Privacy policy

Welcome to Böllhoff!

We are pleased that you visit our website and are grateful for your interest in our company, our products and our websites. Protection of your private sphere when using our websites is important to us. Therefore, kindly take note of the following information:

Anonymous Data Gathering

You are able to visit the Bollhoff Group's websites without telling us who you are. We merely get to know the name of your Internet service provider, the website from which you visit us and the websites visited by you. This information is used for statistical purposes and your anonymity as an individual user is protected.

Gathering and Processing of personal Data

Personal data are only gathered if you communicate them to us of your own volition, for example to execute a contract, to carry out a survey or for the registration of personalized services. In the course of the Bollhoff Group's personalized services, your registration data are used, subject to your consent, for advertising and market research purposes, as well as for the demand-related structure of electronic services.

Export and processing of data in countries outside the European Economic Community

No data are exported or processed in countries outside the EEC.

Using and passing on personal data

In the absence of your consent, the personal data gathered by the Bollhoff Group's websites are exclusively used for the execution of contracts and dealing with your enquiries. They are stored in a data base. In addition, your data are used for purposes of advertising and market research, as well as for the demand-related structure of the Bollhoff Group's electronic services, but only provided you have given your consent beforehand. Apart from this, no data are passed on to other third parties. You are of course at all times entitled to withdraw your consent for the future.

External Links

In order to optimize your information, you will find at our sites links leading to third parties' sites. Inasmuch as such links cannot obviously be identified, we point out to you that these involve external links. The Bollhoff Group exerts no influence on the contents and structure of other suppliers' sites. It follows that the guarantees of this privacy policy do not apply in this case.

Further information and contacts

If you have any further questions on the subject of "Privacy at the Bollhoff Group", you are able to transmit these as well as any suggestions at all times by letter to the following address:

Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik AG
Buchgrindelstrasse 7
8620 Wetzikon

es, I agree to the above data disclosed by myself being stored in a data base and being used for consumer information and for the Newsletter sent to me.

Furthermore, I agree to my data being used by the Bollhoff Group for purposes of advertising and market research, as well as for the demand-related structure of electronic services.

As a candidate I agree that my data is stored in a database for applications.
In case I do not agree, I can request the deletion of my data directly with an email to info_ch@boellhoff.com.

My data is not transmitted to other companies.

I have taken due note of the Bollhoff Group's privacy policy.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with our Privacy Officer:

Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik AG
Buchgrindelstrasse 7
8620 Wetzikon

This website makes use of Google Analytics - a web analysis tool - using so-called "Cookies", i.e. text files stored in your computer which make it possible to analyse the use made of the website.

The information produced by cookie concerning your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a server of the Bollhoff Group in Germany where it is stored. This information serves to evaluate the website activities. If applicable, the Bollhoff Group transmits this information to third parties inasmuch as laid down by the law or inasmuch as third parties process these data on the instructions of the Bollhoff Group. You are able to prevent installation of the cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. However, we have to point out to you that you will in this case not be able to make use of all the functions of this website. By using this website, you signify your agreement to processing of the data concerning you by the Bollhoff Group in the above described manner and to the purpose mentioned.

Description and scope of data processing

Böllhoff uses the advertising, analytics and marketing tool Google Ads for its website, combined with the Conversion Tracking and Remarketing Tracking extensions.

The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, which is affiliated with Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter “Google”.

It enables Böllhoff to display relevant advertisements in Google’s search engine or on third-party websites if a user enters specific search terms into Google’s search engine (keyword targeting). This service also makes it possible to display advertisements based on user data available to Google, such as the user’s geolocation data and/or known interests (affinity audience targeting). This service also makes it possible to analyse how many times users click on ads.

Google Ads Conversion Tracking records what happens when a user interacts with a Böllhoff ad, i.e. whether they subsequently become a Böllhoff customer or show an interest in Böllhoff products. This enables Böllhoff to determine how a user behaves after clicking on a Böllhoff ad, i.e. whether they subsequently visit the Böllhoff website, and examine the efficacy of Böllhoff ads.

GoogleAds Remarketing applies a remarketing code when a user visits the Böllhoff website, which adds the user to a remarketing list. Users are added to a remarketing list by means of a pseudonymised identification number allocated to their browser. The service uses the pseudonymised identification number to identify which Böllhoff advertisements have already been displayed to a given user. This enables Böllhoff to reach users of the Böllhoff website again, in a targeted manner, with advertisements aligned with their interests. This service enables Böllhoff to display personalised advertising with regard to the user’s past user behaviour and surfing behaviour, including across end devices. The data also make it possible to display advertisements across websites, as the pseudonymised identification number records the pages visited by the user.

If you have a Google Account, you can object to personalised advertising at any time and without giving a reason via the following link https://www.google.com/setting/ads/onweb/

Furthermore, you can find tools to configure your Google data protection settings at:

https://safety.google.privacy/privacy-controls/

You can find further details of data processing in relation to Google Ads, Google Conversion and Google Remarketing at

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

https://safety.google/intl/en/principles/

The following data are transferred to Google through Google Ads, Conversion and Remarketing:

• User’s IP address
• Information about the user’s browser
• Information about the user’s end device
• The date, time and duration of the visit to the website
• Geographic location
• Advertisements displayed and viewed
• Cookie ID, user ID, user identifier
• Search terms entered by the user
• User behaviour, user data
• Session data and interaction data
• Referrer URL
• Click behaviour
• Visit behaviour
• Target groups
• Remarketing identification number

Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the use of cookies and associated data processing is the user’s consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a)GDPR and Section 25(1) Sentence 1 of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

Böllhoff obtains users’ consent with the Usercentrics consent management tool prior to deployment of the service.

Users can raise an objection at any time with effect for the future via the Usercentrics consent management tool, by contacting the data protection officer specified in this Privacy Policy or via the contact details specified in this Privacy Policy. You can access the consent management tool via this link. Data processing conducted prior to withdrawal of consent shall remain lawful.

Purpose of data processing

The purpose of data processing is to advertise our products and services, remarketing, analyse and produce statistics on advertisements, measure the success of advertisements and support effective, targeted marketing. It also makes it possible to display personalised advertising and reach users and/or Böllhoff customers again.

Duration of storage

Böllhoff has no control over the duration for which Google stores data

• According to Google, the maximum storage duration for conversion cookies is 30 days.
• According to Google, the storage duration for remarketing lists is up to 540 days.
• According to Google, the storage duration for Google Ads is up to 18 months.

Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

Location of data processing

According to Google, data processing takes place in the EU and the USA.

Data transfer to the USA:

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted Implementing Decision EU 2023/1795 on the adequate level of protection of personal data under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. It permits data controllers and data processors to transfer personal data to certified companies in the USA.

The adequacy decision is based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Google is one of the certified companies in the USA:

www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search

Description and scope of data processing

Böllhoff uses the analytics tool Microsoft Clarity for its website. It facilitates the analysis of user behaviour in order to determine which pages of the Böllhoff website are of interest to the user, which pages are not of interest to them, and how they use the Böllhoff website. The analytics tool produces usage statistics, behaviour metrics (i.e. how users interact with the website), session recordings and heat maps, including based on mouse movements. Website usage data are recorded using cookies from initial and third-party suppliers as well as other tracking technologies in order to determine the popularity of products and services.

The provider of Microsoft Clarity is Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, which is affiliated with Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (hereinafter “Microsoft”).

The following data may be transferred to Microsoft:

• User’s IP address
• Information about the user’s browser and end device
• Date, time and duration of the visit to the website
• Interaction events, such as clicks, scrolling, mouse movements, changes to window size, selections, inputs
• Diagnostic events, page events, user-defined events
• Session ID, user ID
• User behaviour
• Session data and interaction data

You can find further details of data processing by Microsoft at:

https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-DE/privacystatement

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/clarity/setup-and-installation/clarity-data

Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for the use of cookies and associated data processing is the user’s consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a)GDPR and the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

Böllhoff obtains users’ consent with the Usercentrics consent management tool prior to deployment of the service.

Users can raise an objection at any time with effect for the future via the Usercentrics consent management tool, by contacting the data protection officer specified in this Privacy Policy or via the contact details specified in this Privacy Policy. You can access the consent management tool via this link. Data processing conducted prior to withdrawal of consent shall remain lawful.

Purpose of data processing

The purpose of data processing is to analyse user behaviour on the Böllhoff website, optimise the Böllhoff website and improve the marketing of Böllhoff products and services.

Duration of storage

Microsoft states the following periods, over which Böllhoff has no control, for the duration of data storage:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/clarity/setup-and-installation/data-retention

Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

Location of data processing

According to Microsoft, data processing takes place in the EU and the USA.

Data transfer to the USA:

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted Implementing Decision EU 2023/1795 on the adequate level of protection of personal data under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. It permits data controllers and data processors to transfer personal data to certified companies in the USA.

The adequacy decision is based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Microsoft is one of the certified companies in the USA:

www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search

Description and scope of data processing

Böllhoff uses cookies for its website.

The user can accept or reject all cookies or manage them individually, with the exception of cookies that are technically strictly necessary for operation of the website.

Cookies that are not technically necessary are only activated once the user has given their consent.

Böllhoff uses a cookie consent technology from Usercentrics (consent management tool) to obtain and record users’ consent to the use of cookies and associated data processing.

The provider of this consent technology is Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Strasse 7, D-80331 Munich

When you visit the Böllhoff website, if you click one of the buttons providing options for cookie use (“Decline”, “Accept”, “More information”), the following data will be transmitted to Usercentrics:

• Consent (i.e. decline/accept) data (consent ID, consent number, time/date of consent, opt-in or opt-out, banner language, customer settings, template version),
• the user’s IP address,
• geolocation,
• the user’s browser information,
• information about the user’s end device (http agent, http referrer)

You can find further details of data processing in relation to cookie consent by Usercentrics at: https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/

Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR in order to obtain the consent as required by law (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, Article 7(1) GDPR, Section 25(1) TDDDG) from users prior to the use of cookies and associated data processing.

Purpose of data processing

The purpose of data processing is to facilitate the use of cookies on the website and associated data processing in compliance with data protection regulations.

Duration of storage

Data are stored for as long as they are needed to serve the purpose of data processing. Mandatory statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

Location of data processing

According to Usercentrics, data processing takes place in the EU.