Data Privacy Statement for the Websites der HUECK Group of Companies

1. General information and data controller

The protection of your privacy and your personal data is an important concern to us. We gather, process and use your personal data in compliance with the content of this Data Privacy Statement and the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the GDPR. In the following, we will inform you about the processing of personal data for the use of our online profiles. Therefore, please read the following information carefully.

The data controller according to Art. 4 (7) GDPR for the data processing on this website is
HUECK Rheinische GmbH
Helmholtzstraße 9
41707 Viersen
Phone: +49 (0) 21 62 / 94694-0
Email:

You can reach our data protection officer at

 Holger Baunach – business consulting and data protection
Phone: +49 (0)2166 2625165
Email:

2. Processing of personal data

Personal data means all information that can be used to identify you personally. This includes, for example, your name, contact details, and your computer’s IP address.

Inquiry by email, telephone

If you contact us by email, phone or fax, your inquiry including all personal data provided in it (name, email address) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your inquiry.
The processing of this data takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR if your inquiry relates to the performance of a contract or where the processing is required for the performance of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of inquiries directed to us (Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR), or on your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR) if consent has been requested.
The data you have sent to us via requests for contact will remain with us until you ask us to delete it or revoke your consent for storage, or when the purpose of the data storage ceases to apply (e.g., after completed processing of your inquiry). Compulsory statutory provisions, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.
If we use contracted service providers for particular features of our offer or if we would like to use your data for commercial purposes, we select these service providers carefully in each case and monitor them, and inform you in detail below about the respective processes. In this information, we also state the set criteria for the storage period there.
You can find more information in our Data Privacy Statement for Business Customers and Suppliers  and for Job Applicants.

Visit to our web pages
When you use the web pages for informational purposes, meaning you merely read them without registering and without sharing information with us otherwise, we will process the personal data that your browser transmits to the server of our service provider. The data described below are technically required for displaying our web pages to you and assuring stability and security, which is why they must be processed by us. Analysis for marketing purposes does not take place in this context. We have not implemented any tracking services whatsoever on our website.
IP address
Time stamp (date and time of the retrieval)
Time zone difference from GMT
Request (content of the retrieval, visited page)
Status code (access status/HTTP status code)
Size in byte (respectively transferred data volume)
Referrer (previously visited web page)
Web browser
Operating system
Language and version of the browser
The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) sent. 1, lit. f) GDPR: The storage period for these data is 7 days.

Online profile in social media
We currently maintain a company profile on LinkedIn to communicate with customers, prospective customers and active users to inform them about our services and products.
The information in this Data Privacy Statement relates to the processing of your personal data in the context of your visit to our company profile on LinkedIn to the extent that the processing is implemented by us.

Besides this, a part of the processing of personal data takes place under joint responsibility with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (hereinafter: “LinkedIn”). LinkedIn provides more information about the responsibility of joint data controllers and about the processing at this link: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy and https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.



In connection with your visit to our company profile, LinkedIn may possibly process personal data beyond this scope. In that case, the processing takes place under the sole responsibility of LinkedIn and without our knowledge. You can find more information from LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy.

We process your personal data for the following purposes as relates to our LinkedIn company profile:
a) Initiation of contact and interaction
We process your personal data if you contact us via our company profile when you use the features provided for this purpose (e.g., follow, messages, comment feature, contributions, “Like” button, forwarding/sharing) or when you retrieve the contents provided by us.
If you contact us in this manner, we will process the personal data that you have directly disclosed in the course of this (usually: user name, profile picture, message contents, including if applicable, photos contained in them, date and time of the interaction) to answer your request for contact. We will also process your personal data for the public presentation of the company and for information about and optimisation of our products and projects.
The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. The legitimate interest pursued by us is initiating contact with (potential) contractual partners, prospects and job applicants, presenting our public profile, and informing you about our products and projects.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR if you should initiate contact via LinkedIn for the purpose of concluding or performing a contract with us.
b) Analyses for statistical purposes by means of Page Insights
For the purpose of designing our offer as appropriate to needs and for its continuous optimisation, we use Page Insights in our company profile on social media. When you visit or interact with our company profile, the provider reports anonymised information to us in the form of statistics about our visitors and their interactions on our company profile (Page Insights).
We process the data by means of Page Insights for the purpose of optimising our offer and assuring an effective communication with (potential) contractual partners, prospects and job applicants.
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. The legitimate interest pursued by us is the improvement of our offer on our company profile.
The processing to this end takes place in joint responsibility with LinkedIn in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. LinkedIn makes the essential contents of the agreement for the processing by joint controllers available to you here: https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.

We generally process your personal data exclusively in Germany and the European Union.
LinkedIn also transmits personal data to countries outside of the EU and the European Economic Area (“third countries”). More details can be found in LinkedIn’s data privacy policy (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy).

We will delete data that have been stored for the aforementioned reasons when they are no longer needed for the purpose pursued by us, and provided that no other legal bases apply, in particular no statutory or contractual retention periods. If you contact us via the provided features (e.g., the comment feature), we will process your data at the most for as long as we can view them. You can determine the length of time during which they can be viewed yourself by removing the data in question, e.g., by deleting your comment on our LinkedIn page or by deleting your rating.

Plugin for appointment booking Bookly Pro
On our website, you have the option of making appointments with us. We use the WordPress plugin “Bookly Pro” for this appointment booking. You can find the manufacturer’s privacy policy at: https://www.booking-wp-plugin.com/privacy/.
In order to be able to arrange an appointment with us in this way, we ask you to enter various data in the booking form. The data you enter in this way will be used for the planning, execution and, if necessary, follow-up of the desired appointment in order to arrange the desired meeting date with you and to be able to contact you afterwards in the event of changes to the appointment or obstacles. We will send your booking confirmation for the selected appointment to the e-mail address you have provided. In addition to the general website usage data, the following personal data will be processed by us:
Your name and company affiliation, the names of any accompanying persons, your work telephone number (optional) and e-mail address, your preferred date and time.
We will store the data you have entered until you ask us to delete it or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies. Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in offering you a user-friendly, time-saving and progressive way of making appointments with us in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If you do not wish to make use of this option, please call us or send us an e-mail.

3. External hosting

This website and the and the data of the Bookly Pro Plug In are hosted by an external service provider (“Host”). The personal data gathered on this website are stored exclusively in Germany on the Host’s servers. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the operator in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
The Host is used for the purpose of the performance of the contract in relation to our potential and existing business partners (Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, quick, and efficient provision of our information and service offer by a professional provider (Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR).
Our Host will process your data only to the extent that this is necessary for the performance of its service obligations and it will follow our instructions regarding these data.

We use the following Host:
jweiland.net – Jochen Weiland
Echterdinger Str. 57
70794 Filderstadt

4. Data security

For reasons of security and protection of the transmission of confidential contents that you send to us in our capacity as the page operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can tell it is an encrypted connection by the address bar of the browser changing from “http://” to “https://” and by means of the padlock symbol in your browser address bar.
When the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the Data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

5. Transfer of personal data to third parties/recipients

We treat your personal data as strictly confidential. They will be transmitted to third parties or recipients only if
you have given your explicit consent to this pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sent. 1, lit. a) GDPR;
the transfer is required pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sent. 1, lit. f) GDPR for the protection of the controller’s or a third party’s legitimate interest and if there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in the data not being transferred;
a legal duty to transfer data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sent. 1, lit. c) GDPR applies;
and/or
this is required pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sent. 1, lit. b) GDPR for the fulfilment of a contractual relationship with you.

6. Cookies

Our website exclusively uses technically necessary cookies:
A language recognition cookie with a storage period of one day
The legal basis for this is Art. 25 (2) pt. 2 TTDSG [Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act].
You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your internet browser. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies for our website are deactivated, it is possible that not all functions of the website can still be used to the full extent.

7. Changes to this Data Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to change this Data Privacy Statement at any time with effect for the future. Its respectively current version is available on the website. Please visit the website regularly and be informed of the applicable Data Privacy Statement.

8. Your rights as data subject

Within the limits of the legal requirements, you have the right to:
request a confirmation on whether we process personal data about you; if this is the case, you have the right to receive information about this processing;
request the rectification of inaccurate personal data about you and completion of personal data about you that are incomplete;
request the erasure of personal data about you.
request the restriction of the processing of personal data about you;
request to be provided with your personal data that you have made available to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or request that the data be transmitted to another data controller (data portability).
If you have given us consent, you furthermore have the right to revoke the consent at any time. All data processing that we have already performed up until your revocation will remain legitimate in that case.

Right to object in individual cases:
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your specific situation on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. e) GDPR (performance of tasks in the public interest or in exercise of public power) or based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR (weighing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
If you object, we will then cease the processing of your personal data, unless we can prove compelling reasons for the processing that qualify for protection and override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the purpose of enforcing, exercising or defending against legal claims.
Objection to data processing for the purpose of direct marketing:
We also process your personal data to operate direct marketing. You have the right to object at any time to the processing of the data about you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling if it is connected to such direct marketing.
If you object to the processing for the purposes of direct marketing, we will cease the processing of your personal data for these purposes.

You can furthermore lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law. You can do so in particular in the EU Member State or federal state of your permanent residence, place of work or place of the suspected violation.
This also includes the supervisory authority responsible for us:
Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
[State Officer for Data Protection and Freedom of Information] Nordrhein-Westfalen
[North Rhine-Westphalia] P.O. Box 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf
Phone: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
Email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

If you wish to receive confirmation as to the personal data stored about you or if you want to claim your other rights or have questions about data protection at our company, you can contact us at the following email address:

Status of the Data Privacy Statement:
January 2024