Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator's contact details can be found in the website's required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?

Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

Analytics and third-party tools

When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

Notice concerning the party responsible for this website

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:

RZB Rudolf Zimmermann, Bamberg GmbH
Rheinstrasse 16
96052 Bamberg

Telephone: 0951/7909-0
Email: [email protected]

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is displayed in your browser's address bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Opposition to promotional emails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.

3. Data protection officer

Statutory data protection officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

RZB Rudolf Zimmermann, Bamberg GmbH
Rheinstraße 16
96052 Bamberg

Telephone: 0951/7909-168
Email: [email protected]

4. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

Contact form

Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share this information without your permission.

We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.

5. Analytics and advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. 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.

Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser plugin

You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objecting to the collection of data

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Disable Google Analytics.

For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Outsourced data processing

We have entered into an agreement with Google for the outsourcing of our data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic data collection by Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics' demographic features. This allows reports to be generated containing statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This collected data cannot be attributed to any specific individual person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or you can forbid the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section "Refusal of data collection".

6. Newsletter

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter mentioned on our website, we need your email address, along with certain information allowing us to verify that the email address belongs to you and that you consent to receive the newsletter. Aside from this, any other data you choose to provide is optional.
The data that you enter in the newsletter subscription form will be processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Article 6(1)(a) and Article 49(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR).
If you wish to withdraw your consent to the storage of your data and email address, and stop receiving the newsletter, you can do so at any time and free of charge, either by using the "Unsubscribe" link in the newsletter, or by simply contacting us to let us know.

NEWSLETTER SENT VIA SALESFORCE

On our website, we use certain features of Salesforce customer relationship management software to send out our newsletter.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, the personal data that you enter will be sent to the Salesforce.com Germany GmbH server, where it will be processed. The European Union has not established whether there is an adequate level of data protection for this data transfer. There is a risk that data subjects may not be able to enforce their data protection rights vis à vis Salesforce.com Germany GmbH.

For more information, please refer to Salesforce's privacy policy: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/
We will store your newsletter subscription data until you unsubscribe from the newsletter, at which point we will erase the data. Data that we store for other purposes will be unaffected by this.

The newsletters that we send out with Salesforce.com Germany enable us to analyse our newsletter campaigns and how subscribers respond to them. For example, we can analyse whether and when someone opens a newsletter, and which links they click.

We can also see these results by individual user. We can use the results of our analyses to improve future newsletter campaigns and to make them more relevant to users' needs.
You have the right to object to your personal data being processed for the purposes of direct marketing.

7. Plugins and tools

GOOGLE MAPS

This website uses the Google Maps service by means of an API. The service provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In order for you to use Google Maps, we have to store your IP address. This information is usually sent to a Google server in the USA, where it is then stored. Although the website belongs to us, the maps service does not, and therefore we have no influence over this data transfer.

We use Google Maps to improve the way we present our products and services online, and to make it easier for website visitors to find the locations we specify on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
For more information on what happens to user data, please refer to Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Social media

YOUTUBE PRIVACY-ENHANCED MODE

Videos from YouTube are embedded in this website. YouTube is operated by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. According to YouTube, in this mode, YouTube does not store information about our website visitors unless they watch the video. However, even in privacy-enhanced mode, we cannot rule out that your data may be shared with YouTube partners. Regardless of whether you watch a video, YouTube establishes a connection to the Google DoubleClick network.

Starting to play a video on this website establishes a connection to YouTube's servers. This connection tells the YouTube server which of our pages you visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account at the time, YouTube can map your browsing behaviour to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account first.

When you start a video, YouTube can also store various cookies on your device, or use comparable recognition technologies such as device fingerprinting (information collected about the software and hardware of a remote computing device for the purpose of identifying that device). Cookies and similar technologies allow YouTube to collect data about visitors to this website. The data is used, for example, to compile video statistics, improve usability and prevent fraud.

In some cases, starting a YouTube video may trigger other data processing over which we have no influence.
We use YouTube to improve the way we present our products and services online. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

As long as your consent has been requested, your data will only be processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act (Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutz-Gesetz – TTDSG), if that consent includes cookie storage or access to information on the user's device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as defined in the TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.
For more information on YouTube data protection, please refer to its data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

FACEBOOK

This website includes plugins from the Facebook social media network. Facebook is operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. However, Facebook states that collected data are also transferred to the USA and other third countries.

For an overview of Facebook plugins, please visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins. When you click a social media plugin, it establishes a direct connection between your device and the Facebook server. This tells Facebook that you visited our website using your IP address. If you click the Facebook "Like" button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link content from our website to your Facebook profile.

This allows Facebook to map your visit to this website to your Facebook user account. Note that as the operator of this website, we receive no information about the content of the data transferred in such cases, or how Facebook uses the data. For more information, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy.
If you gave your consent, the above-mentioned service will be used on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25 TTDSG. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

If you did not give your consent, the service will be used on the basis of our legitimate interest in raising awareness of our company as much as possible on social media. When the tool described here collects personal data on our website and sends them to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for processing the data (Article 26 GDPR).

This joint responsibility is exclusively limited to collecting data and sending them to Facebook. Any processing carried out by Facebook after the data are sent is not part of this joint responsibility. Our joint obligations are set out in an agreement on joint processing.

To read the agreement, please visit https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. Under this agreement, we are responsible for providing data protection information concerning the use of the Facebook tool, and for ensuring that we comply with data protection regulations in the way that we implement the tool on our website. Facebook is responsible for the data privacy of Facebook products.

You can exercise your rights as a data subject (e.g. information requests) regarding the data processed by Facebook directly with Facebook. If you exercise these rights with us, we have a mandatory obligation to forward the information to Facebook. Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses adopted by the EU.

Please see here for details:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum,
https://facebook.com/help/566994660333381 and
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

TWITTER

Plugins from the Twitter service are integrated in this website. These plugins are provided by Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland.

When you click a social media plugin, it establishes a direct connection between your device and the Twitter server. This sends Twitter information about your visit to this website. Using Twitter and the "Retweet" feature links the websites you have visited to your Twitter account and makes this information available to other Twitter users. Note that as the operator of this website, we receive no information about the content of the data transferred in such cases, or how Twitter uses the data.

For more information, please refer to Twitter's privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy.
If you gave your consent, the above-mentioned service will be used on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. If you did not give your consent, the service will be used on the basis of our legitimate interest in raising awareness of our company as much as possible on social media.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses adopted by the EU.

Please see here for details:
https://gdpr.twitter.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html.
You can change your privacy settings on Twitter by going to your account settings:
https://twitter.com/account/settings.

INSTAGRAM

Plugins from the Instagram service are integrated in this website. These plugins are provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

When you click a social media plugin, it establishes a direct connection between your device and the Instagram server. This sends Instagram information about your visit to this website.
If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link content from our website to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to map your visit to this website to your Instagram user account. Note that as the operator of this website, we receive no information about the content of the data transferred in such cases, or how Instagram uses the data.

If you gave your consent, the above-mentioned service will be used on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. If you did not give your consent, the service will be used on the basis of our legitimate interest in raising awareness of our company as much as possible on social media.

When the tool described here collects personal data on our website and sends them to Facebook or Instagram, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for processing the data (Article 26 GDPR).

This joint responsibility is exclusively limited to collecting data and sending them to Facebook or Instagram. Any processing carried out by Facebook or Instagram after the data are sent is not part of this joint responsibility. Our joint obligations are set out in an agreement on joint processing.

To read the agreement, please visit https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum.
Under this agreement, we are responsible for providing data protection information concerning the use of the Facebook or Instagram tool, and for ensuring that we comply with data protection regulations in the way that we implement the tool on our website.

Facebook is responsible for the data privacy of Facebook and Instagram products. You can exercise your rights as a data subject (e.g. information requests) regarding the data processed by Facebook or Instagram directly with Facebook. If you exercise these rights with us, we have a mandatory obligation to forward the information to Facebook.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses adopted by the EU. Please see here for details:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum,
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 and
https://facebook.com/help/566994660333381.
For more information, please refer to Instagram's privacy policy:
https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

LINKEDIN

This website uses plugins from the LinkedIn network. These are provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

When you visit any page of this website that includes LinkedIn plugins, this establishes a connection to the LinkedIn servers. This tells LinkedIn that you visited our website using your IP address.

If you are logged into your LinkedIn account and you click the LinkedIn "Recommend" button, LinkedIn can map your visit to this website to you and your user account. Note that as the operator of this website, we receive no information about the content of the data transferred in such cases, or how LinkedIn uses the data.

If you gave your consent, the above-mentioned service will be used on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25 TTDSG. You can withdraw your consent at any time. If you did not give your consent, the service will be used on the basis of our legitimate interest in raising awareness of our company as much as possible on social media.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses adopted by the EU.

Please see here for details:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1343190
For more information, please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

XING

This website uses plugins from the XING network. These are provided by New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

When you visit any page of this website that includes XING plugins, this establishes a connection to XING's servers. As far as we are aware, no personal data are stored in the process. In particular, no IP addresses are stored, and browsing behaviour is not analysed.

If you gave your consent, the above-mentioned service will be used on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. If you did not give your consent, the service will be used on the basis of our legitimate interest in raising awareness of our company as much as possible on social media.

For more information on data privacy and the XING "Share" button, please refer to XING's privacy policy at:
https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.