Data Policy

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can personally identify you. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in this privacy policy.

Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

General Information

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Their contact details can be found in the "Controller" section below and in this website's imprint.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected in part when you provide it to us, for example via a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may, provided you have given your consent, be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of data protection, you may contact us at the address given below. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Details on this can be found in this privacy policy under "Right to restriction of processing".

Analytics tools and third-party tools

When you visit our website, your browsing behaviour may be statistically evaluated – this only happens if you have previously given your consent via our cookie banner. No analysis takes place without your consent. Detailed information can be found in the "Google Analytics" section below.

Mandatory Information

Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

EWS European Welding Service GmbH
Jan van der Hammen
Siemensstraße 89a
47574 Goch – Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 28 23 - 87 99 60
Email: info@ck-worldwide.com

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent you have already given at any time. For cookies and analytics tools, you can do this via the cookie banner at the bottom of the screen, whose settings you can reopen and change at any time. For all other consents, an informal email to us is sufficient. The lawfulness of data processing carried out prior to your withdrawal remains unaffected.

Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

Where data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing purposes.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.

Data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format.

SSL/TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser's address bar changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock icon in your browser bar.

Information, blocking, deletion, and correction

Within the scope of applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

• If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, for the duration of the verification.
• If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of erasure.
• If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• If you have objected under Art. 21(1) GDPR, for as long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail.

Data Collection on Our Website

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain viruses. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device by your browser.

Cookies that are technically necessary to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you have requested are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing these technically necessary cookies.

All other cookies – in particular those used to analyse your usage behaviour (Google Analytics) – are set exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25(1) TTDSG, the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act). You grant or refuse this consent via the cookie banner shown to you on your first visit to this website. No analytics cookies are set without your consent.

Server log files

The website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are: browser type and version, operating system used, referrer URL, hostname of the accessing device, time of the server request, IP address.

This data is not merged with other data sources. This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Inquiries by email, telephone, or fax

If you contact us by email, telephone, or fax, your inquiry, including all resulting personal data, will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, provided your inquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract. In all other cases, processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) and/or on our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Google Analytics

Provided you have given your consent via our cookie banner, this website uses the web analytics service Google Analytics (GA4). The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, a subsidiary of Google LLC (USA).

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of this website. The information generated by these cookies about your use of this website is transmitted to and stored on Google's servers. This processing takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25(1) TTDSG).

As Google Analytics also transfers data to the USA, this transfer is based on the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses and/or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, provided Google is certified under this framework.

More information on how Google handles user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Withdrawing your consent
You can withdraw your consent to Google Analytics at any time by reopening the cookie banner via its management function and adjusting your selection under "Statistics"/"Analytical Cookies".

YouTube

This website embeds videos from the YouTube platform in some places. The operator of the platform is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in its enhanced privacy mode (the "youtube-nocookie.com" domain). This mode prevents YouTube from setting cookies to analyse your viewing behaviour before you play a video. However, it does not prevent a connection to Google's servers being established as soon as the embedded content loads, during which your IP address and other technical information are transmitted to Google.

The embed is therefore only loaded if you have previously given your consent via our cookie banner (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25(1) TTDSG). Without your consent, only a placeholder is displayed at this location; the video itself is not loaded.

Further information on how user data is handled can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Withdrawing your consent
You can withdraw your consent to the embedding of YouTube videos at any time by reopening the cookie banner and adjusting your selection in the relevant category.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via a contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.