Privacy policy.

Dear vis­i­tors of HOCH.REIN Website,

wel­come! For your secu­ri­ty and peace of mind dur­ing your vis­it, we wish to inform you of how we han­dle your data. The fol­low­ing Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy is intend­ed to inform you of how we man­age the col­lec­tion, use and pass­ing on of per­son­al data. The par­ty respon­si­ble for this web­site is hoch.rein GmbH.

1.   Usage Data
When you vis­it our web­site, so called “usage data” is stored on our web­serv­er. The data are stored as a record for sta­tis­ti­cal pur­pos­es, to improve the qual­i­ty of our web­site. This data set con­sists of 

  • The page from which the data was requested, 
  • The name of the data, 
  • The date and time of the request, 
  • The trans­ferred data quantity, 
  • The access sta­tus (data trans­ferred, data not found),
  • The descrip­tion of the type of the brows­er used, 
  • The IP-Address of the device from which the request came, minus the last three digits.
We use this infor­ma­tion to enable our web­site to be accessed, and to super­vise and admin­is­trate our sys­tems, to improve the lay­out of our web­site. The data is stored anony­mous­ly. There­fore, there is no means of cre­at­ing per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fi­able user pro­files with this data. Data about indi­vid­u­als or indi­vid­ual behav­iour is not col­lect­ed in this data set.

2.   Com­mu­ni­ca­tion by Email / Phone / Post / Con­tact Form

2.1. Pur­pose for the Data Pro­cess­ing / Legal Basis:
We treat all per­son­al data that we receive through your com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us via email, phone, post or through our con­tact form, con­fi­den­tial­ly. We will use your data sole­ly to process your request. The legal basis for this pro­cess­ing is Art 6 Para 1 f) GDPR. The legit­i­mate inter­ests from our company’s per­spec­tive is to answer the requests of our clients, busi­ness part­ners and oth­er stake­hold­ers, in order to main­tain and pro­mote client sat­is­fac­tion. For the use of our con­tact form, we require your name and email address. You may give us more infor­ma­tion, though you are not required to do so.

2.2.  Recip­i­ents / Cat­e­gories of Recipient:
We will not trans­fer your data from hoch.rein GmbH to any third par­ties. As an excep­tion to this, data are processed on our request by sub-proces­sors. Our ser­vice providers have been care­ful­ly select­ed by us, are audit­ed by us, and are sub­ject to the con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions of Art 28 GDPR. 

2.3.  Stor­age Dura­tion / Cri­te­ria for Deter­min­ing the Stor­age Duration:
All per­son­al details, that you relay to us in a request, are delet­ed or are secure­ly anonymized, at the lat­est, 90 days after you have received our final reply. The reten­tion peri­od of 90 days is need­ed as it can occa­sion­al­ly come to pass, that you could con­tact us again regard­ing the same top­ic, in which event we need access to our pre­vi­ous cor­re­spon­dence. Our expe­ri­ence has been that, gen­er­al­ly, repeat requests do not occur after more than 90 days.

3.   Data Pro­cess­ing for Con­tact Persons

3.1.  Pur­pose for the Data Pro­cess­ing / Legal Basis:

Our com­pa­ny process­es the data of con­tact per­sons of our clients, stake­hold­ers, sup­pli­ers and oth­er busi­ness part­ners for com­mu­ni­ca­tion via email, tele­phone, tele­fax and post. The legal basis for this pro­cess­ing is Art 6 Para 1 f) GDPR. The legit­i­mate inter­ests from our company’s per­spec­tive is to car­ry out or begin a busi­ness rela­tion­ship with our clients, stake­hold­ers, sup­pli­ers and oth­er busi­ness part­ners, for which we must make per­son­al con­tact with the con­tact persons.

3.2. Recip­i­ents / Cat­e­gories of Recip­i­ent:
We will not trans­fer your data from hoch.rein GmbH to any third par­ties. As an excep­tion to this, data is processed on our request by sub-proces­sors. Our ser­vice providers have been care­ful­ly select­ed by us, are audit­ed by us, and are sub­ject to the con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions of Art 28 GDPR

3.3. Stor­age Dura­tion / Cri­te­ria for Deter­min­ing the Stor­age Dura­tion:
Per­son­al data are stored for the pur­pose of car­ry­ing out the busi­ness rela­tion­ship for as long as there is a legit­i­mate inter­est in doing so.

4.  Data Pro­cess­ing for Mar­ket­ing Purposes

4.1.  Pur­pose for the Data Pro­cess­ing / Legal Basis:
We use per­son­al data for mar­ket­ing pur­pos­es, par­tic­u­lar­ly for adver­tis­ing via email, tele­phone and post. The pur­pose of data pro­cess­ing in the con­text of mar­ket­ing mea­sures is to inform data sub­jects of our prod­ucts and ser­vices. The legal basis for send­ing adver­tise­ments by post is Art 6 Para 1 f) GDPR. We have a legit­i­mate inter­est in send­ing clients and stake­hold­ers infor­ma­tion regard­ing our prod­ucts and ser­vices. The legal basis for mar­ket­ing mea­sures by email or tele­phone is gen­er­al­ly a dec­la­ra­tion of con­sent that you have giv­en us. Mar­ket­ing mea­sures for exist­ing clients are sub­ject to fur­ther spe­cial requirements. 

You may choose to opt out of receiv­ing our mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tives any­time with imme­di­ate effect, by send­ing an email to info@hoch-rein.com.

4.2. Recip­i­ents / Cat­e­gories of Recipient:

We will not trans­fer your data from hoch.rein GmbH to any third par­ties. As an excep­tion to this, data are processed on our request by sub-proces­sors. Our ser­vice providers have been care­ful­ly select­ed by us, are audit­ed by us, and are sub­ject to the con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions of Art 28 GDPR. 

4.3.  Stor­age Dura­tion / Cri­te­ria for Deter­min­ing the Stor­age Dura­tion:
If you opt out of mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tives, your data will be imme­di­ate­ly locked and sub­se­quent­ly delet­ed, pro­vid­ed they are not also used for oth­er purposes.


5.  Cook­ies
Cook­ies are small pieces of data that are stored on a user’s com­put­er. They make it pos­si­ble for infor­ma­tion to be assessed over a defined time peri­od and allow the user’s device to be iden­ti­fied. For an improved user expe­ri­ence and opti­mized per­for­mance, we use per­ma­nent cook­ies. Fur­ther­more, we also use so called “ses­sion cook­ies” that are auto­mat­i­cal­ly delet­ed when you close your brows­er. You can set up your brows­er in such a way that you are informed when cook­ies are being placed. This will make the use of cook­ies more trans­par­ent for you.


6.  Google Analytics

6.1. Pur­pose for the Data Pro­cess­ing / Legal Basis:
For the needs-based lay­out of our web­site, we cre­ate pseu­do­nymised user pro­files with the help of Google Ana­lyt­ics. Google Ana­lyt­ics use so called “cook­ies”, or text data, that are stored on your com­put­er and that enable an analy­sis of the use of our web­site. The data that is gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie regard­ing your use of our web­site is, gen­er­al­ly, trans­ferred to a Google serv­er in the USA and is stored there. As we have acti­vat­ed IP-anonymi­sa­tion on this web­site, your IP address­es are abbre­vi­at­ed by Google with­in mem­ber states of the Euro­pean Union or in oth­er states par­ty to Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area agree­ment. In excep­tion­al cir­cum­stances, the full IP-address could be trans­ferred to the Google servers in the USA and to be abbre­vi­at­ed there. Google will use this

infor­ma­tion to assess your use of our web­site, to assem­ble reports on web­site activ­i­ty, and to pro­vide us with oth­er ser­vices con­nect­ed to the use of our web­site and the use of con­nect­ed inter­net ser­vices. The legal basis for the data pro­cess­ing is Art 6 Para 1 f) GDPR. We have a
legit­i­mate inter­est in gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion on the use of our website.

You can object to the cre­ation of a pseu­do­nymized user pro­file at any time. To do so, you have mul­ti­ple options:

1.)
To object to web analy­sis through Google Ana­lyt­ics you can place an Opt-Out-Cook­ie, which will show Google that your data can­not be used or stored for web analy­sis. Please note, that this solu­tion only works for as long as your brows­er stores the Opt-Out-Cook­ie. If you wish to place
an Opt-Out-Cook­ie, please click here.

2.) You can also hin­der the stor­age of the cook­ies required to cre­ate a pro­file through appro­pri­ate
set­tings in your browser-software.

3.) Depend­ing on the brows­er that you use, you may have the option of installing a Brows­er-Plu­g­in, which pre­vents track­ing. For this please click here and install the Brows­er-Plu­g­in available.

6.2.  Stor­age Dura­tion / Cri­te­ria for Deter­min­ing the Stor­age Dura­tion:
We do not store any per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fi­able user profiles.


7. Google Web­fonts
To opti­cal­ly improve the dis­play of infor­ma­tion on this site, Google Web­fonts (http://www.google.com/webfonts/) are used. The web­fonts are trans­ferred when the page is called up into the cache of the brows­er in order to be able to use it for the pre­sen­ta­tion. If the brows­er does not sup­port Google Web fonts or pro­hibits access, the text will be dis­played in a stan­dard font. When the page is accessed, no cook­ies are set for the web­site vis­i­tor. The data sub­mit­ted in con­nec­tion with the page view is sent to resourcespecific domains such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com. You will not be asso­ci­at­ed with any infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed or used in con­nec­tion with the par­al­lel use of authen­ti­cat­ed Google ser­vices such as Gmail. The legal basis for the data trans­mis­sion to Google is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. The oper­a­tor of the home­page has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the use of Google Web­fonts for visu­al­ly enhanced presentation. 

You can set your brows­er so that the fonts are not loaded by the Google servers (for exam­ple, by installing add-ons such as NoScript or Ghostery for Fire­fox). For infor­ma­tion about the pri­va­cy pol­i­cy of Google Web­fonts, please vis­it: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#Privacy For gen­er­al pri­va­cy infor­ma­tion, vis­it the Google Pri­va­cy Cen­ter at: http://www.google.com/intl/ en-us / privacy/

8.  Encryp­tion
In order to pro­tect your data against unau­tho­rized access, we imple­ment an encryp­tion process on most sites. The details trans­mit­ted from your device to our ser­vice, and vice ver­sa, are secured using a 256 Bit SSLencryption (Secure Sock­et Lay­er). This is demon­strat­ed by the sym­bol of the lock on the sta­tus strip of your brows­er, and as the address line begins with https://. We only do not encrypt infor­ma­tion that is pub­licly available.

9.  No Oblig­a­tion to Pro­vide Per­son­al Data
Pro­vid­ed that the pre­vi­ous sec­tions have not stat­ed oth­er­wise, the pro­vi­sion of per­son­al data is nei­ther legal­ly nor con­trac­tu­al­ly required, nor is it nec­es­sary to con­clude a con­tract. You are under no oblig­a­tion to pro­vide per­son­al data, pro­vid­ed there is no require­ment to the con­trary. If you do not make your per­son­al data avail­able to us, the result will be that we can­not answer your con­tact request, or that you can­not take part in an appli­ca­tion process or anoth­er event.


10.   Your Rights as a Data Sub­ject
In accor­dance with Art 15 GDPR, you have the right to request a copy of the per­son­al infor­ma­tion that we hold about you, free of charge. Fur­ther­more, when the legal require­ments have been met, you have a right to the cor­rec­tion (Art 16 GDPR), dele­tion (Art 17 GDPR) and restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing (Art 18 GDPR) of your per­son­al data. If the data pro­cess­ing occurs on the basis of Art 6 Para 1 e) or f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the pro­cess­ing of your data under Art 21 GDPR. 

If you object to the pro­cess­ing of your data, the pro­cess­ing will cease, unless the data con­troller has pro­tect­ed oblig­a­tory rea­sons to con­tin­ue the process­es, such that they out­weigh the inter­ests of the data sub­ject to object. If you have made the processed data avail­able your­self, you have a right to data porta­bil­i­ty under Art 20 GDPR.

If the data pro­cess­ing occurs on the basis of con­sent in accor­dance with Art 6 Para 1 a) or Art 9 Para 2 a), you have the right to revoke this con­sent at any time with imme­di­ate effect, but with no effect on the legal­i­ty of the pro­cess­ing up to that point. For any of the above-named cas­es, or in the event of ques­tions or com­plaints, please con­tact our Data Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer in writ­ing or via email.

Fur­ther­more, you have a right to com­plain to a Data Pro­tec­tion Super­vi­so­ry Author­i­ty. You may con­tact the Data Pro­tec­tion Super­vi­so­ry Author­i­ty of the state in which you live in, or the state in which the data con­troller is based.

11.   Con­tact Details of our Data Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer
Our com­pa­ny data pro­tec­tion offi­cer is avail­able for you for fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the top­ic of data protection:

Dr. iur. Chris­t­ian Borchers
daten­schutz süd GmbH
Wörth­strasse 15
97082 Würzburg
datenschutz@hoch-rein.com

Con­troller as defined by Art. 4 No. 7 DSGVO

hoch.rein GmbH
Gräsleins­gasse 1
97509 Kolitzheim, Deutsch­land
+49 (0) 9381 71087–0
info@hoch-rein.com