In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using this website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

1. Name and address of the controller and the data protection officer

Controller within the meaning of the GDPR

SteelCo GmbH
c/o OEKA TECH Automotive GmbH
Laubanger 2
96052 Bamberg
Germany

Tel. +49 (0)951 968 230-105
Mail: info@steelco.tech

represented by the managing directors Michael Nier and Stefan Pickel, see our legal notice.

Data protection officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please contact our data protection officer
by mail: datenschutz@steelco.tech
by post: at the above address with the addition of data protection officer

2. Your rights when using the website

You have

• in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, the right to receive information about your data stored by us that is collected during your visit to the website
• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, the right to request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us
• in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims
• in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, the right to withdraw your consent to processing at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation by the data subject remains unaffected.
• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller
• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, the right to demand the restriction of processing. We will restrict processing if the requirements of Art. 18 para. 1 GDPR are met;
• Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority if you believe that your right to informational self-determination has been violated by the processing of personal data collected during your visit to our website.
• The Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, www.lda.bayern.de, is responsible for SteelCo GmbH.
• If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which will be implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.

Please send all requests for information, requests for information or objections to data processing by e-mail to our data protection officer via datenschutz@steelco.tech or to the contact details given under no. 1

3. Data security
We maintain up-to-date technical measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data from risks during data transmission and from third parties gaining knowledge of it. These are adapted in line with the current state of the art.

4. Processing of personal data

Collection of personal data when visiting our website

General use of the website

When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not log in to use the website, register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

IP address

• Date and time of the enquiry
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request originates
• browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

Use of cookies

Our website does not use cookies.

5. Newsletter

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No further data is collected, or only on a voluntary basis. We use the newsletter service providers described below to process the newsletter.

Campaign.Plus
This website uses Campaign.Plus to send newsletters. The provider is Campaign.Plus GmbH, Schulgasse 5, 84359 Simbach am Inn, Germany.

Campaign.Plus is a service that can be used to organise and analyse the sending of newsletters, among other things. The data you enter for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter is stored on Campaign Plus servers in Germany.

Data analysis through Campaign.Plus
With the help of Campaign.Plus, we are able to analyse our newsletter campaigns. For example, we can see whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked on. In this way, we can determine, among other things, which links were clicked on particularly often.

We can also recognise whether certain previously defined actions were carried out after opening/clicking (conversion rate). For example, we can recognise whether you have made a purchase after clicking on the newsletter.

Campaign.Plus also enables us to categorise newsletter recipients according to various categories (‘clustering’). Newsletter recipients can be categorised by age, gender or place of residence, for example. In this way, the newsletters can be better customised to the respective target groups.

If you do not wish to be analysed by Campaign.Plus, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. We provide a corresponding link for this purpose in every newsletter message.

Detailed information on the functions of Campaign.Plus can be found at the following link: https://www.campaign.plus/#funktionen.

Legal basis
Data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

Storage period
The data you provide us with for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes remains unaffected by this.

After you unsubscribe from the newsletter distribution list, your e-mail address may be stored by us or the newsletter service provider in a blacklist if this is necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be merged with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with the legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Storage in the blacklist is not limited in time. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.

You can find more details in Sendinblue's privacy policy at: https://www.campaign.plus/datenschutzinformationen/.

Order processing
We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, which ensures that the personal data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

6. Use of Matomo (formerly Piwik)
This website uses the web analysis service Matomo from the provider InnoCraft Ltd, 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand.
Matomo is used to analyse user access to the website. Among other things, data is collected about the website from which a data subject came to the website (so-called referrer), which subpages were accessed or how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. We use Matomo to analyse and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our website and make it more interesting for you as a user.
No cookies are stored on your computer for this analysis.
This website uses Matomo with the extension ‘AnonymizeIP’. This means that IP addresses are further processed in abbreviated form, so that they cannot be directly linked to individuals. The IP address transmitted by your browser using Matomo is not merged with other data collected by us.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Matomo can be found at  https://matomo.org/privacy/.

7. Integration of Google Maps
On our website, we may use Google Maps (API) from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (land) maps in order to visualise geographical information. By using this service, you can, for example, see our location and make it easier for you to find us.
These processing operations are only carried out if you give your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR by clicking on the link to the service.
If you have consented to the processing, Google will receive information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website by visiting the website. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account.
If you do not wish to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or customised design of its websites. Such an analysis is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide customised advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.
If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google when using Google Maps, you also have the option of completely deactivating the Google Maps web service by switching off the JavaScript application in your browser. Google Maps and thus also the map display on this website can then not be used.
These processing operations are only carried out with your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can view Google's terms of use at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html, the additional terms of use for Google Maps can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html
Detailed information on data protection in connection with the use of Google Maps can be found on the Google website (‘Google Privacy Policy’): https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

8. Social media profiles on LinkedIn and XING
We maintain profiles on the social networks LinkedIn and XING in order to communicate with the users registered there and to inform them about our products, services and news.
When you use and access our profiles on the social network, the data protection information and terms of use of the respective social media provider apply. The processing of your personal data when you visit our profile on LinkedIn and XING is based on our legitimate interests in a diverse external presentation of our company and the use of an effective means of information and communication with you. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If you have given consent to the controller of the social network to process your personal data, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We have no influence on the processing of personal data by the respective social media provider.
As a rule, when you visit our profiles, the social media provider stores cookies in your browser in which your user behaviour and interests are stored for market research and advertising purposes. For detailed information on data processing when using our social media profile and on your rights, please refer to the data protection declarations of the social media providers:
LinkedIn (Provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland)
Privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Cookie Policy / Opt-Out: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
XING (Provider: XING SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany)
Privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

9. Duration of storage of personal data
We process and store your data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the above-mentioned purposes, in particular our contractual and legal obligations. If the data is no longer required for the fulfilment of these purposes and our obligations, it is regularly deleted unless its temporary further processing is required for the following purposes:
Fulfilment of retention obligations under commercial and tax law: In particular, the German Commercial Code and the German Fiscal Code. The retention and documentation periods specified there are six to ten years.
Preservation of evidence within the framework of statutory limitation periods. According to §§195 ff. of the German Civil Code (BGB), these limitation periods can be up to 30 years, whereby the regular limitation period is three years.

10. Obligation to provide data
There is no legal obligation to provide data.
As part of a business relationship, you must provide the personal data that is required to process your order and the associated contractual obligations or that we are legally obliged to collect. Without this data, we will not be able to conclude or fulfil a contract.

11. Existence of automated decision-making including profiling
Such a procedure is not used.

12. Changes to the privacy policy
Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration.