Privacy Policy

• Visit of our website

In principle it is possible to visit our website without providing personal data.

To implement and guarantee the functionality of the website, we process the data transmitted to us by your Internet browser. These include the date and time of your visit to the website, the IP address, country of origin of the IP address, content of the request (specific page), browser settings, the amount of data transmitted in each case, the website from which the request comes, browser, language and version of the browser software and the operating system used.

• Newsletter

On our website we offer you to receive information about offers of our mouther company via newsletter.

For information concerning the processing of your personal data after registration to the newsletter please refer to the privacy policy of Windmöller & Hölscher.

The data processing within the scope of the newsletter is based on your consent. You have the right to revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter here and thus revoke your consent.

• Use of contact data

You can get in contact with us through e-mail addresses / phone numbers provided on our internet page. We collate, process and use the personal data and information provided by you via telephone, e-mail exclusively for the treatment of your request. This correspondence will only be stored under observation of the legal storage limits and will be deleted after the tax and commercial storage periods.

• Use of cookies

We use cookies, tracking tools, targeting methods and social media plug-ins on our website. These enable us to make the visit to our websites more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser by our web server when you visit our website and are stored by the browser on your computer for later retrieval.

We distinguish between the following categories of cookies:

Essential: These technologies are necessary to enable the core functionalities of the website.

Functional: These technologies allow us to provide certain features of the website, including embedded videos, maps or content from social media plugins.

Statistics and Analytics: These technologies allow us to analyze the use of the website in order to measure and improve performance.

Information about the uded cookies as well as the setting, which cookies we may use during your visit and which data is stored and transmitted in the process, etc. can be viewed and managed at any time in the cookie banner.

• Social-Media-Plug-ins

We currently use the social media plug-in Xing and the following social media plug-ins of our mother company Windmöller & Hölscher: LinkedIn, Xing and YouTube. We use the so-called two-click solution. This means that when you visit our site, no personal data is initially passed on to the providers of the plug-ins. You can recognize the provider of the plug-in by the marking on the box above its initial letter or the logo. We offer you the possibility to communicate directly with the provider of the plug-in via the button. Only if you click on the marked field and thereby activate it, the plug-in provider receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding website of our online offer. In addition, the data mentioned under point Visit of our website of this declaration will be transmitted. In the case of Xing, the IP address is anonymized immediately after collection, according to the respective provider in Germany. By activating the plug-in, personal data is transferred from you to the respective plug-in provider and stored there (for US providers in the USA). Since the plug-in provider collects data mainly via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies before clicking on the grayed-out box using your browser's security settings.

The plug-in providers save the data collected about you as user profiles and use these for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation takes place in particular (also for not logged in users) for the representation of demand-fair advertisement and in order to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have a right of objection to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right. Through the plug-ins we offer you the possibility to interact with social networks and other users, so that we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user.

The data is transferred regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in there. If you are logged in with the plug-in provider, your data collected with us will be directly assigned to your existing account with the plug-in provider. If you click the activated button and, for example, link the page, the plug-in provider also stores this information in your user account and shares it publicly with your contacts. We recommend that you log out regularly after using a social network, especially before activating the button, as this way you can avoid being assigned to your profile with the plug-in provider.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the data protection declarations of these providers as notified below. They will also provide you with further information about your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy.

Addresses of the respective plug-in providers and URL with their data protection information:

LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Xing AG, Gänsemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg, Germany: https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, California 94066, USA: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

• Integration of Google Maps

On this website we use the offer of Google Maps. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function.

By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under point Visit of our website of this declaration above will be transmitted. This is regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in with or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such evaluation takes place in particular (even for unlogged-in users) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the provider's privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

Legal basis

We process your personal data in accordance with

• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) of the GDPR for the purpose of contract fulfillment. This includes providing of the content on our websites for our website visitors. The same applies to the processing of personal data in connection with the processing of your requests communicated by e-mail / phone.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR, in so far as you have granted your consent. This includes sending of a newsletter.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR, to the extent that we have a legitimate interest therein, unless your interests or fundamental rights that require the protection of your personal data outweigh this. This includes, for example, the use of cookies, the use of tools for evaluation of your user behavior on our websites and the integration of social-media-plug-ins.

We process your personal data only for the purposes for which we have received or collected this data. If we intend to process data for other purposes that are not founded on consent or a legal provision, we shall provide you with information about this other purpose prior to further processing in accordance with Articles 13, 14 of the GDPR.

Forwarding within/outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH and forwarding to a third country

Transfer of your personal data for the fulfillment of the contract or implementation of pre-contractual/post-contractual activities within Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH takes place in the departments that require this data and, outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH, in supporting service providers such as logistics companies, financial service providers, insurance companies, legal advisers as well as financial authorities, law enforcement authorities in so far as a reporting, verification or legal obligation exists.

In addition, your personal data is forwarded on the basis of a legitimate interest within the Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH, for example, to Marketing for advertising purposes and outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH to group companies.

To the extent that these companies process your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), this takes place only if the EU commission has confirmed that the third country possesses an appropriate level of data protection or other appropriate data protection safeguards are present.

Duration of data storage

We process the data for as long as this is required for the respective purpose. To the extent that your data is subject to tax, commercial law or other legal retention obligations, the data shall be stored until the expiry of the aforementioned deadlines. If we have saved your data for advertising purposes, we shall delete this data at the time at which you revoke your consent to further advertising contact. This does not apply as long as this data is subject to a statutory retention obligation.

Non-availability of data

In order to use our website, it is technically necessary that certain the data are collected and processed. Without this data, we are not in the position to provide the content of our website. Furthermore, we only can process your request if you provide us with data required by contacting us (e. g. regarding the request for an offer, application).

We process personal data which we receive from you within the scope of a business relationship or when establishing a business relationship. In addition, we process data that we have obtained from public directories (e.g. press, commercial registry, Internet) in compliance with the data protection legal guidelines.

Personal data is usually contact data of the business partners such as name, title, address, position and function as well as all data relevant to the business relationship that is necessary for the initiation, conclusion, processing or termination of contracts.

Legal basis

We process your personal data in accordance with

• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) of the GDPR for the purpose of contract fulfillment. This includes sending information and offers in the pre-contractual stage provided that you have made inquiries with us regarding our products/services as well as in the post-contractual stage when processing complaints, spare parts deliveries and services.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter c) of the GDPR, for the fulfilment of legal obligations. These include, for example, obligations under trade and tax laws, EU regulations, comparisons (compliance checks) with national and international sanctions- and anti-terror lists.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR, to the extent that we have a legitimate interest therein, unless your interests or fundamental rights that require the protection of your personal data outweigh this. This includes, for example, the transmission of data within the corporate group for internal administrative purposes, guaranteeing IT security and IT operations, requests regarding satisfaction, assessment of the credit quality of the business party, etc.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR, in so far as you have granted your consent.

We process your personal data only for the purposes for which we have received or collected this data. If we intend to process data for other purposes that are not founded on consent or a legal provision, we shall provide you with information about this other purpose prior to further processing in accordance with Articles 13, 14 of the GDPR.

Forwarding within/outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH and forwarding to a third country

Transfer of your personal data for the fulfillment of the contract or implementation of pre-contractual/post-contractual activities within Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH takes place in the departments that require this data and, outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH, in supporting service providers such as logistics companies, financial service providers, insurance companies, legal advisers as well as financial authorities, law enforcement authorities in so far as a reporting, verification or legal obligation exists.

In addition, your personal data is forwarded on the basis of a legitimate interest within the Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH, for example, to Marketing for advertising purposes and outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH to group companies.

To the extent that these companies process your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), this takes place only if the EU commission has confirmed that the third country possesses an appropriate level of data protection or other appropriate data protection safeguards are present.

Salesforce Sales Cloud

We use Salesforce Sales Cloud to manage customer data. The provider is salesforce.com Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Str. 31, 80636 Munich (hereinafter referred to as "Salesforce").  Salesforce Sales Cloud is a CRM system and allows us, for example, to manage existing and potential customers, as well as customer contacts and to organize sales and communication processes. The use of the CRM system also enables us to analyze our customer-related processes.

The processing of personal data takes place mainly within the European Union (EU), as we have limited our central storage location to data centers in the EU.  We cannot exclude the possibility that data in a Salesforce product will be processed on servers outside the EU.

We have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with Salesforce Inc. to ensure an adequate level of data protection. Salesforce has Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) approved by the French Data Protection Authority. These are binding corporate rules that legitimize the company's internal data transfer to third countries outside the EU and the EEA. For details, see Salesforce's Privacy Policy:

https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/full_privacy/

Duration of data storage

We process the data for as long as this is required for the respective purpose. To the extent that your data is subject to tax, commercial law or other legal retention obligations, the data shall be stored until the expiry of the aforementioned deadlines. If we have saved your data for advertising purposes, we shall delete this data at the time at which you revoke your consent to further advertising contact. This does not apply as long as this data is subject to a statutory retention obligation.

Non-availability of data

Contract negotiations, the conclusion of the contract and the fulfillment of a contract require that certain the data is collected and processed. Without this data, we are not in the position to provide contractual services.

We process personal data which we receive from you within the scope of application procedure. This includes in particular any data and information out of your curriculum vitae (full name, nationality), application letter (contact data e.g. address, telephone number, and e-mail address), certificates (e.g. qualification, grades), certificates of participation and assessments from third-parties (e.g. employer references). In addition, we process data concerning a severe disability or previous conviction which you indicated in your application.

Legal basis

We process your personal data in accordance with

• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) of the GDPR in connection with § 26 BDSG (new) for the purpose of contract fulfillment this means for creation or implementation of the working relationship.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR, to the extent that we have a legitimate interest therein, unless your interests or fundamental rights that require the protection of your personal data outweigh this. This includes, for example, the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR in connection with § 26 para. 2 BDSG (new), in so far as you have granted your consent. This includes, for example, the storage of your data beyond the legally required period.
• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter c) of the GDPR in connection with § 26 BDSG, to satisfy our legal obligations as employer especially in the areas of tax and social insurance law in case of employment contract.

We process your personal data only for the purposes for which we have received or collected this data. If we intend to process data for other purposes that are not founded on consent or a legal provision, we shall provide you with information about this other purpose prior to further processing in accordance with Articles 13, 14 of the GDPR.

Forwarding within/outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH and forwarding to a third country

Transfer of your personal data within Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH takes place in the specialty departments which need them for the proper application process (responsible specialty department for the processing of the application and specialty department, in which the applicant is going to employ). Outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH a transfer of your personal takes place to out mother company Windmöller & Hölscher KG. In principle, data will not be transferred to third countries unless your application relates to jobs advertised by our group of companies in third countries or you have given us your consent.

Duration of data storage

We process the data for as long as this is required for application process. If no employment relationship is concluded, we delete the data 6 months after decision for letter of refusal as far as a longer storage due to legal disputes is not necessary. Did you granted your consent for storage of your data beyond the legally required period, they will be stored for a period of two years according to § 226 papa. 2 BDSG (new).

Non-availability of data

Providing of your personal data is necessary for initiation and if applicable conclusion of an employment contracts. Without this data, we are not in the position to process your application and to conclude a contract with you.

We process personal data which we receive from you within the scope of events (as organizer and co-operation partner).

Legal basis

We process your personal data in accordance with

• Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR, to the extent that we have a legitimate interest therein, unless your interests or fundamental rights that require the protection of your personal data outweigh this. Publication takes place on the basis of §§ 22, 23 KUG

Our legitimate interest lies in the documentation of corporate events and trade fairs, in particular for press and public relations work and to present the company's activities in order to increase awareness, strengthen the brand and promote participation in comparable events and activities.

The implementation takes place through the production of photos, image and sound recordings of events, speakers, participants and guests.

This will be indicated in a suitable manner both at the electronic event registration and at the event location.

We process your personal data only for the purposes for which we have received or collected this data. If we intend to process data for other purposes that are not founded on consent or a legal provision, we shall provide you with information about this other purpose prior to further processing in accordance with Articles 13, 14 of the GDPR.

Forwarding within/outside of Garant Maschinenhandel GmbH and forwarding to a third country

We publish the photos/videos on the following channels: websites, advertising material, advertisements in print magazines, online banner advertising, direct mailings, e-mail newsletters, third-party press reports, social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing, Youtube).

Duration of data storage

We process the data for as long as this is required for the respective purpose.

Our company offers people the opportunity to participate in digital events where visitors attend live machine demonstrations, webinars, video conferences, digital meetings (hereinafter: “virtual events”).

Participants in virtual events can register for the virtual events using the registration/contact form and receive a password-protected user account or an invitation from us by e-mail.

All the personal data you provide in relation to the virtual events will be saved: for instance your first name/last name and e-mail address.The user profile with your name will also be visible to other participants of the event, as will any information you have added yourself, such as your photo. You can use the question and answer functions anonymously. If you post using your name, this will also be visible to other participants.The meeting metadata collected includes the title of the meeting, participant IP addresses, device/hardware information and, if applicable, the following additional data.

With recordings (optional): MP4 file of all video, audio and presentation recordings, M4A file of all audio recordings, text file of the online meeting chat.

When dialing in by phone: Information on the incoming and outgoing number, name of the country, start and end time. If necessary, additional connection data, such as the IP address of the device, can be saved.

If we wish to record virtual events or chat events, we will transparently inform you of this in advance and - if need be - ask for your consent.

No automated decision-making is used, as referred to in Art. 22 General Data Protection regulation (GDPR).