Wiesemann & Theis GmbH

Networking, sensors and interface technology for industry, office and IT

Data protection at W&T

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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

Chat-GPT Playground

We store your questions to ChatGPT here and with OpenAI. For privacy reasons please do not enter personal data. We also store your IP address, but these are deleted once a day at midnight.

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

Especially after advertising campaigns our marketing people are interested in using "Matomo" to monitor the success of our website. We hope this will tell us whether our advertising is effective and our website is well designed from the point of view of the customer. These cookies are set only with your permission, so that we can obtain the saved data only for this purpose.

  • Analysis

    We have configured Matomo with regard to “tracking” and “privacy” so that a cookie or consent is not necessary. You can find information about 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.

  • Conversion Tracking

    We place ads for our products using "Google Ads" and have incorporated "Google Conversion Tracking" into our website for those who give us permission. When you arrive at our website from one of our Google ads and you give permission, Google sets cookies which send data to Google Ads. We display and process the data using the "Matomo" software. Here we can see which of our ads result in clicks and which of our web pages were then opened. Cookies from Google also tell whether "conversions" resulted, i.e. activities that were especially valuable for us such as orders, newsletter subscriptions etc. The data generated and viewable for us are event-specific rather than personal.

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 so that your privacy is protected and a cookie is not necessary, see above. However, you can also prevent the remaining technical or anonymized data that arises from your visit to our homepage, such as technical characteristics of your browser, pages clicked on our homepage, length of stay and the anonymized IP address, from being saved. 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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