Data Protection Declaration

We would like to provide you with the following facts and information on the care that we take to protect your privacy and provide a high level of confidentiality:

Anonymous data collection
As a matter of principle, you can visit our websites without letting us know who you are. We only discover technical data like the name of your Internet service provider, the website from which you have come and our websites that you visit, for example. This information is assessed with the date and time details for internal statistical purposes with a view to advertising, website analysis and in order to design our websites so that they meet requirements. You the user remain completely anonymous during this process. No pseudonym usage profiles are generated.

Insertion of cookies
We use cookies in order to improve the quality of the structure and content of our Internet sites and in order to allow users to navigate their way around as smoothly as possible. We also use what are known as session cookies, which are restricted to the time of your visit. They are used to record which content you have viewed from your PC while you carry on surfing, and they also play a role in increasing the level of security while people are surfing. Once you leave our website or do not click on it for a while, these short-lived cookies are deleted.
Cookies cannot cause any damage to your PC. They do not pose a risk that is similar to viruses or programs that spy on your PC. You regulate how cookies are handled yourself. Please use the help function on your browser to allow, block, view and delete cookies.

Customer data
As soon as you become a customer of Rhenus SE & Co. KG, we store your data in line with the legal stipulations laid down in the German Data Protection Act (BDSG), the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the General Tax Code (AO). In this case, we also use your data within the legal framework to send you advertising materials on other products. It goes without saying that you may withdraw your permission for your customer data to be used for advertising purposes at any time by phone, email or letter.

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address truncated by the last octet prior to its storage using the “_anonymizeIp()” method) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. You can opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

In addition, you can prevent the recording of data by Google Analytics with the following link. About the setting of an opt-out Cookie future collection of your information this website is prevented: Disable Google Analytics now

Use of Facebook Plugins
Our website uses Social Plugins (“plugins”) from the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). These plugins are identified by the Facebook logo or with the text “Facebook Social Plugin”. When you visit one of our web pages with this plugin installed, your browser creates a direct connection with Facebook’s servers. The content of this plugin is transferred from Facebook directly to your browser, and then embedded into the web page. By connecting the plugin, Facebook receives the information that you have visited the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can associate the visit with your Facebook account. When you interact with the plugin by, for example, clicking the “Like” button or adding a comment, the corresponding information is transferred from your browser directly to Facebook and stored there. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the processing and use of the data by Facebook, and your corresponding rights and settings options to protect your privacy, are contained within Facebook’s privacy information. If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website, you must log out of Facebook prior to visiting our website.