Privacy policy

Controller in the sense of the data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

NOF EUROPE GmbH
Hamburger Allee 2-4
60486 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY

Rights as a data subject

Using the contact info of our data protection officer given down below you are able to exercise the following rights at any time:

Information about any of your data saved by us and the processing of this data (art. 15 GDPR),
Rectification of inaccurate personal data (art. 16 GDPR),
erasure of data saved by us (art. 17 GDPR),
restriction of data processing, in the case that we are not allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (art. 18 GDPR),
objection against the processing of your data by us (art. 21 GDPR) and
data portability, in the case that you gave consent for the processing of data or that you entered into a contract with us (art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given consent, you may revoke this consent with effect for the future.

You may file a complaint at any time at a supervisory authority, e.g. with the responsible supervisory authority for the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as controller.

A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public field) can be accessed through the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Collection of general information while visiting our website

Nature and purpose of the processing:

If you access our website and if you are not registering or transferring information in another way, information of general nature is collected. This information (server-logfiles) may include the type of web browser, the utilized operating system, the domain name of your internet-service-provider, your IP-address and such like.

The processing takes place for the following purposes in particular:

Guarantee of a problem free connection of the website,
guarantee of a seamless utilization of our website,
evaluation of the system security and stability, as well as
the optimization of our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you as an individual.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing takes place according to art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest to improve the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data are technical service providers involved in the operation and maintenance of our website. In particular, this website is hosted by Laut und Schoen GmbH, Hanauer Landstraße 48a, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, which may process IP addresses and server log data on our behalf in connection with the hosting of this website.

Third country transfer:

The collected data is transferred to the following third countries: the United States, Japan

Your data is transferred only to NOF group companies. We will not disclose your data to a third party without your consent.

The following privacy guarantees apply

Adequacy agreement EU-commission
Standard Contractual Clauses

Duration of storage:

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to fulfill the purpose of their collection. The data that serves the provision of the website is usually deleted when the website session is completed.

In the case that data is saved in logfiles the deletion takes place after 7days at the latest. Additional storage is possible. In this case IP addresses are anonymized to prevent association with a client.

Provision mandatory or necessary:

The provision of the personal data is not legally nor contractually required. The operation and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed without the IP addresses. Additionally, individual services may not be available.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website.

You can manage, block or delete cookies through the settings of your browser. Please refer to the help or settings section of your browser for further information on how to manage cookies.

Duration of storage and cookies used:

As far as you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:

Technically necessary cookies

1 . consent-manager (GDPR Cookie)
Saves your selection with regard to the cookies.Lifetime: 1 year
Provider: this website

2. PHPSESSID (Session)

The so-called session ID is a randomly selected key that uniquely identifies the session data on the server. This key can be passed to a subsequent script, e.g. via cookies or as part of the URL, so that it can find the session data on the server again

Lifetime: Session
Provider: this website

Cookies for statistics (performance cookies)

1. _ga (Google Analytics)
Used to distinguish website visitors for statistical purposes.
Lifetime: 2 years
Provider: Google

2. _ga_JGQ2TZQ5C8 (Google Analytics)

Used to maintain session information for statistical analysis.

Lifetime: 2 years

Provider: Google

3. _gat (Google Analytics)
Used to limit the request rate.
Lifetime: 1 minute
Provider: Google

4. _gid (Google Analytics)
Used to distinguish website visitors for statistical purposes.
Lifetime: 24 hours

provider: Google

Type and purpose of processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.

We require technically necessary cookies in particular to store the user's cookie consent decision and to maintain an active session when using the contact form.

Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processor for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Objection:

Please read the information about your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR below.

Cookie Consent Tool

When you make a selection via our Cookie Consent Tool, your cookie preferences are recorded for the purpose of documenting your selection. For this purpose, the consent ID, time of consent and IP address are processed.

The consent records are automatically deleted after 90 days.

Technically not necessary cookies

Subject to your consent, we use cookies for the statistical analysis of the use of our website. These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website and enable us to improve our website.

Further information on the cookies used for statistical purposes and on Google Analytics can be found in the sections above and below.

Legal basis:

The legal basis for these processing operations is in each case your consent, Art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Recipient:

In connection with the use of Google Analytics, data may be transmitted to Google. Further information can be found in the section “Use of Google Analytics” below.

Third-country transfer:

Information on third-country transfers in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the section “Use of Google Analytics” below.

Provision mandatory or necessary:

The use of statistics cookies is voluntary. You can use our website without consenting to these cookies.

Withdrawal of consent:

You can withdraw your consent at any time via our Cookie Consent Tool.

Exchanging business contact information, such as through contact forms and exchanging business cards

Nature and purpose of the processing:

The personal data provided by you is processed for the purpose of responding to your inquiry and communicating with you in connection with your inquiry. Your name and a valid email address are required in order to process and respond to your inquiry. The provision of any additional information is optional.

The data may also be used for marketing purposes, in particular to provide information about new products, services and events of NOF group companies and for market analysis.

Legal basis:

The processing of the data entered into the contact form is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest (art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By providing the contact form we want to enable an uncomplicated establishment of contact. The entered data is stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and possible follow-up-inquiries.

Recipient:

Recipients of the data may be order processors.

Third country transfer:

The collected data is transferred to the following third countries: the United States, Japan

Your data is transferred only to NOF group companies. We will not disclose your data to a third party without your consent.

The following privacy guarantees apply:

Adequacy agreement EU-commission
Standard Contractual Clauses

Duration of storage:

Data is deleted 6 months after the inquiry at the latest.

If a contractual relationship is formed, the legal retention periods according to the Code of Commercial Law apply. We will delete your data according to these deadlines.

Use of Google Analytics

Subject to your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google").

Google Analytics is used exclusively for the statistical analysis of the use of our website. For this purpose, page views and clicks on links are recorded. We do not use Google Analytics for personalized advertising, remarketing or the creation of user profiles. Advertising features such as Google Signals, DoubleClick, remarketing lists and User-ID are disabled.

Google Analytics is only activated after you have given your consent to the use of statistics cookies. Without your consent, no data is transmitted to Google.

The legal basis for the processing is your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time via our Cookie Consent Tool.

The data collected through Google Analytics is retained for up to 14 months in accordance with the retention period configured in Google Analytics.

Further information on data processing by Google is available in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US&client_theme=dark#europeanrequirements.

Withdrawal of consent:

You can withdraw your consent to the use of Google Analytics at any time with effect for the future by changing your selection in the cookie settings.

SSL-encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Information about your right to object acc. to art. 21 GDPR

You have the right to object against the processing of your personal data for reasons that result out of your individual situation.
Where your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing.

If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless mandatory reasons worthy of protection can be accounted for, that prevail your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the enforcing, exercising or defense of legal claims.

Recipient of an objection

NOF EUROPE GmbH
Hamburger Allee 2-4
60486 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
info-eu@nofeurope.com

Modification of our privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy so that the current legal requirements can be met and changes in our services can be implemented into our privacy policy, e.g. the introduction of new services. For new visits to our website the current privacy policy applies.

Questions for our data protection officer

Please contact us or our data protection officer via e-mail, if any questions remain:

HÜTTE Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB
nof-dpo@huette-legal.com