Data protection statement
§ 1 Collection, processing and use of personal data
1.1 In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, for example name, address, e-mail address, user behavior.
1.2. The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is MOTOMETER GmbH
MOTOMETER GmbH
Hanauer Straße 15
75181 Pforzheim
Germany
Phone: +49 7231/4707-500
E-Mail: info@motometer.de
1.3 When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.
1.4 If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes.
§ 2 Collection of personal data when visiting our website
2.1 When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server.
- IP address,
- Date and time of the request,
- Time zone different from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
- Content of the request (specific page),
- Access status / http status code,
- amount of data transferred in each case,
- Website from which the request originates,
- Browser, operating system and its interface,
- language and version of the browser software.
2.2 In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet more user-friendly and effective overall.
2.3 Use of Cookies:
a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:
– Transient Cookies (see b)
– Persistent Cookies (see c )
b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include seasonal cookies in particular. These stare a so-called season ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The seasonal cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.
d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wisher ans, for example, refuses to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.
§ 3 Further functions and offers of our website
3.1 In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you must generally provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
3.2 In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.
3.3 Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if contracts or similar services are offered by us together with partners. You will receive more detailed information on this when you provide your personal data or in the description of the offer below.
3.4 If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.
§ 4 Your rights
4.1 You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to your personal data:
- Right to information,
- Right to rectification or erasure,
- Right to restriction of processing,
- Right to object to processing,
- Right to data portability.
4.2 You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
§ 5 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data
5.1 If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can withdraw it at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us.
5.2 Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if, in particular, the processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the function. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and will either discontinue or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing.
5.3 Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. No further information is required for this. You can inform us of your objection to advertising using the following contact details:
MOTOMETER GmbH
Hanauer Straße 15
75181 Pforzheim
Germany
Phone: +49 7231/4707-500
E-Mail: info@motometer.de
§ 6 Use of our webshop
6.1 If you wish to place an order in our webshop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we require for the processing of your order. Mandatory information required for the processing of contracts is marked separately, further information is optional. We process the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we may forward your payment data to your bank. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. You can voluntarily create a customer account, which allows us to save your data for future purchases. When you create an account under “My account”, the data you provide will be stored on a revocable basis.
We may also process the data you provide in order to inform you about other interesting products in our portfolio or to send you e-mails with technical information.
6.2 Due to commercial and tax law requirements, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. However, we restrict processing after 2 years, i.e. your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations.
6.3 To prevent unauthorized access by third parties to your personal data, in particular financial data, the order process is encrypted using TLS technology. This is the recognized standard in the network. Such TLS encryption must therefore always be provided.
§ 7 Newsletter-dispatch
7.1 With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you about our current interesting offers. The advertised goods and services are named in the declaration of consent.
7.2 We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to subscribe to our newsletter. This means that after you have registered, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address you have provided in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store the IP addresses you use and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.
7.3 The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we will save your e-mail address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.
7.4 You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare your revocation by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail, by e-mail to newsletter@motometer.de or by sending a message to the contact details given in the imprint.
You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on our website under “UNSUBSCRIBE FROM NEWSLETTER”.
We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. For this analysis, the emails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel image files stored on our website. For the evaluations, we link the data mentioned in § 2 and the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID. Links received in the newsletter also receive this ID. We use the data obtained in this way to create a user profile in order to tailor the newsletter to your individual interests. In doing so, we record when you read our newsletter, which links you click on in it and deduce your personal interests from this. We link this data to the actions you take on our website.
You can object to this tracking at any time by clicking on the separate link provided in each email or by informing us via another contact channel. The information will be stored for as long as you are subscribed to the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we store the data purely statistically and anonymously.
§ 8 Use of Google Analytics
8.1 This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
8.2 The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
8.3 You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
8.4 This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. This means that IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, so that they cannot be linked to a specific person. If the data collected about you is personally identifiable, it is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted immediately.
8.5 We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacy-shield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
8.6 You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics
8.7 Information from the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. User conditions: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Overview of data protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and the privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
