Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) – Information regarding
data protection

February 2025

General information
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when
you contact our company or visit our website. Personal information is any data with which
you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can
be found in our privacy policy found below.

Responsible person
The person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other
data protection laws in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a
data protection character is:
Karl-Fleischmann GmbH & Co. KG
Hüttenstrasse 78
87600 Kaufbeuren / Germany

Telefon: +49-8341-96578-0
E-Mail: info@karl-fleischmann.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides
on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Information on the collection of personal data
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when
you contact our company or visit our website. Personal information is any data with which
you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can
be found in our privacy policy found.
When you contact us by e-mail or through a contact form, we will store the information you
have provided (your e-mail address, your name and your telephone number if applicable) in
order to answer your questions.
We will delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer required, or restrict
the processing if there are statutory retention requirements. Further details can be found in this
Privacy Policy.
If we rely on commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would
like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the
respective transactions. In doing so, we also name the specified criteria for the storage
duration.

Data usage
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser
automatically transmits to us in "server log files". These are:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
• IP address

You provide further personal data to us by filling in the “New customer file” or by getting in
contact with us through Email, Phone or Fax machine.
The data mentioned are processed by us for the following purposes

• ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
• ensuring comfortable use of our website
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well
• for further administrative purposes
• for purposeful communication regarding requests and orders
• for purposeful communication including invitations for fairs and events, same as
information about innovations.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest in
accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR follows the data collection purposes
listed above. In no case we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions
about you. (2) Our website or websites partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your
computer and do not contain viruses. Further details can be found in this Privacy Policy.

Your rights
You have the following rights with respect to the personal data concerning you:

• Law according to Art. 7 (3) GDPR. To give your once given consent to us at any time. As a
result, we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent for the
future. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected
by your revocation;

• Right to information acc. Art. 15 GDPR about your personal data processed by us. Here you
can find out about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of
recipients to whom your data has been disclosed and the planned storage period, the right of
rectification, deletion, limitation of processing or opposition, the existence of a The right to
complain, the source of your data, if not collected from us, and the existence of automated
decision-making, including profiling, and, where appropriate, meaningful information about
its details

• Right to correction acc. Art. 16 GDPR. Accordingly, you can immediately request the
correction of incorrect or the completion of your personal data stored with us

• Right to delete acc. Art. 17 GDPR. In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR you have the right to
demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing for the exercise
of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation,
for reasons of the public interest or for assertion, Exercise or defense of legal rights is
required

• Right to restriction of processing acc. Art. 18 GDPR. Thereafter you may request the
restriction of the processing of your personal data, as far as the accuracy of the data is
disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you reject its deletion and we no longer need
the data, but you this for the assertion, exercise or defense of Legal claims or you have
objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR

• Right to object to the processing acc. Art. 21 GDPR

• Right to data portability acc. Art. 20 GDPR. You have the right to receive any personal
information you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or
to request that you send it to another person in charge
You also have acc. Art. 77 GDPR the right to complain to a data protection supervisory
authority about the processing of your personal data by us. The competent supervisory
authority is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based.
An overview of the state data protection officers together with their contact details is available
at https: // www. Bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Maximum storage time and data deletion
Your personal data will in particular be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the
purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed. Thereafter, the data will be
erased unless the storage is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation which requires processing
under the law of the Union or of the Member States to which the controller is subject. Such a
legal obligation is the statutory storage obligations, e.g. 10 years (for accounting data and
payroll accounting) or 6 years (for commercial correspondence). During the period of
retention, the data will be blocked, after which the deletion will take place.
Contradiction against the processing of your data
If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke them at any
time. Such revocation will affect the admissibility of the processing of your personal data
after you have given it to us.

Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may
object to the processing. This is the case if, in particular, the processing is not required to
fulfill a contract with you, which we describe in each case in the following description of the
functions. In the event of such a disagreement, we ask you to explain the reasons why we
should not process your personal data as we have done. In the case of your justified objection,
we will examine the situation and will either discontinue or adapt the data processing or point
out to you our compelling legitimate reasons on which we continue the processing.

Of course, you may object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data
analysis purposes at any time. If you would like to exercise your right of revocation or
objection, please send an e-mail to the e-mail address info@karl-fleischmann.de.

Update of this privacy policy
From time to time, an update of this privacy policy may be necessary, for example, by new
legal or regulatory requirements and new offers on our website. We will inform you at this
point. In general, we recommend that you visit this Privacy Notice periodically to see if there
have been any changes (http://www.karl-fleischmann.de/en/privacy).