Contact / Imprint

 

Address: COFAD GmbH
Obere Stadt 47
D - 82362 Weilheim, Germany
Phone:

+49-881-901 15 17-0

Fax: +49-881-901 15 17-9
e-mail: cofad@cofad.de
VAT-No.: DE 128219436
Managing Director: Suitbert Schmüdderich
Registration: Amtsgericht München, HRB 84837

 

All data processing in the context of our website is undertaken in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

 

Privacy Policy (v18.5.1)

This Website is operated by COFAD GmbH (hereafter in this text often abbreviated as COFAD or "we") as described in our imprint. We place high priority on the protection of your personal data and treat your privacy in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and the applicable national legislation on personal data protection.

 

Terminology used in this privacy policy

Our personal data processing activities are governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

'Personal data' is any information that can be used to identify you, including your name, e-mail address, IP address, or any other data that could reveal your physical, physiological, generic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

For the purpose of the GDPRs, we are the 'Data Controller' of all personal data obtained by us as set out in this Policy, because we ultimately determine how your personal data will be handled by us or our sub-contractors, who would be our 'Data Processors'.

If we handle your personal data then you are a 'Data Subject'. This means you have certain rights under the GDPR in relation to how your personal data is processed, which are set out in this privacy policy.

 

Name and address of the data controller

The responsible controller of your personal data is

 

COFAD GmbH

Obere Stadt 47

D - 82362 Weilheim

Germany

Email: cofad@cofad.de

Internet: www.cofad.de

 

For further information on the controller please refer to the imprint of this website.

 

Data protection officer

You as data subject may, at any time, contact our Data Protection Officer directly with all questions and suggestions concerning data protection. The contact data of our Data Protection Officer is

 

Datenschutzbeauftragter

COFAD GmbH

Obere Stadt 47

D - 82362 Weilheim

Germany

Email: dataprotectionofficer@cofad.de

 

Personal data on this website

It is possible for you to use this website without providing your personal data. Whenever we collect personal data you will be asked for consent, and you will be again informed about your rights in terms of protection of your personal data. We will only process your personal data in accordance with notices set out in this Policy, or as provided to you at the time we collect your personal data (if necessary for the intended processing).

The elements of this website which involves collecting of personal data from you are email contacts to our staff. The user of this website can use the general company email address or the other email addresses presented to get in contact with the respective staff. In this case we will store the personal data transmitted by this email. The data are used exclusively for processing the conversation with you (purpose) and are not transmitted to any third party.

 

Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in case the user has given his consent to the processing.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in the course of sending an email is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If the e-mail contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, then additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

 

Rights of the data subject in terms of data protection

You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

  • Right to confirmation - you can ask us to confirm whether we are processing personal data concerning you.
  • The right to be informed - this is information on the personal data we are processing and the purpose for which we are processing them.
  • The right of access - you have the right to be provided with copies of your personal data that we are processing.
  • The right to rectification - if you think the personal data that we hold on you is inaccurate or incomplete you can request us to correct this.
  • The right to erasure - if you want us to delete the personal data we are holding for you then you can request us to do so.
  • The right to restrict processing - if you oppose the way how we are processing your personal data then you have the right to inform us accordingly and we will restrict the processing on the basis of your right.
  • The right to data portability - if you want us to forward your personal data to a different organisation or person then you have the right to inform us and we will transfer your personal data respectively (without adversely affecting the rights of others).
  • The right to withdraw your consent - you can withdraw your previously given consent to the processing of your personal data at any time by contacting us using the contact form provided.

If you want to exercise one or more of these rights, please contact one of our staff. You can request your rights free of charge unless your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, in these circumstances we may refuse to comply with your request. In accordance with the GDPR, we will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month.

In addition to the above rights, as a data subject you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority within the European Union. Please note that you can use whichever local data protection authority within the EEA that is most convenient for you.

 

Transfer of personal data

We are not transmitting any personal data collected from you through emails to any other third party on a regular basis, in particular not to third parties established outside the European Union or outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If you contact our staff during their potential business trips outside the EU, the staff is receiving your email through a secure connection, so that your data is not transmitted to a third party, but remains within the sphere of influence of our company.

If we are forwarding or copying a message that we have received by email to persons outside our company, we will first ask you for your consent to do so, unless you have informed us explicitly about your consent already when you were writing your email to us.

 

Automated decision making and profiling

As a responsible company, we neither use automatic decision-making nor profiling.

 

Data collected for technical purposes

Cookies

We are not using cookies on our website.

 

Other data

Our web hoster, Strato AG, stores IP addresses of the visitors of our website in logfiles, in order to recognise and avert attacks against the website. Such data are deleted after 7 days. Further on, anonymised IP addresses are stored for a period of 6 weeks in order to analyse the use of our website and detect potential errors. The data cannot be attributed to individual users and are deleted after 6 weeks.

 

Deleting personal data

We delete your personal data on a regular basis in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.

After you have contacted us through email, we are deleting your personal data as soon as the relevant communication with you is concluded, unless (i) you have provided us with separate consent to store your personal data longer, (ii) we still need your personal data to fulfil a contractual obligation, or (iii) statutory retention obligations require us to retain your personal data for a longer period.

The session cookies stored while you were using our website will be deleted when your browsing session ends. The IP addresses logged on our server will be deleted after one month.

 

Changes to this Policy

As and when necessary, changes to this privacy policy will be published on our website. Where changes are significant, we may also email you and where required by law, we will obtain your consent to these changes.