Privacy Policy
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 consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.
Data recording on this website. 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 instance 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 information (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.
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 disclosures. 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.
2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
External hosting. This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the hoster. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contractual data, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a web site. The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider. Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data. We are using the following hoster: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Hansastraße 27c, 80686 München, Germany.
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.
Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the GDPR). The data processing controller on this website is: Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Giggenhauser Str. 35, 85354 Freising, Germany. Phone: +49 (0) 8161 491-0, E-mail: contact@circular-flooring.eu. 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 personal data.
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.
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).
4. Recording of data on this website
Cookies. 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 archived 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 (third party cookies). These cookies enable you or us to take advantage of certain services offered by the third party. 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 shopping 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 transactions or for the provision of certain functions you want to use, are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimized provision of the operator’s services. If a corresponding agreement has been requested (e.g. an agreement to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agreement can be revoked at any time. 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 cookies when the browser 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 purposes, 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 information 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 optimization of the operator’s website.
Contact form. If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form, the information provided in the contact form as well as any contact information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have further questions. We will not share this information without your consent. The processing of these data is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your request is related to the execution of a contract or if it is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your agreement (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been requested.
5. Analysis tools and advertising
This website does not use web analytics services. The Borlabs Cookie technology used on this website stores your cookie settings locally in your browser only.
6. Newsletter
Newsletter data. If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and consent to the receipt of the newsletter. No additional data shall be collected or shall be collected only on a voluntary basis. We shall use such data only for the sending of the requested information and shall not share such data with any third parties. The processing of the information entered into the newsletter subscription form shall occur exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). The data deposited with us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter shall be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and shall be deleted from both our servers and the servers of the newsletter service provider. This shall not affect data we have been archiving for other purposes.
7. Plug-ins and Tools
YouTube. This website embeds videos of the website YouTube. The website operator is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. If you start a YouTube video on this website, a connection to the servers of YouTube is established. As a result, the YouTube server will be notified, which of our pages you have visited. Moreover, YouTube will be able to place various cookies on your device or comparable technologies for recognition. Moreover, YouTube may use cookies to obtain information about visitors of this website. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly allocate your browsing patterns to your personal profile. You have the option to prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. Furthermore, after you have started a video, YouTube may be able to trigger various marketing operations. YouTube is used in the interest of making our online presence attractive. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. We embed YouTube content only after your explicit consent via the Borlabs Cookie dialog.
Google Fonts. To ensure that fonts used on this website are uniform, this website uses so-called Google Fonts provided by Google. When you access a page on this website, your browser will load the required fonts into your browser cache to correctly display text and fonts. To do this, the browser you use will have to establish a connection with Google’s servers. As a result, Google will learn that your IP address was used to access this website. The use of Google Fonts is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your browser should not support Google Fonts, a standard font installed on your computer will be used.
reCAPTCHA. To protect your inquiries through our contact form, we use the Google reCAPTCHA service. reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website is provided by a human being or by an automated program. The query of this service includes the transmission of your IP address and, if applicable, additional data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. We use reCAPTCHA only after your explicit consent.