PRIVACY STATEMENT

of the company Tacke + Lindemann -GmbH, Beratgerstraße 31-33, 44149 Dortmund, Germany.

We consider your trust and the correct handling of your data as a key element in the success of our online offer. That is why we attach great importance to data protection. The collection, processing (recording, alteration, transmission, blocking or erasure) and use of your data take place exclusively in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, the German Telemedia Act, the German Federal Data Protection Act and above all the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

It is possible to use our website without providing personal data. If you make use of our offers and services, however, we need to process your personal data. This concerns predominantly creating customer accounts in order to process your requests, e.g. orders, and improve our offers and services. Data are deemed personal when they can be uniquely attributed to a specific natural person. The legal acts underlying data protection are the GDPR, the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telemedia Act. The following regulations provide information in this respect about the manner, extent and purpose of the collection, use and processing of personal data by the service provider.

Tacke + Lindemann GmbH
Beratgerstraße 31-33
44149 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 (0)231 17777-0
E-Mail: dsb@tacke-lindemann.de

Tacke + Lindemann implements extensive technical and organisational measures in order to ensure the greatest possible protection of your data. Among others, Tacke + Lindemann uses standardised SSL encryption with regard to both incoming and outgoing connections. This way, according to the current state of technical knowledge, sensitive data cannot be sent or received as readable text. These efforts notwithstanding, we would like to point out that Internet-based data transmission has security gaps. Therefore, a complete protection against access by third parties is not possible. Furthermore, we reserve the right to adjust the content of these data protection notices from time to time. That is why we recommend that you make yourself familiar with the relevant information at regular intervals. Should you have any further questions to Tacke + Lindemann with regard to data protection or wish to exercise your rights related to data protection (see below), do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer.

Tacke + Lindemann GmbH
Beratgerstraße 31-33
44149 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 (0)231 17777-0
E-Mail: dsb@tacke-lindemann.de

1. Server data

The following data transmitted to us or our webspace provider by your Internet browser (the “server log files”) are collected for technical reasons:

1. - browser type and version
  - operating system
  - previously visited website (referrer URL)
  - website you are visiting
  - date and time of your access
  - your Internet Protocol (IP) address

These anonymous data are recorded separately from any personal data you might provide and thus cannot be identified with any specific person. They are analysed for statistical purposes so that we can optimise our online presence and our services.

2. Recording Function

You have the option to register on our website. The data you provide in the course of registration in the registration form:

1. - business or private customer
  - address (sex)
  - first name
  - last name
  - e-mail address
  - password
  - date of birth
  - street address
  - postcode
  - place of residence
  - country

are collected and recorded exclusively for the purposes of enabling you to use our services. The data are transferred to third parties in so far as it is necessary to process the requests taking into account the legitimate interests. The data collected in this manner are not aligned with data which might be collected by other components of our website.

3. Cookies

Our website (www.tacke-lindemann.de/en) employs the so-called cookies to recognise multiple uses of our services by the same user/owner of the Internet connection. Cookies are small text files that are filed and stored by your Internet browser on your computer. They are used to optimise our Internet presence and our services. These are called “session cookies” that are deleted after the end of your session.
However, they also provide information which allows the website to recognise you automatically. This recognition is enabled by your IP address included in the cookies. The information thus obtained is used to optimise our services and improve your access to our website.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting appropriate settings in your browser. However, please be advised that if you do that, you might not be able to fully use all the functions offered by our website.

4. Newsletter

You may subscribe to our newsletter on our website. In order to mail our newsletter, we apply the Double Opt-In procedure. It means that you receive our newsletter by email only after you have confirmed that you want to activate the newsletter service. For this purpose, we send a relevant email to the email address you provide. You confirm that you wish to receive our newsletter only by clicking on the link contained in the email. We use the newsletter to inform you of our offers at regular intervals. In order to get our newsletter, you need to have an active email account. We will verify whether the email address you provided indeed belongs to you or whether its owner has been authorised to receive the newsletter. When you subscribe to our newsletter, we record your IP address and the date and time of your subscription. It serves as safeguard for the event that a third party uses your email address without authorisation and subscribes to our newsletter without your knowledge. We do not collect any further data. The data collected by us in this manner are used exclusively in connection with our newsletter. The data are not transferred to any third parties. Moreover, the data collected in this manner are not aligned with data which might be collected by other components of our website. You may at any time cancel the subscription to the newsletter. Relevant details are included in the confirmation email and in each newsletter.

5. Contact

You can contact us by email or by using the contact form available on the website. In this case, the data provided by the user are recorded for the purpose of processing their message. The data are not transferred to any third parties. Moreover, the data collected in this manner are not aligned with data which might be collected by other components of our website.

6. Posting Comments

You can post comments concerning individual articles, services, products etc. on our website. For this purpose, the IP address of the author/owner of the connection is recorded. It is done for the purpose of our security in case the author violates third-party rights with their comment or the comment contains illegal content. Thus, it is in our interest to record the author’s data, especially since we could be potentially prosecuted on account of such a violation. The data are not transferred to any third parties. Moreover, the data collected in this manner are not aligned with data which might be collected by other components of our website.

7. Transfer of Personal Data, Credit Check, Delivery

In order to perform your order, we transfer some of your data to service providers, e.g. payment providers, suppliers, logistics service providers, call centres, providers of hosted software solutions and IT service providers. The service providers are almost exclusively seated in the EU or process your data exclusively in the EU. The exceptions are listed below.
If we provide a service in advance, e.g. in case of a purchase on account, in order to protect our legitimate interests, we might obtain a credit report from a credit agency based on mathematical and statistical procedures. For this purpose, we transfer the necessary personal data required for a credit check to the credit agency and use the obtained information on the statistical probability of a payment default to make a carefully considered decision whether to enter into, execute or terminate the contractual relationship. We can inform you what credit agencies we cooperate with upon your request.

8. Trusted Shops

Our website uses the Trusted Shops trustbadge to display our Trusted Shops quality seal and, as appropriate, the aggregated rankings as well as the offer of Trusted Shops products to our customers following an order. It is done for the purposes of our legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal marketing of our products, which was deemed overriding in the course of a balancing of interests. The trustbadge and the services it advertises are offered by Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15C, 50823 Cologne.
When the trustbadge is viewed, the web server automatically records the server log file, which contains e.g. your IP address, date and time of access, the volume of data transferred and the provider who submits the query (access data), and thus documents the access. These access data are not analysed and are automatically overwritten at the latest seven (7) days after you have visited our website. Other personal data are transferred exclusively to the Trusted Shops, provided that you have decided to use the Trusted Shops products or have already registered to use such products after you have placed your order. In this case, you have entered into a contract with the Trusted Shops.

9. Use of Google Analytics with Anonymisation Function

Our website employs Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”. Google Analytics employs the so-called “cookies”, text files which are saved to your computer and thus enable an analysis of data concerning your website usage.
The information provided by cookies, for instance the time, place and frequency of your visits to the website, including your IP address, is transferred to Google in the USA and recorded there. We use Google Analytics with the IP Anonymisation Function on our website. Google removes part of your IP address and thus renders it anonymous already within the territory of the EU member states or other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Google uses this information to analyse your usage of our website, prepare reports on the website activity for us and provide services related to Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
According to information provided by Google, it will never use your IP address in connection with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, please be advised that if you do that, you may not be able to make fully use all the functions offered by our website.
In addition, Google provides an opt-out option for the most popular browsers which gives you more control over what data are collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information on your website visits will be transferred to Google Analytics. Yet the activation does not prevent information from being transferred to us or other employed web analysis services, as the case may be. You can find more information on the opt-out option provided by Google and on its activation if you follow this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

10. Use of Google+ Recommendations

Our website employs the +1 button from Google+ owned by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.
Each time our website receives an access request including a “+1” component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from Google. In the course of this process, Google is informed which page of our website is being visited. According to the information provided by Google, your visit undergoes additional analysis in the event that you are not logged into your Google account.
If you access our website while logged into your Google account and press the “+1” button, Google can collect information about your Google account, the websites you recommend as well as your IP address along with other browser-related information.
This allows your “+1” recommendation to be stored and publicised. Thus, your Google “+1” recommendation can appear as a reference in other Google services, such as search results, your Google account or other places, e.g. on websites and in online ads, along with your account name and, if applicable, the picture you provided to Google. Moreover, Google can link your visit to our website with your data stored by Google. In addition, Google records this information for the purpose of improving Google services.
If you wish to ensure that Google collects as little information as possible, you need to log out of your Google account before visiting our website.
You can access Google’s data protection notice concerning the “+1” button together with all relevant information on the collection, transfer and use of data by Google, your related rights and your profile settings options, if you follow this link: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.

11. Use of Facebook Components

Our website employs the so-called social plugins (hereinafter “plugins”) of the social network Facebook, a service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (hereinafter “Facebook”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition “Facebook Social Plugin” or “Soziales Plug-in von Facebook”. You can find an overview of Facebook plugins and their appearance, if you follow this link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins. When you access a page of our website which contains such a plugin, your browser connects directly to Facebook’s servers. Facebook transfers the content of the plugin directly to your browser and the page. Thus, Facebook is notified of your access to the relevant page of our website through the browser even if you have no Facebook account or if you are not logged into your Facebook account at the moment. This information (including your IP address) is transferred directly to a Facebook server in the USA and recorded there. If you are logged in to your Facebook account, Facebook can connect the visit to our website directly with your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for instance you press the “Like” button or leave a comment, this information is likewise transferred directly to a Facebook server and recorded there. In addition, the information is published on your Facebook profile and displayed to your Facebook friends. You can find out about the purpose and extent of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your related rights and settings options to protect your privacy from Facebook’s data protection notice: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to connect the data collected via our website directly with your Facebook account, you need to log out of your Facebook account before accessing our website. Moreover, you can completely prevent Facebook plugins from
loading with browser add-ons, for instance “Facebook Blocker” (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/).).

12. Use of Google Remarketing

Our website employs the Google Remarketing service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”. Google Remarketing renders it possible to display ads to a user who has visited our website in the past. As a result, advertisements that reflect your interests can be displayed on our website to you within the Google advertising network. Google Remarketing uses cookies for the purpose of its analysis. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of the website usage. This makes it possible to recognise our visitors as soon as they access websites within the Google advertising network. Thus, advertisements can be displayed within the Google advertising network based on content that the user accessed previously on the websites of the Google network which likewise employ Google Remarketing. According to information provided by Google, this process does not involve collecting personal data. You can deactivate this function by making use of appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

13. Use of YouTube

Some of our pages contain links to YouTube videos and, in rare cases, the so-called embedded YouTube videos. YouTube is a service from Google Inc. You can find out about the purpose and extent of data collection and data use by Google as well as your rights and protection option settings for YouTube clients at Datenschutzhinweisen von Google/YouTube..

14. Use of Google AdWords

Our website employs the Google advertising solution “Google AdWords”. This involves the use of the analysis service Conversion Tracking from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google”. If you access our website through a Google ad, a cookie is saved to your computer. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser files and stores on your computer. The so-called conversion cookies expire after thirty (30) days and do not serve to identify you personally. If you visit specific pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognise that you as a user have clicked on an ad placed by us with Google and have been redirected to our page.
The information retrieved by the conversion cookies allows Google to compile statistics of visits to our website. Thanks to them, we find out how many users in total clicked on our ad and which pages of our website were as a result accessed by each user. However, neither we nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive any information thanks to which we could identify users as specific persons.
You can prevent the installation of conversion cookies by means of a relevant setting in your browser, which either generally deactivates the automatic installation of cookies or specifically blocks only cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com”.
You can find the relevant data protection notice by Google if you follow the link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html.

15. Use of Affilinet Tracking Cookies

Our website employs Affilinet tracking cookies to accurately detect sales or leads. Cookies are small text files that are stored by your computer when you visit a website. The Affilinet tracking cookies do not record any personal data. They merely collect the identification number of the intermediary partner as well as the serial number of the advertising means that the website visitor has clicked on. These data are necessary for the purpose of processing payments between the website operator and the advertiser. The partner ID number is used in the event of a transaction for the purpose of calculating commission due to the intermediary partner.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we would like to point out that if you do that, you might not be able to make full use of all the functions offered by our website.

16. Display of Job Advertisements / Online Job Applications

We collect and process your application data for the purpose of carrying out the electronic application procedure. If your application results in the conclusion of an employment contract, we can save the data you have provided in your personal file for the purpose of the ordinary organisational and administrative procedure in compliance with the relevant provisions of the law.
The data that you have provided are erased automatically in the event that your application is rejected two (2) months after such rejection is announced. The above does not apply, if statutory provisions require the data to be stored for a longer period (e.g. in the event of the burden of proof under the General Law on Equal Treatment) or if you explicitly consent to a longer storage of the data in our database of contacts.

17. The Rights of the Data Subject (Including Access/Withdrawal/Erasure)

Pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation, you can approach us free of charge in matters of the collection, processing or use of your personal data as well as their rectification, blocking or erasure or withdrawal of your consent. Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to request access to your personal data (see Article 15), their rectification (see Article 16), erasure (see Article 17) or at least restriction of processing (see Article 18).
Furthermore, you have the right to data portability (see Article 20). Apart from that, you obviously have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time (Article 7) and to object to processing based on a balancing of legitimate interests (see Article 21(4) of the GDPR). Moreover, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Should you have any further questions concerning the collection, use and processing of your personal data or should you wish to exercise your right to access, rectification, blocking or erasure or withdraw your consent, please contact our data protection officer using the following contact details: Tacke + Lindemann GmbH
Beratgerstraße 31-33
44149 DortmundTel.: +49 (0)231 17777-0
E-Mail: dsb@tacke-lindemann.de

Stand: August 2021

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