Privacy statement

We are pleased to have you visit our web page and thank you for your interest. Protection of our users’ personal data is a central issue for us. Please therefore familiarise yourself with the following information.

The provisions below inform you about the collection, processing and use of your personal data in connection with your visit to and use of the services offered on our website.

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1. Data controller

The data controller responsible for data collection, data processing and data use is the operator of the website www.lindner-fischer.com.

Lindner & Fischer
Fahrzeugbau GmbH
Riedheimer Str. 34
89129 Langenau
(hereinafter known as Lindner & Fischer)

2. Data protection officer

The contact details of the data protection officer are:

Thomas Aigner

datenschutz@lindner-fischer.com

3. Basic principles

We collect and process your personal data in compliance with the pertinent statutory provisions, particularly the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter known as the “GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter known as the “BDSG”) as well as in accordance with the following provisions.

4. Personal data

Personal data are all items of information concerning an identifiable or identified natural person. These include, for example, name, address, telephone number, email address, IP address, user name, password, preferences, hobbies, memberships or information about which web pages have been viewed by a visitor.

5. Collection, processing and use of your personal data, log files

Each time our website is accessed, certain elements of usage data are transmitted by the respective Internet browser and stored in log files, the so-called server log files. These consist of the following data:

Date and time of your access to our website

IP address of the inquiring computer

Name and URL of the retrieved file

Volume of data transferred

Message indicating whether the retrieval was successful

These data are collected and processed for the purposes of enabling you to use our website (establishing a connection), ensuring system security, technically managing the network infrastructure, providing information to law enforcement authorities in the event of a cyber-attack or misuse and optimising our offer.

When you leave our website, these data will be erased after 30 days – subject to any statutory or official storage obligations.

The legal basis for the collection, storage and use of this data is our legitimate interest in being able to provide you the information on our website without impairment and guarantee the requisite security (art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR).

6. Contact initiation

If you contact us using the contact form provided under the “Contact” item, we will collect and store your selected form of address, your name, the company to which you belong, your email address and the content of your message that you send to us. These are the mandatory details on our contact form.

If you contact us by email, we will collect and store your email address, your name and the content of your message.

We will store and use your personal data for the purposes of answering your enquiries or processing your messages, or further subsequent enquiries or communication.

Once communication with you has ended, these data will be erased – subject to any statutory or official storage obligations or the lawfulness of processing of the data on another legal basis. This will occur one year at the latest after we have no longer communicated with you.

The legal bases for processing your personal data are our legitimate interest in being able to communicate with you in order to reply to your messages (art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR) and your consent (art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) of the GDPR), insofar as you have granted this to us. Please refer to our explanations under item 12 regarding withdrawal of your consent.

7. Cookies

We use so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are deposited on your end device (PC, tablet, etc.) by the Internet server or are generated by an embedded script. A cookie can only contain information that we ourselves send to your computer – personal data cannot be read out.

We use cookies that are either briefly stored in your working memory before being deleted again as soon as you close your browser (session cookies), or cookies that are stored in your storage medium for a longer period of time (temporary cookies).

A session cookie assigns a randomly generated string of characters (session ID) the first time a page is accessed, which is assigned to your end device to control the connection and clearly distinguish it from other visitors accessing the page at the same time, thus identifying the respective page visit. This cookie contains the session ID in which the accessing Internet server and the access time are encrypted. We use session cookies to maintain the connection during your visit to our website.

We use temporary cookies exclusively to design our offer for you in a needs-based and convenient manner and to make it easier for you to use our offer by not having to re-enter certain items of information when you use it repeatedly and by quickly redirecting you to our offer. Temporary cookies are deleted automatically after a certain period of inactivity (defined session timeout). Inactivity means that you have no longer visited our website in the meantime. The defined session timeout is usually three years from your first identification by the temporary cookie.

The legal basis for processing your data is our legitimate interest in the technical functionality of our website as well as the improvement of our service offer on the website (art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit f) GDPR) and your consent (art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit a) of the GDPR). Please refer to our explanations under item 7 regarding withdrawal of your consent.

You can use your browser settings to reject cookies, delete them from your computer, block them or activate the function so that you are always prompted before a cookie is set. Accepting cookies is not required in order to use our website.

Example in the Internet Explorer browser:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Select the item “Internet Options” in the “Extras” menu.
3. Click on the “Privacy” tab
4. You can now configure whether cookies are to be accepted, selected or rejected.
5. Confirm your setting with “OK”

Example in the Firefox browser:

1. Open the Firefox browser.
2. Select the item “Settings” in the “Extras” menu.
3. Click on the “Privacy” tab
4. Select the entry “create according to user-defined settings” in the drop-down menu
5. You can now set whether cookies are to be accepted, how long you want to keep these cookies and can add as exceptions which websites you always or never want to allow to use cookies.
6. Confirm your setting with “OK”.

Example in the Safari browser:

1. Open the Safari browser.
2. Select “Settings” on the toolbar (pictogram: grey cog in the upper right corner) and click on “Privacy”.
3. Under “Accept cookies”, you can define whether and when Safari should accept cookies from websites. For further information, click on “Help” (?).
4. If you wish to obtain further information about cookies that are stored on your computer, click on “Show cookies”.

8. Order processing

Notwithstanding any other provisions, we reserve the right to transfer your data to third parties (order processors) commissioned by us on the basis of the aforementioned legal bases (e.g. within the scope of IT support, file destruction). Agreements on order processing always exist with the service providers commissioned in this way. These ensure that the data thus disclosed are only used by our agents to accomplish the tasks specified by us in accordance with the aforementioned purpose and in compliance with the necessary technical and organisational measures for data security and privacy.

9. Data disclosure to third parties

Otherwise, your personal data will not be communicated to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We will only disclose your personal data to third parties if:

– you have given you express consent to this according to art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. a) of the GDPR;

disclosure according to art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f) of the GDPR is necessary to assert, exercise and defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding and legitimate interest in not disclosing your data;

– in the event that a statutory obligation for the disclosure exists according to art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. c) of the GDPR and likewise

– this is legally permissible and necessary according to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) of the GDPR for the processing of contractual relationships with you.

10. Encryption/data security

1. Your data are collected, processed and used via our website exclusively in encrypted form using SSL encryption (so-called Secure Socket Layer). SSL is used to encrypt the continuous data stream on the Internet between the server and a user’s browser in order to prevent “surreptitious interception and reading” – within the bounds of technical possibility. You can tell an SSL connection, among other aspects, by the fact that the URL is marked with “https://” in the address bar of your browser and/or a “padlock symbol” (icon) appears next to the address bar of our web browser. By clicking on the icon, you can obtain further information about the encryption and/or the SSL certificate used, depending on the browser you are using.
2. We wish to point out that it is not possible to fully guarantee data security by means of email communication. Delivery by post or messenger may be preferable for the transmission of confidential information.
3. Furthermore, we use all reasonable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are constantly improved and further developed in line with technological progress.

11. Deletion of the data/restriction of data processing

In principle, your data will be erased if your consent has been withdrawn or they are no longer required for the purpose of data processing and there is also no longer a legitimate interest in their continued storage and processing. If, however, these data still require to be stored owing to existing statutory, official, or contractual obligations (e.g. warranty, financial accounting), the data processing will be restricted by marking and blocking these data.

12. Analysis tools

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyze the behavior of website visitors. The website operator receives various usage data, such as: E.g. page views, length of stay, operating systems used and origin of the user. Google may summarize this data in a profile that is assigned to the respective user or their device.

Furthermore, we can use Google Analytics, among other things. Record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks. Furthermore, Google Analytics uses various modeling approaches to complement the data sets collected and uses machine learning technologies in data analysis.

Google Analytics uses technologies that enable user recognition for the purpose of analyzing user behavior (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google about the use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. If appropriate consent has been requested (e.g. consent to the storage of cookies), processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

Browser Plugin

You can prevent Google from collecting and processing your data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

You can find more information about how Google Analytics handles user data in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Order processing

We have concluded an order processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Storage period

User and event-level data stored by Google that is linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. User ID) or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android advertising ID) is anonymized after 2 months or deleted. Details can be found at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=de

Matomo

This website uses the open source web analysis service Matomo. The information collected by Matomo about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymized before storage. When analyzing with Matomo, we use IP anonymization. Your IP address is shortened before analysis so that it can no longer be clearly assigned to you.

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior in order to optimize its website.

13. Rights of those affected

As a data subject, you are entitled to the following rights:

Right to information (art. 15 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to request information about the personal data we have stored concerning your person. You are entitled to request information about the personal data we have stored concerning your person. This encompasses in particular information about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the duration of storage, the existence of a right of rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if these have not been collected by us and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about their details. You also have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that undergo processing by us.

Right to rectification (art. 16 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to demand that we immediately rectify any inaccurate personal data and complete any incomplete personal data.

Right to erasure/right to “be forgotten” (art. 17 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to demand that we erase your personal data, subject to the statutory requirements. Insofar as statutory and official storage obligations oppose deletion or the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or assert, exercise or defend legal claims, the processing of the data will be restricted (see below).

Right to restriction of processing (art. 18 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data, i.e. mark the data and restrict their future processing (blocking), subject to the statutory requirements.

Right to data portability (art. 20 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to demand, subject to the statutory requirements, that we transfer to you or to a data controller designated by you the personal data that you have provided in a commonly used, structured and machine-readable format.

Right to object to direct marketing (art. 21 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to file an objection at any time against the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes (“objection to advertising”).

Right to object to data processing on the legal basis of “legitimate interest” (art. 21 of the GDPR)

You are entitled to object to data processing by us at any time, insofar as this is based on the legal basis of “legitimate interest”. We will cease processing the data in this case, unless we can prove – in accordance with the statutory requirements – compelling legitimate grounds for further processing that outweigh your rights.

Right to withdraw consent (art. 7, paragraph 3 of the GDPR)

If you have granted us consent to collection and processing of your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of processing of your data in the past until the time of withdrawal shall nevertheless remain unaffected. Please note that we may, where appropriate, continue to collect and process your data despite withdrawal, if this is necessary and permissible on another legal basis (e.g. for fulfilment of an existing contractual relationship with you, owing to a legitimate interest, or owing to a legal obligation).

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (art. 77 of the GDPR)

You may file a complaint before the competent supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your data violates applicable law. You have the option of contacting the data protection authority responsible for your place of residence or your country for this purpose or also the data protection authority responsible for us.

14. Up-to-dateness and amendment of the privacy statement

This privacy statement is currently valid and was last revised on 25th March 2024.

Owing to further development of our website and offers made or owing to modified statutory or official requirements, it may become necessary to amend this privacy statement.

You can retrieve, print out and save the respective current privacy statement at any time on the website at Privacy.

Lindner & Fischer
Fahrzeugbau GmbH
Riedheimer Str. 34
89129 Langenau

Authorised to represent are Stefan Lindner, Harald Doll

Commercial register: Local Court of Ulm HRB 2021

Value added tax ID: DE 14 70 32 84 2

Data protection officer: Thomas Aigner – Email: datenschutz@lindner-fischer.com

As of: March 25, 2024