Privacy Policy

PREAMBLE

1. BPW Bergische Achsen Kommanditgesellschaft (BPW) are delighted to see you visiting our websites and about your interest in our company and our products. 2.The protection of your personal data when processing it on the occasion of your visiting our websites is important to us. We strictly observe the statutory regulations on data protection. In connection with your visiting our websites, personal data is only processed to the extent necessary for the purposes described below. 3. Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers, to which this Privacy Policy does not extend. BPW has no influence on whether the operators of linked websites observe statutory data protection regulations. BPW cannot assume any liability for the content of third-party websites. 4. In the following, you will find information about how we ensure data protection and which kind of data is collected for what purpose.

I. BPW RESPECTS YOUR PRIVACY

1. The protection of your privacy when processing personal data as well as the safety of business data is important to us and we take this into consideration in our business processes. 2. We process personal data that is collected during your visit to our websites, both confidentially and in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), of the German Data Protection Act (deutsches Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG)) and of the Telemedia Act (TMA).

II. DATA PROCESSING IN CONNECTION WITH VISITS TO OUR WEBSITES

1. Upon every visit to our websites, access data is saved in the server log. The data set thus saved contains the following data: – The date, time and query your browser posed to the server, – The data volume transmitted, – The operating system, – The website from which you arrived at the requested page (IP address), – Product and version information of the browser used (user agent). 2. This data is not allocated to any certain person for BPW: The stored data is used to ensure a trouble-free set-up of the connection, system integrity and stability as well as the comfortable use of our websites and is analysed for statistical purposes only. The legal basis for this data processing is Section 6 Subsection. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the above-listed purposes. At no time do we use the collected data for the purposes of drawing conclusions about your identity. When visiting our websites, we use cookies and analysis services. See Items V to VII of this Privacy Policy for more detailed information. III. PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA 1. BPW processes your personal data only to the extent necessary for the fulfilment of a contract or for performing pre-contract measures, in particular for processing enquiries, (temporary) storage of the offers or contracts to be submitted to you and the technical administration of the range of products of our websites. 2. The following personal data of visitors to our websites is logged insofar as they have consented to this or statutory authorisation is at hand: Name, first name and company e-mail address as well as telephone number and mobile number. 3. This data is treated strictly confidentially. It shall only be disclosed to third parties if you have granted your express permission as per Section 6 Subsection. 1 S. 1 lit. A GDPR, if the disclosure is necessary as per Section 6 Subsection 1 S. 1 lit. F GDPR for the assertion, exertion or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have a legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data, in the event that there is a statutory obligation for the disclosure as per Section 6 Subsection 1 S. 1 lit. C GDRP, as well as it being legal and is necessary for the conclusion of contractual relations with you, especially in the scope of the order, delivery and payment process. 4. The data collected by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected, unless there any storage and documentation obligations under tax and commercial law (from the German Commercial Code, German Tax Act), or you have consented to storage going beyond this as per Section Subsection 1 Sentence 1 lit. A GDPR. In this case, the data is deleted after storage and documentation obligations have expired or your consent is revoked.

IV. SAFETY OF PERSONAL DATA

1. Your personal data shall only be disclosed to third parties or otherwise transmitted if this is necessary to perform and conclude a contract or for invoicing purposes or if you have consented beforehand. To the extent that BPW is obliged to disclose personal data by law or by court judgment, we shall only give the relevant data to the public institutions and authorities entitled to receive information in line with statutory regulations. 2. BPW takes safety precautions to protect your personal data from manipulation, loss, destruction or from access by unauthorised persons or unauthorised publication. Our safety precautions are constantly improved in line with technological development. We cannot vouch for full data safety in unencrypted communication via e-mail – such as this.

V. GOOGLE ANALYTICS

1. Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our websites is usually transmitted to a server in the USA and stored there. In the event of activation of the IP anonymisation function on our websites, your address will, however, be shortened by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of our service provider, Google will use this information to analyse your use of our websites to compile reports about the website activities and to render further services connected with the website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of the cookies by way of a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, we must point out that you will not be able to use all functions of our websites to the full in this case. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of our websites (incl. your IP address) for Google as well as the processing of this data by Google with effect for the future on the website tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout by downloading and installing the browser add-on available there.