MEBIKON takes the protection of personal data very seriously. We want you to know when we store which data and how we use it.
We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the legal provisions of the German Data Protection Act (BDSG), the German Telemedia Act (TMG), the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection regulations are observed. Compliance with applicable data protection law is subject to constant review by our data protection officer.
The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us:
Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision
Address: Promenade 27 (Castle), 91522 Ansbach
Postal address: P.O. Box 606, 91511 Ansbach
Personal data / subject of data protection
The subject of data protection is personal data. According to Section 3 (1) BDSG, this is individual information about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, information such as name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number, but may also include usage data such as your IP address.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties / scope of data collection and storage
When you place an order with us, we collect and store your personal data only to the extent necessary for the execution of the order or the performance of the contract (order processing and subsequent warranty and guarantee processing). For this purpose, it may be necessary to pass on your personal data to companies that we use to provide services or process contracts. These are, for example, transportation companies or other service providers.
If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of goods, we will use the e-mail address to advertise our own similar products. You can also object to any advertising use at any time.
Beyond this, we generally do not pass on your data to third parties. All persons at Degen who work with your data are bound by the statutory provisions. However, if we are obliged to do so by law or by court order, we will pass on your data to authorities entitled to receive information.
Right to object to the use of data
If we have stored personal data about you, you can object to the use of your data at any time in accordance with the Bayer. Data Protection Act (Art. 17 BayDSG), you can object to the use of your data at any time. Under certain conditions, you also have the right to correct, block and delete the data we have stored. You have the right to receive information about your data stored by us and the purpose of storage at any time.
Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager / Web analytics
This website uses Google Analytics. This is a web analysis service of Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatere Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The data generated by the cookies about your use of this website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Your IP address used when visiting the website is only stored in anonymized form (via an irreversible shortening of the IP address). This means that it is no longer possible to track you personally.
The collection, processing and use of data by Google takes place on the basis of a written contract data agreement between DEGEN GmbH & Co. KG and Google in compliance with the provisions of Section 11 BDSG. You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by Google Analytics cookies and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. You can also object to the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This will set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on future visits to this website. Deactivate Google Analytics
Further information on data protection and Google Analytics can be found in the privacy policy
from Google: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
We also use the Google Tag Manager. This service can be used to manage website tags. Google Tag Manager only sets up tags - tags are code that is used to measure visitor traffic and visitor behavior. The tags come from other services - in our case from Google Analytics (see above). These tags are only managed via the Google Tag Manager, no cookies are set and no personal data is collected. If tracking has been deactivated, this also applies to all tracking tags that are managed with the Google Tag Manager.
Web analysis
You can visit our website without providing any personal data. However, when you visit our website, certain data is collected and stored. We only store - without your separate consent - access data without personal reference, such as
- the website from which you visit us
- the name of your internet service provider
- the name of the requested file
This data is analyzed to improve our offer and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person.
The data is only analyzed in anonymous form (e.g.: information xy was accessed by 45% of visitors to the site). This enables us to tailor our information offerings to the readers' interests.
Where we receive data that theoretically allows us to draw conclusions about your person, e.g. the IP address, we have made sure that it is impossible to identify you by shortening the data accordingly.
This website uses Universal Analytics for web analysis. This is a service provided by Google Inc. ("Google") Universal Analytics uses technologies that allow access to information that is already stored or will be stored on your device, including "cookies" (recognition technologies). The information obtained through the recognition technologies used about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
If you do not want information about your visit to our website to be transmitted to Universal Analytics, you have the option of installing a "deactivation add-on" for your browser. You can download this add-on here. Please note, however, that it is currently only available for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
We have also made settings so that Universal Analytics deletes the last part of the IP addresses of visitors to our website. This means that we do not come into possession of data that allows us to draw conclusions about your person.
Without your express consent, we will not use the tracking tools to collect personal data about you unnoticed, to transmit such data to third-party providers and marketing platforms or to link the data with your personal data (name, address, etc.).
Google Remarketing Service
These are services provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as "Google"). When you visit our websites or make a purchase, anonymized data on the products viewed or purchased is stored in cookies ("retargeting cookies").
If IP addresses are used, they are shortened so that we cannot identify you personally.
Your protection option
If you no longer want this service for our products temporarily or generally, you can deactivate it accordingly. For example, follow this link to Google's advertising privacy policy(https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/) with further information. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of such cookies by many third-party providers by accessing the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative (link at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and making the appropriate settings there.
You can also deactivate the use of cookies by Google by downloading and installing the plug-in provided via the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de.
You can use the following link to view and edit the settings associated with the cookie:
http://www.google.com/settings/
Google Adwords
As an AdWords customer, we use Google Conversion Tracking, an analysis service of Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). Google Adwords uses a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via a Google ad. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days. They are not used to identify you personally. When you visit our website, Google and we can recognize that a link on our ad has been followed. The data tells us the total number of users who have clicked on our ad.
Your protection options
In addition to a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies, you can also deactivate cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com". Learn more about Google's privacy policy http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Cookies
We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are small files that are stored on your data carrier and that store certain settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser. This storage helps us to design the website for you accordingly and makes it easier for you to use, for example by saving certain entries you make so that you do not have to keep repeating them. Cookies are automatically deleted from your hard disk at the end of the browser session (hence session cookies). However, there are also cookies that remain on your hard disk. For your convenience, the expiry time is set well into the future (several years). When you visit us again, we will automatically recognize that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you prefer. (so-called long-term cookies).
Regardless of the duration set, you can also delete cookies manually in your browser. Most browsers accept cookies by default. You can allow or prohibit temporary and stored cookies independently of each other in the security settings. Accepting cookies is not a prerequisite for visiting our website. If you do not accept or deactivate cookies, certain options on our website may not be available to you and some web pages may not be displayed correctly.
YouTube
Videos and plug-ins from YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, are used on this website. This is done using the "extended data protection mode" offered by YouTube. If you access one of our websites that has a YouTube video/plug-in and watch the video, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which website you have visited.
If you log in to your YouTube member account at the same time, the information collected will be assigned to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube member account before visiting our website.
You can find further information on data protection from YouTube and Google under the following
link: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
For example, if you are logged in to facebook.de (facebook.de, operated by Facebook Ireland Limited Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2 Ireland - "Facebook") and visit our site, your browser will be prompted to connect to Facebook computers and data relating to your Facebook account will be integrated into our website via your browser. At the same time, Facebook receives information about your visit to our site and the content you have accessed (time and fact that you were there). If you activate the function of a social plugin, e.g. by clicking on the Facebook "Like" button, or if you make comments or use other Facebook functions offered, the triggered information is transmitted to Facebook and stored there for further use in your Facebook account and processed in accordance with Facebook's specifications. The exact content and purpose of the storage and processing result from your contractual relationship with Facebook Inc. You can obtain further information and information about the use and your rights there. Data protection information from Facebook.
If you are not a member of Facebook or are logged out of Facebook, it is still possible for Facebook to find out and store your IP address. You can protect yourself by using blockers compatible with your browser, such as the Facebook Blocker.
Facebook Dynamic Ads
This website uses "Dynamic Ads" from the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94394, USA ("Facebook"). This enables us to present these people with relevant advertisements on Facebook in the future based on the products that people have viewed on our website or in our app.
For this purpose, so-called "Facebook pixels" are integrated on our websites, which enable Facebook to determine the visitors of our offer across devices as a target group for the display of ads on Facebook, so-called "Facebook ads". With the help of the Facebook pixel, we can also track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing and evaluating whether users are redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad.
The Facebook pixel is integrated directly by Facebook when you visit our website and can store a so-called cookie, i.e. a small file, on your device. If you subsequently log in to Facebook or visit Facebook while logged in, your visit to our website will be noted in your profile.
The data collected about you is anonymous to us, so it does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible. The data is processed by Facebook in accordance with Facebook's data usage policy. Accordingly, you can find more information on how the remarketing pixel works and how Facebook ads are displayed in general in Facebook's data usage policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
Your protection options
You can object to the collection by the Facebook pixel and use of your data to display "Dynamics Facebook Ads". To do this, you can go to the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions there on the settings for usage-based advertising: https://www.facebook.com/login.php? or declare your objection via the US site http://optout.aboutads.info/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. The settings are platform-independent, i.e. they are adopted for all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices.
Notes on the newsletter and consent
To subscribe to the newsletter offered on our website, you can register using our form. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure. A confirmation email will first be sent to the email address you have provided, asking you to confirm your registration. The registration only becomes effective when you click on the activation link contained in the confirmation e-mail. We use your data transmitted to us exclusively for sending the newsletter, which may contain information or offers.
We use rapidmail to send our newsletter. Your data will therefore be transmitted to rapidmail GmbH. In doing so, rapidmail GmbH is prohibited from using your data for purposes other than sending the newsletter. Rapidmail GmbH is not permitted to pass on or sell your data. rapidmail is a German, certified newsletter software provider that has been carefully selected in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR and the BDSG.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.
We would also like to point out that you consent to the future processing of your personal data in accordance with the legal requirements pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR. Art. 21 GDPR at any time. In particular, you may object to processing for direct marketing purposes.
Contact forms
You can get in touch with us on our website via contact forms. To do this, we need your gender, your name, your company name, your company address, your e-mail address and, if you wish, your telephone number. This information will only be stored for the purpose of processing the contact, i.e. processing your request and the corresponding communication.
Your data will be deleted after your request has been dealt with, unless archiving is required by law or is necessary for the performance of the contract or for legal defense purposes. The data will be archived for no longer than the statutory periods or until any claims against us are time-barred. Your legal rights to information, correction or deletion of data remain unaffected.
The data will not be passed on to third parties or compared with data collected elsewhere.
Right of information and revocation
You will receive information about your data stored by us free of charge at any time without giving reasons. You can block, correct or delete the data we have collected from you at any time. You can also revoke your consent to data collection and use at any time without giving reasons. To do so, please contact the above-mentioned data protection officer at Degen GmbH & Co. KG.
We will be happy to answer any further questions you may have about our privacy policy and the processing of your personal data.
Please note that data protection regulations and data protection practices, e.g. at Google, can change constantly. It is therefore advisable and necessary to keep up to date with changes to the legal provisions and the practices of companies such as Google.
Questions and comments
If you have any questions, suggestions or comments on the subject of data protection, please contact our data protection officer:
Christo Kohnke, datenschutz@mebikon.de or phone 0911/956668-30.