PRIVACY POLICY

For security reasons (for example, to investigate acts of abuse or fraud), we save on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR each time you access our website, including the IP address of the user and a timestamp of access in so-called server log files. This information is kept for seven days and is then deleted. The only information excluded from the deletion is information, which the retention of is necessary for the substantiation of a specific incident until the incident has been finally clarified.

Our website allows you to contact us by e-mail or through contact forms. The information provided by you for the purpose of processing the respective request and for possible follow-up questions according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO are processed. Disclosure of the information to third parties will not take place, except if necessary to companies of the Taiyo Group.

On our website, we offer you the option of redirecting to our corporate social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, google + and LinkedIn. To protect your data we use linking. As a result, the web pages are only displayed as a graphic that includes a link to the corresponding website. By clicking on the graphic you will be redirected to the respective services of the provider. Only then their data will be sent to the respective services. Unless you click on the graphic, there will be no exchange between you and the social networks mentioned above. Information about the collection and use of your data in the social networks can be found in the respective terms of use of the respective providers.

There are a few videos embedded within our online offer. The corresponding plug-ins are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. The videos are provided by the company YouTube LLC, which obtains knowledge of your IP address in order to deliver the content. When you play these videos, YouTube also sets cookies. We have no control over the use of your IP address and the cookies set by YouTube.
For more information on the purpose and scope of your data collection and processing through YouTube, please read the privacy policy. There you will also find more information about your rights and settings options to protect your privacy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal information in the US and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US Framework.

Within our online offer maps of the map service Google Maps are included. Operator of this map service is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google receives knowledge of your IP address in order to deliver the content. We have no control over the use of your IP address by Google. Google’s privacy policy is available at policies.google.com/privacy.

Based on our legitimate interests (analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer) within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO we use so-called cookies on our website. These are small files that are stored on your computer to save specific settings for using our website. This will automatically provide us with certain data (e.g., IP address, browser used, operating system) through your computer and your connection to the Internet. You can also use our website without cookies by deactivating the use of cookies in your browser. However, the comfort and functionality of our offer can be limited by disabling cookies. To learn how to deactivate cookies in your browser, please use its help function.

Based on our legitimate interests (analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer) within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO we use on our website Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. („Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called „cookies“. These are small files that are stored on the user’s computer, allowing an analysis of the use of the website. Google can use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our website in order to create reports for us about website activity. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Due to legal requirements, the IP anonymization function offered by Google is active on our website, which means that your IP address is already being shortened and thereby anonymous within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The IP address, provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can also use our website without cookies by deactivating the use of cookies in your browser. The comfort and functionality of our offer can be restricted by deactivating cookies though. To find out how to deactivate cookies in your browser, please use its help function.
You also can 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 the browser add-on available under the following link and install: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
As an alternative to the browser add-on or on mobile devices, please click this link to prevent the collection by Google Analytics within this website in the future. An opt-out cookie is stored on your device. If you want to delete your cookies, you have to click the link again.

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy in the future in order to be able to adapt it to our web offer as well as to changing legal requirements.

You always have the right to receive information about your stored data. In addition you are entitled to rectification, blocking or deletion of the data, insofar as this does not conflict with statutory retention requirements. If necessary please contact our data protection representative.