Privacy notice

Thank you very much for visiting our website. The protection of your personal data and your privacy is important to us and we would like you to feel safe when you use our website. We process your personal data in accordance with the contents of this privacy notice, the relevant national data protection regulations, and the EU General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”).

Below, we give you an overview of which information we collect and process.
You can reach our data protection officer at datenschutz(at)brunnen.de or +49 (0)7131 886-464.

Baier & Schneider GmbH & Co. KG, Wollhausstraße 60-62, 74072 Heilbronn (“we”), in our capacity as the operator of the websites www.knorrprandell.com  (“Website”) shall be the controller as defined in the GDPR and in other national data protection regulations.

In the event that you have any concerns with respect to data protection or privacy issues, please contact our data protection officer, Rita Stanicki, at datenschutz(at)brunnen.de or +49 (0)7131 886-464.

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Personal data also include information about your use of our website: such information is usually collected by the use of log files or cookies. You will find more information about log files and cookies below.

The scope and method of our collection, processing, and use of your data differs depending on whether you visit our internet presence solely to obtain generally accessible information or make use of any services beyond that.

a) Use for information only

If you use our website for information only, it is generally not necessary for you to enter any personal data.

In that case, we only collect the data that are, if any, automatically transmitted by your internet browser, when you visit our website, for example:

• Referrer (website visited before)
• Requested web page or file
• Browser type and version
• Used operating system
• Used device type
• Time of access
• IP address in an anonymized form (will only be used to determine the location of access)

For this, your computer’s IP address is only stored as long as you use the website - in so-called log files - and is thereafter immediately deleted or anonymized by truncation. All other data are stored for a limited period of time. We use these data to operate our website, in particular to identify and remove faults from our website, to determine our website’s utilization, and to make adjustments or improvements.

b) Use of other services

Insofar as you use other services of our company through our website, it may be required that you enter personal data. In that case, your data is only processed for the purpose of providing the services requested by you.

c) Use of the ordering platform PBSeasy

As our customer, you can use this website to shop at our online shop. This online shop is based on the ordering platform PBSeasy that is operated by the company PBS Network GmbH, Rosensteinstraße 9, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. In addition to the data privacy instructions described in this document, the data privacy instructions from PBS Network GmbH apply as well.

In this respect, PBS Network GmbH acts as the processor and we entered into a data processing agreement with them. In addition to the above mentioned data that are collected during visits for information only, we also process other categories of data in the event that you open an account with us or make purchases: personal master data (e.g. name, date of birth), contact data (e.g. address, telephone number, email address), contract and payment data. You will find more information about how we process your data as your business partner under number 13.

At our website, you can contact us via our contact form or by email. The personal data that you enter when contacting us are only used to process your enquiry and are then immediately deleted from the web server. Please note that we may be obligated to store your communications to comply with any statutory retention obligations. Subject to our statements below, we will not disclose your data to any third parties.

If you have given us your consent, we will use Google Analytics from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, to measure its reach. Please take note that your data will also be transferred to the USA. You will find Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

We use it to analyze and measure the reach of our online services. For example, we can identify the times at which our online services or its functions or contents are used most commonly or invite users to revisit. It will also help us understand which areas require optimization. Google may use the collected data for analysis and its own advertising activities too.

In this context, user profiles can be created and stored in cookies. These may include information such as visited websites, viewed content, time and duration of use, used browser type or computer system. The collected data is stored using pseudonyms only, i.e. they cannot be attributed to names or e-mail addresses.

You can install a browser plugin that prevents the analysis of your data by Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?

We integrated functions and content elements in our online services that are made available through the servers of the respective providers (hereinafter referred to as “Third-party Providers”). These may include, for example, graphics, videos, or social media buttons or postings (hereinafter referred to as “Content”).
To allow Third-party Providers to send Content to your browser, it is required that they process your IP address. Third-party Providers can also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics that are also known as web beacons). These pixel tags can analyze visitor traffic on websites for statistical or marketing purposes. This pseudonymous information can also be stored in cookies on your device and contain, among other things, technical information about your browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit, and other information about the use of our online services, and it can be linked with other information of this type from other sources.
Insofar as we ask you for your consent to the use of such Content, the use of such Content is based on your consent. Otherwise, the use of such Content is based on our interest in an efficient, economic, and user-friendly presentation of our website.
We integrated the following Contents into our website:

a) Google Maps

This website uses the mapping service Google Maps that is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To use the Google Maps functions, it is necessary to store your IP address. We have no influence on the transfer of this information but draw your attention to the fact that your data will also be transferred to the USA. To view Google’s privacy policy, visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.

We operate social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, XING, LinkedIn) to inform customers, potential customers, and users about our products and services. In this connection, your data may be processed outside of the European Union which could complicate the enforcement of your privacy rights.

The respective social media companies process the data of their users for advertising purposes and for market research purposes. The collected data can be used to create user profiles in order to place advertisements that match the presumed interests of the users. Cookies are also used for this to collect the user behaviour data and analyze it.

Our processing of personal data is based on our legitimate interest in an efficient information of and communication with the users.
To exercise your data privacy rights, you can contact us or the respective social media companies. In the event that you contact us, we will forward your concern to the respective company because only the company can access your data in order to provide information or take the respective measures.

We have presences in the following social networks:

Facebook (Meta Plattforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland).
Together with Meta, we are responsible for the collection – but not the further processing through Meta – of the data of the visitors of our Facebook page. We entered into an agreement with Meta about the joint processing of personal data (https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum).
You will find Meta’s data privacy statement that provides information about the data collected and processed by Meta at https://www.facebook.com/policy and specific information about pages at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data.
As a user of Facebook, you can also opt out at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

Instagram (Meta Plattforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland).
You will find the data privacy instructions and opt-out options at https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

XING (New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Deutschland).
You will find the data privacy instructions and opt-out options at https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy.

LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland).
To view LinkedIn’s privacy policy, visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. As a user of LinkedIn, you can also opt out at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

Youtube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland).
To view Youtube’s privacy policy, visit https://policies.google.com/privacy. As a user of Youtube, you can also opt out at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

Your personal data could be transferred or disclosed to other companies or persons while they are processed. Such other companies or persons, in particular, could be providers of services that are integrated into this website, payment institutions, or IT services providers.

Within our group of companies, your data are transferred to dedicated affiliated companies if your request requires this, or if these companies provide shared data processing services for the affiliated companies within the group.

Otherwise, we do not disclose your personal data to any third parties, unless we are entitled or obligated to transfer the data based on statutory provisions or official or judicial orders. This may include but is not limited to requests for information for the purpose of criminal prosecution, to avert danger, or to enforce intellectual property rights.

Unless mentioned otherwise in this data protection notice, any information that you submit to us will be stored on servers that are located within the European Union. We protect our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, modification, or disclosure of your data by unauthorized persons by means of technical and organizational measures.

You are entitled to:

• Obtain information, free of charge, about the personal data we store about you (right of access
• Require us to confirm whether we process personal data relating to you (right to confirmation)
• Require us to immediately delete the personal data relating to you to the extent that their processing is no longer required and that any further requirements under the GDPR with respect to erasure are fulfilled (right to erasure)
• Require immediate correction or completion of any incorrect personal data relating to you (right to rectification)
• Require to restrict the processing of your personal data (right to restriction of processing)
• Obtain the personal data relating to you in a structured, customary, and machine-readable format (right to data portability)
• Object to the processing of your personal data (right to objection)
• Not being subjected to a decision that is solely based on automated processes – including profiling – that legally affects you or significantly impairs you in a similar way (right to individual decision-making)
• Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data in the future at any time
• Lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in charge of data protection if you are of the opinion that the processing of the personal data relating to you violates the GDPR (right to lodge a complaint).

For any further information about your rights, please contact our data protection officer.

We process and store personal data only as long as it is necessary to fulfill their purpose and in no event any longer than the statutory retention and storage periods. After their purpose is fulfilled or the statutory retention and storage periods have expired, the personal data are deleted or made unavailable in accordance with the data privacy regulations.

You will find this information about the processing of your data and your rights in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulations under Information for business partners and potential customers in accordance with Art. 13 / Art. 14 GDPR.