Privacy policy

We are committed to protection of data privacy

We appreciate your interest in our company’s Internet offerings. This Privacy Policy attests to the fact that GFL Gesellschaft für Labortechnik mbH takes your privacy seriously and strives to keep your personal information and all communications between us confidential.

 

Log Data

Every time you access our Web site your access data are saved in a log file on our provider’s server.This data record consists of your IP address, the date and time of your request, the name of the requested file, the name of the file (address of the page) from which the file was requested, the transferred data volume and the access status, a description of the Web browser and operating system used, and the name of your ISP. These data are collected for technical reasons. An evaluation is solely used in anonymous form for statistical purposes.

 

Cookies

We use cookies on various pages to make your Web site experience more enjoyable and allow you to make use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files that are saved locally on your computer. The cookies we use (“session cookies”) are deleted when you close your browser.You can configure your browser settings to disable our cookies. However, if you do this, you might not be able to use the full functionality of our Web site.

 

Collection, Processing, and Use of Personal Information

Personal data provide information about your identity. This includes such information as your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. These data are only collected if you communicate them to us, for example, by accepting the terms of an agreement, making a request, completing a survey, or signing up for personalized services.When you register for personalized services from GFL Gesellschaft für Labortechnik mbH, your registration data are collected, processed, and used with your consent for the purposes of the agreement and for legitimate business purposes to enable us to provide service and support to our customers and design our products based on customer needs. These data are transmitted in encrypted form to prevent potential misuse of the data by third parties. Your consent also allows us to share your data with our partners, who are also subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy, for the purposes of providing services under contract. You can revoke your consent for future use of your data at any time

 

Contact Form

The data you enter in our contact form (e.g. name, company, e-mail, and telephone number) are stored by us and used in our communications with you. The data are not encrypted prior to transmission. Therefore, confidential information should not be sent via the online contact form.

 

Data Protection

We take technical and organizational measures to protect our Web site and other systems against loss of, destruction of, access to, modification of, or distribution of your data by unauthorized individuals. You can only log in after entering your personal password. You should always keep your login information secret and close the browser window when you are finished communicating with us, especially if you share the computer with others.

 

Collection and Use of Other Data

We use statistical Web site analysis software to analyze user behavior and design our Web site to be as customer-friendly as possible. With it, we obtain information, e.g. about the Internet browser used, the number of visits to our Web site, and the amount of data downloaded.

We utilize the log file-based Webalizer software of a Web hosting service provider in Germany that delivers an internal statistical analysis with no user identification, i.e. so that no IP address is transmitted to us. The data are deleted automatically after twelve months and are not disclosed to third parties.

 

Piwik

Our website uses the open-source analysis tool PIWIK (www.piwik.org) to generate statistical evaluations about the use of the website. Piwik uses so-called „cookies“. Cookies are text files, which are stored on your computer. The information about your use of the website that is generated by the cookie (visiting times, referring sources, details on system configurations) get storaged by the server of our internet provider in Germany. The IP-Address gets anonymized right after the processing has been completed. You obtain the right and the possibility to change the setting of your browsers so that the cookies don’t get accepted. Please be reminded that in this case, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

It is up to you whether you’d like a webanalytic cookie get storaged in your browser or not. This enables the collection of data and the analysis of different statistical data by the website provider.
If you do not agree on this, please click this following link, to store the Piwik deactivation cookie on your computer.
Each visit of this website gets documented by Piwik webanalytics. Click here if you do not want your visit of this website gets documented and collected.
Caution: If you delete your cookies, please be aware that the deactivation cookie gets deleted too, therefore it requires to get re-installed by you again.
Through the use of this website, you express your consent to the processing of data collected by Piwik about you in the manner described above and for the purposes previously.

 

Links to external companies

On our website, we use links to external companies. If you click on such links, you are leaving our website and accessing the website of the external company / companies. For terms and conditions of such companies, please refer to their data protection declarations. We are not responsible for contents and/or data handling protocols of such companies.

 

Legal basis

The legal basis for data processing on this website is the EU General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR. The data is only stored within the period required for the above named purposes and / or as far as legal requirements apply.