Data Protection

Data Privacy Statement

This data privacy statement explains to you how we process your personal data when you next visit this website.

Responsibility

We process the personal data provided by you for the purposes communicated to you. We process data, in particular, we collect personal data and transfer them to state institutions entitled to receive information only in conformity with the relevant legal provisions and to the extent that we are obliged to do so by a decision of the Courts. The controller for the data processing within the meaning of Article 4 (7) GDPR is:

DFT Technology GmbH
Rendsburger Straße 329
24537 Neumünster
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)4321 188 - 0
e-mail: mail@dft-technology.de

Data Protection Officer

Morten Dibbert
Telephone: +49 (0)4321 188 - 155
e-mail: m.dibbert@dft-technology.de

General

In the following we explain to you how we process your personal data. Personal data is all the information, which relates to you. In this context it is information on your identity, such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address. It is not necessary to transfer personal data in order to use our website. However, if you wish to use the services we offer it may be necessary to provide personal data for this purpose. We process these data exclusively for a specific purpose. In the following conditions we inform you about our data processing procedures.

Web Server Log Files

When you visit our website we collect the following data, which is communicated to us by your browser, in what are known as log files.

• IP address
• date and time of the enquiry
• content of the request
• access status/ HTTP status code
• amount of data transferred
• referring website (referrer)
• browser with version and language
• operating system used.

We process these data pursuant to Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR. It is in our legitimate interest to display to you our website in its entirety and to ensure stability and security. Furthermore, these data are used to optimise our contents and advertising and in the case of an attack on our system to be able give the information required to the law enforcement agencies. We do not draw inferences as to your identity from these data. Furthermore, we store the data in the log files separately from other personal data.

Cookies

We use what are known as cookies on our website. These are small text files, which are stored on your computer and on the browser used by you. The unit, which the cookie places, receives certain information on this. Cookies cannot run a program or transfer viruses onto your computer. They do not cause damage, but are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective as a whole. Most usually we use cookies known as session cookies. These are automatically erased when you close your browser. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you erase them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit us.

We use the consent management tool CCM19 on our website. The tool enables you to give your consent to data processing via the website, in particular the setting of cookies, and to exercise your right to withdraw consent you have already given. The purpose of data processing is to obtain and document the necessary consent for data processing and thus to comply with legal obligations. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Among other things, the following information is collected and transmitted to CCM19 Date and time of the page view, a random ID, consent status. Our company does not process the data itself; the data is stored as a log file. Access to the log files of our customers only takes place with the prior agreement and consent of the customer. This data is not passed on to other third parties. Data processing is carried out to fulfill a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO.

Browser settings

Of course, as a matter of principle you can also view our website without cookies. Browser settings are usually set so that they accept cookies. However, you can deactivate at any time the use of cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Please use your browser's Help function to discover how to adjust the settings. If you have deactivated the use of cookies please be aware in doing so that individual functions on our website may not function.

Contacting us

You can contact us by e-mail or by means of the relevant form on our website. We need your e-mail address at least, in order to be able to respond to your enquiry and therefore you must provide your e-mail address. We process the data you have provided on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) point (a) GDPR. We also process your data in accordance with Article 6 (1) point (f) GDPR. It is in our legitimate interest to offer you this form of communication in order to respond to your enquiries. It is not only mandatory that you provide us with the data required; we cannot process your enquiry without it.

Processing of order

We use the Formularmanager, developed by wigital GmbH, Wall 42, 24103 Kiel, Germany (wigital) to transfer enquiries. We transfer the data required for the despatch to wigital. wigital is for its part not permitted to transfer these data to third parties, or to process them for any purposes other than the despatch of enquiries. We have concluded an agreement with wigital on data processing pursuant to Article 28 GDPR, which has placed wigital under an obligation to comply with the provisions of data protection law and to ensure an adequate level of protection for your data.

Storage

The data you have provided to us via the form remains with us until your request that it be erased, you withdraw your consent to its storage or the purpose for storing the data ceases to apply. This may be the case, for instance, when we have completed the processing of your request. If statutory provisions exist, such as, in particular, a legal duty to preserve the records, these remain unaffected.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). Google Analytics uses text files, known as cookies, which are stored on your computer and allow the use of the website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Article 6 (1) 1st sentence point (f) GDPR. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and to be able constantly to improve it. The statistics compiled allow us to optimise our website and our contents and to make them more attractive to you as the user.

IP Anonymisation

There is an automatic IP anonymization Google Analytics 4, so that we collect the data anonymously. By activating the IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is anonymized before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Economic Area is shortened. The anonymized IP address. transmitted by Google Analytics by your browser ,will not be merged with other Google data. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a server in the USA and abbreviated there. Google shall use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of this website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide us with other services related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics from your browser shall not be merged with other Google data. For the exceptional cases, in which personal data are transferred to the USA, Google has subscribed to the EU-US Privacy Shield

Browser configuration

You can prevent your computer storing cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser software. However, we should like to make you aware that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. In addition, you can prevent the data generated by the cookie related to your use of the website, including your IP address, being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing a suitable browser add-on.

Right to object

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on you can prevent Google Analytics analysing your visit to our website by installing a specific opt-out cookie. Google Analytics will be prevented from collecting data for this website and for this browser for as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser. To install this cookie, click on the following link: Deactivate Google Analytics.

Processing of order

We have concluded a contract with Google for order data processing and implement in full the strict provisions of the German data protection authorities in the use of Google Analytics. Further information on this third party supplier is available on the following links:

• Terms and Conditions of Use
• Protection and security of your data
• Data privacy statement from Google

If you have given your consent, Google will link your web and app browsing history to your Google account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on every device on which you sign in with your Google account. To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated user IDs that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data in order to define and create target groups for cross-device advertising. You can permanently contradict to remarketing by deactivating personalized advertising in your Google account.

The summary of the data collected in your Google account is based exclusively on your consent, which you can give or withdraw from Google in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. For data collection processes that are not merged in your Google account, for example because you have not set one up or have contradicted to the merging, the collection of data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest arises from the fact that we have a need for the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes. Further information and the data protection provisions can be found in Google's privacy policy.

Security

We have taken technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorised access. All our employees and all the third parties involved in processing the data have been placed under an obligation of treating personal data in confidence. Our security measures are constantly revised in line with technological development.

Encryption

When personal data are collected and processed the information is transferred in encrypted form, in order to prevent abuse of the data by third parties. In communication with you we use SSL/TLS encryption protocols, in order to protect your data from access by unauthorised third parties. You can identify an encrypted link by the "https" identifier in the address bar of your browser and sometimes a lock symbol appears.

Rights

Disclosure

You have the right at any time to receive information, free of charge, as to whether we are processing data from you and which personal data we are processing. In this case we are obliged to give information on the purposes for data processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data have been or are being disclosed, the planned storage period and the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of the processing, a right to object to the processing, the right to complain to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data, if we did not collect these data, the existence of any automated decision-making, as well as your right to information on what guarantees exist pursuant to Article 46 GDPR for the transfer of your data to third countries.

Rectification

If you exercise your right to rectification, we have to correct or complete the incorrect data pertaining to you without undue delay.

Erasure

You have the right to request us to erase your personal data. However, we are not obliged to erase the data, if the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of substantial public interest or to establish, exercise or protect legal claims. So that blocked data can be consulted at any time, these data must be retained for inspection purposes in a lock file. You may also request the erasure of these data, provided that no legal obligation exists to archive the data. We block your data on request, if an appropriate obligation exists.

Restriction

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data, if you contest the accuracy of the personal data and during the time we need to check this. We are also obliged to restrict processing, if this is unlawful and you refuse to have the data erased when we no longer require the data for the stated purpose, but you need the data in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, of if you have lodged an objection and it has not yet been established whether we are entitled by virtue of overriding legitimate grounds to continue to process the data.

Data portability

You can request us to provide the personal data, which you have supplied to us, in a structured, current, machine-readable format. You can also request that we transfer these data without obstruction on our part to another controller, if you have granted us your consent to the processing of the data, the processing of the data relies on a contract or the data are processed by means of an automated procedure.

Withdrawal

Insofar as you have granted us your consent to the processing of your data in accordance with Article 6 (1) point (a) or Article 9 (2) point (a) GDPR, you may withdraw this consent at any time. You do not have to give us reasons for withdrawing your consent. You do not have to express your withdrawal in writing. If you withdraw your consent, this shall apply only for the future. If we have processed your data prior to receipt of your withdrawal, this withdrawal shall have no effect on the processing already completed.

Complaints

In addition, you have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

Right to object

Provided that we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests in accordance with Article 6 (1) point (f), you have the right to object to the processing. This is the case, in particular if the processing is not necessary for fulfilling a contract with you and we made this clear in each case as regards the respective processing of the data. If you exercise this right to object, please state the reasons why we should not continue processing your personal data as we had been doing. In the case of your legitimate objection we shall investigate the circumstances and shall either cease processing the data or change our method of processing the data or demonstrate to you the compelling legitimate grounds on which we continue to process the data. You have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of advertising, without incurring any transmission costs other than at the basic rates.

Amendments

We reserve the right to amend this data privacy statement, so that it always complies with the legal requirements currently in force or to include changes in our services in the data privacy statement, for example, when we introduce new services. When you visit our website subsequent to these changes the new data privacy statement shall apply.