What are Legal Privacy Policy?
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Privacy Policy
Use of Collected Personal Data
Comments:
When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent, are collected to help detect unwanted comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Media:
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise against uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact Forms:
The data provided in the contact form, application forms, and order forms are stored and appear in the email we receive.
Cookies:
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, while a screen option cookie lasts for a year. If you select "Remember Me," your login cookie will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.
When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Sites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Statistics and Audience Measurement:
This site may send anonymized visitation data to the Google Analytics service, which may use cookies for statistical and audience measurement purposes. For more information, please consult Google's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect
Logs:
When visiting the site, the server on which it is hosted automatically collects the visitor's IP address, date and time of access, the address of the requested site, the name and version of the used browser, and the operating system. This information is kept for a maximum of one year and is used only for statistical and error detection purposes to improve the site. Only Herma Chemical personnel have access to these files. When a user attempts to log into the site's administration section, their IP address, date and time, and username used are collected. This information is kept for a maximum of one year and is used to detect fraudulent access attempts and to block the perpetrators. Only site administrators have access to this information, with the IP address being pseudonymized upon consultation.
Use and Transmission of Your Personal Data
Data Retention:
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal data they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Data Rights:
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Transmission of Your Personal Data:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional Information
How We Protect Your Data:
We have technical and organizational measures in place to ensure the security of your personal data. However, you must be fully aware that transmitting information via the Internet and other electronic channels involves certain risks for their security, and we cannot assume any guarantee regarding the security of the information transmitted through these channels.
Backups:
The site data is backed up daily. These backups are retained for a maximum of 2 years.
Procedures in Case of Data Breach:
In case of a detected anomaly, we will communicate transparently about the situation to the competent supervisory authority within a maximum of 3 days.
Third-Party Services That Transmit Data to Us:
None.
Automated Marketing Operations and/or Profiling Using Personal Data:
None.
Display of Information Related to Sectors Subject to Specific Regulations:
None.
Modifications:
We reserve the right to modify this statement. It is your responsibility to regularly review this statement and consider its latest version. It was last modified and corrected in Date: August 2024
Comments:
When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent, are collected to help detect unwanted comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Media:
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise against uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact Forms:
The data provided in the contact form, application forms, and order forms are stored and appear in the email we receive.
Cookies:
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, while a screen option cookie lasts for a year. If you select "Remember Me," your login cookie will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.
When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Sites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Statistics and Audience Measurement:
This site may send anonymized visitation data to the Google Analytics service, which may use cookies for statistical and audience measurement purposes. For more information, please consult Google's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect
Logs:
When visiting the site, the server on which it is hosted automatically collects the visitor's IP address, date and time of access, the address of the requested site, the name and version of the used browser, and the operating system. This information is kept for a maximum of one year and is used only for statistical and error detection purposes to improve the site. Only Herma Chemical personnel have access to these files. When a user attempts to log into the site's administration section, their IP address, date and time, and username used are collected. This information is kept for a maximum of one year and is used to detect fraudulent access attempts and to block the perpetrators. Only site administrators have access to this information, with the IP address being pseudonymized upon consultation.
Use and Transmission of Your Personal Data
Data Retention:
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal data they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Data Rights:
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Transmission of Your Personal Data:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional Information
How We Protect Your Data:
We have technical and organizational measures in place to ensure the security of your personal data. However, you must be fully aware that transmitting information via the Internet and other electronic channels involves certain risks for their security, and we cannot assume any guarantee regarding the security of the information transmitted through these channels.
Backups:
The site data is backed up daily. These backups are retained for a maximum of 2 years.
Procedures in Case of Data Breach:
In case of a detected anomaly, we will communicate transparently about the situation to the competent supervisory authority within a maximum of 3 days.
Third-Party Services That Transmit Data to Us:
None.
Automated Marketing Operations and/or Profiling Using Personal Data:
None.
Display of Information Related to Sectors Subject to Specific Regulations:
None.
Modifications:
We reserve the right to modify this statement. It is your responsibility to regularly review this statement and consider its latest version. It was last modified and corrected in Date: August 2024