Privacy Policy

This statement provides information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is any data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email address, user behaviour.

1. Name and contact details of the controller.

This privacy policy applies to data processing by:

Gröver Propeller GmbH
Von-Hünefeld-Str. 101
50829 Cologne
Germany
Representatives Bernd Gröver, Dirk Gröver
www.groever-propeller.de

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

(1) When you visit our website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a 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 file accessed,

  • Website from which access is made (so-called referrer URL),

  • Browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer and the name of your access provider.

(2) We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes:

  • To ensure smooth connection to the website,

  • To ensure convenient use of our website,

  • To evaluate system security and stability, and

  • for other administrative purposes.

(3) The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes listed above for data collection. Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

(4) In addition, we use cookies and tracking and analysis services when you visit our website. For more details, please refer to sections 4 and 6 of this privacy policy.

3. Disclosure of data

Your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We will only disclose your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR,

  • the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,

  • in the event that there is a legal obligation for the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, and

  • this is legally permissible and necessary for the performance of contractual relationships with you pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

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.
Information relating to the specific device used is stored in the cookie. However, this does not mean that we immediately become aware of your identity.
On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our website more pleasant for you. We use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have visited individual pages of our website. These cookies are automatically deleted when you leave our website.
We also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness, which are stored on your device for a specific period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services or to obtain information, it will automatically recognise that you have already been to our homepage and what entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.
On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to optimise our offer for you (see section 5). These cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already visited our site when you return. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.The data processed by the cookies is necessary for the purposes mentioned above in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and the interests of third parties in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

5. Special forms of website use

a) Use of a contact form

(1) If you have any questions, we offer you the option of contacting us using a form provided on the website. To do this, you must provide a valid email address so that we know who the enquiry comes from and can respond to it. You are free to provide further information.

(2) Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR on the basis of your voluntary consent.

(3) The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after your enquiry has been processed.

b) Newsletter

(1) With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, which we use to inform you about our offers. The advertised goods and services are specified in the declaration of consent.

(2) We use the double opt-in procedure for registration for our newsletter. This means that after you register, we will send 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 12 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 procedure is to verify your registration and, if necessary, to investigate any possible misuse of your personal data.

(3) The only mandatory information required for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we will store your email address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

(4) You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can revoke your consent by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter email or by sending an email to the contact details provided in the legal notice.

c) Use of our web shop

(1) If you wish to place an order in our web shop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need to process your order. Mandatory information required for the execution of the contracts is marked separately; further information is voluntary. We process the data you provide to process your order. For this purpose, we may pass on your payment details to our house bank; the legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR.

(2)Your data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the provision of the respective service. For example, your data will be transmitted to the shipping company responsible for delivery or to the financial service provider responsible for payment processing to the extent necessary for order processing. We may assign invoice claims to third parties, in particular for refinancing purposes and for the purposes of simplified claim processing. We would like to point out that, in the event of assignment, we will transfer the information necessary for the assignment and for the assertion of the assigned claims to the third party in accordance with the statutory provisions.

(3) Addresses of the respective financial service providers with their data protection information:

(4) You can voluntarily create a customer account, which allows us to store your data for future purchases. When you create an account, the data you provide will be stored revocably. You can delete all other data, including your user account, at any time in the customer area.

(5) We may process the data you provide to inform you about other interesting products from our portfolio or to send you emails with technical information.

(6) Due to commercial and tax law requirements, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. However, after two years, we restrict processing, i.e. your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations.

(7)To prevent unauthorised access to your personal data by third parties, the order process is encrypted using TLS technology or similar technology.

6. Analysis and tracking tools

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f of the GDPR. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure a needs-based design and the ongoing optimisation of our website. We also use the measures to statistically record the use of our website and to optimise our offering. These interests are legitimate within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tools.

Google Analytics

(1) We use Google Analytics for the purpose of designing our website in line with user requirements and for its ongoing optimisation. This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as "Google"). In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as

  • browser type/version,

  • operating system used,

  • referrer URL (the previously visited page),

  • host name of the accessing computer (IP address),

  • time of the server request,

is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and to tailor the design of this website to meet the needs of its users. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are anonymised so that they cannot be assigned to a specific person (known as IP masking).

(2) You can prevent the installation of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; in this case, however, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

(3) Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics Help Centre (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en).

Google Adwords Conversion Tracking

(1) We also use Google Conversion Tracking to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our website for you. Google Adwords places a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via a Google advertisement.
These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of the AdWords customer's website and the cookie has not yet expired, both Google and the customer can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. AdWords customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

(2) If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse the setting of a cookie required for this purpose, e.g. by means of a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. You can also deactivate cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com". Google's privacy policy on conversion tracking can be found at (https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html).

d) Use of Google Adwords Conversion

(1) We use Google Adwords to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites with the help of advertising material (so-called Google Adwords). We can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are in relation to the data from the advertising campaigns. Our aim is to show you advertising that is of interest to you, to make our website more interesting for you and to achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs.

(2) These advertising materials are delivered by Google via so-called "ad servers". For this purpose, we use ad server cookies, which allow certain parameters for measuring success, such as the display of advertisements or clicks by users, to be measured. If you access our website via a Google advertisement, Google Adwords will store a cookie on your computer. These cookies usually expire after 30 days and are not intended to identify you personally. The unique cookie ID, frequency count, last impression and opt-out information are usually stored as analysis values for this cookie.

(3) These cookies enable Google to recognise your internet browser. If a user visits certain pages of an AdWords customer's website and the cookie stored on their computer has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each AdWords customer is assigned a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. We ourselves do not collect and process any personal data in the aforementioned advertising measures. We only receive statistical evaluations provided by Google. Based on these evaluations, we can identify which of the advertising measures used are particularly effective. We do not receive any further data from the use of the advertising material; in particular, we cannot identify users based on this information.

(4) Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to Google's server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our state of knowledge: By integrating AdWords Conversion, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding part of our website or clicked on one of our advertisements. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider may find out and store your IP address.

(5) You can prevent participation in this tracking process in various ways:

  • by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; in particular, suppressing third-party cookies means that you will not receive any third-party advertisements;

  • by deactivating cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain „www.googleadservices.com“, https://www.google.de/settings/ads, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

  • by deactivating interest-based ads from providers who are part of the "About Ads" self-regulation campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

  • by permanently deactivating them in your Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome browsers via the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

(6) The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information on data protection at Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy and https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html. Alternatively, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at https://www.networkadvertising.org. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

8. Rights of data subjects

You have the right:

  • to request information about your personal data processed by us (Art. 15 GDPR). In particular, 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, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, where applicable, meaningful information about its details;

  • to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us (Art. 16 GDPR);

  • to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;

  • pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;

  • to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another controller (Art. 20 GDPR);

  • to withdraw your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7(3) GDPR. The consequence of revocation is that we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future

  • to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or the place of the alleged infringement for this purpose.

9. Right to object

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right (Art. 21 GDPR) to object to the processing of your personal data, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which we will implement without you having to specify a particular situation.
If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an email to the email address given in the legal notice.

10. Data security

When you visit our website, we use the widely used SSL (Secure Socket Layer) procedure in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. This is usually 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is being transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We use appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

11. Up-to-dateness and changes to this privacy policy

Due to the further development of our website or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to change this privacy policy. You can access and print out the current privacy policy at any time on the website.

12. Contact person

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your data, if you require information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, or in the event of a possible revocation of consent given, or if you have any further questions about data protection, please contact our office using the contact details provided in the imprint.

Prepared by Christian Weil, solicitor, Cologne

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