Collection and processing of personal data

When you visit our web pages, our web servers automatically record your IP address, the website from which you visit us, the web pages that you actually visit and the date and length of your visit. Personal data is only stored if volunteered by you, for example in the context of a registration for the newsletter.

Freedom of choice

We should like to use your data to inform you about our products and services. Should you not consent, you can inform us at any time so that we can suppress your data accordingly.

Use and disclosure of personal data and purpose specification

We will use your personal data for the sole purpose of technical administration of the websites, customer administration, product surveys and marketing, only to the extent necessary in each specific case. We will only disclose your data to governmental authorities in cases where it is required by law. Our employees, agencies and retailers are obliged by us to respect confidentiality.

Children and adolescents

Persons under the age of 16 should not pass on any information to us without the permission of their parents or guardians. We do not request or collect personal data from children or under-aged persons, and do not pass it on to third parties.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on your end device. They can be used to determine whether there has been any contact between us and your end device in the past. Only the cookie on your end device is identified.
Personal data can only be saved in cookies if you have given your consent or if it is essential for technical reasons. By using our website, you consent to the use and storage of cookies on your end device. You can delete cookies stored on your end device at any time.

Do we use cookies?

Yes, we use cookies and similar technologies, such as HTML5 web storage and local shared objects (all referred to as “cookies” below), to record the preferences of users and optimize the design of its websites. They make navigation easier and increase the user-friendliness of a website.

What kind of cookies do we use?

Essential cookies – These cookies are essential for websites and their features to work properly.
Functional cookies – These cookies enable us to improve the usability and performance of websites and to provide various features. Functional cookies can store language settings, for example.
Performance cookies – These cookies collect information about how you use websites. Performance cookies help us, for example, to identify especially popular areas of our website. In this way, we can adapt the content of  our websites more specifically to your needs and thereby improve what we offer you. These cookies do not collect personal data.
Third-party cookies – These cookies are installed by third parties, e.g. social networks. Their main purpose is to integrate social media content on our site, such as social plugins.

How could you delete cookies?

The exact instructions for how to do this can be found in the manual for your browser or end device. If you choose not to accept cookies it may result in a reduced availability of the services provided on our website.

We use products of wiredminds GmbH (www.wiredminds.de) for marketing and optimization purposes. These products collect and process your personal data and use it to create usage profiles under a pseudonym. These usage profiles are fully anonymized where possible and appropriate (data protection compliant processing in the sense of the BDSG – Federal Data Protection Act, of non-personal data to ensure the protection of natural persons e.g. IP address, visting time, visited pages, length of stay, country).

We and wiredminds employ cookies and/or Web beacons (also known as tracking pixels) on this website. We transfer the data we collect about you, which may also include personal data, to wiredminds or wiredminds gathers this data directly. wiredminds is entitled to use information that you leave behind by visiting our websites to create anonymized usage profiles. The data collected shall not be used to personally identify visitors to this website without the express permission of the party affected and shall not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym. Any IP addresses recorded are anonymized immediately by deleting the last number block. Permission to collect and store data in the future may be revoked at any time.

Newsletter

Our website can be used to subscribe to newsletters. Subscription to the newsletter by submission of your personal data is voluntary. Please note: If you decide not to submit your personal data, you will not be able to subscribe to the newsletter.

The data provided during the newsletter registration will be used only for the purposes of sending out the newsletter and other marketing activities, provided you have not consented to other use. Your personal data will only be retained as long as you are a subscriber to the newsletter. You can cancel the subscription at any time by using the unsubscribe option provided in the newsletter.

Contact form

We store and use the data that you provide in the contact form to process requests and for individual communication. Please note that the data is not encrypted when it is transmitted so please do not send any confidential information when using the contact form.

E-Mail address

If you choose to give us your e-mail address, we will communicate with you via e-mail. We do not share your e-mail address with others outside the FOCKE group. Depending on how your e-mail application is set up, information about you may be transmitted automatically when you send e-mail to us. If you choose to register for third-party services, we may need to send some information from your FOCKE registration to the service provider, possibly including your e-mail address. You can choose not to receive any more e-mail at any time. To be removed from our e-mail list, an e-mail message is sufficient.

External links on our website are not covered by this data privacy statement. For any external links on our website, we assure that we did not see any violation of existing law on these external sites at the time when we set the link. However, we have no control over the content of these sites and cannot guarantee that they comply with the data protection standards. We therefore advise you to check the data privacy statements on any website you visit.