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Privacy policy

Here you will find information on how we handle your personal data when you visit our website. In order to provide the functions and services of our website, it is necessary for us to collect personal data about you. Below we explain what data we collect about you, why this is necessary and what rights you have in relation to your data.
Responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is


GAPTEQ GmbH
Flintsbacher Street 12
83098 Brannenburg
Phone: 49 8034 99590-30
E-mail: info@gapteq.com


If you have any questions about data protection, you can also contact our data protection officer at any time:


Dr Georg F. Schröder, LL.M.
legal data Schröder Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Lawyer / Data Protection Officer
Prannerstr. 1
80333 Munich / Germany
Phone: +49-89 - 954 597 520
Fax: +49-89 - 954 597 522
E-mail: georg.schroeder@legaldata.law


Advertising consent

We may use your e-mail address and address data, which we receive in connection with the sale of goods or services, to advertise our own similar goods and/or services. You declare your express consent to this. Your data will not be passed on to third parties. You can object to this use at any time without incurring any costs for the objection other than transmission costs according to the basic rates. We will also inform you of this each time your e-mail address is used for this purpose.

Your rights

You have the following legal rights vis-à-vis us with regard to your personal data:

Right to information

You have the right to request confirmation as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you. If this is the case, you have the right to information about this personal data and to further information, e.g. the processing purposes, the recipients and the planned duration of storage or the criteria for determining the duration.

Right to rectification and completion

You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate data without undue delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete data.

Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")

You have the right to erasure if the processing is not necessary. This is the case, for example, if your data is no longer required for the original purposes, if you have revoked your declaration of consent under data protection law or if the data has been processed unlawfully.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to restrict processing, e.g. if you believe that the personal data is incorrect.

Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

Right to object

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of certain personal data concerning you.
In the case of direct advertising, you as the data subject have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising.

Right to withdraw your consent under data protection law

You can withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out prior to the withdrawal.
You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority at any time, for example if you are of the opinion that the data processing does not comply with data protection regulations.

Storage period

We only process and store your data for as long as is necessary for the processing or to comply with legal obligations. Once the purpose of processing no longer applies, your data will be blocked or deleted. If there are additional legal obligations for storage, we will block or delete your data when the legal storage periods expire.

Informational use

If you use this website without transmitting data to us in any other way (e.g. by registering or using the contact form), we collect technically necessary data that is automatically transmitted to our server, including

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the enquiry
  • Content of the request
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • browser type
  • Language and version of the browser software
  • Operating system


This is technically necessary in order to display our website to you. We also use the data to ensure the security and stability of our website. The legal basis for the collection is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Use of cookies

We use cookies to facilitate and improve the use of our website. Cookies are text information that is stored on a computer via the web browser when you visit a website. This serves to recognise a session, for example when logging in permanently to a website or using the shopping basket function of an online shop.

Most web browsers accept cookies automatically. You can delete stored cookies at any time via the settings of your web browser. You can also adjust the settings of your web browser so that no cookies are stored. In this case, not all functions of our website may be available.

You can use the following link to edit the cookie settings made via the cookie consent procedure:

Cookie settings

Application option

You can apply for a job on our website or by e-mail. When you apply, we collect and store the data that you enter in the input mask or that you send us by e-mail. We only process your data for the purpose of processing your application. Your data will not be passed on. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. If we are unable to offer you a position, we will store your data for a maximum of 6 months after the end of the application process.

Comment function

You can comment on posts on our website. If you comment on a post, we collect and store the data you enter in the input mask (e.g. surname, first name, email address). This data is not passed on to third parties. The legal basis for processing in the case of consent is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The collection of data serves to enforce our commenting rules and to comply with legal requirements (e.g. no criminal content).

Contact form

You can enter personal data via a contact form on our website. If you use the contact form, we collect and store the data you enter in the input mask (e.g. surname, first name, email address). This data is not passed on to third parties.

In the case of consent, the legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If your enquiry serves to prepare the conclusion of a contract, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR is an additional legal basis.

We use the data exclusively to process and respond to your enquiry.

Newsletter

You can subscribe to a newsletter on our website. When you subscribe to the newsletter, we collect and store the data you enter in the input mask (e.g. surname, first name, email address). This data is not passed on to third parties. Subscription to the newsletter is only possible with your consent. Legal basis for processing Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We use the data exclusively for sending newsletters.

Registration option

You can register on our website. When you register, we collect and store the data you enter in the input screen (e.g. surname, first name, email address). This data is not passed on to third parties.

In the case of consent, the legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If your registration serves to prepare the conclusion of a contract, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR is an additional legal basis.

Your registration is necessary for the use of certain content and services on our website or for the fulfilment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures.

Tools and plugins used (including web analysis tools and social media)

Google services

We use services of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Tel.: +353 1 543 1000, Fax: +353 1 686 5660, E-Mail: support-deutschland(at)google.com ("Google") on our website.

When using Google services, data may be transferred to the parent company Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google LLC has joined the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and is certified in accordance with it, so that data is transferred to the USA on the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 (Art. 45 para. 1 GDPR). In addition, Google has contractually undertaken, on the basis of the so-called EU standard data protection clauses, to ensure that, when transferring personal data from the European Economic Area, the recipients comply with a data protection standard that essentially corresponds to the European standard (Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c GDPR). These standard contractual clauses represent an additional guarantee under data protection law, on the basis of which a transfer to third countries such as the USA can take place (Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c GDPR). Please note, however, that we cannot guarantee that Google will be able to fulfil these contractual obligations in every case.

Further information about Google can be found in the privacy policy available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

The individual services used are described below


Google Analytics

We use the analysis and statistics tool "Google Analytics" on our website. With the help of Google Analytics, the use of our website can be analysed statistically. This allows us to understand how users reach our website, what content and areas they are particularly interested in and what actions they take on our site.
Google collects the following categories of data in particular:

  • Abbreviated (anonymised) IP address,
  • The website accessed,
  • the website from which the user came to the accessed page (so-called referral URL) and the type of referrer (e.g. search engine, social network, link),
  • search terms with which users found our website,
  • the subpages that are opened from the page accessed
  • the duration of the visit to the website,
  • the frequency of visits to the website,
  • information on the target group (so-called persona),
  • Location data (geographical region, country, city),
  • language settings,
  • browser, operating system, end device, screen resolution,
  • predefined actions (conversions), e.g. clicking on advertising banners, downloading information material,
  • Click path on the page, e.g. entry and exit points, order in which the user accesses page content.

Google deletes the user data collected with the help of Google Analytics after 14 months at the latest.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR).

In addition to making the appropriate settings in your browser, you can also prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics cookies by using the browser plugin provided by Google for this purpose: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Campaign Manager (Google Doubleclick)

We use the "Google Campaign Manager" tool from the Google Marketing Platform. Google Campaign Manager uses cookies to display ads that are relevant to users, to optimise advertising campaign performance or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once.

In addition, Google Campaign Manager can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions that are related to the adverts displayed. This includes, for example, when a user sees an advert in the Google advertising network and later visits the advertiser's website with the same browser and performs a certain action there.

Due to the marketing tool used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to Google's servers. By integrating Google Ads into our website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an advert from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account if you are logged into it. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that Google will collect and store your IP address.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR).

Google Ads (Google AdWords)

We use "Google Ads" to show you adverts on Google and other third-party websites. The adverts are delivered by Google via so-called "ad servers". For this purpose, we use cookies that can be used to record certain parameters to measure the success of adverts, such as the number of times they are displayed or clicked by users. If you access our website via a Google advert, Google Ads will store a cookie on your end device. As a rule, the cookie ID, the number of ad impressions, the last impression and opt-out information (marking that the user no longer wishes to be addressed) are stored as analysis values for this cookie.

These cookies enable Google to recognise your internet browser. If a user visits certain subpages of a Google Ads customer's website and the cookie stored on their device has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognise that the user has clicked on a specific ad and has been redirected to the customer's site. A different cookie is assigned to each Google Ads customer. We ourselves do not collect and process any personal data as a result of the aforementioned advertising measures. Google only provides us with statistical analyses. These analyses allow us to recognise which of the advertising measures used are particularly effective. We do not receive any further data from the use of the advertising material; in particular, we cannot identify users on the basis of this information.

We may also show you adverts on other websites in the Google advertising network after you have visited our website (so-called retargeting). This is done by means of cookies stored in your browser, which are used by Google to record your user behaviour when you visit our website.

Due to the marketing tool used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to Google's servers. By integrating Google Ads into our website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an advert from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account if you are logged into it. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that Google will collect and store your IP address.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Google AdSense

We use the online advertising service Google AdSense, through which you can be presented with adverts tailored to your interests. We are interested in showing you adverts that may be of interest to you in order to make our website more interesting for you. For this purpose, statistical information about you is collected and processed by our advertising partners. These adverts can be recognised by the reference "Google adverts" in the respective advert.

When you visit our website, Google receives the information that you have accessed our website. Google uses a web beacon to set a cookie on your computer. Your data is transferred to the USA and analysed there. If you are logged in with your Google account, your data can be directly assigned to it. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out. It is possible that this data may be passed on to Google's contractual partners, third parties and authorities.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR).

This website has also activated Google AdSense adverts from third-party providers. The aforementioned data may be transferred to these third-party providers (named at https://support.google.com/dfp_sb/answer/94149)].

Google Tag Manager

We use the "Google Tag Manager" tool on our website, with which advertisers can manage website tags and thus the setting of cookies.

Google Tag Manager is designed as a cookie-free domain and only implements tags. Tags are small code elements on the website that are used, among other things, to measure traffic and visitor behaviour, record the impact of online advertising and social channels, determine the target groups of our website and test and optimise the website. With the help of Google Tag Manager, we can control the setting of such cookies on our site.

No additional cookies are set by Google Tag Manager and no personal data is collected. Google Tag Manager triggers other tags that may collect personal data, but does not access this data itself. If a deactivation has been made or an objection declared at domain or cookie level, it will remain in place for all tracking tags if they are set using Google Tag Manager.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR).

Google Fonts

We use external fonts from Google on this website. Google Fonts. These web fonts are integrated via a server call. This may also be a Google server in the USA. The server is informed which of our web pages you have visited. The IP address of your end device is also processed by Google.

The purpose of using Google Fonts is the standardised display of fonts. The legal basis is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The data collected by Google through the use of Google Fonts is not processed by us.

Google Maps

We integrate the maps of the Google Maps service. This allows us to show you interactive maps directly on our website and enables you to use the map function conveniently.

If you call up the Google Maps component integrated on our website, Google stores a cookie on your end device via your Internet browser and processes the following data

  • The operating system
  • Information about the browser type and version used
  • Information about your internet service provider
  • Your IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • Websites from which you accessed our website
  • Websites that you access via our website

This takes place regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data can be assigned to your account. If you do not wish your data to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out.

Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the customised design of its website.

Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide personalised advertising.

We use Google Maps to show you maps on our website, in particular for directions.

The legal basis for processing is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

YouTube

We include videos and photos on our website that are stored on "YouTube". YouTube is a platform operated by Google.

Google collects your IP address, the date and time of access and information about the subpage of our website you have visited and the video you have accessed. This takes place regardless of whether you are logged into a YouTube user account. A connection to the Google advertising network is also established.

We use the extended data protection mode here, which, according to the provider, only triggers the storage of user information when the videos are played. This means that as long as you only access one of our web pages with an embedded YouTube video without playing the video, no data is transmitted to Google. Data is only transmitted when you start a video.

Cookies are set to save your desired settings regarding the playback of videos and the transmission of data to Google. These cookies contain pseudonymous data (e.g. cookie ID) for the purpose of recognising the browser.

If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, Google can assign your video view on our site to your YouTube account and use it for the purpose of personalised advertising. If you do not want your YouTube profile to be associated with your visit to our site, you must log out of your YouTube account before activating the YouTube plugin.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR).

Hubspot

We use services from Hubspot Inc. on our websites. HubSpot is a software company from the USA with a branch in Ireland. Contact: HubSpot, 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland, Phone: +353 1 5187500.

We use the following HubSpot functions:

  • CMS (Content Management System)
  • Contact forms
  • Newsletter software
  • Tracking and analysis
  • CRM (Customer Relation Management)
  • Chat software

So-called "web beacons" are used and "cookies" are also set, which are stored on your computer.

The web beacons and cookies used by Hubspot enable us to analyse your use of the website. Hubspot analyses the information collected (e.g. IP address, geographical location, type of browser, duration of visit and pages viewed) on our behalf to generate reports about your visit to our website.

If you have subscribed to a newsletter, we can also use Hubspot to link a user's visits to our websites with personal details (in particular name/email address) on the basis of consent given, thus recording them on a personalised basis and informing users individually and in a targeted manner about preferred topics. If you generally do not want Hubspot to collect data, you can prevent the storage of cookies at any time by changing your browser settings accordingly. For more information about how Hubspot works, please refer to the Hubspot Inc. privacy policy, available at: http://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy

As part of the optimisation of our marketing measures, the following data may be collected and processed via Hubspot

  • Geographical position
  • Browser type
  • Navigation information
  • Referral URL
  • Performance data
  • Information about how often the application is used
  • Mobile apps data
  • Login information for the HubSpot subscription service
  • Files that are displayed on site
  • Domain names
  • Pages viewed
  • Aggregated usage
  • Operating system version
  • Internet service provider
  • IP address
  • Internet service provider
  • Duration of the visit
  • Where the application was downloaded from
  • Operating system
  • Where the application was downloaded from
  • Access times
  • Clickstream data
  • Device model and version
  • In addition, we also use Hubspot to provide contact forms

The legal basis for data processing is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

We also use Hubspot as a consent management tool to obtain, manage and document your consent to the processing of your personal data. Your declarations of consent and the times of consent and revocation are stored. We use this data to show you only the content for which you have given us your consent and to be able to prove that we have obtained your consent.

The legal basis for data processing is our legitimate interest in obtaining and documenting consent for the use of third-party services (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).

We also use Hubspot as a customer relationship management system for processing contract data. Here we store all data that you have transmitted to us to initiate or conclude a contract, in particular your name, your contact details, any payment details and the products purchased. We store this data for as long as we need it to fulfil the contract (in particular the warranty period) or as long as storage is required by law (in particular tax-relevant data).

The legal basis for data processing is our legitimate interest in the organisational management and maintenance of our customer contacts (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR).

As part of processing via HubSpot, data may be transferred to the USA. The security of the transfer is ensured by so-called standard contractual clauses, which guarantee that the processing of personal data is subject to a level of security that corresponds to that of the GDPR.

Mautic

We use Mautic to analyse and improve the use of our website.

Mautic is a web analysis service. Cookies are stored on your computer to enable your use of the website to be analysed. We store the information collected in this way exclusively on our servers in Germany.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

The legal basis for the processing of data with the help of Mautic is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Mautic is an open source project. You can find more information on data protection at: https://www.mautic.org/privacy-policy/

Social plugins

We currently use the following social media plug-ins Facebook, Xing and LinkedIn. Personal data is transmitted to the respective plug-in provider with the help of a button and stored there.

The respective plug-in provider stores the data collected about you as usage profiles and uses these for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or customising its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display customised advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right. We offer you the opportunity to interact with the social networks and other users via the plug-ins so that we can improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user.

The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Data is passed on regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in there. If you are logged in with the plug-in provider, your data collected by us will be assigned directly to your existing account with the plug-in provider. In the case of US providers, data is transmitted to the USA.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the data protection declarations of these providers provided below. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy:

Facebook Inc, 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA, www.facebook.com/policy.php

Xing AG, Gänsemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg, DE; http://www.xing.com/privacy

LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA; https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Last change: May 2024