Privacy Policy

This English text is a convenience translation. The legally binding version is the German original.

The party responsible for data processing on this website is

Philip Westphal

Westrath GmbH
Charlottenstraße 14
52070 Aachen
Germany

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection provisions, in particular the EU GDPR, the new German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-neu) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG), as well as this privacy policy. The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (for example name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our pages, this is always done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis.

This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.

The following privacy policy provides you with an overview of how we ensure the protection of your personal data, what type of data is collected for what purpose, and how you can exercise your rights to protect your data.

Server logs

For technical reasons, and in order to defend against, analyse and investigate attacks on our websites, our web server automatically collects and stores in the log files data which your browser transmits to us. This data is: browser type and browser version, operating system used, referrer URL (previously visited website), host name of the accessing computer, time of the server request, IP address. We cannot attribute this data to any specific individuals. This data is not merged with other data sources; in addition, the data is deleted after 30 days.

External links

Our website contains links (= redirects) to other internet services. External links, i.e. links to websites of third-party information providers, are identifiable by the fact that, when you hover the mouse over the link, the corresponding target URL is displayed in your browser's address bar. We are not responsible for the content of pages reached via such a connection. The data processing carried out there takes place within the framework of the privacy policies of the respective providers. The opinions and/or statements of fact reproduced on the linked pages are the sole responsibility of the respective providers and do not reflect the opinion of the responsible party.

Data subject rights (access, restriction, erasure)

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain free information about your personal data stored by us, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, where applicable, a right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), restriction (Art. 18 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding the processing of your personal data stored by us, you may contact the responsible party at any time by e-mail or post.

Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

You have the right to have data that we process in an automated manner handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. Insofar as you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done where it is technically feasible.

Objection to advertising e-mails (Art. 21 GDPR)

The use of contact data published in connection with the imprint obligation by third parties for the purpose of sending advertising and information materials that have not been expressly requested is hereby expressly prohibited. We expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example by means of spam e-mails.

Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content (e.g. the entries you make in the contact form), we use encryption methods that correspond to the current state of the art (SSL or TLS). We point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.