IONTOF GmbH is delighted that you have visited our website and thanks you for your interest in our company. At IONTOF GmbH, data protection has the highest priority. This document is designed to provide you with detailed information on the subject.

In the following we give a short overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be identified personally. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in below starting at section 2. The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator's contact details can be found in the website's required legal notice (Imprint).

Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form or which you submit to us by telephone or e-mail. Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyse how visitors use the site. We provide data to public institutions such as fiscal authorities, billing offices, certified accountancts etc. if this is necessary in order to meet our legal obligations (e. g. legal obligation to obtain data).

You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The authority responsible for us is:
Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit NRW
Kavalleriestraße 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf
Tel. 0211-384240 erforderlich ist.

When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be performed of your surfing behaviour. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from these data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found below.
We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be identified personally. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens. Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

The party responsible for processing data on this website is:

IONTOF GmbH
Heisenbergstraße 15
48149 Münster
Germany The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered (North-Rhine Westphalia, NRW). A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de.

You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfilment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser's address line when it changes from "http://" to "https://" and the lock icon is displayed in your browser's address bar.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company. He can be contacted as follows:

Herr Heiner Niehüser
DSB Münster GmbH
Martin-Luther-King-Weg 42-44
48155 Münster
Germany

Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies." They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device's memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyse your surfing behaviour) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in "server log files".
These are:

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfil a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share this information without your permission.

We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request).
Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.

Upon your explicit request we will send you our newsletter or similar information by e-mail. The corresponding registration is done by a double opt in procedure. The order of the newsletter will be saved, a confirmation will be sent by email and the receipt of the required reply will be saved. These data will only be used for the sending of the newsletter. It is possible to unsubscribe at any time.

We accept job applications by e-mail but point out that the applicant is responsible for encryption. If an applicant is successful we will further use his personal data. Otherwise, the data will be deleted.

We partly use external hosting for our website, for example for technical maintenance tasks. In such cases, our partners also use data gathered on this website if this is necessary for their tasks.

For a graphic display of geographical information, we use Google Maps API. In this context, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of this map function by visitors of this website. Further information about Google's data processing can be found in their privacy policy (http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html). There, you can also make personal privacy settings.

We embed maps of "Google Maps" by the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Among the data processed in this context can be IP adresses and location details of the user which will however not be collected without their permission. It is possible that these data will be processed in the USA.

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy in order to ensure that it always meets the current legal requirements or in order to include changes in our services.