Disclaimer
Liability for content
The contents of our pages have been created with the utmost care. We cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the contents. As a service provider, we are responsible, pursuant to § 7 paragraph 1 of the TMG (German Telemedia Act), for our own content on these pages under general law. Pursuant to §§ 8 to 10 of the TMG, as a services supplier, we are not obliged to monitor third-party information that has been transmitted or stored, nor to investigate circumstances that may suggest illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information under general law remain unaffected. However, this liability only applies from the point in time when a specific infringement of the law becomes known. As soon as we become aware of relevant infringements of the law, we will immediately remove the content.
Liability for links
Our site contains links to external websites and we have no influence over the content of these sites. For this reason, we cannot accept liability for such third-party content. The respective provider or operator of any linked site is always individually responsible for its content. These sites were checked for possible legal violations at the time they were linked. They contained no apparent illegal content when they were linked. However, any permanent control of the content of linked pages is unreasonable without any substantial evidence of a violation. We will immediately remove any links of this type upon being notified of such violations.
Copyright
The content and works on pages generated by the site operators are subject to German copyright law. The reproduction, adaption, distribution and any form of use outside the limits of the copyright law require the written consent of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of these pages are only permitted for the purposes of private, non-commercial use. Insofar as the content on these pages is not created by the operator, the property rights of third-parties are respected. In particular, third-party content is specifically identified as such. Nevertheless, we would request you to notify us accordingly should you become aware of copyright infringement. We will immediately remove the respective content upon being notified of such infringements.
Rights to use pictures
The copyright for all images on this website belong to Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH (hereinafter the “author”). As an author pursuant to §12 UrhG, Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH exclusively reserves the right to decide the manner and scope for which these images are used. On this legal basis, images on this website may only be used for own purposes with express prior written consent of Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH. Thus, the author grants the rights of use of individual images following approval.
Any persons who infringe the copyright for images belonging to Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH will be liable for their removal, and to cease if there is a danger of reoccurrence. This also applies in the first-time event of an infringement. In the event of deliberate or negligent infringement, the author reserves the right to assert claims for damages arising as a result (pursuant to §97 and §98 UrhG).
Source: Disclaimer eRecht24
Privacy policy
Privacy and data protection
The company responsible for data processing is Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH, 42899 Remscheid, Ritterstr. 15, Managing Director: Roswitha Halbach. Further details on parties responsible can be found in the legal notice.
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. That is why we strictly observe the rules of the data protection laws. Personal data is only collected on this website for technically necessary reasons. We use your order data exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling and processing your order. We save and process all customer data in accordance with the German data protection act (BDSG) and the German telemedia act (TMG). Any other use or collection of additional personal data shall require the consent of the persons concerned.
The following declaration provides an overview of how we guarantee this protection and what kind of data is collected to what degree of protection.
Revoking your consent to data processing
Certain data processing processes are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time. To do so all you need to do is send an informal email. The legality of the data processing which takes place up to when consent is revoked remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to appeal to the competent supervisory authority
In the event of breaches of data protection law, the person concerned has a right to appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found on 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 automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party. This shall be provided in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this transfer will only take place if it is technically feasible.
SSL and TLS encryption
This site uses SSL and TLS encryption respectively for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator. This means that data transmitted via this website is not visible to third parties. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the “https://” address line on your browser and the key symbol in the browser bar.
Transfer of personal data to third parties, credit check
Data collected shall not be sold under any circumstances. If we have made payment in advance, we will obtain a statement of creditworthiness to protect our interests from SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65201 Wiesbaden. Your protectable interests are taken into account in accordance with the relevant statutory provisions. This information is not disclosed to any other third parties.
Purchase on account will be processed by the company Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH. In order to assess the liability risk and creditworthiness, we may transfer address and creditworthiness data in the framework of legal admissibility and under consideration of the respective protectable interests excluding the transfer and use.
Information about previous payment methods will be taken from the following credit agencies who store data for the purpose of supplying information:
- Bürgel, Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH & Co. KG, Gasstraße 18, D-22761 Hamburg, Tel.: +49 (0) 40 - 89 80 3 – 0, Fax: -777
- CEG, Creditreform Consumer GmbH, Hellersbergstr. 11, D-41460 Neuss, Tel.: +49 (0)2131-109-501, Fax: -557
For the purpose of its own credit check, the Halbach company shall call up creditworthiness information from the institutes mentioned on the basis of mathematical and statistical processes.
In these instances, the institute mentioned will be notified of the stock corporation, company name (or first name and surname in the event of solo traders), street, building number, postcode, town and data of birth if required. Halbach ensures that the institute mentioned exclusively processes and/or uses your data for the purpose intended.
All credit checks take place to prevent any issues with payment transactions. The data exchange between Halbach and other counterparties protects online trade from damages which have a long-term effect on sales prices. This means that you as the end customer also benefit from the revision of customer data for this purpose.
Data transfer upon conclusion of contract for the purchase and dispatch of goods
Personal data shall only be transferred to third parties where necessary for the purpose of fulfilling the contract. Third parties may include payment providers or logistics companies. Any further transmission of data is only possible if you have expressly agreed to this.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Registering on this website
You can register on our website to use certain functions. The data transmitted is used exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling the relevant offer or service. Mandatory information is required in full upon registering. Otherwise your registration will be rejected.
In the event of important changes, such as for technical reasons, we will notify you by email. Emails will be sent to the address provided upon registering.
Processing the data provided upon registration shall take place based on your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. To do so all you need to do is send an informal email. The legality of data processed before we receive your request is not affected by the revocation.
We shall store the data provided by you upon registering as long as you are registered with our website. Your data will be deleted should you revoke your registration. Statutory retention periods shall remain unaffected.
Contact form
Data transmitted via the contact form, including your contact details, will be stored in order to process your request or handle any follow-up queries. This data will not be passed on without your consent.
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. To do so all you need to do is send an informal email. The legality of the data processing processes which take place up to when consent is revoked remains unaffected by the revocation.
Data transmitted via the contact form shall remain with us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent to us storing this data or there is no longer a requirement to store this data. Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – shall remain unaffected.
Newsletter data
In order for us to send you our newsletter, we need your email address. A verification of the stated email address is necessary and receipt of the newsletter must be approved. Additional data is not collected, or is given voluntarily. Data is solely used to enable the sending of newsletters.
Data given in the course of signing up to the newsletter is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b of the GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email notification is sufficient to revoke; alternatively, you can use the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The legality of data processed before we receive your request is not affected by the revocation.
Data entered when establishing the subscription is deleted when you unsubscribe. If data has been transmitted to us for other purposes and elsewhere, it will remain with us.
Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plug-ins (‘Like’ button)
Plug-ins are installed on our website created by the social media site Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA). You can recognise the Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo or ‘Like’ button on our page. You can find an overview of the Facebook plug-ins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our website, the plug-in will establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This informs Facebook that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” button whilst you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This means that Facebook will be able to match your visit to our pages with your user account. Please note that as the provider of the pages, we do not know anything about the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For further information, please refer to the Facebook privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not want Facebook to know about your visit to our website and link it to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook account.
Privacy policy for the use of YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of these pages is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland. If you visit one of our pages which feature a YouTube plugin, a connection is established to the YouTube servers. The YouTube server is then informed which of our pages you have visited. When you are logged into your YouTube account, you are enabling YouTube to map your web surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. For further information on how user data is processed, please refer to the YouTube privacy policy.
Privacy policy for the use of Instagram
Functions of the Instagram service are integrated into our pages. These functions are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. When you are logged into your Instagram account, you can link the content of our website pages with your Instagram profile. This means that Instagram will be able to match your visit to our pages with your user account. Please note that as the provider of the pages, we do not know anything about the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.
Further information about Instagram’s privacy policy can be found at http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
Data protection declaration for the use of Pinterest
We use social plugins by the social network Pinterest on our website, operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA ("Pinterest"). If you access a page containing this plugin, your browser will establish a direct link to the Pinterest servers. The plugin transfers protocol data to the Pinterest servers in the USA. This protocol data may contain your IP address, the address of websites visited which include Pinterest features, your browser type and settings, the data and time of your request and your usage of Pinterest and cookies.
Further information about the purpose, scope and other processing and use of data by Pinterest, as well as the rights and options relating to the protection of your privacy in relation this, can be found in Pinterest’s privacy policy: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service. This website analysis service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland.
Google Analytics uses “cookies”. These are small text files which are stored on your web browser and allow an analysis of your website use. The cookie allows information about your use of our website to be transferred to a Google server and stored there. The location of the server is normally in the USA.
Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 (f) of the GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimize both our website and its advertising.
IP anonymisation
We use Google Analytics in connection with the IP anonymisation feature. This ensures that your IP address is truncated by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. In exceptional cases, Google may transmit your full IP address to a server in the USA and shorten it there. On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, for compiling reports on website activity, and for providing us other services relating to website activity and internet usage. IP addresses transmitted by Google Analytics cannot be associated with any other Google data.
Browser plugin
You can prevent your browser from accepting cookies. However, certain features of our website may not function correctly. You can however prevent Google from collecting data about your website use, including your IP address. This can be done by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objection to data collection
You can prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be created, which will prevent the collection of any of your data when visiting our website in future. Deactivate Google Analytics.
For further information on how user data is processed by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google privacy policy at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de
Order processing
In order to fully comply with legal data protection provisions, we have entered into an order processing agreement with Google.
Demographics used in Google Analytics
Our website uses the “Demographics feature” of Google Analytics. As a result, reports can be produced that contain statements on the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This data cannot be associated to a particular individual. You can deactivate this feature at any time. This can be done through the ad settings in your Google Account, or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as outlined in the section "Objection to Data Collection".
Data processing on this website
Halbach automatically collects and stores information transmitted to us by your browser in your server log files. These are:
- Browser type and version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL code (the website previously visited)
- Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
- Time of the server query
Halbach cannot attribute this data to individual people. This data will not be combined with any other data sources, the data will be deleted after statistical evaluation.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that your web browser stores on your device. Cookies help us make our website more user-friendly, efficient and secure.
Some cookies are called “session cookies”. These cookies are automatically deleted once your browser session has ended. Other cookies, on the other hand, remain on your device until you manually delete them. These cookies help us to recognise you upon your next visit to our website.
Modern web browsers allow you to monitor, limit or prevent the use of cookies. Many web browsers can be configured to automatically delete cookies upon closing the program. When cookies are disabled, certain features of our website may not function correctly.
The use of cookies that are required for electronic means of communication or the provision of certain features (e.g. a shopping basket) takes place based on Art. 6 para. 1 (f) of the GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in the storing of cookies for the technically correct and optimised delivery of our services. In so far as other cookies are used (e.g. for analysis features), these are handled separately in this privacy policy.
Revocation of consent
You have expressly provided your consented as part of the order process. Please note that you may revoke this consent at any time. This can be revoked by sending a letter, email or fax to Halbach Seidenbänder. The only costs that may arise as a result are any postage costs or transfer costs based on existing basic tariffs.
Right to information and data protection officer
You have the right to access any personal information that we have saved about you free of charge and, if appropriate, you have the right to correct, block or delete this data. If you have any queries, please contact datenschutz@halbach.ag
Storage and access to the contract text
We save the contract text and send you your order information and our T&Cs by email. You can view our T&Cs at any time here. You can view your previous orders from our customer login page.
Privacy policy for the live chat application Tawk.to
The Online Service offers the possibility to use Tawk.to. This is a live chat software. The chat is integrated in the source code. This is made possible by a script. By using the chat, you automatically use the services of Tawk.to. The collected data includes: Chat history, IP address at the time of the chat and country of origin. This data is not shared with third parties and is used solely for protection and internal statistics. The data is not used to identify you personally. They are not stored. The deletion takes place after the chat. For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Tawk.to, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the privacy policy of Tawk.to: https://www.tawk.to/privacy-policy
Further information
Your trust is important to us. We are therefore happy to talk to you at any time and answer questions relating to the processing of your personal data. Should you have any other queries that are not covered by this privacy policy, or if you require further information regarding a specific matter, please contact us.
Source: Privacy policy of eRecht24, the portal for internet law by lawyer Sören Siebert, Facebook disclaimer of eRecht24, Google Analytics privacy policy, Data protection configurator of mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de, complemented by the website operator Halbach Seidenbänder GmbH
