Data Protection Disclaimer – Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to us!

There is no doubt that we always handle all your personal data, whether from our website or our electronic communication, responsibly and with the utmost care. We take all necessary and appropriate measures to protect the data you have provided us with and comply with current national and European data protection regulations.

With this data protection disclaimer we would like to inform you of how we treat and process your personal data. Please note the responsible for your personal data in connection with a website is stated in the company information and legal details on the respective website.

Contact data protection official: 
Via E-Mail: Datenschutz@orodiparma.de
Via Post: Data Protection Officer, Hengstenberg GmbH & Co. KG, Mettinger Straße 109, 73728 Esslingen

What data is collected and how is it collected when you visit this website?

We only record personal data which you choose to place at our disposal or which we require to provide you with our services. When you visit our website our servers by default record information pertaining to your browser and operational system, the website your connection was established from and the websites you choose to visit, the date of your visit as well as for security purposes, e.g. to recognize attacks on our website, your Internet-Protocol-address (IP-address) - assigned to you by your internet provider - for a duration of seven days. Other personal data is recorded in cases where you choose to provide them; such as providing your e-mail address, name, address, phone number as well as further data, where applicable, whenever you wish to receive information on our products, take part in competitions or surveys, purchase products or simply keep up to date on products you are interested in.

Whenever you open a website and enter content into the free text field and e.g. leave a comment, our system records the Internet-Protocol-address (IP-address). We require this information for security purposes, to prevent misuse and for other preventive measures against danger.

Security

We use technical and organisational security measures to protect your data, as administered by us, against manipulation, loss, destruction and unauthorized access. Our security measures are continuously improved upon in line with technical progress.

Only authorised employees have access to your personal data, which in some cases may include the authorised employees of our service providers that require access or have been tasked with processing the data. In this case a contract regarding order data processing (‘Auftragsdatenverarbeitungsvertrag’) has been signed.

For what purposes do we use your personal data?

We use your personal data only as far as necessary for purposes such as the technical administration of our website, customer management, questions regarding consumer services, product enquires and surveys as well as for marketing. Your personal data are only being uses for the purpose you have provided them for. On condition that you have granted permission to process your personal data, we will utilize this data as stated in the respective permission, e.g. newsletters, shipping products. You can revoke your permission at any point for the future.

To provide you with the most custom-tailored experience of our marketing means, we strive to make e.g. newsletters and visits to our website as user-friendly and custom-fit as possible. Your automatically generated and transferred information aids us in providing individual and custom-fitted content for you. This information consist of ‘technical data’ (e.g. IP-address, operating system and browser), time and date of your visit and ‘data regarding (purchasing) behaviour’ (service history, order history, viewed recipes and products).

In case you have subscribed to our newsletter, we are automatically provided with ‘technical information’ enabling us to assess how often the newsletter is being opened and which content is viewed how often (i.e. open rate and click rate). Analysing this information allows us further to optimize our digital content, e.g. our newsletters, and communicate with you as individually as possible. We want to ensure you only receive the content you are truly interested in.

Transmission of data to third parties and to other countires

We do not make your data available to other companies that would like to use these for direct marketing and promotional measures unless you have given us your express permission. Furthermore we place your personal data at the disposal of the following organisations within strict limitations:

  • Our service providers so they can assist us with e.g. the administration of our website and our newsletter. We have contractually committed these companies to uphold the same security standards we employ when dealing with your personal data so as to ensure data confidentiality and to only process data given our explicit instruction.
  • Other business units within our holding in case you have granted permission or these entities act in our mandate and have been committed to the same contract as our external service providers.
  • Transmission of personal data to the governmental authorities and offices will only occur in compliance with compelling prevailing legal regulations.

Your personal data might be transferred into other countries should a service provider’s office be located abroad. In this case a contract regarding order data processing (‘Auftragsdatenverarbeitungsvertrag’) is signed ensuring the same degree of data protection and data security provided in Germany. This is done by i.e. obliging the service provider to act exclusively upon our instruction and constantly employ all technical procedures to secure your personal data to the same extend as we do.

 

Should personal data be processed in a country outside of the EU or the EEA, we will ensure the appropriate level of data security by means of a standard contract designed and prescribed by the EU or an EU commission’s resolution pertaining to the country’s adequacy.

Legal Basis

Your personal data will be processed on the basis of consent forms, e.g. for newsletters, you have actively agreed to.

Rights of concerned party

Your rights regarding your personal data are listed following:

The right of disclosure, correction, deletion, limitation of processing, objection to processing as well as data portability.

You also have the right to revoke a once given permission for future processing of your personal data at every point.

To exercise this right, please contact the above stated data protection officer.

Additionally we would like to draw your attention to the possibility of revoking your consent in every edition of our newsletter and unsubscribing to this service.

Please understand that we cannot disclose your personal data over the phone due to the lack of positive identification. Moreover you are entitled to file a complaint with a data protection surveillance authority.

Cookies

By using our website you are agreeing to the usage and storage of cookies on your device. You can also view our website without cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You prevent the storing of cookies on your device by selecting the ‘accept no cookies’ setting in your browser. You can delete cookies already stored on your device at every point. You will find detailed instructions on how to do this in your browser help or manufacturer’s manual. Should you use various devices at different locations, you will have to ensure every browser is switched to your preferred settings.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We use cookies to e.g. collect information such as browser type and operational system, viewed site, path to site etc. and to understand the way the website is used. Cookies assist us in adapting our website to our customer’s needs and in offering certain services and functions, i.e. custom-tailored information.

Personal data can be stored in cookies provided you have granted permission or it is technologically indispensable, e.g. for a secure login.


Functional cookies

These cookies enable us to improve ease-of-use and performance in our websites and to provide a variety of functions.

Cookie Purpose
ctalayer-1701 This cookie stores the decision on the acceptance of the use of cookies by confirming the cookie banner.
fe_typo_userWill be set by Typo /Powermail as soon as the contact form is entered and will be needed for its functionality.

Third party cookies

These cookies are set by third parties. When employing third party services these third parties might store and/or retrieve data beyond our control.

CookiePurpose
Google Analytics ga gidExpiration time: 2 years (ga) bzw. 24 hours (gid). Used to distinguish users.
Google Analytics _gatExpiration time: 1 Minute Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google tag amanger, this cookie will be named dc_gtm.
Google Analytics AMP-TokenExpiration time: 30 sec. till 1 year Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
Google Analytics gc<property-id> Expiration time: 90 Tage Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.

Webanalysis by Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses so called ‘cookies’, text files stored on your computer, to facilitate an analysis of how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie on your website usage are normally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored. In case IP anonymization has been activated on this website, your IP-address is shortened by Google in countries of the European Union and other contracting states of the European Economic Area.

You full IP-address is only transmitted in exceptional cases to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the website operator Google uses this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services pertaining to website and internet usage to the operator of the website. Google will not compile your browser’s IP-address, as transmitted by Google analytics, with other data. You can prevent the storage of cookies using the corresponding setting in your browser software, however, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this might result in a limitation of functionality. Furthermore you can prevent the gathering, transfer and use of website data (including your IP-address) as generated by the cookie as well as the processing through Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in in this link tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

In view of the discussion involving the use of analytical tools with full IP-addresses we would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the add-on ‘_anonymizeIp()’ thus ensuring the IP-addresses are only processed in their shortened form to prevent any tracing to individual persons.

Further information regarding Google’s processing of your data can be found under www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

Facebook

We have implemented links to the external social network Facebook on our website. You can recognize the links on our website e.g. the Facebook logo. We do not utilize so called ‘social plug-ins’ by Facebook for this. You will be directly transferred to the internet sites in Facebook by clicking on them. This internet presence is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

YouTube

Our website uses plug-ins by Google-operated YouTube. The operating company is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our websites equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers is establishes. In doing so the YouTube server is informed which of our websites you have visited.

Should you be logged into your YouTube account you enable YouTube to link you surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Further information regarding the processing of user data can be found in YouTube’s data protection policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Instagram

We have implemented links to the external service Instagram on our website.  You can recognize the links on our website e.g. the Instagram logo. We do not utilize so called ‘social plug-ins’ by Instagram for this. You will be directly transferred to the internet sites on Instagram by clicking on them. This internet presence is operated by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.

Google Maps

We have implemented links to the external service GoogleMaps on our website. We do not utilize so called ‘social plug-ins’ by GoogleMaps for this. You will be directly transferred to the internet sites on GoogleMaps by clicking on them. This internet presence is operated by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

How long do we retain your data?

We store your personal data, transmitted via our websites in our databases. The Storage time is no longer than is required to execute the task the data was transferred for or to comply with legal regulations (e.g. statutory record retention). This might mean e.g., that data is stored until we have answered a question you have posed or a competition has come to an end. Should you have given us permission to store your personal data for marketing purposes, the data is stored for the duration of marketing measures or until you revoke your consent. You can revoke your permission to receive further advertising material at any point.

Links to other websites

Our websites include links to other websites. We have no influence on other operator’s content and design. Our data protection disclaimer does not apply there.