Data privacy

DATA PRIVACY


We are very happy that you visit our website. Your privacy and the related protection of personal data are an important concern to us. Therefore, our business actions comply with the applicable legal regulations on data protection and data security. It is very important to us that you feel safe with us. For this reason, our data protection officer ensures that the legal requirements for data protection are fulfilled.

We are aware of the importance of the data that you entrust with us and we would like to inform you about the following:

  • the purposes for which your (personal) data are gathered, processed and used;
  • how we handle and protect your data;
  • to whom we make the data available; and
  • how you can exercise your rights.

 

Please read the following statements carefully. If you have any questions, you can contact our data protection officer. You can find the contact details further below in this Data Privacy Statement.

1. Definitions

Data protection is a complex issue. We have compiled a few basic concepts and their meaning for you to make understanding this Data Privacy Statement easier.

Processing” (“DP” for short) in the definition of Art. 28 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (formerly “commissioned data processing”) (“CDP” for short) according to Sec. 11 German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) is understood to mean a service in which personal data are gathered, processed and/or used under a contract and according to the instruction of the so-called data controller by a service provider (processor pursuant to the GDPR and data processor pursuant to the BDSG). Before such a work order is given to a service provider, we conclude a special contract with the service provider and ensure additional measures for the protection of your personal data.

Cookies” are small text files that are stored on the end device you use (e.g. computer or smartphone) and which store certain settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser. A cookie usually contains the name of the visited website from which the cookie data have been sent, information about the age of the cookie and an alphanumeric identifier. Cookies enable the system to recognise the user’s device and make possible default settings available immediately.

Third parties are all natural persons or legal entities or bodies other than the data subjects, the data controller, the data processor and the persons, who are authorised

under the direct responsibility of the data controller or data processor to process the personal data, cf. Art. 4 (10) GDPR. Thus, a third party is not involved, e.g. if personal data are transferred to a service provider in the course of a contracted processing according to Art. 28 GDPR or Sec. 11 BDSG.

IP addresses are numerical sequences that can be attributed to individual IT devices or a group. The IP permits attributing data to the right recipient similar as a postal address does. “Personal data” means all information, which relates to an identified or identifiable natural person, in particular first and last name, date of birth, email address, residential address, as well as bank and payment data, but also health data, cf. Art. 4 no. 1 GDPR (particular information about an identified or identifiable natural person according to Sec. 3 (1) BDSG).

Controller” according to Art. 4 no. 7 GDPR (formerly “data controller” pursuant to Sec. 3 (7) BDSG) is any person or body that decides on its own or jointly with others about the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (presently: the website operator).

2. Controller

The controller with regard to your personal data on this website is:

Bender GmbH Maschinenbau und Streckmetallfabrik Obere Kaiserstrasse 4 57078 Siegen

Telephone +49 271 250400 Fax +49 271 2504029 Email info@benmetal.de

If a different body from the aforementioned should be the “controller” within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation or the BDSG, you will be explicitly informed thereof, unless it is obvious.

3. Use of the website

3.1 Cookies

On each access to this website, data are logged, which also applies to the retrieval of files. For this purpose, we use your IP address or cookies, in order to collect data, which takes place, among other, via your browser, your computer and the subpages you have visited. We need these data to make the visit to this website as pleasant as possible. However, we do not create any individual profiles based on your user behaviour. The analysis of the user behaviour takes place in anonymised form in all cases. Basic use of the internet offer is usually also possible without cookies. However, we cannot rule out that the use of the website will be limited or less user friendly. Most common browsers permit deactivating cookies or limiting them for certain websites. Browsers

regularly also have the possibility to let you know as soon as cookies are set. You can delete cookies at any time from the hard drive of your end device. However, we cannot rule out that the use of the website will be limited or less user friendly in this case as well.

Cookie policy

Technical cookies

  • fe-typo-user - Stores user data of the session, e.g. in the login area, which user is logged in. For forms, it is used for the spam filter. - Expires after the session ends

 

Performance cookies (Google Tracking Cookies)

  • _ga - Identifies users at Google for visitor tracking - expires after 2 years
  • _gat - Throttles Google's request rate - Expires after 10 minutes
  • _gid - Tracks user behavior - expires after 24 hours
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3.2 Transfer of your data, use of service providers

We gather and use your data in accordance with the legal requirements and solely for our own purposes. Your data are not transferred to so-called third parties, unless there is a legal duty to do so or you have consented to the transfer. If we engage additional service providers to facilitate our offer and insofar as we possibly grant them the necessary access to your data, we have of course concluded a contract for commissioned data processing (“DP Contract” for short) according to Art. 28 General Data Protection Regulation or Sec. 11 BDSG with our service providers for the data processing (“Processors” for short). We will continue to be responsible for the protection of your data. The contracted service providers are not deemed so-called third parties.

3.4 Communication via email, contact form, telephone or fax

If you should contact us via email, fax, telephone or by means of one of the activated contact forms, we will use your information for contacting you and advising you for the specific purpose that we can conclude from your enquiry according to your wishes. Further use of your personal data will take place only if a legal regulation permits or you have given your consent.

3.5 Period of the data use/storage

Your personal data will be deleted, unless legal retention obligations are opposed, and if you have asserted a right of erasure when the data are no longer required for the fulfilment of the purpose pursued by the storing or if their storage is impermissible for other legal reasons.

3.6 Place of data use

Your will normally be processed in Germany. In cases of exception, information that you transfer to us can be stored on servers within the European Union (EU). As the “Controller”, we will inform you if we should deviate from this.

4. Integration of third-party services and contents

4.1 General remarks

It can happen that contents of third parties, for example, videos of YouTube, map material of Google Maps, RSS feeds or graphics of other websites are integrated within our online offer. This always presupposes that the providers of these contents (hereinafter referred to as “External Providers”) recognise the user’s IP address. This is required because they cannot send contents to the browser of the respective user without the IP address.

. The IP address is therefore required to display these contents. We work towards using only such contents of providers that respectively use the IP address merely to deliver the contents. However, we have no influence over whether the External Providers store the IP address, e.g. for statistical purposes. We inform the users of this if we know of it.

4.2 YouTube

YouTube videos are embedded in our website and can be played directly from our website. The service is operated by the YouTube video platform, YouTube LLC with headquarters in 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (“YouTube”). YouTube is a company affiliated with Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).

The YouTube videos are embedded in the so-called “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user will be transferred to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Such a data transfer, which cannot be influenced by us, will be started only once you activate the videos. You can prevent YouTube from storing cookies by making the corresponding setting in the browser software. More details about the processing of the data as relates to YouTube and your related rights and options for adjusting the settings for the protection of your privacy can be found in the terms of use and the data privacy policy of YouTube: www.youtube.com/t/terms, policies.google.com/privacy.

The aforementioned cookie-based data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR for the protection of our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests in this respect are in particular to be able to make a technically optimised website available to you with a user-friendly design as appropriate to needs, including corresponding ads (also on external provider pages) and to ensure the security of our systems.

4.3 Use of “location-specific browsing” or “geo-localisation” with Mozilla Firefox

When calling up our website using the internet browser Mozilla Firefox, you will be asked to transfer your location. If you agree to the transfer, Firefox will gather data about nearby mobile communication access nodes and the IP address of your computer, and transfer these to Google Location Services for identification of your approximate location. The approximate location will be transferred to this website. This website uses the data about the approximate location to be able to deliver information that is more suitable to you or to save time for you for searches. You can find more information on the gathering, processing and use of your data by Mozilla Firefox in the data privacy statement of the Mozilla Corporation. Google Location Services delivers the approximate position of your location (e.g. degrees of longitude and latitude). You can find a complete description of the data that are gathered and used by Google in the data privacy policy of Google Inc. If you do not want that your location data are gathered and processed, select “Never transfer the location to this page” or you can prevent this by a corresponding setting in your browser. You can also revoke the consent to the gathering and processing of the data at any time at: www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/geolocation/

4.4 Use of Google Analytics

This website uses the web analysis service “Google Analytics” of Google Inc., by which so-called “cookies” (small text files) are stored on your computer. These “cookies” permit an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by a cookie about your utilisation of this website is generally transmitted to a server of Google Inc. in the USA and also stored there. Your IP address will normally be truncated by Google before then, while still inside of the Member States the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). In cases of exception, your complete IP address can be transmitted to a U.S. server of Google Inc. and then be truncated only after it gets to the USA. Google Inc. will use this information for the purpose of analysing your website use on behalf of the website operator. This data that has been gathered will not be combined with other data of Google. If you do not want that cookies are stored, you can prevent this by making a corresponding setting in your browser. However, we explicitly inform that you might not have all functions of the website available in that case. In cases in which you want to prevent the processing of the data by Google Inc., you can download and install a so-called browser plug-in from the following website: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout; the browser plug-in should be available for the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer (current version), Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera. As the operator of this website, we have concluded a separate Agreement on Commissioned Data Processing according to Sec. 11 BDSG with Google Analytics Germany.

IP anonymisation

We have activated the IP anonymisation function on this website. Through this function, your IP address will be truncated by Google inside of the Member States of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before the transmission to the USA. The complete IP address will only be transmitted in exceptional cases to a server of Google in the USA and it will be truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website, in order to analyse your utilisation of the website, compile reports about website activities, and perform additional services for the website operator, which relate to the website utilisation and internet use. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with other data of Google.

Objection to data gathering

You can prevent that your data is gathered by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the gathering of your data in future visits to this website:

Deactivate Google Analytics

You can find more information on the handling of user data at Google Analytics in Google’s Data Privacy Policy: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Contracted data processing

We have concluded a contract with Google for contracted data processing and we fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities for the use of Google Analytics.

4.5 Google Web Fonts

For a consistent display of fonts, this page uses so-called web fonts that are provided by Google. When retrieving a page, your browser loads the needed web fonts in your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser used by you has to establish a connection with the servers of Google. This way, Google will be informed that our website has been retrieved via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest in definition of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font of your computer will be used.

You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

4.6 Google Maps

This website uses the maps service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transmission.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and for a simple possibility to find the places mentioned on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest in definition of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.

You can find more information about the handling of user data in Google’s data privacy policy at: policies.google.com/privacy.

5. Data security/Safe data transmission

We would like to inform you that security gaps can occur in the data transmission on the internet (e.g. via email). Perfect protection against access by third parties is therefore not is possible.

 

6. Rights of data subjects/Data protection officer

The contact partner for the protection of your rights as data subject is Bender GmbH, represented by Mr Klaus Bender (also see “Legal Notice”).

6.1 Right to object

You can object at any time with effect for the future to your data being used.

6.2 Right to correction

You can furthermore demand that incorrect information about your person be corrected if you cannot make the change yourself.

6.3 Right to receive confirmation

Subject to the legal conditions, you can of course be informed, as part of your right to receive confirmation, about which data we have stored relating to you and for what purpose.

6.4 Right to lodge complaint

Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge complaint with the supervisory authority (State Officer for data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia, LDI NRW, Kavalleriestraße 2-4,    40213 Düsseldorf or P.O. Box 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf, telephone: 0211 38424-0, fax: 0211 38424-10, email: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de, homepage: www.ldi.nrw.de)

 

6.5 Data protection officer

If you would like to exercise your rights as data subject including, for example, your right of erasure or blocking, please contact with sufficient identification and – preferably in writing – our data protection officer:

Bender GmbH, Obere Kaiserstraße 4, 57078 Siegen 
Telephone: 0271-2504026 
Email: 
dsb@benmetal.de

7. External links and information on the website

We do not accept any liability for external links and the offers of third parties made available there. We furthermore point out that the information on this website serves exclusively for the provision of information without developing any legally binding effect.

 

 

 

8. Job applicants

We process the following categories of data that we have received from you personally: (title, last name, first name, address, phone number, mobile phone number, email address). In addition, further information that is required for the decision on the application will be stored if you provide us with the information.

Bender GmbH will use your data exclusively for transacting its own business and not transfer it to third parties.

The data that we have received from you personally will be processed for the purpose of initiating a contract in the context of concrete job postings or speculative applications. The data processing serves for the purpose of establishing an employment relationship and its special legal basis follows from Art. 88 (1) GDPR in conjunction with Sec. 28 (1) BDSG (new version).
Pursuant to Art. 15 to Art. 22 GDPR, you have the following rights when the legal requirements are fulfilled: right of confirmation, correction, erasure, restriction of the processing, data portability. Moreover, pursuant to Art. 14 (2) lit. c) in conjunction with Art. 21 GDPR, you have a right to object to the processing on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.

In the case your application is declined, you data will be deleted after 6 months, unless you have granted consent to storage for a longer period. For the rest, the data will be archived only if other legal reasons still apply, on the basis of special obligations for retention and documentation under labour, tax and commercial law (arising from the AGG [General Equal Treatment Act], HGB [Commercial Code], StGB [Penal Code] or AO [Fiscal Code]).

9. Changes to the Data Privacy Statement

Progressing technology, legal requirements or also changed processes can have effects, e.g. also on this Data Privacy Statement. We therefore reserve the right to change this Data Privacy Statement at any time with effect for the future. You can find the respectively

current version of the Data Privacy Statement on this website. Please visit this subpage of the homepage regularly to find information about the applicable provisions.

 

 

 

Legal notice on our own behalf

1. Limitation of liability

We do not give any guarantee for the currentness, completeness and correctness of the pages and contents made available. The contents of this website have been checked with the greatest possible care and to the best of knowledge and belief. If contents on this website should be incorrect nonetheless, these contents will be removed or blocked immediately upon the time when a concrete rights infringement becomes known. Liability applies only as of the time of taking notice thereof.

2. Copyright/Ancillary copyrights

 

The contents, works and provided information published on this website are subject to the German copyright and ancillary copyrights. The prior written consent of the respective rights holder is required for any kind of reproduction, editing, processing, and any kind of exploitation beyond the limits of the copyright. Prohibited copying/storing of the information provided on this websites is not permitted and punishable.

Deactivate Google Analytics

For further information on the handling of user data via Google Analytics, please read through the data privacy statement of Google: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Contract processing

We have concluded a contract processing agreement with Google and seek to fully comply with the strict provisions of the German data protection authorities with respect to the usage of Google Analytics.

4.5 Google Web Fonts

In order to display fonts in a consistent manner, this website uses so-called web fonts provided by Google. When opening a page, your browser will load the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, your browser must establish a connection to the servers of Google. In this process, Google is notified that our website was accessed via your IP address. The usage of Google Web Fonts serves our interest to provide you with a consistent and attractive visualisation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest according to Article 6, Subsection 1, Letter f of the GD-PR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, one of your computer's standard fonts will be used.

For further information on Google Web Fonts, please visit developers.google.com/fonts/faq or read through the data privacy statement of Google: policies.google.com/privacy.

4.6 Google Maps

This website uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider of Google Maps is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

In order to use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information are normally forwarded to a server of Google in the USA, where it is saved. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transfer.

The usage of Google Maps serves our interest to provide you with an attractive visualisation of our online offers and to facilitate the process of finding the locations indicated on our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest according to Article 6, Subsection 1, Letter f of the GD-PR.

For further information on the handling of user data, please read through the data privacy statement of Google: policies.google.com/privacy

5. DATA SECURITY / SECURE DATA TRANSFER

Please note that data transfers via the internet (e. g. via email) may involve security gaps. Therefore, we cannot guarantee full protection against third-party access.

6. DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS / DATA PROTECTION OFFICERS

Bender GmbH, represented by Klaus Bender (see also "legal notice"), is your personal contact for the protection of your data subject rights.

6.1 Right of objection

You may object to the use of your personal data at any given time – with effect for the future.

6.2 Right of rectification

Furthermore, you may demand that false information on your identity be corrected – provided you are unable to correct the data yourself.

6.3 Right to information

Under consideration of the valid legal provisions, you have the right to be informed about the personal data we have stored about you and about the purposes for which we have stored that data.

6.4 Data protection officers

If you wish to exercise your data subject rights, your right to deletion and/or your right to blocking, please refer to our data protection officers – preferably in writing - with a sufficient legitimation: Data protection officers – personal – see section 2 for contacts.

7. External links and information on the website

We do not accept liability for external links or third-party offers made accessible by the same. Furthermore, please note that any information on this website only serve the purpose of information procurement and are not legally binding.

8. Changes to this data privacy statement

Technological progress, legal provisions or changes in processes may affect this data privacy statement. Therefore, we reserve the right to change this data privacy statement at any given time with effect for the future. The latest version of this data privacy statement can be found on this website. Please visit this subpage of our website on a regular basis to stay informed about the valid provisions.

LEGAL NOTICES ON OUR OWN BEHALF

1. Limitation of liability

We accept no responsibility for the topicality, completeness and accuracy of the pages and contents provided. The contents of this website have been created with the greatest possible care and in all conscience. Should, however, certain contents of this website be incorrect, we shall delete or block these contents as soon as we become aware of a specific legal infringement. We only accept liability from the moment of becoming aware of such false contents.

2. Copyright/ancillary copyright

The contents, works and information published on this website are subject to the German copyright and ancillary copyright law. Any form of reproduction, editing, processing, storage and any kind of exploitation beyond the limits of the copyright law shall be subject to prior written consent by the respective copyright holder. Copying or storing the information provided on these websites without permission is inadmissible and shall be subject to criminal prosecution.