G-TEM

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes how we process personal data when you visit our website.

1. What is personal data?

Personal data is all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This may involve data that can be personally related to you, for example names, addresses, email addresses, or user behaviour.

2. Data Controller

The data controller pursuant to Article 4 no. 7 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is GTEKT Europe Manufacturing Limited, Gloucester Business Park, Golf Club Lane, Brockworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL3 4AJ, info@g-tem.co.uk.

3. What personal data do we collect?

Our website is primarily for informational use. Interested users can inform themselves about our company and our products and services. The data and information we collect can be categorized as follows:

Automatically collected data: When you access and use our website, we automatically collect information, including personal data, about the technologies you use and information about how you use these and our website.

This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.

Log files and device information: Log files contain data that your browser automatically transmits to our web server. These log files contain information about:

o your IP address;
o the date and time of the request;
o the requested URL (the specific webpage);
o the access status/HTTP status code;
o the extent of transmitted data;
o the referrer-URL;
o the browser type and the browser language settings.

Cookies: We do not use cookies to track data on our website.

Data and information provided by you: If you contact us with general questions about our company and our products or write to us in case of issues with products, we will store and process your personal data transmitted with the inquiry. It is your free decision which information and data you provide to us. However, we reserve the right to reject inquiries which do not contain minimum information on your identity. If necessary, we will contact you and request further data and information in order to process your inquiry to your full satisfaction.

4. How do we use the data we collect from you? On what legal basis is the use based?

We use, store and process information, including personal data, on you, for the following purposes and on the following legal basis:

Provision, improvement, development and security of the websites: We use log files to make the website, including its functionalities, available to you. We also use the information and data to optimize our website and to ensure the security of our IT systems. For this purpose, your IP address must remain stored for the duration of the session.

Cookies used by us or our partners also serve the purpose of offering you more functionalities and extensions within the website.

We use log files as well as cookies as part of our legitimate interest in the availability and continuous development as well as the presentation of our website. The legal basis for the use of the log files is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Communication: We use the data that we request from you or that you provide to us in connection with your enquiry when you contact us in order to respond to your enquiry as quickly and efficiently as possible. The use of your data in the context of communication with you corresponds to our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. As far as it concerns a concrete inquiry to our products, in particular in case of an order, the use of your data is required for performance of the contract and/or for the performance of pre-contractual measures on your request in accordance with Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

5. Will the data and information on me be shared with others?

We work together with various partner companies who support us in presenting individual features of the website. These partner companies may collect and use personal data. We inform you based on our level of knowledge:

Google Maps: To display our location and to enable you to plan your route to our offices, our websites include maps provided by Google Maps. Once you visit a page of our websites that contains Google Maps, Google will collect, process and use information about your use of that feature. You can find more information about Google’s data processing in the Google Privacy Policy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the Data Protection Center. For detailed instructions on managing your own data related to Google products, please visit https://support.google.com/accounts/topic/7188671?hl=en&ref_topic=3382254.

Google Youtube: To provide illustrative examples of our company and our work routines, we embed videos of YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company belonging to Google. Once you visit a website which contains a YouTube video, YouTube will place cookies on your device. Through these cookies YouTube obtains the information about your visit to our websites and whether you watched the video. Please note that we embedded the videos with activated “enhanced data protection mode”. That means that YouTube will not share the information with other services of Google, particularly not with its advertising network DoubleClick. However, YouTube may also assign this information to your member account in case you are a member of YouTube and logged into your member account. You can prevent YouTube from assigning the information with your member account by logging off from your member account before visiting our website. You will find further information about data protection by YouTube under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines

HubSpot: To allow you to subscribe to our newsletters, our website embeds and collects form responses using HubSpot. Submitting one of these forms sends the information to our HubSpot CRM system, which we will only use to send emails to yourself regarding the options you selected in the form. You will find further information about data protection for HubSpot under the following link: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

6. How long will my data be stored?

We only store your data provided to us for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the respective purpose for which you have transmitted your data to us or to comply with legal requirements. Log files are erased once the respective session has ended. Log files for security purposes and as a precaution against attacks on our websites are automatically erased after 7 days at the latest. The retention period of cookies varies and depends on the service used. It can range from 24 hours to 20 years.

7. What rights do i have?

In accordance with applicable data protection law, you have the right to access, rectification, portability and erasure of your personal data. As far as we process data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you have a right of objection. However, this does not apply in connection with the use of log files, which are absolutely necessary for the operation of the website. Your right of complaint to a supervisory authority: Without prejudice to the rights described above, you have the right of complaint to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your place of residence, work or suspected infringement, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you is contrary to the GDPR. The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and results of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy under Article 78 GDPR.

8. Contact

Please contact us in case of any questions and suggestions in terms of data protection:

G-TEKT Europe Manufacturing Limited
Gloucester Business Park
Golf Club Lane
Brockworth
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL3 4AJ
info@g-tem.co.uk