Data Protection Declaration

The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in the member states of the European Union, and other provisions of a data protection nature is:

DTG GmbH Development & Technology
Grabenstr. 70
52382 Niederzier
Germany

Managing Director: Rudolf Hannot, Ph.D. in Engineering

1. Data protection at a glance

General notice

In the following, an overview will be provided as to what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is all data that could lead to the identification of your person. For detailed information on data protection please refer to the following Data Protection Declaration.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the collection of data on this website?
The processing of data on this website is executed by the website operator. The operator‘s contact details are stated in the website’s imprint.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is on the one hand collected by information provided by yourself, e.g. data that you enter in a contact form.

Other data is automatically registered by our IT systems when you visit our website. This mainly refers to technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system, time of website visit). This data is automatically collected as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Part of your data is collected to enable the website’s trouble-free availability. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What are your rights regarding your data?
You are entitled to receive information on origin, recipient and purpose of your personal data saved, free of charge and at any time. You have furthermore the right to demand the correction, blocking or deletion of your personal data. If you have questions regarding data protection, please contact us using the address stated in the imprint of our website. Apart from this, you may file a complaint with the competent authority.

Analysis tools and tools of third-party providers
When visiting our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is primarily done by means of cookies and so-called analysis programs. Your surfing behavior is usually analyzed anonymously; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You may object to this analysis or inhibit it by not using certain tools. Please refer to the section “Third-party modules and analysis tools“ of this data protection declaration.

You can object to this analysis. Please find further information on how to do this in this data protection declaration.

2. General and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection laws and this data protection declaration.

When you visit this website, different personal data will be collected. Personal data is all data that could lead to the identification of your person. This data protection declaration explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for which purpose data is collected.

We point out that the transfer of data on the Internet (such as email communication) could have security gaps. A complete protection of data against interception by third parties is not possible.

Information on the responsible entity

Please refer to our contact details in the imprint of this website for information on the responsible entity.

The responsible entity is the natural or legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing procedures require your explicit consent. You can withdraw your consent once given at any time. An informal email message sent to us is sufficient. The legality of the processing of data prior to the withdrawal will not be affected.

Right to file a complaint with the competent authority

In the case of violations against data protection laws, the user affected has the right to file a complaint with the competent authority. In Germany, the competent authority for questions related to data protection is the data protection commissioner (Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter) of the federal state where our company has its headquarters. You find a list of data protection commissioners and their contact details here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to obtain data that we automatically processed based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, or have data sent to a third party, in a common machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to a third party, we will only comply with your request if the transfer is technically feasible.

SSL resp. TLS encryption

This website uses SSL resp. TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of confidential content transmitted, such as orders or requests that you sent to us as the operator of this website. An encrypted connection is to be recognized by the browser’s address line changing from “http://“ to “https://“ and containing a lock symbol.

With SSL resp. TLS encryption activated, data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

In the framework of valid legal regulations, you are entitled to receive information on origin, recipient and purpose of your personal data saved, free of charge and at any time. You might furthermore have the right to demand the correction, blocking or deletion of your personal data. If you have questions regarding data protection, please contact us using the address stated in the imprint of our website.

Objection to advertising emails

We hereby expressly object to the use of contact data stated in our imprint, which has been published in accordance with editorial requirements, for the transmission of advertising and information material that we did not expressly solicit. The operators of this site expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event that unrequested advertising material is received, e.g. in the form of spam mails.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Many websites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause harm to your computer nor do they contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files downloaded onto your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so called “session cookies“. They are automatically deleted when you leave our site. Other cookies remain on your computer until you actively delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser when you visit our website again.

You can set your browser in a way that you are notified about the storage of cookies; that cookies are only accepted in specific cases; that in certain cases or generally cookies will not be accepted; that cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may restrict the functionality of our website.

Cookies that are needed for the performance of electronic communication processes or for the provision of certain functions required by you (e. g. the shopping cart) are saved on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a justified interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of services. If other cookies are stored (e.g. to analyze your surfing behavior), this data protection declaration will address this point specifically.

Server log files

The operator of this website automatically collects and saves information that your browser is automatically transmitting to us in so-called log files. This refers to:

The processing of data is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, permitting the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact form

When you send us a request via our contact form, the information contained in the form including the contact data you provided will be saved for processing the request and for the case that further questions arise. We will not divulge this data without your consent.

The data entered in the contact form is thus exclusively processed on the basis of your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal email message sent to us is sufficient. The legality of the processing of data prior to the withdrawal will not be affected.

The data entered in the contact form remains with us until you request the deletion, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose of storage has ceased to exist (e.g. after completed processing of your request). Mandatory legal provisions – particularly retention periods – remain unaffected.

Comment function on this website

If you use this site’s comment function, apart from the comment itself, information on the time the comment was made, your email address and, if the post was not made anonymously, the user name you chose will be stored.

Storage of IP address

Our comment function stores the IP addresses of users posting comments. As we do not check comments on our site before their release, we need this data to take legal action against the author in the case of legal violations such as offences or propaganda.

Processing of data (customer and contractual data)

We collect, process and use personal data only if required for the justification, the content-related design or changes to the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, permitting the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We only collect, process and use personal data about the utilization of our website (utilization data) if required for purposes of making use of our services and invoicing.

The data stored is deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relation. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.