ANDREAS STIHL AG & Co. KG, Badstraße 115, D – 71336 Waiblingen (hereinafter “
STIHL” or “
we”) is glad you are visiting our websites and are interested in our company and products. For us, data protection is not mere lip service and for that reason we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We handle your data with the utmost care and confidentiality and use it only within the confines of the applicable data protection provisions and of the General Data Protection Regulation (“
GDPR”) in particular.
Responsibility for processing personal data
STIHL bears responsibility for lawfully processing your data.
Processing usage data
When you visit our websites we store the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, those of our websites that you visit, the date and duration of your visit and information on the device (brand, model, operating system) and web browser you have used. We also collect your IP address, the last four places of which are however anonymised.
We process this usage data to facilitate your access to our services in technical terms (e.g. to adjust our services to the terminal device you are using), and to recognize and stop any misuse. We also use usage data in anonymised form for statistical purposes and to improve our website. The legal foundation for processing personal usage data is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR.
Use of first party cookies
We use what are known as cookies on various pages to make visiting out websites attractive and to facilitate the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. once the browser is closed (termed session cookies). Other cookies remain on your terminal device, allowing us or our partners to recognise your browser on your next visit (termed long-term cookies). Cookies cannot be used to provide access to other files on your computer or to determine your email address. The legal foundation for processing personal data by using cookies is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR.
Cookies are stored on your terminal device and you have full control over their use. You may deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of the web browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time. This may also be done by automated means. Should cookies be deactivated for our websites, you may possibly not be able to use all of the functions on the websites to the full extent.
Web analysis using Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics likewise uses “cookies”, text files stored on your computer permitting the use of the website by you to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is as a rule transferred to a Google server in the USA where it is stored.
The website of STIHL uses Google Analytics with the additional component “anonymise IP”. This means that your IP address, collected by Google Analytics, will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened once it has arrived there.
Google uses this information on behalf of STIHL to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to render further services connected with website and internet use vis-à-vis the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.
Users can prevent cookies from being stored on their computer by selecting the appropriate setting in their browser software; however, we would point out that in such case you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the full extent. You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to your use of the website (including your IP address) or from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .
More detailed information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection can be found at
www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at
www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html .
The legal foundation for processing personal data by using cookies is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR.
Tag Manager von Google
Google Tag Manager is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) to enable tags to be created, updated and managed. Tags are small code elements on our website which, among other things, serve to measure traffic and visitor behaviour and to determine the impact of online advertising and social channels. Whenever you visit our website, the current tag configuration is sent to your browser. In that way you receive instructions as to which tags are to be triggered. The tool itself does not collect any personal data but it ensures that other tags are triggered which, in turn, may possibly collect data. You will find further information on the functioning of Google Tag Manager Tags at:
https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/2772432?hl=de&topic=2574304&ctx=topic and in the use policy:
https://www.google.de/tagmanager/use-policy.html .
Google Web Fonts
Google Web Fonts are used to improve the optical appearance of different pieces of information on this website (
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto and
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Condensed ). The Web Fonts are transferred to the cache of your browser to allow them to be used for the presentation. Should the browser not support Google Web Fonts or prevent access to the same, the text will be shown in standard print.
Duration of the processing of usage data
Usage of personal data processed during the visit of our website are stored for a period of 7 days. The data of the data subject specified in this section will otherwise be deleted where knowledge thereof is no longer required for the purposes described, unless statutory provisions stipulate longer storage.
Your rights
You have a right to be informed of personal data processed by STIHL and, where the relevant statutory requirements are met, a right to rectification, erasure and restriction of processing. You also have the right to receive the personal data provided by you in a structured, common and machine-readable format. This includes the right to transfer such data to a different data controller. So far as such is technically possible, you may also request that STIHL transfers the personal data directly to the other data controller.
To exercise the aforementioned rights and in the event of queries and complaints relating to the use of your personal data you may approach the data protection officer of STIHL:
Contact Data Protection Officer
ANDREAS STIHL AG & Co. KG
Data Protection Officer
Badstraße 115
D – 71336 Waiblingen
E-Mail: datenschutz@stihl.de
You also have the right to approach the responsible data protection commissioner with a complaint.
Data Privacy Statement as at: July 2019
