Data protection

VS Optoelectronic welcomes you to its web site and is delighted by your interest in our products and services.

Data protection at VS Optoelectronic
VS Optoelectronic has a great interest in the security of information processing and the careful handling of personal data and processes. In view of the rapid developments in information technology, we want to accommodate the growing security needs of individuals and companies. The protection of the personal rights of our customers, business partners and employees is our explicit goal. We would now like to explain how VS Optoelectronic ensures the confidentiality of your personal data and respects your right to decide which information you wish to disclose.

Validity of the data protection declaration for VS Optoelectronic
This data protection declaration applies for all German VS Optoelectronic units. VS Optoelectronic web sites may contain cross-references (links) to external companies for which this data protection declaration does not apply.

The confidentiality of your personal data
is guaranteed by the following important measures:

• All of our employees are obligated by the Federal Data Protection Act, are sworn to secrecy and the correct handling of data processing systems.
• Our technical security measures on data processing systems are state-of-the-art and are being constantly serviced.
• The EDP department, internal auditing and the in-house data protection officer together are responsible for the strict compliance with our data protection principles.

Clear words about the collection and processing of personal data
When you visit our web site our web server saves the name of your Internet service provider, the web site from which you visited us, the web sites you visit on our pages as well as the date and duration of your visit as standard information. This data is only collected for data security purposes. There is no other evaluation of the data, apart from for statistical purposes and in an anonymous form. VS Optoelectronic uses cookies to understand the preferences of visitors to our web site and to optimise our web sites with this information. We only use cookies for the duration of your visit to our web site. Above and beyond this practice, personal data is only saved if you have given your consent to this.

Use of your personal data
All personal data collected on the web site of VS Optoelectronic (e.g. your name and address or e-mail address) will only be saved, processed and forwarded to companies in the VS Optoelectronic group as required to provide individual support, send you product information of make offers for services. VS Optoelectronic promises that your data will be treated confidentially in accordance with applicable data protection regulations. You can object to this use of your personal data at any time. We promise that your personal data will not be forwarded to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so or you have given us your prior consent.

Your rights
At your request, VS Optoelectronic will inform you in writing as quickly as possible whether and which data relating to your person we have stored. If incorrect information has been saved despite our efforts at data integrity and topicality, this will be corrected at your request. Your consent is a precondition for the use of your data. If you wish to withdraw your consent at any later point in time simply let us know informally so that we can block or delete your data.

Right to inspect the public directory of procedures of VS Optoelectronic in Germany
You are entitled to inspect our public directory of procedures.

Any questions?
Should you have any questions on the processing of your personal data you can also contact our in-house data protection officer who will be pleased to be of assistance with your requests for information, suggestions or complaints.

Authorised data protection officer:
Uwe Marek
datenschutz@firmennet.de

Information last revised: 2008-08-25

Public directory of procedures
The § 4 g of the BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act) stipulates that the following information according to § 4 e must be made available to everyone in a suitable manner by the Data Protection Officer.
 
1. Name of the responsible office:
Vossloh-Schwabe Optoelectronic GmbH & Co. KG
Entered in the Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Kleve HRA 2568
VAT ID number: DE 8 13 05 92 05
 
2. Management:
Klaus Breisch, Holger Hoffmann

Authorised data protection officer:
Uwe Marek

3. Address of the responsible office:
Vossloh-Schwabe Optoelectronic GmbH & Co. KG
Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Str. 3
D-47475 Kamp-Lintfort

Telefon: +49 2842 980 0
Fax: +49 2842 980 299

4. Purpose of data collection, processing or utilisation:
The corporate purpose of the enterprise is the production and the distribution of optoelectronic components.

The data is collected, processed and used in the pursuit of the corporate purpose mentioned above.
 
5. Description of the group of persons affected and relevant data or data categories:
Customer data (name, address, order data if necessary), employee data (name, address) as well as data for suppliers (name, address), wherever these are needed to fulfil the purpose named in 4.
 
6. Recipient or categories of recipients to whom the data may be disclosed:
Public offices in the event of overriding statutory provisions, external contractors according to §11 BDSG as well as external offices, internal VS Optoelectronic to fulfil the purposes named in 4. Scheduled dates for the deletion of the data: the legislative bodies have decreed various duties to keep and retain records as well as corresponding deadlines. On expiry of these deadlines the corresponding data is routinely deleted unless it is needed to fulfil a contract. If data is not affected by this it will be deleted when the purposes named in 5. cease to exit.
 
8. Planned data transfer to third countries:
Customer data, employee data and data for suppliers will be transferred to the group headquarters of the Vossloh-Schwabe group for processing wherever permissible and necessary within the scope of the purpose named in 5. VS Optoelectronic must take suitable precautions to ensure that the data is protected to the same extent.