1. Controller
As the operator of this website (www.jufol.de), JUFOL GmbH, Krumbacher Straße 9, 86154 Augsburg, Germany, is the controller in the sense of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) who individually or jointly makes decisions on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, hereafter referred to as “data.”

2.    Processing of Personal Data
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, personal data is any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier (such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person).

Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Use of our website does not require you to provide data. However, in certain cases, we will need your name, address and additional information to perform your requested services.

The same applies to, e.g., the sending of information material and ordered goods and to responses to individual inquiries. We will notify you when required. Furthermore, we only process data you provide to us voluntarily and data that is collected automatically when our website is visited (e.g., your IP address and the names of the pages you opened, your browser and operating system, time and date of access, search engines used or names of downloaded files).

If you request our services, usually only the data required for us to perform the service will be collected. Any additional data we may request may be provided voluntarily.

Data will only be processed to perform requested services and to safeguard our legitimate business interests (Art. 6 subsection 1 sentence 1 under b and f GDPR)

If you have given us your consent, the processing of the data is based on your consent 
consent (Art. 6 subsection 1 sentence 1 under a GDPR). If our company is subject to a legal obligation which requires the processing of personal data, such as the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 subsection 1 sentence 1 under c GDPR.

We only process your data until the purpose is fulfilled and there are no other statutory retention requirements or legal bases for the processing of your data.

3.    Protection of Your Personal Data
Thank you for your interest in our company and our products and services. We want you to feel safe about your data when visiting our website. We take the protection of your data very seriously and strictly adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation and the German Federal Data Protection Act [Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG] in its respectively valid form. 

We implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure compliance with data protection regulations by both us and our commissioned external service providers. We require our employees and commissioned service providers to maintain confidentiality and adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation and the German Federal Data Protection Act in its respectively valid form.

As part of our obligation to provide information, we want this Privacy Policy to be as transparent as possible and will explain the purposes for processing your data and use of tracking/analysis tools, cookies and social media plugins hereafter.

4.    Purposes for Processing Personal Data
We will process the data you provide in accordance with the principles of data economy and purpose limitation. The principle of purpose limitation states that data shall be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. Further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes is not considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes. 

We only process your data to answer inquiries, handle your orders and provide access to certain information or offers to you. Maintaining customer relationships may also require us or a commissioned service provider to use this data to inform you about product offers or to conduct online surveys to fulfill the tasks and requirements set by our customers.

We will only process the data you provide online for the stated purposes. Your data will not be transferred to third parties without your express consent.

Data will only be collected or transmitted to authorized state institutions and officials in accordance with applicable laws or if we are required to do so due to a court order. 

We respect that you may not wish to provide your data to support our customer relationship (especially not for direct marketing or market research purposes). We will not sell your data to third parties or otherwise market your data without your consent.

5.    Data Collected Automatically When Visiting Our Website
When using our website, the following data may be processed for technical and organizational reasons: 

• the IP address of your requesting Internet-enabled device;
• the date and time of your access to the website;
• the website / application from which the access was made (referrer URL);
• the browser type and version you are using;
• the operating system of your internet-capable computer;
• the subsites that are accessed via your accessing system on our website;the files downloaded from
• our website (e.g. PDF or Word documents)

6.    Cookies
When you visit our website, we may save information on your computer in form of a (session) cookie. Cookies are small text files transmitted by a web server to your browser and saved on your computer’s hard disk.

Except for your IP address, no personal user data will be saved. This information allows you to be automatically recognized during your next visit to our website and makes navigation easier. Cookies enable us to, e.g., adjust our website to your interests and to save your password so that you won’t have to re-enter it every time you visit our website.

You may also view our website without cookies. If you do not want us to recognize your computer, you may prevent cookies from being saved on your hard disk by setting your browser to “Disable cookies.” For detailed instructions, please see your browser’s help function. However, please note that disabling cookies may prevent you from fully using every function of our offers.

7.    Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Maps provides information about locations that are of interest to you through search requests and retrieved maps.

By using this website, you agree to the automated processing of the data collected by Google LLC, its representatives and third parties. We have no influence on Google’s automated processing when you use Google Maps.

For more information, please see policies.google.com/privacy.

For Google Maps’ Additional Terms of Service, please see: 
https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html.

8.    Use of Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files saved onto your computer that allow your use of the website to be analyzed. 

The information on your website use generated by the cookie is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA where it is saved. If IP-anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within a Member state of the European Union or in another state party to the European Economic Area Agreement (so-called IP masking).

Only in exceptions will your full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operators of this website, Google will use this information to assess your use of this website, to compile reports about website activity and to perform additional services related to use of the website and the Internet for the website operators. 

The IP address transmitted by your browser through Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent cookie storage through your browser settings at any time. However, please note that you may not be able to use every function of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of cookie-generated data (including your IP address) on your use of the website and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

As an alternative to the browser plugin and on browsers on mobile devices, you may also prevent data collection by Google Analytics by activating the following link which will install an opt-out cookie that will block any future collection of your data when visiting our website. Please note that this link must be activated again if you delete your cookies.

For Google’s Privacy Policy, please see https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. For the Google Terms of Service, please see https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en  (German).

9.    Use of Google Tag Manager    
Our website uses Google Tag Manager of Google LLC (“Google”). Google Tag Manager is a solution that provides a surface for marketers to manage website tags. Google Tag Manager is a cookie-free domain that does not collect personal data. Although Google Tag Manager activates other tags which may collect data, Google Tag Manager does not access this data. In case of deactivation on the domain or cookie level, the deactivation will remain in place for all tracking tags implemented through Google Tag Manager.

You can find detailed information about the Google Tag Manager at the following link: www.google.com/tagmanager/use-policy.html  

10.    LinkedIn-Button (Social-Media-Plugin)
Our website features functions of linkedin.com. LinkedIn’s operating company is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Outside of the US, privacy issues are handled by LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

LinkedIn is an Internet-based social network that allows users to connect to existing business contacts and make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people use LinkedIn in more than 200 countries. This makes LinkedIn currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited Internet sites in the world.

We notify our website’s users that LinkedIn plugins are installed on our website. The LinkedIn plugin may be recognized by a black logo with white “in” lettering. If you activate one of the stated buttons, the respective plugin will establish a direct connection to LinkedIn. LinkedIn transmits the contents of the plugin used by you directly to your browser. We have no influence on the contents of the transmitted data. Nonetheless, we want to inform you about which data is transmitted to LinkedIn to the best of our knowledge.

If you use the stated plugins, i.e., by activating the respective buttons, information that you opened a certain page of our Internet offer will be transmitted to the servers of LinkedIn. For users also logged in to, e.g., Twitter, this means that usage data will be assigned to their personal accounts. If you activate the buttons, i.e., the Twitter plugins, this information will be transmitted directly by your browser to LinkedIn where it will be saved. Even if you do not have an account of LinkedIn, LinkedIn may obtain and save your IP address.

For the purpose and scope of data collection, further processing and use of this data by LinkedIn and your according rights and privacy settings options, please see LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy:     https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. 

If you do not want LinkedIn to assign the data collected through our website to your LinkedIn account, please log out of your LinkedIn account before visiting our website. You may also block LinkedIn plugins through according browser add-ons.