Data Protection Declaration

We are aware of the fact that the protection of your privacy is an important concern to you while using our website. We take the protection of your personal data very serious. Therefore, we want you to know which data is saved and how it is used. With this Data Protection Declaration, we want to inform you about our data protection measures. 

 

Collection of Personal Data 

In the following, we inform you about the collection of Personal Data while using our website. Personal Data are all data which are directly or indirectly relatable to you personally, like names, address, e-mail, or user behaviour. 

To respond to your e-mail or to your request via our contact form, we will process the following Personal Data in the contact form if provided by you (e-mail, where appropriate your first name, last name, or telephone number). We will process your data, where processing is based on your consent until your consent is withdrawn or where processing is based on a balance of interest until you object to this, or your request has been completed. 

When you visit our website for informational purposes, that means without registration or other forms of data transfer, only data which your browser transfers to servers used by us are collected. When you want to view our website, those data are collected which are technically relevant to display our website and to ensure the security and stability (legal basis: Art. 6 (1) p. 1, lit f GDPR):

• IP-address

• date and time of the request

• time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

• content of the request (concrete page)

• access status / HTTP status code

• transferred volume of data

• website where the request comes from

• browser

• operating system and its interface

• language and version of the browser software

 

Person Responsible 

You will find the responsible person, following Art. 4 (7) GDPR, in the imprint. 

 

Legal Basis of the Processing Operation

We process data in accordance with GDPR Art. 6 (1) lit. a) b) c) f). This means that Personal Data is only processed when approval is given (lit. a), when it is necessary for the fulfilment of a contract or for precontractual measures (lit. b), when we are legally obliged (lit. c), or when we have a legitimate interest in processing (f). 

 

Indented Use

The collected data are used only to provide you the desired products or services, or for other purposes for which the consent was given if no contrary legal obligation exists. 

 

Rights of the Persons Affected

You have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:

• Right of access

• Right of rectification or erasure

• Right of restriction of processing

• Right of appeal against processing

• Right of data portability

Furthermore, you have the right to complain at the supervisory authorities on data protection about the processing of your Personal Data by us. 

 

Right of Revocation or Contradiction against the Processing of your Personal Data

If you gave the permission for the processing of your Personal Data, you can revoke it at any time. This revocation influences the admissibility of the processing of your Personal Data, after you expressed it. 

 

Storage of Personal Data
We save Personal Data as long as necessary to perform a service which you requested or given approval for if no contrary legal obligation exists, like for example a current lawsuit. 

 

Use of Cookies

In additional to the data mentioned above, Cookies are saved on your computer while using our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, assigned to your used browser. The cookies transfer specific information to the website (in this case, the website of the UVIS UV-Innovative Solutions GmbH) which installed them. Cookies cannot run programs or transfer viruses on your computer. They serve to make the internet offering more user friendly and efficient.

a. This website uses the following types of Cookies which extent and functionalities are explained below:

• Transient Cookies (see b)

• Persistent Cookies (see c)

b. Transient Cookies are deleted automatically when the browser is closed. In particular, these include the Session Cookies. They save the so-called Session-ID which associates different requests of your browser with the joint session. Thus, your computer can be recognized if you return to our website. The Session Cookies are deleted when you log out or close the Browser.

c. Persistent cookies are automatically removed after a certain period of time which can differ depending on the type of Cookie. These cookies can be deleted in the security settings of your browser at any time.

d. You can configure your browser settings in compliance with your wishes and e.g. refuse the acceptance of Third-Party-Cookies or all Cookies. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all features of this website to the fullest extent possible. 

 

Further Functions and Services of our Website

Next to the purely informative use of our website, we offer different services which you can use if interested. Thus, you have to state more Personal Data which we use for the rendering of the service and for which apply the principles stated above. 
Partially, we use external agents for the procession of your data. These were chosen and instructed carefully, are bound by our instructions, and are controlled on a regularly basis. Furthermore, we can give Personal Data to third parties if sales action, lotteries, conclusions of contracts, or similar services are offered in cooperation with our partners. You receive more information when submitting your Personal Data or below in the description of the offer. If our service providers or partners are headquartered in a state outside of the European Economic Area, we will inform you about the consequences of this fact in the description of the offer. 

 

Security

We use technical and organisational security measures to protect your provided Personal Data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorised persons. In the case of gathering and processing of Personal Data, the information is transferred in encrypted form to prevent the misuse by third parties. Our security measures are updated frequently, following the technological developments. 

 

Adjustments
The constant development of the Internet necessitates adjustments of our Data Protection Declaration from time to time. Therefore, we reserve the right to make appropriate changes at any time. 

 

Google
We use Google Analytics, a web analyse service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses Cookies. The information generated by Cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The anonymized IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Thereby, pseudonymous user profiles can be created with the processed data.

Google is certified with the Privacy-Shield-Agreement and offers hereby the guarantee of observing the European Data Protection Law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

We use Google only with activated IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google within the area of the member states of the European Union or other contracting states of the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be sent to a Google server in the US and anonymized there. The IP address, which is transferred by the browser of the user, will not be merged with other data from Google.

The users can prevent the saving of Cookies with the appropriate browser settings. Furthermore, the users can prevent the collection and processing of data which are created by the Cookie and related to their usage of the online offer by downloading and installing the following Browser-Plug-In (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

For more information about promotional purposes of Google, settings, and possibilities of objection, please visit https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners/, http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads, http://www.google.de/settings/ads, and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

YouTube videos are implemented in some websites of our web presence – here, communication with the Google servers of YouTube (LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA) takes place. YouTube LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA). If you own a Google Account, Google can record which sub-website of YouTube are visited. 

 

Third Party Content on the Website 
Our website integrates content of other providers. This could be pure content elements (e.g. news) but also widgets (functions like weather forecast) or scriptures and technical libraries. For technical reasons, these contents are downloaded by the browser from other servers. In this context, the actual used IP address and the used browser are transferred by the querying system. Please note the particular privacy statement of the third-party provider.