Privacy Policy Kalkhoff

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This Privacy Statement KALKHOFF governs the collection, use and other forms of processing of personal data by Kalkhoff Werke GmbH ("Kalkhoff") related to our services, our KALKHOFF products and this website. 

 

Who is responsible for processing your personal data?

Kalkhoff (Europa-Allee 26, 49685 Emstek, Germany) is the legal entity responsible for all collection and all processing of your personal data in connection with the products, services and websites of KALKHOFF. 

Kalkhoff is part of Pon Holdings B.V. its affiliates and its subsidiaries (“Pon”). Kalkhoff and Pon are committed to respecting and safeguarding your privacy and the security of your personal data you share with us.

 

Why do we process your personal data? 

Personal data is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. When you choose to register your personal data, contact us, or visit our websites, we will process some personal data about you. We process these personal data for the following purposes:

  1. communicate with you in a personal way or to inform you about KALKHOFF products or services, consistent with your choices;

  2. provide customer service, including service around the purchase of services and products, fulfil warranty obligations and product recalls for our own services and those of related companies, and to deal with any enquiries or complaints;

  3. administer and fulfil your purchases of KALKHOFF products including the financial and logistic handling;

  4. administer your KALKHOFF account;

  5. administer your participation in any contests, promotions, surveys or website features;

  6. perform market research and improve our business, services and KALKHOFF products or to develop new business, services and products;

  7. perform statistical analyses and reporting; 

  8. providing services on the internet;

  9. communicating with participants and offering a loyalty program;

  10. provide app functionality, including providing relevant commercial messages;

  11. to communicate future promotional and marketing information including direct marketing purposes and retargeting;

  12. to aggregate and/or anonymize personal data in order to generate other data for our use;

  13. to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements;

  14. as otherwise stated at or about the time information is collected.

 

Which personal data we process? 

Which personal data we exactly process, depends on which websites, products or services you use. We process the following personal data. 

Personal data you provide

This is the personal data that you enter when you use our websites, products or services. This data includes e.g. your name, address, gender, email address, phone number, age, birth date, KALKHOFF products you bought, the account name and password that you create, bank details for buying KALKHOFF products etc.

Data collected via sensors

Many products are equipped with one or more sensors or use the sensors of the devices on which the products are provides. Examples of sensors are GPS receivers, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth receivers, a camera and touch screens.


In accordance with the purposes for processing the via the sensors collected data about you and the used devices will be send to Kalkhoff and other third parties that need the data for providing the agreed services to Kalkhoff.

Metadata

This is data that is collected or generated automatically when you use the websites, products or services of Kalkhoff.
Metadata is often collected or generated when using a computer or device when you send data via a computer network, such as the Internet. This data contains data that may be used by the user interface or device activities, as well as IP addresses, unique device identifiers, MAC addresses of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, cookies and data from computer activities itself. Please refer to our Cookie Policy KALKHOFF for further details.

Mailing address data

This data is collected from address lists accessible from public sources and used for postal mailings alone.


How do we process your personal data? 

In the table below we describe per way of processing: the personal data and the purposes for which we process the personal data as well as the legal basis for the processing:

Ways of processing

Personal data processed

Purposes for processing the personal data

Legal basis

Registration for our newsletter 

First name, last name, e-mail address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Consent or legitimate interest

Contact form customer service

First name, last name, phone number, email address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Performance of a contract or legitimate interest

KALKHOFF account creation

First name, last name, address, phone number, email address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7,8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Consent, legitimate interest or performance of a contract

Product KALKHOFF registration

First name, last name, address, phone number, email address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Performance of a contract or legitimate interest

Buying KALKHOFF products on the website

First name, last name, address, phone number, email address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Performance of a contract or legitimate interest

Attend to product promotion, events or online forum

First name and last name, address, phone number and e-mail address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Consent or legitimate interest

Visit our websites (cookies)

Metadata

NB: please refer to our Cookie Policy KALKHOFF for further details

The above described purposes: 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Consent or legitimate interest

Log on our websites via social media

NB: we never get access to your social media account

The above described purposes: 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Consent or legitimate interest

Use of our app

First name, last name, e-mail address ...

The above described purposes: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14

Consent or legitimate interest

Postal mailings

First name, last name, postal address ...

The above described purposes: 1 and 11

Consent or legitimate interest

Our legitimate interests include: marketing, advertising, security, (crime) prevention, IT management, research and analysis of our products or services, business management, legal affairs, internal management. 

You have the right to withdraw your consent which you may have given to the processing of your personal data at any time by sending your withdrawal request to privacy@pon.com

 

How do we share or transfer your personal data?

You should be aware that Kalkhoff is part of a business group within Pon and that departments (like IT, Marketing) can be located in Pon companies around the world. As a consequence your personal data may be shared within and/or transferred to other business group companies or other Pon companies around the world. You can consult the list and location of our companies here: http://www.pon.com/en/our-business/bedrijven.

Kalkhoff may share your personal data also with third parties to perform certain processing activities on behalf of Kalkhoff and to facilitate services they provide to us. These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services. Kalkhoff may also share your personal data to third parties, to permit them to send you marketing communications, consistent with your choices. Kalkhoff requires these third parties to process and protect your personal data diligently.  Kalkhoff will not sell your personal data to third parties. 

Kalkhoff or Pon might reorganize, merge or in any other way sell or dispose (part of) a business company to another company. Where such business relates to KALKHOFF, such transfer of ownership may include the transfer of your personal data to the new owner and its advisors.

We will otherwise only disclose your personal data if so required or authorized by law, where necessary for preventing or combating fraud, where necessary for dispute resolution, or for any other pressing legitimate need which under the circumstances must outweigh your privacy interests, such as the security of our business and the safety of our staff.

 

How do we protect your personal data?

Kalkhoff will take appropriate technical and organizational security measures against loss or unlawful processing of personal data. This may include using secure registration forms, encryption of data, and restricting access to your personal data.

Please note that some third countries do not provide for an adequate level of protection for your personal data. However, you can be assured that Kalkhoff will take appropriate safeguards for the confidentiality and protection of your data. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission, to protect your personal data. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting privacy@pon.com

 

How long do we retain your personal data?

We retain personal data for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.  

 

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:  

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our services); 
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or 
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).  

 

Cookies, web beacons and similar techniques

If you are using our websites, services, applications, communications (including email) and accessing or using tools, we may use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies for storing information to provide you with a better, faster and safer browser experience. 

 

What are cookies, web beacons and similar techniques?

A cookie is a tiny data file, which is stored on your computer within the web browser, when certain web pages are visited. A cookie does not contain or collect information in isolation, but when read by a server via a web browser; it can give information to facilitate a more user friendly service such as detecting errors. We do not retain a cookie longer than necessary.

Web beacons are small graphic images (also called “pixel tags” called or “clear POISON’s”) that may be installed on or in our websites, communication services, applications and other used tools. Web beacons are used for different purposes, including measuring performance of our websites, tracking the number of visitors to our web sites and how to navigate it accordingly.

Under similar techniques for storing information we understand other technologies that store information on your browser or device and that use local shared objects or local storage. Examples include flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods.

For simplicity, we use the term cookie in our policy to cover the total scope of cookies, web beacons and similar techniques.

To use our website fully, you will need to have cookies enabled. If you do not wish to enable cookies, you can still browse the site; however certain features of the site may be limited.


How do we use cookies?

You may notice the presence of different types of cookies generated on your visit to this website. We use the following types of cookies:

  • Functional cookies;
  • Preference cookies;
  • Analytical cookies;
  • Marketing cookies

 

Functional cookies

Functional cookies make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

 

Preference cookies

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.


Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies help website operators understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.


Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors on various websites. The aim is to serve ads that are relevant and appealing to the individual user and therefore more valuable to publishers and third party advertisers.

Kalkhoff places and uses the functional cookies when you explore our website to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Only after you have given your consent, Kalkhoff places the analytical, advertising and social media cookies. We provide you the choice to set your preference related to the use of the kind of cookies for the first use of the website. We will store you preference for your next visit but you can always adjust your preference.

 

Your rights

If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete personal data, object to the processing of personal data, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your personal data for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us via  privacy@pon.com 

We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

In your request, please make as clear as possible what personal data your request relates to.  For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.  We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within any applicable legally required timeframes.  

 

How to control cookies?

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being used. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

 


Contact, questions, feedback and Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us at privacy@pon.com

You may also contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) via privacy@pon.com

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs.

 

Analysis tools and advertising

Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Tag Manager is a tool that enables us to integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. Google Tag Manager itself does not create any user profiles, does not store any cookies and does not perform any independent analyses. Its sole purpose is to manage and run the tools integrated on our website by it. However, Google Tag Manager does collect your IP address, which may also be transferred to Google’s parent company in the United States.
Google Tag Manager is used in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the quick and easy integration and management of a range of tools on its website. Where relevant consent has been requested, the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) of the Telecommunications-Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG), insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) in the sense of the TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

 

Google Analytics
This website uses features of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (‘Google’), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyse the behaviour patterns of website visitors.
To that end, the website operator receives a variety of user data, such as pages accessed, time spent on the page, operating systems used and the user’s origin. These data are consolidated in a user ID that is allocated to the respective user’s end device.
Google Analytics also allows us to record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Google Analytics uses various modelling approaches to augment the collected data sets and uses machine-learning technologies in data analysis.
Google Analytics uses technologies that enable the user to be recognised for the purpose of analysing user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google about the use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time. Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission.
You can find details here:
https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.


IP anonymisation
We have activated the IP anonymisation feature on this website. As a result, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

 

Browser Plugin
You can prevent Google from collecting and processing your data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

You can find more information on how Google Analytics processes user data in Google’s data privacy statement:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

 

Google Signals
We use Google Signals. Whenever you visit our website, Google Analytics records, among other things, your location, search history and YouTube history, as well as demographic data (site visitor data). This data may be used for personalised advertising with the help of Google Signals. If you have a Google account, Google Signal's visitor data is linked to your Google account and used for personalised advertising messages. The data is also used to create anonymised statistics on the user behaviour of our users.


Google Analytics demographic features
This  website uses the 'demographic features' feature of Google Analytics in order to be able to display suitable advertisements to website visitors within the Google advertising network.
This makes it possible to create reports with information on age, gender and interests of the site visitors. These data originate from interest-related advertising from Google, as well as from visitor data from third-party providers. The data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this feature at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described under "Objection to data collection".

 

Contract data processing
We have executed a contract data processing agreement with Google and are implementing the stringent provisions of the German data protection agencies to the fullest when using Google Analytics.


Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking
This website uses the ‘E-Commerce Tracking’ feature of Google Analytics. E-Commerce Tracking enables the website operator to analyse the purchasing patterns of website visitors with the aim of improving the operator’s online marketing campaigns. In this context, information, such as orders placed, average order amounts, shipping costs and the time from viewing the product to making the purchasing decision are tracked. These data may be consolidated by Google under a transaction ID, which is allocated to the respective user or the user’s device.

 

Google Ads
The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising program of Google Ireland Limited (‘Google’), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads allows us to display advertisements in the Google search engine or on third-party websites if the user enters specific search terms in Google (keyword targeting). Furthermore, targeted advertisements can be displayed based on the user data available at Google (e.g. location data and interests) (target group targeting). As website operators, we can evaluate this data quantitatively by analysing, for example, which search terms led to the display of our advertisements and how many advertisements resulted in corresponding clicks.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission.

You can find the details here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and
https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

 

Google Ads Remarketing
This website uses the features of Google Ads Remarketing. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (‘Google’), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
With Google Ads Remarketing, we can assign people who interact with our online offering to specific target groups in order to subsequently display interest-based advertising to them in the Google advertising network (remarketing or retargeting).
It is also possible to link the advertising target groups generated with Google Ads Remarketing to Google cross-platform features. This makes it possible to display interest-based customised advertising, depending on your prior usage and browsing patterns on a device (e.g. mobile phone) in a manner tailored to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g., tablet or PC).
If you have a Google account, you have the option to object to personalised advertising under the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
You can find further information and the relevant data protection regulations in the Google data privacy statement at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de

 

Google Conversion Tracking
This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (‘Google’), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Conversion Tracking allows Google and us to recognise whether the user has carried out specific actions. For example, we can evaluate which buttons on our website have been clicked on and how often, and which products have been viewed or purchased particularly frequently.

This information is used to generate conversion statistics. We find out the total number of users who clicked on our ads and what actions they took. We do not receive any information that would enable us to identify the user. Google itself uses cookies or similar recognition technologies for identification purposes only.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
More information on Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google’s data protection regulations: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Policy changes

We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement. If necessary, we will inform you when we change the Privacy Statement. This statement was last modified on date: 06 July 2023.

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