The following remarks will give you a simple overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data by the means of which you can personally be identified. You will find detailed information about the topic of data protection in our Privacy Statement below.
The controller for data processing on this website is:
Würth Finance International B.V.
Het Sterrenbeeld 35
NL-5201 AH ’s-Hertogenbosch
Phone: +31 73 681 4903
E-Mail: compliance@wuerthfinance.net
The controller is a natural or legal person, who, alone or together with others, takes decisions on the purpose and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
One way of collecting your data is by receiving the data that you provide to us. This might be data that you enter in a contact form.
Other data will automatically be collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. This is mainly technical data (e.g. information about internet browser, operating system or time of calling up the website). As soon as you enter our website the data is collected automatically.
Part of the data is collected to guarantee that the website is running smoothly. Other data might be used to analyze user behavior.
You have the right to inquire about the origin, recipient and purpose of your personal data stored with us. Furthermore, you have the right to demand the rectification, blocking and erasure of your data. If you have further questions regarding data protection please do not hesitate to contact us anytime at the above address. In addition to that, you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority in charge.
When you visit our website your web-browsing behavior can be analyzed statistically. This is mainly done by means of cookies and so-called analytics programs. The analysis of your web-browsing behavior is usually done anonymously, it cannot be traced back to you. If you have given your consent, the favorite products can be analyzed after you have registered as a customer. You can opt out of this analysis or prevent it by refusing to use certain tools. You will find further details on that in our Privacy Statement under heading 3. Analysis tools and advertising.
You can opt out of this analysis. We will inform you about the options to opt-out in this Privacy Statement.
The aim of data protection, and also our objective at Würth Finance International B.V., is to ensure that personal data is handled in such a way that every data subject’s right to privacy is protected. In order to achieve this objective, all functions responsible for the processing of personal data must observe applicable EU legislation (EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR)) and all national data protection laws (including the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (FDPA)).
Personal data may only be collected and processed subject to the EU GDPR or other applicable laws. The essential underlying principles of the EU GDPR are:
Handling personal data responsibly but also being aware of the risks of IT systems and applications are other essential parts of Würth Finance International B.V.'s objectives. Please note that the transmission of data via the internet (i.e. e-mail communication) might bear security risks. Completely preventing third parties from accessing the data is not possible.
The controller for data processing on this website is:
Würth Finance International B.V.
Het Sterrenbeeld 35
NL-5201 AH ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Telefon: +31 73 681 4903
E-Mail: compliance@wuerthfinance.net
The controller is a natural or legal person, who, alone or together with others, takes decisions on the purpose and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
You can contact our data protection officer at:
E-Mail: compliance@wuerthfinance.net
Würth Finance International B.V. is the financial company of the Würth Group. The collection, processing or use of personal data serves this corporate purpose or supporting secondary purposes, such as customer service.
The groups of persons concerned are
The relevant data include all personal data which is necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose concerned. A detailed presentation of the types of personal data that are being processed is given in the following.
The processing of personal data is only lawful if permitted by a law, i.e. if there is a legal basis for the processing activity or the data subject has consented to the processing. Personal data is only processed in our company in accordance with statutory provisions. These generally include:
Würth Finance International B.V. supplies almost exclusively to professionals. Unless agreed otherwise in individual cases, the legal bases we rely on when processing your personal data for the performance of a contract are as follows:
To improve legibility, the legal bases given above shall be referred to only as “data processing for the performance of a contract” in the following
Potential recipients of transmitted personal data are
If the transfer of data to third countries (non-EU countries) or international organizations is required, personal data shall be transferred solely for the purpose of concluding or complying with a contract in compliance with all applicable data protection requirements, provided the interests or rights and freedoms of the data subject do not override these legitimate interests. Should we transfer your data to a third country or an international organization in individual cases, we will provide you will all required information.
Personal data will be deleted in accordance with the applicable statutory or contractual regulations on the deletion of data, subject to any statutory or contractual retention periods. The retention and documentation periods set out in these codes require data controllers to retain data for up to ten years after the end of a business relationship or pre-contractual legal transaction. Other legal provisions may impose even longer retention periods on data controllers, for instance for the retention of evidence in accordance with statutory limitation periods. The general limitation period is three years. Special limitation periods of up to 30 years or longer may, however, apply in certain situations. Personal data, which is not subject to a legal or contractual retention period or erasure obligation, must be deleted immediately after it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject has various data protection rights. In the following, please find an explanation of these rights. The contact details set out above can be used to exercise these rights.
Subject to the applicable legal regulations, you have the right to obtain information, at any time, free of charge, about all your personal data stored by the data controller, its origin, recipients and purpose of storage as well as, where applicable, the right to rectification, erasure or restricted processing of your data.
Every data subject has the right to object to the processing of their personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1f) EU GDPR or for direct marketing purposes. Should you object to the processing of your personal data, we will carefully review your objection in each individual case. If your objection to the processing of your personal data requires us to delete your data, we will delete your data in accordance with statutory retention requirements. Your objection does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
Every data subject has the right to know whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether the data subject is obliged to provide the personal data and what the possible consequences of failure to provide such data would be.
The data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) if the data subject believes that the processing of personal data relating to them infringes their rights. The data subject may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for the data subject’s habitual place of residence or place of the alleged infringement.
You have the right to have data which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract provided to you or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transmission of the data to another controller, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.
Many data processing operations can only be performed with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. All you need to do is send an informal email to this effect to one of the email addresses given above. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
This website uses SSL and/or TSL encryption for security reasons and to protection the transmission of confidential content such as orders or requests that you send to the website's operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection when you see that the address bar of your browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and when the lock symbol appears in your address bar. When the SSL and/or TSL encryption is activated the data that you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.
We process your data in the data centers of Würth IT GmbH, Drillberg 6, 97980 Bad Mergentheim (hereinafter “Würth IT”). We use the services of Würth IT to be able to provide our services. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Würth IT. For more information on how Würth IT handles personal data, please refer to the privacy statement of Würth IT at https://www.wuerth-it.com/en/oneit/datenschutz_1.php
When visiting our website, we process information in so-called server log files, which your browser transmits to us automatically. The purpose of the processing is the correct displaying of our internet presence and ensuring the secure operation of our website.
Data is collected from the following categories:
This data is not merged with other data sources.
Data is processed on the lawful basis set out in Art. 6 (1f) EU GDPR. As the website operator, we have a legitimate interest in a correct presentation of our internet presence and in ensuring the website’s secure operation.
The data processed in connection with the collection of server log files is stored as long as required for their specific purposes.
Some of the websites of Würth Finance International B.V. use so-called cookies. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files, which are placed on your computer and stored by your internet browser. You can adjust your browser settings to make sure you are informed about the use of cookies and just allow cookies in individual cases, accept cookies only for certain applications or generally refuse cookies and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing your internet browser. When cookies are deactivated, some of the functions available on this website may no longer work properly. We process cookies for the performance of contracts, wherever they are necessary for electronic communication processes or the provision of our services (e.g. shopping cart function). The storage of any other cookies (e.g. cookies to analyze your browsing behavior) is treated separately in this Privacy Statement and processing is subject to your prior consent. An overview of the active cookies can be found at the following link: Cookie Policy. Cookie settings can be changed on this page at any time.
You can also control the storage of cookies by adjusting the "Do Not Track" (DNT) settings in your internet browser. Depending on the browser, DNT is available as a setting in the program settings or as a plug-in or add-on. By enabling this setting, the browser signals that you do not wish for your browsing behavior to be tracked by these tools without your express consent. If the setting is enabled, the tracking features of our tools will be anonymized. Please note that different internet browsers may require different settings to enable DNT.
If you take advantage of offers for downloads that are subject to registration or if you activate content, we store your name, email address, and the medium for which you report for purposes of identification, contact, and verification of eligibility. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR, your consent.
You can withdraw your consent to data processing at any time without giving reasons. To do so, please contact compliance@wuerthfinance.net or click on the "Unsubscribe" link in one of the e-mails you receive. Please note that you will then no longer have access to downloads or content requiring registration. The lawfulness of the data processing until the time of your revocation remains unaffected.
Your data processed for this purpose will be stored until the purpose is fulfilled or you withdraw your consent. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
When you send us an inquiry through the contact form, your data from the inquiry form, including any contact data provided by you, will be stored by us in order to process your inquiry and answer any follow-up questions.
During job applications, we collect and process our applicants’ personal data through our job portal. After registering, all access details required for the creation of an applicant’s profile are sent out to the potential applicant by email. The information provided by the applicant in the profile is processed for the purpose of completing the recruitment process.
The following categories of personal data are processed when using the job portal:
Details included in
The personal data of applicants is processed on the legal basis set out in Art. 88 EU GDPR.
If the application is not considered or rejected in the course of the recruitment process, all application documents will be deleted automatically no later than six months after the application has been turned down unless further retention is necessary on the basis of other legitimate interests of the data controller.
Any consideration of the applicant’s profile for future job openings is subject to the applicant’s prior consent. In this case, the continued storage and processing of the applicant’s data is based on Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR. This consent may be revoked at any time. Please contact compliance@wuerthfinance.net. Applicants can withdraw their applications at any time. After withdrawal of an application, all application documents are deleted without delay.
This website uses features from Würth’s web analytics service based on the open-source software Matomo/Piwik. Würth’s web analytics tool uses "Cookies". Cookies are text files stored on your computer that make it possible to analyze how you use the website. The information generated by cookies regarding the use of our website is stored on our server.
Würth web analytics is used for the statistical analysis of our website on the basis of your consent in compliance with Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by not consenting to the use of cookies. However, please note that by doing so, you may not be able to use all of the features on this website.
If you do not agree to your data being stored and used, you can withdraw your consent to the storage and processing of your data here. Your opt-out decision will be stored in a cookie. If you delete your cookies, this will also delete your opt-out cookie. The next time you visit our site, you will be asked again whether cookies may be used for web analytics purposes.
We have enabled the IP anonymization function for this tool. This means that Würth truncates your IP address. We use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to the use of the website.
This website uses features from the web analytics service Google Analytics for the statistical analysis of website user behavior. These features are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, D04 E5W5, Ireland (hereinafter “Google”). We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google. The use of Google Analytics may result in the transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA. Google LLC. has concluded standard contractual clauses, as published by the European Commission, with us for the transmission of personal data to Google LLC. based in the USA. These standard contractual clauses can be viewed here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/.
We have enabled the IP anonymization function on this website. As a result, Google shortens your IP address within the member states of the European Union or in other member states of the European Economic Area before transferring data to the USA. Only under exceptional circumstances is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage for the website operator.
We are also using the “Demographics” feature of Google Analytics. This allows us to generate reports on the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data is collected from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This data cannot be attributed to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or by objecting to the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Objection to data collection”.
You can permanently refuse the collection of your data for use in anonymized statistics by disabling personalized advertising in the ad settings of your Google account; click on the following link to do so: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
For more information on Google Analytics and Google’s privacy policy, please visit:
Google Analytics is used for the statistical analysis of our website on the basis of your consent in compliance with Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR. You can prevent the use of cookies by not consenting to the use of cookies. However, please note that by doing so, you may not be able to use all of the features on this website. If you do not or no longer agree to your data being stored and used, you can withdraw your consent to the storage and processing of your data here. Your opt-out decision will be stored in a cookie. If you delete your cookies, this will also delete your opt-out cookie. The next time you visit our site, you will be asked again whether cookies may be used for web analytics purposes.
We use "Google reCAPTCHA" (hereinafter "reCAPTCHA") on our website. These features are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, D04 E5W5, Ireland (hereinafter “Google”). The use of reCAPTCHA may result in the transfer of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA. Google LLC. has concluded standard contractual clauses, as published by the European Commission, with us for the transmission of personal data to Google LLC. based in the USA. These standard contractual clauses can be viewed here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/.
reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (e.g. on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the visitor enters the website. For this analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various types of information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). All data collected during this analysis is transmitted to Google. The data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1f) EU GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offering against spam and other types of automated abuse.
For more information on reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit:
We use Google Tag Manager. This service is used to manage website tags via a web interface. Google Tag Manager is used solely to create these tags. No cookies are placed on your device and no personal data is collected. Google Tag Manager triggers other tags that may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
For more information on Google Tag Manager, please visit: http://www.google.com/tagmanager/use-policy.html
We operate user profiles on social networks for the purpose of presenting our company and communicating with existing and prospective customers. For more information on the related processing activities, please refer to the notice below.
Social networks help us present our company to persons that own a social network account (hereinafter “Users”) and all visitors of our profile without social network account (hereinafter “Guests”). Customers and prospects can also get in touch with us through our profile. Our profiles and contributions are generally visible to all Users and Guests (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Visitors”). When commenting on our contributions or sending us a message, this data is stored by the social network and can be viewed by us. We can reply to your comments or messages. Your comments and our replies may remain visible for all Visitors of the social network in question.
When viewing our profile, the social network can store and analyze your accessing the profile page and all other interactions on the social network’s website. This data is provided to the profile owners in statistical form and further processed by the social networks for other purposes, including advertising purposes.
If you have an account at this social network and are signed into your account when visiting our profile, the social network provider can link your interactions with our profile to your account details and process them further. Any data on your interactions with our profile may also be stored and processed for other purposes by the social network, even if you are not signed in or do not have an account with the social network in question. In this case, you can be linked to your account details with the help of cookies, small files stored on your end device, or your IP address.
Your data is generally processed for the purpose of creating a profile of interests for each Visitor and use these profiles for advertising purposes. When a person calls up certain websites, information on this browser activity is analyzed and the provider adds certain interests to the Visitor’s profile. The Visitor is shown ads based on these identified interests. The provider can show such interest-based ads both on and outside the social network’s websites.
Persons who access our profile at a social network (both Users with an account at the social network provider and Visitors without account).
Should you wish to request further information or exercise your rights as a data subject, we would recommend contacting the provider in question directly, as only the provider has full access to the data processed when visiting our profile or interacting with us on the social network. You can find all contact details of the social networks to exercise your rights as a data subject under “Information on the social networks we use”. You can contact us to exercise your rights as a data subject regarding all data processing activities that the provider of the social network and we are jointly responsible for. In such a case, we will forward your inquiry to the social network to the extent your inquiry relates to processing activities carried out by the social network.
For more information on the processing activities of the social networks we use and the available options to object to these processing activities, please refer to the section “Information on the social networks we use”.
Provider:
LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
Website:
https://www.linkedin.com/
LinkedIn’s data policy:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Our profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/w%C3%BCrth-finance-international-b-v-/?viewAsMember=true
Should you wish to receive the newsletter offered on our website, we need an email address from you along with information allowing us to verify that you are the owner of the email address given and that you agree to receiving our newsletter. Any additional data is collected on a voluntary basis only. The data entered in the newsletter registration form will be processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of your data and your email address and their use for the distribution of our newsletters at any time, e.g. by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
This data is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR). You may revoke your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
We retain the data you provided for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletter until you are removed from the mailing list or unsubscribe from our newsletter. This does not apply to data we store for other purposes (e.g. email addresses needed for online shop registration).
We have embedded YouTube videos in our online services, which are stored on www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. These features are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. The use of YouTube may result in the transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC. in the USA. Google LLC. has concluded standard contractual clauses, as published by the European Commission, with us for the transmission of personal data to Google LLC. based in the USA. These standard contractual clauses can be viewed here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/.
The YouTube videos on our website are all embedded in “privacy-enhanced mode”, i.e. no user data about you is sent to YouTube as long as you do not interact with these videos. No data is transferred until you play a video. We have no influence over this data transfer. Before any data is transmitted, you will be notified again that your data will be transferred to YouTube when you play a video. Your data will be transferred to YouTube regardless of whether you are signed into a YouTube user account or not. If you are signed into your Google account, your data will be linked directly to your account.
If you do not wish to be linked to your YouTube profile, you have to log out of your Google account before playing a video. YouTube stores your data as a user profile and uses that information for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or designing its website to meet users’ needs. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles; to do so, please send your request to YouTube.
Data is processed by Würth Finance International B.V. on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1a) EU GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
For more information on YouTube and Google’s privacy policy, please visit:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ (Google privacy policy)
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-software (Terms of Google services)
https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms&hl=en (YouTube Terms of Service)
We use Friendly Captcha (hereinafter "Friendly Captcha") on our website. This tool is provided by Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3-5, 82237 Woerthsee, Germany.
Friendly Captcha is used to check whether the data entered on our website (e.g. on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, Friendly Captcha analyses the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. Friendly Captcha processes various information for analysis (e.g. anonymized IP address, referrer, time of the visit, etc.). For more information please visit: https://friendlycaptcha.com/legal/privacy-end-users/.
The data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website against spam and other types of automated abuse.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the Friendly Captcha GmbH in accordance with Art. 28 (3) GDPR to ensure that the Friendly Captcha GmbH protects the personal data of our customers and does not disclose any personal data to third parties.
This privacy statement of Würth Finance International B.V. does not apply to applications, products, services, websites or social media functions of third-party providers that can be reached through links we offer for information purposes. When using these links, you leave the website of Würth Finance International B.V., resulting in the possibility that information about you may be collected or passed on by third parties. Würth Finance International B.V. has no influence whatsoever over the websites of third parties and makes no recommendations or warranties regarding these websites or their data protection practices. We therefore encourage you to read and review the privacy policies of any websites you interact with very closely before allowing them to collect, process and use your personal data.
We ask you to familiarize yourself regularly with the content of our privacy statement. This data privacy statement is revised whenever our data processing activities change. Please note that any addresses and contact information of companies and organizations given in this privacy statement are subject to change. Please verify this information before contacting an organization or company.
As of: December 2024
| Data to fulfil your customer order | Data to carry out the purchase process (transaction) | Data for administration purposes | Data for security purposes | Data for business operations | Data for advertising | |
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| What data do we collect? | ||||||
| Data provided by the customer | Contact details, payment details, account details, other unique identifiable information, security information | Contact details, payment details, account details, security information, social media details, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, account details, location data, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, payment details, account details, other unique identifiable information, security information | Contact details, payment details, account details, location data, security information, social media details, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, account details, location data, demographic data, preferences, social media details, other unique identifiable information |
| Data collected automatically | Website browsing data, demographic data, preferences, social media details, device data, anonymous or aggregated information | Device data | Device data, anonymous or aggregated information, website browsing data | Device data, application data, website browsing data, anonymous or aggregated information | ||
| Information from third-party sources | Public or commercially available data, anonymous or aggregated information, social media details. | Public or commercially available data | Business-related data, public or commercially available data, anonymous or aggregated information | Public or commercially available data, business-related data, anonymous or aggregated information, social media details | ||
| What information do we share? | ||||||
| Shared with service providers | Contact details, account details, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, payment details, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, account details, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, payment details, account details, safety information, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, payment details, account details, security information, anonymous or aggregated information, public or commercially available data, other unique identifiable information | Contact details, location data, demographic data, preferences, social media details, other unique identifiable information, device data, website browsing data, public or commercially available data, business-related data |
| Shared with other third parties | Contact details, demographic data, device data, anonymous or aggregated information, public or commercially available data | Other unique identifiable information, device data, anonymous or aggregated information | Location data, demographic data, other unique identifiable information, website browsing data, anonymous or aggregated information | |||
| Deletion period | The customer data collected will be deleted when the contract is complete or when the business relationship is terminated. Legal storage periods remain unaffected. For deletion periods in relation to Cookies please see the separate list, which you will find by pressing the “Cookies” data protection button. | |||||
| Key | Contact details: Private and/or commercial contact details including first name, surname, postal address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address and similar contact information. Payment details: Details which are required for processing payments and to prevent fraud, for example, credit/debit card numbers, security code number and other billing information. Customer account details: Information related to the customer account you have created Location data: Geolocation data, provided that you have activated location-related services or have given information about your location during product registration. Security and login data: User IDs, passwords, password hints and similar security information, which is required for authentication of your customer account. Demographic data: Demographic data collected by us or obtained from third parties, such as country, sex, age, preferred language. Preferences: Information about your preferences and interests in connection to our products or services (either provided by you or extrapolated from the information available) and preferred way to receive messages from us. Device data: Information about your computer e.g. operating system, storage capacity, region, language, time zone, model number, commissioning date, age and manufacturing date of the device, browser version, computer manufacturer, connection port, guarantee status, unique device identifiers, advert identifiers and various other technical information depending on the product. Social media details: In certain circumstances we provide functions for social media, through which you can share information in your social networks and interact with us using different social media websites. When you use these functions, depending on the function, it can lead to information about you being collected or shared. We would recommend that you check the data protection guidelines and settings on the social media websites you use, so that you know exactly which information is collected, used and shared through these websites. Other uniquely identifiable data: Other unique information about you such as information which you have given through interactions in person, by telephone, online or with our customer channels, answers to surveys or competitions or other information which you have given us, to enable us to provide services and answer enquiries. (You are not obliged to disclose the personal data requested by us. If you do not provide this data, under certain circumstances we may not be in the position to provide specific services or answer any queries from you in a satisfactory manner). Business-related data: This is information such as name, title, company address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Website activity data: Information about your visits and activity on our website, including the displayed content (and advertisements), with which you have interacted, the address of the website through which you have arrived at our site and other click sequences (e.g. pages visited, links you have clicked on or items added to the shopping basket). This information is, in part, collected using automatic data collection tools such as Cookies, web beacons and integrated weblinks. For further information please see the Cookies button. Anonymous or aggregated information: Anonymous survey answers or anonymous, aggregated information about the use of our services. During processing, your data may possibly be subject to a de-identification or pseudo-anonymisation process, through which the identification of you as a person is virtually impossible on the basis of state-of-the-art technology. Information from data sources from third-party suppliers: It is possible that we also use data from third-party suppliers, which appear to be credible to us and are publically available or can be obtained commercially. Such information may contain personal data such as name, address, e-mail address, preferences, interests and demographic data. For example, personal data can be collected when you access your applications using social media (e.g. when you log in to your applications using your Facebook or other social media login information). The basic details that we receive normally depends on the data protection settings in your social media account. Furthermore, we do not receive personal data, e.g. aggregated or de-identified demographic data or profile data, provided by third-party suppliers, company data, analysis and software as a service. Passing on to other Würth companies: We can pass your personal data on to other Würth companies for the purposes as described in this data protection declaration. Passing on to service providers: Occasionally we contract service providers to carry out certain aspects of our business operations for us or to support us. These service providers may possibly be located in other countries or other parts of the world and perform services for us such as credit card processing and combating fraud, customer support, order processing, product delivery, personalisation of content, advertising and marketing activities (e.g. digital and personalised advertising), IT services, E-mail services, data hosting, debt collection and management, training, installation partners or maintenance of websites. Our service providers have a contractual obligation, to store all the personal data we receive in a secure manner. They must only use personal data for carrying out the services for which they have been contracted by Würth. Furthermore we take all necessary measures, to ensure the appropriate protection for all transfers of your personal data in accordance with the applicable laws. Passing on to third parties: Your personal data may also be transmitted to the following institutions: Credit agencies and anti-fraud agencies; debt collection companies (in the case of outstanding payments); or other third parties such as our sales partners with corresponding information and consent. If you agree, for your personal data to be given to other companies, then the handling and use of this information falls under the data protection guidelines of the relevant company which may be different compared with Würth’s guidelines and procedures. In the legal framework: Your personal data will be passed on for misuse detection and troubleshooting, information will be passed on/provided to public authorities and information will be passed on/provided to owners of copyright and service rights. |
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