Privacy Notice www.kraahs.com

We know that you care about which information about you is used and stored. We strictly observe the legal provisions and regulations when processing your personal data and we are committed to maintaining robust privacy protections for all our users.

This Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide. It explains how we handle your personal information and how you can access and update your preferences.

Controller of personal information

The responsible body for the collection, processing and use of your personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (Art. 4 (7) GDPR) is:

Dr. Peter Kraahs
Im Bühl 13
79189 Bad Krozingen
Germany

Contact:

Phone: +49 7633 8209194
E-Mail: peter@kraahs.com

General Information about Data we Collect

We collect “Non-Personal Data” but also “Personal Data”.

Personal Data include, for example, your email, contact and company address information etc. that you provide us.

Non-Personal Data include all information that cannot be used to identify you as a person, such as usage data, generic demographic information, landing page hit rates referring to our website pages or URLs. When non-personal data is being linked to personal data it becomes personal data.

Information about the collection of personal data when you visit our website

Anyone may visit the public areas of our website www.kraahs.com without disclosing personal data (name, address, etc.). Personal data is only requested by us if it is needed to optimize the services provided to you.

When you use our website for informational purposes, only, and for as long as you do not provide us with any information about you, then we only collect data that is technically necessary for us to show you our website and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Such data are:

  • IP address of the accessing computer

Information about the collection of personal data when you email us or fill in a form

When you contact us by e-mail or through a form on our website, the information you provide (your e-mail address, your first name and last name, plus further information you provide us with) will be stored by us to answer your questions, to process transactions that you have requested, to pass on information about our products and solutions (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

If your request relates to an existing contractual relationship with you or you are interested in concluding a contract, legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR – contract initiation and contract fulfillment.

The transmitted data will be deleted as soon as the storage is no longer necessary. If there are statutory retention requirements, processing is restricted.

Cookies

We are using cookies on our website.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on a user’s computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and they can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the server to deliver a page tailored to a particular user, or the page itself can contain some script that is aware of the data in the cookie and so is able to carry information from one visit to the website (or related site) to the next (see http://www.whatarecookies.com/).

What are Cookies being used for?

Cookies help to improve your experience with our website by helping you resume where you left off, remembering your preferences, and or providing you with various tailored functions, such as showing you content targeted to your interests. We use information derived from cookies to improve the navigation structure of our website and optimize their user-friendliness (legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

What kind of Cookies?

Temporary cookies / session cookies

How can I avoid the placing of Cookies on my device?

You can declare that you do not wish that we place cookies on your device. When opening the website you will see a banner that is being shown on the website. User the respective buttons to express that you do not wish us to place cookies onto your device.

You can also set your browser to notify you before cookies are received or you can turn off cookies permanently. Or you can deactivate the placing of cookies in your browser settings.

You can at any time delete cookies that already have been stored on your device. Files containing cookies are usually stored in your browser directory.

Deleting Cookies Manually by You

At any time, you can delete cookies in the security settings of your browser.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. („Google“). Google Analytics requires the placing of „cookies“ on the device from which you access the web pages. Cookies are small text files containing information about your IP address, the pages you have visited, etc. Cookies enable us to analyze the use of our web pages by you. In addition, for the purpose of identifying trends and improving our online offer, usage data such as the page last visited, the browser used, date, time, etc. are being evaluated.

The information generated by the cookie about the use of the web pages are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US Framework.

IP anonymization has been activated on our website. As a result, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission. In exceptional cases, the full IP address is transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

For more information, see: IP Anonymization in Google Analytics.

On our behalf, Google will use the information obtained from cookies to evaluate the use of the web pages by you, to compile reports on web page activity and to provide other services related to web page activity and internet usage to use. However, the IP address transmitted by your browser is not merged with other Google data. This is our legitimate interest in data processing. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art 6(1)(f) GDPR.

In addition, data submitted to Google via the Google Analytics service is linked by Google with third-party cookies associated with visits to other websites, such as when an advertiser uses their Google Analytics data to create more relevant ads, or would like to more accurately analyze their traffic. More about this can be found under the explanatory page about Google Analytics provided by Google.

You may prevent the cookie generated information (including your IP address) from being collected, transmitted to Google and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link (effective only for the device on which you install the browser plug-in): http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (not for mobile devices).

Instead, you can prevent the placing of cookies on your device by adapting the settings in your browser software accordingly.

This website also uses Google Analytics for cross-device analysis of visitor traffic, on the basis of a User ID per visitor. You can prevent this by performing the opt-out on all systems used. If you click here, the opt-out cookie will be set on your current device: [xxx].

Information about Google can be found at:

Google Analytics deaktivieren

 

Caldera Forms

This website uses a plugin called Caldera Forms.This is a service for creating contact forms. It is only used to forward data entered by you to our email address. The personal data entered therein are not additionally stored in the WordPress database or with the provider of the plugin. More information about Caldera Forms can be found at https://calderaforms.com.For Communication between browser and server HTTPS (SSL / TLS) encryption is used.

Use of Google Web Fonts

This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.The browser you are using connects to the Google servers, which gives Google knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers (legal basis is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR). You have a right to object to the processing of your data in this way, although you must contact Google to exercise this right. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s data protection declaration: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Passing on your personal data to other recipients

We only share your personal data with third parties if: a)     you have consented to this (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR)b)     it is necessary to fulfill the contract with you or to carry out pre-contractual measures (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR)c)     it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR)d)     we are legally obliged to transmit data to state authorities, e.g. B. Tax authorities, social security institutions, health insurance companies, supervisory authorities and law enforcement agencies.e)     it is necessary to pursue our claims / to protect our legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data, (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).f)      according to Art. 28 GDPR, we use external service providers, so-called processors, who are obliged to handle your data with care.

We use such service providers in the areas:

▪IT

▪logistics

▪telekommunication

▪sales

▪marketing

Rights of affected persons

Under certain prerequisites you can assert your data protection rights against us:

  • Right to withdraw consent: If you have consented to certain types of processing activities, you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. However, please note that this withdrawal does not affect the legitimacy of the processing activities that took place before you withdrew your consent, or if the processing can be justified on the grounds of another legal basis.
  • Right for to obtain information: You thus have the right to obtain information from us about your data stored in our company according to the regulations of Art. 15 GDPR (if applicable with restrictions according to Section 34 BDSG).
  • Right to correction: Following an application from you we will rectify the data stored in relation to your person according to Art. 16 GDPR if these are incorrect or faulty.
  • Right to deletion: If you request it we will delete your data according to the principles of Art. 17 GDPR, if this is not opposed by other statutory regulations (e.g. Statutory storage obligations or the restrictions according to Section 35 BDSG) or a main interest on our part (e.g. for the defence of our rights and claims).

–      Right to restrict processing: By taking the prerequisites of Art. 18 GDPR into consideration you can request that we restrict the processing of your data.-      Right to object: According to Art. 21 GDPR you have a right to object to the processing based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Processing is then based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, if the processing is not necessary, for example, to fulfill a contract, but is based on a balance of interests.–      Right to data transferability: In accordance with the regulatory requirements of Art. 20 GDPR, you also have the right to receive your data in a structured, popular and machine-readable format, or to have the same transmitted to a third party.-      Complaint submitted to the data privacy authority: You also have the right to submit a complaint to a data privacy supervisory authority in the member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation (Art. 77 GDPR). An overview of the supervisory authorities in Germany can be found here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html