Data Privacy Statement TTK GmbH

Data protection

TransportTechnologie-Consult Karlsruhe GmbH (hereinafter referred to as TTK) as a processing agency in the sense of data protection takes the protection of your privacy and your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and this Data Privacy Statement. We are pleased about your interest in our company and our products and services and would like you to feel safe when visiting our website, including with regard to the protection of your personal data. Compliance with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act is a matter of course for us. As a rule, this website may be used without providing any personal data. As far as possible, personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) are always collected on our webpages on a voluntary basis. These data will not be forwarded to third parties without your explicit consent. We draw your attention to the fact that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. e-mail communication) may involve loopholes in security. It is not possible to protect such data completely from third-party access.

Personal data

Personal data is information about your identity. This includes, for example, information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address. It is not necessary for you to disclose personal data in order to use our website. In certain cases, however, we need your name and address, as well as other details so that we can provide the desired services. The same applies, for example, to answering individual questions. We point this out accordingly wherever it is necessary. Furthermore, we only store and process data that you voluntarily provide to us and, where applicable, data that we automatically collect when you visit our website. If you make use of services, we usually only collect data that we need to provide the services. If we ask you for further information, this is voluntary information. Personal data is processed solely in order to fulfil the requested service and to protect our own legitimate business interests.

Purpose of personal data

We generally use the personal data you provide in order to answer your enquiries, process your orders or provide you with access to certain information or offers. Of course, we respect your wishes if you do not want to give us your personal data to support our customer relationship. We will not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third parties. 

Specific use

We will only collect, process and use the personal data you have made available online for the purposes communicated to you. Our employees and the service providers appointed by us are obliged by us to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act.  

Children and minors

Persons under the age of 18 should not provide us with any personal data without the consent of a parent or guardian. We do not request personal data from children or minors, nor do we collect such information or pass it on to third parties.

Cookies

When you visit one of our websites, we may store information in the form of a cookie on your computer. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser by a web server and stored on the hard drive of your computer. Besides the Internet protocol address, none of the user's personal data is stored. This information is used to automatically recognise you the next time you visit our websites and to make navigation easier for you. Cookies allow us, for example, to customise a website to your interests or to store your password so that you do not have to re-enter it every time. It is also possible to use our website without cookies. If you do not want us to recognise your computer, you can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by selecting "Do not accept cookies" in your browser settings. Please refer to the instructions of your browser manufacturer for how this works in detail. If you do not accept cookies, this can lead to functional limitations of our offers. 

Server Log Files

When using our websites, information which your browser automatically transmits to us is collected and stored for organisational and technical reasons. These are:

  • Browser type/version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server query
We analyse this technical data anonymously and only for statistical purposes in order to continuously optimise our Internet presence and to make our website even more attractive. This data is stored separately from other personal information on secure systems. No inferences to individual persons are made. We reserve the right to check this data at a later date if we become aware of any concrete indications of unlawful use.

Security

We have taken technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorised access. All of our employees and all persons involved in data processing are obliged to comply with the Federal Data Protection Act and other data protection laws and to handle personal data confidentially. In the case of collection and processing of personal data, the information is transmitted in encrypted form in order to prevent misuse of the data by third parties. Our security measures are constantly being revised according to technological developments.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries by means of the contact form, your information from the enquiry form, including the contact details you enter in the form, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case we have any follow-up questions. We do not disclose this data without your consent.

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on our website, we require from you an email address and information which will allow us to verify that you are the owner of the email address given and that you agree to receive the newsletter. No other data is collected. We use this data solely for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties. You may revoke your consent to the storage of the data, email address and its use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the "Unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. 

Objection to receiving advertising material

We hereby expressly object to the use of contact data, which has been published in accordance with the editorial requirements, for sending advertising and promotional material which has not been explicitly requested. The operator of this website explicitly reserves the right to take legal action in the event that advertising material is sent unrequested, for example in the form of spam.

Information, deletion, blocking

You are entitled at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of data processing and you are also entitled to correct, block or delete this data. To this end and if you have any further questions regarding the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.

Change of our data protection provisions

We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures as far as this is necessary due to technical developments. In these cases, we will also amend information about data protection accordingly. Please therefore take note of the currently applicable version of our Data Privacy Statement.

Questions, suggestions, complaints

If you have any questions about data protection or the processing of your personal data, you can contact us directly, we are also available for information requests, suggestions or complaints.

E-Mail: privacy@ttk.de


Karlsruhe, 15. May 2018