Privacy Policy

We are very pleased about your interest in our company. The protection of personal data is important to us. Therefore, we process personal data exclusively in accordance with the applicable legal provisions on the protection of personal data and on data security.

This privacy policy is intended to provide an overview of which personal data are captured and processed when visiting our website.

We are responsible for processing your personal data within the meaning of the GDPR. You can reach us at:

A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
Blumenberger Str. 143-145
41061 Mönchengladbach
Germany
info@monforts.de

Each time our website is accessed, our webserver captures a series of general data and information. These general data and information are stored as logfiles on the server.

• the address (URL) of the accessed website
• browser and browser version
• the operating system used
• the address (URL) of the previously visited site (referrer URL)
• the host name and the IP address of the device from which access occurs
• Date and time

When using these general data and information, A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. In fact, this information is required in order to cor-rectly deliver the contents of our website, guarantee the permanent functionality of our information technology systems and the technology of our website and provide criminal prosecution authorities with necessary information in the event of a cyber attack.

The websites of A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG use cookies. Cookies are text files, which are filed and saved on a computer system via an Internet browser. Several of the cookies used by us are deleted again after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser when you next visit (persistent cookies).

Cookies allow A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG to provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services, which would not be possible without setting cookies.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time using an appropriate setting of the Internet browser and thereby permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted using an Internet browser or other soft-ware programs. This is possible in all of the commonly-used Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, under certain circumstances, not all functions of our website will be fully usable.

On the A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG website, the users are given the opportunity to subscribe to our company newsletter. Which personal data are sent to the data controller during the course of ordering the newsletter are shown in the input mask used for this purpose. As a general rule, our company’s newsletter can only be received by the data subject, if the data subject has a valid e-mail address and the data subject registers for the newsletter. For legal reasons, a confirmation e-mail is sent to the e-mail address entered by the data subject for the first time for dispatch of the newsletter, using the double-opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail has the purpose of checking whether the owner of the e-mail address has authorised the receipt of the newsletter, as the data subject.

When subscribing to the newsletter, we also store the IP address allocated by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the data subject whose computer system was used at the time of the subscription, as well as the date and time of the subscription. The collection of these data is required, in order to trace the (possible) misuse of a data subject’s e-mail address at a later time and is therefore for the data controller’s legal security.

Personal data, which are collected within the context of registering for the newsletter, are exclusively used for sending our newsletter. Furthermore, subscribers to the newsletter can informed by e-mail, if this is necessary for operating the newsletter service or a relevant registration, which may be the case in the event of changes to the newsletter service or a change to the technical circumstances. No disclosure takes place of personal data to third parties, which are collected within the context of the newsletter service. The subscription to our newsletter may be cancelled by the data subject at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data, which the data subject has granted to us for sending the newsletter, may be revoked at any time. A corresponding link is available in each news-letter for the purpose of revoking the consent.

Our website contains details, which allow contact to be made with our company quickly electronical-ly, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes the general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject establishes contact with the data controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data sent by the data subject will automatically be stored. Such personal data, which are provided on a voluntary basis, will be stored for the purpose of pro-cessing or establishing contact with the data subject.

YouTube
On this website, we use the functions of the YouTube video service of YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

By accessing the pages of our website, which integrates YouTube videos, data are transferred to YouTube, stored and evaluated. If you have a YouTube account and are logged in, these data will be allocated to your personal account and the data stored in it.

The Google privacy policy applies to YouTube. You can read about which data are captured by Google and what these data are used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Google Analytics
If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. The responsible party for users in the EU/EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google").

Scope of processing
Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by means of the cookies about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics 4 has IP address anonymization enabled by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

During your website visit, your user behavior is recorded in the form of "events". Events can be:

• Page views
• First visit to the website
• Start of session
• Your "click path", interaction with the website
• Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the bottom of the page (90%))
• clicks on external links 
• internal search queries
• interaction with videos
• file downloads
• seen / clicked ads
• language settings

Also recorded:

• Your approximate location (region)
• your IP address (in shortened form)
• technical information about your browser and the end devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
• your internet service provider
• the referrer URL (via which website/advertising medium you came to this website)

Purposes of processing
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics serve to analyse the performance of our website.

Recipients
Recipients of the data are/may be:

• Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as processor under Art. 28 DSGVO).
• Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
• Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

It cannot be ruled out that US authorities may access the data stored by Google.

Third country transfer
Insofar as data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection corresponding to the European standard, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider to establish an appropriate level of data protection. The parent company of Google Ireland, Google LLC, is based in California, USA. A transfer of data to the USA and access by US authorities to the data stored by Google cannot be ruled out. The USA is currently considered a third country from a data protection perspective. You do not have the same rights there as within the EU/EEA. You may not be entitled to any legal remedies against access by authorities.

Duration of storage
The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 2 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached occurs automatically once a month.

Legal basis
The legal basis for this data processing is your consent pursuant to Art.6 para.1 p.1 lit. a GDPR.

Revocation
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by accessing the cookie settings Cookies and changing your selection there. The lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation remains unaffected.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies from the outset by setting your browser software accordingly. However, if you configure your browser to reject all cookies, this may result in a restriction of functionalities on this and other websites. In addition, you can 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

a. not giving your consent to the setting of the cookie or
b. downloading and installing the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics HERE.

For more information on Google Analytics' terms of use and Google's privacy policy, please visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ and at https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

Google Fonts
We use Google Fonts of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on our website. The use of Google Fonts occurs without authentication and no cookies will be sent to Google Fonts API. If you have an account with Google, none of your Google account data will be sent to Google while using Google Fonts. Google only captures the use of CSS and the fonts used and stores these data securely.

You can find additional information about Google Fonts at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

The processing of the personal data occurs on the basis of the following legal foundation:

• Article 6 Para. 1 lit. b) Fulfilment of a contract and/or implementation of a pre-contractual measure
• Article 6 Para. 1 lit. c) regarding the fulfilment of a legal obligation
• Article 6 Par. 1 lit. f) regarding the protection of legitimate interests
• Article 6 Para. 1 lit. a) regarding the granting of your consent

If the processing occurs on the basis of your consent, you have the right to revoke it at any time, without giving reasons, with effect for the future. You can obtain further information about your rights in the “Your rights” section.

To the extent permitted by law, we will send your personal data to selected third parties, if neces-sary:

• • Public-law authorities and institutions
• • Service providers (IT service providers, telecommunication service providers etc.)

Forwarding of your personal data to third parties shall not take place without your explicit consent, provided that it is not necessary for performing the service or implementing the contract. However, it can be necessary to disclose your personal data to individual companies that we use to provide the service, which are responsible for your country. These are exclusively reliable partner companies for your region, which have naturally been instructed by use about the safeguarding of data privacy in respect of our customers’ personal data.

Your personal data will be deleted, as soon as these are no longer required to fulfil the purpose of the storage, unless statutory retention duties are contrary to a deletion.

According to applicable data protection law, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data captured by us, where necessary:

• Right to disclosure (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Right to correction of flawed or obsolete data (Art. 16 GDPR)
• Right to deletion with inadmissible processing (Art. 17 GDPR)
• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• Right to transfer (Art. 20 GDPR)
• Right to revocation of a granted consent, whereby the revocation shall not affect the lawful-ness of the processing, which has occurred until then on the basis of the consent (Art. 7 Pa-ra. 3 GDPR).
• Right to complaint to a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)

We will be happy to support you with all questions, complaints, disclosure requests and other concerns regarding the subject to data privacy. In such a case, please contact our designated data security officer at

datenschutz@monforts.de

and give us the opportunity to answer your concern.
In addition to making contact with us, you have the right to contact the responsible supervisory authority. For North Rhine-Westphalia, it is LDI NRW:

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen
Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf
Tel.: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
E-Mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de
https://www.ldi.nrw.de/

An overview of the national and international data protection authorities is available at the following link:

https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

This privacy policy has been prepared on the basis of the draft by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz [German Association for Data Protection].