We are pleased about your interest in our homepage and our company. To Hammer GmbH & Co. KG protection of your personal data in collecting, processing and utilizing them on the occasion of your visit on our homepage is an important concern. Your data is protected within the scope of legal provisions. Despite of careful content control, we cannot assume liability for external links to foreign contents.
We would like to take the opportunity of informing you, which data are collected during your visit on our homepage and how they are used. We kindly ask for your understanding that the English language version provides for more brief information.
1. General data protection provisions
Who is responsible for the website? How can you contact us in data protection matters? How can you contact our data protection officer? You will find detailed information on this in the IMPRINT.
In case of data protection issues, you shall have the right of appeal at the data protection authority. A concrete reference is found in the IMPRINT.
Your rights of information, correction, deletion, restriction, contradiction and data transferability shall be guaranteed. Please contact us in this matter.
2. Retrieving website information
While surfing on our website the usual log files are written (date, time, IP-address, required URL, etc.) and are stored for 5 days, in order to recognize possible irregularities. These log files are important to provide proof of a criminal conduct to the prosecution authorities; in this respect we have a “legitimate interest” within the meaning of article 6 (1f) DS-GVO.
Internally our website uses full SSL-encryption. In so far operators of worldwide web servers have no access to contents transported.
3a. Contact form
By means of the contact form you can send us a message quickly and efficiently.
Data collection to this effect is based on our “legitimate interest” within the meaning of article (1f) DS-GVO.
The contact form data are sent by E-mail in unencrypted form to our companies. In so far complete confidentiality is not guaranteed. If complete confidentiality is important to you, please let us know by E-mail (our E-Mail server supports TLS-encryption, if YOUR E-mail server also supports it).
3b. Using the online application form
Based on our legitimate interest within the meaning of article 6 (1f) DS-GVO, we herewith provide you an online application form, by the use of which you can quickly and comfortably contact us.
The data provided by you are collected via the SSL-encrypted website and are sent by E-mail to the personnel department of our company.
Your application data is used by us within the scope of a normal application process.
4. Cookies
Cookies are small text files, which your browser stores on your hard disk. This is helpful for various purposes, in order to adapt a website to the users’ requirements.
Switching off and deleting cookies is an important subject. General instructions are found here. In addition we recommend the website www.youronlinechoices.com.
Regarding the storage period and access rights different types of cookies exist:
a) Own cookies with short lifetime ("session-cookies")
These cookies are unobjectionable from the point of the data protection law and in most cases purely serve the purpose of designing our own website. The legal basis is our “legitimate interest” within the meaning of article 6 (1f) DS-GVO. These cookies are deleted, as soon as you close your browser.
- fe_typo_user
This cookie is a standard session cookie of TYPO3. By means of this cookie we summarize all inquires of you and your browser within one session. It therefore allows you, provided you are logged in, to remain logged in and to access all pages of the login area. Storage duration: end of session.
b) Own cookies with longer lifetime
These cookies allow our website to recognize your browser on the long term. Consequently, we can adapt the contents also “tomorrow” or “next week”.
- These cookies are not used by us
c) Third-party cookies with longer lifetime
These cookies are also legible and writable by other websites. Thus also other services can access these data. This is especially interesting for adapted advertising and the linkage to “social networks”.
- These cookies are not used by us
5. Using Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze 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. Due to IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of 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. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating 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.
We only use Google Analytics with your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.
Recipient of the data: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Further information from the service provider: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004