Data protection declaration of Lech-Stahlwerke GmbH

Data protection

Every citizen has the constitutionally guaranteed right to decide on the use of their personal details themselves. For this reason it is our obligation to protect your data that you entrust us with during the visit to our web presence. In the following we would like to show you what data we have about you, what we do with this data and what security precautions we have taken to protect this data against misuse.

Area of validity

This data protection declaration is valid for the entire web presence, but not for pages of other suppliers for whom you may find links on our pages. Despite careful checks on content, we cannot accept any liability for external links to external content.

Security precautions

All employees of our company are trained according to section 5 of the German data protection law (BDSG) and obligated to data secrecy. Our IT department continuously adapts our technical security measures to the current situation and requirements. Both are subject to continuous checking. We secure our website with technical and organisational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorised persons.

Logging

In general, you can visit our website without giving details about yourself. We only store access data and without any personally identifiable details, i.e. upon every access of a user to a page of our web presence and whenever a file is accessed the following access data about this process are saved in a log file on our server:

• IP address
• Page from which the file was requested
• Date, time
• Browser type and browser settings
• Operating system
• the page visited by you
• Quantity of data transferred
• Access status (file sent, file not found etc.)

Statistics are generated from this data that help us to further adapt our internet portal to your needs. Personal data cannot be derived from this and a transfer of the data to third parties, even extracts, does not occur.

Processing of personal data

At several points of our web presence we offer you the opportunity to contact us. We only use the personal data transferred for this for one purpose for which you have voluntarily given it to us. Forwarding to third parties does not occur. We will save the data within the legal requirements and protect it against unauthorised access by third parties.

Information and correction rights of saved personal data

According to the German data protection law users have the right to receive free information regarding the saved personal data about them. In addition, according to legal conditions, users also have the right of correction, blocking and deletion of this personal data. In this event please contact us in writing.

Withdrawal

If you have given us personal data, you have the option to delete this at any time. You can withdraw the expressly declared agreement at any time and is effective from that point on.

Cookies

In order to expand the scope of functionality of our web presence and to make its use more comfortable for you, we use so-called 'cookies'. Cookies are small text files that are used present users with an offer that is as individual as possible. This file is automatically deleted from your computer at the end of your browser session. It only serves to enable certain applications, such as counting page accesses. With the help of these 'cookies' data can be stored on your computer upon accessing our website.

If you would not like to make use of the benefits of cookies, you can very simply deactivate them in your browser. If you would like to do this, please deactivate cookies in your browser. You can find out how to do this in the help function of your browser. You can find instructions with pictures for web browsers Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome at the following link (German): http://www.meine-cookies.org/cookies_verwalten/index.html. However, this can limit the scope of function of our offer.

Changes to this data protection declaration

Due to current circumstances, such as an update of the German data protection law, we will update this data protection declaration - if necessary - without your being notified. Please always check the data protection declaration before making use of our offer in order to be up to date with possible changes or updates.

Contacts for data protection

If you have any questions on the recording, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking or deletion of data as well as for withdrawal of permission given, please contact:

Lech-Stahlwerke GmbH
As of: June 2015