Data Protection Declaration

The data controller under data protection legislation is:

Chem-Trend L.P.
P.O. Box 860
Howell, MI 48844-0860
U.S.A.

Collection of general details

When you access our website, certain general details are automatically collected. These details (called server log files) include your web browser and operating system, the domain name of your Internet service provider, etc. All these details are data that do not permit conclusions about you as a person. We need these data for technical reasons, so that our webpages correctly deliver any content you request, and they are a necessary by-product when using the Internet. Anonymous details of this kind are statistically evaluated by us with a view to optimising our website and the underlying technology.

Registration on our website

When you register for the use of our personalised services, we collect a number of personal data, such as your name, address and contact details, e.g. your phone number and e-mail address. Once you are registered with us, you can access our content and services which are only available to registered users. If needed, registered users may also at any time change or erase any of the data they specified when registering. Over and above this, you are welcome to request from us information on any of your personal data stored by us, and you may do so at any time. We will also be pleased to rectify or erase that data upon your request, provided that there are no statutory retention periods that might prevent us from doing so. To contact us on this issue, please use the contact details provided at the end of this data protection statement.

Contact form

If you contact us by e-mail or via the contact form, any details you share with us will be stored for the purpose of dealing with your enquiry and for any further questions that may occur.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and which facilitate an analysis of your use of the website. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is normally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if you have activated IP anonymisation for this website, your IP address will not be sent without first being truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be sent to a Google server in the USA and truncated there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities and to provide further services associated with website use and internet use for the website operator. The IP address transferred from your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be kept together with other data of Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the relevant setting in your browser software; please note, however, that in such a case you may be unable to make full use of all the functions of this website. You can also prevent the recording of data generated by cookies that relates to your use of the website (including your IP address) at Google; if you wish to opt out of such data being processed by Google, you can download and install a browser plugin from the following link:

Link: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can stop Google Analytics tracking on our website by clicking this link. This has the effect of installing an opt-out cookie on your device. It prevents Google Analytics from any future collection of your data in relation to this website and this browser for as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Use of Google Remarketing

This website uses the Remarketing function of Google Inc., a function which makes it possible to present interest-related advertisements to website users within the Google advertising network. A cookie is saved to the site user’s browser which makes it possible to identify this user the next time they access these webpages which are within the Google advertising network. Such websites may present visitors with advertisements that relate to content previously called up by them on websites which also use the Google Remarketing function.

According to information from Google, this procedure does not involve any personal data. Should you nevertheless wish to opt out of Google Remarketing, you can always disable it by making the relevant settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies for interest-related marketing through the advertising network initiative by following the instructions provided at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are copied and saved to your hard drive from a website server. This automatically gives us certain data, e.g. IP address, your browser, the operating system of your computer and your Internet connection.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or to put viruses on a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to make navigation easier for you and to display our pages correctly.

When we collect data, we never share them with third parties or establish a link with your personal data without obtaining your consent.

However, you can always view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set up in such a way that they accept cookies. You can disable the use of cookies through settings in your browser at any time. To find out how to change such settings, please refer to the help function of your internet browser. Please remember, however, that some functions on our website may not work if you disable the use of cookies.

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google AdWords puts a cookie on your computer. The cookie is used for the purpose of conversion tracking whenever a user clicks on an advertisement placed by Google. Cookies of this kind lose their validity after 30 days and cannot be used for personal identification. If a user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google know that the user has clicked on the advert and has been directed to this page. Each Google AdWords customer is given a different cookie. This means that cookies cannot be traced via the websites of AdWords customers. Details obtained through conversion cookies serve the purpose of generating conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Such customers are told the total number of users who have clicked on their adverts and who have been redirected to a page carrying a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that might enable them to identify any users in person.

If you wish to opt out of tracking, you can refuse the setting of such a cookie via a browser setting that generally disables the automatic setting of cookies. Or you can set your browser so that it blocks any cookies coming from the domain “googleleadservices.com”.

However, please remember not to delete opt-out cookies for as long as you wish to be exempted from the recording of the relevant tracking data. If you have deleted all the cookies in your browser, you need to set the relevant opt-out cookie again.

Your right of access and your rights to rectification, blocking, erasure and objection

You are entitled at any time to receive information about your personal data that we have stored in our systems. You are also entitled to the rectification, blocking and erasure of your personal data, although deletion may not be possible due to mandatory retention requirements for the purpose of business development. If you have any queries, please contact the data protection officer. You will find the relevant contact details at the bottom of this page.

To implement data blocking at any time, we need to keep this data in a blocking file for control purposes. You may also demand the erasure of data, provided they are not subject to a statutory archiving duty. If such a duty is applicable, we will block your data upon request.

You can make changes or revoke your consent with future effect by notifying us accordingly.

Changes to our data protection regulations

We reserve the right to adjust this data protection statement from time to time to ensure that it always meets the latest statutory requirements or so that changes to our services are also implemented in this data protection statement, e.g. for the launch of new services. Any new visit to our website will then be subject to the new data protection statement.

Questions to the data protection officer

If you have questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact our data protection officer directly:

Contact details:

activeMind AG
External data protection officer for Chem-Trend (Deutschland) GmbH
activeMind AG // datenschutz@chemtrend.de // 089 418560170