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1. An overview of data protection

General information

The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what

will happen with your personal data when you visit this website.

The term “personal data” comprises all data that can be used to personally identify

you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please con-

sult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recording on this website

Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e. the

“controller”)?

The data on this website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact

information is available under section “Information Required by Law” on this website.

How do we record your data?

We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for in-

stance be information

you enter into our contact form.

Other data shall be recorded by our IT systems automatically or after you consent to

its recording during your website visit. This data comprises primarily technical informa-

tion (e.g. web browser, operating system or time the site was accessed).

This information is recorded automatically when you access this website.

What are the purposes we use your data for?

A portion of the information is generated to guarantee the error free provision of the

website. Other data may be used to analyze your user patterns.

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What rights do you have as far as your information is concerned?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients and purposes of

your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclo-

sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified or eradicated.

If you have consented to data processing, you have the option to revoke this consent

at any time, which shall affect all future data processing. Moreover, you have the right

to demand that the processing of your data be restricted under certain circumstances.

Furthermore, you have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising

agency.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section

“Information Required by Law” on this website if you have questions about this or any

other data protection related issues.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected

on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not

limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract

information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated

through a website.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and exis-

ting customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast and

efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider

(Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance

obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.

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Execution of a contract data processing agreement

In order to guarantee processing in compliance with data protection regulations, we

have concluded an order processing contract with our host.

3. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data

very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in

compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection

Declaration.

Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected.

Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you.

This Data Protection Declaration explains which data we collect as well as the purpo-

ses we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is

collected.

We herewith advise you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e. through e-

mail communications) may be prone to security gaps.

It is not possible to completely protect data against third-party access.

Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the

GDPR)

The data processing controller on this website is:

VBS Fügetechnik AG

Friedrichstraße 8

35216 Biedenkopf-Wallau

Phone: 06461-9846-0

E-mail: info@vbs-fuegetechnik.de

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The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-handedly or jointly with

others makes decisions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of per-

sonal data (e.g. names, e-mail

addresses, etc.).

Storage duration

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your

personal data will remain with us until the purpose for which it was collected no longer

applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data

processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons

for storing your personal data (e.g. tax or commercial law retention periods); in the

latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

Designation of a data protection officer as mandated by law

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

bits + bytes it-solutions GmbH & Co. KG

Bahnhof Weidenau 6

57076 Siegen

Phone: 0700 20 30 10 30

E-mail: datenschutz@bits-bytes.de

Information on data transfer to the USA

Our website uses, in particular, tools from companies based in the USA. When these

tools are active, your personal information may be transferred to the US servers of

these companies. We must point out that the USA is not a safe third country within the

meaning of EU data protection law. US companies are required to release personal

data to security authorities without you as the data subject being able to take legal

action against this. The possibility cannot therefore be excluded that US authorities

(e.g. secret services) may process, evaluate and permanently store your data on US

servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence over these processing activities.

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Revocation of your consent to the processing of data

A wide range of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your express

consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. This

shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior

to your revocation.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases; right to object to direct

advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 SECT. 1 LIT.

E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE

PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM

YOUR UNIQUE SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PROFILING BASED ON

THESE PROVISIONS. TO DETERMINE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY

PROCESSING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CONSULT THIS DATA PROTECTION

DECLARATION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR

AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PRESENT

COMPELLING PROTECTION WORTHY GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OF

YOUR DATA, THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING IS THE CLAIMING, EXERCISING OR DEFENCE

OF LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS

(OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 SECT. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT

ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE

PROCESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH

ADVERTISING. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS

AFFILIATED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR

PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT

ADVERTISING PURPOSES

(OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 SECT. 2 GDPR).

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Right to log a complaint with the competent supervisory agency

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint

with a supervisory

agency, in particular in the member state where they usually maintain their domicile,

place of work or at the place where the alleged violation occurred. The right to log a

complaint is in effect regardless of any other administrative or court proceedings

available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we automatically process on

the basis of your consent or in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third

party in a commonly used, machine readable format. If you should demand the direct

transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done

only if it is technically feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as

purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website

uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption program. You can recognize an encrypted

connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from

“http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by

third parties.

Information about, rectification and eradication of data

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any

time demand information about your archived personal data, their source and

recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data.

You may also have a right to have your data rectified or eradicated. If you have

questions about this subject matter or any other questions about personal data, please

do not hesitate to contact us at any time at the address provided in section “Informati-

on Required by Law.”

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Right to demand processing restrictions

You have the right to demand the imposition of restrictions as far as the processing of

your personal data is concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time at the

address provided in section “Information

Required by Law.” The right to demand restriction of processing applies in the follo-

wing cases:

In the event that you should dispute the correctness of your data archived by us, we

will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this investigation

is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your perso-

nal data.

If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you

have the option to demand the restriction of the processing of your data in lieu of de-

manding the eradication of this data.

If we do not need your personal data any longer and you need it to exercise, defend or

claim legal entitlements, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing

of your personal data instead of its eradication.

If you have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our

rights will have to be weighed against each other.

As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the

right to demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with the

exception of their archiving

– may be processed only subject to your consent or to claim, exercise or defend legal

entitlements or to protect the rights of other natural persons or legal entities or for im-

portant public interest reasons cited by the European Union or a member state of the

EU.

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4. Recording of data on this website

Our websites and pages use what the industry refers to as “cookies.” Cookies are

small text files that do not cause any damage to your device. They are either stored

temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or they are permanently ar-

chived on your device (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted

once you terminate your visit. Permanent cookies remain archived on your device

until you actively delete them or they are automatically eradicated

by your web browser.

In some cases, it is possible that third-party cookies are stored on your device once

you enter our site (thirdparty cookies).

These cookies enable you or us to take advantage of certain services offered by the

third party (e.g. cookies for the processing of payment services).

Cookies have a variety of functions. Many cookies are technically essential since

certain website functions would not work in the absence of the cookies (e.g. the shop-

ping cart function or the display of videos).

The purpose of other cookies may be the analysis of user patterns or the display of

promotional messages.

Cookies, which are required for the performance of electronic communication transac-

tions (required cookies) or for the provision of certain functions you want to use (func-

tional cookies, e.g. for the shopping cart function) or those that are necessary for the

optimization of the website (e.g. cookies that provide measurable insights into the web

audience), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless a

different legal basis is cited. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in

the storage of cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimized provision of

the operator’s services. If your consent to the storage of the cookies has been reques-

ted, the respective cookies are stored exclusively on the basis of the consent obtained

(Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR); this consent may be revoked at any time.

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You have the option to set up your browser in such a manner that you will be notified

any time cookies are placed and to permit the acceptance of cookies only in specific

cases. You may also exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general

or activate the delete function for the automatic eradication of cookieswhen the brow-

ser closes. If cookies are deactivated, the functions of this website may be limited.

In the event that third-party cookies are used or if cookies are used for analytical pur-

poses, we will separately notify you in conjunction with this Data Protection Policy

and, if applicable, ask for your consent.

Server log files

The provider of this website and its pages automatically collects and stores informati-

on in so-called server log files, which your browser communicates to us automatically.

The information comprises:

The type and version of browser used

The used operating system

Referrer URL

The hostname of the accessing computer

The time of the server inquiry

The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the

website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the opti-

mization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be

recorded.

Request by e-mail, telephone or fax

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or fax, your request, including all resulting per-

sonal data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of pro-

cessing your request. We do not pass these data on without your consent.

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These data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR if your inquiry is

related to the fulfillment of a contract or is required for the performance of pre-

contractual measures. In all other cases, the data are processed on the basis of our

legitimate interest in the effective handling of inquiries submitted to us (Art. 6

Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR) if it has

been obtained.

The data sent by you to us via contact requests remain with us until you request us to

delete, revoke your consent to the storage or the purpose for the data storage lapses

(e.g. after completion of your request).

Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular statutory retention periods - remain un-

affected.

5. Plug-ins and Tools

YouTube with expanded data protection integration

Our website embeds videos of the website YouTube. The website operator is Google

Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in the expanded data protection mode. According to YouTube, this

mode ensures that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this

website before they watch the video.

Nevertheless, this does not necessarily mean that the sharing of data with YouTube

partners can be ruled out as a result of the expanded data protection mode. For in-

stance, regardless of whether you are watching a video, YouTube will always establish

a connection with the Google DoubleClick network.

As soon as you start to play a YouTube video on this website, a connection to YouTu-

be’s servers will be established. As a result, the YouTube server will be notified, which

of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account while you visit our site, you enable Y-

ouTube to directly allocate your browsing patterns to your personal profile. You have

the option to prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

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Furthermore, after you have started to play a video, YouTube will be able to place vari-

ous cookies on your device or comparable technologies for recognition (e.g. device fin-

gerprinting). In this way YouTube will be able to obtain information about this websi-

te’s visitors. Among other things, this information will be used to generate video statis-

tics with the aim of improving the user friendliness of the site and to prevent attempts

to commit fraud.

Under certain circumstances, additional data processing transactions may be triggered

after you have started to play a YouTube video, which are beyond our control.

The use of YouTube is based on our interest in presenting our online content in an

appealing manner. Pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a legitimate interest. If

a corresponding agreement has been requested, the processing takes place exclusively

on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agreement canbe revoked at any time.

For more information on how YouTube handles user data, please consult the YouTube

Data Privacy Policy under:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en .

Google Maps

This website uses the mapping service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland

Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To enable the use of the Google Maps features, your IP address must be stored. As a

rule, this information is transferred to one of Google’s servers in the United States,

where it is archived. The operator of this website has no control over the data transfer.

We use Google Maps to present our online content in an appealing manner and to

make the locations disclosed on our website easy to find. This constitutes a legitimate

interest as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a respective declaration of consent

has been obtained, the data shall be processed exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sect.

1 lit. a GDPR. This declaration of consent may be revoked at any time.

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Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of

the European Commission. Details can be found here:

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/

and

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/ .

For more information on the handling of user data, please review Google’s Data Pri-

vacy Declaration under:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

6. Custom Services

Job Applications

We offer website visitors the opportunity to submit job applications to us (e.g. via e-

mail, via postal services on by submitting the online job application form). Below, we

will brief you on the scope, purpose and use of the personal data collected from you in

conjunction with the application process. We assure you that the collection, processing

and use of your data will occur in compliance with the applicable data privacy rights

and all other statutory provisions and that your data will always be treated as strictly

confidential.

Scope and purpose of the collection of data

If you submit a job application to us, we will process any affiliated personal data (e.g.

contact and communications data, application documents, notes taken during job in-

terviews, etc.), if they are required to make a decision concerning the establishment or

an employment relationship. The legal grounds for the aforementioned are § 26 New

GDPR according to German Law (Negotiation of an Employment Relationship), Art. 6

Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR (General Contract Negotiations) and – provided you have given us

your consent – Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR. You may revoke any consent given at any ti-

me. Within our company, your personal data will only be shared with individuals who

are involved in the processing of your job application.

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If your job application should result in your recruitment, the data you have submitted

will be archived on the grounds of § 26 New GDPR and Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR for the

purpose of implementing the employment relationship in our data processing system.

Data Archiving Period

If we are unable to make you a job offer or you reject a job offer or withdraw your ap-

plication, we reserve the right to retain the data you have submitted on the basis of our

legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) for up to 6 months from the end of the

application procedure (rejection or withdrawal of the application).

Afterwards the data will be deleted, and the physical application documents will be

destroyed. The storage serves in particular as evidence in the event of a legal dispute.

If it is evident that the data will be required after the expiry of the 6-month period (e.g.

due to an impending or pending legal dispute), deletion will only take place when the

purpose for further storage no longer applies.

Longer storage may also take place if you have given your agreement (Article 6 (1) (a)

GDPR) or if statutory data retention requirements preclude the deletion.

Admission to the applicant pool

If we do not make you a job offer, you may be able to join our applicant pool. In case of

admission, all documents and information from the application will be transferred to

the applicant pool in order to contact you in case of suitable vacancies.

Admission to the applicant pool is based exclusively on your express agreement (Art. 6

para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

The submission agreement is voluntary and has no relation to the ongoing application

procedure.

The affected person can revoke his agreement at any time.

In this case, the data from the applicant pool will be irrevocably deleted, provided there

are no legal reasons for storage.

The data from the applicant pool will be irrevocably deleted no later than two years

after consent has been granted.