Privacy Policy

1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that allows you to be personally identified. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The processing of data on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the „Information about the responsible party“ section of this privacy policy.

How do we capture your data?

Your data is collected, firstly, when you provide it to us. This can include, for example, data that you enter into a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems or with your consent when you visit the website. This primarily involves technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). The collection of this data occurs automatically as soon as you access this website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. If contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data will also be processed for contract offers, orders or other order requests.

What are your rights regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipients, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time with future effect. Furthermore, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. In addition, you have the right to complain to the responsible supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time with regard to this and other data protection queries.

Analysis tools and third-party tools

Your browsing behaviour can be statistically analysed when visiting this website. This is mainly done using so-called analysis programs.

Detailed information about these analysis programmes can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. Hosting

We host our website’s content with the following provider:

Hetzner

The provider is Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen (hereinafter referred to as Hetzner).

For details, please refer to Hetzner's privacy policy. https://www.hetzner.com/de/legal/privacy-policy/.

The use of Hetzner is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in presenting our website as reliably as possible. If corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Order processing

We have concluded a contract for order processing (Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag - AVV) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a legally required contract under data protection law, which ensures that the service processes the personal data of our website visitors only according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We would like to point out that data transfer on the internet (e.g. in email communication) may have security vulnerabilities. It is not possible to protect data completely from third-party access.

Notice of responsible body

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

BB-Umwelttechnik GmbH
Am Gruberbach 5
87672 Roßhaupten
Germany

Telephone: +49 8367 91 39 48 0
E-Mail: sales@bbumwelttechnik.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Storage duration

Unless a more specific retention period is stated within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing ceases to apply. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or revoke consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, provided we have no other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial retention periods); in the latter case, deletion will occur after these grounds cease to apply.

General information on the legal basis for data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we will process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR if special categories of data pursuant to Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR are processed. In the event of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing will also be based on Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to access information on your end device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), data processing will additionally be based on Section 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent can be withdrawn at any time. If your data is required for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we will process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Furthermore, we will process your data if this is required for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Data processing may also take place on the basis of our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The respective legal bases applicable in individual cases are communicated in the following paragraphs of this data protection declaration.

Recipients of personal data

As part of our business operations, we collaborate with various external parties. This sometimes requires the transfer of personal data to these external parties. We only transfer personal data to external parties if it is necessary for the performance of a contract, if we are legally obliged to do so (e.g., transfer of data to tax authorities), if we have a legitimate interest in the transfer pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, or if another legal basis permits the transfer of data. When using processors, we only transfer our customers' personal data on the basis of a valid contract for order processing. In the case of joint processing, a contract for joint processing is concluded.

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke consent already given at any time. The legality of data processing carried out up to the revocation shall remain unaffected by the revocation.

Right to object to data processing in special cases, and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. You can find the relevant legal basis on which processing is based in this privacy statement. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims (objection pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

Right of complaint to the responsible supervisory authority

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

Information, correction, and deletion

You have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, and if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data, within the scope of the applicable legal provisions. You can contact us at any time for this and for further questions on the subject of personal data.

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 regarding this. The right to restrict processing exists in the following cases:

If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we will generally require time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
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 for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, you have the right to require us to restrict the processing of your personal data instead of erasure.
If you have lodged an objection under Article 21(1) of the GDPR, a balancing of your interests against ours must be carried out. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, that data may, apart from storage, only be processed with your consent, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of sensitive content, such as orders or enquiries you send to us as the site operator, this page uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can tell if a connection is encrypted by the fact that the browser's address bar changes from „http://“ to „https://“ and by the padlock icon in your browser bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

4. Data collection on this website

Biscuits

Our websites use so-called „cookies“. Cookies are small data packets and do not cause any damage to your terminal device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your terminal device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them yourself or automatic deletion by your web browser occurs.

Cookies can originate from us (First-party cookies) or from third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites (e.g., cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies serve various functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., the shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies can be used for analysing user behaviour or for advertising purposes.

Cookies that are necessary for the electronic communication process, for providing certain functionalities you request (e.g., for the shopping cart function), or for optimising the website (e.g., cookies for measuring the web audience) (necessary cookies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies for the technically flawless and optimised provision of its services. If consent has been requested for the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies, processing will be carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the TDDDG); consent can be withdrawn at any time.

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

If further cookies and services are used on this website, you can find this out in this privacy policy.

Consent with Complianz

Our website uses Complianz's consent technology to obtain your consent for the storage of certain cookies on your end device or for the use of certain technologies and to document this in compliance with data protection regulations. The provider of this technology is Complianz B.V., Kalmarweg 14-5, 9723 JG Groningen, the Netherlands (hereinafter referred to as „Complianz“).

Complianz is hosted on our servers, so no connection is made to the provider's servers for Complianz. Complianz stores a cookie in your browser to associate the consents you have given or withdrawn. The data collected in this way will be stored until you request its deletion, delete the Complianz cookie yourself, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Mandatory legal retention periods remain unaffected.

The use of Complianz is for obtaining the legally required consents for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Server request time
IP address

No merging of this data with other data sources will take place.

The collection of this data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically flawless presentation and optimisation of its website – to this end, server log files must be collected.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide therein, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, provided your enquiry relates to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) provided this has been requested; consent can be withdrawn at any time.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - particularly retention periods - remain unaffected.

Enquiry by e-mail, telephone or fax

If you contact us by email, telephone, or fax, your request, including all personal data arising from it (name, enquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your enquiry. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The data you send to us via contact requests will remain with us until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent for storage, or the purpose for data storage ceases to apply (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions – particularly statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

5. Analysis Tools and Advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyse the behaviour of website visitors. In doing so, the website operator receives various usage data, such as page views, time spent on site, operating systems used, and the user's origin. This data is assigned to the respective end device of the user. An assignment to a User ID does not occur.

Furthermore, with Google Analytics we can record, among other things, your mouse and scroll movements and clicks. Additionally, Google Analytics uses various modelling approaches to supplement the captured datasets and employs machine learning technologies in data analysis.

Google Analytics uses technologies that enable user recognition for the purpose of analysing user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google about the use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Data transfers to the USA are based on the EU Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. You can find details here: https://business.safety.google/adscontrollerterms/sccs/.

The company is certified under the „EU-US Data Privacy Framework“ (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA, intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Any company certified under the DPF commits to adhering to these data protection standards. Further information on this can be obtained from the provider via the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

IP anonymisation

Google Analytics IP anonymisation is enabled. This means your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Browser Plugin

You can prevent Google from collecting and processing your data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

You can find more information about how user data is handled by Google Analytics in Google’s Privacy Policy. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order processing

We have entered into a data processing agreement with Google and fully comply with the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

6. Plugins and Tools

YouTube

This website embeds videos from the website YouTube. The website is operated by Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

When you visit one of our websites that embeds YouTube, a connection is established with YouTube's servers. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

Furthermore, YouTube may store various cookies on your device or use comparable technologies for recognition (e.g. device fingerprinting). This allows YouTube to obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness and prevent fraudulent activities. Furthermore, the data collected will be processed within the Google advertising network.

When you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is for the purpose of the engaging presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where appropriate consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

For further information on how user data is handled, please refer to YouTube's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Fonts (local hosting)

This page uses so-called Google Fonts, provided by Google, for a standardised display of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. No connection to Google's servers is made.

Further information on Google Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Font Awesome (local hosting)

This page uses Font Awesome for consistent font display. Font Awesome is installed locally. No connection is made to Fonticons, Inc. servers.

For further information about Font Awesome, please refer to the Font Awesome privacy policy at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps map service. The provider is Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. This service enables us to embed map material on our website.

To use Google Maps features, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. If Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Fonts for the purpose of a uniform display of fonts. When you call up Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings and for easy location of the places indicated on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If appropriate consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user's end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Data transfers to the USA are based on the EU Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. You can find details here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.

For more information on how user data is handled, please see Google's Privacy Policy. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA on this website. This is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether data entered on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is done by a human or an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyses the website visitor's behaviour based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (e.g. IP address, length of time the website visitor spends on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

In this context, Google acts solely as a data processor within the meaning of Art. 28 GDPR and will not use the data collected in this way for its own purposes. The use of the tool is based on a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with Google.

The storage and analysis of the data are based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated crawling and SPAM. If corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is exclusively based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time.