Privacy

Principles

This privacy policy informs you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data on our online offering www.rs-engineering.com (hereinafter referred to as the "website"). We take your data protection very seriously and treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions.

You can generally use our website without providing any personal data. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email address, page views. If personal data is collected directly on our website (e.g. via the contact form), this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. Under no circumstances will the data collected be sold or passed on to third parties for reasons other than those required by law.

As new technologies and the constant development of this website may result in changes to this privacy policy, we recommend that you read the privacy policy again at regular intervals.

Definitions of the terms used (e.g. "personal data" or "processing") can be found in Art. 4 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

§ 1 Person responsible

The website operator Dr. Markus Raindl (managing director) is responsible for the processing of personal data in accordance with Art. 4 No. 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our address and contact details can be found in our imprint.

§ 2 Collection of personal data

(Server) log files

When you visit our website, if you do not otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is automatically recorded without your intervention and stored on our server until it is automatically deleted:

IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Request transmitted by the web browser, consisting of request method (e.g. GET), requested page or resource, protocol version (e.g. HTTP/1.1)
Access status/HTTP status code (e.g. 404 for “page not found”)
Amount of data transferred in each case
Page from which the currently displayed page was accessed or the resource was integrated (if your web browser transmits this information)
Browser identification, consisting of the name, manufacturer, version and language of your browser software, as well as the operating system and its version (if your web browser transmits this information)

The data mentioned is collected for the purpose of displaying our website to you and ensuring stability and security. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the aforementioned purpose of data collection.

We also use cookies and analysis services. You can find more detailed information about this and about data processing when using social media applications in this privacy policy (§4 Cookies, §5 Google Analytics, §6 Social Media).

Contact form and email contact

(1) Provided you give your consent, the following information will be stored when you use our contact form:

Email address
Name (e.g. first and last name, as provided by you)
Telephone number (if provided by you)
Your request (if provided by you)
IP address (automatic)
Date and time (automatic)
Browser used and version (automatic)

Mandatory information for using our contact form is your email address and your name, with the background of the personal address and assignment of your request. The provision of further data (e.g. telephone, your message) is voluntary and is used to process your request and, for example, to answer it by phone if you so wish. The automatically collected data is used to make our online offering more secure and to be able to optimize it.

(2) If you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), we will process your details to process your request and in the event that follow-up questions arise.

If the data processing is carried out to carry out pre-contractual measures that are carried out at your request or, if you are already our customer or patient, to carry out the contract, the legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter b GDPR.

We only process further personal data if you consent to this (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter a GDPR) or if we have a legitimate interest in processing your data (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f GDPR). A legitimate interest is, for example, to reply to your email.

§ 3 Transfer of data

Personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than the following. We will only pass your data on to third parties if:

You have given your express consent to do so (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter a GDPR),
the transfer is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not sharing your data (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f GDPR),
if there is a legal obligation to share the data (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter c GDPR).

§ 4 Cookies

In addition to the data specified in § 2 of this data protection declaration, cookies will be stored on your device (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, TV, etc.) when you use our website. Cookies are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device when you visit our site. Information is stored in the cookie that is related to the specific device used and your browser. This does not mean that we thereby receive immediate knowledge of your identity. In addition, cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are designed to make the Internet more user-friendly and effective overall.

The following data and information is stored in the cookies:

Log-in information
Language settings
Search terms entered
Information about the number of visits to our website and the use of individual functions of our website.

Our website uses the following types of cookies:

(1) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website.

(2) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which can vary depending on the cookie. We use such cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to optimize our offering. The cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already visited us when you visit our site again.

The data processed by cookies is required for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR.

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes at any time and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that by rejecting cookies you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

§ 5 Social Media

Integration of YouTube videos

We have integrated YouTube videos into our online offering, which are stored on YouTube (video service from "Google") and can be played directly from our website.

By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding page or subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified under § 2 of this data protection declaration (see log files) is transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube (or Google) provides you with a user account through which you are logged in, or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to YouTube, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you do not want your YouTube profile to be assigned, you must log out of your Google user account before activating it, i.e. before using the video (e.g. by clicking the "Play button" or using other controls on the video). YouTube stores your data as user profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or tailoring its website to your needs. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular to provide needs-based advertising by the provider and, for example, to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. The provider will carry out an evaluation even if you do not have a Google user account or are not logged in. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube (Google) to exercise your right of objection.

Further information regarding the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

§ 6 Storage and duration

Unless specifically stated, we only store personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes pursued.

In some cases, the legislature provides for the retention of personal data, for example in tax or commercial law. In these cases, we will only continue to store the data for these legal purposes, but will not process it in any other way and will delete it after the statutory retention period has expired.

§ 7 Data security

We make every effort to ensure the security of your data within the framework of applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.

Your personal data is transmitted using encrypted data. We use SSL/TLS encryption (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security), but we would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

To protect your data, we maintain technical and organizational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, which we continually adapt to the state of the art. We also do not guarantee that our offer will be available at certain times. Disruptions, interruptions or failures cannot be ruled out. The servers we use are regularly and carefully backed up.

§ 8 Rights of the data subject

Your rights as a data subject
You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you:

Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

Right to object

If we base the processing of your personal data on the pursuit of legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter f GDPR), you can object to the processing. If you exercise such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we do. If your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and will either stop or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we continue the processing.

Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time.

You can inform us of your objection using the contact details provided in the imprint.

Revocation

You have the right to revoke your consent to us at any time (Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR). This means that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future.

Complaint

You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is unlawful.

§ 9 Use of our contact details

The use of the contact details published in the imprint or comparable information such as postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses by third parties to send information that has not been expressly requested is not permitted. We expressly reserve the right to take legal action against senders of so-called spam emails in the event of violations of this prohibition.