Personal data
Personal data is information concerning your identity. This includes e.g. your name, address, phone number, email address. It is not required that you input personal data in order to use our Internet site. In certain cases, however, we need your name and your address as well as other information to allow us to provide the requested service.

This also applies for sending information material and goods ordered, or answering individual questions. Where this is required, we draw your attention to this. In addition to this, we only store and process data you provide to us voluntarily or automatically.

If you use services, as a rule only those data are requested that we need to provide the services. To the extent that we request additional data this is voluntary information. Personal data are only processed to perform the requested service and to protect our own justified business interests.

Purpose of personal data
The personal data provided by you are generally used by us to reply to your inquiry, process your orders, or provide access to certain information or offers. In addition, it may be required to maintain the customer relationship that we or a contracted service provider use(s) these personal data in order to inform you about product offerings that may be useful for your business activities, or to perform online surveys to improve performance of our customers' requirements.

We of course respect if you do not want to provide your personal data to us in support of our customer relations (in particular for direct marketing or for market research purposes). We will neither sell your personal data to third parties nor otherwise market them.

Appropriate use
We acquire, process or use the personal data provided by you online only for the purposes stated. Your personal data will only be forwarded to third parties upon your required consent.

Surveys of personal data as well as their transmission to government institutions and authorities is only performed under applicable law, respectively if we are obligated to do so by a judicial decision. Our employees and the service providers contracted by us are obligated by us to confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Law.

Non-personal data acquired automatically
When you use our Internet pages, the following data are stored for organizational and technical reasons: the names of the pages retrieved, the browser and operating system used, date and time of access, search engines used, names of files downloaded and your IP address.

We analyze these technical data anonymously and for statistical purposes only in order to continuously optimize our Internet site, and to allow us to make our Internet offering more attractive. These anonymous data are stored separately from personal information on secured systems and do not allow conclusions to a specific person. Your personal data and your privacy are thus always protected.

Cookies
When you visit one of our Web Sites, it is possible that we store information on your computer in the form of a cookie. Cookies are small text files sent by a web server to your browser and stored to the hard disk of your computer.

No user personal data are stored, but only the Internet Protocol address. This information is used to automatically identify you during your next visit to our web sites and facilitate navigation for your. For example, cookies allow us to adapt a web site to your interests or store your password, so that you do not have to enter it every time.

Of course, you may also view our web sites without cookies. If you do not wish that we recognize your computer, you may prevent the storage of cookies on your hard disk by selecting the browser setting "Do not accept cookies". How precisely this is done is described in the manual of your browse. However, if you do not accept cookies, this may result in restrictions to the functionality of our offerings.

Children
Persons under 18 years of age should not transmit personal data to us without their parents' consent. We do not request personal data from children and adolescents, do not collect or forwarded them to third parties.

Security
We have taken technical and organizational security measured to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorized access. All of our employees and all third parties involved in data processing are obligated to comply with the Federal Data Protection Law and handle personal data in confidence.

For acquisition and processing of personal data, this information is transmitted encrypted in order to prevent abuse of these data by third parties. Our security measures are continuously revised according to technological developments.

Modification of data protection provisions
We reserve the right to modify our security and data protection measures to the extent required by technical developments. In this case, we will also adapt our technical information on data protection appropriately. Therefore, please not the current version of our data protection statement.

Links
If you use external links offered on our Internet pages, this data protection statement does not cover these links. If we offer links, we attempt to ensure that they comply with our standards of data protection and security. However, we have no influence on compliance with data protection and security provisions by other suppliers. Therefore, please inform yourself on the Internet sits of the other suppliers about the data protection statements provided there.

Right of information
You may obtain information about your data stored by us at any time. If necessary, please write to Heinrich Bareiss Prüfgerätebau GmbH, Mrs. Nicole Schuldt, Breiteweg 1, D-89610 Oberdischingen or send an email message to schuldt@bareiss.de.

Right of rescission
In addition, you may at any time rescind your consent to acquisition and storage of your personal data by us.

If necessary, please write to Heinrich Bareiss Prüfgerätebau GmbH, Mrs. Nicole Schuldt, Breiteweg 1, D-89610 Oberdischingen or send an email message to schuldt@bareiss.de.

Questions, ideas, complaints
If you have further questions about our information about data protection and processing of your personal data, you may directly contact our data protection representative.

Mr. Christoph Boser
Bechtle GmbH / IT Systemhaus
Amalie-Hofer-Strasse 4
D 77656 Offenburg
Email: christoph.boser@bechtle.com

He will also be available to you in case of information requests, ideas, or if you have complaints.