Data privacy

1. Data privacy at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on data privacy can be found in the data privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The contact information of the website operator is listed in the section “Information on the responsible party” in this data privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is, for instance, collected as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may be information you enter in a contact form.

Other data are collected by our IT systems automatically or after your consent when you visit the website. These are mainly technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time the website was accessed). These data are collected automatically as soon as you access this website.

How do we use your data?

Part of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have with regard to your data?

You have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request rectification or erasure of these data. If you have consented to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time in the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time concerning this or any other data privacy-related issues.

2. Hosting and content delivery networks (CDN)

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the hoster. These may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

The hoster is used for the purpose of contract fulfilment with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of a safe, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Our hoster will only process your data insofar as necessary to fulfil its obligations to perform and will follow our instructions regarding this data.

We use the following hoster:

MedienMacher BWG Werbegesellschaft mbH
Industriestr. 25
D-77656 Offenburg

Conclusion of a Contract on Order Processing

To ensure processing complies with data protection laws, we have concluded an order processing agreement with our hoster.

3. General notes and compulsory information

Data Privacy

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data privacy policy.

When you use this website, different personal data will be collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. This data privacy policy explains which data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for which purpose data is collected.

We would like to point out that data transmission via the Internet (e.g. during e-mail communication) may be associated with security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the responsible party (controller)

The data processing controller on this website is:

Sima GmbH
Anton-Tonoli-Str. 3
D-77790 Steinach

Phone: +49 (0)7832 97530-0
E-Mail: info@sima-handel.com

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

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, we will retain your personal data until the purpose for which it was collected no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for erasure or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be erased unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial law retention periods); in the latter case, the data will be deleted after these reasons cease to apply.

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. The revocation of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent prior to revocation.

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

IF DATA PROCESSING TAKES PLACE ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, AT ANY TIME TO PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOUR PERSON; INCLUDING PROFILING BASED ON THOSE PROVISONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL FOUNDATION ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS DATA PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU LODGE AN OBJECTION, WE WILLL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPULSORY LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING WHICH OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OR FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS. (OBJECTION ACC. TO ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOUR PERSON FOR SUCH MARKETING, WHICH INCLUDES PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA SHALL NO LONGER BE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETIING (OBJECTION ACC: TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

The Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects will have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of his or her habitual residence, place of work or 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 on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or a third party in a commonly used and machine-readable format. If you exercise your right to have the personal data transmitted directly to another controller, this will only be done provided it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or requests, which you send to us as the website operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. An encrypted connection can be recognised by the browser's address line changing from "http://" to "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

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

Information, erasure and rectification

Within the scope of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to receive information at no charge about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing and, where applicable, a right to rectification and erasure of these data. Should you have any questions relating to this topic or to the topic of personal data, you can contact us at any time.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. Should you have any questions relating to this topic, you can contact us at any time. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we normally require some time to review this claim. You have the right to request that processing of your personal data be restricted for the duration of the review.
• If processing of your personal data has been or is being done on an illegal basis, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
• If we no longer require your personal data, but you require them for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
• If you have raised an objection acc. to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. 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 requested that processing of your personal data be restricted, such data will – with the exception of storage – only be processed with the 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 important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

Objection to receiving promotional e-mails

We herewith object to the use of contact data published within the framework of the mandatory legal notice for the transmission of promotional and information material not expressly requested. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of promotional information such as spam e-mails.

4. Data collection on this website

Server log files

The provider of the website 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
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server enquiry
• IP address

These data are not merged with other data sources.

These data are collected on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of its website – for this purpose the server log files need to be recorded.

Enquiry by e-mail, telephone or telefax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or telefax, your enquiry, including all personal data provided therein (name, enquiry), will be stored and processed for the purpose of processing your request. We will not share these data without your consent.

These data are processed based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR provided your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary to implement pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of enquiries directed to us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) provided it has been requested.

We will retain the data transmitted to us per contact requests until you request their erasure, revoke your consent to their storage or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. once your request has been processed). Compulsory statutory provisions – in particular statutory record retention periods – remain unaffected.

5. Plug-ins and tools

Google web fonts (local hosting)

This website uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. The Google fonts are locally installed. No connection to the Google servers takes place in the process.

Further information on Google web fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the data privacy policy of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

OpenStreetMap

We use the map service OpenStreetMap (OSM). The provider is the Open-Street-Map Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom.

When you visit a website on which OpenStreetMap is integrated, your IP address and other information, e.g., your behaviour on this website, will be transmitted to OSMF. For this purpose, OpenStreetMap may store cookies in your browser or use similar recognition technologies.

In addition, your location may be recorded if you have consented to this in your device settings, e.g. on your mobile phone. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transmission. Details can be found in the data privacy policy from OpenStreetMap under the following link: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

We use OpenStreetMap to ensure an appealing presentation of our online offers and to facilitate the location of places indicated by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a corresponding consent was requested (e.g. consent to store cookies), the processing is based solely on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; this consent can be revoked at any time.