Privacy Policy

1. Controller

The controller in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other data protection regulations is:

Rixen Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG Kornweg 1 44805 Bochum Germany

Email: info@rixen-mt.de Phone: +49 (0)234 86790

2. Scope

This privacy policy applies to the use of the website rixen-messtechnik.de and informs you about the type, scope, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the website operator.

The website operator takes your privacy seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal regulations. Data transmission over the internet may have security gaps — complete protection from third-party access cannot be guaranteed.

3. Access data (server log files)

Each time our website is accessed, the hosting provider automatically collects information that your browser transmits to the server:

• IP address of the requesting device (stored truncated)
• Date and time of access
• Page accessed and amount of data transferred
• HTTP status code
• Referrer URL (previous page)
• Browser type and version
• Operating system

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in secure and stable website operation). Log files are automatically deleted after 14 days.

4. Contact form and email contact

When you contact us via the contact form or email, we process the data provided (name, email address, optionally phone number, content of the inquiry) to handle the inquiry and any follow-up questions.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR for pre-contractual measures, otherwise Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose and no statutory retention obligation prevents deletion (typically 6 years per HGB / 10 years per AO for tax-relevant correspondence).

5. Cookies

This website uses technically necessary cookies — in particular to store the language selection (German/English) and your cookie consent decision. These cookies are required for website operation and do not require separate consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR).

In addition, we use the analytics tool Google Analytics, which is only activated after your explicit consent (opt-in). Your consent decision is stored locally in your browser. You can withdraw your consent at any time via the 'Cookie settings' link in the footer of this website.

6. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ('Google'). Google Analytics is only activated if you have given your prior explicit consent.

Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address in truncated form) is transmitted to and stored on a server operated by Google. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services relating to website activity to the website operator.

We have enabled IP anonymisation (anonymize_ip: true), so that your IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR (consent). You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by clicking 'Cookie settings' in the footer and selecting 'Essential only'. Alternatively, you can prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics by installing the browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Note on data transfer to the USA: Google processes data in the USA. An adequacy decision by the EU Commission (EU-US Data Privacy Framework) exists for this transfer. Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

7. Hosting

This website is hosted on servers in Germany. The provider processes the log data mentioned in section 3 solely for the purpose of providing the website. A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place.

8. Your rights

You have the right at any time to:

• Information about the data stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Correction of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR)
• Deletion of your data (Art. 17 GDPR)
• Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
• Objection to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)
• Revocation of granted consents with effect for the future
• Complaint with a data protection supervisory authority — competent for us: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen

For requests, contact info@rixen-mt.de.

9. Data security

We use TLS encryption (HTTPS) for the transmission of all data between your browser and our server. In addition, we implement technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against manipulation, loss, destruction, or unauthorised access.

10. Updates to this policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status indicated above. Through further development of the website or due to changed legal requirements, it may become necessary to adjust this policy. The current version can be retrieved at any time on this page.