Privacy policy

Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your personal data in the context of the use of our website www.chemsynergy.com (“Website”).

Controller

Chemsynergy GmbH, Am Meerkamp 19 B, 40 667 Meerbusch (“Provider” or “we” or “us”) is the controller for the processing of personal data in the context of the use of the Website. Further information about us can be found in the imprint on our Website.

Collection, processing and use of your data

You can visit our Website without disclosing your identity. When you access our Website, we only store access data, namely the name of your Internet service provider, the page from which you visit us, the date and time of access, the name of the file accessed, and the IP address assigned to you. These data are evaluated exclusively for the improvement of our offer and do not allow any conclusion on your person.

Data that disclose your identity are only collected if you voluntarily provide them to us in the context of contacting us via our contact form or by e-mail. Without your separate consent, we use the data you provide exclusively for the purpose for which you provided it to us. We use data that you provide to us as part of your contact request exclusively to process your contact request. This establishes our legitimate interest, which is the legal basis for processing the data (Art. 6 para. 1 point f GDPR). If the contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, this is an additional legal basis for the processing (Art. 6 para. 1 point b GDPR).

Use of cookies

On various pages, we use cookies to make visiting our Website attractive and to allow the use of certain functions. These cookies are small text files and are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies used by us are deleted at the end of the browser session from your hard disk (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and allow us to recognize your computer during your next visit (so-called persistent cookies).

If your consent is required for the use of certain cookies, we will only use these cookies if you have given your consent. Information on whether consent is required for the use of a cookie can be found in the following overview of the cookies used on this Website.

When you call up our website, we display a “cookie banner”. By pressing the consent button, you can declare your consent for the use of cookies (statistics and external media) on this Website. You have the option to revoke your consent for the future at any time by pressing the “Change cookie settings” button on our privacy policy page.

We store your consent in the form of a cookie (“opt-in cookie”) on your device in order to determine whether you have already given consent when you call up the Website again. The opt-in cookie has a limited validity period of 12 months.

Cookies that are absolutely necessary cannot be deactivated. However, you can generally deactivate these cookies in your browser at any time. In this case, the functionality of our Website may be limited.

The legal basis for this processing of your data is, in the case of necessary cookies, our legitimate interest in providing our Website (Art. 6 para. 1 point f GDPR). If you have given us your consent to the use of certain cookies, this is the legal basis for the processing of your data (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time for the future.

Overview of the cookies used

Necessary cookies
This Website uses Borlabs Cookie, which sets a technically necessary cookie (borlabs-cookie) to store your cookie consents. The borlabs-cookie stores the consents you gave when you accessed the Website. If you wish to revoke these consents, simply delete the cookie in your browser. When you re-enter/reload the Website, you will be asked again for your cookie consent.
The legal basis for the use of the borlabs-cookie is our legitimate interest in providing our Website and ensuring that data is not processed without consent required from you (Art. 6 para. 1 point f GDPR). The retention period is 12 months.

Google Maps
If you have given us your consent, we will use Google Maps on our website to display our location and to create directions. This is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.

To enable the display of certain fonts on our website, a connection to the Google server in the USA is established when you access our website.
If you call up the Google Maps component integrated into our website, Google stores a cookie on your device via your Internet browser. In order to display our location and provide directions, your user settings and data are processed. Through the connection to Google established in this way, Google can determine from which website your request was sent and to which IP address the directions are to be transmitted. Here we cannot exclude that Google uses servers in the USA.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data for the use of Google Maps is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR). The retention period of the data is 6 months.
If you do not consent to this processing, you have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. Details on this can be found above under the item “Cookies”.

In addition, the use of Google Maps and the information obtained via Google Maps is subject to the Google Terms of Use https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=de and the terms and conditions for Google Maps https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html. Further information on data protection at Google can be found in Google’s data protection information at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

Statistics/Analyses

If you have given us your consent to do so, we will use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the Website. The legal basis for this is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 point b GDPR).

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. However, by activating IP anonymization on this Website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within the European Union or within the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and only shortened there. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Website on our behalf, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google. The retention period of the cookie is 24 months.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

For more information on data protection at Google, please see Google’s data protection information at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

Disclosure of personal data
The personal data collected by us in connection with the use of the Website will not be passed on to third parties or transferred in any other way, except in the cases described in the section “Use of cookies”. Exceptions to this are the transfer of personal data to state institutions and authorities as well as private rights holders on the basis of legal regulations or judicial or official decisions as well as the transfer to state institutions and authorities in the event of attacks on our legal assets for the purposes of legal or criminal prosecution.

The technical storage and processing of the data takes place on servers of our external service provider (data processor pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR) 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, who operates the Website on our behalf. As a data processor, it is contractually obligated to comply with the applicable legal provisions on data protection and data security.

Duration of the storage of your data

Your personal data will be stored by us to the extent and for as long as necessary for the processing purposes pursued by us. For example, if you use the functions provided by us on our Website, e.g. make inquiries to us or wish to receive product information, we store your data collected in this context until the completion or termination of the respective user relationship. Insofar as legal or contractual retention periods exist beyond this point in time, which provide for further storage of your data, your personal data will be deleted after expiry of the respective retention periods, unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data.

Rights of the data subject

If we process personal data of you, you are a data subject in the sense of the GDPR and you are entitled to the following rights against us:
If the legal requirements are met, you have the right to request information from us about personal data or data processing relating to you (Art. 15 GDPR), correction, deletion and restriction of personal data or data processing relating to you (Art. 16 to Art. 18 GDPR) and transfer of personal data relating to you (Art. 20 GDPR). If legal, contractual, tax law or commercial law retention obligations or other legally anchored reasons contradict the deletion, only the blocking of your data may be carried out instead of the deletion.

In addition, you have the right to object to data processing based on a “legitimate interest” of the controller pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 point f GDPR if the legal requirements pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR are met.

If data processing is based on consent, you may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.
If you are of the opinion that the processing of your data as described in this privacy policy violates legal regulations, you may lodge a complaint with the respective competent supervisory authority, in particular in the EU member state of your place of residence, your workplace or the place of the alleged violation, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy. The supervisory authority responsible for us is:
Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kavalleriestr. 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany

Contact for data protection

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or if you wish to assert your rights as described above, or to withdraw consent you have given, please contact us using the contact details provided above or in our imprint.

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