The Purpose of This Data Protection Information
We appreciate your interest in our internet presence and the offers on these pages. We are extremely concerned about the security of your personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”).
In general, you do not need to give personal information to use our website for informational purposes.
Rather, in this instance, we merely collect and use the data that your Internet browser automatically sends to us. These are, in particular, as follows:
• The date and time that you accessed one of our Internet pages
• Your browser type
• The last website you viewed
• The transferred data volume and access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.)
• Your IP address
The data is stored in log files on the server for 60 days. With the exception of the IP address, we solely process these data in a non-personal manner during an informational visit. This is done to allow you to access and utilize the website, as well as to determine whether our websites are being shown to you optimally. The processing is taken out on the legal basis of Art. 6 -1-(f) GDPR and in our interest in order to provide you with a reliable and trouble-free online experience.
The data collected during informational use, including your IP address, is saved in order to ensure the website’s operation and to respond to problems. There is no personal judgment of the data. Only statistical evaluations of website usage are performed, as detailed further down in this data protection information.
On the legal basis of Art.6-1-(a) GDPR, we employ cookie technology for our Internet presence. Cookies are little text files transmitted by our web server to your browser during your visit to our website and kept on your computer, tablet computer, or smartphone for subsequent retrieval.
We use the following cookies for Google Analytics (see below in detail):
•[_ga] This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to conduct statistical analysis of user behavior on our websites. It includes a unique Google Analytics identification number and is kept for two years. The cookie is a first-party cookie, which can be managed through our website.
•[_gid] This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to conduct statistical analysis of user behavior on our websites. It has a unique Google Analytics identification number and is kept for 24 hours. The cookie is a first-party cookie, which can be managed through our website.
The settings on your browser decide whether cookies may be created and retrieved. You can, for example, totally disable cookie storage in your browser, limit it to specific websites, or arrange your browser so that it immediately notifies you when a cookie is about to be placed and requests feedback. Individual cookies can be blocked or deleted. However, for technological reasons, this may result in certain of our Internet presence’s capabilities being hampered or ceasing to work entirely..
It is critical that we create our Internet pages as efficiently as possible in order to make them appealing to our visitors. To do so, we must first determine which parts of it reach our visitors and how.
This website makes use of Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). Google Analytics also use cookies, which are text files stored on your device, to assist the website in analyzing how people interact with the site. The cookie’s information about your use of this website is typically sent to and stored on a Google server in the United States. IP anonymization has been enabled on our website, which means that Google will decrease your IP address within Member Nations of the European Union or other states parties to the European Economic Area Agreement. Only in extreme circumstances will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information on our behalf to analyze your use of the website, generate reports on website activity, and provide other services pertaining to website usage and internet usage to us as the website operator.
In the framework of Google Analytics, the IP address sent by your browser is not combined with other Google data. You can refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser; however, you may not be able to utilize the full functionality of this website if you do so.
You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing data produced by cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You can find Google’s privacy policy here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
You can find Google Analytics’ Terms of Service here:
https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
Google has a so-called EU-U.S. Privacy Shield certification. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Agreement is a data protection agreement designed to ensure an adequate level of data protection for data transfers to certified U.S. companies. The EU Commission has established the adequacy of the guaranteed data protection level according to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Agreement by decision of 12.07.2016 (Az. C(2016) 4176).
The decision of the EU Commission can be viewed here:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.207.01.0001.01.DEU.
The current status of Google’s certification according to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Agreement can be found here:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000000001L5AAI.
The processing of your data is carried out on the legal basis of Art. 6-1-(f) GDPR (weighing of interests) and in our interest in order to be able to evaluate how our website is used and to adapt and optimize our website on the basis of the results.
Your Google Analytics data will be deleted after 18 months.
Your data will be sent on to technical service providers who assist us (e.g., website hosting and support) in order to provide this website and for the aforementioned reasons, which we have carefully selected and commissioned in writing.
These service providers are bound by our instructions and are subject to frequent audits by us.
Furthermore, your personal information will be transferred to Pakistan as a result of your visit to our website. Pakistan will accept the European Commission’s adequacy decision on personal data protection by the end of 2018, and we will manage personal data entrusted to us through the appropriate implementation of security measures such as access identification and authentication, access restrictions, authority management, record-keeping, protection against illegal software, virus, or cyberattack, and safe procedures for transferring and transmitting data..
Otherwise, we will only share your information with third parties if it is specifically specified in this data privacy notice or if we are legally required to do so.
Several third-party services have been integrated into our websites. In some circumstances, you technically leave our websites and navigate to the websites of the relevant third-party provider. In such circumstances, the processing of any personal data is solely the responsibility of the particular third-party supplier. In such circumstances, if you have any questions, please contact the third-party provider directly. This also applies when we refer you to third-party websites via links. We use such links, for example, on many social networks; however, for data safety reasons, we do not use so-called social media plug-ins.
In both circumstances, we would like to emphasize that a specific region of our website is provided by a third party or is forwarded to such a third party..
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether personal data related to you is being processed; if so, you have the right to view this personal data as well as the information indicated in Art. 15 GDPR.
You have the right to request that we update any wrong personal data about you and, if required, complete any incomplete personal data as soon as possible (Art. 16 GDPR).
You have the right to request that we erase your personal data promptly if one of the grounds specified in Art. 17 GDPR applies in particular, such as if the data is no longer required for the objectives pursued (right of deletion).
You have the right to request that we restrict processing for the length of our investigation if one of the requirements stated in Art. 18 GDPR is met, for example, if you have filed an objection to the processing.
You have the right to object at any time, for reasons originating from your specific situation, to the processing of personal data about you that is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 e) or f) GDPR. We will then no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims (Art. 21 GDPR)
On the basis of Art. 13-2-(c) GDPR, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent prior to its withdrawal.
You have the right to get data about you that you have submitted to us in a structured, common, and machine-readable format from us. You can also move personal data to other places or have us transmit it on your behalf under Art. 20 GDPR (right to data transferability).
Data protection and Security department
Project Engineering Services & CO
info@pesco.smokenhigh.com
If you feel that the processing of your personal data is in violation of the GDPR, you have the right to file an appeal with a supervisory authority, in addition to any other administrative or judicial remedy (Art. 77 GDPR).