Data protection statement

Area of application

This data protection statement informs the user of this website about the extent and the purpose of personal data collection on this website and its usage by the provider responsible, Quadt Kunststoffapparatebau GmbH, Industriestrasse 4–6, 53842 Troisdorf, Germany, info(at)quadt-kunststoff.de, +49 (0)2241 951 250.

You will find the legal basis for data protection in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Teleservices Act (TMG).

Access data/server log files
The provider (or their hosting service provider) collects data about each visit to the website (using what are known as server log files). This access data includes:

name of the website accessed, file, date and time of the visit, transferred data volume, message regarding successful access, browser type including version, the user's operating system, URL referrer (the page visited previously), IP address and the requesting provider.

The provider uses the log files for statistical analyses for operational purposes, and for site security and optimisation only. However, the provider reserves the right to check the log at a later stage if there is justifiable suspicion of illegal usage based on concrete evidence.

Contact
If the user contacts the provider (using a contact form or email, for example), their personal details are saved to handle the request or deal with any follow-up questions.

Newsletter
We use our newsletter to inform you about our activities, products and services.

If you would like to receive our newsletter, we need a valid email address from you and information which allows us to check that you are the owner of the indicated email address or that the email account holder has agreed to receive the newsletter. No other data will be collected. These data are used to send the newsletter only and are not forwarded to third parties.

When you register to receive the newsletter, we store your IP address and the date that you registered. This information is saved solely for the purposes of demonstrating that a third party has misused the email address and registered to receive the newsletter without the holder's knowledge.

You can withdraw your consent for your data and email address being stored and used to send the newsletter at any time. You can withdraw consent using a link in the newsletters themselves, in your profile or by notifying us using one of the contact options indicated above.

Incorporating services and third party contents
This online presence may incorporate third party contents such as YouTube videos, Google Maps pages, RSS feeds or graphics from other websites. This always requires the providers of such contents (hereinafter referred to as the "third-party providers") to identify users' IP addresses as they are unable to transmit the contents to the user's browser without their IP address. The IP address is thus required to display such contents. We try to limit use of such contents to cases where their providers use IP addresses to supply the contents only. However, we do not have any control over whether third-party providers save IP addresses for statistical purposes, for example. We inform users if we become aware of such use.

Cookies
Cookies consist of small data files which allow specific information related to the users' access devices to be saved to the device (PC, smartphone or similar). Firstly, they are used to improve user friendliness of websites and thus help users (e.g. storage of log-in credentials). They are also used to collect statistical data on the use of the website and analyse such data to improve the website. Users can limit the use of cookies. Most browsers feature an option to limit or fully prevent the saving of cookies. However, users should note that website use and particularly convenience of use are limited without cookies.

You can manage numerous online advertising cookies at the American site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/.

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on the user's computer and that permit analysis of use of the website. The information generated by the cookies on the users' usage of this website is generally transmitted to a server belonging to Google in the US, where the information is then stored.

However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, Google shortens the user's IP address within a member state of the European Union or within another state which has signed the European Economic Area Agreement prior to transmission. A full IP address is only transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. IP anonymisation is activated on this website. Google will use this information to evaluate the users' usage of the website, compiling reports on website activity for the operator of this website and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to the website operator.

Under no circumstances will the IP address provided by your browser for Google Analytics be linked to other Google data. Users can prevent the cookies from being stored by making the corresponding setting in their browser software; however, the website points out that users may not be able to enjoy the full scope of functions on this website in such cases. Users can also prevent data generated by the cookie and related to their usage of this website, including their IP address, from being compiled and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

You will find more information on Google's use of data for advertising purposes, setting options and the right to object on Google web pages: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners?hl=en ("How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps"), http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads ("How Google uses cookies in advertising"), http://www.google.com/settings/ads ("Control the information Google uses to show you ads") and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ ("Determine which ads Google shows you").