Data privacy statement

This data privacy policy describes the personal data that is collected or generated (processed) when you use this website. It also explains how your personal data is used, shared and protected, which options you have regarding your personal data and how you can contact us.

The responsible body in terms of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Saicos Colour GmbH

Michael Fischer
Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3
48336 Sassenberg

Supervisory Authority:

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (State Data Protection and Freedom-of-Information Officer)
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kavalleriestraße 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Telephone: 02 11/384 24-0
Fax: 02 11/384 24-10
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data privacy, please send us an e-mail or directly contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization:

Saicos Colour GmbH

Dr. Christine Nagel
Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3
48336 Sassenberg
E-mail: datenschutz@saicos.de

Collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This is only information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the content of websites you have requested and is mandatory when using the Internet. They are processed in particular for the following purposes: Ensuring problem-free connection to the website, ensuring smooth use of our website, evaluating system security and stability and for other administrative purposes. The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest for data collection for the aforementioned purposes. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. The recipient of the data is only the responsible body and, if applicable, the processor.

We may statistically evaluate anonymous information of this type in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.

Data collection

We collect personal data if you provide it to us when you contact us (e.g.via contact form, application or e-mail). This means data such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. We mark fields which are mandatory for the purpose of contacting us. The exact data collected can be found in the respective forms. This data is used in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. As soon as we have completed the process (or the resulting contract, if applicable), the data will be restricted for further / other processing. After any retention periods due to tax or commercial regulations have expired, the data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use or we reserve the right to use the data in accordance with legally permissible use in line with this declaration.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties

We only process your personal data for the purposes stated in this data privacy statement. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • You have given your express consent,
  • Processing is necessary to process a contract with you,
  • Processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,
  • Processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data.

Newsletter system

Mailchimp
The Rocket Science Group, LLC
675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
Suite 5000
Atlanta, GA 30308 USA

You can subscribe to a free newsletter on our website. When registering for the newsletter, the data from the input mask is transmitted to us. The collection of the user's email address serves to deliver the newsletter. The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. The user's email address is therefore stored for as long as the subscription to the newsletter is active. The affected user can cancel the subscription to the newsletter at any time. There is a corresponding link in every newsletter for this purpose. Mailchimp's data privacy policy can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned here or for the various storage periods provided for by law. As soon as the respective purpose or these deadlines end / cease to exist, the corresponding data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Your rights

(1) You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

  • Right to information about the stored data (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or deletion (Art. 17 GDPR), unless further processing from one of the following areas is required:
    • For legal claims (exercise / assertion / defence)
    • In fulfilling a legal obligation
    • When exercising the right to freedom of expression / information
    • Due to public interest
  • Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR),
  • Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses an SSL or. TLS encryption. You can identify an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http: //” to “https: //” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Cookies

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically saved on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). The duration of storage can be found in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies. You can also set your browser so that you can decide whether to accept a cookie on a case-by-case basis. In addition, you can generally exclude the acceptance of certain cookies by setting your browser. Since every browser differs in the type of cookie management, please refer to the help menu of your browser for more information. For the most common browsers, you will find further information under the following links:

Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Opera: https://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that if certain cookies are not accepted or are excluded, the functionality of this website will be restricted.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files that are saved on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Due to the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, however, your IP address will be abbreviated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economy Area. The full IP address is only transferred to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website and Internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, other related services are then to be provided. Processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .

Use of Google Maps

This website uses the product Google Maps from Google Inc. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of the automatically collected data by Google Inc, its representatives and third parties. The terms of use of Google Maps can be found under "Terms of use of Google Maps" (https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps/)

Use of web fonts

This page uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. There is no connection to Google servers.

YouTube

On our website, we offer so-called social media plug-ins from various social networks so that you can connect to your social media channels. These plug-ins are marked with a logo. These plug-ins are integrated by AddThis.com, a service of Oracle America Inc., 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA.

When you visit our website, which contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the respective social network. The content of the plug-in is transmitted from the social network directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, the social network receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website.

YouTube's data privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
You can find Facebook's data privacy policy here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
You can find Instagram's data privacy policy here: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/
You can find Xing's data privacy policy here: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

Changes to our data privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data privacy statement so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data privacy statement, e.g.when introducing new services. The new data privacy statement then applies to your next visit.