Privacy notice and information pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our services. We attach the utmost importance to the protection of your privacy as a user of our website and strictly adhere to the provisions of data protection law when collecting, processing and using data. This applies in particular to the processing of your personal data.

Berg & Co. GmbH Spanntechnik
Gildemeisterstraße 80
33689 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 5205 759-0
E-mail: info@berg-spanntechnik.de

Name: Oliver Baldner
Phone: +49 5251 688948-0
Fax: +49 5251 688948-48
E-mail: oliver.baldner@bits.gmbh

Insofar as your personal data is processed to protect the legitimate interests of the data processor pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, the legitimate interests are to permanently analyse and improve the website, to optimise user-friendliness and to detect and prevent misuse.

When using our website, the following data is processed for organisational and technical reasons:

• IP addresses of the visitors
• Name of the pages accessed
• Date and time of the access
• Name of the browser used
• Name of the operating system
• Name of the search engine or external link
• Name of the downloaded files

If you send us data via our online forms, the personal data you provide will be processed to fulfil the respective purpose.

Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties with your consent or on the basis of a legal authorisation. Your personal data will only be transferred to state institutions and authorities entitled to receive information within the framework of the relevant laws or if we are obliged to do so by a court decision. Our employees are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the laws on data protection. For the technical implementation of the services provided, we have commissioned appropriate companies to process your personal data on our behalf. They are:

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that are sent from our web server to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. No personal data is stored, only an individual pseudonym. This information is used, for example, to recognise you during navigation on our pages and to make navigation easier for you.

You can set your browser to inform you about the placement of cookies. This makes the use of cookies transparent for you. Alternatively, you can also view this website without cookies. You can preset this in your respective browser. Please note that some functions of the website may then be partially or completely unavailable.

This website uses the open source software Matomo for the statistical analysis of visitor accesses.

The data collected by Matomo is used exclusively in anonymised form to improve our offer. For this purpose, your IP address is shortened and stored without the last octet. We know from which network a request comes, but not from which computer.

For traffic analysis, it is necessary for a "cookie" to be stored on your computer. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our services will not be passed on to third parties and will be processed exclusively for the aforementioned purposes. The tool is used on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent to data processing by the Matomo analysis tool by deselecting the following checkbox:

If your browser supports the "Do-Not-Track" technology and you have activated it, your visit will be automatically ignored. Otherwise, you can object to the storage, processing and use at any time by activating the declaration of objection below. In this case, an opt-out cookie is created in your browser, which means that Matomo does not collect any data. Use of the opt-out cookie is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, which lies in the necessity of the technical implementation of the possibility to object. Please note: If you delete this opt-out cookie, the system can no longer recognise your objection and you need to activate it again.

We use the map service "Google Maps" of the company Google Ireland Limited on our site. The business address of Google Ireland Limited: Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Google). The parent company of Google Ireland Limited is Google LLC (registered office: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).

The service is used by embedding a map display element on our site by including an external map display.

By using this technology, personal data is transmitted to the service provider as described below.

The maps are integrated on our website in such a way that no personal data is transferred to Google unless you have given your consent to the use of this service.

When you view Google's maps, Google processes your personal data (e. g. your IP address, location data from your device, sensor data from your device, Wi-Fi access points, etc.) in accordance with its own privacy policy, which you can access via the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Within the framework of the integration of the maps, cookies are used by the service provider Google.

Such data collection by Google may also occur for visitors to this website who have consented to the use of Google Maps and who are not logged in or registered with Google. Google generally uses and processes the data of the users of the service for market research and advertising purposes. For example, usage profiles can be created from the usage behaviour and the resulting interests of the users. The usage profiles may in turn be used, for example, to serve advertisements within and outside Google that correspond to users' presumed interests. For these purposes, cookies are usually stored on the users' computers, in which the usage behaviour and interests of the users are saved.

Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser and stored on the data carrier of your device. These cookies enable the service provider Google to match your user data (e. g. URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties (user agent) and timestamp) with the data of your Google account, if any.

Furthermore, data may also be stored in the usage profiles irrespective of the devices used by the users (in particular if the users have a Google account and are logged in on the Google site).

The data collected by Google is anonymous and not visible to us as users of the service. This data will only be used by Google for the purposes described in Google's privacy policy, e. g. for the placement of advertisements. Insofar as statistics are made available to us as service users by Google, these statistics do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual users. Information on personal data can therefore only be requested directly from Google. For our part, we can only view the public information of the users, which has been defined by the respective Google user in the private account settings. Registered users also have the option of adjusting settings regarding Google Maps use.

In the event that you are a registered Google user and have logged in to the Google site, your data will be automatically assigned to your user account by Google when you visit our site, provided that you have consented to the use of Google Maps.

More detailed information on the possible account settings regarding the Google Maps service can be found via the following link: https://myactivity.google.com/?continue=https://myactivity.google.com/product/maps?hl%3Dde%26utm_source%3Dmaps

In particular, if you do not have a Google account, you can also prevent cookies from being set by configuring your browser to refuse all cookies. In this case, however, the functionalities on this and other websites may be restricted.

If cookies are used by Google in the context of the use of Google Maps, these are described by Google in a detailed table, which you can access via the following link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

The legal basis for the use of the Google Maps service is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Insofar as the data collected regarding user activities is transmitted to the USA by the service provider Google, the transmission is also based on your consent pursuant to Art. 49 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Google Ireland Limited or its parent company Google Ireland Limited is the sole responsible party for the processing of personal data in connection with Google Maps. Further information about the processing of personal data by Google can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

If you use the map service and have our maps displayed, Google processes personal data in order to provide us with anonymised evaluations. We do not receive any personal data from you, but only have access to the aggregated content. Even though we have no influence on the type and scope of the processing of your personal data by Google, this processing of personal data takes place within the scope of joint responsibility pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. The processing serves the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to receive information about the relevant data for the use of the map service.

In the case of requests for information and the assertion of user rights, it is pointed out that these can be asserted most effectively directly against Google, because only Google has access to the users' data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly.

Please note that personal data is also processed by Google in the USA.

We use videos on our site that are saved on the internet video portal YouTube (available at https://www.youtube.com).

The internet video portal YouTube is provided by a US company, YouTube LLC (LLC stands for Limited Liability Company). The business address of YouTube LLC: 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube LLC is in turn a subsidiary of the Irish-based company Google Ireland Limited. The business address of Google Ireland Limited: Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Google).

The use of videos takes place by embedding a video on our site by integrating an external video player from YouTube. When you click on the video, it will be played directly on our site.

By using this technology, personal data is transmitted to YouTube LLC as described below.

The videos are embedded on our website in such a way that no personal data is transmitted to YouTube LLC unless you have given your consent to the use of this service.

When you access the video on the YouTube video portal, YouTube LLC processes your personal data (e. g. your IP address, location data of your device, sensor data from your device, Wi-Fi access points, etc.) in accordance with its own privacy policy, which you can access via the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy. 

When you watch the videos embedded on our site, cookies are used by the service provider YouTube to make ads more appealing to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Cookies are usually used to select ads that are relevant to the user, to improve reporting on campaign performance or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once.

Such data collection by YouTube may also occur for visitors to this website who are not logged in or registered with YouTube. YouTube usually uses and processes the users' data – as explained – for market research and advertising purposes. For example, usage profiles can be created from the usage behaviour and the resulting interests of the users. The usage profiles may in turn be used, for example, to serve advertisements within and outside YouTube that correspond to users' presumed interests. For these purposes, cookies are usually stored on the users' computers, in which the usage behaviour and interests of the users are saved.

Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser and stored on the data carrier of your device. These cookies enable the YouTube or Google service to match your user data (e. g. URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties (user agent) as well as timestamp) with the data of your Google account, if any.

Furthermore, data may also be stored in the usage profiles irrespective of the devices used by the users (especially if the users are YouTube members and are logged in on the YouTube site).

The data collected by YouTube is anonymous and not visible to us as users of the service. This data is only used by YouTube within the scope of the purposes described in YouTube's privacy policy, e. g. for the placement of advertisements. The following information, for example, is provided here by YouTube to us as service users: Followers, reach, demographics of users. These statistics do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual users. Information on personal data can therefore only be requested directly from YouTube. For our part, we can only view the public information of the users, which has been defined by the respective YouTube user in the private account settings. Registered users also have the option of actively hiding Likes or no longer following our channel.

In the event that you are a registered YouTube member and have logged in to the YouTube site, your data will be automatically assigned to your user account by YouTube when you visit our site.

More detailed information on the possible account settings on YouTube can be found via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/account_privacy.

In particular, if you do not have a YouTube account, you can also prevent cookies from being set by configuring your browser to refuse all cookies. In this case, however, the functionalities on this and other websites may be restricted.

Insofar as cookies are used by YouTube or Google in the context of the use of YouTube, these are described by YouTube or Google in a detailed table, which you can access under the following link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

Registered and logged-in YouTube members have the possibility to contact us publicly via the video comment function. This is done through a public comment on our YouTube corporate channel. Personal contact is based on a voluntary decision by the respective users and always starts from the respective user.

The legal basis for the use of the YouTube service is your consent according to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Insofar as the data collected regarding user activities is transmitted to the USA by the service provider YouTube LLC, the transmission is also based on your consent pursuant to Art. 49 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Our YouTube company page

YouTube LLC or its parent company Google Ireland Limited is the sole responsible party for the processing of personal data on our YouTube company page. Further information on the processing of personal data by YouTube LLC or Google can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

When you visit our YouTube company page, YouTube processes personal data in order to provide us with evaluations in anonymised form. We do not receive any personal data from you, but only have access to the aggregated content. Even though we have no influence on the type and scope of the processing of your personal data by YouTube, this processing of personal data takes place within the scope of joint responsibility pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. The processing serves the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to receive information about the actions on our YouTube company page.

In the case of requests for information and the assertion of user rights, it is pointed out that these can be asserted most effectively directly against Google, because only Google has access to the users' data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly.

Please note that personal data is also processed by YouTube LLC in the USA.

Our website contains links to other websites. We have no influence on whether their operators comply with data protection regulations. Despite careful checks of the contents, we do not assume any liability for the contents of the external links. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content.

We protect your data against unauthorised access, loss, manipulation or destruction through technical and organisational measures. Our security measures are constantly updated in line with technological developments. All communication between your terminal device and our servers is exclusively encrypted. This applies both to the download of documents or information that we offer you via our website and to information that you provide to us via the contact form or the application form.

The personal data that you have provided to us will be automatically deleted if the purposes of the processing no longer apply and there are no legal obligations to retain the data. In detail, the following storage periods apply:

According to Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to demand that we provide you information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data processed by us, the category of recipients to which the data has been or is being disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of rights to correction, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, the origin of the data collected by us and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling, as well as meaningful information about the details thereof, if applicable.

According to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to demand that we immediately correct any incorrect personal data we have saved or complete any incomplete data.

According to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to demand that we delete your personal data, provided that there is no legal foundation permitting or obligating us to continue storing the data.

According to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted, if

• you dispute that your personal data is correct, namely for a duration that allows us to verify the correctness of your personal data,
• processing is illegitimate but you do not wish for your personal data to be deleted and instead request restriction of usage of your personal data,
• we no longer require your data for the purposes of processing, but you require your data for asserting, exercising or defending legal claims,
• you have objected to the processing of your data in accordance with Article 21 section 1 GDPR, but it has not been determine whether our legitimate reasons override your reasons.

According to Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and to demand that the data be transferred to another responsible party.

According to Art. 77 GDPR you have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, if you believe that processing of personal data related to your person is in violation of GDPR.

According to Art. 7 section 3 GDPR, you have the right to revoke consent given to us in the past at any point. In this case, we cannot continue data processing based on this consent in the future. However, this does not affect the legitimacy of data processing based on your consent up to this point.

If processing of your personal data is based on legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 section 1 sentence 1 (f) GDPR, you have the right to object against processing of your personal data according to Art. 21 GDPR, provided there are reasons arising from your specific situation.

Personal data is information about your identity. This includes, for example, information such as name, address, telephone number or also the e-mail address. It is not necessary for you to disclose personal data in order to use this website. In certain cases, however, we need your name and address and other details so that we can provide the requested services.

This applies, for example, to the use of our contact form, the sending of information, the answering of individual questions or the use of our form for online applications. Where this is necessary, we will point this out to you accordingly. In addition, we only store and process data that you provide voluntarily or automatically. If you make use of counselling services, as a rule only such data is collected as is required for the provision of the services. Insofar as we ask you for further data, this is voluntary information. The personal data you provide will be processed exclusively for the purposes communicated and explained to you.

We reserve the right to change the security and data protection measures at any time, in particular insofar as this becomes necessary due to technical developments. In these cases, we will also adapt this information on data protection accordingly. Please therefore note the current version of this privacy policy.