Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal information confidentially and in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations and this privacy policy. The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal information. If personal data (e.g., name, address, or email addresses) is collected on our pages, it is always done on a voluntary basis, to the extent possible. This data will not be disclosed to third parties without your explicit consent. We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g., communication via email) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Name and address of the data controller:

The data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection laws applicable in the member states of the European Union and Switzerland, as well as other provisions with a data protection character, is:

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c/o Michael Maier

Im Wengertacker 21

D – 72138 Kirchentellinsfurt

Email address: m.maier(at)talk-mechanical.de

Website: www.talk-mechanical.de

Name and address of the data protection officer:

The data protection officer of the website www.talk-mechanical.de is:

Michael Maier

Im Wengertacker 21

D – 72138 Kirchentellinsfurt

Email address: m.maier(at)talk-mechanical.de

Use of Cookies:

Our websites use cookies. Cookies are data that are stored by the internet browser on the user’s computer system. Cookies can be transmitted to a website when it is visited and allow the website to associate the user. Cookies help to simplify the use of websites for the users.

You can object to the storage of cookies at any time by changing the settings in your internet browser. Stored cookies can be deleted. Please note that if cookies are deactivated, not all functions of the website may be available.

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Creation of Log Files:

Every time our website is accessed, data and information are automatically collected and stored in log files by our system.

The following data can be collected in this process:

  • Information about the browser type and version used

  • The user’s operating system

  • The internet service provider of the user

  • The user’s IP address

  • Date and time of access

  • Websites from which the user’s system accesses our website (referrer)

  • Websites accessed by the user’s system through our website

The processing of this data is carried out to deliver the contents of our website, ensure the functionality of our information technology systems, and optimize our website. The data from log files is always stored separately from other personal data of the user.

Means of Contact

On our website, there is a contact form that can be used for electronic communication. Additionally, there is an option to get in touch with us via live chat. Alternatively, contact can be made through the provided email address. If a user contacts us through any of these channels, the transmitted personal data will be automatically stored. The storage is solely for the purpose of processing or contacting the respective user. The data will not be disclosed to third parties.

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Routine Erasure and Blocking of Personal Data

The data controller only stores personal data of the affected user for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose of storage. Storage may also take place if provided for by European or national legislations, in Union regulations, laws, or other provisions to which the data controller is subject.

Once the purpose of storage is no longer applicable or the prescribed storage period specified by the aforementioned provisions has expired, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted.

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Rights of the Affected User

If your personal data is processed, you are considered an affected individual within the meaning of the GDPR, and you have the following rights:

A) Right to Information

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed by us.

If processing is being carried out, you can request the following information:

  1. The purpose for which the personal data is being processed;

  2. The categories of personal data being processed;

  3. The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been or will be disclosed;

  4. The planned duration of storage of the personal data concerning you or, if specific information about this is not possible, the criteria for determining the storage period;

  5. The existence of the right to rectification or erasure of the personal data concerning you, the right to restriction of processing by the data controller, or the right to object to such processing;

  6. The existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;

  7. All available information about the origin of the data, if the personal data was not collected from the data subject;

  8. The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR, and at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject. You have the right to request information on whether the personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In this context, you can request to be informed about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR in connection with the transfer. In cases of data processing for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes: This right to information may be limited to the extent that it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical purposes, and the limitation is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

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B) Right to Rectification

You have the right to request the rectification and/or completion of your personal data processed by the data controller if it is inaccurate or incomplete. The data controller shall promptly make the necessary corrections.

In cases of data processing for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes:

Your right to rectification may be restricted to the extent that it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical purposes, and the restriction is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

C) Right to Restriction of Processing

Under the following conditions, you can request the restriction of processing of your personal data:

  1. If you contest the accuracy of your personal data for a period that allows the data controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;

  2. If the processing is unlawful, and you oppose the erasure of your personal data and instead request the restriction of its use;

  3. If the data controller no longer needs the personal data for processing purposes, but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or

  4. If you have objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, and it is not yet determined whether the legitimate grounds of the data controller override your grounds.

If the processing of your personal data has been restricted, except for storage, such data may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State.

If the processing restriction has been imposed according to the aforementioned conditions, you will be informed by the data controller before the restriction is lifted.

In cases of data processing for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical research purposes:

Your right to restriction of processing may be restricted to the extent that it is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research or statistical purposes, and the restriction is necessary for the fulfillment of the research or statistical purposes.

D) Right to Erasure

  1. You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data without undue delay, and the data controller is obliged to erase your personal data without undue delay if one of the following grounds applies:

  2. Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

  3. You withdraw your consent on which the processing is based according to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR, and there is no other legal ground for the processing.

  4. You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.

  5. Your personal data has been unlawfully processed.

  6. The erasure of your personal data is required to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the data controller is subject.

  7. Your personal data has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

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E) If the data controller has made your personal data public and is obliged to erase it in accordance with Article 17(1) of the GDPR, the data controller, taking into account available technology and implementation costs, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other data controllers processing the personal data that you have requested the erasure of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

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F) The right to erasure shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

  1. for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

  2. for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller;

  3. for reasons of public interest in the area of public health in accordance with Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;

  4. for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) of the GDPR, insofar as the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or

  5. for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

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G) Right to Information

If you have exercised your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against the data controller, the controller is obliged to communicate any rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing to each recipient to whom the personal data have been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients from the data controller.

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H) Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the data controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit those data to another data controller without hindrance from the data controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:

  1. the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, and

  2. the processing is carried out by automated means. In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one data controller to another, where technically feasible. This must not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others. The right to data portability does not apply to processing necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller.

I) Right to Object

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions.

The data controller shall no longer process the personal data concerning you, unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Where personal data concerning you are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you shall no longer be processed for such purposes.

You have the possibility to exercise your right to object in relation to the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, by automated means using technical specifications.

J) Right to Withdraw Consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

K) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision:

  1. is necessary for entering into or performance of a contract between you and the data controller,

  2. is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject and that law provides for suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, or

  3. is based on your explicit consent. However, these decisions must not be based on special categories of personal data referred to in Article 9(1) of the GDPR unless Article 9(2)(a) or (g) applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests have been taken. Regarding the cases referred to in points (a) and (c), the data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the data controller, to express your point of view, and to contest the decision.

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J) Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant on the progress and the outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Article 78 of the GDPR.

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Disclosure of Data to Third Parties

This website uses the service „Google Analytics,“ provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), to analyze website usage by users. The service uses „cookies“ – text files that are stored on your device. The information collected through cookies is typically sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

On this website, IP anonymization is activated. The IP address of users is truncated within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area. This truncation eliminates the personal reference of your IP address. Under the terms of the data processing agreement that the website operators have concluded with Google Inc., Google uses the collected information to evaluate website usage and activity and provides services related to internet usage.

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You have the option to prevent the storage of cookies on your device by making the appropriate settings in your browser. However, it is not guaranteed that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if your browser does not allow cookies.

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Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by cookies (including your IP address) and their processing by Google Inc. by downloading and installing a browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

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Here you can find more information about the data usage by Google Inc.: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Alternatively, you can click to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about you on this website. By clicking, you will download an „opt-out cookie.“ Your browser must generally allow the storage of cookies for this purpose. If you regularly delete your cookies, you will need to click the link again on each visit to this website. Disable Google Analytics

Legal basis for processing

If we obtain the consent of the data subject for processing personal data, Article 6(1)(a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) serves as the legal basis.

For the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures.

If the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Article 6(1)(c) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

If the processing of personal data is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person, Article 6(1)(d) GDPR serves as the legal basis.

If the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, and such interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing. The legitimate interest of our company lies in the conduct of our business activities.

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Retention period of personal data

Personal data will be stored for the duration of the respective statutory retention period. After the expiration of the period, the data will be routinely deleted unless there is a requirement for contract initiation or fulfillment.