1.1 We are happy that you have visited our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we would like to inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is any data which can be used to identify you personally.
1.2 The responsible party for data processing on this website in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is "Theo Förch GmbH & Co. KG Theo-Förch-Strasse 11-15 Sitz 74196 Neuenstadt, Germany Tel. +49 7139 95-0 e-Mail: info@foerch.de Internet: www.foerch.de". The responsible party for the processing of personal data is that natural or legal person who decides on their own or together with others on the purpose and means of processing personal data"
1.3 The responsible party has employed a data protection officer for this website who can be reached as follows: "Stefan Henschel Theo Förch GmbH & Co.KG Theo-Förch-Strasse 11-15 74196 Neuenstadt Germany Tel.: +49 7139 95 109 00 e-Mail: datenschutz@foerch.de"
1.4 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or enquiries to the responsible party), this website uses a SSL and/or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection through the character string "https://" and a lock icon in the browser line.
In the case of simple information use of our website, i.e. if you do not register or transmit any other information to us, we only collect that data which your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server logfiles"). If you open our website, we collect the following data technically required by us in order to display the website:
Processing takes place according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f. GDPR on the basis of our valid interest in the improvement of the stability and functionality of our website. Forwarding or other use of the data does not take place. However, we reserve the right to check the server logfiles at a later time, should there be concrete indications of illegal use.
To make visits to our website attractive and to allow the use of specific functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files, stored on your terminal. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again after the end of the browser session, i.e. when the browser is closed (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your terminal and allow us or our partner companies (cookies from third parties) to recognize your browser again on your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, then they collect and process user information specified in an individual scope, such as browser and location data, as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies are deleted automatically after a specified period of time, which may vary according to the cookie.
Some of the cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by saving settings (e.g. remembering the contents of a virtual shopping basket for a later visit to the website). If some of the cookies implemented by us also process personal data, then processing takes place according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, either for the execution of the contract or, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, to maintain our valid interests for the best possible functionality of the website and for customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.
We may work together with advertising partners, who help us to make our Internet presence more interesting for you. To this end, cookies from partner companies will also be saved on your hard drive (cookies from third parties) when you visit our website. If we co-operate with the above-mentioned advertising partners, then you will be individually and specially informed on the use of such cookies and the scope of the collected information within the following paragraphs.
Please note that you can set your browser in such a way that you will be informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually on their acceptance or refuse the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in all cases. Each browser manages the cookie settings differently. They are described in the Help menu of every browser, which explains to you how to change your cookie settings. You can find them for the appropriate browser via the following links:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
Please note that non-acceptance of cookies can restrict the functionality of our website.
When you make contact with us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. The appropriate contact form shows which data is collected by a form. This data is solely saved and used for the purpose of answering your enquiry or to make contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our valid interest in answering your enquiry according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Should your contact be intended to complete a contract, then the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. After final processing of your enquiry, your data will be deleted. This also applies if circumstances make it clear that the appropriate topic has been sufficiently clarified and should no legal storage obligations be infringed.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files saved on your computer, allowing analysis of the website use by you. The information generated by the cookie on your use of this website (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there.
This website only uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()", ensuring an anonymisation of the IP address through abbreviation, preventing a direct relationship to people. Through the extension, Google first shortens your IP within the member states of the European Union or other countries of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google Server in the USA and shortened there. In these exceptional cases, this processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our valid interest in a statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes.
At our behest, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports on website activities and to provide us with further services connected to website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data.
You can prevent the saving of cookies through an appropriate setting in your browser software. However, we would like to point out that, in this case, you may not be able to use the full scope of all the functions of this website. In addition, you can prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Alternatively to the browser plug-in or within browsers on mobile devices, please click the following link to set an Opt-Out cookie, which will prevent recording by Google Analytics in future within this website (this Opt-Out cookies only functions in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again): Google Analytics deaktivieren (Click here)
Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement "Privacy Shield", which guarantees the level of data protection applicable in the EU.
You can obtain more information on Google Analytics handling of user data in the Google data protection declaration: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de