SYNTHOPOL data privacy statement

1. Gathering and processing of data

You may visit our website without giving details about your identity. We only store access data through which the user cannot be traced or identified. Every time anyone accesses our website and every time anyone accesses a file stored on the website, it is recorded. The data gathered in this way is only saved for internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following data is gathered: The name of the file accessed, the date and time of access, the quantity of data transmitted, the notification on successful access, the web browser used, the domain the request came from and the IP address of the computer submitting the request. Such data is exclusively evaluated in order to improve our services, and does not enable us to identify you.

Any further personal data is only gathered if you give such details voluntarily, for example when enquiring or registering.

2. Use and passing on of personal data

If you have provided us with personal data, we only use it to attend to your enquiries, to fulfil the contracts concluded with you and for the technical administration.

Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties or transmitted otherwise if it is necessary for the purpose of fulfilling the contract - in particular passing on order data to suppliers - or for invoicing purposes - or if you have consented to it in advance. Once the contract has been fulfilled your data will be barred from further access, and, once the storage periods under fiscal and commercial law have expired, deleted, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data. You may revoke your consent granted at any time, with effect for the future.

The personal data stored will be deleted if you have revoked your consent to it being stored, if our being aware of your data is no longer required in order to fulfil the purpose pursued with the storage or where storing your data is illegitimate on any other legal grounds.

3. Your right to information

Under the (Federal) Data Privacy Act (BDSG), you have the right to be informed, free of charge, on your stored data, as well as, if applicable, a right to have such data corrected, blocked or removed. Upon written request, we will be pleased to inform you about the data stored on you.

Data privacy contact

Should you have any questions on the gathering, processing or use of your personal data, or in regard to information sought, or requests for correction, blocking or removal of your data, as well as in order to revoke any consents granted, please write to:

Synthopol Chemie Dr. rer. pol. Koch GmbH & Co. KG, Alter Postweg 35, D-21614 Buxtehude.

4. Safety precaution

We take technical and organisational measures to secure our website and any other systems used by us against loss, destruction, unauthorised access, alteration or dissemination of your data by unauthorised persons.

5. Use of cookies

Like most websites that you visit, this website also uses cookies to improve user experience, both if you visit our website only once and if you repeatedly visit our website. These are small text files, which are stored on your device. Some of the cookies used by us are deleted again once the browser session has ended, i.e. after you close your browser (these are referred to as session cookies). There are other cookies, in turn, that remain on your device, and enable us or our partner companies to recognise your browser again at your next visit (persistent cookies). Through the use of cookies you can switch between the pages quickly and easily, create bookmarks, exchange information with other users via social networks, such as LinkedIn and XING, and use Google Maps services.

Cookies are placed either by our website (first party cookies) or other websites, the content of which is embedded on our website (third party cookies). Such third party providers may place cookies if you are logged into their sites and visit our website. Synthopol Chemie Dr. rer. pol. Koch GmbH & Co. KG has no control over the cookie settings of such websites. Please visit the websites of the third party providers to obtain further information on how they use cookies and how to handle that.

Managing and deleting cookies

If you wish to prevent cookies from being placed or delete them, you can make such changes in the browser settings. In order to manage cookies on your device, you can set your browser in such a way that you are informed on cookies being placed and can take an individual decision on whether to accept or decline each one or whether to exclude acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. You can learn about the procedures for managing cookies using the Help function of your browser.

Should you decide to restrict the use of cookies, you will not be able to use all the interactive functions of our website.

Cookie Declaration

6. Creating anonymous usage profiles for web analysis

Data that is used to create usage profiles using pseudonyms is gathered and saved on this website by Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Such usage profiles serve the purpose of analysing visitors' behaviour, and the profiles are analysed in order to improve our website and design it so as to meet users' needs.

Cookies may be used for this purpose. These are small text files, which are stored locally on the computer of the visitor to the page and make it possible for the visitor to be recognised when he or she visits our website again.

The anonymised usage profiles are not merged with personal data on the bearer of the pseudonym without special express consent, to be granted by the affected party.

You may revoke your consent to data being gathered and stored for the purpose of web analysis at any time, with effect for the future.

7. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics and Google Remarketing. These services are provided by Google Inc. (“Google”).

You can prevent data from being gathered by Google Analytics und Google Remarketing by clicking on the link below. This causes an opt-out cookie to be installed in your browser, so that no data is gathered when you visit this website in future.

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Google Analytics and Google Remarketing are services of Google. Cookies are used by Google, viz. text files that are stored on your computer. This makes it possible to analyse your use of this website. By means of the cookie, information is generated about the way you use this website, and this (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If enabled, the “anonymizeIP” function for your IP address ensures that your IP address is truncated by the last byte within the European Union or of the European Economic Area, which means that it is no longer possible to clearly identify your computer by its IP address. Google adheres to the data privacy provisions of the US-Safe-Harbor convention, and is registered with the Safe Harbor programme of the US Department of Commerce.

Said information is used by Google to evaluate your use of the website. Reports are generated on the website activities, for the website operator, and further services relating to the use of the website and the use of the Internet are made possible. Said information is transmitted by Google to third parties, if this is statutorily required or if third parties process said data on behalf of Google.

Advertisements are shown on websites on the Internet by third party providers and Google. Google and third party providers will use the data to display advertisements on websites of third parties.

Your IP address will never be associated with other data of Google. The authorisation granted by you to gather and store data about you may be revoked at any time with effect for the future. You can disable the use and storage of cookies by Google by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. You can do so by accessing the page www.google.de/privacy/ads and clicking the “opt-out” button there. Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies by third party providers by accessing the page provided for the purpose by the Network Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You can find the data privacy policy of Google and further information on it at www.google.com/intl/de/privacy.

Should you disable the use of cookies, we would like to point out that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in their entirety.