WEBSITE Privacy policy

We, KIMO RHVAC Controls GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “we”), thank you for your interest in our company and our products and we appreciate your visit to our website www.frigokimo.com (hereinafter referred to as “website”).

The protection of your personal data is a major concern for us. Your personal data is processed exclusively in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations, especially the European General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (hereinafter referred to as “BDSG”), both as amended from 25 May 2018.

Below we will inform you about how your personal data is processed and which rights you shall have as a data subject under the data protection law.

Where we link to third-party websites, please note that these websites are not operated by us and we are not responsible for the content on such websites. We have no influence on the data processing operations on third-party websites.

1. controller and data protection officer

The controller is:

BITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH
Peter-Schaufler-Platz 1
71065 Sindelfingen
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 70 31 932-0
Fax: +49 (0) 70 31 932-147
E-Mail: bitzer@bitzer.de

Data protection officer:

BITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH
Peter-Schaufler-Platz 1
71065 Sindelfingen
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 70 31 932-0
Fax: +49 (0) 70 31 932-147
E-Mail: datenschutz@bitzer.de

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding data protection please contact our data protection officer.

2. collection, processing and provision of personal data

We only collect, process and use your personal data where legally admissible or if you have provided your express consent.

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. The personal data includes for example your name, your phone number and your postal and e-mail address, as these data is an expression of your personal identity.

Processing of personal data 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.

2.1. Data categories

We process communication data. Communication data is data such as your name, address, e-mail address and IP address.
The processing of personal data is exclusively for the purposes described below and is limited to the necessary personal data in the legal sense of data economy.

2.2. purposes of the processing and legal grounds
We and the service providers we engage process your personal data exclusively for the following purposes:

Consent for processing, Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR           

If you have given consent to the processing of your personal data, we will process your personal data for the purpose specified.

Compliance with our legal obligations, Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR

Personal data is also collected and processed in order to comply with our legal obligations such as our control and reporting obligations.

Legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR

We also process personal data if it is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of third parties.

2.3. transmission of data to third parties

Your personal data will only be transmitted to third parties within the European Union (hereinafter referred to as “EU”) or in third countries only occurs to affiliated companies of BITZER SE in the sense of Section 15 ff. of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG), if this is necessary to process your request or is required by law or you have given us consent. We can also share your personal data with our service providers within the EU insofar as the service providers support us in accordance with our instructions when processing your request (e.g. IT service providers).

When personal data is transferred to a third country, please note that not all third countries have an adequate level of protection. However, before transferring your personal data to a third country, we ensure that either the recipient of the data maintains an adequate level of protection or you have given consent to the transfer of data.

2.4. Duration of storage of your personal Data

Your personal data will only be processed and stored for as long as necessary to comply with our legal and contractual obligations.

In particular, processing of the personal data is necessary for the execution of the contract as well as for the defense and enforcement of civil law claims within the applicable limitation periods. Furthermore, we have to comply with duties to retain under commercial law, tax law or other legal duties to retain which may require the storage of your personal data. For these reasons, we reserve the right to only erase the personal data after expiry of the relevant storage periods.

3. Cookies

Cookies are divided into various categories. There are technically required and technically not required cookies.

We only use technically necessary cookies on our website. These are needed for the operation and functionality of a website, which also entails necessary data storage. Consent to the use of technically necessary cookies is not required.

4. Contacting KIMO RHVAC Controls GmbH

If you contact us by e-mail, you provide us your personal data. In order to process your request, we will process your data and potentially forward it to third parties, if necessary.

5. applications and data protection

If you would like to receive information on data protection as part of the application process in advance, do not hesitate to contact us at any time. To do so, please use the contact details above.

6. your rights as a data subject

As a data subject, you have various rights with regard to the processing of your personal data. If you would like to exercise these rights, please use the contact details provided in section 1.

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

// You shall have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed by us, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data, Article 15 GDPR;
// You shall have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data or the completion of incomplete personal data, Article 16 GDPR;
// You shall have the right t obtain from us the erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) of your personal data without undue delay, Article 17 GDPR ;
// You shall have the right to obtain the restriction of the processing of your personal data, Article 18 GDPR ;
// You shall have the right to data portability, i.e. you shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning you or have the personal data transmitted directly to another controller, Article 20 GDPR.

 

If you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the regulations of the GDPR, you shall have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over us, Article 77 GDPR. The supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for Baden-Wuerttemberg.  

7. version and modification of this privacy policy

This privacy policy was last revised in November 2021.

It might become necessary to amend or adapt this privacy policy in case technological developments and or/ changes to statutory and/or official regulations are given.

The latest version of this privacy policy shall apply.