1. General Information

Data privacy
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this data privacy statement.
Generally, our website can be used without entering any personal data. If personal data (name, address, or e-mail address, for example) is collected on our website, this will always be on a voluntary basis wherever possible. Such data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.
Please note that online data transfer (when communicating by e-mail, for example) may introduce security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability-free protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Details of responsible body
The body responsible for data processing on this website is:
ept GmbH
Bergwerkstrasse 50
86971 Peiting,
Germany
Telephone: Tel. (+49-8861) 250-10
E-mail: sales@ept.de

Data security officer:
ept GmbH
Peiting Facility
Bergwerkstraße 50
86971 Peiting
Deutschland
Telefon: 0 88 61/25 01 0
E-Mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@ept.de

The responsible body is the individual or legal entity that decides, either alone or together with other bodies, on the purpose of processing personal data (for example, names, e-mail addresses, etc.) and the resources used for this.

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing
Many data processing procedures are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Informal notification by e-mail is sufficient for this purpose. The legitimacy of data processing prior to withdrawal of consent will remain unaffected by such withdrawal.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority
In the event of data privacy violations, the data subject will be entitled to appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters relating to data privacy is the Data Protection Commissioner in the German Federal State in which our company has its registered office. A list of Data Protection Commissioners and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability
You are entitled to obtain personal data, which we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of an agreement, or to arrange for your personal data to be provided to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of data to another controller, this will only happen if it is technically feasible.

SSL encryption
This website uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transfer of confidential content, such as inquiries, which you send us as the website operator. An encrypted connection can be identified by the change in the browser address line from ‘http://’ to ‘https://’ and the lock symbol in your browser line.
Data that you send us cannot be read by a third party if SSL encryption is enabled.

Information, deletion, blocking

You are entitled to obtain details of your stored personal data, its origins and recipients, and the purpose of data processing at any time free of charge. You are also entitled to delete or block this data. If you have any questions about this or anything else, please contact us at any time at the address given on the About us page.

Objection to receiving promotional e-mails
The use of contact details, which have been published in the context of our obligation to provide such details on our website, to send unsolicited advertising and information material is expressly rejected herewith. The website operators reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising material, such as in spam e-mails.

2. Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies
Some websites use cookies. Cookies do not damage your PC and contain no viruses. Cookies are used to make our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are ‘session cookies.’ These are deleted automatically at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.
You can adjust your browser settings so you receive notifications about cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, refuse to accept cookies in certain cases or in general, and enable automatic deletion of cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may compromise the functions of this website.

Server log files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information in server log files which are sent to us automatically by your browser. This information includes:

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

This data cannot be attributed to specific people. This data is not combined with other data sources. We reserve the right to analyze this data subsequently if we are made aware of specific evidence of illegal use.

Contact form
When you submit requests or inquiries to us using the contact form, the information you provide in the contact form, including the contact information entered in the form, is stored by us for the purpose of processing your request or inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this information without your consent.

Registration on this website

You can register on our website in order to use additional website functions. Data entered during registration will only be used for the purpose of using the respective offering or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during the registration process must be provided in full. If you do not provide this information in full, you will be unable to register.
We use the e-mail address provided during registration to inform you of significant changes to the scope of our offering or in the event of necessary technical changes.
Data provided during registration will be processed based on your consent (Article 6 (1) a) GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)). You can withdraw your consent at any time. Informal notification by e-mail is sufficient for this purpose. The legitimacy of data processing prior to withdrawal of consent will remain unaffected by such withdrawal.
We will store data collected during registration as long as you are registered on our website, after which time it will be deleted. Statutory retention periods will be unaffected.

3. Newsletter

Newsletter information
If you wish to obtain the newsletter offered on the website, we need an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address and consent to receiving the newsletter. No other data is collected. We use this data exclusively for providing the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.
You can withdraw your consent to the storage of your data and e-mail address as well as the use of this information for the purpose of sending the newsletter at any time, using the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in the newsletter, for example.

CleverReach
This website uses CleverReach to send newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstrasse 43, 26180 Rastede, Germany. CleverReach is a service that can be used to organize and analyze the sending of newsletters. Data provided by you for the purpose of receiving a newsletter (for example, e-mail address) will be stored on CleverReach servers in Germany or Ireland.
Our newsletter sent using CleverReach allows us to analyze the behavior of newsletter recipients. We can analyze how many recipients open the newsletter and how often links in newsletters are clicked. Conversion tracking can also help us analyze whether a previously defined action (for example, purchase of a product on our website) takes place after clicking a newsletter link. Further information about CleverReach newsletter data analysis is available at https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/.

Data is processed based on your consent (Article 6 (1) a) GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)). You can withdraw this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The legitimacy of data processing procedures prior to withdrawal of consent will remain unaffected by such withdrawal. If you do not want CleverReach to analyze your actions, you need to unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide the relevant link in every newsletter. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on the website.
Data provided to us for the purpose of receiving a newsletter will be stored by us until such time as you unsubscribe from the newsletter, and following cancellation of the newsletter, this data will be deleted both from our severs and from CleverReach servers. Data saved by us for other purposes (for example, e-mail addresses for the members’ area) will not be affected by this. Further details can be found in the CleverReach Privacy Policy at https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.

Conclusion of a contract data processing agreement
We have signed a contract data processing agreement with CleverReach and implement the stringent requirements imposed by the German data protection authorities in full in our use of CleverReach.

4. Analysis Tools and Social Media

Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the Google Analytics Web analysis service. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043.
Google Analytics uses cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is generally sent to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there.

IP anonymization
We have enabled the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address will be abbreviated by Google within European Union member states or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to being sent to the U.S. Full IP addresses will be sent to a Google server in the U.S. and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to assess your use of the website and compile reports on website activities and provide other services for the website operator that are associated with use of the website and of the Internet. Google will not combine IP addresses sent from your browser in the context of Google Analytics with other data.

Browser plugin
You can prevent cookies from being saved by configuring your browser software settings accordingly; we would like to point out, however, that doing so may mean you are not able to use all the functions of this website in full. Moreover, you can prevent the collection of data generated by cookies relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at this link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Opting out of data collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking the link below. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the collection of your data during subsequent visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics
More information about how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in the Google data privacy statement: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Contract data processing
We have signed a contract data processing agreement with Google and implement the stringent requirements imposed by the German data protection authorities in full in our use of Google Analytics.

Demographic features with Google Analytics
This website uses the Google Analytics ‘demographic features’ function. It can be used to produce reports containing information about the age, gender, and interests of visitors to the website.
This data originates from interest-based Google advertising as well as from visitor data belonging to third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to specific people. You can disable this function at any time via the display settings in your Google account or generally opt out of data collection by Google Analytics as explained in the ‘Opting out of data collection’ section.

Google Analytics Remarketing
Our websites use Google Analytics Remarketing functions in conjunction with the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.
This function makes it possible to link the target advertising groups created using Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. Thus, interest-based, personalized advertising messages, which have been tailored to you depending on your previous usage and surfing behavior on an end device (mobile phone, for example) are also displayed on another of your end devices (tablet or PC, for example).
If you have given the relevant consent, Google links your Web and app browser history to your Google account for this purpose. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be synchronized on any end device that you log into using your Google account.
To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google authenticated user IDs, which are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data, in order to define and create target groups for cross-device advertising campaigns.
You can turn cross-device remarketing/targeting off at any time by disabling personalized ads in your Google account; follow the link below to do this: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
Collected data is centralized in your Google account based solely on your consent, which you can give to Google or withdraw (Section 6 (1) a) GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)). In the case of data collection procedures that are not integrated into your Google account (because you don’t have a Google account or have opted out of integration, for example), data is collected based on Section 6 (1) f) GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest means that the website operator has an interest in the anonymized analysis of website visitors for advertising purposes.
Further information and the Privacy Policy can be found in the Google data privacy statement at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

Google AdWords and Google conversion tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising service developed by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (‘Google’).
We use conversion tracking in the context of Google AdWords. A conversion tracking cookie is set if you click an ad delivered by Google. Cookies are small text files which are stored by Internet browsers on a user’s computer. These cookies cease to be valid after 30 days and are not used to identify users. If a user visits certain pages of this website and a cookie has not yet expired, we and Google are able to identify that the user has clicked an ad and been redirected to the respective page.
Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. Information obtained with the help of conversion cookies is used to produce conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the overall number of users who have clicked their ad and been redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information allowing you to identify users. If you wish to opt out of tracking, you can do so easily by disabling the Google conversion tracking cookie in your Internet browser user settings. You will then not be included in conversion tracking statistics.
Conversion cookies are saved based on Article 6 (1) f) GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its Web offering and its advertising.
More information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in the Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
You can adjust your browser settings so you receive notifications about cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, refuse to accept cookies in certain cases or in general, and enable automatic deletion of cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may compromise the functions of this website.

Facebook Pixel
Our website uses Facebook Pixel to measure conversions from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (‘Facebook’).
This can be used to track the behavior of website visitors after they have clicked a Facebook ad and been redirected to the supplier’s website. Consequently, the effectiveness of Facebook ads can be assessed for statistical and market research purposes, and future ad campaigns can be optimized.
The data collected is anonymous to us as the operator of this website; we are unable to draw any conclusions regarding the identity of users. However, the data is saved and processed by Facebook; consequently, connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Data Use Policy. As a result, Facebook can enable the delivery of ads both on and off Facebook pages. As the operator of our website, we are unable to influence this use of data.
You can find further information about protecting your privacy in the Facebook Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
You can also disable the ‘Custom Audiences’ remarketing function in Ad settings at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You need to be logged into Facebook to do this.
If you do not have a Facebook account, you can disable use-based Facebook advertising on the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from the Google-operated site YouTube. The operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066. If you visit any of our pages that have a YouTube plugin, a connection will be established with YouTube servers. Notification of which of our pages you have visited will be sent to the YouTube servers.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
More information about how user data is handled can be found in the YouTube data privacy statement at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

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