Datenschutz

Data protection
We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our products and services. The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us. Therefore, please take note of the following information:

1. Name and contact details of the controller
This privacy policy provides information about the processing of personal data on the steinhart.de website

Controller: Gebr. Steinhart Wachswarenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, represented by Mr Peter Steinhart, Buchstr. 20, 86381 Krumbach, phone: 08282/899-0, info@steinhart.de

2. Data protection principles of this website and definition of terms
Anonymous data is data that cannot be used to identify you personally. The evaluation of anonymous data serves, for example, to analyse the habits of our users in order to make our offer more user-friendly and to adapt it to the wishes and needs of our users (e.g. number of page views, usage statistics, etc.).

Personal data is information that makes it possible to identify a person. This includes, in particular, name, date of birth, address and telephone number. If you provide personal data on our website, it will only be used with your consent and only for the purpose stated on the respective page (e.g. ordering services, etc.)

You have the option to withdraw your consent at any time. We do not pass on any personal data to third parties. If personal data has to be collected in order to provide our services (e.g. ordering), it will be deleted immediately after the service has been provided.

If you call up pages and files within this offer and are requested to enter personal data, please note that this data transmission via the Internet is unsecured and the data can therefore be accessed or falsified by unauthorised persons

3. Notes on making contact
When communicating by e-mail, complete data security cannot be guaranteed, so we recommend that you send confidential information by post. The employees and the service companies commissioned by the company are obliged by the company to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act and other professional data protection regulations

SSL and TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. This means that data that you transmit via this website cannot be read by third parties. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the ‘https://’ address line of your browser and the lock symbol in the browser line.

4. Contact form
If you contact us with questions of any kind by e-mail or contact form, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting us. A valid e-mail address is required for this purpose. This is used to allocate the enquiry and subsequently answer it. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for possible follow-up questions. After your enquiry has been dealt with, your personal data will be automatically deleted

5. Accessing the website
When the website www.steinhart.de is accessed, the Internet browser used by the visitor automatically sends data to the server of this website and stores it in a log file (Apache access logs) for a limited period of time. Until automatic deletion after three days, the following data is stored without further input from the visitor:

-IP address of the visitor's end device
-Date and time of access by the visitor
-Name and URL of the page accessed by the visitor
-Website from which the visitor accesses the website (so-called referrer URL)
-Access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.)
-browser and operating system of the visitor's end device and the name of the access provider used by the visitor
-Amount of data transferred

The processing of this personal data is justified in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f) GDPR. The company has a legitimate interest in data processing for the purpose of

-to establish the connection to the company's website quickly
to enable user-friendly use of the website
-recognising and ensuring the security and stability of the systems, and
-to facilitate and improve the administration of the website.

The processing is expressly not carried out for the purpose of gaining knowledge about the person visiting the website.

6. Transfer of data

Personal data will only be transferred to third parties if
disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f) GDPR is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that the data subject has an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of their data,
-for the transfer of data pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) GDPR there is a legal obligation, and/or
-this is necessary for the fulfilment of a contractual relationship with the data subject in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter b) GDPR.

In other cases, personal data will not be passed on to third parties.

7. Privacy policy for online applications
Thank you for your interest in our online job advertisement. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We therefore inform you below about the collection, processing and use of your data as part of the online application in accordance with the relevant data protection regulations.

Data collection
In the course of your online application, we collect and process the following personal application data from you: 1. surname, first name 2. address 3. telephone number 4. e-mail 5. application documents (letter of application, CV, references, certificates, etc.)

Purpose of data collection / disclosure
Your personal application data is collected and processed exclusively for the purpose of filling vacancies within our company. As a matter of principle, your data will only be forwarded to the internal departments and specialist departments of our company responsible for the specific application procedure. Your application data will not be used for any other purpose or passed on to third parties.

Retention period of the application data
Your personal application data will generally be deleted automatically three months after the application process has been completed. This does not apply if statutory provisions prevent deletion, if further storage is necessary for the purpose of providing evidence or if you have expressly consented to longer storage.

Storage for future job advertisements
If we are unable to offer you a current vacancy but, based on your profile, we believe that your application may be of interest for future vacancies, we will store your personal application data for twelve months, provided that you expressly consent to such storage and use.

Data security
We have taken various technical and organisational precautions to protect the data collected as part of your application from manipulation and unauthorised access. In particular, the transmission of your online application is encrypted in accordance with the currently recognised state of the art.

Right to information and cancellation
If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or in cases of information, correction or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consents granted, please contact us.

8. Cookies
Cookies are used on the website. These are data packets that are exchanged between the website server and the visitor's browser. These are stored by the devices used (PC, notebook, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit the website. In this respect, cookies cannot cause any damage to the devices used. In particular, they do not contain viruses or other malware. Information is stored in the cookies that results in each case in connection with the specific end device used. Under no circumstances can the company obtain direct knowledge of the identity of the visitor to the website.

Cookies are largely accepted according to the basic browser settings. The browser settings can be configured in such a way that cookies are either not accepted on the devices used or that a special message is displayed before a new cookie is created. By changing your browser settings (usually found under ‘Options’ or ‘Settings’ in the browser menus), you have the choice of accepting all cookies, being informed when a cookie is set or rejecting all cookies.

However, we would like to point out that deactivating cookies may mean that not all functions of the website can be used in the best possible way.

The use of cookies serves to make the use of the company's website more convenient. For example, session cookies can be used to track whether the visitor has already visited individual pages of the website. After leaving the website, these session cookies are automatically deleted.

Temporary cookies are used to improve user-friendliness. They are stored on the visitor's device for a temporary period. When the website is visited again, it is automatically recognised that the visitor has already visited the site at an earlier time and which entries and settings were made so that they do not have to be repeated.

Cookies are also used to analyse visits to the website for statistical purposes and to improve the service. These cookies make it possible to automatically recognise that the website has already been accessed by the visitor on a subsequent visit. The cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time.

The data processed by cookies is justified for the above-mentioned purposes to safeguard the legitimate interests of the company in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f) GDPR.

Google Analytics

Our website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of the web analysis service is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses ‘’cookies.‘’ These are small text files that your web browser stores on your end device and enable website usage to be analysed. Information generated by cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. The server location is usually the USA.

Google Analytics cookies are set on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise our website and, if necessary, advertising.

IP anonymisation
We use Google Analytics in conjunction with the IP anonymisation function. It ensures that Google truncates your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmitting it to the USA. There may be exceptional cases in which Google transmits the full IP address to a server in the USA and truncates it there. Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser plugin

The setting of cookies by your web browser can be prevented. However, this may restrict some of the functions of our website. You can also prevent the collection of data relating to your website use, including your IP address and subsequent processing by Google. You can do this by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Objection to the collection of data

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link: Deactivate Google Analytics

An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the collection of your data on future visits to our website.

Details on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=

9 Use of third-party content on our website

Our website contains services or links to the following third-party providers:

Google Maps
We use Google Maps on our website to display our location and to provide directions. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as ‘Google’.

Through certification in accordance with the EU-US Privacy Shield, Google guarantees that the data protection requirements of the EU are also complied with when processing data in the USA.

In order to enable the display of certain fonts on our website, a connection to the Google server in the USA is established when our website is accessed.

If you call up the Google Maps component integrated into our website, Google stores a cookie on your end device via your Internet browser. Your user settings and data are processed in order to display our location and provide directions. We cannot rule out the possibility that Google uses servers in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimising the functionality of our website.

The connection to Google established in this way enables Google to determine from which website your enquiry has been sent and to which IP address the directions are to be transmitted.

If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. Details on this can be found above under ‘Cookies’.

In addition, the use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is subject to the Google Terms of Use and the Terms and Conditions for Google Maps.

In addition, Google offers at
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
https://policies.google.com/privacy
for further information