Data protection statement

§1 Information about how personal data is collected

(1) Personal data is all data that relates to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.

(2) The person responsible pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is: Siempelkamp Giesserei GmbH, Siempelkampstraße 45, 47803 Krefeld, Germany

(3) Our data-protection officer may be contacted at datenschutz-sgk@siempelkamp.com.

(4) We will store the data you provide when you contact us by email (your email address and, if applicable, your name and your telephone number) in order to enable us to answer your questions. We will delete the data generated within this context when it is no longer necessary to store the data or will restrict how it is processed if legal obligations to retain data exist.

§2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights where the personal data that relates to you is concerned: Right to information, right to correction or erasure, right to restriction of processing, right to object to the data being processed and right to data transferability.

(2) You are also entitled to complain to a data-protection supervisory authority about how we are processing your personal data.

§3 Collection of personal data when you visit our website

a) Server log files and cookies

(1) When you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. when you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we will only collect the personal data that your browser sends to our server. We collect the following data when you wish to view our website:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Difference in time zones in regard to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status / HTTP status code
  • The amount of data sent in each case
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software

This data will be deleted as soon as you have concluded using our website.

For reasons of security, the server log files will be retained for a maximum period of three days and erased afterwards. Such retention serves, for ex., to solve cases of abuse. If any data must be retained for evidence purposes, it will not be erased before the incident has been finally resolved.

(2) Beyond the previously mentioned data, no cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website.

(3) The legal basis for how data is processed as described above is Art. 6 (1) (1) (f) DGPR. The data collected is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security or serve to make our website generally more user-friendly and effective.

b) Contact by email or contact form

(1) We will store the data you provide when you contact us by email or contact form (your email address and, if applicable, your name and your telephone number, the content of your message) for the purposes of answering your questions. We will delete the data generated within this context when it is no longer necessary to store the data or will restrict how it is processed if legal obligations to retain data exist.

(2) The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 (1) (1) (b) GDPR as far as the initiation of a contractual relationship is concerned and Art. 6 (1) (1) (f) GDPR as far as other inquiries are concerned, as we have a legitimate interest in being able to answer your inquiries.

§4 Recipients of data

Only those bodies at our company that need to access your personal data in order to fulfil the above-mentioned purposes will be granted access. The above-mentioned data may also be processed by contract processors who operate or maintain our website and systems.

§5 Is there an obligation to provide personal data?

You are neither legally nor contractually obliged to provide us with personal data. In some cases, however, we will be unable to offer all the website’s functionalities without this data.

§6 Does automated decision making or profiling take place?

We do not perform automated decisions or other profiling activities.