Schüco Data protection General Data Protection Information Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in our company. Schüco International KG takes the protection of personal information very seriously. For this reason we pay close attention to this aspect of our internet activity. Our data protection provisions are in line with the corresponding legal provisions on the protection of personal data, in particular the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) and the German Telecommunications Act (Telemediengesetz). The following data protection advice is intended to give you the best possible overview of how we use your data. In the course of further developing our website it may be necessary to make changes to our data protection advice. Therefore, we recommend that you read through this advice periodically. Declaration of consent Conditions of use and licence conditions Collection of your personal data When you visit our webpages, we generally do not require any personal data from you. The following information is registered solely for statistical analysis: the name of your Internet Service Provider; the webpage you accessed immediately prior to visiting us; which of our webpages you visit; as well as the duration and date of the visit. As an internet user you will remain anonymous. You will always be asked explicitly if we require information which could be used to identify you personally (personal information) or to contact you. The information enables you to access a service or carry out a transaction. This could concern information about Schüco products and services; participation in a competition, subscription to a newsletter; a specialist service from Schüco; registration for an event or training course; downloading/ordering Schüco products; and/or information relating to any of the above. The personal information collected by us could be your name, company, business email address, telephone number or address. Note: Persons under the age of 18 must not provide us with any personal information without permission from a parent or guardian. We do not request any personal information from children or young people. We do not knowingly collect this type of information and also do not pass it onto third parties. Use of your personal data The personal data collected on this website is used exclusively to operate the website and to provide services or information requested or allowed by you. If we use your personal data to provide you with information about Schüco products used by or of interest to you, then we do so only with your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time. In addition, we may also (of course only with your explicit consent) forward information to Schüco partners where appropriate, so that they can send you information you have requested about Schüco products. Occasionally, Schüco contracts other companies to provide a limited range of services for Schüco. These services may include website hosting, answers to customer queries about products and services, sending information about Schüco products, special promotions etc. However, these companies are only given the information they need to provide the relevant services. They are obliged to treat your information as confidential and are not authorised to use the information for any other purpose. Checking your personal data Personal data that you enter onto the Schüco website will not be forwarded without your permission, unless we are legally obliged to do so. You can conveniently contact us by email at any time at service@schueco.com to view the content of your declaration of consent or the data that we have saved about you. You can make amendments to this data or withdraw your consent on data use without incurring transfer fees at a rate higher than the basic tariffs. You can unsubscribe to the newsletter at any time by using the link at the end of each newsletter. Of course, you can also write to Schüco at: Schüco International KG, Karolinenstr. 1-15, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany. Upon your request, we are obliged to amend, block or delete any saved personal data about you, as long as other legal provisions to do not prevent this. Should you choose to withdraw your consent to data use, we can no longer offer you any services for which we require your personal data. Cookies In order to manage the Schüco website effectively and to improve navigation, we or our service provider(s) use so-called cookies (small text files which are sent to the user's browser) to collect abstract usage data. We use cookies to find out user data such as their IP address, domain, browser type and pages visited on our website. The information collected is forwarded to our webmaster to ensure that our website remains a useful and effective source of information. There are no circumstances under which this data can be used to identify you personally. Most browsers now accept cookies automatically. You can, of course, view our website without cookies. All modern browsers offer various optional settings for this. If you don't accept cookies however, this can reduce the functionality of our service. Links to other websites On the Schüco website, there are links to other companies’ websites. Schüco International KG is not responsible for their content and data protection strategies. Security policy We endeavour to comprehensively protect the data saved by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or other access by unauthorised persons. For this purpose we use generally accepted technical security standards. We constantly improve our security measures in line with technological developments. February 2013 © 2021 Schüco International Imprint Data protection