Dear Sir, or Madam,
With this privacy statement we would like to inform you about the processing of your personal data by GMN Paul Müller Industrie GmbH & Co. KG („GMN“) as well as the rights you are entitled to under data protection law. In doing so, we first want to provide you with information in the section “General information”, which applies to all data processed by GMN. In the following section “Internet content of GMN” you will then find more detailed information on selected data processing operations.
Tools from companies in the USA are integrated on our website among other things (see 2.4-2.7). Your personal data can be transmitted to US servers of the respective companies if the tools are activated. We would like to point out that the USA are not a safe third country in the sense of the EU data protection law. US companies are obliged to hand over personal data to security agencies without you can take legal action in this matter as affected person. It cannot ruled out that US authorities (e.g. secret services) process, evaluate and store permanently your data located on US servers for monitoring purposes. We have no influence on this processing activities.
Responsible for the processing of your data is:
GMN Paul Müller Industrie GmbH & Co. KG
Äußere Bayreuther Straße 230
90411 Nürnberg
Phone: +49 911 5691-0
Fax: +49 911 5691-221
Mail: info@gmn.de
Internet: www.gmn.de
Privacy officer of the data controller is:
GMN Paul Müller Industrie GmbH & Co. KG
Mr. Rainer Förster
Äußere Bayreuther Straße 230
90411 Nürnberg
Phone: +49 911 5691-332
Mail: datenschutz@gmn.de
The following data in particular belong to the categories of personal data processed:
Your personal data are always collected directly from you when you contact us. In some cases, we also collect personal data from publicly available sources (such as the internet, trade fair catalogues).
We process your personal data in compliance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Data Protection Act and all other relevant laws.
The purpose of data processing is to serve customer support and to promote our products as well as to fill vacant positions in our company. These include in particular
Your personal data will be processed
On principle, we store your data for as long as it takes for fulfilling the purposes and the associated measures and services or when we have a justified interest in further storage (e.g. after the fulfilment of a contract, we could still have a justified interest in postal trade fair invitations). In all other cases, we will delete your personal data with the exception of such data that we are obliged to retain for the fulfilment of legal obligations (e.g. as a result of fiscal and commercial retention periods, we are obliged to retain documents such as contracts and invoices for a specific period of time).
We will principally only transfer your personal data to other responsible parties insofar as if this is necessary for fulfilling the purposes (see 1.4), we or the third party has a predominantly justified interest in the transfer or if you have given your consent. Third parties can also be subsidiaries or representatives of GMN, also outside the European Economic Area.
Moreover, data can also be transferred to other responsible parties, insofar as we are obligated to do this on the basis of statutory regulations or due to enforceable official or judicial order.
We use on our website from „Google“, USA: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Ads with Google Conversation Tracking as well as Google Maps. Furthermore we have videos integrated on our website from „YouTube“, USA. Personal data of users of the website can be processed from Google and YouTube. For more information, please have a look at
2.4 Google Tag Manager,
2.5 Google Analytics,
2.6 Google Ads with Google Conversion Tracking,
2.7 Goggle Maps.
Please use the information contained in section “Name and contact details of the privacy officer” (see 1.2) to assert your rights according to articles 15 up to 22 GDPR. Please ensure that an unambiguous identification of your person is possible for us.
You have the right to obtain information from us concerning the processing of your data. For this purpose, you can enforce a right to information in relation to the personal information that we process from you.
You can demand from us the rectification of false data and – insofar as the legal prerequisites are fulfilled – the completion or deletion of your data.
This does not apply to data which are necessary for invoicing or accounting purposes or are subject to the statutory retention obligation. Insofar as the access to such data is not required, the processing thereof will be restricted (see below).
You can demand from us the restriction of the processing of your data insofar as the legal prerequisites are fulfilled.
You will continue to have the right to obtain data that you have provided to us transmitted in a structured, conventional and machine-readable form or as far as this is technically feasible, to demand that the data are transmitted to a third party.
a. Case-related right of objection
Insofar as we undertake processing of data on the basis of a predominantly justified interest (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR), you have the right to file an objection to this processing, at any time, for reasons resulting from your special situation.
We will then discontinue the processing of your data, unless we can prove, in accordance with the statutory regulations, mandatory reasons worthy of protection for further processing, which outweigh your interests, rights and liberties, or if the further processing serves the assertion, exercising or defending of legal claims.
b. Objection against the processing of data for direct marketing purposes
Furthermore, you can file an objection to the processing of your personal data for commercial purposes at any time (“objection to advertising”). Please take into consideration the fact that there could be an overlapping between your objection and the utilization of your data in the scope of an ongoing campaign.
If you have given us your consent to the processing of your data (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR), you can revoke this with future effect at any time. This also applies to the revocation of declarations of consent, granted to us prior to the validity of the GDPR, therefore prior to 25. May 2018. The legality of the processing of your data shall remain unaffected unless revoked.
You have the right to submit an appeal to a data protection supervisory authority. For this purpose, you can refer to the data protection supervisory authority, which is competent for your place of residence of federal state or to the data protection supervisory authority which is competent for our group. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is:
Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht
Promenade 27 (Schloss)
91522 Ansbach
Phone: +49 981 180093-0
Fax: +49 981 180093-800
Mail: poststelle@lda.bayern.de
Internet: www.lda.bayern.de
We and our delegated service providers process your personal data for the following objectives:
Whenever you use the Internet, specific information will be automatically transmitted from your Internet browser and stored by us in so-called log files. On the one hand we storing in log files in order to ensure the functionality and optimization of the website and on the other hand we do save the log files for the determination of malfunction and for safety reasons (e.g. for the investigation of attempted attacks) for a short period and delete them afterwards.
If a further retention of log files is required for evidence purposes, these will be exempted from deletion until the final clarification of the respective incident and can be handed over to investigating authorities in individual cases.
The following information in particular is stored in the log files:
Legal basis:
Safeguarding of the justified interest of GMN to provide a functional website (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR).
Fulfilment of a legal obligation (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR) as well as safeguarding of the justified interest of GMN to provide a secure website (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR).
Fulfilment of legal obligations, that means to assert legal claims and defence of any legal disputes (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR).
We process the personal data which has been entered in contact forms from the users in particular to:
Legal basis:
Consent of the user for data processing for one or more purposes (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR) as well as safeguarding of the justified interest of GMN to implement pre-contractual or contractual measures.
If necessary, we process personal data for safeguarding and defending our trademark and copyright.
Legal basis:
Fulfilment of our legal obligations, that means to assert legal claims and defence of any legal disputes (article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR).
Contracted service providers, e.g. the Internet service provider and the service provider for programming, are carefully selected, in particular with regard to their handling of personal data. All providers are bound to confidentiality and adherence to the legal specifications by us.
Basically, you can set your browser to inform you about setting cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed.
The functionality of our website may be restricted when cookies are deactivatede.
We use cookies to optimize our website and make it easy to use. Cookies are unable to execute programs or introduce viruses to your end device. It is distinguished between optional and essential (technically necessary) cookies.
We only use optional cookies for statistics as well as displaying contents of external media if you have given your consent in accordance with article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR via our cookie banner.
Our website uses the WordPress plug-in “Borlabs Cookie” to record and manage consent and any revocations. If you give your consent to the use of cookies, a cookie will be set (“borlabs cookie”), which will record your consent. We set this technically required cookie on the basis of article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR to document your consent. If you delete your cookies, we will ask you for your consent again when you visit the page later.
You can withdraw your consent at any time or adjust the selection of cookies by clicking the following link:
Our website uses Google Tag Manager, a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The Tag Manager is used to manage the tools and external services we use on our website and allows the use of so-called tags. A tag is a code element that is stored in the source code of the website, for example to control which page or service elements and tools are activated and loaded in which order. The tool triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data and which are further explained in this privacy policy. Some of the data is processed on a Google server in the USA. You can find more information about this in Google’s information about Tag Manager.
Should you have not agreed the use of the appropriate cookie in the , your data will not gathered by Google Tag Manager.
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Contact person for all matters of concern is according to Google the Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on the computers of the users, to help the website analyse how you use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about the users use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Because of activation of the IP-anonymisation by using the code “anonymizelp”, Google will truncate/anonymise the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On our behalf, provider Google will use this information gained by cookies for the purpose of evaluating the users use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Please find further information about Privacy Police and Terms of Service from Google under https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=en.
Should you have not agreed the use of the appropriate cookie in the , your data will not gathered by Google Analytics.
Furthermore, you may object to these web analytics activities by Google at any time. There are several ways to do this:
We use Google Ads (former times Google Adwords) as Ads customer in order to increase the access to this website or to optimize this website. Google Ads is an online advertising program of the Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“).
Within the framework of Google Ads the so-called Conversion Tracking is used. The conversion tracking cookie is set on your browser only when you click on an ad delivered by Google. Cookies are small text files which are saved on your computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification purposes. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can detect that the user has clicked on the advertisement and has been redirected to this page.
Each Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be traced via the websites of Ads customers. Information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Ads customers see the total number of users who clicked on their advertisement and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that personally identifies users.
You will find more information about “How Google uses cookies in advertising” (e.g. AdSence, AdWords, Google Analytics) in Google’s data privacy statement: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.
The use of this tracking tools is based on article 6 section 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The website provider has a justified interest to analyze of user behaviour to optimize the web offer as well as advertisment.
Should you have not agreed in the Conversation Tracking and therefore the use of the appropriate cookie by “Google Tag Manager & Google Analytics”, your data will not gathered by Conversation Tracking.
This website uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“). In order to use the functions of Google Maps it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
We as website provider have no influence on this data transmission.
For more information on the handling of user data, please see Google’s data privacy statement: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=en.
Should you have not agreed the use of the appropriate cookie in the , your data will not gathered by Google Maps.
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content such as inquiries that you send to us as the website operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Our website can contain links to the websites of third parties − to providers who are not affiliated with us. After you click the link, we no longer have any influence on the processing of any personal data that is transferred to third parties after clicking the link (e.g. the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located), as our control of the conduct of third parties is then naturally withdrawn. We assume no responsibility for the processing of this kind of personal data by third parties.
We reserve the right to make modifications to our security and data protection measures, insofar as this is necessary due to the technical development.
Last revision: 26.08.2020
In these cases, we will also adapt our data protection policy accordingly. Therefore, please note the currently valid version of our privacy statement.