Privacy Policy
1. Data Protection at a Glance
General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the Privacy Policy set out below.
Data Collection on This Website
Who Is Responsible for Data Collection on This Website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the Legal Notice on this website.
How Do We Collect Your Data?
Some of your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, include data that you enter into a contact form.
Some of your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, include data that you enter into a contact form.
What Do We Use Your Data For?
Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.
What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Data?
You have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the rectification or erasure of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you may withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You may contact us at any time at the address provided in the Legal Notice regarding this or any other questions relating to data protection.
2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
External Hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider (hosting provider). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hosting provider’s servers. This may primarily include IP addresses, contact enquiries, metadata and communication data, contractual data, contact details, names, website access data and other data generated through a website.
The hosting provider is used for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our prospective and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in our legitimate interest in providing our online services securely, quickly and efficiently through a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Our hosting provider will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfil its service obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.
Conclusion of a Data Processing Agreement
To ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded a data processing agreement with our hosting provider.
3. General Information and Mandatory Information
Data Protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy.
When you use this website, various types of personal data are collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally. This Privacy Policy explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
Please note that data transmission over the internet, for example when communicating by email, may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Information About the Controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
Plastic Union
Herzmoneit Kunststoffprodukte
Inhaberin: Swetlana Herzmoneit
c/o IHW Park
Eiserfelder Straße 316
57080 Siegen
Phone: +49 (0) 271 – 387 885 – 0
E-Mail: info@plasticunion.com
The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar information).
Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent that you have already given at any time. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.
Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
WHERE DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA CONCERNED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR UNLESS THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).
WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to have data that we process by automated means on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract provided to you or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be carried out where technically feasible.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the change in the browser’s address bar from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Access, Erasure and Rectification
Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing. Where applicable, you also have the right to request the rectification or erasure of this data. You may contact us at any time at the address provided in the Legal Notice regarding this or any other questions relating to personal data.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time at the address provided in the Legal Notice. The right to restriction of processing applies in the following cases:
- If you dispute the accuracy of the personal data stored by us, we generally require time to verify this. For the duration of this verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
- If the processing of your personal data was or is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
- If we no longer require your personal data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of erasure.
- If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your interests and ours must be weighed against each other. Until it has been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, this data may, apart from being stored, only be processed with your consent, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.
Objection to Promotional Emails
We hereby object to the use of contact details published as part of the legal notice requirements for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials. The operators of these pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited promotional information being sent, for example through spam emails.
4. Data Collection on This Website
Cookies
Our websites use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files and do not cause any damage to your device. They are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or they are automatically deleted by your web browser.
In some cases, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your device when you visit our website (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services provided by the third-party company (e.g. cookies used to process payment services).
Cookies perform various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them, such as the shopping basket function or the display of videos. Other cookies are used to analyse user behaviour or display advertising.
Cookies that are required to carry out electronic communications (necessary cookies), provide certain functions requested by you (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping basket function), or optimise the website (e.g. cookies used to measure website audiences) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. Where consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the cookies concerned are stored exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); consent may be withdrawn at any time.
You can configure your browser to inform you when cookies are set, allow cookies only in individual cases, block the acceptance of cookies in specific cases or generally, and enable the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. Disabling cookies may restrict the functionality of this website.
Where cookies from third-party companies or cookies used for analytical purposes are employed, we will inform you separately within this Privacy Policy and, where applicable, request your consent.
Server-Log-Files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Hostname of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP-Address
This data is not combined with data from other sources.
This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of the website. Server log files must be collected for this purpose.
Contact Form & Google reCAPTCHA
If you send us enquiries using the contact form, the information you provide in the enquiry form, including the contact details entered there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not share this data without your consent.
This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, provided that your enquiry relates to the performance of a contract or is necessary in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract.
In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively handling enquiries addressed to us (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), where this has been requested.
The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to erase it, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. once your enquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, particularly retention periods, remain unaffected.
Use of Google reCAPTCHA
To protect our contact forms against misuse through automated systems, we use Google reCAPTCHA, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
reCAPTCHA checks whether information entered on our website is provided by a natural person or is being misused by automated programs (bots).
For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of website visitors on the basis of various characteristics. Various types of information (e.g. IP address, duration of the visit and mouse movements) are collected and transmitted to Google.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in protecting our website and forms against spam and misuse.
Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s Privacy Policy can be found at:
– https://policies.google.com/privacy
and the Terms of Service at:
– https://policies.google.com/terms
Enquiries by Email, Telephone or Fax
If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your enquiry, including all personal data arising from it (name and details of the enquiry), will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We will not share this data without your consent.
This data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, provided that your enquiry relates to the performance of a contract or is necessary in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively handling enquiries addressed to us (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), where this has been requested.
The data you send to us through contact enquiries will remain with us until you ask us to erase it, withdraw your consent to its storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. once your request has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, particularly statutory retention periods, remain unaffected.