General privacy policy

General information

Contact details of the data protection officer:
E-mail: datenschutz@htv-gmbh.de

Collection of personal data

Usually collected data will not be passed on to third parties respectively a data transfer will only take place with the explicit consent of the person concerned or with another legitimate legal basis.

Business contacts

HTV collects the contact data of customers, interested parties and suppliers, such as name, phone number and E-mail address.

Recipient of newsletter

For sending the HTV-Newsletter the required contact information of the recipients is stored. This includes E-mail address, last name (if applicable first name and title) as well as company affiliation.

Website visitors

For statistical evaluation HTV records some data of user-access when visiting the HTV website (e.g. IP address and country of access). Identifiable data will be anonymised immediately after recording.

Processing Purposes/Usage

Sending of the HTV-Newsletter

To subscribe to the newsletter, the providing of consent and of personal contact data is required. These will be used exclusively for sending the HTV Newsletter. The data will not be passed on to third parties. An evaluation for analysis purposes only happens after anonymization and therefore not with personal data.

Business Contacts

Contact details of contact persons of customers, interested parties or suppliers are maintained as customer data and are used exclusively for business contacts and purposes of order – or quotation processing. It is not passed on to third parties. An evaluation for statistical purposes is also not carried out.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies” – text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of your use of the website. Three cookies are used:

  • _ga: This cookie is used to distinguish your browser from other browsers. The maximum storage period is 24 months.
  • _gid: This cookie is used to distinguish your browser from other browsers. The maximum storage period is 24 hours.
  • _gat: This cookie is used to throttle the request rate from the browser using the above cookies. The maximum storage period is 10 minutes.

All data collected via the cookies is collected exclusively for statistical purposes. We need the data to determine the data traffic on our website and its origin, to determine whether the website is functioning well in all areas and how we can make it more usable for you. No user profiles are created or conclusions drawn about the identity of a user. All user and event data stored in Google Analytics is deleted after 26 months at the latest.

The information about your use of our website that is generated by the cookies is usually transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, your IP address is truncated and thereby anonymised by Google already within the Member States of the European Union or in other states which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to and truncated by Google on a server in the United States. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our website, to create reports on website activity for the operator of the website, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. No data is transferred to third parties. Likewise, no data from other sources is associated with the data thus collected.

The processing of data on our website using Google Analytics is based on Article 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR. Your consent is voluntary; you may revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by changing your currently defined settings in our cookie banner.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by choosing the appropriate settings of your

browser software. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related 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 (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

Please note that these settings must be selected individually for each device and each browser.

This website also uses the “gat._anonymizeIp();” function, which ensures the anonymisation of IP addresses during data collection.

Google Analytics is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

Duration of data storage

Personal data is only stored as long as necessary respectively as long as required by the legal obligations to preserve data (usually 10 years). Data for newsletter recipients will only be retained by HTV until unsubscribing. Data of website visitors will be anonymised immediately upon registration and will therefore never be recorded in its pure form.