Privacy Policy
1. Data protection at a glance
General information
The following information provides a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means any data that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information about data protection is provided in the privacy policy below.
Data collection on this website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The website operator is responsible for data processing on this website. The operator's contact details can be found in the section entitled “Information about the controller” in this privacy policy.
How do we collect your data?
Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, data that you enter in a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. This primarily comprises technical data, such as your browser, operating system or the time at which you access the page. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.
What do we use your data for?
Some data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to obtain information, free of charge and at any time, about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request rectification or erasure of this data. If you have consented to data processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. Under certain circumstances, you also have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data. You additionally have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
You may contact us at any time regarding these matters or other questions about data protection.
Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit this website, your browsing behaviour may be evaluated statistically. This is primarily done using analysis programs.
Detailed information about these analysis programs can be found in the following privacy policy.
2. Hosting
External hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider. Personal data collected on this website is stored on the hosting provider's servers. This may include IP addresses, contact enquiries, metadata and communications data, contract data, contact details, names, website access data and other data generated through a website.
We use the hosting provider to fulfil contracts with our prospective and existing customers (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of providing our online services securely, quickly and efficiently through a professional provider (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Our hosting provider will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfil its service obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.
We use the following hosting provider:
Alfahosting GmbH
Ankerstraße 3b
06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
Processing on our behalf
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the above provider. This is an agreement required by data protection law which ensures that the provider processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
3. General information and mandatory disclosures
Data protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory data protection provisions and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data means data that can be used to identify you personally. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this occurs.
Please note that data transmission over the Internet, for example when communicating by email, may have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Information about the controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
MORPHOTEC
Dennewartstr. 25–27
52068 Aachen, Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 241 963-1680
Email: sales@morphotec.de
The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data, such as names, email addresses or similar information.
Storage period
Unless a more specific storage period is stated in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose of processing no longer applies. If you submit a valid request for erasure or withdraw your consent to processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing it, such as retention periods under tax or commercial law. In that case, the data will be deleted once those grounds cease to apply.
Information about transfers to the United States and other third countries
Among other tools, we use tools provided by companies based in the United States or other third countries that do not provide a secure level of data protection. When these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to those countries and processed there. Please note that a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU cannot be guaranteed in these countries. For example, US companies are obliged to disclose personal data to security authorities without you, as a data subject, being able to take legal action against this. It therefore cannot be ruled out that US authorities, such as intelligence services, may process, evaluate and permanently store your data held on US servers for surveillance purposes. We have no influence over these processing activities.
Withdrawal of your consent to data processing
Many processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent that you have already given at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
Right to object to data collection in particular cases and to direct marketing (Article 21 GDPR)
WHERE DATA IS PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ARTICLE 6(1)(e) OR (f) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THOSE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING IS SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(1) GDPR).
WHERE 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. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(2) GDPR).
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of infringements of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. This right exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract, or to have it provided to a third party, in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request direct transmission to another controller, this will take place only where technically feasible.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential information, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. An encrypted connection is indicated by the browser address changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Access, erasure and rectification
Within the scope of applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of processing. Where applicable, you also have the right to rectification or erasure of this data. You may contact us at any time about these matters or other questions concerning personal data.
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time for this purpose. The right to restriction applies in the following cases:
If you contest the accuracy of personal data stored by us, we will generally need time to verify it. You have the right to request restriction of processing for the duration of this verification.
If your personal data has been or is being processed unlawfully, you may request restriction of processing instead of erasure.
If we no longer need your personal data but you require it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, you have the right to request restriction of processing instead of erasure.
If you have objected under Article 21(1) GDPR, your interests must be weighed against ours. Until it has been established whose interests prevail, you have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data.
Where processing has been restricted, apart from storage your personal data may be processed only with your consent, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.
Objection to promotional emails
We hereby object to the use of contact details published as part of the mandatory legal notice for sending advertising and information materials that have not been expressly requested. The website operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising, such as spam emails.
4. Newsletter
Newsletter data
If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require your email address and information allowing us to verify that you own the email address provided and agree to receive the newsletter. No other data is collected, or it is provided only voluntarily. We use this data exclusively to send the requested information and do not disclose it to third parties.
Data entered in the newsletter registration form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent to storage of the data and email address and to their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that has already taken place.
Data provided to us for the purpose of receiving the newsletter is stored by us or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe. It is deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe or once its purpose no longer applies. We reserve the right to delete or block email addresses from our distribution list at our discretion in pursuit of our legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
After you unsubscribe, your email address may be stored by us or the newsletter service provider on a blacklist to prevent future mailings. Blacklist data is used only for this purpose and is not combined with other data. This serves both your interest and our interest in complying with legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Blacklist storage is not time-limited. You may object to storage if your interests override our legitimate interest.
5. Plugins and tools
Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps mapping service. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
To use Google Maps functions, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transferred to a Google server in the United States and stored there. The operator of this website has no influence over this transfer. When Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Web Fonts to ensure a consistent display of fonts. When Google Maps is accessed, your browser loads the required web fonts into its cache to display text and fonts correctly.
Google Maps is used in the interest of presenting our online services attractively and making the locations specified on our website easy to find. This constitutes a legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where consent has been requested, processing is based exclusively on Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
Data transfers to the United States are based on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. Details are available at https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.
Further information about the handling of user data is available in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.