PRIVACY POLICY

1. AN OVERVIEW OF DATA PROTECTION

GENERAL

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy below.

DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator's contact details can be found in the website's required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?

Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form.
Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

 

2. GENERAL INFORMATION AND MANDATORY INFORMATION

DATA PROTECTION

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

NOTICE CONCERNING THE PARTY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS WEBSITE

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:

s.m.s, smart microwave sensors GmbH
In den Waashainen 1
D-38108 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
Germany
Telephone: +49 531 39023-0
Email: info(at)smartmicro.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

REVOCATION OF YOUR CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

RIGHT TO FILE COMPLAINTS WITH REGULATORY AUTHORITIES

If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html 

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

INFORMATION, BLOCKING, DELETION

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

OPPOSITION TO PROMOTIONAL EMAILS

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.

 

3. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

STATUTORY DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Data Protection Team
s.m.s, smart microwave sensors GmbH
In den Waashainen 1
D-38108 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony
Germany
Telephone: +49 531 39023-0
Email: info(at)smartmicro.de


4. DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

SERVER LOG FILES

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:

  • Browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

 

5. SERVICES OF THIRD PARTIES

CLOUDFLARE PRIVACY STATEMENT

On our website we use Cloudflare by the company Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) to make our website faster and more secure. Hereby Cloudflare uses Cookies and processes user data. Cloudflare Inc. is an American company that has a Content Delivery Network and provides various types of security services. These services are located between the user and our hosting provider and function as Reverse Proxy for websites. Detailed information on this subject can be found below.

What is Cloudflare?

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) as provided by the company Cloudflare is a network of servers connected via the internet. Cloudflare dispersed such servers all over the world to make websites faster. Cloudflare makes copies of our website and places them on their own servers. When you visit our website a system of load distribution ensures that the largest parts of our website will be delivered by the server that can display our website the fastest. The route of data delivery to your browser is shortened significantly by a CDN. This way, the content of our website is delivered not only by our hosting server, but by servers from all over the world. Especially helpful is the usage of Cloudflare for users from abroad, because the website can be delivered by a server close by. Besides of the fast delivery of websites, Cloudflare offers various security services such as the DDoS-protection or the Web Application Firewall.

Why do we use Cloudflare on our website?

We want to offer you the best possible services with our website. Cloudflare helps us to make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare offers us web optimization as well as security services, such as the DDoS-protection and Web Firewall. It also includes a Reverse Proxy and the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Cloudflare blocks threats and limits abusive bots and crawlers that waste our bandwidth and server resources. By saving our website on local data centers and blocking spam software, Cloudflare enables to reduce our bandwidth usage by 60%. The provision of content via a data center in near you and web optimizations carries out there reduce the average loading time of a website by half. With the "I'm Under Attack Mode" further attacks can be weakened according to Cloudflare, whilst a JavaScript displays a computational task, that has to be solved before a user can access a website. Hereby, our website becomes significantly more efficient and less prone to spam our other attacks.

For further details, we strongly encourage you to read their own privacy policy.

FONT AWESOME PRIVACY STATEMENT

On our website we use web fonts or icons that are provided by the company Fonticons, Inc. in order to provide you a website structure as clear as possible. When using our website the browser automatically loads the required web fonts or icons in your browser cache to show texts, fonts and icons correctly. To do so, your browser connects to the servers of Fonticons, Inc. This way, Fonticons, Inc. is informed that our website is accessed via your IP address. The usage of Font Awesome is in the interest of a uniform display of our website.

For further details, we strongly encourage you to read their own privacy policy.

YOUTUBE PRIVACY STATEMENT

On our website we included YouTube videos. This way we can present interesting content directly on our website. YouTube is a video portal that is a subsidiary of Google LLC since 2006. The video portal is carried out by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you use a page on our website that includes a YouTube video, the browser connects to the servers of YouTube or Google automatically. Hereby, depending on the settings, different data are transmitted. Google is responsible for the entire data processing and the privacy policy of Google is valid. 

For further details, we strongly encourage you to read their own privacy policy.

COOKIEBOT PRIVACY STATEMENT

On our website we use functions by the provider Cookiebot. Behind Cookiebot is the company Cybot A/S, Havnegade 39, 1058 Kopenhagen, DK. Cookiebot offers us inter alia the possibility to provide you a detailed Cookie notice. By the usage of this function your data can be delivered to, or saved and processed by Cookiebot or Cybot.

What is Cookiebot?

Cookiebot is a software product by the company Cybot. The software creates a Cookie note for our website in accordance with the DSGVO automatically. The technology behind Cookiebot also scans, controls and evaluates all Cookies and tracking measures on our website.

Why do we use Cookiebot on our website?

We take data protection very seriously. We want to show you exactly what is happening on our website and which data of yours is saved. Cookiebot helps us to get a good overview over all our Cookies. This way we can inform you precisely and transparently about the Cookies on our website. You always get a current Cookie note in compliant with data security and can decide for yourself which Cookies you accept and which ones you decline.

For further details, we strongly encourage you to read their own privacy policy.