Privacy policy

Information on the collection of personal data and contact details of the controller

This website is provided by ROMEX® AG (hereinafter referred to as "us" or "we"). We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data in this context is any data that can be used to personally identify you.

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and treat your personal data confidentially, in accordance with the legal basis for handling your personal data arising from the necessity of handling your personal data for the provision of the functionalities requested by you on this website (Art. 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation) and this data protection declaration.

The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ROMEX® GmbH, Mühlgrabenstraße 21, 53340 Meckenheim, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 2225 70954-20, Fax: +49 (0) 2225 70954-19, E-Mail: info@romex.de. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

The controller has appointed a data protection officer, who can be reached as follows: "Marco Schmitz, Mühlgrabenstraße, 53340 Meckenheim, 02225 70954-20, datenschutz@romex.de"

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or requests to the person responsible). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

Data collection when you visit our website

If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

The website you visited
Date and time of access
The amount of data sent in bytes
Source/reference from which you accessed the page
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

Cookies

To make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close the browser (so-called "session cookies"), while others remain on your device for a longer period of time and enable the storage of page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find out the storage duration from the overview of your web browser's cookie settings. If personal data is also processed by individual cookies that we use, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either to fulfill the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the event of consent being given or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.

You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set and to decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Contact form

If you send us an enquiry using the contact form, we will store the information you provide on the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Data protection declaration for the use of YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The site is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed of which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your surfing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

For more information on how YouTube handles user data, please refer to the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Liability for links

Our website contains links to external third-party websites, the content of which we cannot influence. We therefore cannot accept any liability for this external content. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time the links were created. No illegal content was recognizable at the time the links were created. However, it is not reasonable to expect us to constantly monitor the content of the linked pages without concrete evidence of a legal violation. If we become aware of any legal infringements, we will remove the links in question immediately.

Google Analytics

If you have given your consent, Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), is used on this website. The use includes the "Universal Analytics" operating mode. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus to analyze a user's activities across devices.

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. We would like to point out that Google Analytics has been extended on this website to include IP anonymization in order to ensure that IP addresses are recorded anonymously (so-called IP masking). The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

Purpose of processing
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Legal basis
The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

Recipients / categories of recipients
The recipient of the data collected is Google.

Transfer to third countries
The personal data is transferred to the USA under the EU-US Privacy Shield on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission. You can view the certificate here.

Duration of data storage
The data we send and link to cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs is automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

Rights of the data subject
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by preventing the storage of cookies by means of a corresponding setting in your browser software; 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.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on. Opt-out cookies prevent your data from being collected in the future when you visit this website. To prevent Universal Analytics from collecting data across different devices, you must opt out on all systems used. Click here to set the opt-out cookie: Disable Google Analytics

Source: www.datenschutzbeauftragter-info.de

Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps product from Google Inc. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of automatically collected data by Google Inc, its representatives and third parties. The terms of use of Google Maps can be found at "Terms of use of Google Maps".

SSL encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

When SSL encryption is activated, the data you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

Right to information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to request information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data, free of charge and at any time. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint if you have any questions about this or other issues relating to personal data.

Liability for content

As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with the general laws, as per § 7 para. 1 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG). However, according to §§ 8 to 10 of the German Telemedia Act, we are not obliged as a service provider to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. This does not affect our obligation to remove or block the use of information in accordance with the general laws. However, liability in this regard is only possible from the point at which we become aware of a specific infringement. If we become aware of any such infringements, we will remove the content in question immediately.

Copyright

The content and works created by the site operators on these pages are subject to German copyright law. The reproduction, processing, distribution and any kind of utilization outside the limits of copyright law require the written consent of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of this site are only permitted for private, non-commercial use. Insofar as the content on this site was not created by the operator, the copyrights of third parties are observed. In particular, third-party content is marked as such. Should you nevertheless become aware of a copyright infringement, please notify us accordingly. We will remove such content immediately upon becoming aware of any legal infringements.

Objection to advertising e-mails

The use of contact data published in the context of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information material is hereby prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information, such as spam e-mails.