Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. So we at BGS technic KG take compliance with data protection regulations seriously. Below we would like to inform you about the purposes for which your data is collected and used and how you can exercise your rights. You can access and print out the data protection declaration at any time via the "Data protection" link at the bottom of each page.

Our EDP systems are protected by technical and organisational measures against access, change or distribution of your data by unauthorised persons, as well as against loss and destruction.

Name and contact details of the body responsible: BGS technic KG, Str. 3, 42929 Wermelskirchen
Tel: 02196 720480, email: datenschutz@bgs-technic.de

Contact details of the data protection officer: BGS technic KG, Data Protection Officer, Bandwirkerstr. 3, 42929 Wermelskirchen, Tel: 02196 720480, email: datenschutzbeauftragter@bgs-technic.de

If you as a customer or employee have any questions about the data protection handling of your data, you have two ways to get your questions answered or to submit your request:

- for general questions about data protection and information, please contact datenschutz@bgs-technic.de with precise details of your question and your contact address.

- for special questions you can also contact the data protection officer directly and confidentially at any time (see above)

Purpose and legal basis of data processing

We store your data only for the fulfilment of your requests, the fulfilment and processing of contracts (including payment processing and, if applicable, credit assessment) and our own advertising purposes. The processing is carried out on the basis of the current data protection laws.

If you have an enquiry, are getting is to prepare an offer or are concluding a contract with us, we will process your personal data. Depending on the type of contract, this will include your surname(s), first name, address, email address, telephone number/fax number, birth date/place, bank data and VAT ID, if applicable. We store and process this data in our customer administration for the fulfilment and processing of the contract as well as for our own advertising purposes. Your data may be forwarded to our sales partners (official dealers), responsible sales representatives or country representatives to enable faster processing. Your data will not be passed on to any other third parties.

Only authorised employees of BGS technic KG have access to the data in our customer administration. BGS customer data management is based on the protection of the legitimate interests of BGS technic KG and facilitates compliance with data protection regulations on data accuracy and data transferability.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your IP-address) will be transmitted generally to a server in the United States and will be stored there. In case of activating the IP-anonymization on this website, your IP-address however will be shortened before from Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the agreement for the European Economic Area. Only in special cases will be transmitted to the server of Google in the United States the whole IP-address and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website Google will use this information to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports about the website activities and to provide the website operator with further services regarding the use of the website and the internet. The transmitted IP-address from your browser within Google Analytics will be not combined with other datas from Google. You can avoid a storage of the cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly; however we inform you that in this case it is possible that you can´t use all functions of this website totally. Furthermore you can prevent the storage of datas which are generated by the cookie and thus obtained by your use of the website (incl. your IP-address) to Google as well as the information processing of this datas by Google when you download the available browser-plugin with the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) and install it. Further information for this you will find under http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de respectively under http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (common information to Google Analytics and data protection). We point out that on this website Google Analytics was extended by the code „gat._anonymizeIp()“ to guarantee an anonymized recording of IP-addresses (so called IP-Masking).

Use of cookies

We use cookies on our website to make using our web pages easier for you. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive for the duration of your visit to our website and are deleted again when you are finished using the browser, depending on the setting of your browser program. Storing cookies can be switched off or deactivated in your browser’s settings.Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies survive when the browser is closed.

Cookies used:
Session cookies: cdmmCatalog, LB
Persistent cookies (30 days): cdmmCatalog_region, cookieconsent_dismissed

Data processing for advertising purposes

We will only use your data for our own advertising purposes. We do want to inform you about new products, our services and events of interest. So we will also use your data to recommend certain products, services or events that may be of interest to you in addition to your purchases. We only evaluate purchase history and send corresponding advertising by post or email to existing customers for products and services of BGS technic KG, taking into account your legitimate interests. We only use email with your consent, which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future by emailing us at: datenschutz@bgs-technic.de or under Tel: 02196/720480

Newsletters will only be sent to you on the basis of a separate consent.
Further information on your rights can be found in the section "Rights of persons concerned".

Recipients of personal data

Within the scope of the statutory powers, your personal data will be disclosed to the following companies within the EU:

- Postal service providers, forwarding agents, dispatch service providers, file/data carrier disposal

- IT service providers for maintenance and software maintenance

- Service providers for credit assessment, debt collection and dialogue marketing

- Sales partners within the scope of contractual service provision

- Google Inc. (www.google.de/settings/ads/onweb)

Duration of data storage

We will store your data for as long as required for the respective purpose:

- Offer data: 1 year (customer confirmation)

- Contract documents: 10 years

- Legal affairs: 6 years (§ 50 BRAO)

- Claims: 10 years

If there is a fiscal retention period for certain data processed for the processing of sales contracts (voucher data), the storage period is 6 or 10 years. During this time the processing of the data is limited. The retention obligation begins at the end of the calendar year in which the offer was submitted or the contract fulfilled.

Rights concerned

Your rights as a data subject are comprehensively guaranteed by BGS technic KG.

Objection to advertising

You can object to the use of your data for advertising purposes without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. The following contacts are available for this purpose.

Revocation of consent

You can revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future. Please note, however, that this may require you to re-enter your data before making a new purchase.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation to the processing of your personal data on the basis of the following provisions:

- the processing is necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority conferred on the controller, or

- the processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the data controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, prevail, in particular where the data subject is a child.

If you make an objection, we will no longer process your personal data in this case, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal requirements.

Further rights

The following rights are available to you with regard to your stored personal data:

- Information

- Correction

- Deletion or restriction of processing

- Objection to processing

- Data portability

- Right of appeal to regulators.

Contacts: How can I exercise my above rights?

To exercise your rights, you can use the contact form or contact customer service at datenschutz@bgs-technic.de/Tel. 02196 720480, the data protection officer (see above) or the person responsible (see above).

We will process your enquiries immediately and free of charge in accordance with the legal requirements and inform you of the measures we have taken.

Update and change

The data protection declaration must be adapted from time to time to the current circumstances and legal situation. Please check the data protection declaration before using our website to keep up to date with any changes or updates.

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