An opt-out cookie is then placed on your computer to prevent any future collection of your data when you visit this website.

For more information on the terms of service and privacy policy, see https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en/. Please note that on this website Google Analytics is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (IP masking).

 

Order processing with Google Analytics

WITTENSTEIN has signed an agreement with Google to handle order processing and the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities are fully implemented when using Google Analytics.

 

Google Analytics Demographics

This website has enabled Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, which helps us target audiences based on the age, sex and interests of visitors to our sites. These data come from interest based advertising by Google as well as the visitor statistics of third-party providers. They cannot be associated with a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or prohibit the collection of data about you by Google Analytics as described under “Objection to data collection by Google Analytics”.

 

Google Maps

This website uses a “Google Maps” API provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use Google Maps, we are required to store your IP address. This information will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The operator of this website has no control over data which is transmitted in this way.
For more information on how Google processes user data, you can review the Google privacy policy by following this link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en/

 

Facebook Remarketing

This site uses the Remarketing “Custom Audiences” feature of Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”). This function is used to present visitors to this website as part of a visit to the social network Facebook (“Facebook Ads”). The remarketing tag of Facebook was implemented on this website. Through this tag a direct connection to the Facebook servers is made when visiting the website. You will be directed to the Facebook server that you visited this site, and Facebook will assign this information to your personal Facebook user account. For more information on how Facebook collects, uses, and protects your privacy, see the Facebook privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Alternatively, you can disable the “Custom Audiences” remarketing feature at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_=_. For this, you must be logged in to Facebook.

 

LinkedIn Remarketing

This website uses the analysis and conversion tracking technology of the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The technology is designed to provide visitors to the Linkedin career network website with interest-focused advertisements. For this the Insight-Tag from Linkedin was integrated into this website. When visiting the website – providing that you are, in parallel, logged into your Linkedin account – a link to the Linkedin servers is created via this tag. Thus Linkedin assigns your visit to the website to your personal user account. This LinkedIn technology allows you to view more relevant ads based on your interests. LinkedIn also provides WITTENSTEIN with aggregated and anonymous reports of ad activities and information about how you interact with this website. For more information on LinkedIn privacy, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. You can disregard the analysis of your usage behavior by LinkedIn as well as the display of interest-based recommendations (“opt-out”); click the Reject on LinkedIn button (for LinkedIn members) or Reject (for other users) at the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

 

Newsletter

Should you wish to subscribe to the newsletter which is offered on this website, we will need your email address as well as information allowing us to verify that you are the holder of the address provided to us and that you have agreed to receive the newsletter (double opt-in procedure). Any other data are provided on a voluntary basis. We use these data exclusively for the purpose of sending you the requested information, or of answering your inquiry, and do not share them with third parties outside of the WITTENSTEIN group.

Any data which you enter in the newsletter subscription form will only be processed subject to your consent (Art. 6(1) a EU GDPR). You may withdraw your consent to the storage of your data and email address, as well as to the use of your data for the purpose of sending you the newsletter, at any time, for example by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

We will store the data held by us for the purpose of sending you the newsletter until such time as you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will delete this data as soon as you unsubscribe. This shall not affect data which are stored by us for any other purposes (for example, if they are required for the execution of a contract).

 

Changes to our Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to amend our security and data protection measures where necessary owing to technological developments. In this case, we will also adjust our privacy notices accordingly. Please therefore ensure that you are referring to the most current version of our Privacy Statement.


Data security

We have implemented technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, manipulation or unauthorized access. All our employees and all third parties involved in data processing are committed to maintaining confidentiality while handling personal data.

Where personal data are collected and processed on this website, the transmission of these data is encrypted to prevent misuse by third parties. Our security measures are constantly reviewed and adapted to take account of new technological developments.

 

Children and juveniles

Persons under the age of 18 should not send us any personal data without the consent of a parent or guardian. We do not request personal data from children and juveniles, nor do we collect such information or share it with third parties.

 

Objection to email advertising

We hereby expressly object to the use of contact information provided on this website for the purpose of communicating any advertising or other information material, including spam emails, not explicitly requested by us. We reserve the right to take legal action against anyone violating this provision.

 

Disclaimer for the content of linked third-party sites

This Privacy Statement does not extend to the use of any external links which may be included on our websites. If we include links, we make every effort to ensure that they also comply with our data protection and security principles. However, we have no control over the compliance of other website operators with data protection and security provisions. We therefore ask you to refer to the websites of the operators concerned for information on their respective privacy policies.