DATA PROTECTION

The protection of personal data is an important matter for us. Therefore, we practice our activity in compliance with the applicable legal regulations to protect personal data and for data security. Below you will learn which information we are gathering, if applicable, and how we will handle such data and to whom we will make them available, if required.

Name and address of the responsible office

GEBHARDT Transport- und Lagersysteme GmbH

Frühlingstrasse 2-3
D-93413 Cham
Phone. +49 (0)9971 / 841-0

Manager: Ute Lesch-Gebhardt and Franz Lesch

Personal data

We do not collect any personal data (e.g. name, address, phone number or e-mail addresses) via our website, except if you make such data voluntarily at our disposal (e. g. by registering, in a survey), respectively if you have agreed or if the corresponding legal regulations regarding the protection of your data do allow the use of such data.

Purpose of the data ascertainment, processing and use

We generally use the personal data which you have made available to us in order to reply to your inquiries, to process your orders or to provide you access to certain information or offers. For customer care purposes it may furthermore be necessary

• that we save and process your personal data in order to be able to better answer your requirements or to improve our products or services; or

• that we (or a third party by our order) will use the personal data in order to inform you about the offers of Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH, which will be profitable for your business activity or to perform online surveys in order to better comply with the assignments and the demands of our customers.

Of course, we will respect if you do not wish to allow the use of your personal data to support our customer relationship (in particular for direct marketing or for purposes of marketing research). We will neither sell your personal data to third parties nor bring them to market in any other way. Upon your demand (by e-mail, letter) we will delete your data from our database.

Specific use

Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH will collect, process and use the personal data which you have made available to them online, only for the purposes which you have confided them, except when the collecting, processing or use

• takes place for another purpose which is in direct relation to the original purpose for which the personal data had been collected,

• if they are necessary to prepare, negotiate and fulfill the contract which had been concluded with you,

• if they are necessary due to legal obligations or official or judicial order,

• if they are necessary to constitute or to protect legal claims or to avert claims,

• if they serve to prevent from misuse or any illegal activity, e.g. intended raids on the systems of Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH in order to provide for the data safety.

Description of the concerned groups of persons and the data and data categories in this regard

Generally, only a few data are being collected. Basically personal data are collected, processed and used for the following groups of persons:

• Customer data (in particular address data, contract data), data of prospective customers (in particular interest in a certain product, address data)

• Data of employees, data of applicants, data of placement officers / agents / agencies (in particular personnel data for the management and control of the staff)

• Data of business partners, placement officers and agents (in particular address, accounting and service data)

• Data for suppliers (in particular address and function data)

Recipients or categories of recipients of which the data can be imparted

• Public offices which receive the data due to legal regulations (e.g. social insurance carriers)

• Internal employees who are involved in executing and fulfilling the corresponding information processes

• External contractors (service companies) according to § 11 BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act)

• Other external offices such as e.g. partners in the frame of the order processing for orders placed by the customer

Communication-related or use-related data

If you access our website via telecommunication services, the communication-related data (e.g. Internet protocol address) respectively use-related data (e.g. data regarding the beginning and term of use as well as the telecommunication services which you have used) are automatically generated by technical tools. They can possibly allow concluding your personal data. If a collecting, processing and use of your communication or use-related data is obligatorily necessary, it is subject to the legal regulation for data protection.
 
Automatically collected non-personal data

If you access our website, it may occur that information are from time to time automatically collected (i.e. not via the registration) which are not assigned to a certain person (e.g. used Internet browser and operating system; domain name of the website which you had last opened up; number of visits; average sojourn time; called sites). We will use this information in order to determine the attractivity of our website and to improve its performance and contents.

"Cookies" – information which are automatically saved on your PC

If you visit our website it may happen that we save information on your PC by means of a "cookie" which will allow us to automatically recognize your PC when you visit us the next time. Cookies allow us to adapt our website to your interests. If you do not want us to recognize your PC, please set up your Internet browser in a way that your system will delete the cookies from the hard disk of your PC, that it blocks all cookies or warns you before saving a cookie.

Standard terms to delete the data

The legislator has issued numerous obligations and terms for storage. Upon expiry of such terms the corresponding data will be deleted as a matter of routine. If data are not affected by it, they will be deleted if the purposes which are mentioned under the intended use are dropped out.

Safety

Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH is taking technical and organizational safety measures in order to protect your personal data against unintentional or illegal deleting, modification or against loss and against unauthorized passing on or unauthorized access.

Planned data transmission to third countries

In order to fulfill the purposes of the contract, of a contract-similar mutual trust, to advise and service the concerned person, the data are transmitted to third countries.

Links to other websites

The website Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH includes links to other websites. Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH is not liable for the data protection policies or for the contents of such other websites.

Questions and comments

Gebhardt Transport - und Lagersysteme GmbH will answer all adequate demands to inspect and - if necessary - to correct, to complete or to delete personal data. If you have any questions or comments regarding this data protection directive, please do not hesitate to contact datenschutz@gebhardt.eu and to inform us about your concern. In the course of the enhancement of the Internet, we will also continuously adapt our data protection directive. Therefore, you should regularly call this site in order to be informed about the current status.