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Data Protection Information

1. Information about the collection of personal data

In the following we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personalndata is all data that is personally available to you, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behaviour.

Responsible acc. Art. 4 para. 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / DSGVO) is BU Power Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Perkinsstrasse 1, 49479 Ibbenbüren (see our imprint at https://bu-power.com/regulatory/).

Our data protection officer, Rainer Lukas, can be contacted at:

prospecter Unternehmensberatung, Hans-Sachs-Straße 4, 45879 Gelsenkirchen, Germany,
email address: bu-dsb@prospecter.de, phone number: +49 209 8830 5031.

If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our service or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective transactions. In doing so, we also name the specified criteria for the storage duration.

2. Your Rights

2.1 You have the following rights with respect to personal data concerning you:

  • right to information,
  • right to rectification or erasure,
  • right to restriction of processing,
  • right to object to the processing,
  • right to data portability.

You also have the right to complain to us about the processing of your personal data by a data protection supervisory authority.

3. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

3.1 In the case of purely informative use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we will only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure the stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) sentence DSGVO (GDPR)):

  • IP address
  • date and time of the request
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • content of the requirement (concrete page)
  • access status / HTTP status code
  • each transmitted amount of data
  • website from which the request comes
  • browser
  • operating system and its interface
  • language and version of the browser software

3.2 In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using and by which the body that sets the cookie (here through us) receives certain information. Cookies are not able to run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

3.3 Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the respective scope and operation are explained below:

– transient cookies (see b)
— persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

This website uses the cookie “cookie banner”. This cookie is generated by our cookie banner and recognizes that it has been confirmed before. The cookie is deleted after one year.

This website also uses a cookie “__cfduid”. This cookie is needed for the Content Delivery Network Cloudflare, so that access to our website is as fast as possible.

d) You can configure your browser setting according to your wishes and e.g. decline the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. Please be aware that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

4. Contact Form

When you contact us by email or through a contact form, the information you provide (your email address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We delete the data that arises in this context after the storage is no longer required, or limit the processing if there are statutory retention requirements.

The legal basis for the processing of the data transmitted in the course of sending an email is Article 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO (GDPR). If the email contact aims to conclude a contract, then additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO (GDPR).

5. Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyse the behaviour of website visitors. In doing so, the website operator receives various usage data, such as page views, length of stay, operating systems used and the origin of the user. This data is summarised in a user ID and assigned to the respective end device of the website visitor.

Furthermore, Google Analytics allows us to record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Furthermore, Google Analytics uses various modelling approaches to supplement the data records collected and uses machine learning technologies in the data analysis.

Google Analytics uses technologies that enable the recognition of the user for the purpose of analysing user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information collected by Google about the use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The use of this service is based on your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

Browser plugin

You can prevent the collection and processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

For more information on how Google Analytics handles user data, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Order processing

We have concluded an order processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

6. Cloudflare

This website uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests you send to us as a site 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 encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties. In order to be able to offer you secure data transmission on our website using SSL encryption, we use the service of Cloudflare, Inc. 101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107. We have concluded a corresponding agreement with Cloudflare based on the DSGVO for order processing. Cloudflare is a certified participant of the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. Cloudflare is committed to handling all personal data held by European Union (EU) member states in accordance with the Privacy Shield Framework and its applicable principles. Further information about the Privacy Shield Framework can be found on the US Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield list at [https://www.privacyshield.gov]. Cloudflare collects statistical information about visits to this website. Access data includes: name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider. Cloudflare uses the log data for statistical evaluations for the purpose of operation, security and optimization of the offer. Please read also in addition the data protection regulations of Cloudflare which are callable here https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/