When you contract with us or act on behalf of a company or other organization that contracts with us, or when we are in contact with you because we are interested in your or your company’s services or you are interested in our services, or when we are otherwise in contact with you for business reasons, we collect the following personal and company information as necessary:

• Salutation, first name, last name;
• E-mail address;
• Name of the company;
• Company address;
• Telephone number (landline and/or mobile);
• Position in the company/organization, authority to sign, power of attorney;
• VAT identification number of the company;
• Information necessary to complete the purchase (e.g. credit card number, order number, etc.)
• other information necessary for the performance of the contract.

The collection and processing of this data takes place:

• to be able to identify you as our contractual partner or as a natural person acting on behalf of our contractual partner or as our contact person(s) of our contractual partner;
• for correspondence with our contractual partner or with you;
• for invoicing;
• for the settlement of any existing liability claims and the assertion of any claims against you;
• for marketing purposes.

The processing of the above data is based on various legal grounds. The processing of all data that we need for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures that take place at the request of the data subject, takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) p. 1 b) DS-GVO. The provision of contact data as well as payment data or other financial data such as tax numbers and their processing by us is necessary for the mutual performance of obligations under a contract. If you are the contact person of our contractual partner or if you simply submit an inquiry to us, the processing of your contact data for the same purposes takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 f) DS-GVO, because we have a legitimate interest in a specific contact person at our contractual partner or in answering your inquiry.

On the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 f) DS-GVO and thus on the basis of our legitimate interests, the processing of information takes place for the settlement of any existing liability claims and the assertion of any claims against our contractual partner (such as e.g. default of payment). In addition, we have a legitimate interest in processing your data for direct marketing purposes. For marketing purposes, we use on the one hand the postal address, but also the e-mail addresses of our contractual partners or of the contact persons in their companies. However, we only use your e-mail address if we have received it from you in connection with the sale of a product or service and only for direct marketing of our own similar goods or services. In general, you can object to the processing of your data for direct marketing purposes without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. For this purpose, please contact us using the contact details provided in section 1. The legal basis here is also Section 7 (3) UWG.

The personal data we collect will be stored for as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected, unless we have your consent for further storage or we are obliged to store it for a longer period of time pursuant to Article 6 (1) sentence 1 c) DS-GVO, e.g. due to tax and commercial law retention and documentation obligations (e.g. from HGB, StGB or AO).

If we process your data based on your consent, we will inform you in advance about the scope and extent of this consent. You can revoke such consent at any time with effect for the future, whereby the revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.