Data Privacy Policy

This website is operated by Complex Fiber Structures GmbH. In the following we inform you about the collection of personal data when you use this website. Personal data is all data which can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.

Your data will be collected, processed, and used in accordance with the provisions of the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG) and data protection law, in particular the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By means of this data protection declaration we inform about the collection of personal data on and via our website from the data subject in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR.

(1) If you use the website purely for information purposes, i.e. if you do not log on to, register, or provide us with any other information to use the website, we do not collect any personal data, apart from data which your browser sends to enable you to visit the website. The purpose of this data collection is to enable you to visit the website and to ensure that the website functions properly. In addition, the data serves us to optimize the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. This is:

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Data volume transmitted
• Website from which the request comes
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

Unless otherwise is stated in this Data Privacy Policy, we will only store your data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed, unless longer storage periods are required by law. Your personal data will therefore be deleted after your request has been processed unless otherwise has been agreed or required by law.

Inventory data is deleted two years after the termination of the contractual relationship at the end of the calendar year unless it needs to be stored for a longer period and this is permitted by law.

We have the right to create user profiles using a pseudonym for purposes of advertising, market research or to design the website to meet the needs of users, unless you object. In particular, we analyze the user data anonymously for statistical purposes in order to design the website to meet the needs of users. You can object to the use of your personal data by sending us a corresponding notification.

In the course of processing personal data we use subcontractors and conclude contracts with these contract data processors in accordance with the requirements of Art. 28 GDPR.

The subcontractor which is used to host the website is STRATO AG.

We take technical and organizational measures in accordance with the requirements of Art. 32 GDPR to protect the user's personal data. All our employees who are involved in the processing of personal data are under obligation to maintain data secrecy. The user’s personal data will be encrypted by HTTPS when it is transmitted to the website.

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we inform you of the legal basis of our data processing.

• Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis.
• In the processing of personal data required for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.
• Insofar as the processing of personal data is required to fulfil a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR serves as the legal basis.
• The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
• If processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, Art. 6 para. 1 letter f GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing.

We do not make automated decision making or profiling.

The user and other data subjects may demand from us the following rights in respect of their personal data:

• Right of access by the data subject (Article 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten') (Article 17 GDPR)
• Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
• Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
• Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)
• Right to revoke consent given at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out based on the consent until revocation if the data processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a or Article 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data (Art. 77 GDPR).

1. Right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on lit. e (puplic interest) or lit. f  (legitimate interests) of Article 6 para. 1, including profiling based on those provisions. We no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
2. Right to object relating to direct marketing: Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of your personal data for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data is no longer be processed for such purposes.
3. Exercise of the right of objection: The right of objection can be exercised informally, for example by mail to Complex Fiber Structures GmbH, Wigardstr. 21, 01097 Dresden, Germany; E-Mail: info(at)complex-fiber-structures.de.

The service provider in accordance with § 13 of the German Tele Media Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG), and responsible body in accordance with Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR other data protection laws and other provisions of a data protection nature in force in the Member States of the European Union is:

Complex Fiber Structures GmbH, Wigardstr. 21, 01097 Dresden, Germany

info(at)complex-fiber-structures.de

All requests for information, corrections and deletions, objections or revocations of consent, the assertion of the right to limit the processing or the right to data portability, as well as comments or questions by the user relating to data protection are to be sent to this address.

The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is:

Sächsischer Datenschutzbeauftragter, Devrientstr. 1, 01067 Dresden, Germany

From time to time the content of this Data Privacy Policy will need to be updated. We, therefore, reserve the right to amend this policy at any time. We will publish the amended version of the Data Privacy Policy in the same place as this Data Privacy Policy.