This is an abridged courtesy translation. The German privacy policy (Datenschutzerklärung) is legally binding and contains the full text, including details on cookies and third-party services.
Data protection is important to us. This privacy policy explains which data we collect, for what purposes and what we do with it. For terms such as “personal data” or “processing”, please refer to the definitions in Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Controller
IPOL GmbH
Mühlenstraße 25
98693 Ilmenau
Germany
Commercial register: Jena, HRB 5 010 47
Managing director: Dr. Thomas Rücker
Phone: +49 (0) 3677 761 3500
Fax: +49 (0) 3677 761 3509
Email: info@ipol.eu
Data protection officer
Inge Putts
bg-consulting GmbH
Sprottauer Straße 4-8
90475 Nürnberg, Germany
Email: datenschutz@ipol.eu
Types of data processed
- Contact data (e.g. names, addresses, email, phone numbers)
- Content data (e.g. enquiries, project descriptions, technical concepts)
- Offer and contract data (e.g. subject of the offer, terms)
- Payment data (e.g. bank details, payment history)
- Communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses)
No special categories of personal data (Art. 9(1) GDPR) are processed.
Categories of data subjects
- Prospects, suppliers, customers
- Employees of suppliers and customers
- Employees of IPOL GmbH, applicants
- Visitors and users of the website
Purposes of processing
- Provision of contractual services, service and customer care
- Fulfilment of legal obligations pursuant to Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR
- Answering contact requests and communicating with users
- Providing the online offering, its content and functions
- Marketing and advertising
Contacting us
When you contact us (via the contact form or by email), the information you provide is processed to handle your enquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) and (c) GDPR. We delete enquiries once they are no longer required; where statutory retention obligations apply, deletion takes place after they expire.
Your rights
- Right of access to your data and to a copy of it (Art. 15 GDPR)
- Right to rectification or completion of your data (Art. 16 GDPR)
- Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)
- Right to withdraw consent with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR)
- Right to object to future processing, in particular for direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
Deletion of data
Data we process is deleted or restricted in accordance with Art. 17 and 18 GDPR as soon as it is no longer required for its purpose and no statutory retention obligations prevent deletion (in Germany in particular 6 years under Section 257(1) HGB and 10 years under Section 147(1) AO).
Data security
We use HTTPS with TLS encryption to transmit data securely over the internet (data protection by design, Art. 25(1) GDPR).