Data protection

Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your personal data seriously and adhere to the provisions of applicable data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), as well as this privacy policy. We process our users' personal data only to the extent necessary to provide a functional website and our content, services, offers, etc.
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
This privacy policy provides you with an overview of what type of personal data we process and for what purpose. It also explains how we ensure the protection of your personal data.

1. Name and contact details of the controller
This privacy information applies to data processing by:
Responsible:
ASIMETO Germany GmbH
Westernhauserstrasse 10
74679 Weißbach
Phone: 07940 9836622
Email: kontakt@asimeto.de
Website: www.asimeto.de

2. Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of their use

a) When you visit our website
You can visit our website www.asimeto.de without having to provide us with any personal information (who you are).
If you use our website purely for informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with personal information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. When you visit our website www.asimeto.de, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

  • IP address of the requesting computer,
  • Date and time of access,
  • Name and URL of the retrieved file,
  • Website from which access is made (referrer URL),
  • browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider, language and version of the browser software

We process the above data for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
  • Ensuring comfortable use of our website,
  • Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
  • for further administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest arises from the purposes listed above for data collection. Under no circumstances will we use the collected data to draw conclusions about you personally.
We also use cookies when you visit our website. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Further information can be found in Section 4 of this Privacy Policy.

We work with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to measure how you use and interact with our website using behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replays to improve and market our products and services. Site usage data is collected using first- and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine product/service popularity and online activity. We also use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement .

b) When using our webshop
When you use our web shop, e.g. by submitting your offers, by accepting our offers, by registering or by other communication, we process the personal data you provide exclusively for the purpose of initiating or fulfilling the contract.
The legal basis for data processing is Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR. According to this, data processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject.
When you use our webshop, we process the following personal data you provide:

  • First and last name (for companies: company)
  • Address
  • Telephone number (landline and/or mobile number)
  • Fax number (only if available)
  • E-mail address
  • IBAN (only if required to process payments)
  • Credit card number including security code (only if required to process payments)

This data is processed for the purpose of fulfilling contractual obligations, in particular for shipping the goods, processing payments including invoicing, handling any warranty claims and any related correspondence with you.
You can also voluntarily create a customer account, where we can save your personal data for future purchases. When you create an account under "My Account," the data you provide there will be stored revocably. You can delete all other data, including your user account, at any time in the customer area.
If you give us your express consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR) when using the online shop, we will conduct a credit check so that we can offer you all available payment methods for your order during the ordering process. As part of the credit check, your personal data will be transmitted to ASIMETO Germany.

c) When using our contact form
We have provided a contact form on our website so that you can send us your questions, remarks, comments, etc. To use this form, you must provide your email address and name so that we know who to respond to; you can provide additional information voluntarily.
The legal basis for data processing is your voluntarily given consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).
The personal data we collect when you use the contact form will be deleted after your request has been processed.

d) When registering for our newsletter
If you have expressly consented (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR), you can subscribe to our newsletter, in which we inform you about current offers in the area of goods and/or services. The goods and/or services advertised in the newsletter are listed in the declaration of consent. The only mandatory information required to receive the newsletter is your email address. Providing additional, separately marked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally.
We use the so-called double opt-in process to register for our newsletter. This means that after you register, we will send you an email to the email address you provided, asking you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store your IP addresses and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this process is to verify your registration and, if necessary, to investigate any possible misuse of your personal data.
The legal basis for this data processing is your voluntarily given consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) EU GDPR).
You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. To do so, you can send your unsubscribe request by email to kontakt@asimeto.de.

e) Processing based on legitimate interests
To the extent necessary for our business purposes, we process your data – apart from the initiation or fulfillment of a contract and your express consent – to protect the legitimate interests of our company, unless a balancing of interests in the individual case shows that your legitimate fundamental rights and freedoms, which require the protection of personal data, outweigh these interests (see Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Our company's legitimate interests include:

  • Direct marketing, unless you have objected to the use of your personal data.

3. Transfer of data to third parties
Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. In particular, it will not be passed on to third parties, e.g., for advertising purposes, without your express consent.
We will only share your personal information with third parties if:

  • You have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR;
  • this is necessary according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b) EU-GDPR for the processing of contractual relationships with you, e.g. to credit institutions for the processing of contractually agreed payments, to shipping and transport companies for the purposes of transporting goods including shipment tracking, in the event of non-fulfillment of contractually agreed payments for the purposes of legal enforcement to lawyers and legal service providers;
  • in the event that there is a legal obligation to transfer data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR; or
  • the transfer is necessary according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data.

We offer, among other things, payment via PayPal. The provider of this payment service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.rl et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg, (short: “PayPal”). If you wish to make payments via PayPal, we will pass on your following personal data (title, first and last name, for companies: company name, address (street, house number, postal code, city, country), telephone number (landline number and/or mobile number) and email address) to PayPal as part of the contractual payment processing (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b) EU GDPR). Further information on the processing of this personal data by PayPal can be found in the PayPal privacy principles, which are available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full .

4. Cookies
We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain viruses, Trojans, or other malware.
The cookie stores information related to the specific device used. However, this does not mean that we directly know your identity.
The use of cookies serves, on the one hand, to make using our services more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.
In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user experience. These cookies are stored on your device for a specific period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it will automatically recognize that you have already visited us and the entries and settings you have made, so you don't have to enter them again.
The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) EU GDPR.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer or to always prompt you before a new cookie is created. However, completely disabling cookies may prevent you from using all the features of our website.

5. Storage period and data deletion
In particular, your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed. After this time, the data will be deleted, unless storage is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation which requires processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. A legal obligation is the statutory retention period, which is, for example, 10 years (for accounting data including order and payment data, wage and salary statements) or 6 years (for commercial correspondence). The data will be blocked for the duration of the retention period; after this period, it will be deleted.

6. Rights of data subjects
You have the right

  • Pursuant to Art. 7 (3) of the EU GDPR, you have the right to revoke your previously granted consent at any time. This means that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by your revocation.
  • Pursuant to Art. 15 of the EU GDPR, you have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us. You can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if it was not collected from us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information on its details.
  • to request the immediate correction or completion of any inaccurate personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 16 EU GDPR;
  • to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 EU GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 EU GDPR if you contest the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
  • pursuant to Art. 20 EU GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
  • pursuant to Art. 77 of the EU GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is headquartered. An overview of the state data protection officers and their contact details can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .

7. Right of objection
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, provided there are reasons for doing so arising from your particular situation. In the event of a justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing or explain to you our compelling legitimate grounds for continuing the processing.
If we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
If you wish to exercise your right of withdrawal or objection, simply send an email to kontakt@asimeto.de.

8. Data security
We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction, or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
We also use SSL or TLS encryption (SSL = Secure Sockets Layer; TLS = Transport Layer Security; SSL is the former name of TLS) during your website visit. You can tell whether a single page of our website is being transmitted encrypted by the browser's address bar changing from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser's address bar. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.