Privacy policy

We are pleased about your visit and your interest in our website www.gehring-group.com. The protection of your private data is a matter of course for us. We would therefore like to inform you in the following about how your personal data is processed at GEHRING. The website www.gehring-group.com is an offer from Gehring Technologies GmbH Ostfildern (hereinafter referred to as GEHRING).

GEHRING only collects, stores and processes your personal data if this is permitted by law or if you have given your consent. If you would like to obtain information on the data stored by GEHRING, please contact us at the address given under "Contact".

Personal data (sometimes also referred to as personal data) is data that basically enables you to determine your identity. It does not matter whether the determination can be made on the basis of a single piece of information, this will rarely be the case. However, the more information and data can be combined, the more precisely the person can be determined. Personal data includes in particular the name, address, age, e-mail address and telephone number of a person.

1. COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA BY GEHRING

GEHRING collects, stores and processes your personal data only if this is permitted by law or if you have given your consent.

We obtain this data in two ways: either you have provided us with the data or we collect it when you use our services.

1.1 DATA YOU PROVIDE US WITH

As a rule, you can use our website without giving us any personal information directly. For some services, such as contacting us via our contact form, we will ask you for personal information such as your name, e-mail address and postal address in order to process the respective service quickly and in a user-friendly manner or to be able to offer the service at all. Detailed information on all services offered by GEHRING on this website can be found under the item Individual Services of this Privacy Policy.

1.2 DATA THAT WE OBTAIN THROUGH YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES

Some data is automatically and for technical reasons already collected when you visit our website. This always includes your IP address, for example. The Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique number assigned to your computer. It is necessary for you to be able to surf the Internet at all, because all data packets that you need to surf are sent there. In Germany, the IP address is reassigned for most private connections each time the connection to the Internet provider is disconnected. This usually happens at least once a day. IP addresses also allow you to determine from which country a PC accesses a website.

1.2.1 Protocol data

The automatically accrued data includes the protocol data of the web server. Each time you access a page from our offer and each time a file is called up, access data about this process is stored in a log file on our server.
Each record consists of:

• IP address of the requesting client
• Date and time of access
• URL of the retrieved file
• Web page URL from which access is made (referrer)
• the identification of the browser used by the client
• The stored data is evaluated anonymously for statistical purposes only.

1.2.2 Cookies

Explanation of terms
Cookies are small files containing a character string in which certain information has been stored in an open or encrypted form. Cookies are sent from the server to your computer and stored there. They first serve to identify the computer from which a website was called up. If you log on to a website, cookies are used to inform the server that you are logged on and to check your authorization to call up a page. Every cookie has an expiry date, after which it is no longer valid. However, this expiration date can be a long time in the future.

Cookies can be used to track a user's path across different pages of the website and also across different websites. Cookies can be used to improve communication between the website server and your computer, thereby making the use of a website more convenient. Cookies may not only come from the website operator, but also from third parties, for example if there is advertising on the site.

You can use your browser to view the cookies that are stored on your computer, to delete existing cookies, or to set your configuration so that not all or no cookies are stored. Please note that some functions (such as login) may not work or may not work properly if you disable the setting of cookies.

Use at GEHRING

We currently use cookies on our website for the following purposes to ensure proper operation:

1.2.3 Google Analytics

In order to improve our web offer, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website such as

• Browser type/version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL (the previously visited page)
• Host name of the accessing computer (as IP address in shortened form)
• Time of the server request
• the approximate location of the accessing computer

are usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before this happens. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link. The current link is https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Further information on data protection at Google Analytics can be found here: www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html

1.2.4 Typekit from Adobe

For the presentation of our website we use a font as a typekit service from Adobe. In the course of providing the Typekit service, no cookies are placed or used to provide the font.

Additional information about Adobe Typekit privacy can be found at the following link: http://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/typekit.html. To prevent Typekit from collecting data, please disable JavaScript in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

2. INDIVIDUAL SERVICES

In the following you will find information on individual services which are made available to you on our website and in the context of which you provide us with personal data which we require for the provision of the services.

2.1 CONTACT FORM

GEHRING offers you extensive personal support. If you contact us via the contact form, we will collect your first and last name and your e-mail address so that we can answer your enquiry quickly and individually. If you wish to contact us by telephone, please also provide us with your telephone number. The data will only be used to answer your enquiry and will not be used for a sales conversation or otherwise for advertising purposes.

We will be happy to provide you with information about the data stored about you. For further details, please refer to the point Information and contact of this privacy policy.

3. SOCIAL MEDIA

We also offer you extensive personal support and the opportunity to stay in touch with us through our pages in the social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Xing). These social media services themselves collect personal data, e.g. via your profile created there or via so-called social plug-ins, which are implemented on third party websites.

If you send us an inquiry about one of these social media services, we will forward the inquiry to the responsible department. The data will be used exclusively to answer your inquiry.

In order to contact us via social media, you must register with these services. For this purpose the companies behind the respective service may collect, store and use personal data. We have no influence on the type, scope and processing of this data. This also applies to images/videos uploaded in social media. Please note that the rights may be transferred to the social media services. Details can be found in the data protection and usage conditions of the respective providers.

If you call up a website of our Internet presence that contains such a plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection with the servers of the respective companies. The content of the plugins is transmitted directly to your browser and integrated into the website. We therefore have no influence on the extent of the data that the respective companies collect with the help of these plugins. We therefore inform you according to our state of knowledge:

By integrating the plugins, the respective companies receive the information that you have called up the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged in at one of the companies mentioned above, they can assign the visit to your account there. If you interact with the plugins, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from your browser to the respective company and stored there. If you do not have an account with one of the companies mentioned above, it is still possible that they will find out your IP address and save it.

Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that every visitor to our website will be recorded by the company listed above on the basis of his IP address and the URL called up, even if he does not click on the plugins and is not logged in with a user account with the company.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by these companies, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the data protection information of:

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

4. INFORMATION AND CONTACT

You retain control over all personal data that you provide us when you visit the website and use our services. The protection of your private data is a matter of course for us.

On request, we will be pleased to inform you in writing and free of charge whether and which personal data is stored by us. You can also request the deletion of your data stored with us by means of an enquiry, provided that this data is not required for the processing of contractual relationships between you and us or we are obliged to store it for legal reasons.

Please send us your inquiry and contact us for any other questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy using the following contact options:

Data Protection Officer
Gehring Technologies GmbH
Gehringstraße 28
Industrial Park Nellingen-Zinsholz
73760 Ostfildern Germany

data protection(at)Gehring-group.com