Privacy Statement
TEXCON GmbH is pleased about your visit to our website and your interest in our company as well as our products and services. Protecting your personal data while it is being processed throughout the entire business process is a major concern for us, and we would like you to feel secure when visiting our internet pages.
We will explain below which information we collect on our web pages during your visit and how it is used. TEXCON GmbH is the operator of the entire international web presence of TEXCON and affiliated web applications. This Privacy Statement applies to all websites operated by TEXCON. The Internet pages to which our external links lead are not included. Our contact details can be found in the corporate information.
Data security officer
Our data security officer and their team are available to answer any concerns regarding data protection.
Please direct your concerns to the following e-mail address: datenschutz@texcon.de
Personal data
Personal data is defined as any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes information such as your real name, your address, your telephone number and your date of birth. Information that is not directly related to your real identity – such as favorite websites or number of users of a site – is not personal data.
Your rights
You have the right to request information, correction, deletion or restriction regarding your personal data in accordance with legal regulations. We will also make your data available in a structured, common and machine-readable format. If we use your data with your consent (e.g. registering to our e-mail news), you are able to revoke your consent at any time. Once you have revoked it, we will no longer use your data for this purpose. If we have a legitimate interest in processing your data, you can contact us to object. Of course, you can also contact the responsible supervisory authorities at any time.
Collection and processing of personal data
When you use our web pages, data will be collected in log files, from search engines and forms. When you visit our web pages, our web servers will normally permanently save the connection data of the inquiring computer, the web pages you visit on our site, the date and time of your visit, the identification data of the browser and type of operating system as well as the website from which you visit us. This is done for reasons of system security. No further personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address is collected unless such information is volunteered by you; for example in the context of a registration, a survey, a prize competition, the performance of a contract or a request for information. The stored data is used to track abuse on the web server and then deleted. The date of the last login is also used in the context of commercial addressing, insofar as this is legally permissible.
Use and disclosure of personal data
The personal data you provide to us is used solely for specific purposes, for example technical administration of the web pages and to fulfill your wishes and requirements, such as, to process a contract concluded with you or to answer your enquiry. When registering in our B2B portals, the data is used to carry out the registration and in addition for advertising purposes solely to the extent permitted by law. You are able to cancel this commercial use at any time by means of a short message to the following email address: datenschutz@texcon.de
There will be no dissemination, sale or other transfer of your personal data to persons outside the TEXCON GmbH unless it is necessary in order to fulfill a contract or to perform a service within the framework of order data processing, or if you have expressly consented to it.
Deleting data
If your data is no longer required for the above purposes including billing, it will be deleted. Please note that with each deletion, the data is initially only blocked and then permanently deleted after a time delay to prevent accidental deletion or any intentional damage. For technical reasons, data may be duplicated in backup files and copies of services. If necessary, such copies are also deleted with a delay for technical reasons.
Use of cookies
On our web page, we generally use so-called session cookies, which place data for technical session control in the memory of your browser. They are deleted when you close your browser at the latest. Cookies contain no personal data and lose their meaning when you leave our website. If you decide that no cookies should be saved on your computer, you still continue to have access to most of our web pages. Nevertheless, you may not be able to use certain functions or page ranges. Furthermore, we advise you that browsers usually contain functions for managing cookies.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics from Google (Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).
Google Analytics works with text files saved on your device (so-called "Cookies") to obtain information about your web usage.
Google uses this information on our behalf to provide us with evaluations of website usage, reports on website activity and other services.
Data collected by "Cookies" from your website usage is usually transmitted for analysis to the Google server in the USA and stored there. It will not be merged with other data that Google may have stored about you.
We also make use of the anonymizeIP masking function. Before transferring your IP address to Google servers in the USA, it will be shortened within the EU. The transmission of the full IP address is carried out only rarely and is then shortened on the servers in the USA.
You can prevent this processing by taking the following measures:
It is possible to set your browser so that no "Cookies" are stored. However, this can lead to our website not being fully functional.
Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the data collection by means of a browser add-on from Google. You can find the add on here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You can opt for the browser add-on, for example if you use a smartphone and tablets, to prevent data collection by Google Analytics by clicking here. This will set a cookie to prevent data collection. If you visit our website with another device or browser or have deleted your cookies, you must set the cookie again.
For more information about privacy at Google, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=de.
Google Adwords Remarketing
We use the Adwords Remarketing function from Google (Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).
Google Remarketing allows us to show you only those products that really interest you when you visit websites that are part of the Google Display Network (GND).
Cookies are stored by your browser in order to recognize you when you visit GND websites. By analyzing your use of the website, you will then be shown advertisements for the products you have already viewed or which may be of interest to you.
To prevent cookies from being stored for remarketing purposes, you can adjust settings on personalized advertising at http://www.google.com/settings/ads . Alternatively, you can follow the
instructions on the Networking Advertising Initiative (NAI) website (http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp ).
Google Adwords Conversion-Tracking
We use the Adwords conversion tracking function from Google (Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).
Google Conversion Tracking allows us to track what happens after a user accesses our ad. For example, to find out whether a product is being purchased or to subscribe to our newsletter. By clicking on our Google ad, a cookie is stored on your device to enable this function. There is no personal reference.
To prevent cookies from being saved for conversion tracking, you can adjust the settings in your browser.
Further information on conversion tracking can be found here https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722022?hl=en .
Web analysis
For analytical purposes, we use an evaluation software which analyzes the data statistically. The user data is pseudonymized. The software uses so-called "Cookies", text files, that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is stored. We use this information to evaluate your use of the site and compile reports on website activity. For this purpose, we use the open source program "Piwik". This means that this data will not be disclosed to third parties and thus there is no risk of a merging of this data with other personally identifiable information.
Safety
TEXCON GmbH takes all necessary technical and organizational safety precautions to protect your personal data from loss and misuse. To ensure this, your data is stored in a secure operating environment that is not publicly available. In certain cases, your personal data is encrypted for transmission by means of the so-called Transport Layer Security technology (TSL). This means that, with TSL-protected data, the communication between your computer and our servers is carried out with an approved encryption procedure if your browser supports TSL.  We use the TEXCON newsletter and other mailings to send you information about us and our offers.
If you want to receive mailings, we require a valid e-mail address and a confirmation that you are the owner of the e-mail address given and agree to receiving the mailings. Shortly after sending your mailing order, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from us; only when you click on the link provided for confirmation will your address be included in the mailing list and you will automatically receive further mailings (so-called double opt-in method).When ordering the mailings, your IP address is saved along with the date of registration and confirmation to enable us to substantiate the registration in case of doubt. For long-term optimization of e-mail communication, we evaluate the usage behavior in statistically processed form (for example, link A was clicked by 60% of all mailing recipients), so it is not possible to track individual recipients.
You can adjust your subscription to mailings at any time or terminate it with immediate effect without giving reasons. To do this, click on the link "Personal Profile", which is included at the end of each mailing. In your personal profile, you can cancel the subscription completely or adapt and complete the data you have given. In addition, the subscriptions of individual areas of interest can be edited or deselected.

Inquiries using the contact form
At various points on our websites under the "Contact" heading, we offer visitors the possibility to send us inquiries related to our products. By clicking the "Send" button, you consent to the collection, processing and use of your data. The data is processed, stored and used to process your request as well as for queries from the business environment (B2B), for advertising purposes in so far as this is permitted without consent. You can cancel this use at any time with the contact information given above. After processing your request, we will delete consumer data.