Privacy Policy

The correct handling of your data is very important to us at Bartenbach GmbH. The collection, processing, and use of your personal data is governed by the relevant legal provisions, in particular European data protection directives and their implementation in national laws. Bartenbach GmbH reserves the right to adapt the privacy policy at any time to changes in business activities, legal provisions, and regulations. In this case, we will publish a new version of the privacy policy on our website. Please keep yourself informed about changes to the privacy policy by accessing it via the corresponding link on our website. If you continue to use our website, we assume that you accept the currently valid version.

1. Scope

1.1 The following privacy policy applies to the use of the website www.bartenbach.com. This website is provided by Bartenbach GmbH, Lindenstraße 1, 6112 Wattens, Austria.

1.2 The protection of your personal data is important to us, especially with regard to the protection of personal rights when processing and using this information. Personal data includes individual details about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes, for example, information such as your name, postal address, email address, or telephone number, as well as usage data such as your IP address. Personal data is processed, used, and protected in accordance with legal requirements.

2. Automated data collection and processing by the browser

2.1 As with any website, our server automatically and temporarily collects and stores the following information in the server log files that are transmitted by the browser, unless you have deactivated this function:

IP address of the requesting computer

File request from the client

The HTTP response code

The website from which you are visiting us (referrer URL)

Date and time of the server request

Browser type, version, and language

Operating system used by the requesting computer

No personal evaluation of the server log files takes place. This data cannot be assigned to specific persons by the provider at any time. This data is not merged with other data sources.

2.2 This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address, the website you visited before (referrer URL), and the date and time of your visit to our website) is usually transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by cookies and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link.

Google Analytics is used in accordance with the requirements agreed between the German/Austrian data protection authorities and Google.

Third-party privacy policy: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

3. Data collection and processing of voluntarily provided data

3.1 If you provide us with personal data by email or via our website www.bartenbach.com, this is generally done on a voluntary basis. This data is used to process your enquiries, for our own market or opinion research and for our own advertising by post. Your data will only be used for our own advertising by email if you have given us your consent to do so.

3.2 If you wish to contact us via the contact form, we require your title, name, country of origin, and email address. To make it easier for us to contact you, you can voluntarily provide additional personal data.

The data we collect, process, and use in connection with the website includes not only information we actively collect while you interact with the website, but also information you voluntarily provide to us via the website in various situations (e.g., an email you send to our company, filling out an online form, etc.). Consequently, it is not possible to provide an exhaustive list of all possible types of personal data that we may collect, process, and use. In general, however, the usual types of personal data include the following information:

Name, title, and address;

Personal contact details (telephone, email, fax, etc.);

If applicable, name, address, department, contact details, and other information about the company you represent and your role within that company;

Username and password;

User profile information;

Classification as a private or professional user;

User preferences (e.g., preferred language settings);

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we require your valid email address, your country of origin, and your consent as follows:

“I agree that Bartenbach GmbH and its divisions/business units may process and use the data I have entered to contact me by email, telephone, newsletter, etc. and to inform me about products, references, and events of the Bartenbach companies.

I can revoke this consent at any time by sending a written message to Bartenbach GmbH, Lindenstraße 1, 6112 Wattens, or by sending an email to privacy@bartenbach.com. In this case, the data I have entered will be deleted from all the companies mentioned and will no longer be used for sending newsletters.”

3.3 Personal data provided to us via our website will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us has been fulfilled. After complete contract processing, your data will be blocked and deleted after expiry of the tax, commercial and building law regulations, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data. Insofar as mandatory tax, commercial, and building law retention periods (= legal provisions) must be observed, the duration of storage of certain data may be up to thirty years.

4. Disclosure to third parties

If you have provided us with personal data, this will not be disclosed to third parties. Disclosure will only take place

within the scope of your consent,

in the context of processing your inquiries, your orders, and the use of our services to subcontractors who only receive the data necessary to carry out this order and use it for the specified purpose,

in the context of order data processing in accordance with the statutory provisions to service providers bound by instructions, or

in the context of fulfilling legal obligations to authorities entitled to receive information.

5. Cookies

In order to gain insight into what you like and to be able to tailor our offer optimally to your individual needs, we use so-called cookies on the bartenbach.com website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device and retrieved from it during subsequent visits. Cookies do not contain any personal data. This data is not merged with other data sources.

Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer or mobile device and do not contain viruses. If you do not want such cookies to be stored on your computer, please change your browser settings so that either cookies cannot be stored or you must give your express consent beforehand. Please note that you may need to make this change to the settings of each browser you use to access this website and that you may not be able to use all the features of this website without the use of cookies.

6. Your rights

You can obtain information about the data we have stored about you, its origin, recipients or categories of recipients to whom this data is passed on, and the purpose of storage at any time and free of charge without giving reasons.

In addition, you have the right to correct, block, and delete your personal data in accordance with the statutory provisions. If you have given your consent to the use of data, you can revoke this consent at any time without giving reasons.

Please send your requests for information, inquiries, objections to data processing, and other written inquiries to Bartenbach GmbH, Lindenstraße 1, 6112 Wattens, or to the email address privacy@bartenbach.com.

The responsible body in terms of data protection is the company specified in the legal notice. The company is solely responsible for the websites published on the domain www.bartenbach.com, but not for the websites of partner companies that may be linked from our portal.

The respective partner company is responsible for data protection on linked pages. Please refer to the information in the legal notice or the privacy policy of the linked website. Please address your rights as a data subject to information, correction, deletion, and blocking to the appropriate department of the partner company.