New data protection regulations became effective as of 25 May 2018 upon enactment of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. One of the core concerns of this regulation is data processing transparency. The following statement is intended to inform you about how your personal data is processed by inpotron Schaltnetzteile GmbH, and the associated rights to which you are entitled in accordance with data protection law.

Who’s responsible for data processing?
inpotron Schaltnetzteile GmbH
Hebelsteinstr. 5
D-78247 Hilzingen, Germany
Phone: +49-07731-9757-0
Fax:  +49-07731-9757-10
e-mail: info(at)inpotron.com

Our data protection officer, Dirk Hellmich, can be contacted by writing to the above listed address and marking your envelope “To the Data Protection Officer”, or at the following e-mail address:

datenschutz(at)inpotron.com

Purposes and Legal Grounds of Data Processing
inpotron Schaltnetzteile GmbH processes your personal data in consideration of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and all other relevant legislation, i.e. exclusively
- for the fulfilment of contractual obligations (article 6, section 1, paragraph b, GDPR).
Data is processed in order to execute a contract which has been entered into with you, or in order to take the steps required prior to entering into a contract with you after receiving your RFQ.

- On the basis of your consent (article 6, section 1, paragraph a, GDPR)
Insofar as you have issued consent to us for the processing of your personal data for specific purposes (e.g. use of your e-mail address for sending our newsletter), the lawfulness of such processing is assured on the basis of your consent. Issued consent can be withdrawn at any time. This applies as well to the withdrawal of declarations of consent issued before enactment of the GDPR, i.e. before 25 May 2018. Withdrawal of consent has no effect on the lawfulness of data processing conducted up to the point in time of withdrawal.
- As required for compliance with legal obligations (article 6, section 1, paragraph c, GDPR)
for example keeping documents on file for legally applicable commercial and tax purposes

Personal data which you submit to us, for example as part of a job application, in a request for contact or by e-mail (e.g. name, address or e-mail address), are only processed in order to be able to correspond with you and for the purpose for which you have provided the data to us.

Collection of Personal Data During Visits to Our Website
If you use our website, even if you don’t register or otherwise provide us with any information, we only collect the personal data which your browser transmits to our server. If you would like to view our website, we collect the following data which are technically necessary in order to make it possible for us to display our website to you, and to assure stability and security (legal grounds: article 6, section 1, paragraph f, GDPR):
– IP address
– Date and time of your request
– Requested content (actual page)
– Access status / HTTP status code
– Quantity of transmitted data
– Operating system
– Language and version of your browser

Categories of Receivers of Personal Data
Those departments at inpotron Schaltnetzteile GmbH which require personal data in order to complete their tasks have access to them.
We only forward your personal data to the freight forwarder who has been commissioned to deliver goods, insofar as this is required for shipping purposes. We forward your payment data to the credit institute which has been commissioned to process payment.
We do not forward your personal data to any third parties unless we are legally required to do so or you have provided us with prior consent.

 
Duration of Data Storage
Fundamentally, we delete your personal data as soon as they are no longer necessary for any of the above-mentioned purposes, insofar as we are not obligated to retain such data in order to fulfil legal accountability and retention requirements (commercial law, tax law, fiscal code). Mandatory retention periods of up to 10 years apply. We only retain personal data beyond this limit in individual cases in connection with claims made against our company (legal statute of limitations of up to 30 years).

Transmission of Data to Foreign Countries

We process your data in Germany only.

Cookies
This website makes use of so-called cookies. Cookies are text files which are stored to your computer by our server. They contain information concerning your browser, your IP address, your operating system and your Internet connection. We do not forward these data to any third parties or link them to personal data without your consent.
Cookies fulfil above all two purposes. They help us to make it easier for you to navigate through our offerings, and permit correct display of our website. They are not used to introduce viruses or start programs.
Users can access our offerings without cookies as well. The corresponding settings need to be changed in your browser to this end. Refer to your browser’s help function in order to find out how cookies can be deactivated. However, we make reference to the fact that in this case, some of the functions of this website may be impaired and that ease-of-use may be limited.

Use of Google Analytics
This website makes use of Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files which are stored to your computer and permit analysis of the use of our website. As a rule, information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is transmitted to and saved on a server operated by Google in the USA. However, due to IP anonymisation which is activated on these websites, your IP address is abbreviated by Google within the member countries of the European Union or other countries which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission. Only in exceptional cases is the entire IP address transmitted to a server operated by Google in the USA and abbreviated there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information in order to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports concerning website activities and provide further services to the operator of the website associated with usage of the website and the Internet. Google does not combine the IP address obtained by Google Analytics from your browser with any other data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by activating the corresponding setting in your browser software. However, we make reference to the fact that in this case it might not be possible to take full advantage of all of the functions made available by this website.
Furthermore, you can also prevent the transmission of data generated by cookies concerning your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google, as well as processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in which is available via the following link:  Browser add-on for deactivating Google Analytics.

tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Further information concerning terms of service and data privacy can be found at

Please note that the code "anonymizeIp" has been added to Google Analytics on this website to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Rights of Data Subjects
You can demand stored information concerning yourself and, under certain conditions, you can also demand the rectification or deletion of your data by writing to the address provided above. You may also be entitled to the right to restriction of the processing of your data, as well as the right to provision of data made available by yourself in a structured, common, machine-readable format.
If you have issued consent to us to process your personal data for specific purposes, you can withdraw consent at any time effective as of the point in time of withdrawal.

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Right to Object
If we process your data for the purpose of safeguarding legitimate interests, you can object to this processing of your data by writing to the address provided above if, from your particular point of view, there are reasons which are in conflict with such data processing.
We will then stop such processing, unless it primarily serves the purpose of safeguarding compelling interests of our own which are worthy of protection.

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Right to Lodge Complaint Concerning the Handling of Your Data
You also have the option of contacting our data protection officer or a data protection regulatory agency.
The data protection regulatory agency responsible for inpotron Schaltnetzteile GmbH is:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg
Königstr. 10a, D-70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Revision level: May 2018
In order to assure that our privacy policy always complies with current legal requirements, this policy is subject to change without notice. This also applies in the event that the privacy policy needs to be amended due to new or revised offerings, for example new services. In this case, the new privacy policy becomes effective the next time you visit our website.