Section 1 Information about the collection of personal data, name and contact details of the Data Controller and the Data Protection Officer, disclosure of data
(1) In the following, you will find information concerning the collection of personal data when you use our website. Personal data are all data that can be personally related to you, e.g. your name, address, e-mail address, user behaviour.
(2) In accordance with Art. 4 (7) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Controller is Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG, Wailandtstrasse 13, 63741 Aschaffenburg, Germany, info@linde-hydraulics.com (see our legal notice). You can contact our external Data Protection Officer Dr Georg Schröder (legal data Schröder Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH) at dataprotection@linde-hydraulics.com or at our postal address, addressing your letter to ‘the Data Protection Officer’.
(3) When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail address, if applicable your name and phone number) will be stored by us to allow us to answer your questions. We will delete the data generated in this connection once it is no longer necessary to store them or, if we are subject to legal retention obligations, restrict the processing thereof.
(4) In some cases, we will use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored. If we use external service providers, you will find information to that effect in this Privacy Policy. If these external service providers are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will also inform you about this in this Privacy Policy.
Section 2 Your rights
(1) You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
– The right of access (Article 15 GDPR),
– The right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR),
– The right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR),
– The right to restrict processing (Article 18 GDPR),
– The right to object (Article 21 GDPR),
– The right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR).
Please contact our Data Protection Officer to find out more.
(2) If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or if your rights under data protection law are otherwise violated in any other manner, you may complain to the following competent supervisory authority:
Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA)
Promenade 27
91522 Ansbach, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)981/53 1300
Fax: +49 (0)981/53 98 1300
E-mail: poststelle@lda.bayern.de
Section 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website, use of cookies
(1) If you use our website merely for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we will only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we will collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (the legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(1) (f) GDPR):
- Server IP address
- Client IP address
- The date and time of the request
- Browser type (user agent)
- Website from which the request has come (Referrer URL)
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (specific page)
- Access status/http status code
- Amount of data transferred in each case
- Website from which the request comes
- Browser
- Operating system and its interface
- Language and version of the browser software
(2) For the hosting of this website, we use RAIDBOXES GmbH (Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 7, 48153 Münster, Germany). RAIDBOXES GmbH offers Software as a Service (SaaS) in the context of cloud hosting.
(3) The IP address is stored in unabridged form as soon as the website is accessed. This storage is required for the later identification of any misuse of the website (the legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR).
(4) This website also uses cookies.
Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard drive and associated with the browser you are using and via which certain information is transmitted to the party which places the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are used to make the Internet site more user-friendly and effective.
You can configure your browser settings as you wish and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies.
For more information about the cookies used on this website, please see our cookies policy.
Section 4 Other features and offers of our website
In addition to the purely informative use of our website, we offer various services which you can use if you are interested (provision of a contact form, online applicant tool). To do so, you will usually need to provide additional personal data that we will then use to provide the service in question and to which the aforementioned data processing principles will apply.
Section 5 Objection or revocation of consent to the processing of your data
(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3)(1) GDPR. This revocation will affect the legitimacy of the processing of your personal data after you have announced it to us.
(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on a balance of interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(1)(b) GDPR, you can object to the processing. This will be the case if the processing is, in particular, not necessary for the performance of a contract with you, which is in each case presented by us in the following description of the functions. If you choose to object, we will ask you to set out the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we normally do. Should your objection be justified, we will review the situation and either discontinue or adapt the data processing or inform you of the compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue to process your data.
(3) You can, of course, object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of advertising and data analysis. You can inform us about your objection to such advertising at the following address: Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG, Wailandtstraße 13, 63741 Aschaffenburg, Germany, or info@linde-hydraulics.com.
Section 6 Contact form
(1) In addition to the purely informative use of our website, we offer you the opportunity – in all cases, subject to prior consent – to contact us via a contact form provided on this website. In the event that you wish to send us a contact form, you will find the relevant information in the following in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR in the context of the collection of your personal data.
Personal data are all data that can be personally related to you, e.g. your name, address, e-mail address, etc.
With regard to the recipients of your personal data: if you submit the contact form provided on this website, please note that the recipient or recipients of the contact form will depend on which language version you have chosen when sending the contact form. The following table tells you where the data will go for the language version you have chosen:
| Language version chosen | Recipients of the contact form |
| International (English) | Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co.KG |
| Germany | Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co.KG |
| United Kingdom (English) | Linde Hydraulics Limited; Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG |
| USA (English) | Linde Hydraulics Corporation; Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG |
| France | Linde Hydraulics France SARL; Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co.KG |
The contact details of the recipients can be found in the footer of the page with the contact form once you have set the corresponding language version.
The further recipient in all cases (irrespective of the language version set) is B2 Communications GmbH / Werbeagentur, Würzburger Str. 58, 63739 Aschaffenburg, Germany as well as Fa Sunlab Bamberger Straße 9, 63743 Aschaffenburg.
You can contact our external Data Protection Officer Dr Georg Schröder (legal data Schröder Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH) at our postal address, addressing your letter to ‘the Data Protection Officer’, by phone at +49 6021/38671 45 or by e-mail at dataprotection@linde-hydraulics.com.
(4) To send the contact form to us, you must provide personal data such as your name, your e-mail address and a subject. You must also fill in the message field. No further information is required, although you can choose to provide it. By providing your e-mail address, specifying a subject and entering it in the message field, you will give us the opportunity to respond specifically to your request and then to contact you (the legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR). By providing your name , you will give us the opportunity to address you in a personalised manner (the legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(1)(a) GDPR).
(5) We will store the personal data that you provide to us using the contact form for as long as is necessary to respond to your request. Once your request has been responded to, we will delete the data.
(6) You have the following rights under Articles 15–20 GDPR:
– The right of access (Article 15 GDPR)
– The right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
– The right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
– The right to restrict processing (Article 18 GDPR)
– The right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
Please contact our Data Protection Officer for more information.
If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or if your rights under data protection law are otherwise violated in any other manner, you may complain to the following competent supervisory authority:
Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA)
Promenade 27
91522 Ansbach, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)981/53 1300
Fax: +49 (0)981/53 98 1300
E-mail: poststelle@lda.bayern.de
(7) You can revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3)(1) GDPR. This revocation will affect the legitimacy of the processing of your personal data after you have announced it to us.
Section 7 Integration of Google Tag Manager/ Google Analytics and Universal Analytics
(1) This website uses Google Tag Manager including Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Tag Manager uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Tag Manager will not be merged with other Google data.
(3) You can prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This means that IP addresses are processed in abbreviated form, thus excluding the possibility of personal references. If the data collected about you is related to a person, this is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted immediately.
(5) We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework . The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.
(6) Third-party provider information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. User Terms: Link,(https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/7157428?hl=de) Privacy Policy Overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html , and Privacy Policy: Link (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de).
(7) This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under "My data", "Personal data".
(8) With the deactivation of the use of the cross-device analysis according to the above, access is also terminated for B2 Communications GmbH / Werbeagentur. The same applies to Sunlab GmbH.
Section 8 Hyperlinks to third-party websites
(1) This website contains hyperlinks to various websites of other providers. An overview of the providers to whose pages we provide links, can be found at the following link: (https://lhy.com/de-de/links/links.aspx)
(2) If you click on the corresponding link, you will be redirected from our website directly to the corresponding website of the other provider. Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG cannot assume any responsibility for the confidential handling of your personal data, as Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG has no influence on the compliance of the providers of the linked websites with the data protection regulations. Information on the processing of your personal data when you access the linked websites can be found in the privacy policy of the providers of these websites.
Section 9 Integration of YouTube videos
(1) We have integrated YouTube videos into our site which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and are playable directly from our website. These are all integrated in ‘advanced privacy mode’, which means that no personal data about you as a user of YouTube will be transmitted if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the data referred to in paragraph 2 be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transfer.
(2) When you visit the website, YouTube will receive the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data referred to in Section 3 (1) of this policy will be transmitted. This will happen regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account via which you are logged in or there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish an assignment to your profile on YouTube to take place, you must log out before activating the button; YouTube stores your data as user profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the design of its website according to its needs. This kind of evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) for the provision of demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social networks about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, although you must contact YouTube in order to exercise this right.
(3) For further information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and the processing of data by YouTube, please see the Privacy Policy. There you will also find more information about your rights and settings you can change to protect your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
Section 10 Integration of SketchFab
(1) We have integrated Sketchfab, a 3-D model platform, into our Internet site to give you the opportunity to play 3-D models of our products directly from our website via the website https://sketchfab.com .
(2) When you visit the website, Sketchfab will receive the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data referred to in Section 3 of this policy will be transmitted. This will happen regardless of whether Sketchfab provides a user account via which you are logged in or there is no user account. If you are logged in to Sketchfab, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish an assignment to your profile on Sketchfab to take place, you must log out before activating the button. Sketchfab will store your data as user profiles and use them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the design of its website according to its needs. This kind of evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) for the provision of demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social networks about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, although you must contact Sketchfab in order to exercise this right.
(3) For further information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and the processing of the data by Sketchfab, please see the Privacy Policy. There you will also find more information about your rights and settings you can change to protect your privacy: https://sketchfab.com/privacy. Sketchfab also processes your personal data in the USA.
Section 12 Facebook fan page
(1) This website contains a hyperlink to our corporate page on Facebook. Jointly responsible under data protection law for the operation of our corporate page on Facebook are:
Facebook Ireland Ltd. – hereinafter ‘Facebook’ –
4 Grand Canal Square
Grand Canal Harbour
Dublin 2
Ireland
and
Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co.KG – hereinafter ‘we’ or ‘us’ –
Wailandtstrasse 13
63741 Aschaffenburg
Germany
(2) You can contact our external Data Protection Officer Dr Georg Schröder (legal data Schröder Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH) at dataprotection@linde-hydraulics.com or at our postal address, addressing your letter to ‘the Data Protection Officer’.
(3) Since we are jointly responsible for our corporate page at Facebook, we have entered into an agreement with Facebook to regulate the relationship between us. This agreement (referred to by Facebook as the ‘Page Insights Supplement with Respect to the Controller’) is available to view in its current version at https://facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.
(4) We have no interest in the collection and further processing of your personal data for analysis and marketing purposes when you visit our corporate page on Facebook.
For the processing of the personal data of persons who visit our corporate page on Facebook, we base our behaviour, in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, on a legitimate interest in a modern and supportive information and interaction opportunity for, and with, our users and visitors.
(5) We are aware that Facebook processes user data for the following purposes:
- Advertising (analysis, creation of personalised advertising)
- The creation of user profiles
- Market research.
We are also aware that Facebook uses cookies to store and process data. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard drive and associated with the browser you are using and via which certain information is transmitted to the party which places the cookie (in this case, Facebook). If the user has a Facebook profile and is logged in to it, storage and analysis will also take place across devices. For more information, see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
You can object to data processing by Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/367438723733209. For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/help/2069235856423257.
(6) The possibility cannot be excluded that your personal data may be processed by Facebook in countries outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) (so-called third countries). These countries do not have a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU or the EEA. In particular, the possibility cannot be excluded that Facebook will process your personal data in the USA.
The US parent company of Facebook Ireland Ltd., Facebook Inc., is certified according to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Facebook Inc. is thus committed to complying with European data protection rules. For more information about Facebook Inc.’s Privacy Shield Certification, visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
(7) We can use the ‘Insights’ on our Facebook page to retrieve various kinds of statistical data. The statistics are generated and provided by Facebook. We, as a fan page operator, have no influence on the generation and presentation of these data. We can neither block this function nor prevent the creation and processing of data. For a selectable period of time and for the categories of fans, subscribers, persons reached and interacting persons, the following data are provided to us by Facebook in relation to our Facebook page:
Total number of page views, post interactions, likes, video views, reach, page activity, comments, shared content, replies, share of men and women, country and city of origin, language, retrievals and clicks in the shop, clicks on route planners, clicks on phone numbers.
Please note that the availability and processing of data changes due to the constant technical development of Facebook. We would therefore refer you to the aforementioned Facebook Privacy Policy for further information.
We use the above data to make posts and activities more attractive to users of our Facebook page. For example, we use information on the age and gender of the visitors to our site so that we can address them appropriately. We use information on the preferred visiting times of users for the time-optimised planning of our posts. Information on the type of devices used by visitors helps us to adapt the posts to those devices for optimal representation. In accordance with the Facebook Terms of Service that each user has agreed to when setting up a Facebook profile, we may identify the subscribers and fans of our site and, if applicable, view their profiles and other information they share. However, we can only view the profiles and shared information of fans/subscribers if they have a public profile. If you have blocked all information, we will not see the profiles and shared information. In such a case, only the username and the profile/cover image will be visible to us.
(8) Since we are jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of your personal data in the context of the operation of our Facebook page, you can assert your rights in this regard both against us and against Facebook.
You have the following rights:
– The right of access (Article 15 GDPR)
– The right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
– The right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
– The right to restrict processing (Article 18 GDPR)
– The right to object, for reasons arising from your personal situation, in respect of those personal data which we use for the purposes of creating a modern and supportive information and interaction opportunity (Art. 21 (1)(1) GDPR).
Please note that, if you exercise your rights, only Facebook will have full access to the user data. We therefore recommend that you assert your rights directly against Facebook.
If you no longer wish for the data to be used as described in the future, please unlink your user profile from our Facebook page by using the function ‘I no longer like this page’ and/or ‘Do not subscribe to this page any longer’.
With regard to your right of appeal, we refer to Section 6 (6) of this Privacy Policy.