Privacy policy

1) Introduction and contact details of the person responsible

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we will inform you about how your personal data is handled when you use our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The person responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Niklas Kimm, System Automatisierungen, Meysenbugweg 2a, 34308 Riede, Germany, Tel: 01722430247, Email: info@systemautomatisierungen.de. The person responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2) Data collection when you visit our website

If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the site server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website
• Date and time at the time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you came to the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if necessary: ​​in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

3) Hosting and Content Delivery Network

3.1 Cloudflare

To host our website and display the page content, we use the system of the following provider: Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

All data collected on our website is processed on the provider’s servers. We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US data protection framework (EU-US Data Privacy Framework), which ensures compliance with European data protection levels on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

3.2 Cloudflare CDN

We use a content delivery network from the following provider: Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content or scripts more quickly via a network of regionally distributed servers. The processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US data protection framework (EU-US Data Privacy Framework), which ensures compliance with European data protection levels on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

4) Cookies

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close the browser (so-called “session cookies”), while some of these cookies remain on your device for a longer period of time and enable you to save page settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find out the storage period in the overview of the cookie settings in your web browser.

If personal data is also processed through individual cookies we use, the processing takes place in accordance with Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR either to implement the contract, in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR in the event of consent being given or in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

5) Contact us

5.1 Own function for making appointments online

We process your personal data as part of the online appointment arrangement provided. You can see which data we collect to make an appointment online from the respective input form or the appointment query for making an appointment. If certain data is necessary in order to make an online appointment, we will indicate this accordingly in the input form or when requesting an appointment. If we provide you with a free text field in the input form, you can describe your request in more detail there. You can then control for yourself which additional data you would like to enter.

The data you provide will be stored and used exclusively for the purpose of making an appointment. When processing personal data that is necessary to fulfill a contract with you (this also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures), Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis. If you have given us your consent to process your data, the processing will be carried out on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a GDPR. Consent given can be revoked at any time by sending a message to the person responsible named at the beginning of this declaration.

5.2 Contacting us via contact form or e-mail

When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is processed - exclusively for the purpose of processing and answering your request and only to the extent necessary for this purpose. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted if the circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no legal retention obligations to the contrary.

6) Page functionalities

Locally integrated web fonts

This website uses locally integrated web fonts for the uniform display of fonts. The font files are delivered by your own web server or via the hosting used.

When you access a page, your browser loads the necessary font files into the browser cache so that texts are displayed correctly. A direct connection to Google Fonts is not established for this.

The processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in a stable, fast and uniform presentation of the website in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font on your system will be used.

7) Rights of the person concerned

7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights of information and intervention) towards the person responsible with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the legal basis listed for the respective exercise requirements:

• Right to information in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR
• Right to correction in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR
• Right to deletion in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR
• Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR
• Right to information in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR
• Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR
• Right to revoke consent given in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR
• Right to complain in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR

7.2 Right to object

If we process your personal data based on our overriding legitimate interest as part of a balancing of interests, you have the right to object to this processing with future effect at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. However, further processing is reserved if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising. You can exercise your objection as described above.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned for direct advertising purposes.

8) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of storage of personal data is determined based on the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and - if relevant - additionally based on the respective legal retention period (e.g. commercial and tax retention periods).

When processing personal data on the basis of express consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you revoke your consent.

If statutory retention periods apply to data processed in connection with contractual or similar obligations on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, the data is routinely deleted once those periods expire, provided it is no longer required to perform or initiate a contract and we have no legitimate interest in continuing to store it.

When personal data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, it is stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

When processing personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with Article 21 Paragraph 2 of the GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration about specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.