Data Privacy Policy

1. Controller and Data Protection Representative
2. Collection, Processing and Use of Personal Data
3. Use of Personal Data for Marketing and Advertising Purposes
4. Use of Cookies
5. Collection and Processing of Web Use Data
6. Embedded YouTube Videos
7. Social Plugins
8. Google Analytics
9. Online Advertising
10. Map Services
11. Security of Your Personal Data
12. Your Rights

Collection of data

Generally, you can visit this website without any collection of your personal data. If you wish to use our online shop, you must register as a user. When you register as a user, we will collect and store the user and company information you provide (name, address, e-mail, payment information, etc.). In addition, we will link certain information, such as prices, price lists, payment terms, Incoterms® 2010, or other terms and conditions that are applicable to you, to your profile. In each case disclosure of your personal data is completely optional. Personal data made available by you through this website will be used exclusively for the purposes for which such data are collected. We will use such data to review your profile (commercial customer, internal compliance, any credit check), to confirm and fill your orders and payments, to deliver products, including compliance with customs and export laws, to provide services, to communicate with you, and to analyze your use of this website.

Transfer of data

Personal data collected through this website will be transferred to third parties or third-party data processors only if and to the extent necessary for the relevant purposes, e.g., we will forward your address to shipping companies for delivery purposes. Personal data will be transferred to third countries only for the purposes described in this data privacy policy.

Recipients of data or categories of recipients

Recipients of data are the following:

• Government agencies that receive data in accordance with applicable law (laws that take priority over privacy concerns) (e.g., social security service providers and tax authorities);
• Internal offices involved in the settlement of transactions (e.g., bookkeeping, accounting, purchasing, electronic data processing);
• Third-party contractors: outsourced personal data processing or use in accordance with § 11 of the Federal Data Protection Act (hereinafter "BDSG") or, starting on May 25, 2018, Art. 28 et seq. of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter "GDPR"); and
• Third parties involved in the settlement of transactions (e.g., shipping companies).

Legal basis of data processing

Data will be processed based on consent, to perform the contract, and/or to comply with a legal obligation (§§ 4, 4a, 28 of the BDSG or, starting on May 25, 2018, Art. 6 para. 6 (a), (b) and (c) et seq. of the GDPR.

Standard periods for erasure of data

Recordkeeping obligations for personal data vary. Thus, tax-relevant data generally are kept for a period of 10 years, and other data are generally kept for six years in accordance with commercial law. If there is no legal recordkeeping obligation, data will be erased or destroyed if and when they are no longer necessary for business purposes.

3. Use of Personal Data for Marketing and Advertising Purposes

Your personal data made available through this website will be used for marketing or advertising purposes only if and to the extent you have expressly consented to such use or if and to the extent that such use is in compliance with applicable law ((§§ 4 para. 1, 4a, and 28 of the BDSG or, starting on May 25, 2018, Art. 6 para. 1 (a) and (f) et seq. of the GDPR). In addition, you may at any time object to any use of your personal data for marketing or advertising purposes by sending an informal letter to SPINNER GmbH, Erzgießereistr. 33, 80335 Munich, calling us at +49 89 126010, or e-mailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Newsletter

We offer you a newsletter to provide you with information about us and our products and services.

For you to receive the newsletter, we will need your e-mail address. By subscribing to the newsletter you agree to receive the newsletter. Collected data will be used only to send the newsletter.

Our newsletter is sent via MailChimp. The plugins and functions of MailChimp are offered by The Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000 Atlanta, GA 30308.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, the data provided by you will be transmitted to and stored by MailChimp. Following your subscription MailChimp will send you an e-mail to confirm your subscription ("double opt-in"). MailChimp uses the analysis tool Google Analytics. You will find additional details about Google Analytics in Section 8 below.

The data privacy policy of Rocket Science Group LLC is available at http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

You may at any time revoke your consent to receive the newsletter and to the associated collection and storage of data. To revoke consent, you may use the link in the newsletter or notify us using the above contact options.

SSL Encryption

To ensure the secure transmission of confidential information such as questions that you submit to us, this website uses SSL encryption. You can tell when a connection is encrypted because a padlock icon appears in the browser line and "http://" switches to https://. When SSL encryption is enabled, it is impossible for third parties to read data you send to us.

4. Use of Cookies

This website uses temporary session cookies and permanent cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally on your computer by your Internet browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return to our website. This will save you, for example, the need to register again on our website and helps us recommend products to you. The use of cookies is necessary for using the shopping basket in the online shop. Should you deactivate the use of cookies in your browser, you may no longer be able to fully use all functions of this website.

5. Collection and Processing of Web Use Data

We collect web use data through this website for statistical purposes, to optimize this website, to identify and follow up on malfunctions or misuses of our online offers or telecommunication services and systems, and for marketing purposes (§ 28 para. 1 sent. 1 nos. 1 and 2 of the BDSG or, starting on May 25, 2018, Art. 6 para. 1 (f) et seq. of the GDPR). Provided that you have consented, we will use your web use data to create web use profiles. In this connection, web use data include, for example, the date and time you access this website, the browser version you use, and the time you spend on this website. Web use profiles will be linked to personal data of the customer.

The consent is worded as follows:

I hereby consent that my web use data that is collected when I access this website may be used by SPINNER GmbH to advertise products and services of SPINNER GmbH and for market research purposes. I may revoke my consent at any time with effect for the future. You will find additional information about consent in the data privacy policy.

You may at any time informally revoke your consent to the creation of web use profiles by using the above contact options. Revocation will result in no costs of any kind for you – except for any applicable transmission or connection fees.

As a matter of principle, we will not use your data for advertising or market research purposes except with your consent. This also applies if you should revoke your consent later.

6. Embedded YouTube Videos

Our website features embedded YouTube videos. YouTube is a service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("YouTube"). YouTube uses cookies for purposes of creating video statistics and improving user functionality, among other things. YouTube videos are embedded in our website in the "enhanced data privacy mode." As a result, cookies will be stored by YouTube on your computer only if you play a YouTube video that is embedded on our website. Because YouTube videos are embedded in our website in the "enhanced data privacy mode," no personal data will be stored in cookies on your computer unless you play YouTube videos. You can generally deactivate the use of cookies in your browser. You will find additional information regarding data privacy and the use of cookies by YouTube in the data privacy policy of YouTube at www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

7. Social Plugins

Use of social plugins of Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and LinkedIn

Our website uses social plugins ("plugins") of social networking sites.

To increase the privacy of your data when visiting our website, plugins are not linked to our website without limitation, but merely by using an HTML link (so-called "Shariff solution"). This link guarantees that when you access a page of our website that contains plugins, no connection with servers of the social networking site provider will be made yet. If you click on a button, a new window will open in your browser and access the website of the service provider, on which you can click, for example, on the like or share button (where applicable, after entering your login data).

For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by the providers on their websites, as well as for your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to the data privacy policies of the providers.

http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

https://twitter.com/privacy http://

http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

8. Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. Information about your use of this website generated by such cookies generally will be transmitted to and stored to a server of Google in the United States. If you activate IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will however be truncated by Google within countries of the European Union or other countries of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a server of Google in the United States and will be truncated there. Google will use such information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports about web activities, and to render additional services to the website operator related to website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted to Google Analytics by your browser will not be associated with any other data of Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making appropriate changes to your browser; we note however that in such case you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website. You may also prevent the collection by Google of data generated by cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin that is available at the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To prevent tracking by Google Analytics, click on the link below to install an opt-out cookie preventing the tracking of data when you visit our website:

Deactivate Google Analytics

You will find additional information regarding the terms of use and data privacy of Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/Analytics/terms/de.html or https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies. We would also like to inform you that Google Analytics is used by this website with the additional code " gat._anonymizeIp();" to guarantee anonymous tracking of IP addresses. Please note that your objection to web analysis takes the form of an opt-out cookie. If you delete your cookies, your objection to web analysis may be rendered ineffective.

9. Online Advertising

This website uses the service DoubleClick. DoubleClick uses information about your visits to our or other websites in order to show online advertising on websites for products and services of ours in which you be interested. DoubleClick uses cookies for this purpose. DoubleClick it a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. DoubleClick collects, processes, and uses personal data according to its own rules, which is why SPINNER GmbH assumes no responsibility for any data collection, processing, or use by DoubleClick. Please refer to the data privacy policy of DoubleClick (Google) at http://www.google.de/policies/technologies/ads/. You may object to the collection and processing of data by DoubleClick for the aforementioned purposes at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/. If you wish to permanently deactivate DoubleClick cookies, you may install the browser plugin for enhanced DoubleClick deactivation available at https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/plugin?hl=de. SPINNER GmbH receives no data from DoubleClick nor any data that may be created as a result of using DoubleClick.

10. Map Services

This website uses the service Google Maps. Google Maps is a map service that visually represents geographic information. Google Maps is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Maps collects, processes, or uses personal data according to its own rules, which is why SPINNER GmbH assumes no responsibility for any data collection, processing, or use by Google Maps. Please refer to the terms of use of Google Maps (Google) at http://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html and to the data privacy policy of Google Maps (Google) at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. SPINNER GmbH receives no data from Google Maps nor any data that may be created as a result of using Google Maps.

11. Security of Your Personal Data

SPINNER GmbH protects your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or publication. For this purpose SPINNER GmbH takes appropriate technical measures according to the latest state of the art. Should you have to enter bank account or credit card information for payment purposes, such information will be stored only by PCI-DSS certified payment services providers, not by us. SPINNER GmbH notes however that a transmission of data via the Internet (e.g., communication by e-mail) may have security gaps. It is therefore impossible to protect your personal data from unauthorized access by third parties 100%.

In addition, you should take steps of your own to protect your data from unauthorized access, for example by keeping your password secret.

12. Your Rights

You have a right to information, correction, or erasure (§§ 34 and 35 of the BDSG; starting on May 25, 2018, Art. 15, 16 and 17 of the GDPR) by the controller of personal data, as well as a right to restricted data processing (§ 35 of the BDSG; starting on May 25, 2018, Art. 18 of the GDPR). You have the right to object to the transmission and processing of data. If your data are erased or blocked, you will however no longer be able to use certain services on our website.

Beginning on May 25, 2018, you may also demand that data which are automatically processed or to the use of which you have consented be made available to you in machine-readable form or be transferred to other controllers (Art. 20 of the GDPR).

You may exercise your rights by informally notifying the data protection representative:
Mr. Stefan Eisert, Tüv Süd Sec IT GmbH, Magdalenenweg 12, 85457 Wörth, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)8123 928639, Mobile: +49 (0)173 481 6006, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you have consented to the use of data, you may revoke consent at any time free of charge by sending a letter to SPINNER GmbH, Erzgießereistr. 33, 80335 Munich, calling us at +49 89 126010, or e-mailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Data subjects may revoke consent at any time without thereby affecting the lawfulness of data processing that has occurred until consent is revoked.

If you have any complaints, you may also contact the competent regulatory authority for data protection in Ansbach, Germany:
BayLDA, Promenade 27, 91522 Ansbach, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)981 531300, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.