Thank you for visiting the Hettich website and the interest you show in our company. Protecting your personal data is important to us. For this reason we would now like to inform you in detail about data collected when you visit our website and about which rights you have under data protection law.

Controller for data processing and data protection officer

The controller for processing the data that are collected and processed in connection with using our website is

Hettich Marketing- und Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG
Anton-Hettich-Strasse 12 – 16
D - 32278 Kirchlengern
Tel.: + 49 5733 798 0
info@de.hettich.com

You can reach our company data protection officer at

Hettich Marketing- und Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG
Data Protection Officer
Anton-Hettich-Strasse 12 – 16
D-32278 Kirchlengern
protection@de.hettich.com

Data acquired on visiting our website

When you visit our website, your browser will transfer specific data to our web server for technical reasons so that we can provide you with the information you have requested. This relates to the following data:

• Your IP address
• Date and time of opening one of our web pages
• Subject matter of the request (specific page)
• country of origin, language setting
• Operating system and its access status
• Browser and version of the browser software
• The website you came to our website from (referrer)
• The time spent on our web pages

We process the above mentioned data on the basis of our legitimate interest. This legitimate interest lies in properly displaying our website as well as in ensuring our website's stability and security. (Art. 6 (1) f) of the GDPR, Section 25 (2) no. 2 of the German Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and the Protection of Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (TDDDG)).

The data are erased as soon as they are no longer needed for achieving the above mentioned purposes, at the latest, however, sixty days after they are collected.

We host our website on servers within Germany. The host receives the above mentioned data as a processor.

Use of "Cookies"

We use cookies to ensure the website is operated properly, to provide basic functions, to measure reach and – with your consent – to streamline our services to your interests. To this end, we use different types of cookies:

Session cookies:

These cookies give you unrestricted use of our website while you are visiting it and are automatically deleted as soon as you close the browser.

Persistent cookies:

These cookies automatically recognise your computer on your next visit and show you interest based information. They are deleted after 12 months at the latest.

First party cookies are set by the current website whereas third party cookies come from external organisations.

We only use persistent cookies and third party provider cookies with your prior consent (Section 25 (1) of the TDDDG and Art. 6 (1) a) of the GDPR). If it is absolutely necessary to use cookies, such is done on the basis of Section 25 (2) no. 2 of the TDDDG and data processing in accordance with Art. 6 (1) f) of the GDPR.

You can delete cookies already stored on your device at any time. If you wish to prevent cookies being stored, you can do so via the settings in your internet browser. Please note that some of our website's functions may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

You can change your consent at any time in the cookie declaration on our website.

etracker web analysis service

We use the "etracker" analysis service on our website to collect, collate and evaluate data on the behaviour of visitors to the website. The provider is etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstrasse 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany.

We use etracker to analyse the use of our website. Among other uses, data are collected about the website a user has come from to our website (referrers), about the website's subpages accessed or how often and how long a subpage was viewed for.

By default, we do not use web analysis cookies to analyse user behaviour. The data generated with etracker are only processed and stored on behalf of this website's provider by etracker in Germany and are therefore subject to stringent German and European data protection laws and standards. etracker has been audited in this regard by an independent body, certified and awarded the Privacy Seal ePrivacyseal .

The legal basis for collecting and processing data is Section 25 (2) no. 2 of the TDDDG, Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimising our web presence. Because the privacy of our visitors is important to us, the data that may enable identification of an individual, such as the IP address, login or device identifiers, will be anonymised or pseudonymised as soon as possible. etracker does not use data for any other purpose nor does it merge them with other data or pass them on to third parties.

You can object to the above described processing of data at any time . Such objection will have no adverse consequences.