Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy

An over­view of Data Pro­tec­tion

Gen­er­al

The fol­low­ing gives a sim­ple over­view of what hap­pens to your per­son­al in­for­ma­tion when you visit our web­site. Per­son­al in­for­ma­tion is any data with which you could be per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fied. De­tailed in­for­ma­tion on the sub­ject of data pro­tec­tion can be found in our pri­va­cy pol­i­cy found below.

Data col­lec­tion on our web­site

Who is re­spon­si­ble for the data col­lec­tion on this web­site?

The data col­lect­ed on this web­site are pro­cessed by the web­site op­er­a­tor. The op­er­a­tor's con­tact de­tails can be found in the web­site's re­quired legal no­tice.

How do we col­lect your data?

Some data are col­lect­ed when you pro­vide it to us. This could, for ex­am­ple, be data you enter on a con­tact form.

Other data are col­lect­ed au­to­mat­i­cal­ly by our IT sys­tems when you visit the web­site. These data are pri­mar­i­ly tech­ni­cal data such as the brows­er and op­er­at­ing sys­tem you are using or when you ac­cessed the page. These data are col­lect­ed au­to­mat­i­cal­ly as soon as you enter our web­site.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is col­lect­ed to en­sure the prop­er func­tion­ing of the web­site. Other data can be used to an­a­lyze how vis­i­tors use the site.

What rights do you have re­gard­ing your data?

You al­ways have the right to re­quest in­for­ma­tion about your stored data, its ori­gin, its re­cip­i­ents, and the pur­pose of its col­lec­tion at no charge. You also have the right to re­quest that it be cor­rect­ed, blocked, or delet­ed. You can con­tact us at any time using the ad­dress given in the legal no­tice if you have fur­ther ques­tions about the issue of pri­va­cy and data pro­tec­tion. You may also, of course, file a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent reg­u­la­to­ry au­thor­i­ties.

An­a­lyt­ics and third-party tools

When vis­it­ing our web­site, sta­tis­ti­cal analy­ses may be made of your surf­ing be­hav­ior. This hap­pens pri­mar­i­ly using cook­ies and an­a­lyt­ics. The anal­y­sis of your surf­ing be­hav­ior is usu­al­ly anony­mous, i.e. we will not be able to iden­ti­fy you from this data. You can ob­ject to this anal­y­sis or pre­vent it by not using cer­tain tools. De­tailed in­for­ma­tion can be found in the fol­low­ing pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

You can ob­ject to this anal­y­sis. We will in­form you below about how to ex­er­cise your op­tions in this re­gard.

Gen­er­al In­for­ma­tion and Manda­to­ry In­for­ma­tion

Data pro­tec­tion

The op­er­a­tors of this web­site take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very se­ri­ous­ly. We treat your per­son­al data as con­fi­den­tial and in ac­cor­dance with the statu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

If you use this web­site, var­i­ous pieces of per­son­al data will be col­lect­ed. Per­son­al in­for­ma­tion is any data with which you could be per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fied. This pri­va­cy pol­i­cy ex­plains what in­for­ma­tion we col­lect and what we use it for. It also ex­plains how and for what pur­pose this hap­pens.

Please note that data trans­mit­ted via the in­ter­net (e.g. via email com­mu­ni­ca­tion) may be sub­ject to se­cu­ri­ty breach­es. Com­plete pro­tec­tion of your data from third-party ac­cess is not pos­si­ble.

No­tice con­cern­ing the party re­spon­si­ble for this web­site

The party re­spon­si­ble for pro­cess­ing data on this web­site is:

IFTA In­ge­nieur­büro für Ther­moakustik GmbH
Junker­strasse 8
82178 Puch­heim
Ger­many

Tele­phone: +49 89 8392719-0
Email: info@re­move-this.ifta.com

The re­spon­si­ble party is the nat­u­ral or legal per­son who alone or joint­ly with oth­ers de­cides on the pur­pos­es and means of pro­cess­ing per­son­al data (names, email ad­dress­es, etc.).

Re­vo­ca­tion of your con­sent to the pro­cess­ing of your data

Many data pro­cess­ing op­er­a­tions are only pos­si­ble with your ex­press con­sent. You may re­voke your con­sent at any time with fu­ture ef­fect. An in­for­mal email mak­ing this re­quest is suf­fi­cient. The data pro­cessed be­fore we re­ceive your re­quest may still be legal­ly pro­cessed.

Right to file com­plaints with reg­u­la­to­ry au­thor­i­ties

If there has been a breach of data pro­tec­tion leg­is­la­tion, the per­son af­fect­ed may file a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent reg­u­la­to­ry au­thor­i­ties. The com­pe­tent reg­u­la­to­ry au­thor­i­ty for mat­ters re­lat­ed to data pro­tec­tion leg­is­la­tion is the data pro­tec­tion of­fi­cer of the Ger­man state in which our com­pa­ny is head­quar­tered. A list of data pro­tec­tion of­fi­cers and their con­tact de­tails can be found at the fol­low­ing link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/In­fothek/An­schriften_Links/an­schriften_links-node.html.

Right to data porta­bil­i­ty

You have the right to have data which we process based on your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract au­to­mat­i­cal­ly de­liv­ered to your­self or to a third party in a stan­dard, ma­chine-read­able for­mat. If you re­quire the di­rect trans­fer of data to an­oth­er re­spon­si­ble party, this will only be done to the ex­tent tech­ni­cal­ly fea­si­ble.

SSL or TLS en­cryp­tion

This site uses SSL or TLS en­cryp­tion for se­cu­ri­ty rea­sons and for the pro­tec­tion of the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as the in­quiries you send to us as the site op­er­a­tor. You can rec­og­nize an en­crypt­ed con­nec­tion in your brows­er's ad­dress line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is dis­played in your brows­er's ad­dress bar.

If SSL or TLS en­cryp­tion is ac­ti­vat­ed, the data you trans­fer to us can­not be read by third par­ties.

In­for­ma­tion, block­ing, dele­tion

As per­mit­ted by law, you have the right to be pro­vid­ed at any time with in­for­ma­tion free of charge about any of your per­son­al data that is stored as well as its ori­gin, the re­cip­i­ent and the pur­pose for which it has been pro­cessed. You also have the right to have this data cor­rect­ed, blocked or delet­ed. You can con­tact us at any time using the ad­dress given in our legal no­tice if you have fur­ther ques­tions on the topic of per­son­al data.

Op­po­si­tion to pro­mo­tion­al emails

We here­by ex­press­ly pro­hib­it the use of con­tact data pub­lished in the con­text of web­site legal no­tice re­quire­ments with re­gard to send­ing pro­mo­tion­al and in­for­ma­tion­al ma­te­ri­als not ex­press­ly re­quest­ed. The web­site op­er­a­tor re­serves the right to take spe­cif­ic legal ac­tion if un­so­licit­ed ad­ver­tis­ing ma­te­ri­al, such as email spam, is re­ceived.

Statu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion of­fi­cer

We have ap­point­ed a data pro­tec­tion of­fi­cer for our com­pa­ny.

Dr. rer. nat. Robert Wid­hopf-Fenk
IFTA In­ge­nieur­büro für Ther­moakustik GmbH
Junkersstrasse 8
82178 Puch­heim
Ger­many
Tele­phone: +49 89 8392719-0
Email: info@re­move-this.ifta.com

Data Col­lec­tion on our Web­site

Cook­ies

Some of our web pages use cook­ies. Cook­ies do not harm your com­put­er and do not con­tain any virus­es. Cook­ies help make our web­site more user-friend­ly, ef­fi­cient, and se­cure. Cook­ies are small text files that are stored on your com­put­er and saved by your brows­er.

Most of the cook­ies we use are so-called "ses­sion cook­ies." They are au­to­mat­i­cal­ly delet­ed after your visit. Other cook­ies re­main in your de­vice's mem­o­ry until you delete them. These cook­ies make it pos­si­ble to rec­og­nize your brows­er when you next visit the site.

You can con­fig­ure your brows­er to in­form you about the use of cook­ies so that you can de­cide on a case-by-case basis whether to ac­cept or re­ject a cook­ie. Al­ter­na­tive­ly, your brows­er can be con­fig­ured to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ac­cept cook­ies under cer­tain con­di­tions or to al­ways re­ject them, or to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly delete cook­ies when clos­ing your brows­er. Dis­abling cook­ies may limit the func­tion­al­i­ty of this web­site.

Cook­ies which are nec­es­sary to allow elec­tron­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tions or to pro­vide cer­tain func­tions you wish to use (such as the shop­ping cart) are stored pur­suant to Art. 6 para­graph 1, let­ter f of DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in the stor­age of cook­ies to en­sure an op­ti­mized ser­vice pro­vid­ed free of tech­ni­cal er­rors. If other cook­ies (such as those used to an­a­lyze your surf­ing be­hav­ior) are also stored, they will be treat­ed sep­a­rate­ly in this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

Serv­er log files

The web­site provider au­to­mat­i­cal­ly col­lects and stores in­for­ma­tion that your brows­er au­to­mat­i­cal­ly trans­mits to us in "serv­er log files". These are:

• Brows­er type and brows­er ver­sion
• Oper­at­ing sys­tem used
• Re­fer­rer URL
• Host name of the ac­cess­ing com­put­er
• Time of the serv­er re­quest
• IP ad­dress

These data will not be com­bined with data from other sources.

The basis for data pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which al­lows the pro­cess­ing of data to ful­fill a con­tract or for mea­sures pre­lim­i­nary to a con­tract.

Con­tact form

Should you send us ques­tions via the con­tact form, we will col­lect the data en­tered on the form, in­clud­ing the con­tact de­tails you pro­vide, to an­swer your ques­tion and any fol­low-up ques­tions. We do not share this in­for­ma­tion with­out your per­mis­sion.

We will, there­fore, process any data you enter onto the con­tact form only with your con­sent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may re­voke your con­sent at any time. An in­for­mal email mak­ing this re­quest is suf­fi­cient. The data pro­cessed be­fore we re­ceive your re­quest may still be legal­ly pro­cessed.

We will re­tain the data you pro­vide on the con­tact form until you re­quest its dele­tion, re­voke your con­sent for its stor­age, or the pur­pose for its stor­age no longer per­tains (e.g. after ful­fill­ing your re­quest). Any manda­to­ry statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions, es­pe­cial­ly those re­gard­ing manda­to­ry data re­ten­tion pe­ri­ods, re­main un­af­fect­ed by this pro­vi­sion.

An­a­lyt­ics and Ad­ver­tis­ing

Google An­a­lyt­ics

This web­site uses Google An­a­lyt­ics, a web an­a­lyt­ics ser­vice. It is op­er­at­ed by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google An­a­lyt­ics uses so-called "cook­ies". These are text files that are stored on your com­put­er and that allow an anal­y­sis of the use of the web­site by you. 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.

Google An­a­lyt­ics cook­ies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The web­site op­er­a­tor has a le­git­i­mate in­ter­est in an­a­lyz­ing user be­hav­ior to op­ti­mize both its web­site and its ad­ver­tis­ing.

Brows­er plug­in

You can pre­vent these cook­ies being stored by se­lect­ing the ap­pro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. How­ev­er, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full func­tion­al­i­ty of this web­site. You can also pre­vent the data gen­er­at­ed by cook­ies about your use of the web­site (incl. your IP ad­dress) from being passed to Google, and the pro­cess­ing of these data by Google, by down­load­ing and in­stalling the brows­er plug­in avail­able at the fol­low­ing link: https://tools.google.com/dl­page/gaoptout?hl=en.

Ob­ject­ing to the col­lec­tion of data

You can pre­vent the col­lec­tion of your data by Google An­a­lyt­ics by ad­just­ing the Cook­ie Set­tings.

For more in­for­ma­tion about how Google An­a­lyt­ics han­dles user data, see Google's pri­va­cy pol­i­cy: https://sup­port.google.com/an­a­lyt­ics/an­swer/6004245?hl=en.

Newslet­ter data

If you would like to re­ceive our news­let­ter, we re­quire a valid email ad­dress as well as in­for­ma­tion that al­lows us to ver­i­fy that you are the owner of the spec­i­fied email ad­dress and that you agree to re­ceive this news­let­ter. No ad­di­tion­al data is col­lect­ed or is only col­lect­ed on a vol­un­tary basis. We only use this data to send the re­quest­ed in­for­ma­tion and do not pass it on to third par­ties.

We will, there­fore, process any data you enter onto the con­tact form only with your con­sent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You can re­voke con­sent to the stor­age of your data and email ad­dress as well as their use for send­ing the news­let­ter at any time, e.g. through the "un­sub­scribe" link in the news­let­ter. The data pro­cessed be­fore we re­ceive your re­quest may still be legal­ly pro­cessed.

The data pro­vid­ed when reg­is­ter­ing for the news­let­ter will be used to dis­trib­ute the news­let­ter until you can­cel your sub­scrip­tion when said data will be delet­ed. Data we have stored for other pur­pos­es (e.g. email ad­dress­es for the mem­bers area) re­main un­af­fect­ed.

Plu­g­ins and Tools

YouTube

Our web­site uses plug­ins from YouTube, which is op­er­at­ed by Google. The op­er­a­tor of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cher­ry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages fea­tur­ing a YouTube plug­in, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube servers is es­tab­lished. Here the YouTube serv­er is in­formed about which of our pages you have vis­it­ed.

If you're logged in to your YouTube ac­count, YouTube al­lows you to as­so­ciate your brows­ing be­hav­ior di­rect­ly with your per­son­al pro­file. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your YouTube ac­count.

YouTube is used to help make our web­site ap­peal­ing. This con­sti­tutes a jus­ti­fied in­ter­est pur­suant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found in the data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tion of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/poli­cies/pri­va­cy.

Google Web Fonts

For uni­form rep­re­sen­ta­tion of fonts, this page uses web fonts pro­vid­ed by Google. When you open a page, your brows­er loads the re­quired web fonts into your brows­er cache to dis­play texts and fonts cor­rect­ly.

For this pur­pose your brows­er has to es­tab­lish a di­rect con­nec­tion to Google servers. Google thus be­comes aware that our web page was ac­cessed via your IP ad­dress. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the in­ter­est of a uni­form and at­trac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion of our web­site. This con­sti­tutes a jus­ti­fied in­ter­est pur­suant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your brows­er does not sup­port web fonts, a stan­dard font is used by your com­put­er.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found at https://de­vel­op­ers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's pri­va­cy pol­i­cy at https://www.google.com/poli­cies/pri­va­cy/.

Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps map ser­vice via an API. It is op­er­at­ed by Google Inc., 1600 Am­phithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use Google Maps, it is nec­es­sary to save your IP ad­dress. This in­for­ma­tion is gen­er­al­ly trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no in­flu­ence on this data trans­fer.

The use of Google Maps is in the in­ter­est of mak­ing our web­site ap­peal­ing and to fa­cil­i­tate the lo­ca­tion of places spec­i­fied by us on the web­site. This con­sti­tutes a jus­ti­fied in­ter­est pur­suant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about han­dling user data, can be found in the data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tion of Google at https://www.google.de/intl/de/poli­cies/pri­va­cy/.