Privacy, mandatory information under the GDPR

Designation of the responsible party

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

Ittermann electronic GmbH
Ralf Ittermann
Köhlergasse 16, 18
99842 Ruhla

The responsible party decides, alone or jointly with others, on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, contact details, or similar).

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Some data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient for the withdrawal. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the point of withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

As a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of a breach of data protection law.

The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. The following link provides contact details: https://www.bfdi.bund.de.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract handed over to you or to third parties.

It is provided in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.

Right to information, correction, blocking, and deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, the origin of the data, their recipients, and the purpose of the data processing and, where applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data.

In this regard, and for further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time using the contact options listed in the legal notice.

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator, our website uses SSL and TLS encryption.

This means that data you transmit via this website cannot be read by third parties. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the \„https://\“ address line of your browser and by the lock symbol in the browser bar.

In server log files, the provider of the website automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Page visited on our domain
• Date and time of the server request
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources. The basis for the data processing is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Data transmitted via the contact form is stored, including your contact details, in order to be able to process your enquiry or to be available for follow-up questions. This data is not passed on without your consent.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time.

An informal notification by email is sufficient for the withdrawal. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out up to the point of withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Data transmitted via the contact form remains with us until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent to its storage, or there is no longer any need to store the data. Mandatory legal provisions, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.

As a user of our website, you can subscribe to comments after registering. With a confirmation email, we check whether you are the owner of the email address provided. You can unsubscribe from the comment subscription function at any time via a link contained in a subscription email.

Data entered when setting up the subscription is deleted in the event of unsubscription. Should this data have been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it remains with us.

To send our newsletter, we require an email address from you. Verification of the email address provided is necessary, and receipt of the newsletter must be consented to. Additional data is not collected or is voluntary. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter.

The data provided when registering for the newsletter is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time.

An informal notification by email is sufficient for the withdrawal, or you can unsubscribe via the \„unsubscribe\“ link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Data entered when setting up the subscription is deleted in the event of unsubscription. Should this data have been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it remains with us.

For the integration and display of video content, our website uses plugins from YouTube. The provider of the video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you access a page with an integrated YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. YouTube thereby learns which of our pages you have accessed.

YouTube can assign your browsing behaviour directly to your personal profile if you are logged in to your YouTube account. By logging out beforehand, you have the option of preventing this.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

You can find details on the handling of user data in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

For the integration and display of video content, our website uses plugins from Vimeo. The provider of the video portal is Vimeo Inc. 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

When you access a page with an integrated Vimeo plugin, a connection to Vimeo’s servers is established. Vimeo thereby learns which of our pages you have accessed.

Vimeo learns your IP address even if you are not logged in to the video portal or do not have an account there. The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the video portal’s servers in the USA.

Vimeo can assign your browsing behaviour directly to your personal profile. By logging out beforehand, you have the option of preventing this.

You can find details on the handling of user data in Vimeo’s privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Our website uses cookies. These are small text files that your web browser stores on your device. Cookies help us to make our offering more user-friendly, more effective, and more secure.

Some cookies are \„session cookies.\“ Such cookies are automatically deleted after the end of your browser session. Other cookies, by contrast, remain on your device until you delete them yourself. Such cookies help us to recognise you when you return to our website.

With a modern web browser, you can monitor, restrict, or prevent the setting of cookies. Many web browsers can be configured so that cookies are automatically deleted when the program is closed. Disabling cookies may result in limited functionality of our website.

The setting of cookies that are necessary to carry out electronic communication processes or to provide certain functions you have requested (e.g. shopping cart) takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and smooth provision of our services. If other cookies (e.g. for analysis functions) are set, these are dealt with separately in this privacy policy.

Our website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider of the web analytics service is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses \„cookies.\“ These are small text files that your web browser stores on your device and that enable an analysis of website usage. Information generated by means of cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to a Google server and stored there. The server location is generally the USA.

The setting of Google Analytics cookies takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise our web offering and, where applicable, our advertising.

IP anonymisation

We use Google Analytics in conjunction with the IP anonymisation function. It ensures that Google truncates your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA.

There may be exceptional cases in which Google transmits the full IP address to a server in the USA and truncates it there.

On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with further services associated with website use and internet use. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

Browser plugin

The setting of cookies by your web browser can be prevented. However, some functions of our website could thereby be restricted.

You can also prevent the collection of data relating to your website use, including your IP address, together with the subsequent processing by Google. This is possible by downloading and installing the browser plugin accessible via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to data collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the collection of your data on future visits to our website: Disable Google Analytics.

You can find details on the handling of user data by Google Analytics in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order processing

In order to fully comply with the statutory data protection requirements, we have concluded an order processing agreement with Google.

Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics

Our website uses the \„demographic characteristics\“ function of Google Analytics. With it, reports can be created that contain statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising by Google as well as from visitor data of third-party providers.

It is not possible to assign the data to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time. This is possible via the ad settings in your Google account or by generally prohibiting the collection of your data by Google Analytics, as explained in the section \„Objection to data collection.\“

Our website uses Google AdWords. The provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.

AdWords is an online advertising program. As part of the online advertising program, we work with conversion tracking. After a click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking is set. Cookies are small text files that your web browser stores on your device.

Google AdWords cookies lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve to personally identify users. By means of the cookie, Google and we can recognise that you clicked on an ad and were redirected to our website.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked across websites of AdWords customers. Conversion cookies are used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who use conversion tracking. AdWords customers learn how many users clicked on their ad and were redirected to pages with a conversion tracking tag.

However, AdWords customers do not receive any information that enables personal identification of users. If you do not wish to take part in tracking, you can object to such use.

Here, the conversion cookie is to be deactivated in the user settings of the browser. This way, there is also no inclusion in the conversion tracking statistics.

The storage of \„conversion cookies\“ takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. As the website operator, we have a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise our web offering and our advertising.

You can find details on Google AdWords and Google conversion tracking in Google’s privacy provisions: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.

With a modern web browser, you can monitor, restrict, or prevent the setting of cookies. Disabling cookies may result in limited functionality of our website.

Our website uses Web Fonts from Google. The provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Through the use of these Web Fonts, it becomes possible to present our website to you in the way we intend, regardless of which fonts are available to you locally.

This takes place via the retrieval of Google Web Fonts from a Google server in the USA and the associated transfer of your data to Google.

This concerns your IP address and which page you visited on our site. The use of Google Web Fonts takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in the optimal presentation and transmission of our web presence.

The company Google is certified for the US-European data protection agreement \„Privacy Shield.\“ This data protection agreement is intended to ensure compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

You can find details about Google Web Fonts at: https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about and further information in Google’s privacy provisions: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners?hl=de.

Source up to this point: privacy configurator from mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de.

We had completely thrown out Facebook for a while because the censorship became unbearable. In the meantime, the company seems to be siding more strongly with users again, so we are giving it another try:

On our website, we use the so-called \„Facebook Pixel\“ of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (Facebook Ireland Ltd.), 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

This serves to track the behaviour of users when they have been redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. This allows us to record the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and to optimise future advertising measures.

The data collected in this process is anonymous to us and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the identity of individual persons.

However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with its data usage policy.

The legal basis for use is generally your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.