1. data protection 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 is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration 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. You can find their contact details in the “Information on the controller” section of this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter in a contact form.

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

What do we use your data for?

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

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. 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 for the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time regarding this and other questions on the subject of data protection.

2. hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider:

External hosting

This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the hoster(s). This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

External hosting is carried out for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of 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.

Our hoster(s) will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its performance obligations and follow our instructions with regard to this data.

We use the following host(s):

Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 4-6
32339 Espelkamp

3 General notes 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 is collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the responsible body

The party responsible for data processing on this website is

Bundesverband Ausbeultechnik und Hagelinstandsetzung e.V.
Haus des Kfz-Gewerbes
Obentrautstr. 16-18
10963 Berlin

Telephone: +49 30 680850-80
E-mail: info@bvat.de

4. Data Collection on This Website

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your information from the form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively processing the inquiries directed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if requested; consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent to its storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory legal provisions – especially retention periods – remain unaffected.

5. Analytics Tools and Advertising

WP Statistics

This website uses the WP Statistics analytics tool to statistically evaluate visitor traffic. The provider is Veronalabs, Tatari 64, 10134, Tallinn, Estonia (https://veronalabs.com).

6. Newsletter

Newsletter Delivery to Existing Customers

If you purchase goods or services from us and provide your email address in the process, we may subsequently use this email address to send you newsletters – provided we have informed you about this in advance. In such cases, the newsletter will only contain direct advertising for similar products or services of our own.

You can unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time. A corresponding link can be found in every newsletter. The legal basis for sending the newsletter in this case is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in conjunction with § 7(3) UWG (German Act Against Unfair Competition).

After unsubscribing from the newsletter distribution list, your email address may be stored in a blacklist to prevent future mailings. Data from the blacklist is used exclusively for this purpose and is not merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with legal requirements for newsletter distribution (legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not time-limited. You may object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

WP Statistics allows us to analyze the usage of our website. WP Statistics collects log files (e.g., IP address, referrer, browser used, country of origin, search engine used) and actions that site visitors perform on the site (e.g., clicks and views).

The data collected with WP Statistics is stored exclusively on our own server.

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior to optimize both our web offering and our advertising. If consent has been requested, processing is based solely on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG, if consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s end device (e.g., device fingerprinting). Consent can be revoked at any time.

IP Anonymization

We use WP Statistics with anonymized IPs. Your IP address is truncated, so it can no longer be directly attributed to you.

7. Plugins and Tools

Google Fonts

This site uses Google Fonts for the uniform display of fonts, provided by Google. When you access a page, your browser loads the required fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

To do this, the browser you use must connect to Google’s servers. As a result, Google becomes aware that this website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Fonts is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of the typeface on the website. If corresponding consent was requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG, as long as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s terminal device (e.g., device fingerprinting). Consent can be revoked at any time.

If your browser does not support Google Fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

More 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=en

Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).
The DPF is an agreement between the EU and the USA to ensure that data processing in the USA complies with EU data protection standards. Companies certified under the DPF commit to these standards. More information:
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780

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hCaptcha

We use hCaptcha on this website. The provider is Intuition Machines, Inc., 2211 Selig Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA (hereinafter “IMI”).

hCaptcha is used to check whether data entered on this website (e.g., in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of website visitors based on various characteristics.

This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor accesses a website with hCaptcha activated. hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g., IP address, time spent on the website, mouse movements). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to IMI. When hCaptcha is used in “invisible mode,” the analyses run completely in the background. Visitors are not explicitly informed.

The data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web services from abusive automated crawling and spam. If corresponding consent has been obtained, processing is based solely on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG, if the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s device. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Data processing is based on standard contractual clauses included in IMI’s Data Processing Addendum.

More information about hCaptcha can be found in the hCaptcha privacy policy and terms of use:
https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy
https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms

IMI is also certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).
More information:
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/6388