Privacy Policy

Responsible body

The responsible body within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations for koecher.com is investinformer GmbH, Siemensstraße 7, 82438 Eschenlohe, Germany

General information on data processing

We take the protection of your private data very seriously and want you to feel comfortable when visiting our website. We protect your personal data by applying high security standards and through work processes that are specifically designed to prevent misuse of personal data.

Protecting your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. Therefore, compliance with legal regulations is a matter of course for us. Below we will explain some of our precautions to protect your privacy.

Personal Data

According to the Federal Data Protection Act, personal data means information that can be used explicitly to find out your identity. This includes information such as your real name, address, postal address, telephone number.

Purpose-specific use of your personal data

We collect and use your personal data solely for the purpose of providing our content and services on the website and to respond to inquiries and information requests from you on our websites. We would also like to inform you about our products and services.

We limit data collection and use to what is necessary in order to continue to offer you excellent products and services and to provide you, as our website visitor, with the product information that is of particular interest to you.

We collect data on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis of the website, the optimization and economic operation and security of our services) within the meaning of Article 6 Paragraph 1. lit. f GDPR data about every access to the server on which the service is located (so-called log files).

We would also like to point out that, in addition to Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR, the legal basis for processing to protect our legitimate interests is Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR as the legal basis for processing to fulfill our services and implement contractual measures and the legal basis for processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Log files (log files)

Every time you access our pages, usage data is transmitted through your Internet browser and stored in log files, the so-called server log files. The data records stored contain data such as the date and time of the access, the name of the page accessed, the IP address, the referrer URL (origin URL), the amount of data transferred, as well as the product and version information of the browser used.

In connection with your access, data is stored on our server for security purposes, which may allow identification (for example via IP address, date, time and pages viewed). There is no personal utilization. We reserve the right to statistically evaluate anonymized data sets.

Upon request, investinformer GmbH will provide the user with complete and free information about the stored data relating to them at any time and, if requested, delete the stored data.

Use of cookies and data transmitted through browser technology

Your visit to our websites will be logged. The IP address currently used by your PC, the date and time, the browser type and the operating system of your computer as well as the pages you view are recorded. It is not possible for us to make a direct personal reference. No personal surfing profiles or similar are created or processed or made available to third parties.

You can also use our website without using cookies. You can refuse (“deactivate”) the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings, or display the setting of cookies and then decide individually whether you accept cookies (“cookie warning”). You can find the necessary settings in your browser under the menu item "Extras/Internet Options" in Microsoft Internet Explorer, or the corresponding menu item in other browsers. Details can be found in the help menu of your browser. However, rejecting or displaying cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

To protect against unwanted, automated entries in registrations and forms, we use the hCaptcha service from Intuition Machines, Inc. As soon as you click on the "I am a human" button, your IP address will be transmitted to hCaptcha. Automatic spam by bots causes a lot of load and effort on the server. The protection of entries through the integration of hCaptcha therefore represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The service is provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., 350 Alabama St, #10, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA offered. The hCaptcha privacy policy can be found at: https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy.

Contact Form

For inquiries via our contact form, we store your email address and the information you provide for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for possible follow-up questions. We process this data to answer your request. The data is processed on the basis of legal regulations that permit data processing because it is necessary to process your inquiries (legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). After we have finally answered your request, we will delete your request and information about its processing within three years of the end of the respective calendar year.

Google Analytics Note

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (Google).

Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and that carry out analysis your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use information to evaluate your use of the website and to provide reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services related to website use and internet use. Also Google may transfer this information to third parties if required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will Google associate your IP address with other Google data.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however in this case you may not be able to fully use all of the functions of this website. By using this website you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purpose stated above.

The collection and storage of data can be objected to at any time with effect for the future. Further information can be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. We would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” and therefore only shortens IP addresses further processed in order to exclude any direct personal reference.

Matomo

This website uses Matomo, an open source software for range measurement, which we operate on our own server. This may involve setting a cookie on the user's device, which can be used to track activities and, for example, recognize recurring visits. The user's IP address is automatically shortened. This means that it is no longer possible to draw conclusions about individual people. Among other things, the approximate geographical location, the device, the screen resolution, the browser and the pages visited including the length of stay are evaluated. If we obtain the user's consent, the processing of data takes place on the legal basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Subparagraph 1 Letter a) GDPR and is based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 Subparagraph 1 Letter f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in optimizing our website, improving our offers for users and online marketing.

Social plug-ins from LinkedIn, Xing, etc.

Our website uses social plugins, which are links to various social networks, namely LinkedIn, Xing, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. These social plugins do not pass on any information about your visit to our website to the respective operator of the social network. Only when you click on the respective social plugin button will you be directed to the network operator's website. The associated data collection and use is the responsibility of the operator of the respective social network. Please consult the data protection declaration of the respective network operator for details.

We also integrate Google Recaptcha on our website. This plugin is a product of Google Inc (1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA). Recaptcha serves to protect against misuse of our offers by checking and preventing interactions on our website through automated access, for example by so-called bots. For this purpose, Google processes your IP address and, if necessary, other data that suggests the existence of a human act and that is collected when you access the website. Processing takes place both within Europe and in the USA, the latter on the basis of EU standard contractual clauses. Google’s data protection regulations apply, available at: www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/. The data processing described above is carried out on the basis of legal regulations that allow the processing of personal data, as investinformer GmbH has an overriding legitimate interest in the protection of its IT systems (Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR). Specifically, ensuring the functionality of our offerings is to be viewed as a legitimate interest within the meaning of the law.

No liability for data protection on partner sites

We would like to point out that investinformer GmbH's cooperation partners and other websites and services that are accessible through investinformer GmbH's online offerings have their own data protection guidelines that are independent of those of investinformer GmbH. investinformer GmbH assumes no responsibility or liability for the data protection guidelines of the cooperation partners.

Updating this privacy policy

If investinformer GmbH introduces new products or services, changes Internet procedures, or if Internet and IT security technology develops further, this data protection declaration will be updated.

Current status of this data protection information: January 2nd, 2023