality offered by the US-American companies Facebook and Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (‘Google’)). 

When you visit a page that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a connection with Facebook or Google and content is loaded from these pages. This means that your visit to this page can be tracked by Facebook and Google even if you do not actively use the function of the social plug-in. If you have an account with Facebook or Google, you can use such a social plug-in to share information with your friends. Hansa Armaturen GmbH has no influence regarding the content of the plugins and the transmission of information. 

Via the Facebook Pixel that we implement, Facebook receives the information that you have visited our page via your IP address, so it can associate the visit with your user account. We can use the information that ensues to place Facebook advertising. We hereby declare that we as provider of the pages receive no information regarding the content of the transmitted data, nor how they are used by Facebook. If you do not wish data to be gathered via Custom Audience, you can disable the function here. 

Facebook and Google provide detailed information as to the scope, type, purpose and further processing of your data on their websites. You will find more information regarding your rights and setting options for the protection of privacy. 

Facebook's privacy policy: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ABOUT/PRIVACY

Google's privacy policy: HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/INTL/DE/POLICIES/PRIVACY

TWITTER

This website also includes functions related to the Twitter service. These functions are provided by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (‘Twitter’). Through the use of Twitter and the ‘re-tweet’ function, the Hansa Armaturen GmbH websites you visit are connected with your Twitter account and made known to other users. This also involves the transmission of data to Twitter. To this end, your internet browser establishes a direct connection to the Twitter servers and transmits data to Twitter. We hereby declare that we receive no information regarding the content of the transmitted data, nor how they are used by Twitter. You will find more information in Twitter’s privacy policy at: HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/PRIVACY. You can change your Twitter data protection settings in the account settings here: HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/ACCOUNT/SETTINGS.

INSTAGRAM

Instagram Plugins of the social network Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA (‘Instagram’) are also integrated into this website. You can recognize the Instagram plugin via the ‘Instagram button’ on our web page. If you click the ‘Instagram button’ while you are logged in to your Instagram account you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile. By this means, Instagram can associate your visit to our page with your user account. We hereby declare that we receive no information regarding the content of the transmitted data, nor how they are used by Instagram. You will find more information in Instagram’s privacy policy at: HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/ABOUT/LEGAL/PRIVACY/.

PINTEREST

Plugins of the social network Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA (‘Pinterest’) are also integrated into this website. You can recognize the Pinterest plugin via the ‘Pin it button’ on our web page. If you click the Pinterest ‘Pin it button’ while you are logged in to your Pinterest account you can link the content of our pages to your Pinterest profile. By this means, Pinterest can associate your visit to our page with your user account. We hereby declare that we receive no information regarding the content of the transmitted data, nor how they are used by Pinterest. You will find more information in Pinterest’s data protection declaration: HTTP://ABOUT.PINTEREST.COM/DE/PRIVACY.

WHATSAPP

This website also implements a WhatsApp share button. With the aid of this button you can share content from Hansa Armaturen GmbH via the WhatsApp application on your mobile telephone. This button is a hyperlink. The simple presence of the button on this web page does of itself cause any personal data to be transmitted to the operator of WhatsApp or third parties. As soon as you use the WhatsApp button, the operator of WhatsApp receives information as to what content is being shared and that the button has been used on this website. You can find more information about the data usage policy of the operator of WhatsApp in the operator’s data protection declaration: HTTPS://WWW.WHATSAPP.COM/LEGAL/#PRIVACY.

VIMEO

For the presentation of videos, we utilise "Vimeo" in our app. This is a service provided by Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA, hereinafter only referred to as "Vimeo".

In some cases, the processing of the user data is carried out on Vimeo servers in the USA. However, through its certification under the "EU-US Privacy Shield" („EU-US PRIVACY SHIELD“) Vimeo guarantees that the data protection stipulations applicable in the EU are also observed in the processing of data in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement of the quality of our website.

If you visit a page of our website where a video is embedded, a connection to the Vimeo servers in the USA is established in order to present the video. For technical reasons, it is necessary for Vimeo to process your IP address. In addition, the date and time of the visit to our websites is recorded.

Should you be logged in at Vimeo at the same time as you are visiting one of our websites where a Vimeo video is embedded, Vimeo may possibly assign the information gathered in this manner to your personal user account there. If you wish to prevent this, you either need to log out at Vimeo before visiting our website or set your user account at Vimeo correspondingly.

For the purpose of functionality and usage analysis, Vimeo utilises the web analysis service Google Analytics. Through Google Analytics, cookies are stored on your terminal equipment via your Internet browser, and information forwarded to Google about the use of our websites where a Vimeo video is embedded. It cannot be ruled out that Google processes this information in the USA.

Should you not be in agreement with this processing, you have the possibility of preventing the installation of the cookies through the corresponding settings in your Internet browser. Above, you will find further details in this connection under the section "Cookies".

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement of the quality of our website and in the legitimate interest of Vimeo in analysing the user behaviour statistically for optimisation and marketing purposes.

Vimeo provides further information concerning the collection and use of the data and also concerning your rights and the possibilities of protecting your private sphere under

HTTP://VIMEO.COM/PRIVACY

SIGNING OUT

By prior signing out from the accounts provided by social networks and by deleting cookies that have been installed you can prevent social networks from associating information gathered about you during your visit to Hansa Armaturen GmbH with your user account at the respective social network. If you do not wish social networks to associate the gathered data directly with your profile, you must log out of the respective social networks before visiting our website. You can also prevent plug-ins from being loaded altogether with the aid of add-ons for your browser, for instance with a script blocker such as ‘NoScript’. You will find this here: HTTP://NOSCRIPT.NET.

JOB ADVERTISEMENTS / ONLINE APPLICATIONS VIA HR4YOU

For a fast and convenient application, we ask you to use our online application tool. It goes without saying that we use the details which you send us in the online application form exclusively for the purpose of processing your application, and we only pass on these details within the companies of the Oras Group. We store your contact and application details for the duration of the application procedure. No later than 6 months following the end of the application procedure, your application details will be erased unless you arrange for erasure of your own accord. We employ an encryption process for the online transmission of your applicant details so that your particulars are protected against unauthorised access (see below). Please note that applications which you send to us by e-mail are transmitted to us unencrypted and are therefore directly erased. We recommend the use of the online application tool.

USE OF THE ONLINE APPOINTMENT ALLOCATION VIA TIMIFY

TIMIFY - TerminApp GmbH, Balanstraße 73, Gebäude Nr. 24, 3. OG, 81541 Munich, Germany (TIMIFY), operates an online appointment solution which is integrated into our website. If you make an appointment with our practice via Timify, Timify collects your personal data. In connection with the services and products it offers, the company Timify attaches great importance to "compliance with data protection, the guarantee of highest data security and transparency in data processing".

Under the following links you can view the detailed Privacy Policy of the company Timify:

PRIVACY POLICY OF THE COMPANY TIMIFY

DECLARATION OF THE COMPANY TIMIFY PURSUANT TO THE GDPR OF THE EU

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION STAND WITH FAIRFLEXX

Fairflexx Digital GmbH , Gutenbergstrasse 11, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, is a service provider for software solutions at trade fair events and operates a virtual trade fair stand solution which is integrated into our website. As part of its offered services and products, Fairflexx attaches great importance to "compliance with data protection regulations and ensuring the highest level of data security and transparency when processing data".

Use the following links to view the detailed Fairflexx privacy policy:

FAIRFLEXX PRIVACY POLICY

The contact form in the virtual trade fair stand is used to process enquiries from customers and interested parties. The data will be stored for the administrative purpose of processing enquiries and will be processed on the basis of the legal requirements. Likewise, personal data in the brochure order form will be stored for administrative purposes and processed properly on the basis of a legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6 (1f) GDPR. Users can revoke their consent to the processing of the data at any time. Users also have the right to request deletion of this data once their enquiry has been dealt with.

Google Analytics is used to track preferences and browsing habits in the virtual trade fair stand. No separate tracking tool is used here.

NEWSLETTER

By subscribing to a HANSA newsletter you declare your consent to the use of personal data entered by yourself for individual receipt of the newsletter by email. The subscription process includes an additional confirmation message that contains a link to the final registration (double opt-in) as a means of ensuring that you explicitly want to receive the emails. You may revoke such consent at any time and free of charge by clicking on the ‘Unsubscribe’ button in the newsletter and following the instructions that then appear. The action will take effect for the future.

LAST REVISED: 15 August 2020

We point out that this declaration may be extended or modified at any time on the basis of legal or other requirements.