We know that careful handling of your personal information is very important to you. We at Marquardt Mechatronik GmbH take the protection of your personal data very seriously and adhere to the German Privacy Regulations and Tele-Media regulations with regards to retrieval of, processing of, and usage of personal data on www.marquardt-switches.com.

Method, Extent and Purpose of Access and Use of Personal Data

Normally one can visit the website www.marquardt-switches.com without having to provide personal information. In order to process inquiries or notifications, we require your personal information. The handling and use of this information is carefully guarded and is only used to process your request. We capture this in necessary circumstances and in adherence to the German regulations for Privacy Protection and Security.

The personal data retrieved from our website www.marquardt-switches.com is not forwarded. Notwithstanding the sharing of data required by government institutions and authorities of certain information or only when information is to be shared which has been court ordered.

The mail function on this website runs over an unprotected internet data structure and therefore Marquardt Mechatronik GmbH cannot assume responsibility or liability of data transfer. Please use caution before using the mail function and note what type of information is fit for transfer.

Usage Data

We collect data of usage mainly for statistical purposes, in order to further optimize the website www.marquardt-switches.com, as well as to make it more attractive. Usage data consists mainly of general information, such as browser, number of visits, duration of visit and pages hit.

The collection of usage data is anonymous, as the user profile and usage is placed under a pseudonym. As long as you do not contradict the usage profile for the collection and saving of data, there is no recognition of you as an actual person.

Marketing and Advertising Purpose

The personal information we receive from you via our website www.marquardt-switches.com will only be used for marketing or advertising purposes, and only when you have given us permission, or only insofar as the regulations allow.

Also note that you are able to retract your personal information used for marketing and advertising purposes at anytime with a notification to Marquardt Mechatronik GmbH, Schloss Str. 16, D-78604 Rietheim-Weilheim or via email at marquardt@marquardt.de.

Right to Information and Public Policies Record

It is required of us to give you a written record of the the law which allows us to gather and save your personal information. In our Public Policies Record it is summarized under number § 4e BDSG.

Security of Your Personally Related Data

Marquardt Mechatronik GmbH implements technical and organizational security measures in order to protect the data which you have conveniently provided to us from accidental or premeditated manipulations, loss or disruption, or from the retrieval from unauthorized persons. Our security measures improve correspondingly to the technological developments.

Cookies and Website Tracking

On our website we use analysis systems that serve to measure and analyze the visits to our website. We use your IP address in order to collect data not only of the visited pages on the website www.marquardt-switches.com, but also data of your browser and your computer.

In addition to that, cookies are also generated. A cookie is a small piece of data which is saved on your computer as soon as you visit a website. When you return to the website, the cookie shows a repeat visit. The cookie includes a unique number and respective date. The cookie includes no personal data and is not configured to identify you to a third party website, rather to the website’s analysis contractor.

You can configure your browser to either deny the saving of a cookie or to inform you before a cookie is saved. Further information can be found in the service center of your internet browser. We do not use IP addresses or cookies to personally identify you. We use the system in order to improve the efficiency of our website and to increase our marketing.

Change to the Privacy Policy, Contact

Marquardt Mechatronik GmbH reserves the right to carry out these explanations as required, as well as to make any changes to the website content or to the website, in general.

When you have further questions regarding your personal data, you can contact directly the contractor responsible for our data security, who will also be glad to help with questions regarding information, contracts or complaints:

Privacy Policy Contractor

Hans-Jürgen Richter
TÜV SÜD
Management Service GmbH
Ridlerstrasse 65
D-80339 Munich
Telefon: +49 (0) 89 / 5791-1531
Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 5791-2515
E-Mail: hans-juergen.richter@tuev-sued.de

Public Policy Notice

The BDSG writes in §4g that the contractor is obligated to inform the following of the information included in the privacy policy and is available to them for questions regarding the privacy policy in the collection of as relates to §4e:

1. Name und Title of the Responsible Position:

Marquardt MechatronikGmbH
Schloss-Straße 16
D-78604 Rietheim-Weilheim

2. Management

Management
Ernst Kellermann, Dr. Harald Marquardt, Stephan Itter

Chairman of the Board
Dr.-Ing. Hans-Jochem Steim

3. Contracted Director of Data Processing

Daniel Schick (CIO)

4. Collective Agreement of the Retrieval, Processing and Use of Data:

Marquardt produces and develops electromechanical, mechatronical and electric switches and switch systems for international premium manufactures of automotive, household and consumer industries. The retrieval, processing and use of the data is according to the above named purposes.

5. Description of the Affected Users and their respective data and data categories:

Customer data, employee data, as well as data from suppliers, as relates to the fullfillment of goals under 4.

6. Receivers or Categories of Receivers With Whom the Data Can Be Shared:

Public positions during publication of laws, external contractors corresponding to § 11 BDSG, as well as external positions and internal departments of the Marquardt group in fulfillment of the goals under 4.

7. Regulated Periods for Deletion of Data:

The lawmaker issued various regulations regarding dates and duties of overseeing the data. Once these periods expire, the data is routinely deleted. The untouched data up until this point will be deleted, if it no longer complies with goals under 4.

8. Planned Data Transmission to Third Parties:

A transmission to a third party is not planned at this time, instead a completion of the discussed requirements is forseen.

Marquardt Mechtronik GmbH
Data Security Contractor

Date of the last actualization, 10-20-2011