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Name and address of the data controller

The data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is:

EDE International AG
Steinackerstrasse 3
8302 Kloten Schweiz
Phone: +41 44 3652800
E-Mail: info@ede-international.com
Website: www.ede-international.com

Data protection officer contact data

Einkaufsbüro Deutscher Eisenhändler GmbH
FAO Data Protection Officer

EDE Platz 1
42389 Wuppertal

Germany

E-mail: datenschutz@ede.de
Website: www.ede.de

Data subjects can contact our data protection officers directly at any time in case of any questions or suggestions pertaining to data protection.

1. Data protection notices

We are very pleased that you are interested in our company. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of EDE International AG. The use of the Internet pages of the E/D/E is possible without providing any personal data at all. However, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally obtain the consent of the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the country-specific privacy policies applicable to EDE International AG. By means of this privacy policy, our company would like to inform the public about the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed of their rights by means of this data protection declaration.

As the data controller, the EDE International AG has implemented numerous technical and organisational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can always have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to submit personal data to us by alternative means, for example by telephone.

2. Provision of the website and preparation of logfiles

Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer. The following data is collected:

Scope of data processing
Information on the browser type and used version
Operating system of the calling device
IP address of the calling device
Date and time of access
Websites and resources (images, files, other page content) accessed on our website.
Websites from which the user’s system accessed our website (referrer tracking)

This data is also saved in log files in our system. This data is not stored together with personal data of a specific user, so that individual site visitors are not identified. The data processing is based on Article 6(1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest). Our legitimate interest is to ensure the achievement of the purpose described below.

So-called logging is carried out to maintain the compatibility of our website for as many visitors as possible and to combat abuse and eliminate malfunctions. For this purpose, it is necessary to log the technical data of the calling computer in order to be able to react as early as possible to display errors, attacks on our IT systems and/or errors in the functionality of our website. In addition, we use the data to optimise the website and to generally ensure the security and proper operation of our information technology systems.

3. Cookies

The Einkaufsbüro Deutscher Eisenhändler GmbH websites use cookies. Cookies are text files that are placed and stored on a computer system via an Internet browser.

Numerous websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string of characters by which websites and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This enables the websites and servers visited to distinguish the data subject’s individual browser from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific internet browser can be recognised and identified via the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, EDE International AG can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimised in the interests of the user. Cookies enable us, as already mentioned, to recognise the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. For example, the user of a website that uses cookies does not have to re-enter his or her access data each time he or she visits the website because this is done by the website and the cookie stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping basket in the online shop. The online shop remembers the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping basket via a cookie.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our web site at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the placement of cookies. In addition, cookies already set can be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all prevalent Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

4. Plugin and embedded functions and contents

We integrate functional and content elements into our online offer that are obtained from the servers of their respective providers (hereinafter referred to as “third-party providers”). This may include, for example, graphics, videos or city maps (hereinafter collectively referred to as “content”).

The integration always requires that the third-party providers of this content process the IP address of the user, as without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore necessary to show these functions or content. We endeavour to use only content whose respective providers use the IP address merely to deliver the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. These “pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer as well as be linked to such information from other sources.

Information on legal bases: If we ask users to consent to the use of third party providers, the legal basis for processing data is consent. Otherwise, user data is processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economical and recipient-friendly services). In this context, we would also like to refer you to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.

Processed data types: Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
Purposes of processing: Provision of our online offer and user-friendliness, provision of contractual services and customer service.
Legal bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) page 1 (f) GDPR).

Services used and service providers:

Google Fonts: We integrate the fonts (“Google Fonts”) of the provider Google, whereby the user’s data is used solely for the purpose of displaying the fonts in the user’s browser. The integration is based on our legitimate interests in a technically secure, maintenance-free and efficient use of fonts, their standardised display and taking into account possible licensing restrictions for their integration. Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; Website: https://fonts.google.com/; Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

5. Contact option via the website/use of the contact form

The website of EDE International AG GmbH contains, on the basis of statutory provisions, information that enables a quick electronic contact to our company as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the data controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data provided on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller shall be stored for the purposes of processing or contacting the data subject. This personal data will not be forwarded to third parties.
If you write to us via our contact form and provide us with your contact details (including your preferences; for example, which of our products you are interested in), we process these in accordance with the legal requirements and only use them to respond to your enquiry.

6. Routine deletion and blocking of personal data

The data controller shall process and store personal data of the data subject only for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the storage or where provided for by the European Directive and Regulation or other legislator in laws or regulations pertaining to which the data controller is subject.

If the purpose of storage no longer applies or if a storage period prescribed by the European Directive and Regulation or another competent legislator expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

7. Rights of the data subject

a) Right to confirmation

Every data subject shall have the right, granted by the European Directive and the Regulation, to obtain confirmation from the data controller as to whether personal data relating to him or her is being processed. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right of confirmation, he or she may contact the data controller mentioned under 2 at any time.

b) Right to information

Any person concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right granted by the European Directive and the Regulation to obtain free of charge, access to, and a copy of, personal data relating to him or her which have been recorded, at any time from the data controller. Furthermore, the European Directive and Regulation has granted the data subject access to the following information:

– The processing purposes

– The categories of personal data being processed

– The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in third countries or international organisations

– If possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration

– The existence of a right to obtain the rectification or erasure of personal data concerning them or to obtain the restriction of processing by the data controller or the right to object to such processing

– The existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority

– If the personal data is not collected from the data subject: All available information on the origin of the data

– The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject

Furthermore, the data subject has the right to be informed whether personal data has been transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. If this is the case, the data subject also has the right to obtain information on the appropriate safeguards in connection with the transfer.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to information, he or she may contact the data controller mentioned under 2 at any time.

c) Right to correction

Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right, granted by the European Directive and the Regulation, to obtain the rectification without delay of inaccurate personal data relating to him or her. Furthermore, the data subject shall have the right, taking into account the purposes of processing, to request the completion of any incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary declaration.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to correction, he or she may contact the data controller mentioned under 2 at any time.

d) Right to deletion (right to be forgotten)

Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right, granted by the European Directive and the Regulation, to obtain from the data controller the deletion of personal data concerning him or her without delay, where one of the following grounds applies and insofar as processing is not necessary:

The personal data was collected or otherwise processed for purposes for which they are no longer necessary.

The data subject revokes the consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.

The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR.

Personal data has been unlawfully processed.

The deletion of the personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject.

Personal data was collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Art. 8(1) GDPR.

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to arrange for the deletion of personal data stored by EDE International AG, he or she may, at any time, contact the data controller specified under 2. Employees of EDE International AG GmbH will make arrangements that the request for deletion will be complied with immediately.

If personal data was made public by the EDE International AG and our company, as the data controller, is obliged to delete the personal data pursuant to Art. 17(1) GDPR, EDE International AG shall implement reasonable measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the cost of implementation, in order to inform other data controllers who process the published personal data that the data subject has requested from those other data controllers that all links to the personal data or copies or replications of the personal data is deleted, unless processing is necessary. Employees of EDE International AG will make the necessary arrangements in the individual case.

e) Right to restrict processing

Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right, granted by the European Directive and the Regulation, to obtain from the data controller the restriction of processing where one of the following conditions is met:

The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject for a period enabling the data controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.

The processing is unlawful, the data subject objects to the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of the use of the personal data.

The data controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but the data subject needs it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate grounds of the data controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of personal data stored by EDE International AG, he or she may, at any time, contact the data controller specified under 2. Employees of EDE International AG will make arrangements to restrict processing.

f) Right to data portability

Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right, granted by the European Directive and the Regulation, to obtain the personal data concerning him or her, which have been provided by the data subject to a data controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He/she shall also have the right to transmit such data to another data controller without hindrance from the data controller to whom the personal data has been provided, provided that processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and processing is carried out by automated means, unless processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller.

Furthermore, when exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to obtain that the personal data be transferred directly from one data controller to another data controller, to the extent that this is technically feasible and provided that this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may contact EDE International AG at any time.

g) Right to objection

Any person affected by the processing of personal data shall have the right granted by the European Directive and Regulation to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

EDE International AG shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing, which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If EDE International AG processes personal data for the purpose of direct marketing, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data processed for such marketing. This also applies to profiling, insofar as it is connected with such direct advertising. If the data subject objects to EDE International AG to the processing for direct marketing purposes, EDE International AG shall no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data concerning him or her which is carried out by EDE International AG for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR, unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may directly contact any employee of EDE International AG or another employee. The data subject shall also be free to exercise his or her right to object by means of automated procedures using technical specifications in the context of the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC.

h) Automated decision-making in the individual case including profiling

Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right, granted by the European Directive and the Regulation, not to be subject to decision-making based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her, provided that the decision (1) is not necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and the data controller, or (2) is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and that such law lays down appropriate measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is undertaken with the data subject’s explicit consent.

If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or for the performance of a contract between the data subject and the data controller, or (2) it is made with the data subject’s explicit consent, EDE International AG shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, which include at least the right to obtain the data subject’s intervention, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.

If the data subject wishes to exercise rights concerning automated decisions, he or she may contact the data controller mentioned under 2 at any time.

i) Right to revoke consent under data protection law

Any data subject concerned by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European Directive and Regulation to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw consent, he or she may contact the data controller mentioned under 2 at any time.

8. Legal basis of processing

Art. 6 I(a) GDPR serves our company as the legal base for processing procedures in which we obtain consent for certain processing purposes. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, as is the case, for example, with processing operations that are necessary for the delivery of goods or the provision of another service or consideration, processing is based on Article 6 I (b) GDPR. The same applies to processing operations that are necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of enquiries about our products or services. If our company is subject to a legal obligation by which the processing of personal data becomes necessary, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, processing is based on Art. 6 I (c) GDPR. Ultimately, processing operations could be based on Art. 6 I (f) GDPR. Processing operations which are not covered by any of the aforementioned legal bases are based on this legal basis if the processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not take priority. We are permitted to carry out such processing operations in particular because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. In this respect, the legislator took the view that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a customer of the data controller (recital 47, sentence 2 GDPR).

9. Legitimate interests in the processing pursued by the data controller or a third party

If the processing of personal data is based on Article 6 I (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest is the performance of our business activities for the benefit of the well-being of all our employees and our shareholders.

12Period for which personal data may be stored

The criterion for the duration of the storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiry of the deadline, the corresponding data is routinely deleted if it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of the contract.

10. Legal or contractual requirements to provide the personal data; necessity for the conclusion of the contract; obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of non-provision

We would like to inform you that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or may also result from contractual regulations (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes, in order to conclude a contract, it may be necessary for a data subject to provide us with personal data which must subsequently be processed by us. For example, the data subject is obliged to provide us with personal data when our company concludes a contract with the data subject. Failure to provide the personal data would mean that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before the data subject provides personal data, he or she must contact one of our employees. Our employee will inform the data subject on a case-by-case basis whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contractually, or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and what the consequences of not providing the personal data would be.

11. Existence of automated decision-making

As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

12. Right to appeal to a supervisory authority according to Art. 77(1) GDPR

If you suspect that your data is being processed illegally on our site, you can contact a supervisory authority. You have the right to appeal in the EU Member State of your place of residence, place of work and/or place of the alleged infringement, i.e. you can choose the supervisory authority you contact in the places mentioned above. The supervisory authority to which the appeal was lodged will then inform you of the status and outcome of your submission, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Article 78 GDPR.

13. Online marketing

13.1 Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a solution with which we can manage so-called website tags via an interface and thus integrate other services into our online offer (please refer to further information in this privacy policy). The Tag Manager itself (which implements the tags) therefore does not create user profiles or store cookies at this stage, for example. Google only finds out the IP address of the user, which is necessary to run the Google Tag Manager. Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com; Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

13.2 YouTube

Our online offer integrates videos from the YouTube platform of the provider, or Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland.

If you use one of our website pages with a YouTube plugin, a connection will be established to YouTube’s servers. The YouTube server will be notified about which pages of our online service you have visited. YouTube only assigns your surfing behaviour to a personal profile if you have a YouTube user account and if you log in or have already logged in.

The use requires your consent according to Article 6(1) (a) GDPR.

You will find further information about how user data is handled in our privacy policy.https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Should you want to object to data collection, this is possible at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

13.3 Privacy policies for the application and use of etracker

The data controller has integrated etracker components on this website. Etracker is a web analysis service. Web analysis is the collection, collation and evaluation of data on the behaviour of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, among other things, data about the website from which a data subject has accessed a website (so-called referrer), which sub-pages of the website have been accessed or how often and for how long a sub-page has been viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimise a website and to analyse the cost-benefit of internet advertising.

The operator of etracker is etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany.

Etracker sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Cookies have already been explained above. Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the data controller is called up and on which an etracker component has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically caused by the respective etracker component to transmit data to etracker for marketing and optimisation purposes. As part of this technical procedure, etracker obtains knowledge of data that is subsequently used to create pseudonymous usage profiles. The usage profiles obtained in this way are used to analyse the behaviour of the data subject who has accessed the data controller’s website and are evaluated with the aim of improving and optimising the website. The data collected via the etracker component will not be used to identify the data subject without first obtaining the data subject’s separate and explicit consent. This data is not merged with personal data or with other data containing the same pseudonym.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our web site, as shown above, at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and they can thus permanently contradict the placement of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent etracker from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already set by etracker can be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs.

Furthermore, the data subject has the option to object to the collection of data generated by the etracker cookie and related to the use of this website as well as to the processing of this data by etracker and to prevent such processing. To do this, the data subject must press the set cookie button at the link http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb, which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set with the objection is stored on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies on the data subject’s system are deleted after an objection, the data subject must access the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.

However, with the setting of the opt-out cookie, the web pages of the data controller may no longer be able to be used in full by the data subject.

Etracker’s applicable privacy policy is available at https://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html

13.4 Privacy policies for the application and use of Facebook

The data controller has integrated Facebook components on this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is a social meeting place operated on the Internet – an online community that usually allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences or enables the Internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Among other things, Facebook allows users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos and network via friend requests.

The operating company of Facebook is Meta Platforms, Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. The controller of personal data, if a data subject lives outside the USA or Canada, is Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the data controller is called up and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically caused by the respective Facebook component to download a representation of the corresponding component from Facebook. A general overview of all Facebook plug-ins is available at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE. As part of this technical process, Facebook receives information about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognises which specific sub-page the data subject is visiting each time the data subject calls up our website and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject activates one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example the “Like” button, or if the data subject posts a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the data subject’s personal Facebook user account and stores this personal data.

Facebook always receives information via the Xing component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Facebook, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her Facebook account before accessing our website.

The data policy published by Facebook, which is available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains the setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, various apps are available that make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can also be used by the data subject to suppress the transmission of data to Facebook.

Agreement with Facebook according to Art. 26 DSGVO

Responsible

The responsible parties within the meaning of Art. 26 DSGVO are Facebook Ireland Ltd. and EDE International AG. Details on the delimitation of responsibility can be found in the following agreement: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Facebook Ireland Ltd.

Grand Canal Square

Grand Canal Harbour

D2 Dublin

Ireland

EDE International AG
Hofwiesenstrasse 3
8057 Zürich
Switzerland

Data processing by Facebook

Facebook collects tracking data on interaction on the Facebook page. The collection and provision of the “Insights data” (https://www.facebook.com/business/a/page/page-insights) is the responsibility of Facebook. Facebook is responsible for fulfilling the rights arising from the GDPR. As the fan page operator, EDE International AG has no influence on the collection and provision of this data. The personal data processing associated with this takes place exclusively at Facebook.

The type and scope of the information you provide to Facebook, the associated purposes of the data processing, its legality and information on exercising your rights can be found in the data policy and other information provided by Facebook on the processing of “Insights data”.

The Data Policy is available at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability of your stored data must be exercised against Facebook. You can contact Facebook’s data protection officer at https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970.

Data processing by Einkaufsbüro Deutscher Eisenhändler GmbH

EDE International AG uses the Facebook corporate presence to provide content and communicate with Facebook users.

We receive statistical data about visitors to our Facebook pages from Facebook via the “Insights” function (https://www.facebook.com/business/a/page/page-insights) and use the anonymised data provided on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit f DSGVO. With the help of this function, we can better analyse our pages and adapt them to the needs and interests of our visitors.

13.5 Privacy policies for the application and use of Getty Images

The data controller has integrated Getty Images components on this website. Getty Images is an American stock photo agency. A stock photo agency is a company that offers photos and other imagery on the market. Stock photo agencies usually market photographs, illustrations and film material. Various customers, in particular website operators, editorial departments of print and TV media and advertising agencies, license the images they use via a stock photo agency.

The operator of Getty-Images components is Getty Images International, 1st Floor, The Herbert Building, The Park, Carrickmines, Dublin 18, Ireland.

Getty Images allows the embedding of stock images (free of charge, if applicable). Embedding is the inclusion or integration of specific third-party content, for example text, video or image data, which is provided by a third-party website and then appears on your own website. Embedding uses a so-called embedding code. An embedding code is an HTML code that is integrated into a website by a website operator. If an embedding code has been integrated by an Internet site operator, the external content of the other Internet site is displayed immediately by default as soon as an Internet site is visited. To display the external content, the external content is loaded directly from the other website. Getty Images provides further information about embedding content at the link http://www.gettyimages.de/resources/embed.

Through the technical implementation of the embedding code that enables the display of the images from Getty Images, the IP address of the Internet connection through which the data subject accesses our website is transmitted to Getty Images. Getty Images also records our website, the type of browser used, the browser language, the time and length of access. In addition, Getty Images may collect navigational information, which is information about which of our sub-pages have been visited by the data subject and which links have been clicked on, as well as other interactions that the data subject has carried out when visiting our website. This data can be stored and analysed by Getty Images.

Further information and Getty Images’ applicable privacy policy is available at http://www.gettyimages.de/enterprise/privacy-policy.

13.6 Privacy policies for the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)

The data controller has integrated Google Analytics (within anonymization function) components on this website. Google Analytics is a web analysis service. Web analysis is the collection, collation and evaluation of data on the behaviour of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, among other things, data about the website from which a data subject has accessed a website (so-called referrer), which sub-pages of the website have been accessed or how often and for how long a sub-page has been viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimise a website and to analyse the cost-benefit of internet advertising.

The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland

The data controller uses the addition “_gat._anonymizeIp” for web analysis via Google Analytics. By means of this addition, the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is shortened and anonymized by Google if our Internet pages are accessed from a member state of the European Union or from another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyse visitor flows on our website. Google will use the data and information collected for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling online reports to show website activity on our website and providing other services relating to website activity.

Google Analytics sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Cookies have already been explained above. By setting the cookie, Google is able to analyse the use of our website. Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the data controller is called up and on which a Google Analytics component has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically caused by the respective Google Analytics component to transmit data to Google for the purpose of online analysis. As part of this technical process, Google obtains knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the data subject, which Google uses, among other things, to track the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently to enable the settlement of commission.

Personal information, such as the time of access, the location from which access originated and the frequency of visits to our website by the data subject, is stored by means of the cookie. Each time you visit our website, this personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. This personal data is stored and processed by Google in the United States of America. Google may share this personal data collected through the technical process with third parties.

The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies by our web site, as shown above, at any time by means of a corresponding setting in the Internet browser used and they can thus permanently contradict the placement of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs.

Furthermore, the data subject has the option to object to the collection of data generated by Google Analytics and related to the use of this website as well as to the processing of this data by Google and to prevent such processing. For this purpose, the data subject must download and install a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about visits to websites may be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-on is considered by Google as an objection. If the information technology system of the data subject is deleted, formatted or reinstalled at a later point in time, the data subject must reinstall the browser add-on in order to deactivate Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or deactivated by the data subject or another person within his or her control, it is possible to reinstall or reactivate the browser add-on.

Further information and Google’s applicable privacy policy is available at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html. Google Analytics is explained in more detail at this link https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.

13.7 Privacy policies for the application and use of Instagram

The data controller has integrated Instagram components on this website. Instagram is a service that qualifies as an audiovisual platform and allows users to share photos and videos and also to redistribute such data on other social networks.

The operator of the Instagram services is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, USA.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the data controller is called up and on which an Instagram component (Insta button) has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically caused by the respective Instagram component to download a representation of the corresponding component from Instagram. As part of this technical process, Instagram receives information about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to Instagram at the same time, Instagram recognises which specific sub-page the data subject is visiting each time the data subject calls up our website and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the Instagram component and assigned by Instagram to the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject activates one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, the data and information thus transmitted will be assigned to the data subject’s personal Instagram user account and stored and processed by Instagram.

Instagram always receives information via the Instagram component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into Instagram at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Instagram component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Instagram, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her Instagram account before accessing our website.

Further information and Instagram’s applicable privacy policy is available at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

13.8 Privacy policies for the application and use of LinkedIn

The data controller has integrated LinkedIn Corporation components on this website. LinkedIn is an Internet-based social network that allows users to connect with existing business contacts and make new business contacts. More than 400 million registered persons use LinkedIn in more than 200 countries. This makes LinkedIn currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world.

The operator of LinkedIn is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. For privacy issues outside the US, LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.

Each time your access our website, which is equipped with a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in), this component causes the browser used by the data subject to download a corresponding representation of the component from LinkedIn. Further information on the LinkedIn plug-ins is available at https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. As part of this technical process, LinkedIn receives information about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in to LinkedIn at the same time, LinkedIn recognises which specific sub-page the data subject is visiting each time the data subject calls up our website and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website. This information is collected by the LinkedIn component and assigned by LinkedIn to the respective LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject activates a LinkedIn button integrated on our website, LinkedIn assigns this information to the data subject’s personal LinkedIn user account and stores this personal data.

LinkedIn always receives information via the LinkedIn component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into LinkedIn at the same time as calling up our website; this takes place regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the LinkedIn component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to LinkedIn, he or she can prevent the transmission by logging out of his or her LinkedIn account before accessing our website.

LinkedIn provides the option to unsubscribe from e-mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as manage ad settings at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls. LinkedIn also uses partners such as Quantcast, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua and Lotame, who may set cookies. Such cookies can be rejected at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. LinkedIn applicable privacy policy is available at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn cookie policy is available at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.

13.09 Leadinfo

We have integrated the Leadinfo service on this website. This service recognizes visits by companies to the website on the basis of IP addresses and displays publicly available information for this purpose, such as company names or addresses. In addition, Leadinfo sets two first-party cookies to evaluate user behavior on the website and processes domains from form entries (e.g. “leadinfo.com”) to correlate IP addresses with companies and improve the services.

The provider of the service is Leadinfo B.V., Rivium Quadrant 141, 2909 LC Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands represented by Leadinfo / Team.Blue Gmbh, Bunsenstr. 19, 40215 Düsseldorf, Germany.

For more information, please visit https://www.leadinfo.com. On this page: www.leadinfo.com/en/opt-out there is an opt-out option. In the event of an opt-out, data from visitors to the Leadinfo website will no longer be collected.

In the context of contracts with member companies and suppliers, information collected through this service, will be shared with these business partners.

The use of this service requires your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If this consent is refused, the user data will be anonymized so that it is no longer possible to draw conclusions about the user. In this anonymized form, the data is included in the basic population of data in order to ensure the statistical significance of the evaluations.

13.10 Brevo (Newsletter)

For sending newsletters and similar information, we use the service Brevo of Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin.

To send a newsletter to you, we usually collect your name and e-mail addresses as part of distribution lists in the Brevo application.

Each newsletter contains a so-called tracking pixel, which allows us to statistically evaluate the sending of the newsletter. This means that we can track whether and when a newsletter was opened and which of the links contained therein were clicked by you. The aim is to optimize the dispatch and the content of the newsletter and to tailor it even better to your interests.

We obtain your consent to receive such e-mails by means of a double opt-in procedure. You also have the option in each newsletter to object to further receipt of newsletters. If you object to receiving newsletters, your name and email address will be stored in a so-called blacklist, which prevents you from being contacted via the application in the future.

You can find more information about the processing of your personal data under Privacy Policy – Personal Data Protection | Brevo.

14. Document Information

This privacy policy was produced by EDE International AG.

Last update: 09/2023