1. Privacy at a Glance

General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Their contact details can be found in the imprint of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected, on the one hand, from information you provide to us. This may, for example, be data you enter in a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time of page access), which is recorded by the web server in what is known as a log file. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website. Your IP address, which is used to identify your connection and is essential for communication between browser and server, is "masked" in the process. Specifically, this means: the last part is replaced with a 0. Example: 175.192.13.88 becomes 175.192.13.0

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. For example, the log files (see above) make it possible to see whether requests are being made for resources (pages, images, downloads, etc.) that no longer exist. These so-called "dead links" can then be corrected accordingly.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive, free of charge, information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this and any other questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time using the address given in the imprint. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Matomo Analytics Without Cookies (Locally Installed)

This website collects and stores certain user information using the web analytics software Matomo (www.matomo.org), a service provided by InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand ("Matomo"). Pseudonymized usage profiles can be created and evaluated from this information.
The information collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymized IP address) is processed on our own servers.
This website uses Matomo exclusively without the use of cookies, meaning Matomo never sets cookies on your device.
Where personal data is processed as part of these operations, this processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.
If you do not agree with the storage and evaluation of information from your visit, you can object to storage and use for the future at any time with a mouse click. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, which means Matomo will not collect any session data. Please note that completely deleting your cookies will also delete the opt-out cookie, which you may then need to activate again.

2. General Information and Mandatory Notices

Note on the Responsible Party

The party responsible for data processing on this website is:

WACON Internet GmbH
Nollenweg 2
65510 Idstein, Germany

Phone: +49 6082928047
Email: info@wacon.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (such as names, email addresses, etc.).

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time. An informal email to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of data protection law, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the data protection officer of the German federal state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request direct transfer of the data to another party responsible, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

SSL/TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.

If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, Blocking, Deletion

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this and any other questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time using the address given in the imprint.

Objection to Promotional Emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the obligation to provide an imprint for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials. The operators of this site expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising being sent, such as spam emails.

3. Data Protection Officer

Legally Mandated Data Protection Officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Oliver Wassenaar
Nollenweg 2
65510 Idstein, Germany

Phone: +49 6082 928046
Email: oliver.wassenaar@wacon.de

4. Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

Some of these internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies that are necessary for carrying out the electronic communication process or for providing certain functions you desire (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analyzing your browsing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server Log Files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • browser type and version
  • operating system used
  • page requested
  • status code
  • amount of data transferred
  • referrer URL
  • hostname of the accessing computer
  • date and time of the server request
  • IP address

This data is not combined with data from other sources.

IP addresses are stored in anonymized form. The last three digits are removed, i.e. 189.17.135.2 becomes 189.17.135.0. IPv6 addresses are anonymized in the same way. Anonymized IP addresses are retained for 60 days.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact Form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not share this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is therefore based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. An informal email to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing operations carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your inquiry has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.