Privacy Policy
Data protection provisions of the website https://www.hydfoam.com/ which is operated by HydFoam Dichtungstechnik GmbH, In der Welsmicke 24, 57399 Kirchhundem, Germany (hereinafter referred to as: “HydFoam GmbH”).
Responsible body as defined by DSGVO, data protection officer, data protection in general
The responsible body as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and for compliance with other provisions of data protection law is:
HydFoam GmbH
In der Welsmicke 24
57399 Kirchhundem
Telephone +49 (0) 2764 / 37797-10
Fax +49 (0) 2764 / 37797-11
Representative managing director: Gerald Krämer
Our data protection officer is:
Christopher Krämer
We take the protection of personal data very seriously. We comply with the statutory data protection regulations when operating our website. We want you to know when we collect, process and use what data, and what rights you have with regard to the use of your data.
Personal data is information that can be used to find out your identity. This includes information such as your name, address, postal address, telephone number, IP address and e-mail address. Information that is not associated with your identity (such as the number of users on the website) is not included. In general, you can use our website without disclosing your identity, i.e. without entering personal data. This information (e.g. date and time of access, URL (which led you to us and which you may have accessed via our website), browser, operating system, Internet service provider, IP address) is stored in a log file. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The storage takes place to ensure the functionality, optimization and security of our website. This information is collected automatically; there is no option to object. After seven days at the latest, the log files are deleted or defamiliarized in such a way that they can no longer be assigned. Exceptions apply to the areas marked accordingly, such as the option to order our newsletter and our contact form.
Legal bases according to the GDPR
We are obliged to inform you of the legal bases for the processing of personal data:
In general, we may only collect and process your personal data with your consent, Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, unless prior consent is not possible, or the law has defined exceptions.
We process the personal data collected about you for the performance of our contract or contract initiation relationship. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Further legal bases for the processing of personal data are the fulfilment of our legal obligations Art. 6 (1)(c) GDPR or the protection of vital interests of you or another natural person Art. 6 (1) (d) GDPR.
Furthermore, we may process personal data if our company has a legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, if your interests, basic rights and fundamental freedoms do not outweigh our interests in a consideration to be undertaken.
We must also point out that data transmission on the Internet is associated with security risks and that complete protection of data against access by third parties cannot therefore be guaranteed. Please ensure that your data and your end device are protected against unauthorised access by third parties and that you always use an up-to-date security software.
We store your data on specially secured servers in Germany. Our security measures are continuously improved in accordance with technical developments, e.g. our website is SSL-encrypted. Apart from the special cases regulated in these data protection provisions, your data will only be stored, processed and used to contact you and to send you the newsletter you have ordered. Access to this data is only possible for a few specially authorized persons who are involved in the technical and content-related support of the order process.
Contact form
In our contact form, we have marked required information as distinct from voluntary information and refer to our privacy policy. For an intended conclusion of a contract, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Your message and your e-mail addresses will be deleted once we have answered your message or if a contractual relationship is clearly not established or has ended. Revocation of the processing of personal data via the contact form is possible at any time via infokrueckemeyer.de and leads to the deletion of all data.
Disclosure of personal data to third parties
We do not pass on your data to third parties without your explicit consent. We are obliged to transmit data to entitled authorities in accordance with the statutory provisions.
Data protection notice for applicants
We are pleased that you are interested in HydFoam GmbH and that you are applying or have applied for a position.
The protection of your data is very important to us. This data protection notice provides you with the following information on the processing of your personal data in relation to your application.
What data is processed in relation to your application and for what purposes?
We process the personal data provided to us in the context of your application in order to check your suitability for the position (or any other comparable vacancies/positions in our company) and to carry out the application process.
Automated decision-making does not take place.
Without the provision of the data, it is not possible to carry out the application process and we will unfortunately not be able to consider you for the position(s) in question.
What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in the application process is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 88 (1) GDPR. Art 88 (1) GDPR in conjunction with § 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG. If applicable, the processing is based on your consent within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (a) GDPR (see below).
How long will the data be stored?
Your application data will be processed for the duration of the application process and deleted after 6 months at the latest in the case of a rejection.
If you would like us to include your data in our applicant pool for the next possible vacancy, your applicant data will be deleted after 2 years at the latest. In this case, we require a corresponding consent, which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future without giving reasons. The legality of the processing prior to the time of revocation remains unaffected.
If the application process leads to an employment, the data from the application system will be transferred to our HR system.
In individual cases, the storage period may be longer. The storage period then depends on the statutory retention obligations, such as the German Commercial Code (HGB) or Fiscal Code.
Who will the data be passed on to and where will it be processed?
Following receipt, your application documents will be evaluated by employees in the HR department or by other responsible managers or professionals in our company. Within the company itself, only those persons who are responsible for the application process have access to your data.
The data will be processed exclusively by the person responsible on site and / or if necessary, your data will be passed on to technical service providers who use your data exclusively on our behalf and under no circumstances for their own business purposes.
Data is not regularly passed on to other third parties.
Your data will not be processed in a third country and such a processing is not planned.
Your rights
You are entitled to obtain information about the processing of your personal data at any time. When requesting information, we ask for your understanding that we may require you to provide proof that you are the person you claim to be.
You also have the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing at any time, provided that the legal requirements for this are met. You may also have the right to object to the processing of the legal requirements. The same applies to the right to data portability.
You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority at any time. If you are of the opinion that your personal data is not being processed in compliance with data protection laws, we would kindly ask you to contact us or our data protection officer.
Data protection notice for business partners
We are pleased that you are interested in Hydfoam GmbH and that you are contacting us.
The protection of your data is very important to us. With this data protection notice, we provide you with the following information in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR on the processing of your personal data in connection with our business relationship.
What data do we process and for what purposes?
We only process personal data that we have received from you or, if applicable, from publicly accessible sources as part of our business relationship.
Personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR may be: Names, telecommunication data and address data. In addition, we also process offer, inquiry and order data, data from the fulfilment of our contractual obligations, product data, documentation data, and other data comparable to the categories mentioned.
The provision of your personal data is necessary for the initiation, execution and processing of the contractual relationship. If you do not provide us with your personal data, we will unfortunately not be able to contact you to clarify pre-contractual or contractual issues.
What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
Your personal data is processed in accordance with the statutory provisions of the GDPR and the Federal Data Protection Act for the fulfilment of contractual obligations or for measures for contract initiation (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (b) GDPR).
In addition, we may use this data for additional purposes in connection with our business relationship.
How long will the data be stored?
We process and store your personal data for the duration of our business relationship and at a minimum in accordance with the statutory retention periods, such as the German Commercial Code or Fiscal Code.
Who will the data be passed on to and where will it be processed?
We only use the personal data for our own purposes in the course of the business relationship.
We would like to point out that we generally assume that our e-mail correspondence is business-related and therefore forward e-mails to their representatives when employees are absent in order to provide better service.
If third parties are involved in work processes that would make it necessary to pass on your data for processing exclusively for this purpose, we apply the same high standards and oblige the third party to comply with data protection regulations within the framework of an agreement on commissioned data processing in accordance with Art.28 GDPR.
If necessary, your data will be passed on to technical service providers who use your data exclusively on our behalf and under no circumstances for their own business purposes.
Use of cookies, deactivation option, cookie banner
Cookies are used when you visit our website. Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. However, you can restrict or deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser to notify you as soon as cookies are sent. You can also delete cookies that have already been saved. Please check the operating instructions of your browser provider for information on how to do this. Complete deactivation may, however, restrict the functionality of our website, so that you may not be able to use all functions properly.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser in order to present you with the most personalized offer possible, which is why you are free to decide on the use of cookies. If you access such a website, the provider’s server may also return the cookie along with the page to your browser. The browser then decides, depending on the local settings, whether the cookie is stored on your computer. As pure text files, cookies cannot penetrate your system or cause damage there. The text files are set by the server of a selected website and sent by your browser to the server we use the next time you visit this website. HydFoam GmbH uses cookies to count page views. A random number – a kind of pseudonym – is assigned the user in the form of a cookie, which the server uses to recognize that the request is coming from the same user, but without obtaining information about the user’s identity or other data. Moreover, such cookies generally only have a lifespan of 24 hours. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. HydFoam GmbH can also set a cookie with a long lifespan that checks the technical settings of your browser and is read by HydFoam GmbH as the first information when you visit the website again. These cookies recognize the calling browser, even after the end of a session and a new page call, and serve to make our website more user-friendly. We do not create any user profiles by using technically necessary cookies. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
When visiting our website, a banner appears informing you that we set cookies. In our banner, we link to this privacy policy. The banner leaves essential information on our website uncovered.
Usage statistics with the help of Google Analytics (IP anonymization, possibility to deactivate or object and opt-out)
HydFoam GmbH uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”), to analyse the usage of the website. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in Ireland and stored there. We have activated IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of HydFoam GmbH, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website and internet usage to the website operator. We have concluded a corresponding “data processing agreement”. We base our legitimate interest on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR and the optimization of our website offer, also in the interest of our users. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics does not merge with other Google data. You can find more information about Google’s privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de .
You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software using a simple procedure. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided by Google at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. As an alternative to the browser plugin, you can prevent the capture by Google Analytics on this website in the future by placing an opt-out cookie on your device. To do so, please follow this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Usage statistics with the help of reCAPTCHA
As part of our newsletter subscription, we also use reCAPTCHA (“reCAPTCHA”) from Google. We use this analysis tool to check that the registration for our newsletter is not carried out automatically by a computer, but by a human being. reCAPTCHA receives information from our users (e.g. IP address), which is forwarded to Google. We base our legitimate interest on Art. (6) (f) GDPR, as we want to protect our website from misuse. Further information on Google reCAPTCHA can be found at the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
We use OpenStreet Map
We use this map service on the basis of our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to make it easier for you to find us. You can find OpenStreetMap’s privacy policy here: https://www.fossgis.de/datenschutzerklaerung[JG1] .
General data protection provisions regarding the integration of and references to our social and professional networks and the video platforms we use
We would like to point out that we are also represented on the social networks Facebook, Instagram, X[JG1] , XING and LinkedIn as well as on the video platform YouTube; you will find these references on our website by means of the corresponding icons (images). All icons are only configured as links and not as plugins. In contrast to a link, a plugin transmits information to the server of the respective social network provider or video platform immediately when you access our website with the relevant icon. Only if you follow the link on our website by clicking on the icon, your browser will automatically establish a direct connection to the servers of the social network provider or video platform, even if you do not have a profile there or are not logged in.
Through this integration, the respective social network operator or video platform receives the information that your browser (including your IP address) has accessed the corresponding page of our website. This is transmitted to the server of the respective operator and stored there. If you have a profile and are logged in, the respective network operator can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile and save it. We base our legitimate interest on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in order to increase our degree of familiarity and draw your attention to the added value. If you want to prevent the social network provider from directly assigning the data collected via our website to your profile, you must log out of the social network or video platform before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser.
Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA (“Facebook”). For more information on the purpose, scope and processing of data collection and information on the setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
X is operated by X Internet Unlimited Company, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland . For more information on the purpose, scope and processing of data collection and information on the setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to X´s privacy policy: https://x.com/en/privacy.
YouTube is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“YouTube”). For information on the purpose, scope and processing of data collection as well as information on the setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to YouTube’s privacy policy (these are redirected to Google’s privacy policy): https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .
LinkedIn is headquartered in Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, the website is operated by LinkedIn Ireland, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”). For more information on the purpose, scope and processing of date collection and information on the settings options for protecting your privacy, please refer to LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?_l=de_DE .
This website uses MyFonts Counter, a web analysis service of MyFonts Inc, 500 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801, USA (hereinafter referred to as “MyFonts”). Due to the license terms, page view tracking is carried out by counting the number of visits to the HydFoam GmbH [JG1] [MS2] website for statistical purposes and transmitting them to MyFonts. MyFonts collects anonymized data. The data is transmitted by activating Java Script code in the user’s browser. To prevent the execution of Java Script code from MyFonts altogether, the user can install a Java Script blocker (e.g. www.noscript.net). Further information on data protection and the cookies used can be found on the Internet at: http://www.myfonts.com/info/terms-and-conditions/#Privacy [JG3]
Data subject rights (right of access, right to rectification and restriction, right to erasure, right to withdraw consent, right to data portability, your rights regarding automated decision-making, right to object, right to information, right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority)
The GDPR strengthens your rights as a data subject when personal data is processed. Exercising your rights is free of charge.
Right of access: Upon request, we are obliged to provide you with information about the personal data stored about you, including the origin of this data, the recipients or categories of recipients, the purpose and duration of storage, if applicable, stating your criteria, Art. 15 GDPR.
Right to rectification: Your right to rectification includes personal data that is incomplete or incorrectly collected or processed by us, Art. 16 GDPR.
Right to erasure: You have the right to erasure if personal data has been processed unlawfully, the purpose of the data processing no longer applies, you have withdrawn your consent or objected and there is no other legal basis for the processing, Art. 17 (1) GDPR. There is no right to erasure if we are entitled to rely on the exercise of our legal rights, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, for the delegated exercise of official authority or on the basis of the right to freedom of expression.
Right to restriction: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR if you request restriction instead of erasure, if you need your data for your legal claims or if you dispute the correctness of the personal data.
Right to withdraw consent: You can withdraw your declaration of consent for the future at any time, Art. 7 (3) GDPR.
Right to data portability: You have the right to data portability Art. 20 GDPR, to the effect that you receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transfer this data to a third party if necessary.
In accordance with Art. 22 GDPR, your right not to be subject to a decision based on automated processing that significantly affects you applies to automated decisions in individual cases, including profiling. In addition to your consent, an exception may exist if it is necessary within the framework of the contractual relationship or if legal regulations prescribe this and at the same time measures provide you with sufficient protection.
Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection regulations, in particular the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, Art. 77 GDPR. The responsible supervisory authority is the supervisory authority of the place of the reported violation, your place of work or the member state in which you are resident. Further legal remedies remain unaffected by this.
Separate right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time, Art. 21 GDPR, if the processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (e) or (f) GDPR. You have this right in particular to object to direct advertising.
You can contact us at:
HydFoam GmbH
In der Welsmicke 24
57399 Kirchhundem
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 2764 / 37797-10
Fax: +49 (0) 2764 / 37797-11
If you have exercised your data subject rights against us, you have a right to information to the effect that we will inform all recipients to whom we have disclosed your personal data of the exercise of your data subject right, Art. 19 GDPR.
Duration of data storage, data deletion
We only store your data for as long as is it permitted by the storage period prescribed by the GDPR standards and/ or the contact option you may have requested. The storage to secure our own claims, legal retention periods and any associated claims for surrender remain unaffected by this. Otherwise, personal data will be deleted or blocked.
Validity of and changes to data protection provisions
HydFoam GmbH reserves the right to change the data protection provisions due to legal requirements or the further development of the website.
You can view and print out the current data protection provisions on our website at any time.
HydFoam GmbH, 22nd April 2022