We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company. The protection of your private sphere is an important concern for us. We process your data in accordance with the applicable personal data protection legislation, in particular the EU General Data Protection

With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, processing and use of personal data, as well as about your rights.

Office responsible for data processing and contact data

ROSS Europa GmbH
Robert - Bosch Straße
63225 Langen, Germany
Telephone: +49 60103 75 97 100
Email: info@rosseuropa.com

Data protection and information security officer:

Mr. Helge Haberhauer
InforPlan GmbH
Falkenstraße 4
74653 Ingelfingen, Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)172 6671929
E-Mail: datenschutz@rosseuropa.com

Purposes pursuant to fulfilment of an agreement or pre-contractual measures (Art. 6, section 1 b of the GDPR)

We collect and use your personal data in order to carry out our contracts with you and the execution of your orders as well as to carry out measures and activities within the framework of pre-contractual relations. This essentially includes contract-related communication with you, the verifiability of transactions, orders and other agreements as well as quality control by means of appropriate documentation, goodwill procedures, measures to control and optimize business processes as well as the fulfilment of general duties of care, control and supervision by affiliated companies (Parent company ROSS CONTROLS); statistical evaluations for corporate management, cost recording and controlling, reporting, internal and external communication, emergency management, accounting and tax assessment of operational services, risk management, assertion of legal claims and defence in the event of legal disputes; ensuring IT security (inter alia system and plausibility tests), guaranteeing the integrity, authenticity and availability of data, preventing and investigating criminal offences; control by supervisory bodies or supervisory authorities (e. g. auditing).

Purposes relating to adherence to statutory requirements (Art. 6, section 1 c of the GDPR) or in the public interest (Art. 6, section 1 e of the GDPR)

Like any other business actor, we are also subject to a large number of legal obligations. These are primarily statutory requirements (e.g. commercial and tax laws), but also if applicable supervisory law or other requirements set out by government authorities. The purposes of processing may also include identity and age checks, prevention of fraud and money laundering (e.g. comparisons with European and international anti-terror lists), compliance with control and notification obligations under tax law as well as the archiving of data for the purposes of data protection and data security as well as for purposes of audits by tax advisors/auditors, fiscal and other government authorities. In addition, it may be necessary to disclose personal data within the framework of official government/court measures for the purposes of collecting evidence, law enforcement and criminal prosecution or the satisfaction of civil law claims.

Recipients or categories of recipients of your data

At our company, your data is received by those internal offices or organisational units that need such to fulfil our contractual and statutory obligations or that require such data within the framework of processing and implementing our legitimate interests.
Your data is disclosed/passed on to external offices and persons solely:
• in connection with the execution of the contract
• for purposes where we are obligated or entitled to give information, notification or forward data
• to the extent that external service-provider companies commissioned by us process data as contract processors or parties that assume certain functions (e.g. external data centres, support and maintenance of IT applications, archiving, document processing, call centre services, compliance services, controlling, data screening for anti-money laundering purposes, data validation and data protection, plausibility check, data destruction, purchasing/procurement, customer administration, , marketing, research, risk controlling, billing, telephony, website management, auditing services, credit institutions, printing plants or companies for data disposal, courier services, logistics
• as a result of our legitimate interest or the legitimate interest of the third party within the framework (e.g. to government authorities, credit agencies, collection agencies, attorneys, courts of law, appraisers, companies belonging to company groups and bodies and control instances)
• if you have given us consent to transmit data to third parties.

Automatic processing by website operation

The website is operated by a provider in Germany, who in turn stores the accesses to the system in so-called server logs for the operation of the website. As a rule, the following data is collected: used browser, operating system, reference page, IP address, time of access, etc. These data can not be assigned to specific persons without checking other data sources and we do not further evaluate these data as long as no illegal use of our website is detected.  

Cookies

Cookies are small files that allow this website to store specific user-related information on the visitor's computer while our website is being visited. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our websites, as well as to make our offers comfortable and efficient for you. On the one hand, we use session cookies, which are cached exclusively for the duration of your use of our website, and, on the other, permanent cookies in order to record information about visitors who repeatedly access our website. The purpose of the use of these cookies is to be able to offer an optimal user guidance and to recognize visitors and to be able to present an attractive website and interesting contents with repeated use. The content of a permanent cookie is limited to an identification number. Name, IP address, etc. are not saved. A single profile about your usage behavior does not exist. A use of our offers is also possible without cookies. You can disable cookies in your browser, restrict them to certain websites, or set your web browser (Chrome, IE, Firefox, ...) to notify them when a cookie is sent. You can also delete cookies from your PC's hard drive at any time. Please note, however, that in this case you will have to reckon with a limited display of the page and limited user guidance.

Browser add-on

You can prevent storage of cookies by activating the corresponding settings of your browser. Please note that you may in this case not be able to fully use all functions of our website. Furthermore, you can prevent collection and processing of the information on your use of our website that is generated by the cookie (including your IP address) by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

Right of information, deletion, locking

At any time you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and a right to correct, block or delete this data. For further information on personal data you can contact us at any time at the address given in the corporate information.

Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities

If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

SSL ENCRYPTION

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of sensitive content, such as the requests you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by changing the address line of the browser from "http: //" to "https: //" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us can not be read by third parties

Questions and suggestions on data protection

To obtain more information or to submit suggestions or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data please contact our data protection and information security officer. If incorrect information has been stored despite our efforts to maintain correct and up-to-date data, we will correct this upon your request.