Privacy Policy

STAROFIT Klose GmbH & Co. KG
Güterstraße 3
27777 Ganderkesee 

Data protection officer: AMZ GmbH, Muhliusstr. 53, 24103 Kiel, Germany

We appreciate your interest in our company and our services and would like you to feel secure when visiting our website, also with regard to the protection of your personal data. we take the protection of personal data very seriously. It is therefore a matter of course for us to comply with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant data protection laws. We want you to know when we process which data and how we use it. We have taken technical and organisational measures to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by external service providers.

What anonymous data do we collect and for what purpose?

When you visit our website, our web servers automatically store the data that your browser transmits to enable you to visit the website and to inform you about our range of services and our company. These are:

We evaluate this technical data anonymously and solely for statistical purposes in order to optimise our website and make our Internet offerings even more attractive. This anonymous data is stored separately from personal information on secure systems and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about an individual person.

What personal data do we collect and for what purpose? Below we show you the various purposes for which we collect which data on this website:

1. Data processing through the use of cookies

Our website uses cookies.These are text files that are stored on your computer in order to track visitor preferences and optimise our website accordingly.

To prevent the storage of cookies, ‘Do not accept cookies’ must be selected in the browser settings.If cookies are not accepted by the browser, the functionality of the website may be limited. 

This stored information is stored separately from any other data you may have provided to us. In particular, the cookie data is not linked to your other data.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f EU GDPR. The legitimate interest pursued consists in facilitating and improving the use of the website and thus the better presentation of our offer.

2. Use of matomo

This website uses matomo, an open source software for the statistical analysis of visitor access. matomo uses so-called ‘cookies’, text files that are stored on your computer and enable the web content to be optimised. 

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is not passed on to third parties. The IP address is anonymised immediately after processing and before it is stored.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.

3. Use of Google Maps

When you visit the website, the third-party provider receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data mentioned under ‘1. Log data’ is transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether this third-party provider provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in with the plug-in provider, this data is directly assigned to your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile with the plug-in provider, you must log out before activating the button.

Data processing by the third-party provider only takes place if you give your consent by confirming the enquiry field (legal basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU GDPR).

The plug-in provider stores this data as usage profiles and uses it for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or customising its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide customised advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the data protection declarations of these providers provided below. There you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy.

Addresses of the respective providers and URL with their data protection notices:

Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

www.google.de (https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/)

4. Use of 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 analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can set your browser to store cookies. If you make this setting, you may not be able to use all the functions of the website.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Deactivate Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension ‘_anonymiseIp()’. This means that IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, so that they cannot be linked to a specific person. If the data collected about you is personally identifiable, it is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted immediately.

We use Google Analytics to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework). The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

Information from the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. user conditions:

www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, as well as the privacy policy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your Google customer account under ‘My data’, ‘Personal data’.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Deactivate Google Analytics

5. Data processing when using our general contact form

If you contact us via our website, we will process the following information in order to be able to respond to your enquiry accordingly:

We cannot process your enquiry without this data.

You can provide the following additional data voluntarily:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to process your enquiry. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f EU GDPR, insofar as your enquiry is processed to explain our services and our company. If your enquiry is made in preparation for the conclusion of a contract, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b EU GDPR.

6. What generally applies to all cases of data processing?

Data is not transferred to third parties.

We would like to point out that we can only delete your data after the expiry of a statutory retention obligation, if such an obligation exists. This applies accordingly to any retention obligation arising from a contract with you.

7. How do we secure your data?

We have introduced technical and organisational security measures to your data processed by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological development on an ongoing basis.

Our employees and any third parties processing data are obliged to maintain confidentiality.

8. Your rights

In accordance with the EU GDPR, you have the right to request information from us at any time as to whether personal data relating to you is stored by us. Furthermore, you have the following rights in relation to this stored data:

If you have given your consent to the use of data, you can revoke this consent revoked at any time with effect for the future.

Please send all requests for information, requests for information or objections to data processing by e-mail to info@starofit.de or to the postal address given at the beginning of this information. 

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the EU GDPR (Art. 77 EU GDPR).

9. Further information

Contact details of our data protection officer: ds-beauftragter@amz-arbeitsschutz.deInformation pursuant to Art. 13 para. 2 lit. e EU GDPR: The provision of personal data is neither legally nor contractually required or necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. Please refer to the section ‘What personal data do we collect and for what purpose?’ for the possible consequences of not providing the data for the respective data processing operation.

10. Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to change our data protection measures if this becomes necessary due to technical developments or changes in legislation or case law. In such cases, we will also amend our privacy policy accordingly. Please therefore note the current version of our privacy policy.