Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

We, Walter Henrich GmbH, as the operator of the online offer, are responsible for processing the personal data of the users of the online offer.

We take the protection of your privacy and your personal data very seriously. We collect, store, and use your personal data only in accordance with the content of this data protection declaration and the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the national data protection regulations.

With this data protection declaration, we want to inform you about the scope and purpose of the personal data processed in connection with the use of the online offer.

2. Controller and data protection contact

Walter Henrich GmbH is the controller responsible for processing personal data in connection with this website.

For questions about data protection or to exercise your rights, please contact us using the details below. You can address enquiries for our data protection officer to this contact point.

3. Personal data

Personal data are information about an identified or identifiable natural person.

You can generally use our online offer without disclosing your identity and without providing personal data.

No automated decision-making based on your personal data takes place in connection with the use of our online offer.

4. Processing and protection of personal data

We use technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including restricted access to data and protection against unauthorised processing.

Your personal data is transmitted over the Internet in encrypted form. We use SSL encryption (Secure Socket Layer) for data transmission.

5. Disclosure to third parties

We use your personal information solely for providing the services you request.

Data is disclosed where necessary to respond to your enquiry or perform a contract, where required by law, or where you have given consent. Processors may process data only on our instructions and subject to the agreed data protection obligations.

6. Legal basis of data processing

If we obtain consent from you for processing your personal data, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the data processing.

If the processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract or in the context of a contractual relationship with you, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. b) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the data processing.

If we process your personal data to fulfill a legal obligation, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. c) GDPR serves as the legal basis for the data processing.

Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f) GDPR may also serve as the legal basis for data processing.

In the context of this data protection declaration, we always point out on which legal basis we rely when processing your personal data.

7. Data deletion and retention

We generally delete or block your personal data as soon as the purpose for which they were stored ceases to apply.

8. Website use and technical data

Each time you access our online offer, we collect the following information about your computer, regardless of your registration: the IP address of your computer, the request from your browser, and the time of this request.

We use this data for the operation of the online offer, in particular to detect and remedy errors, to determine the utilization of the online offer, and to make adjustments or improvements.

9. Cookies and consent

Our online offer uses cookies and similar technologies. Where information is stored on or read from your device, this is done in accordance with § 25 TDDDG.

Technically necessary cookies are used so that the website and the functions you expressly request can be provided.

Where Google Analytics is configured for this website, it is loaded only after you consent to analytics cookies. Without this consent, the analytics service is not initialised.

You can revoke or adjust your consent at any time via the cookie settings in the footer.

10. Google Analytics

Where Google Analytics is enabled for this website and you have consented to analytics cookies, we use the service for statistical evaluations. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, Ireland.

As part of Google Analytics, Google uses cookies for the evaluations.

Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the online offer.

You can withdraw your consent through “Cookies & Tracking” in the footer. The legal basis for processing based on consent is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR; Section 25(1) TDDDG applies to storing or accessing information on your device. Use of Google services may involve processing outside the European Union.

Google privacy policy

Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics

11. Contact enquiries

You can contact us in various ways, including via the contact form on our website.

When you contact us, we process the contact details you provide and the content of your message to respond to your enquiry. This includes your name, email address, company and telephone number where supplied, and information about your request.

If your enquiry relates to preparing or performing a contract, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. We handle other enquiries on the basis of our legitimate interest in communicating with prospective and existing customers under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

12. Social media

Our online offer contains links to LinkedIn.

By clicking on the links, the corresponding social media pages will be opened, to which this privacy policy does not apply.

No transmission of personal information to the respective providers takes place before accessing the respective links.

LinkedIn privacy policy

13. Our LinkedIn account

In addition to our own online offer, we also operate an account on the career network LinkedIn.

We process the data you enter on LinkedIn insofar as we may like, comment, or share your posts or contact you and interact with you.

14. Data processing by LinkedIn

The data collected about you while using the service is processed by LinkedIn.

We have no influence on the type and scope of the data processed by LinkedIn, the type of processing and use, or the transfer of this data to third parties.

You have options to limit the processing of your data in the general settings of your LinkedIn account.

Learn more about LinkedIn's privacy settings here: LinkedIn Privacy.

LinkedIn privacy information

15. Analysis of our LinkedIn account

LinkedIn offers operators of LinkedIn accounts the ability to get an overview of the use of the account and its users.

We use the data to make our account as attractive and efficient as possible.

As far as we receive personal data in this context, we are responsible for the further processing of this data for evaluating the use of our LinkedIn account.

16. Communication through LinkedIn

On LinkedIn, you have the option of communicating directly with us.

If you contact us via LinkedIn, the data transmitted will be stored and used by us exclusively for responding to your inquiry.

17. More information about LinkedIn

If you have questions about the use of personal data by us in connection with the use of the LinkedIn account, you are welcome to contact us and our data protection officer.

If you have any questions about data protection at LinkedIn, we kindly ask you to contact LinkedIn directly.

18. Links to other websites

Our online offer may contain links to other websites. These links are usually marked as such.

19. Your rights

Subject to the statutory conditions, you have rights of access to your personal data, rectification of inaccurate data, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability (Articles 15 to 20 GDPR).

You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

Where processing is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you may object on grounds relating to your particular situation. You may object to processing for direct marketing at any time (Article 21 GDPR).

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR). In Rhineland-Palatinate, you can contact the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Data protection authority in Rhineland-Palatinate

20. Changes to this privacy policy

We update this privacy policy when our online services or the applicable legal requirements change.