Thank you for visiting our company website. Protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below you will find extensive information about how we handle your data.
You may visit our website without revealing any personal information. With every visit on the website, the web server stores automatically only a so-called server log file which contains e.g. the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of the request, the volume of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data), and documents the request.
These access data are analyzed exclusively for the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of the website and improving our offer. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in the proper presentation of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. All access data are deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit on our website.
Hosting services provided by a third party provider
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides hosting and website presentation services for us. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our offer, which outweigh our interests in the context of a balancing of interests. All data collected in the course of using this website or in forms provided for this purpose in the customer area as described below are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework explained here.
This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
We use the open-source web analytics service Matomo for our website to analyze activity on our website and improve the user experience with our website and make it more user-friendly.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (1) GDPR.
With your consent, Matomo uses cookies for analysis. Cookies are small text files that your web browser stores on your device and enable analysis of website usage. Information generated by cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to a Matomo server and stored there.
Your IP address is immediately anonymized during this process so that individual users cannot be identified.
The information generated about your use of this website is transmitted to a server in the EU and stored there. The servers are provided by InnoCraft GmbH or its subcontractors. For further information, see matomo.org/matomo-cloud-privacy-policy.
The data will be deleted as soon as you revoke your consent or the data is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. As a rule, the data is deleted 14 months after it is provided.
You can prevent Matomo from tracking you on our website at any time by unchecking the box. This will set a cookie in your browser that ensures that our Matomo tracking is deactivated for your browser and thus prevents Matomo from collecting data for our website and for this browser in the future. This will remain the case as long as the cookie remains stored in your browser or until you reactivate tracking by clicking on the link again.
You can prevent Matomo from collecting your data by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the collection of data during future visits to our website.
We use Matomo Tag Manager on this website. This allows us to easily manage, create, and update various tracking and marketing tags. Matomo Tag Manager itself does not set any cookies and does not collect any personal data. It is only used to control other services, such as Matomo Analytics. These services may collect data themselves.
Further information can be found at https://matomo.org/faq/tag-manager/faq_26538/.
We use Google Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising program operated by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads enables us to promote our website in a targeted manner via ads in Google search results or on partner websites. The ads are displayed either via specific search terms (keyword targeting) or via the use of existing Google user data (e.g., interests, location data). As a website operator, we receive statistical evaluations from Google that show us, for example, which search terms led to our ads and how many clicks they generated.
The use of Google Ads is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 (1) GDPR). Once you have given your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future. How can people revoke their consent?
During processing, data may be transferred to the USA. The legal basis for this is the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission, which are used by Google. Further information can be found at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks
https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/
We also use Google Ads Conversion Tracking. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
This allows us to see whether users perform certain actions on our website after clicking on one of our ads (e.g., clicks on buttons, participation in forms, or completion of an order). This information helps us measure the success and reach of our advertising campaigns and optimize our online offering. We ourselves do not receive any data that would allow us to personally identify individual users when using Google Ads and Google Conversion Tracking.
The evaluations provided to us are exclusively statistical and anonymized and serve to measure and optimize the success of our advertising measures.
To carry out the measurements, Google uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies that enable end devices to be recognized during subsequent visits to the website.
The use of Google Conversion Tracking is also based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect. How can people revoke their consent?
Further information on Google Conversion Tracking can be found in Google's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
We collect personal data that you voluntarily submit to us when you place an order, contact us (e.g. via contact form or by email) or open a customer account with us. Mandatory fields are marked as such because we absolutely need those data to perform the contract or process your contact request or open your customer account, and you would otherwise not be able to complete your order and/or create your customer account or send the contact request. It is evident in each input form what data are collected. We use the data that you disclose to us to perform the contract and process your enquiries. Upon completion of the contract or deletion of your customer account, any further processing of your data will be restricted, and your data will be deleted upon expiry of the retention period applicable under relevant regulations, unless you expressly consent to the further use of your data or we reserve the right to further use your personal data in the scope and manner permitted by law, of which we inform you in this notice. Your customer account can be deleted at any time. For this purpose you can either send a message to the contact option specified below or use the relevant function available in the customer account.
For the purpose of contract performance, we disclose your data to the shipping company in the scope required for the delivery of the ordered goods.
E-mail advertising if you subscribe to the newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent, using the data required or disclosed by you separately for this purpose.
You may unsubscribe from the newsletter service at any time. For this purpose you can either send a message to the contact option specified below or use the opt-out link in the newsletter. Upon un-subscription, we will delete your email address unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data or we reserve the right to further use your personal data in the scope and manner permitted by the law, of which we inform you in this notice.
The newsletter is sent to you by our service provider who processes data on our behalf and to whom we disclose your email address.
This service provider is based in an EU or EEA member state.
The Internet pages of the KoCoS Messtechnik AG use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
Our website uses social network buttons.
To increase the level of protection of your data during your visit to our website, those buttons are not wholly embedded in the website as plugins, but are integrated on the website using HTML links. This ensures that when you call a page of our website, which contains such buttons, no link to the servers of a social network provider is established yet.
If you click on a social network button, a new window will open in your browser which will call the page of the relevant service provider where you can use e.g. the 'Like' or 'Share' button (where applicable, after entering your login data).
To find out more about the purpose and scope of collection, further processing and use of the data by the providers on their websites, and to learn about the available contact options and your rights in this respect and how you can customize your browser to better protect your privacy, please see the data privacy policies of the providers.
Facebook
Google
Youtube
LinkedIN
Instagram
We use LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms to collect data. We only use the data received via these forms (“form data”) for legitimate purposes to which you have consented as a LinkedIn member. This form data is generally accessible to us via LinkedIn for 90 days. Within the scope of our privacy policy, your reasonable data protection expectations, applicable laws and the scope of your consent, we use the form data for the stated purposes. The form data will only be passed on to third parties acting on our behalf (e.g. service providers). In doing so, we ensure that these third parties comply with our data protection regulations and use the data exclusively on our behalf. We do not sell form data under any circumstances and do not use it in an unlawful manner, such as for unlawful discrimination. If, as a LinkedIn member, you wish to stop receiving messages from us or have your form data deleted, we will comply with this request immediately. These rules apply in addition to our general data protection practices and serve to protect your rights when using LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms.
Our website uses LinkedIn Conversion Tracking from LinkedIn Corporation to track conversions. LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Attn: Legal Dept. (Privacy Policy and User Agreement), Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”).
We use LinkedIn Conversion Tracking to analyze and continuously optimize the use of our website. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of LinkedIn conversion tracking is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. You can withdraw your consent at any time by adjusting your settings here.
The behavior of website visitors can be tracked using the LinkedIn Insight Tag after they have been redirected to the provider's website by clicking on a LinkedIn advertisement. This enables the effectiveness of LinkedIn advertisements to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimized. The LinkedIn Insight tag can be used to collect data about visits, including URL, referrer URL, IP address, device and browser properties (user agent), and timestamps. To pseudonymize the data, it is encrypted and IP addresses are truncated. In addition, the direct IDs of members are removed within seven days. The pseudonymized data that remains is deleted within a period of 90 days.
As the operator of this website, the collected data is anonymous to us; we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by LinkedIn, which enables a connection to the respective user profile. LinkedIn may use this data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the LinkedIn Data Use Policy (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy). This enables LinkedIn to display advertisements both on LinkedIn pages and outside of LinkedIn. As the operator of the site, we have no influence over this use of the data.
Further information on protecting your privacy can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
LinkedIn members can opt out of LinkedIn conversion tracking and block or delete cookies at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/advertising/, as well as disable demographic characteristics. LinkedIn does not share any personal data with the website owner, but only provides aggregated reports on the website's target audience and ad performance. In addition, LinkedIn offers retargeting for website visitors. This allows the website owner to place targeted advertising outside of their website based on this data without identifying the member. LinkedIn members can specify in their account settings whether their personal data may be used for advertising.
Further details on the marketing and tracking solutions used by LinkedIn are available on the LinkedIn website: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/87150/linkedin-marketinglosungen-und-die-datenschutz-grundverordnung-dsgvo-?lang=de.
The following Privacy Policies apply to the mobile Apps of KoCoS Messtechnik AG, available through Google's Play Store and Apple's AppStore.
By downloading of our applications, you legitimized yourself to the respective store, e.g. to the AppStore using your Apple ID. Any use of personal data, collected by Google or Apple while downloading or using the applications, that does not comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) cannot be ruled out by and lies out of the sphere of influence of KoCoS Messtechnik AG. Disclosure of data by KoCoS Messtechnik AG to Apple or Google will not be done.
This website uses Microsoft's “Bing Ads” conversion tracking technology (Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA). A cookie from Microsoft Bing Ads is stored on your device when you access our website via a Microsoft Bing ad. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. The cookies expire after 180 days and are not used to identify individuals. If the user visits certain pages on this website and the cookie is still valid, Microsoft and we can determine that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page (conversion page).
We use conversion tracking to promote our offering in a targeted manner. The legal basis is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG.
The data collected with the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics that show how many users click on an ad and reach a conversion page. This gives us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and visited a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, we do not receive any information that allows us to personally identify users.
Further information about Bing's analytics services can be found on the Bing Ads website (https://help.bingads.microsoft.com/#apex/3/de/53056/2).
Further information on Microsoft Bing Ads' privacy policy can be found at the following Internet address: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement
We use an interactive map on our website to display our locations. This map uses the OpenStreetMap service, which is operated by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
Data processing:
Legal basis:
The processing is based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) in the user-friendly presentation of our locations.
Data protection at OpenStreetMap:
Further information on data protection at OpenStreetMap can be found at: wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
Objection:
You can object to the transfer of data by deactivating JavaScript in your browser. However, this may limit the functionality of our website.
You are entitled to obtain free-of-charge information concerning data stored about your person and, as the case may be, to correct, restrict the processing, enable the portability of, or delete those data.
If you have any questions about how we collect, process or use your personal data, want to enquire about, correct, block or delete your data, or withdraw any consents you have given, or opt-out of any particular data use, please contact our in-house data protection officer
Data protection officer
Kai Ramme
Südring 42
34497 Korbach
privacy(at)kocos.com
You may also submit a complaint to the responsible data protection supervisory authority.
If we process personal data as described above to protect our legitimate interests that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests, you may object to such data processing with future effect. If your data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you may exercise this right at any time as described above. If your data are processed for other purposes, you have the right to object only on grounds relating to your particular situation.
After you have exercised your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for such purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
This does not apply to the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes. In such a case we will no longer process your personal data for such purposes.
