Data privacy and protection

BBG GmbH & Co. KG would like to thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company and our products. The privacy and protection of your personal data is very important to us when we collect, process and use such data upon your visit to our website.  Please refer to the section below for more information on which data is collected and used during your visit to our Website

Collecting data

As a rule, BBG GmbH & Co. KG does not collect any personal data from you when you visit our website. To the extent allowed for by your browser, the web server usually stores,

  • the name of your Internet service provider,
  • the type of browser that you use for your visit to our Website,
  • the website from which you visit ours,
  • the pages you visit on our website,
  • the date and duration of your visit.

This information may be evaluated for statistical purposes to improve our website and our services. They cannot be attributed to any specific persons. This information is not merged with any other data sources.

Collecting and processing personal data

Personal data will only be stored if you provide these of your own accord, for example in order to request information, or through the contact form used for the purposes of complaints management. Personal data is information that can be used explicitly to ascertain your identity. This includes information, such as:

  • your real name,
  • e-mail address,
  • postal address,
  • telephone number, etc.

Your personal data is only passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purposes of fulfilling a contract or for billing, order data processing in compliance with section 11 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG), or if you have given your explicit approval beforehand. We will not sell your personal data to any third parties. Personal data will only be transmitted to governmental institutions and authorities which are entitled to obtain such information to the extent required by law or if we are obliged to do so by virtue of a court order or court ruling.

Intended use

We will only use the personal data collected from you, for example on the basis of the contact form, to provide you with the requested products or services, or for other purposes for which you have given your consent except where otherwise provided by law. Our employees undertake to maintain confidentiality and comply with the data protection provisions laid down in section 5 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG).

Storage of data

BBG GmbH & Co. KG store personal data for as long as it is necessary to perform a service that you have requested or for which you have granted your permission, provided that no legal requirements exist to the contrary.

Right of withdrawal

You are entitled to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data, completely or in part, at any time with future effect.

Security

BBG GmbH & Co. KG takes technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorized access. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with further technological developments.

Children

Persons below the age of 18 should not disclose any personal information to us without the consent of their parents or persons supervising children. BBG GmbH & Co. KG urges all parents and persons supervising children to instruct their children on how to deal with personal data on the Internet in a safe and responsible manner. Our company will not, knowingly, collect any personal data from children, process or make use of them in any way.

Cookies

This website makes use of cookies. Cookies are small text files that are sent from the web server to your PC and are usually stored on your hard disk. They do not constitute programs that may cause damage on the user's PC. Cookies help to establish whether you are visiting our website again. Personal data is not stored. The information cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can use your browser settings also to disable the storage of cookies. Please refer to the Help feature of your Internet browser for further details on this subject. In this case the information and features offered on our website may only be displayed and/or used to a limited extent.

Google Analytics

This website relies on Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses what is generally referred to as "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and facilitate an analysis of how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie concerning the usage of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This website uses "_anonymizeIp()" IP anonymization from Google so that the IP addresses of users are shortened before by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a server run by Google in the USA and shortened there. Therefore IP addresses are only used in a shortened form to prevent them from being directly linked to a particular individual. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google is going to use this information in order to analyze the use of this website by visitors, to create reports on the activities prevailing on this website, and to provide the operator of the website with further services relating to the usage of the website and the Internet. The IP address determined through your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be combined with other data from Google.

You may prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings of your browser software, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

In addition, you can prevent data generated by the cookie and relating to your usage of the website (including your IP address) from being collected, transmitted to and processed by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the link  http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .

Please refer to the link  http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html for legal data protection information on Google Analytics by Google.

Links

This website includes references to the websites of external operators. These links have been checked carefully before having been enabled. We can, however, not rule out that the respective operators make subsequent changes to the content. This privacy statement only applies to the website of BBG GmbH & Co. KG. We do not undertake any liability for the content or correctness of the websites operated by other providers. In order to obtain information on the data protection notice of other providers, please refer to the website concerned or the provider in question.

Right to information

If you have questions or comments on the processing of your personal data, please contact our data protection officer directly: datenschutzbeauftragter@bbg-mbh.com

Upon request, we will inform you in writing whether and what personal data has been saved. Should outdated or incorrect data have been saved, we will be pleased to correct it upon your request. Furthermore, you are entitled to have the data blocked or deleted in accordance with the legal rules and regulations regarding record retention or any other contractual obligations.