We appreciate your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data during the collection, processing, and use of your data during your visit to our website is important to us.
1. Personal Data
Personal data refers to information that can be used to identify you personally. This includes your name, address, mailing address, and telephone number. Information that is not linked to your identity (such as the number of users visiting a website) is not considered personal data. You can generally use our online services without revealing your identity.
When you visit our website or use our services, the device you use automatically transmits log data (connection data) to our servers. This log data includes the IP address of the device used to access the website or service, the type of browser used, the previously visited webpage, your system configuration, and the date and time of access. IP addresses are stored only to the extent necessary for the provision of our services. Otherwise, they are deleted or anonymized. We store your IP address for a maximum of seven days to detect and prevent possible attacks.
When you request information, order e-books, or make other inquiries, we may ask for your name and other personal information. It is entirely your choice whether or not to provide this data. We store your information on specially protected servers located in Switzerland. Following an adequacy decision by the European Commission, Switzerland is recognized as providing a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. Therefore, data transfers from the EU to Switzerland are permitted under data protection regulations. Access to this data is restricted to a small number of authorized personnel responsible for technical, commercial, or editorial support of the content and servers.
If usage or traffic data is required to provide our services, it will be stored for a maximum of six months from the time it is collected. If the data is needed to comply with legal, statutory, or contractual retention obligations (e.g., for invoices), it will be retained beyond that period. However, such data will be locked and accessible only to a few authorized individuals using password-protected access.
Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct advertising (Article 21 GDPR)
If data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The respective legal basis on which processing is based can be found in this data protection declaration. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR).
If your personal data is processed in order to conduct direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct marketing purposes (objection in accordance with Art. 21 (2) GDPR).
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time at the address provided in the imprint. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:
- If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally need time to verify this. You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted while we verify your claim.
- If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
- If we no longer need your personal data, but you require it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted instead of deleted.
- If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, your interests must be weighed against ours. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data may – with the exception of its storage – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.
2. Disclosure of personal data to third parties
We use your personal information only for our own purposes. We will not share your data with third parties without your express consent. If we are required to do so by law or court order, we will transfer your data to authorized bodies.
3. Use of cookies
Internet cookies are small data packets that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies on our website. These cookies are necessary so that you can move freely around the website and use its features; this includes, among other things, access to secure areas of the website. Cookies are also necessary for technical reasons for the shopping cart to function when placing orders.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. However, you can deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser to notify you as soon as cookies are sent.
These are cookies that are used by the Worldsoft CMS, with which this website was created, depending on the modules used:
| User cookie | 365 days | Registered user |
| session_name | 15 min. | session |
| wslanguage | 15 min. | Selected language |
| install_language* | 15 min. | Language of the CMS installation |
| ws_delayedPopup_* | 1825 days | Show popup only once |
| wspollsvoterid | 30 days | Survey/only one answer possible |
| reseller_number | 90 days | Determination of the reseller |
| wsshopbasketid | 30 days | Shop module – shopping cart |
| wsvote_* | 15 min. | Voting module first-party |
4. Protection of minors
Children and persons under the age of 18 should not send us any personal data without the consent of their parents or guardians.
5. Links to other websites
Our online offering contains links to other websites. We have no influence on their operators’ compliance with data protection regulations.
6. CRM (Oasis) and newsletter
This website uses Oasis, a service provided by Worldsoft AG, Churerstrasse 158, 8808 Pfäffikon, Switzerland.
Oasis is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) that can be used to organize and analyze data.
If you submit your personal data to us via a web form, this data will be stored on the servers of Worldsoft AG in Switzerland. Following appropriate review, the EU Commission has certified that Switzerland has a level of data protection comparable to that required by EU law. Data transfer from the EU to Switzerland is permitted under data protection law. We have concluded a contract with Worldsoft for contract data processing.
Before submitting your data, we will inform you about our privacy policy. By submitting your data, you consent to our collection, processing, and use of your personal data within the framework of the legal regulations.
The purpose of use depends on the context in which your data is transmitted. Your data will be used for the purpose for which it was originally collected. Example: If you order a product on our website, your data will be used to create and send the invoice and for any follow-up queries.
Legal basis
Data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.
Data analysis by Oasis
Oasis allows us to categorize prospects and customers (so-called tagging). Address entries can be categorized by gender, personal preferences (e.g., vegetarian or non-vegetarian), or customer relationship (e.g., customer or potential customer).
Storage period
The data you provide with us will be stored until you revoke your consent. After revoking your consent, your data will be deleted from both our servers and the servers of Worldsoft AG. For more information, please refer to Worldsoft AG’s privacy policy at:
https://www.worldsoft.info/5765
Newsletter data
Oasis can be used, among other things, to organize and analyze the distribution of newsletters. The data you enter for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter is stored on the servers of Worldsoft AG.
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address or SMS phone number from you, as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address or phone number and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected or is collected only on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively to send the requested information and do not share it with third parties.
The data you enter for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored on the servers of Worldsoft AG.
The data entered into the newsletter registration form will be processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of your data, your email address, and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example, via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you provide us with for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you unsubscribe. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g., email addresses for the members’ area) will remain unaffected.
Data analysis by Oasis
When we send newsletters using Oasis, we can determine whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked.
Oasis also allows us to categorize newsletter recipients (so-called tagging). This allows us to categorize newsletter recipients based on factors such as gender, personal preferences (e.g., vegetarian or non-vegetarian), or customer relationship (e.g., customer or potential customer). This allows us to better tailor newsletters to the respective target groups.
If you do not want Oasis to analyze your data, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a link for this in every newsletter message.
Data that we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area, address details for invoicing) remain unaffected.
7. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website by users is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our website by users, to compile reports on activities within this website and to provide us with other services related to the use of this website and internet usage. Pseudonymous user profiles of users may be created from the processed data.
We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that the user’s IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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 shortened there. The IP address transmitted by the user’s browser is not merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to their use of the website and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .
Mobile users also have the option of opting out of cookies:
Deactivate Google Analytics
Further information on Google’s use of data for advertising purposes, settings and objection options can be found on Google’s websites: www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners/ (“How Google uses data when you use our partners’ websites or apps”), www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads (“How Google uses data for advertising purposes”), www.google.de/settings/ads (“Manage information that Google uses to show you ads”) and www.google.com/ads/preferences/ (“Determine which ads Google shows you”).
8. Social Media
We do not use social media plugins.
9. Plugins and tools
DISQUS – Comment Platform
This site uses the DISQUS platform for commenting on blog posts, for example. DISQUS is an online platform for sharing public comments, where users can log in and create profiles to participate in conversations with like-minded people and enjoy an interactive experience.
If you write comments on blog posts and create a profile for this purpose, you are using DISQUS. This means that your profile data and IP address will be transmitted to this company and stored on this company’s servers in the USA. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.
You can avoid this by not creating a user profile with DISQUS.
The DISQUS privacy information can be found here:
https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy
Google Web Fonts
This website uses so-called web fonts from Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, however, the browser you use does not connect to Google’s servers, but accesses Worldsoft’s servers in Switzerland. Google does not know that our website was accessed via your IP address. However, Worldsoft does know your IP address when you use the website. The handling of your IP address is described in point 1, paragraph 2 of this privacy policy.
The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offerings. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.
10. Contact
SZTechnik GmbH
Sorting and feeding technology
Schloßbergstr. 15
72108 Rottenburg am Neckar
Contact:
Sigrid Stoppel
Tel 0049 (0) 7472 / 98 845 – 0
Fax 0049 (0) 7472 / 98 845 – 25
Your data subject rights
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided:
- Information about your data stored by us and its processing,
- Correction of inaccurate personal data,
- Deletion of your data stored by us,
- Restriction of data processing if we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations,
- Objection to the processing of your data by us and
- Data portability, provided that you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us.
If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.
You can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you at any time. Your competent supervisory authority depends on the federal state or canton of your residence, work, or the alleged violation. A list of supervisory authorities with addresses for Germany (for the non-public sector) and Switzerland and Austria (European Data Protection Supervisor) can be found at:
www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.