Data protection regulation

Data protection regulation
We take the protection of your personal data seriously and adhere to the rules of the applicable data protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (GDPR), as well as this Privacy Policy. Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network Instagram.com (Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; hereinafter “Instagram”).

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
The privacy policy gives you an overview of what kind of personal data is processed and for what purpose. Furthermore, this privacy policy states how we ensure the protection of your personal data.

1. Name and contact details of the responsible person for the data processing
This data protection information applies to data processing by:
Responsible party:

Wilhelm Taubert GmbH
Managing director: Sarah Taubert
Am Schornacker 66
D-46485 Wesel

Phone: +49 (0) 281 20 64 60 – 0
Fax: +49 (0) 281 20 64 60 – 19
E-Mail: info@wilhelm-taubert.de
Website: wilhelm-taubert.de

2. Collection and archiving of personal data as well as the type and purpose of their use

a) When visiting our website
You can visit our website wilhelm-taubert.de without having to provide us with any information about yourself (who you are).

In the case of such purely informational use of our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information about yourself, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server.

When you visit our website wilhelm-taubert.de, information is automatically sent to our website server by the browser used on your terminal device. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

  • IP-Adress of the requesting computer,
  • date and time of access,
  • name and URL of the file accessed,
  • website from which the access was made (referrer URL)
  • the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of you computer as well as the name of you access provider, language, and version of the browser software.

The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website
  • Ensuring a comfortable use of our website,
  • evaluating system security and stability, and
  • for other administrative purposes

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. q lit. f) EU-GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

b) Customer acquisition, customer administration and order processing
In the course of customer acquisition, customer administration and order processing, we process personal data in addition to company-related data. The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. Your personal data is therefore processed exclusively on the basis of the legal provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation and in accordance with the applicable country-specific data protection regulations. ith the following transparency declaration, we inform you about the most important aspects of the data processing of your personal data in our company.

The following categories of personal data are processed by us:

  • Company master data and contact data
  • Contact person and contact details
  • Product interest
  • Offer documents
  • Orderer data
  • Contract documents
  • User data (user names, access data)
  • Billing data
  • Payment data
  • Bank details
  • Comparable data

The personal data originates from the following source:

The personal data stored by us originate on the one hand from direct collection through contact on your part with our company, where you provide us with your data in the context of an enquiry, placing an order, for order processing, invoicing, etc..

On the other hand, the data stored by us may also originate from industry directories or publicly accessible directories.

Furthermore, the aforementioned data stored by us may originate from surveys of sales partners who provide us with the aforementioned data if you are interested in the product.
The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:

  • Customer administration
  • Order processing and handling
  • Customer acquisition
  • Enquiry processing
  • Offer preparation
  • Contacting for contract fulfillment
  • Direct advertising

Durations for which we store you personal data:

Your data will only be stored and processed for the purposes stated above. As soon as the purpose is no longer given, your personal data will be deleted immediately, provided that there are no retention obligations to the contrary. If your personal data is processed for another purpose, we will inform you immediately about this change of purpose.

The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of the following legal basis:

  1. The legal basis for processing your personal data is the fulfilment of a contract (order processing, order handling, etc.) according to Art. 6 para. (1) b or the implementation of pre-contractual measures (e.g. offer transmission) according to Art. 6 para. 1) b or the implementation of pre-contractual measures (e.g. offer transmission) according to Art. 6 para.
  2. The legal basis for processing is also based on a legitimate interest in processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. (1) c GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to determine the needs of interested parties, to carry out advertising measures to inform potential interested parties about the product portfolio and to initiate business in order to maintain and expand business activities and thus secure jobs.
  3. The legal basis for processing your personal data may also be based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) a DSGVO, insofar as you have given us consent to process your personal data for specific purposes.

3. Disclosure of data to third parties
Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. n particular, no data will be passed on to third parties, e.g. for advertising purposes, without your express consent.

We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • You have given your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 Abs. 1 p. q lit. a) EU-GDPR; this is necessary according
  • according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 p. q lit. b) EU-DSGVO for the processing of contractual relationships with you, e.g. to credit institutions for the processing of contractually agreed payments, to shipping and transport companies for the purpose of transporting goods incl. tracking of consignments, in the event of non-fulfilment of contractually agreed payments for the purpose of legal enforcement to lawyers and legal services companies;
  • in the event that a legal obligation exists for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. q lit. (c) EU GDPR a legal obligation exists; or
  • defence of legal claims pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 p. q lit. f) EU-DSGVO and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data.

4. Duration of archiving and deletion of data
In particular, your personal data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed. Thereafter, the data will be deleted unless storage is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to process under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

A legal obligation is represented by the statutory retention obligations, which amount to e.g. 10 years (for accounting data incl. order and payment data, payroll accounting) or 6 years (for commercial correspondence). During the period of the retention obligations, the data is blocked, after which it is deleted.

5. Rights of the data subject
You have the right

  • to revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3) EU-GDPR. This means that we may no longer continue the data precessing based on this consent in the future. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by your revocation;
  • to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 EU-DSGVO. n doing so, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data if it has not been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;
  • in accordance with Art. 16 EU-DSGVO, to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us;
  • in accordance with Art. 17 EU-GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims;
  • in accordance with Art. 18 EU-DSGVO, to request 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 object to its erasure and we no longer require the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO;
  • in accordance with Art. 20 EU-DSGVO, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller;
  • complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 EU-DSGVO. The competent supervisory authority is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based. An overview of the state data protection commissioners and their contact details can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

6. Right of appeal
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) 1 p. q lit. f) EU-GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation. In the event of your justified objection, we will review the situation and either discontinue or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

7. Data security
We use appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

We also use SSL or TLS encryption (SSL = Secure Sockets Layer; TLS = Transport Layer Security; SSL is the previous designation of TLS) within your website visit. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://”, and also by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

8. State and possible modification of this data protection declaration
This data protection declaration is valid as of May 2018.

Due to technical developments and/or changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this data protection declaration. You can see whether changes have been made by the fact that the “Status” of the document has been updated in the first paragraph of this section 7.
You can access and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on our website at wilhelm-taubert.de.

Use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps to display a map of the site. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of automatically collected data and data provided by you by Google, one of its agents, or third parties.

The terms of use for Google Maps can be found under Terms of Use for Google Maps. For full details, please visit the google.com Privacy Centre: Transparency and Choice and Privacy Policy.

Use of Youtube

We use the provider YouTube to embed videos. The videos are embedded in the extended data protection mode. Like most websites, however, YouTube also uses cookies to collect information about visitors to its website. YouTube uses these, among other things, to collect video statistics, to prevent fraud and to improve user-friendliness. This also leads to a connection with the Google DoubleClick network. When you start the video, this could trigger further data processing operations. We have no control over this. For more information about data protection at YouTube, please see their privacy policy at: http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) please see their privacy policy at:http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube


Use of Facebook social plugins

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).

The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo. When you call up a web page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which then integrates it into the website.
By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy. If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

Use of Instagram social plugins

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network Instagram.com (Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; hereinafter “Instagram”).

You can recognise the plugins by the Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”. Your browser establishes a direct connection to the Instagram servers when you call up a page of our website with such a plugin. Instagram directly transmits the content of the plugin to your browser, where it is integrated into the page. In this way, Instagram is informed that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website. This also applies if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram.

Your browser sends this information together with your IP address directly to an Instagram server in the USA, where it is stored. If you log in to Instagram, your visit to our website can be directly assigned to your Instagram account by Instagram. If you work with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Instagram” button, Instagram also sends this information directly to a company-owned server where it is stored.

Furthermore, Instagram publishes this information on your Instagram account and shows it to your contacts there. You can prevent Instagram from directly assigning the data collected via our website to your Instagram account. To do this, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can find more information in Instagram’s privacy policy (https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388).

You can find more information in Instagram’s privacy policy (https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388).