Privacy policy

Privacy policy

• 1 General information

Your personal data (e.g. title, name, address, email address, telephone number) is processed by us solely in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law and European Union (EU) data protection law. In addition to the purposes of processing, recipients, legal bases and retention periods, the following provisions also inform you about your rights and the controller responsible for processing your data. This Privacy Policy applies only to our websites. If you are redirected to other websites via links on our pages, please refer to those websites for information on how your data is handled.

• 2 Making contact

(1) Purpose of Processing
We process the personal data you provide to us by email, contact form or other means in order to respond to and handle your enquiries. You are not obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, without your email address, we will not be able to reply to you by email.

(2) Legal Bases
a) If you have expressly consented to the processing of your data, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR is the legal basis for such processing.
b) If we process your data in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR is the legal basis.
c) In all other cases, particularly when a contact form is used, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR is the legal basis.

RIGHT TO OBJECT: You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your data based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, provided that such processing is not carried out for direct marketing purposes.
In the case of direct marketing, however, you may object to the processing at any time without stating any reasons.

(3) Legitimate Interest
Our legitimate interest in processing your data is to communicate with you quickly and respond to your enquiries cost-effectively. If you provide us with your postal address, we reserve the right to use it for direct marketing by post. You can protect your interest in data privacy by limiting the amount of data you provide, for example by using a pseudonym.

(4) Categories of Recipients
Hosting providers and, in the case of direct marketing, shipping service providers.

(5) Retention Period
Your data will be deleted when it can be inferred from the circumstances that your enquiry or the matter concerned has been conclusively resolved.
However, if a contract is concluded, we will retain the data required under commercial and tax law for the statutory retention periods, generally ten years (see Section 257 of the German Commercial Code and Section 147 of the German Fiscal Code).

(6) Right of Withdrawal
Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

• 3 Information about cookies

(1) Purpose of Processing
This website uses technically necessary cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your computer system by or within your internet browser.

(2) Legal Basis
The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

(3) Legitimate Interest
Our legitimate interest is to ensure the proper functioning of our website. User data collected through technically necessary cookies is not used to create user profiles. This safeguards your interest in data protection.

(4) Retention Period
Technically necessary cookies are generally deleted when the browser is closed. Permanently stored cookies have varying lifespans, ranging from a few minutes to several years.

(5) RIGHT TO OBJECT
If you do not wish these cookies to be stored, please disable the acceptance of such cookies in your internet browser. However, this may restrict the functionality of our website. You can also delete permanently stored cookies at any time through your browser settings.

 

• 4 Newsletter

(1) Purpose of Processing
When you subscribe to the newsletter, your email address will be used for advertising purposes. In particular, the newsletter will inform you about products from our range. For statistical purposes, we may evaluate which links in the newsletter are clicked. However, we are unable to identify the specific individual who clicked a link. You have expressly provided the following consent separately or, where applicable, during the ordering process: Subscribe to the newsletter.

(2) Legal Basis
The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

(3) Categories of Recipients
Where applicable, newsletter service providers.

(4) Retention Period
Your email address will be stored for newsletter distribution only for as long as your subscription remains active.

(5) Right of Withdrawal
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link included in the newsletter.

 

• 5 Rights of the data subject

If your personal data is processed, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and have the following rights against the controller:

1. Right to information

You may request confirmation from the controller as to whether we process personal data concerning you.
Where such processing takes place, you may request the following information from the controller:
(1) the purposes for which the personal data is processed;
(2) the categories of personal data being processed;
(3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been or will be disclosed;
(4) the intended period for which the personal data concerning you will be stored or, where specific information is not possible, the criteria used to determine the retention period;
(5) the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of the personal data concerning you, a right to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing;
(6) the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
(7) all available information regarding the source of the data, where the personal data was not collected from the data subject;
(8) the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in such cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the intended consequences of such processing for the data subject.
You have the right to request information as to whether personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. In this context, you may request information about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR relating to the transfer.

2. Right to rectification

You have the right to rectification and/or completion by the controller if the processed personal data concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must make the correction without undue delay.

3. Right to restriction of processing

You may request that the processing of personal data concerning you be restricted under the following conditions:
(1) if you dispute the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period that enables the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) if the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of its use instead;
(3) if the controller no longer requires the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
(4) if you have objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and it has not yet been determined whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override your grounds.
Where the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, such data may, apart from being stored, be processed only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.
If processing has been restricted under the conditions stated above, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.

4. Right to erasure
5. a) Obligation to Erase Data
   You may request that the controller erase personal data concerning you without undue delay, and the controller is obliged to erase such data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:
   (1) The personal data concerning you is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
   (2) You withdraw the consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
   
   (3) You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR.
   (4) The personal data concerning you has been processed unlawfully.
   (5) The personal data concerning you must be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation under European Union law or the law of a Member State to which the controller is subject.
   (6) The personal data concerning you was collected in relation to the offer of information society services pursuant to Article 8(1) GDPR.
6. b) Information Provided to Third Parties
   Where the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged to erase it pursuant to Article 17(1) GDPR, the controller shall, taking account of the available technology and the cost of implementation, take reasonable measures, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested the erasure of any links to, or copies or replications of, that personal data.
7. c) Exceptions
   The right to erasure does not apply where processing is necessary:
   (1) for exercising the right to freedom of expression and information;
   (2) for compliance with a legal obligation that requires processing under European Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
   (3) for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) GDPR;
   (4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR, insofar as the right referred to in section a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or
   (5) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
8. Right to information

If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of such rectification, erasure or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
You have the right to be informed by the controller about those recipients.

6. Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to the controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data was provided, provided that:
(1) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR; and
(2) the processing is carried out by automated means.
In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. This must not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
The right to data portability does not apply to processing of personal data that is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

7. Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you that is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on those provisions.
The controller shall no longer process the personal data concerning you unless the controller can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Where personal data concerning you is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.
Widersprechen Sie der Verarbeitung für Zwecke der Direktwerbung, so werden die Sie betreffenden personenbezogenen Daten nicht mehr für diese Zwecke verarbeitet.
In connection with the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

8. Right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law

You have the right to withdraw your data protection consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of that consent before its withdrawal.

9. Automated decision in individual cases including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply where the decision:
(1) is necessary for entering into or performing a contract between you and the controller;
(2) is authorised by European Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, and that law provides suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms and legitimate interests; or
(3) is based on your explicit consent.
However, such decisions may not be based on special categories of personal data referred to in Article 9(1) GDPR unless Article 9(2)(a) or (g) applies and suitable measures have been taken to safeguard your rights, freedoms and legitimate interests.
In the cases referred to in points (1) and (3), the controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms and legitimate interests. These measures shall include, at a minimum, the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.

10. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR.
The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the progress and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Article 78 GDPR.

Controller Responsible for Data Processing:
Lindenmann GmbH & Co. KG
Lochäckerstr. 13
75177 Pforzheim
Germany
Telephone: +49 72 31 13 99 69-0
Email: info@lindenmann.com

This Privacy Policy was created and is continuously updated by janolaw AG.