Wiesemann & Theis GmbH

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Responsible for data processing

Wiesemann & Theis GmbH
Tobias Theis, Managing Director
Porschestr. 12, 42279 Wuppertal
+49 202 2680-0    info@wut.de

Our data protection deputy can be reached at s.glasmacherno@wutweb.topde

Your order/inquiry

Our colleagues from Sales and Engineering process the personal data which you provide us with for the purposes of handling your purchase order (for goods, printed materials, newsletters, service offers etc.) or inquiries (regarding offers, technical support etc.) while any of those processes are ongoing. Where necessary we make use of service providers for web hosting, shipping and payment transactions.
Legal basis: Art. 6 I b) GDPR.

In addition it is even possible that we may send you a Christmas greeting or something similar ;-)

We adhere to the legal retention periods. But then we also manufacture long-lived products. To ensure that we can likewise provide long-term service, we may retain the contact data for product owners beyond our legal retention obligations. If you object to this, simply contact our data protection deputy.

When we contact you

If we contact you beyond the processes described here, we either have your consent to the associated data processing of your contact data (Art. 6 I a) GDPR), which you may revoke at any time to the above mentioned mail or e-mail address, or we have a legitimate interest (Art. 6 I f) GDPR). This applies especially to suppliers and the areas of marketing/direct advertising, PR, press relations and network activities. The purposes of the data processing arise from the contact. Provided we have not notified you differently when making contact or you are not otherwise aware, we use here the data you have yourself made public. We shall delete your personal data if it is no longer needed by us in the context described and there are no contravening legal retention obligations.

Visiting our website

Functional cookies

When visiting our website we set a session cookie. This is an ID which is stored in your browser until it is closed. Along with this ID we use a session file to save for example the items that have been placed in the shopping cart on the server of our web host. This ID is not linked to personal data until you share this data with us during an ordering process using the form fields provided. After a short time of inactivity the server-side session file is declared invalid and then deleted. We have decided to use a session cookie to make visiting our website more convenient to use especially for ordering. We believe the advantage of usability more than compensates for the time limited linking of the personal data shared using a session ID. The legal basis is: Art. 6 I f) of the German GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Another session cookie is necessary to give you the opportunity to decide whether optional cookies are used. This is deleted after about 30 min. and does not store any personal data.

Consent for the use of cookies

To obtain your valid consent for use and storage of cookies in the browser, which you need for access to our website and to properly document it, we use a consent management platform: CookieFirst. This technology is provided by Digital Data Solutions BV, Plantage Middenlaan 42a, 1018 DH, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Website: https://cookiefirst.com

When you access our web page, a connection with the CookieFirst server is opened to make it possible for us to obtain a valid consent from you for use of certain cookies. CookieFirst then stores a cookie in your browser so as to activate only the cookies you have agreed to and to properly document it. The processed data are stored until the prescribed storage period has expired or until you request that the data be deleted. Notwithstanding this, certain statutory retention periods may apply.

CookieFirst is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data processing agreement

We have concluded a data processing agreement with CookieFirst. This is a contract required under data protection law, which ensures that the data of our website visitors will only be processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Server protocol files

Our website and CookieFirst automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The following data is collected:

  • Your consent status and revoking of your consent
  • Your anonymous IP address
  • Information about your browser
  • Information about your device
  • The date and time of your visit to our website
  • The URL of the website on which your consent settings are stored or updated
  • The approximate location of the user who has stored his consent preferences
  • A universally unique identifier (UUID) of the website visitor who clicked on the banner cookie

Optional cookies

Our marketing staff would like to check the success of our website, especially after advertising campaigns. We hope that this will provide us with information on whether our advertising is effective and whether our website is well prepared from the customer’s point of view. Where cookies are necessary, they are only set with your consent, so that we only receive the data stored about them in this case; legal basis in this case: Art. 6 I a) GDPR and 25 I 1 TTDSG.

  • Analysis

    We have configured Matomo for "Tracking" and "Privacy" in such a way that a cookie or consent is not necessary. You can find information on this here: https://matomo.org/faq/new-to-piwik/how-do-i-use-matomo-analytics-without-consent-or-cookie-banner/#how-to-avoid-cookie-consent-banner-requirements.

    We use the Google Analytics 4 tool to analyze your pseudonymous use of our website and compile reports on website activity, to analyze the performance of our website and the success of our marketing campaigns. Your IP address is anonymized by default, i.e. abbreviated and, according to Google, not merged with other Google data. The following data and events may be recorded during your visit to our website:

    • Your anonymized IP address
    • Your approximate location (region)
    • Date and time of your visit
    • Information about your browser and device
    • Your Internet provider
    • The referrer URL (via which you came to our website)
    • Your page views and whether it is your first visit to our website
    • Your interactions with our website, including in the form of clicks, e.g. on downloads, videos, external links or internal search queries or scrolls and language settings

    We also use Google Signals. This allows Google Analytics to collect additional information about those users who are logged into their Google account and have activated personalized ads, which enables cross-device remarketing.

    Recipients of the data are/may be

    • Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (as processor pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR)
    • Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
    • Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

    The European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the USA on July 10, 2023. Google LLC is certified in accordance with the EU-US Privacy Framework and is also based on the EU standard contractual clauses. You can find further information on the subject of data transfer here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de

    The data sent by us and linked to cookies is automatically deleted after 2 months. The maximum lifespan of Google Analytics cookies is 2 years. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is deleted once a month.

  • Conversion Tracking

    We place ads for our products using "Google Ads" and have integrated "Google Conversion Tracking" on our website if you have given your consent. If you access our website via one of our Google ads, Google will set cookies with your consent, which send data to Google Ads. The data is displayed and processed within the "Matomo" and "Google Analytics 4" software. Here we can see which of our ads received clicks and which of our websites were subsequently accessed. In addition, Google cookies store whether "conversions" have occurred, i.e. activities that are particularly valuable to us, such as orders, newsletter registrations, etc. As far as we can see, the data generated is event-related and not personal with regard to Google Ads, otherwise we refer to our comments above on Google Analytics 4.

Privacy settings

Here you can manage your privacy and permission settings for this website.

Change settings *

* Here you will also find everything about the cookies used and their function, see the "Cookies" section.

We have already configured Matomo in such a way that your privacy is protected and a cookie is not necessary, see above. However, you can also prevent the remaining technical or anonymized data generated by your visit to our homepage, such as technical characteristics of your browser, pages clicked on our homepage, length of visit and the anonymized IP address from being stored. Matomo provides the following opt-out mechanism for this purpose, which we would also like to offer you here:

Your application

As part of the application process our training manager processes those personal data which you share with us within our application portal for secondary and university students and which are stored with our web hoster. For other recruiting processes our corresponding employees from the relevant departments process those personal data which you provide to us with your application.
Legal basis: Art. 6 I b) GDPR.

If your application is unsuccessful, we delete/destroy your data within an appropriate time after the respective application procedure has been closed out.

Your visit on our social media channels

We want your paths to us to be comfortable and short - which is why we also have a presence in various social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. We use these channels sparingly however; we see them mainly as business cards or pointers to our website, the main information source - any content that you might miss in our social media channels can be found here at www.wut.de.

Lawful basis: Art. 6 I f) GDPR.
As a registered user of these channels you are already informed about how the data is used and the privacy terms. The only personal data visible to us through the social media channels is that which you provide us with here through initiated contact, comments, subscriptions, likes etc. Facebook also an "Insights" function which cannot be disabled, and which provides anonymous statistics about the subscribers to our page with respect to age and gender, top cities and top countries. LinkedIn also provides "Insights" in the form of anonymous statistics about job function, country, company size, etc. We process no additional personal data within the scope of social media.

Based on the Insights functions, with respect to this statistical data we are considered as a "joint controller" with Facebook and LinkedIn, so that we have concluded the Page Controller Addendum of Facebook Ireland Ltd., which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum, as well as the Page Insights Joint Controller Addendum with the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, which you can find here: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum

Your rights

Please direct any questions or requests for information, rectification, deletion, restriction of processing, receiving of the data as well as your objection to processing (Art. 15 - 21 GDPR) also to s.glasmacherno@wutweb.topde or to our above listed postal address using the reference "Data Protection".

Your right to lodge a complaint (Art. 77 GDPR) can be exercised with the representative for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia, www.ldi.nrw.de

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