Data Protection

2. Cookies

If you as a user visit the webpages of Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG, one or more cookies will be saved on your computer. A cookie is a small file containing a given sequence of characters that can be used to clearly identify your browser. With the help of cookies, we can improve the convenience and quality of our services, e.g. by saving user settings. Cookies are stored as small text files on your computer and are saved by your browser. ‘Session cookies’ will be automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Cookies will not damage your computer and do not contain any viruses.

You can use our website without cookies as well. You can disable the saving of cookies in your browser or change the settings of your browser in order to receive a notification before the browser saves a cookie. You can delete the cookies at any time from the hard drive of your computer using the data protection features of your browser. In this case, however, the features and user-friendliness of our website may be restricted.

3. Handling personal data

Personal data are information by means of which a person is identifiable, i.e. particulars that can be traced back to a given person. This includes the name, email address or telephone number.

Personal data will be collected, used and forwarded by the Pöppelmann Group only as far as permitted by law, or if you as the user have agreed specifically to the collection of the data. When contacting the Pöppelmann Group (e.g. through the contact form or by email), your particulars will be saved to process your enquiry and to answer any additional questions. No further data will be collected. You can withdraw your consent to the saving of personal data by us at any time by sending us an email, fax or letter. Please send your objection to the following address (your decision will be applied to all companies in the Pöppelmann Group):

Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG

Plastic tool design and engineering

Bakumer Straße 73

49393 Lohne

Fax: +49 (0) 44 42 / 982-112

Email: datenschutz@poeppelmann.com

As a cardinal rule, we save your data for the duration of the statutory retention periods.

4. Website services, tracking and retargeting

In the following we explain the website services, tracking and retargeting tools we use. These are tools which we use to measure our reach or the use of our website as well as for advertising purposes. The legal basis for the processing is your consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR, provided that you have granted us this consent when visiting our website.

You can withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future by clicking on this link, then clicking on ‘Select cookies’ and then unticking the box for ‘Performance and Tracking Cookies’.

4.1. Luware RTC Launcher

We use Luware RTC Launcher by Luware AG to enable you to contact us spontaneously. The legal basis for the processing of the data is point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. To enable contact with us and integration of the service, a connection is established with the Luware servers in Switzerland. The Commission has determined that the level of data protection in Switzerland is adequate. Your IP address is communicated to Luware through a connection with the server in Switzerland.

For further information on data protection please visit the Luware website at https://www.luware.com/en/privacy.

4.2. Google services

We use various services of Google Inc. (hereinafter: ‘Google’), which are described individually below. Google has submitted to the Privacy Shield Framework established by the European Union and the USA and has self-certified. Accordingly, Google undertakes to comply with the standards and provisions of European data protection law. For more information please visit: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

For further information on data protection by Google please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.

4.2.1. Google Analytics

The website of the Pöppelmann Group uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google for the statistical evaluation of access by users. Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. text files that are saved to your computer to allow your use of the website to be analyzed. As a rule, the information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there. However, if IP anonymization is enabled on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google in the member states of the European Union or in signatories to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission. Only in exceptional cases will the entire IP address be transferred first to a Google server in the USA and then truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide other services to the website operator relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP address transferred by your browser through the use of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) from being recorded and transmitted to Google and its further processing by Google by downloading and installing a browser plugin available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

You can also prevent collection by Google Analytics and thus withdraw your consent by clicking the link below. An opt-out cookie is served to permanently prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website: Click here to object to the processing of your data by Google Analytics.

For more information on Google’s terms of use and privacy policy, please see https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html. We wish to point out that Google Analytics has been extended on this website by the ‘gat._anonymizeIp();’code to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (also referred to as ‘IP masking’). 

4.2.2. Google Dynamic Remarketing

Google Dynamic Remarketing allows us to display our advertisements to you after your visit to our website as you continue to use the internet. This is done by means of the cookies saved in your browser, which are used by Google to record and analyze your usage behavior when visiting various websites. Google is thus able to identify your previous visit to our website. Google has stated that they do not merge the data collected as part of the Remarketing tool with any of your personal data which may be saved by Google. According to Google, pseudonymization is used as part of the Remarketing tool.

We use Google Dynamic Remarketing for marketing and optimization purposes, in particular to show you relevant and interesting advertising, to improve reports about advertising performance and to calculate advertising costs fairly.

4.2.3. Google Maps

We use Google Maps, an online map service of Google, on our website. This allows us to show you interactive maps directly on the website, and allows you to make convenient use of the map feature. When you visit our website, Google will be informed that you have retrieved the relevant subpage of our website. At the same time, your IP address will be transmitted irrespective of whether you have a Google user account and are logged into this account or whether you have no user account at all. If you are logged into your Google account, your data, such as the visit to our website, can be associated with your account. If you wish to prevent this association, you must log out of your Google account before visiting our website.

4.2.4. Google Fonts

We use Google Fonts to design our website. To integrate those fonts, Google servers are accessed, as a result of which your IP address is transmitted to those Google servers. The servers may be located in the USA or elsewhere outside the European Union. Google states that they do not use your IP address to track your activities; they use it only for statistical analysis of font usage. Google does not identify any individual visitors as a result. The legal basis for this processing of the data is point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. For further information about data protection in connection with Google Fonts please see here on the Google website.

4.3. LinkedIn services

We use various services of the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (hereinafter referred to as ‘LinkedIn’). LinkedIn has submitted to the Privacy Shield Framework established by the European Union and the USA and has self-certified. Accordingly, LinkedIn undertakes to comply with the standards and provisions of European data protection law. For further information, please visit: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active.

For further information on data protection at LinkedIn, please see here.

The LinkedIn services use cookies and other tools. We use the LinkedIn services for marketing and optimization purposes, in particular to analyze the use of our website and to be able to continuously enhance certain features and content as well as the user experience. When calling up our website, a connection to the LinkedIn servers is established. These servers may be located outside the European Union. If you have a LinkedIn account, LinkedIn can associate your visit to our website with your account. You can prevent this by first logging out of your LinkedIn account.

We use the following LinkedIn services:

LinkedIn Ads / LinkedIn Marketing Solutions for processing information about your user behavior for advertising purposes in order to show you targeted advertisements.

LinkedIn Analytics for processing information about your user behavior on our website in order to measure the reach of our website.

4.4. Outbrain

On our website, we use various tools of Outbrain UK Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Outbrain'). Outbrain uses cookies, which enable the analysis of your use of our website.

Outbrain allows us to inform you about any further content on our website as well as third-party websites that may be of interest to you. The recommendations for further reading are compiled based on the content previously read by you. The content shown by Outbrain is controlled and delivered automatically by Outbrain as far as content and method are concerned. Outbrain's recommendations for further reading based on the information transmitted by the cookies are displayed only in pseudonymized form, i.e. by means of a generated string of characters assigned to you. No other personal data will be saved. Outbrain records the following data:

    source device

    browser type

    anonymized IP address of the user.

To anonymize the IP address, the last octet of the IP address is removed.

In addition to Outbrain, we use ‘Outbrain Amplify’ and ‘Outbrain Pixel’ for the marketing and optimization of our website. These tools enable us to analyze your user behavior and to improve our range of services.

For further information on Outbrain, please visit: http://www.outbrain.com/en/legal/privacy.

4.5. Tweet button

We use the Tweet button of Twitter International Company Ireland (hereinafter referred to as ‘Twitter’). This function allows you to share our content via Twitter. The integration of the button means that your IP address is transmitted to Twitter and hence to servers outside the European Union. If you are logged into a Twitter account, Twitter can associate your visit to our website with your account.

Twitter has submitted to the Privacy Shield Framework established by the European Union and the USA and has self-certified. Accordingly, Twitter undertakes to comply with the standards and provisions of European data protection law. For more information please visit: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active.

For further information on Twitter please visit: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.

4.6. XING button

We use the XING button of XING SE (hereinafter referred to as ‘XING’). By integrating the XING button, a connection to the XING servers is established, and your IP address is transmitted to XING. XING is thus able to associate your visit to our website with your user account. You can prevent this by first logging out of your account.

For further information on the protection of data by XING, please visit: https://privacy.xing.com/en.

4.7. YouTube

We occasionally use YouTube videos on our website. These videos are integrated as part of YouTube’s ‘advanced privacy mode’. According to YouTube this means that no information about visitors is stored as long as the video is not played. When you play the video, you give your consent to having your data stored by YouTube as the controller and accept that this processing cannot be further influenced by us. For further information, we refer you to the YouTube Privacy Policy: https://www.youtube.com/privacy.

4.8. Facebook

We use various tools from Facebook Ireland Ltd. (hereinafter "Facebook"), including Instagram, to display interest-based advertisements to you by delivering them to Facebook audiences and to inform you about our educational offerings. Our data processing in connection with our Facebook and Instagram presence is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1f DSGVO (German Data Protection Act) due to our legitimate interest in public relations and communication. To integrate the Facebook tools, a connection is established with the Facebook server so that Facebook can assign the visit to our site to your account. These servers can also be located outside the European Union. You can prevent this by logging out of Facebook before visiting our website. However, even after you log out, your IP address will still be transmitted to Facebook and Facebook may be able to obtain further identifiers from you. Facebook has submitted to and certified itself under the Privacy Shield Agreement concluded between the European Union and the USA. This means that Facebook is committed to complying with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. You can find further information in the following linked entry: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active.

We have concluded an agreement with Facebook Ltd. on joint responsibility for data protection in accordance with Art. 26 DSGVO. This agreement, the so-called "Page Insights Supplement" or "Page Insights Controller Addendum" can be found here: https://de-de.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum. With regard to the so-called "Facebook Insights data" (hereinafter referred to as "Facebook Insights"), Facebook Ltd. assumes essential obligations on the basis of this agreement, in particular to inform affected persons and to protect the rights of affected persons.

For further information on the protection of data by Facebook, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

4.8.1. Insights

We receive statistical data from Facebook about visitors to our Instagram pages through the "Insights" feature. These are pseudonymised, which means that we cannot assign them to a specific person. This feature allows us to better analyse our site and tailor it to the interests of our users. Our legitimate interest in the operation of our Instagram page and use of Insights in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 f DSGVO is to conduct effective marketing via a frequently used platform. Further information on the "Insights" function can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/iq/tools-resources/audience-insights/.

4.8.2. Interaction with us via Instagram

Depending on users' privacy settings at Instagram, we may see when a particular Instagram user has liked, shared, or subscribed to our Instagram page/post/comments. We can also associate comments on our Instagram pages with specific Instagram users. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest lies in the communication and interaction with you via Instagram.

4.8.3. Facebook Custom Audience

This service allows us to deliver targeted and interest-based advertising to visitors to our website as part of the visit to Facebook or other websites that also use Facebook Custom Audience.

4.9. Mouseflow

This website uses Mouseflow, a web analysis tool of Mouseflow ApS, Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark, to record randomly selected, individual visits (using only anonymized IP addresses). This creates a log of mouse movements, mouse clicks and keyboard interactions for the purpose of randomly reproducing individual visits to this website as ‘session replays’, to analyze them in the form of ‘heat maps’ and to derive potential improvements for this website from those activities. The data recorded by Mouseflow are not personal and will not be disclosed to third parties. The recorded data are stored and processed within the EU. If you do not want Mouseflow to record your data, you can object to it on all websites that use Mouseflow here: https://mouseflow.com/opt-out/.

5. Right of access and other rights of the data subject

You have the right to request confirmation from the Pöppelmann Group as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed. Where that is the case, you have a right of access to the personal data and the specific information listed in detail in Article 15 GDPR.

You have the right to request without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and to have incomplete personal data completed by the Pöppelmann Group (Article 16 GDPR).

You have the right to request from the Pöppelmann Group the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay where one of the grounds specified in Article 17 GDPR applies, e.g. if the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the intended purposes (right to erasure).

You have the right to request from the Pöppelmann Group a restriction of processing where one of the grounds specified in Article 18 GDPR applies, e.g. if the data subject has objected to processing pending verification by the controller. In addition, you have the right to data portability in instances covered by Article 20 GDPR.

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the General Data Protection Regulation (Article 77 GDPR). You can exercise this right with a supervisory authority in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement. In Lower Saxony, the competent supervisory authority is: The Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen [State Data Protection Commissioner for Lower Saxony] (contact details at: https://www.lfd.niedersachsen.de/wir_ueber_uns/impressum/impressum-56113.html).

If data are processed based on point (e) (data processing in the exercise of official authority or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest) or point (f) (data processing for the purposes of legitimate interests) of Article 6(1) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation at any time. In this case, we will no longer process the data unless compelling legitimate grounds for processing are demonstrated, which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or if the processing serves for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. If possible please direct your objection to: datenschutz@poeppelmann.com.

6. Newsletter

We use the newsletter to inform you about our company and our range of offers. If you would like to receive the newsletter, we need a valid email address for the double opt-in process as well as information which allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address given or that the owner of the email address consents to receive the newsletter. The legal basis for sending the newsletter is your consent, which you agreed to during registration. No further data will be collected. These data will be used only for sending the newsletter and will not be disclosed to third parties. When you sign up for the newsletter, we will store your IP address for a period of seven days as well as the date of signup. This storage serves only as proof in the event that a third party abuses an email address and signs up for the newsletter without the knowledge of the owner of the email address. You can withdraw your consent to the storage of these data and your email address or to the use of the email address for the sending of newsletters at any time. You can withdraw your consent via a link in the newsletters themselves or in your profile section.

8. Right of access, rectification and erasure of personal data

You have the right to obtain information free of charge from us at any time about the data stored by us concerning you, their origin and recipients as well as the purposes of the storage. In addition, users are entitled to have inaccurate data rectified, or to have their personal data blocked and erased in the absence of a conflicting statutory duty of retention. The Pöppelmann Group Data Protection Officer, Peter Suhren (office@first-privacy.com), will provide information about the stored data.