Kögel Company

WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY

PRIVACY STATEMENT

1. Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the controller.

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data refers to any data that can personally identify you.

The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is KÖGEL Verwaltungs-GmbH, Max-Stromeyer-Str. 116, 78467 Konstanz, Germany, Email: office@koegel.company. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., inquiries or orders to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string 'https://' and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2. Data collection when visiting our website

When using our website for purely informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called 'server log files'). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website:

  • Our visited website
  • Date and time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/referrer from which you came to the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not transferred or otherwise used. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

3. Cookies

In order to make visiting our website more attractive and enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). When cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie.

In some cases, the cookies serve to simplify the ordering process by storing settings (e.g., remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website). If personal data is also processed by individual cookies we use, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR either for the execution of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

We may work with advertising partners who help us make our internet offering more interesting for you. For this purpose, in the event of your visit to our website, cookies from partner companies may also be stored on your hard drive (third-party cookies). If we cooperate with such advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected within the paragraphs below.

Please note that you can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how to change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers at the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

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4. Contacting Us

When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. The specific data collected in the case of a contact form can be seen in the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your inquiry, provided the circumstances indicate that the matter has been fully resolved and no statutory retention obligations oppose this.

Rights of the Data Subject

The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) with regard to the processing of your personal data by the controller, which we inform you about below:

Right of Access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have the right to obtain information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if not collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended impact of such processing, as well as your right to be informed about the safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries;

Right to Rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR: You have the right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and/or the completion of your incomplete data stored by us;

Right to Erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if the conditions of Art. 17(1) GDPR are met. However, this right does not exist, in particular, if processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims;

Right to Restriction of Processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data as long as the accuracy of your data disputed by you is being verified, if you refuse the deletion of your data due to unlawful data processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data, if you require your data to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims after we no longer need this data once the purpose has been achieved, or if you have lodged an objection based on your particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons outweigh yours;

Right to Notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR: If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.

Right to Data Portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or to request the transmission to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible;

Right to Withdraw Consent pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR: You have the right to withdraw any consent given for the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of a withdrawal, we will delete the data concerned without delay, provided that further processing cannot be based on a legal ground allowing processing without consent. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;

Right to Lodge a Complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right – without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy – to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or the location of the alleged infringement.

5. Right to Object

If we process your personal data on the basis of our overriding legitimate interest in the context of a balancing of interests, you have the right to object to this processing with effect for the future at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. However, further processing remains reserved if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If your personal data is processed by us for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising. You can exercise the objection as described above.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned for direct marketing purposes.

 

6. Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and – if applicable – by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax law retention periods).

When processing personal data on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject withdraws their consent.

If there are statutory retention periods for data processed in the context of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the expiry of the retention periods, provided it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of the contract and/or we have no legitimate interest in further storage.

When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

When processing personal data for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the specific information of this statement regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

KÖGEL Verwaltungs-GmbH
Max-Stromeyer-Str. 116
78467 Konstanz
Germany

Mail: office@koegel.company
Register Court: Stuttgart District Court
Registration Number: HRB 240 847
Managing Shareholder: Jens C. Kögel

EU Commission's platform for online dispute resolution: https://ec.europa.eu/odr https://ec.europa.eu/odr
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.