Data protection and data security are of particular importance to us. This Privacy Policy provides you with information as to whether and how we use your personal data within the framework of your use of our online offering while complying with our legal duty to provide information under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy applies to any and all webpages under the “autoschilder-sievers.de” domain (“Website”) to the extent that we process your personal data there.
2. Controller
We are the controller and thus your point of contact for any use of the personal data on this Website:
A. Sievers GmbH, Marie-Curie-Str. 3, 30966 Hemmingen, phone: +49(0)511 / 41 02 99 - 0, fax: +49(0)511 / 41 02 99 - 99, e-mail: info(at)autoschilder-sievers.de.
3. Contact Details of Our Data Protection Officer
You can contact our Data Protection Officer at:
Martin Sievers, A. Sievers GmbH, Marie-Curie-Str. 3, 30966 Hemmingen, phone: +49(0)511 / 41 02 99 - 17, e-mail: M.Sievers(at)autoschilder-sievers.de.
4. Personal and Anonymised Data
We process personal and anonymised data on our Website.
- Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. You are deemed to be an identifiable natural person if you can be identified by such information, directly or indirectly, e.g. by a phone or credit card number.
- Anonymised data means any data where there is no personal reference (and can thus not be used to identify you in person either directly or indirectly) or where the personal reference can be recreated only involving a disproportionate effort.
5. Your Rights in Relation to Your Personal Data
You have the right of access, to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing, data portability as well as to withdraw consent to the processing of the personal data concerning you.
If you have given us a consent to the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the processing based on consent before its withdrawal. If you want to withdraw your declaration of consent, please contact the data protection officer.
Moreover, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. If you have questions in connection with data protection or complaints, please address our data protection officer first.
6. Processing of Your Personal Data When Using Our Online Offering
In principle, you can also use our Website without disclosing your personal data.
We process your personal data on our Website only if this is necessary for the provided features and processing of your data is legally permitted or if you have given us your consent to the processing of your personal data.
Below, we provide you with information on the purposes for which we process the data collected from you and the respective applicable legal basis.
| Purposes of Processing | Legal Basis |
| Any and all data that you make available to us within the framework of individual communications (e.g. by e-mail, fax, phone or via provided online forms) using the contact opportunities specified by us to reply to your queries and to establish, perform or terminate any contract concluded with you. |
Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR (consent) Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR (implementation of pre-contractual measures, performance of a contract) |
| Disclosure of your personal data to service providers, e.g. to shipping companies, to perform any contract concluded with you | Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR (implementation of pre-contractual measures, performance of a contract) |
| Disclosure to lawyers and collection service providers to enforce any claims from contracts or to comply with legal obligations. | Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR; the legitimate interest is the enforcement of legal interests. |
| Data aggregated and analysed by the Matomo analysis software about your usage behaviour on our Website | Not applicable, since this relates to anonymised data, which cannot be used to establish your identity, so that the GDPR does not apply to such data. |
7. Statistical Evaluation of Your Use of Our Online Offering Using the “Matomo” Analysis Tool
In addition, we use the Matomo open-source software which enables us to statistically evaluate visitor traffic using cookies (for more details, see the “Cookies” section). The usage information gathered by Matomo through a cookie, including, in particular, the pages accessed by you, the browser used by you, the operating system of your computer, the referrer URL (previously accessed website), is used in anonymised form to carry out usage analyses and to continuously improve our services.
Your IP address is anonymised in this process, so that you, as a user, remain anonymous to us. You can, however, object to the gathering of your data by Matomo as follows:
- You can prevent cookies from being saved in your browser by changing your browser settings accordingly; however, please be aware that if you do so, you may no longer have full access to all the functions of our Website.
- By unchecking the following check box, you can prevent a web analysis cookie from being placed in your browser cache.
A so-called opt-out cookie will then be placed in your browser. Matomo will not collect any session data in this case. Please note: if you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will be deleted as well. In this case, you need to reactivate the check box when visiting our Website the next time if you still want to prevent any data gathering by Matomo.
If you have enabled the “do not track” feature in your browser, Matomo does not track your visit on our Website. If you have not activated this feature, you give your consent to the anonymised processing of your personal data by Matomo for the purpose specified above by using this Website.
8. Log Files
Besides the evaluation by Matomo, every time a page is accessed, our web server retains access data of this process in a log file. We are provided with usage data in connection with the access which is retained for statistical purposes and may allow identification by means of the IP address. Normally, information such as your IP address, time and duration of your visit, operating system, browser and page impressions is gathered. In some circumstances, this data is personal data, which is the case, in particular, if we have a claim against your Internet provider to disclose your identity (e.g. in case of unlawful behaviour). We use this data only for error analysis. Profiles about our customers’ / Website visitors’ usage behaviour are explicitly not created based on this data.
9. Use of Personal Data by YouTube When Viewing YouTube Videos
You can find videos embedded from the YouTube platform on our online offering. The operator of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Once you visit a page of our online offering in which a YouTube video has been embedded, the plug-in is started to provide the corresponding audio-visual YouTube contents. YouTube uses cookies to determine the video you have viewed and, based on the viewed video, to display similar, new or thematically related videos to you during your next visit to YouTube. Moreover, YouTube may use corresponding information to display relevant advertising. In addition, YouTube is provided with information as to the pages you have accessed on our online offering.
If you are logged into YouTube and/or your Google account while visiting our online offering, YouTube and Google may assign your activities to your user account, so that you may be identifiable for YouTube and YouTube will process your personal data under those circumstances. You can prevent your activities from being tracked via your user account by logging out and erasing the cookies.
More detailed information on data processing and information on data protection from YouTube or Google can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB&gl=de and at https://privacy.google.com/intl/en-GB/your-data.html.
10. Cookies
We use cookies on our websites. A cookie is a small text file which is transmitted from us to your computer if you browse our pages.
The cookies enable us to manage the status of your online visit, to ensure smooth navigation between the different Website services and contents and in order to provide you with permanently recurring setting on the Website.
The cookies do not retain any security-related or personal data. Furthermore, cookies cannot transmit viruses, harvest data on your computer or send e-mails unnoticed. Moreover, each web server can only read the cookies it itself has placed.
You can refuse the acceptance of cookies via your browser settings. Please note that, in this case, some of our Website features may no longer be available (e.g. the opt-out feature of Matomo).