Rauschmayer Holding GmbH takes the protection of your personal data seriously and adheres to the statutory data protection regulations. Personal data is only collected on this website to the extent technically necessary. Under no circumstances will the collected data be sold or passed on to third parties for other reasons.

The following statement gives you an overview of how we guarantee this protection and what type of data is collected for what purpose.

§ 1 Name and contact details of the person responsible for processing and the company data protection officer Responsible in accordance with Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Rauschmayer Holding GmbH, Karlsruher Str. 89, 75179 Pforzheim, represented by the managing directors Rico Roland Rauschmayer and Chris Roy Rauschmayer, info@rauschmayer.com, phone +49 7231 3805 0, fax +49 7231 3805 24.

You can reach our data protection officer, Ms. Vera Zimmermann, at the above address with the addition "The data protection officer" or at E-Mail datenschutz@rauschmayer.com

§ 2 Information about the collection of personal data (1) In the following we provide information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. B. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there are statutory storage obligations.

(3) If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes. We also state the specified criteria for the storage period.

§ 3 Your rights You have the following rights towards us with regard to your personal data:

• to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 DS-GVO. In particular, you can obtain information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data was or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a Right to complain, the origin of your data, if not collected from us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about their details;

• In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;

• According to Art. 17 DS-GVO to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defense of legal claims is required;

• according to Art. 18 DS-GVO to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you use them for need to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;

• in accordance with Art. 20 DS-GVO, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible;

• according to Art. 7 Para. 3 DS-GVO, to revoke your consent given to us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent for the future and

• to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or our headquarters.

§ 4 Collection of personal data when visiting our website (1) If you only use the website for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you would like to view our website, we collect the following data that is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO ):

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access Status/HTTP Status Code
• amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request comes
• Browsers
• Operating system and its interface
• Browser software language and version.

(2) The data mentioned will be processed by us for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection establishment of the website,
• Ensuring comfortable use of our website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well
• for other administrative purposes.

Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

(3) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive, assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the place that sets the cookie (here from us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies or comparable software, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

• Transient cookies (see b)
• Persistent cookies (see c)
• Flash cookies (see f)
• HTML5 storage objects (see f)

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which can vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and e.g. B. refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

e) We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.]

f) The Flash cookies used are not recorded by your browser, but by your Flash plug-in. We also use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your end device. These objects store the required data regardless of the browser you use and do not have an automatic expiry date. If you do not wish the Flash cookies to be processed, you must install an appropriate add-on, e.g. B. "Better Privacy" for Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/) or the Adobe Flash Killer cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using private mode in your browser. We also recommend manually deleting your cookies and browser history on a regular basis.

(4) In addition, we use analysis services when you visit our website. Further explanations are given below.

§ 5 Use of our contact form (1) If you have any questions, we offer you the opportunity to contact us using a form provided on the website. It is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address so that we know who sent the request and can answer it. Further information can be provided voluntarily.

(2) Data processing for the purpose of contacting us takes place in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntarily given consent.

(3) The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after your request has been dealt with.

§ 6 Other functions and offers of our website (1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services (e.g. newsletter) that you can use if you are interested. To do this, you usually have to provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.

(3) We can also pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more detailed information on this when you enter your personal data or below in the description of the offer.

(4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

§ 7 Use of blog functions (1) You can make public comments on our blog, in which we publish various articles on topics related to our activities. Your comment will be published with your specified username on the post. We recommend using a pseudonym instead of your real name. It is necessary to provide a user name and e-mail address, all other information is voluntary. If you leave a comment, we will continue to store your IP address, which we will delete after [one week]. The storage is necessary for us in order to be able to defend ourselves against liability claims in cases of possible publication of illegal content. We need your e-mail address in order to contact you if a third party should object to your comment as being illegal. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. b and f GDPR. Comments are not reviewed prior to publication. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are objected to as illegal by third parties.

§ 8 Use of our web shop (1) If you would like to order in our web shop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need to process your order. Mandatory information required for the processing of the contracts is marked separately, further information is voluntary. We process the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we can pass on your payment data to our house bank. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.
You can voluntarily create a customer account through which we can save your data for future purchases. When you create an account under "My Account", the data you provide will be stored revocably. You can always delete all other data, including your user account, in the customer area. We can also process the data you provide to inform you about other interesting products from our portfolio or to send you e-mails with technical information.

(2) Due to commercial and tax law requirements, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. However, after [two years] we will restrict the processing, ie your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations.

(3) To prevent unauthorized access by third parties to your personal data, especially financial data, the ordering process is encrypted using TLS technology.

§ 9 Use of our portal (1) If you would like to use our portal, you must register by entering your e-mail address, a password of your choice and your freely selectable user name. There is no obligation to use a real name, pseudonymous use is possible. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registration, ie your registration is not complete until you have previously confirmed your registration by clicking on the link contained in a confirmation e-mail sent to you for this purpose. If you do not confirm this within [24 hours], your registration will be automatically deleted from our database. The provision of the aforementioned data is mandatory, you can provide all other information voluntarily by using our portal.

(2) If you use our portal, we store your data required to fulfill the contract, including information on the method of payment, until you finally delete your access. Furthermore, we store the data you provide voluntarily for the duration of your use of the portal, unless you delete them beforehand. You can manage and change all information in the protected customer area. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR.

(3) If you use the portal, your data may become accessible to other participants in the portal in accordance with the contractual service. Members who are not registered do not receive any information about you. Your [username and photo] are visible to all registered members, regardless of whether you have approved them. On the other hand, your entire profile with the data you have released is visible to all members who you have confirmed as a personal contact. If you make content accessible to your personal contacts that you do not send via a private message, this content can be viewed by third parties if your personal contact has given permission. If you post in public groups, these are visible to all registered members of the portal.

(4) In order to prevent unauthorized access by third parties to your personal data, in particular financial data, the connection is encrypted using TLS technology.

§ 10 Use of our forum (1) Our forum can be read without a registration being required. If you would like to actively participate in the forum, you must register by entering your e-mail address, a password of your choice and a user name of your choice. There is no obligation to use a real name, pseudonymous use is possible. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registration, ie your registration is not complete until you have previously confirmed your registration by clicking on the link contained in a confirmation e-mail sent to you for this purpose. If you do not confirm this within [24 hours], your registration will be automatically deleted from our database.

(2) If you register a forum account, we will store all the information you enter in the forum, i.e. public posts, wall entries, friendships, private messages, etc., in addition to your registration data until you log out, in order to operate the forum. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR.

(3) If you delete your account, your public statements, in particular contributions to the forum, remain visible to all readers, but your account can no longer be accessed and is marked with "[guest]" in the forum. All other data will be deleted.

§ 11 Passing on of data Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

• You have given your express consent to this in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit.

• Disclosure is necessary in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of the GDPR to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data,

• in the event that there is a legal obligation for disclosure under Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter c GDPR, and

• this is legally permissible and required for the processing of contractual relationships with you in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b of the GDPR.

§ 12 Newsletter (1) With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you about our current interesting offers. The advertised goods and services are named in the declaration of consent.

(2) We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to register for our newsletter. This means that after you have registered, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address provided, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store the IP addresses you use and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to be able to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.

(3) The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. Providing further, separately marked data is voluntary and is used to be able to address you personally. After your confirmation, we will save your e-mail address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The legal basis is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a GDPR.

(4) You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can withdraw your consent by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email, by email to marketing@rauschmayer.com  or by sending a message to the contact details given in the imprint.

(5) We do not evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. We therefore do not use this to create a user profile for you. We therefore do not use any so-called web beacons or tracking pixels.

§ 13 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data (1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation affects the admissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have given it to us. (2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary in particular to fulfill a contract with you, which is shown by us in the following description of the functions. If you exercise such an objection, we ask that you explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and will either discontinue or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling reasons worthy of protection on the basis of which we will continue the processing. (3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time. (4) You can inform us of your objection using the following contact details: datenschutz@rauschmayer.com

§ 14 Use of Analysis Programs I. Google Analytics

(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated 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 will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

(3) You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) being sent to Google and the processing of this data by Google by using the browser plug-in available under the following link. Download and install in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". As a result, IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, which means that they cannot be linked to individuals. If the data collected about you has a personal reference, this will be excluded immediately and the personal data will be deleted immediately.

(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework . The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR.

(6) Third Party Information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of Use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Overview of data protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html , as well as the privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy .

(7) This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under “My data”, “Personal data”.

§ 15 Online advertising, Google AdSense(1) This website uses the online advertising service Google AdSense, through which advertising tailored to your interests can be presented to you. We are interested in showing you advertisements that may be of interest to you in order to make our website more interesting for you. For this purpose, statistical information about you is recorded, which is processed by our advertising partners. These advertisements can be recognized by the reference "Google ads" in the respective ad.

v (2) By visiting our website, Google receives the information that you have accessed our website. To do this, Google uses a web beacon to place a cookie on your computer. The data mentioned under § 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. We have no influence on the data collected, nor do we know the full extent of the data collection and the storage period. Your data will be transferred to the USA and evaluated there. If you are logged in with your Google account, your data can be assigned directly to this. If you do not wish to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out. It is possible that this data will be passed on to Google's contractual partners, third parties and authorities. The legal basis for the processing of your data is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR. This site has also enabled third-party Google AdSense ads. The aforementioned data can be sent to these third-party providers (named under https://support.google.com/dfp_sb/answer/94149) be transmitted.]

(3) You can prevent the installation of Google AdSense cookies in various ways:

a) by setting your browser software accordingly, in particular the suppression of third-party cookies means that you will not receive any advertisements from third-party providers;

b) by deactivating interest-based ads on Google via the link http://www.google.de/ads/preferences, although this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

c) by deactivating interest-based ads from providers who are part of the "About Ads" self-regulatory campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, although this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

d) by permanent deactivation in your Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome browser under the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this offer to their full extent.

(4) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing as well as further information on your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be obtained from: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA; Advertising Privacy Policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/technologies/ads. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

§ 16 Use of Google Adwords conversion tracking We use the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking as part of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). If you click on an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie will be placed on your computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days, contain no personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification.

If you visit certain web pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. As a result, there is no way that cookies can be tracked through AdWords advertisers' websites.

The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Here, customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by preventing the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly (deactivation option). You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information and Google's data protection declaration can be found at: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/, http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

§ 17 Data security (1) Within the website visit, we use the widespread SSL method (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. This is usually a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is being transmitted in encrypted form by the closed representation of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

(2) We also use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

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