10. September 2024/1

We, FUMATECH BWT GmbH (please find the contact details below) and asso­ci­ated compa­nies, are pleased that you are visiting our website! The protec­tion of your data and your privacy are a special concern for our company. The use of our website is possible without the indi­ca­tion of personal data. In case you would like to make use of specific appli­ca­tions of our company the processing of personal data may be neces­sary. For the circum­stance, that processing of personal data is neces­sary and a legal base therefor does not exist, we seek your consent.

The processing of personal data takes place in order with the General Data Protec­tion Regu­la­tion (GDPR) and the respec­tive country-specific data protec­tion regu­la­tions. By means of this data protec­tion decla­ra­tion our company would like to inform the public about the type, extent and purpose concerning the personal data collected, used and processed. Further we want to inform you about your rights.

We have taken tech­nical and orga­ni­za­tional measures to protect your data against loss, modi­fi­ca­tion or unau­tho­rized access. We contin­u­ously improve these secu­rity measures according to the tech­no­log­ical devel­op­ment.

The provi­sions below serve to provide infor­ma­tion as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal infor­ma­tion by FUMATECH BWT GmbH.

1. General

The data protec­tion decla­ra­tion of our company is based on the terms of the GDPR.

“personal infor­ma­tion” is data that, when submitted, is able to deter­mine your iden­tity or enables your iden­tity to be deter­mined. “Only indi­rectly person­ally iden­ti­fi­ably infor­ma­tion” is data by which clients, service providers or recip­i­ents of a commu­ni­ca­tion cannot deter­mine the iden­tity of a specific indi­vidual using means that are permitted by law. “Non-personal infor­ma­tion” is anonymized and cannot, under any circum­stances, be attrib­uted to specific indi­vid­uals and is there­fore infor­ma­tion that is not subject to the Privacy Policy governing personal data.

“data subject” means an iden­ti­fi­able natural person whose personal data is processed by the controller.

“processing” means any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by auto­mated means, such as collec­tion, recording, organ­i­sa­tion, struc­turing, storage, adap­ta­tion or alter­ation, retrieval, consul­ta­tion, use, disclo­sure by trans­mis­sion, dissem­i­na­tion or other­wise making avail­able, align­ment or combi­na­tion, restric­tion, erasure or destruc­tion.

“controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, deter­mines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are deter­mined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomi­na­tion may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

“third party” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are autho­rised to process personal data.

“consent” of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unam­biguous indi­ca­tion of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a state­ment or by a clear affir­ma­tive action, signi­fies agree­ment to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Personal data is only processed by our company in accor­dance to the data protec­tion regu­la­tions in force. In case you corre­spond with our company or fill in a form with your data, you accept that the data is processed for the mentioned purpose.

2. Name and address concerning the controller and contact partner

The body respon­sible for collecting, processing and using your personal data in terms of the GDPR such as Federal data protec­tion laws is:

FUMATECH BWT GmbH
Carl-Benz-Straße 4
74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen

The data protec­tion officer volun­tarily appointed by the respon­sible person can be reached under the following e-mail address
daten­[email protected]

3. Processing personal data

3.1. Website Contact Form / RoPA-1072
Contact form for sales, recruitment and company information requests.

Respon­sible company within the BWT Group: FUMATECH BWT GmbH
The processed data types are: Name, E-Mail-Address 
The legal basis for processing this data is: Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a (Consent/Einwilli­gung)
Purpose of the processing: Processing of infor­ma­tion requests. 

Data is trans­ferred to a processor in the U.S. that is certi­fied under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Frame­work

The storage dura­tion for this proces­sion ends after revoking your consent. 

The details of the data processing are conclude in a Data Processing Agree­ment Art. 28 GDPR between us and the processor.

3.2. 3.2. Website visit fumega-technologies.com/ RoPA-1143
Tech­ni­cally neces­sary data processing for the transfer of website content between server and client.

Respon­sible company within the BWT Group: BWT Sports & Digital Services GmbH
The processor of the data is: Microsoft Azure Website Hosting, Cloud­flare Website Protec­tion, Google Analytics
The processed data types are: IP-Address 
The legal basis for processing this data is: Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a (Consent/Einwilli­gung), Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f (legit­i­mate interest/berechtigtes Inter­essen) and Art. 49 Abs. 1 lit. a (Consent/Einwilli­gung)
Purpose of the processing: Tech­ni­cally neces­sary data processing of the IP address (Microsoft Azure Website Hosting, Cloud­flare Website Protec­tion)
Consent for cookies and website statis­tics (Google Analytics)

Data is trans­ferred to a processor in the U.S. that is certi­fied under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Frame­work

The storage dura­tion for this proces­sion ends after revoking your consent. 

The details of the data processing are conclude in a Data Processing Agree­ment Art. 28 GDPR between us and the processor.

3.3. Google Analytics 4 / RoPA-1089
If you have given your consent, Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, is used on this website. The controller for users in the EU/EEA and Switzer­land is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google").

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable us to analyse your use of our website. The infor­ma­tion collected by the cookies about your use of this website is usually trans­ferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

We use the User ID func­tion. The user ID enables us to assign a unique, perma­nent ID to one or more sessions (and the activ­i­ties within these sessions) and to analyse user behav­iour across devices

We use Google Signals. This enables Google Analytics to collect addi­tional infor­ma­tion about users who have acti­vated person­alised ads (inter­ests and demo­graphic data) and ads can be deliv­ered to these users in cross-device remar­keting campaigns.

In Google Analytics 4, the anonymi­sa­tion of IP addresses is acti­vated by default. Due to IP anonymi­sa­tion, your IP address will be trun­cated by Google within member states of the Euro­pean Union or in other signa­tory states to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Economic Area. Only in excep­tional cases will the full IP address be trans­mitted to a Google server in the USA and trun­cated there. According to Google, the IP address trans­mitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. During your visit to the website, your user behav­iour is recorded in the form of "events". Events can be

• Page views
• First visit to the website 
• Start of the session 
• Websites visited 
• Your "click path", 
• inter­ac­tion with the website Scrolls (when­ever a user scrolls to the end of the page (90%)) 
• Clicks on external links 
• Internal search queries 
• Inter­ac­tion with videos 
• File down­loads 
• Viewed/clicked adverts 
• Language setting 

In addi­tion, the following is recorded

• Your approx­i­mate loca­tion (region) 
• Date and time of the visit 
• Your IP address (in abbre­vi­ated form) 
• Tech­nical infor­ma­tion about your browser and the end devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen reso­lu­tion) 
• Your internet provider The referrer URL (via which website/adver­tising medium you came to this website)

Respon­sible company within the BWT Group: BWT Sports & Digital Services GmbH
The processor of the data is: Data Proces­sors can be, Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (as data processor Art. 28 GDPR)
Google LLC, 1600 Amphithe­atre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA
Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphithe­atre Parkway Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA

The processed data types are: 
• Browser-Agent
• IP-Address 

The legal basis for processing this data is: Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a (Consent/Einwilli­gung)

Purpose of the processing: On behalf of the oper­ator of this website, Google will use this infor­ma­tion to analyse your use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyse the perfor­mance of our website and the success of our marketing campaigns].

Data is trans­ferred to a processor in the U.S. that is certi­fied under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Frame­work

The storage dura­tion for this proces­sion ends after revoking your consent. 

The details of the data processing are conclude in a Data Processing Agree­ment Art. 28 GDPR between us and the processor.

4. Period for which the personal data will be stored

We store your personal Data, where required, for the dura­tion of the entire busi­ness rela­tion­ship (initi­a­tion, trans­ac­tion, fulfil­ment of a contract) and more­over pursuant to the storage and docu­men­ta­tion oblig­a­tions and for defence of legal claims. The storage period results from the storage oblig­a­tions and periods of limi­ta­tion. The period of limi­ta­tion according to the German Corpo­rate Code and the German Fiscal Code is 10  years, according to the Equal Treat­ment Act 6 months. In certain cases a longer storage oblig­a­tion might be reason­able.

5. Rights of the data subject

With regard to the data processing to be described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right

• to confir­ma­tion of whether data concerning them is being processed, infor­ma­tion about the data being processed, further infor­ma­tion about the nature of the data processing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
• to correct or complete incor­rect or incom­plete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
• to the imme­diate dele­tion of data concerning them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alter­na­tively, if further processing is neces­sary as stip­u­lated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said processing per Art. 18 GDPR;
• to receive copies of the data concerning them and/or provided by them and to have the same trans­mitted to other providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
• to file complaints with the super­vi­sory authority if they believe that data concerning them is being processed by the controller in breach of data protec­tion provi­sions (see also Art. 77 GDPR). In Austria, this is the Data Protec­tion Authority.

In addi­tion, the controller is obliged to inform all recip­i­ents to whom it discloses data of any such correc­tions, dele­tions, or restric­tions placed on processing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this oblig­a­tion does not apply if such noti­fi­ca­tion is impos­sible or involves a dispro­por­tionate effort. Never­the­less, users have a right to infor­ma­tion about these recip­i­ents.

Like­wise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data subjects have the right to object to the controller's future processing of their data pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In partic­ular, an objec­tion to data processing for the purpose of direct adver­tising is permis­sible.

These rights can be enforced at any time, in writing, to FUMATECH BWT GmbH, daten­[email protected]
Please note that infor­ma­tion can only be provided to you in case of a corre­sponding evidence of your iden­tity.

RoPA-1072 RoPA-1089 RoPA-1143