Privacy Policy

General

As the operator of this website and as a company, we come into contact with your personal data. This refers to all data that says something about you and with which you can be identified. In this data protection declaration, we would like to explain to you in what way, for what purpose and on what legal basis we process your data.

Responsible for the data processing on this website and in our company is:

HARDTOP GmbH
Reichelstraße 23
39124 Magdeburg

Phone.: +49 (0)391 532969-0
E-mail: info@hardtop-gmbh.de

When you enter your data on websites, place online orders or send e-mails via the Internet, you always have to reckon with unauthorised third parties accessing your data. There is no complete protection against such access. However, we do our utmost to protect your data as best we can and to close security gaps as far as we can.

An important protection mechanism is the SSL or TLS encryption of our website, which ensures that data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties. You can recognise the encryption by the lock icon in front of the internet address entered in your browser and by the fact that our internet address begins with https:// and not with http://.

Payment data, such as account or credit card numbers, require particular protection. For this reason, payment transactions with the most common means of payment are carried out exclusively via an encrypted SSL or TLS connection.

An manchen Stellen in dieser Datenschutzerklärung informieren wir Sie darüber, wie lange wir oder die Unternehmen, die Ihre Daten in unserem Auftrag verarbeiten, Ihre Daten speichern. Fehlt eine solche Angabe, speichern wir Ihre Daten, bis der Zweck der Datenverarbeitung entfällt, Sie der Datenverarbeitung widersprechen oder Sie Ihre Einwilligung in die Datenverarbeitung widerrufen.

In some places in this privacy policy, we inform you about how long we or the companies that process your data on our behalf will store your data. In the absence of such information, we store your data until the purpose of the data processing no longer applies, you object to the data processing or you revoke your consent to the data processing.

• We have compelling legitimate grounds for continuing data processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms (only in the case of objection to data processing; if the objection is to direct marketing, we cannot provide legitimate grounds).
• Data processing is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims (does not apply if your objection is to direct marketing).
• We are required by law to retain your data.

In this case, we will delete your data as soon as the requirement(s) cease to apply.

On our website, we also use tools from companies that transfer your data to the USA and store it there and process it if necessary. This is particularly important for you because your data in the USA does not enjoy the same protection as within the EU, where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies. For example, US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal action against this. It is therefore possible that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on these processing activities.

IF YOU READ IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT THAT WE HAVE LEGITIMATE INTERESTS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA AND THEREFORE RELY ON ART. 6 ABS. 1 SENTENCE 1 LIT. F) DSGVO, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT UNDER ART. 21 DSGVO, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING WHICH IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PROVISION. THE PREREQUISITE IS THAT YOU STATE THE REASONS FOR THE OBJECTION WHICH RESULT FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION. NO JUSTIFICATION IS REQUIRED IF THE OBJECTION IS DIRECTED AGAINST THE USE OF YOUR DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING.

THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE OBJECTION IS THAT WE MAY NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR DATA. THIS ONLY DOES NOT APPLY IF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS IS MET:

• WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.
• THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

THE EXCEPTIONS DO NOT APPLY IF YOUR OBJECTION IS DIRECTED AGAINST DIRECT ADVERTISING OR AGAINST PROFILING THAT IS CONNECTED WITH THIS.

Many data processing operations are based on your consent. You give this consent, for example, by ticking the appropriate box on online forms before you send the form, or by allowing certain cookies when you visit our website. You can revoke your consent at any time without giving reasons (Art. 7 (3) DSGVO). From the time of revocation, we may then no longer process your data. The only exception: we are legally obliged to retain the data for a certain period of time. Such retention periods exist in particular in tax and commercial law.

If you believe that we are in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. You may contact a supervisory authority in the Member State of your residence, place of work or the place where the alleged infringement took place. The right of complaint exists alongside administrative or judicial remedies.

Data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract must be handed over to you or a third party in a common machine-readable format if you request this. We can only transfer the data to another responsible party if this is technically possible.

According to Art. 15 of the GDPR, you have the right to receive information free of charge about which of your personal data we have stored, where the data comes from, to whom we transmit the data and for what purpose it is stored. If the data is incorrect, you have the right to have it corrected (Art. 16 DSGVO), and under the conditions of Art. 17 DSGVO you may demand that we delete the data.

In certain situations, you can demand that we restrict the processing of your data in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO. The data may then — apart from storage — only be processed as follows:

• with your permission
• for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims
• to protect the rights of another natural or legal person
• for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or of a Member State

The right to restrict processing exists in the following situations:

• You have disputed the accuracy of your personal data stored by us and we need time to check this. Here, the right exists for the duration of the review.
• The processing of your personal data is unlawful or was unlawful in the past. Here you have the alternative right to delete the data.
• We no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims. Here you have the alternative right to have the data deleted.
• You have lodged an objection in accordance with Art. 21 (1) DSGVO and now your interests and ours must be weighed against each other. Here, the right exists as long as the result of the weighing has not yet been determined.

Our website is located on a server of the following internet service provider (hoster):

hummelt und partner | Werbeagentur GmbH
Porsestr. 19
39104 Magdeburg

Yes

The hoster stores all data on our website. This also includes all personal data that is collected automatically or through your input. This can be in particular: Your IP address, pages accessed, names, contact details and enquiries as well as meta and communication data. When processing data, our hoster adheres to our instructions and only ever processes the data to the extent that this is necessary to fulfil the service obligation towards us.

Since we address potential customers via our website and maintain contacts with existing customers, the data processing by our hoster serves to initiate and fulfil contracts and is therefore based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO. In addition, it is our legitimate interest as a company to provide a professional Internet offering that meets the necessary requirements for security, speed and efficiency. In this respect, we also process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.

Our website places cookies on your device. These are small text files that are used for different purposes. Some cookies are technically necessary for the website to function at all (necessary cookies). Others are needed to perform certain actions or functions on the site (functional cookies). For example, without cookies it would not be possible to take advantage of a shopping basket in an online shop. Still other cookies are used to analyse user behaviour or to optimise advertising measures. If we use third-party services on our website, e.g. to process payment transactions, these companies may also leave cookies on your device when you access the website (so-called third-party cookies).

Session cookies are only stored on your device for the duration of a session. As soon as you close the browser, they disappear by themselves. Permanent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your device if you do not delete them yourself. This can lead, for example, to your user behaviour being permanently analysed. You can use the settings in your browser to influence how it handles cookies:

• Do you want to be informed when cookies are set?
• Do you want to exclude cookies in general or for certain cases?
• Do you want cookies to be automatically deleted when you close the browser?

If you disable or do not allow cookies, the functionality of the website may be limited.

If we use cookies from other companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you about this within the framework of this data protection declaration. We also ask for your consent in this regard when you visit our website.

We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our online offers can be used by visitors without technical problems and that all desired functions are available to them. The storage of necessary and functional cookies on your device is therefore based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. We use all other cookies on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO, provided that you give us the corresponding consent. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. If you have consented to the placement of necessary and functional cookies when requesting consent, these cookies are also stored exclusively on the basis of your consent.

Server log files log all requests and accesses to our website and record error messages. They also include personal data, in particular your IP address. However, this is anonymised by the provider after a short time so that we cannot assign the data to you personally. The data is automatically transmitted to our provider by your browser.

Our provider stores the server log files in order to be able to track the activities on our website and to locate errors. The files contain the following data:

• Browser type and version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address (anonymised if necessary)

We do not combine this data with other data, but only use it for statistical analysis and to improve our website.

We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website runs without errors. It is also our legitimate interest to obtain an anonymised overview of the accesses to our website. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.

You can send us a message by e-mail or fax or call us.

We store your message as well as the contact details you have given us or the telephone number you have given us in order to be able to process your enquiry including follow-up questions. We do not pass on the data to other persons without your consent.

How long do we store your data?

We delete your data as soon as one of the following occurs:

• Your request has been finalised.
• You request us to delete the data.
• You revoke your consent to storage.

This only does not apply if we are legally obliged to retain the data.

If your enquiry is related to our contractual relationship or serves the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO. In all other cases, it is our legitimate interest to effectively process enquiries directed to us. The legal basis for data processing is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO. If you have consented to the storage of your data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO is the legal basis. In this case, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

We use fonts from the US company Google on our website. We have installed the fonts locally so that there is no connection to Google’s servers when you visit our website.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Google complies with the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance)

We use Google Maps on our website. To enable you to use all the functions of the map service, Google stores your IP address on one of its servers in the USA.

On what legal basis do we process your data?

The maps from Google Maps ensure that the places indicated on our website are easier to find for visitors. As a company, we have a legitimate interest in this. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.

If you have consented to data processing, we process your data exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO. You can revoke your consent at any time. From the time of revocation, we may no longer process your data.

The respective operating companies of the social networks. You can find the individual operators below under the respective networks.

The operators of social networks are usually able to collect and analyse comprehensive data on the behaviour of visitors and users of the network. It is not possible for us to track all processing operations in the social networks we use, which is why further processing operations not listed here may be carried out by the operators of the social networks. You can find more information on this in the terms of use and data protection statements of the respective social networks.

The processing of your data can be triggered by you visiting the website of the social network or our profile page there. Even if you visit a website that uses certain content of the network, e.g. like or share buttons, data may already be transmitted to the operators of the social network. If you yourself are a user of the social network and logged into your user account, your visit to our profile page can be assigned to your account by the operator of the social network. Even if you yourself have not registered a user account or are not logged in, the operator of the network may still record your personal data, e.g. by recording your IP address or setting cookies. With this data, the operators can create user profiles adapted to your behaviour and interests and show you interest-based advertising within and outside the network. If you are a registered user of the network, the interest-based advertising may also be displayed on all devices on which you are or were logged in.

Our profiles in the social networks are intended to ensure the broadest possible presence of our company on the Internet. As a company, we have a legitimate interest in this. The data processing is therefore lawful according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

The data processing operations and analyses carried out by the operators of the social networks themselves may be based on other legal bases. These must be stated by the operators of the social networks.

If you visit one of our profiles on the social networks, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the respective network for the data processing operations triggered during this visit. In principle, you can assert your rights both against us and against the operator of the respective network.

Despite the joint responsibility with the operators of the social networks, however, our influence on the data processing operations of the respective operator is limited and is primarily based on the operator’s specifications.

If we collect data via our profiles in the social networks, these are deleted from our systems as soon as the purpose for storing them no longer applies, you request us to delete them or you revoke your consent to storage. Stored cookies remain on your end device until you delete them. Mandatory legal provisions — in particular retention periods — remain unaffected.

We have no influence on how long the operators of the social networks store your data, which the operators collect for their own purposes. You can obtain information on this directly from the operator of the respective social network, e.g. in the respective privacy policy.