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Privacy policy

General information

The protection of your personal data when you visit our website is important to us. We protect your privacy and your private data. We collect, process and use your personal data in accordance with the content of this data protection policy and the applicable data protection rules, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation, the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telemedia Act.

This data protection policy regulates which personal data we collect, process and use about you. We therefore ask you to read the following carefully.

Information about the collection of personal data

1. Below we provide information about the collection of personal data when you use our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behavior.

2. The responsible party in accordance with Art. 4 Para. 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Groke Türen GmbH, Faureciastraße 3-5, D-76767 Hagenbach, info@groke.de. You can reach our data protection officer at datenschutz@groke.de or our postal address with the addition "the data protection officer"

3. When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, if applicable your name and your telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer required or restrict processing if statutory retention periods apply.

4. If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We will also state the specified criteria for the storage period.

Your rights

1. You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you:

  • Right to information,
  • Right to rectification or erasure,
  • Right to restriction of processing,
  • Right to object to processing,
  • Right to data portability.

2. You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

Collection of personal data when visiting our website

1. If you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you would like to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR):

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Amount of data transferred in each case
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

2. In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and associated with the browser you use, and which allow certain information to be sent to the location that placed the cookies (here, this is us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are designed to make the Internet more user-friendly and effective.

3. Use of cookies:
a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

  • Transient cookies (see b)
  • Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. This means that your computer can be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which can vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, reject the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

e) We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you would have to log in again for each visit.

f) We also use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your device. These objects store the required data regardless of the browser you use and do not have an automatic expiration date. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using private mode in your browser. We also recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browser history manually.

Other functions and offers on our website

1. In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do this, you usually have to provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

2. We sometimes use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

3. We can also pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, competitions, contract conclusions or similar services together with partners. You will receive more information about this when you provide your personal data or below in the description of the offer.

4. If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this in the description of the offer.

Objection or revocation of the processing of your data

1. If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Such a revocation affects the admissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us.

2. If we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary in particular to fulfill a contract with you, which we will explain in the description of the functions below. If you exercise such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we do. If your objection is justified, we will examine the situation and will either stop or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate reasons on the basis of which we continue the processing.

3. Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us about your objection to advertising using the following contact details: Groke Türen GmbH, Faureciastraße 3-5, D-76767 Hagenbach, email: datenschutz@groke.de, phone: 0721 / 5982 - 0, fax: 0721 / 5982 - 55.

Reach analysis

Hosting with SpaceNet AG

We host our website with SpaceNet AG. The provider is SpaceNet AG - Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14, D-80807 Munich. Details can be found in SpaceNet's privacy policy: https://www.space.net/datenschutz.

SpaceNet is used on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in presenting our website as reliably as possible. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

We have concluded a contract for order processing (AVV) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract required by data protection law that guarantees that the personal data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Use of Google Analytics

1. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

2. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

3. You can prevent cookies from being saved by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

4. This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This means that IP addresses are processed in a shortened form, which means that they cannot be linked to a person. If the data collected about you is personally identifiable, this is immediately excluded and the personal data is deleted immediately.

5. We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics we obtain enable us to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR.

6. Information from the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, overview of data protection: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and the privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Use of Google Tag Manager

We use "Google Tag Manager" on our website, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). Google Tag Manager enables us as marketers to manage website tags via one interface. The Google Tag Manager tool, which implements the tags, is a cookie-free domain and does not collect any personal data itself. Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which may in turn collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivation has been carried out at domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking tags that are linked to Google Tag Manager is implemented.

Information from the third-party provider: Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland

You can find more information on data protection on the following Google websites:
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de
FAQ Google Tag Manager: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html
Terms of Use Google Tag Manager: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html

Use of YouTube

We use the YouTube.com platform to upload our own videos and make them publicly available. YouTube is the service of a third party not affiliated with us, namely YouTube LLC.

Some of our websites contain links or connections to YouTube's services. In general, we are not responsible for the content of websites to which links are provided. In the event that you follow a link to YouTube, we would like to point out that YouTube stores your user data (e.g. personal information, IP address) in accordance with its own data usage guidelines and uses it for business purposes.

We also integrate videos stored on YouTube directly on some of our websites. With this integration, content from the YouTube website is displayed in parts of a browser window. However, the YouTube videos are only accessed by clicking on them separately. This technique is also called "framing". If you visit a (sub)page of our website on which YouTube videos are embedded in this form, a connection is established to the YouTube servers and the content is displayed on the website by notifying your browser.

YouTube content is only integrated in "extended data protection mode". YouTube provides this itself and thus ensures that YouTube does not initially store any cookies on your device. However, when you visit the relevant pages, the IP address and the other data mentioned in section 4 are transmitted and in particular it is communicated which of our websites you have visited. However, this information cannot be assigned to you unless you have logged in to YouTube or another Google service before accessing the page or are permanently logged in.

As soon as you start playing an embedded video by clicking on it, YouTube only stores cookies that do not contain any personally identifiable data on your device due to the extended data protection mode, unless you are currently logged in to a Google service. These cookies can be prevented by using appropriate browser settings and extensions.

Address and link to the third-party provider's privacy policy:

Google/YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI

Use of Google Ads Conversion

1. We use the Google Ads service to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites using advertising materials (so-called Google Ads). We can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are in relation to the data from the advertising campaigns. Our aim is to show you advertising that is of interest to you, to make our website more interesting for you and to achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs.

2. These advertising materials are delivered by Google via so-called "ad servers". For this purpose, we use ad server cookies, which can be used to measure certain parameters for measuring success, such as the display of ads or clicks by users. If you access our website via a Google ad, Google Ads will store a cookie on your PC. These cookies usually expire after 30 days and are not intended to be used to identify you personally. The unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (marking that the user no longer wishes to be contacted) are usually stored as analysis values ​​for this cookie.

3. These cookies enable Google to recognize your Internet browser. If a user visits certain pages of an Ads customer's website and the cookie stored on their computer has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. A different cookie is assigned to Ads customers. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked via the websites of Ads customers. We ourselves do not collect or process any personal data in the advertising measures mentioned. We only receive statistical evaluations from Google. Based on these evaluations, we can see which of the advertising measures used are particularly effective. We do not receive any further data from the use of the advertising material, in particular we cannot identify the users based on this information.

4. Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Google server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge: By integrating Ads Conversion, Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an ad from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider will find out and save your IP address.

5. You can prevent participation in this tracking process in various ways:

a) by setting your browser software accordingly, in particular suppressing third-party cookies means that you will not receive any ads from third-party providers;

b) by deactivating cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain “www.googleadservices.com”, https://www.google.de/settings/ads, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

c) by deactivating interest-based ads from providers who are part of the “About Ads” self-regulation campaign via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices, whereby this setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies;

d) by permanently deactivating them in your Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome browsers using the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. Please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer to their full extent.

6. The legal basis for the processing of your data is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. You can find more information on data protection at Google here: http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy and https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html. Alternatively, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at http://www.networkadvertising.org. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

Friendly Captcha

We use Friendly Captcha (hereinafter "Friendly Captcha") on this website. The provider is Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3-5, 82237 Woerthsee, Germany.

Friendly Captcha is intended to check whether the data entered on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is carried out by a person or by an automated program. To do this, Friendly Captcha analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. For the analysis, Friendly Captcha evaluates various information (e.g. anonymized IP address, referrer, time of visit, etc.). You can find more information on this at:https://friendlycaptcha.com/legal/privacy-end-users/ .

The data is stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated spying and SPAM. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 Para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Order processing

We have concluded an order processing contract (AVV) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract required by data protection law, which guarantees that the personal data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Applicant Portal / Recruiting Software

Information on the processing of the personal data of each applicantrbers, every applicant (m/f/d), in accordance with Art. 13 and 14 GDPR

The following information applies to the personal data that we received as part of your application to the companies of the SOMMER Group and that you make available to us in the further application process, in accordance with Art. 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

1. Purpose and legal basis for the storage and processing of personal data

We collect and process the personal data of an applicant as part of their application process in the company, with the purpose of starting an employment relationship. The associated processing and use of the data is based on Art. 88 Para. 1 GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG.

If, after the internal application process has ended, the applicant's personal data is required due to a legal dispute, we point out the protection of legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR in order to exercise our rights to assert or defend claims.

1.1 Categories of personal data

The following categories of personal data of the applicant are generally processed and stored as part of our application process:

  • Master data
  • Contact details
  • Application documents
    – Cover letter
    – CV
    – Work, school and university certificates
    - other data that the applicant has provided to us
    - comments, notes, assessments and evaluations that we make during the application process

In addition, the course of an application process, the current status and the subsequent assessment, as well as the postal and digital correspondence with the applicant are stored.

2. Recipients of the personal data

As part of our application process, your personal data will only be passed on to people who are significantly involved in achieving the purpose (see above). This includes the responsible department heads, managing directors and managers, employees of the human resources department and human resources management, as well as employees who are responsible for processing the application, works council (after successful completion of the application process and start of the employment relationship, in accordance with Section 99 Paragraph 1, Sentence 1 of the Works Constitution Act).

We use the application management tool of coveto ATS GmbH to carry out the application process.

We have concluded the necessary contracts with coveto ATS GmbH. The applicant can view the data protection declaration of coveto ATS GmbH at coveto.de/datenschutz.

Your data will only be passed on to other companies, e.g. our partner company Eusan GmbH (and vice versa) with the consent of the applicant.

3. Storage of personal data

The data provided by the applicant as part of his application will be stored in the company until the application process in the company has been completed and the need to provide evidence in the event of an allegation of discrimination in accordance with the AGG can be ruled out. After a maximum of six months, the data provided by the applicant is automatically deleted from our system.

If an employment relationship is established at the end of the application process, the applicant data will be forwarded to the necessary persons (e.g. HR department and works council) in compliance with legal regulations in order to be able to start an employment relationship (conclusion of contract).

If the applicant is placed on the company's waiting list (inclusion in the applicant pool) with prior consent, his data will be stored in the company until the applicant revokes this consent. The data will then be deleted immediately. Deletion will take place at the latest eighteen months after a decision in the original application process.

4. Rights of the data subject

The applicant can exercise his right to information, correction of incorrect data, deletion or restriction of processing of his personal data and data portability at any time in accordance with Articles 15 to 20 of the GDPR.

5. Right to withdraw consent

The applicant can withdraw his consent to the processing and storage of his data at any time. His data will then be deleted immediately. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the withdrawal is not affected by this. We would like to point out to the applicant that if he exercises his right of withdrawal, further participation in the application process and thus the possibility chance of filling the advertised position is excluded.

6. Right to object to the processing of personal data

The applicant also has the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR (Art. 21 GDPR).

7. Provision of personal data

The provision of personal data by the applicant is a prerequisite for carrying out our application process with the aim of starting an employment relationship with the applicant.

If the data is not provided to us, the application process cannot be carried out or cannot be continued, thus the applicant cannot be considered for the job.

Data protection declaration for the Internet offers

www.groke.de, www.copper-door.com, www.glas-haustueren.de, www.kreadoor.de

Use of our web shop

1. If you would like to order from our web shop, it is necessary for the conclusion of the contract that you provide your personal data, which we need to process your order. Mandatory information required for the processing of the contracts is marked separately, further information is voluntary. We process the data you provide to process your order. We can pass on your payment details to our house bank for this purpose. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b of GDPR.

2. Optional: You can voluntarily create a customer account through which we can save your data for future purchases. When you create an account under "My Account", the data you provide will be saved revocably. You can always have all other data, including your user account, deleted in the customer area.

3. We can also process the data you provide to inform you about other interesting products from our portfolio or to send you emails with technical information.

4. Due to commercial and tax law requirements, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. However, after two years we restrict processing, i.e. your data will only be used to comply with legal obligations.

5. To prevent unauthorized third-party access to your personal data, especially financial data, the ordering process is encrypted using TLS technology.

Use of our specialist dealer area

1. If you would like to use our specialist dealer area, you must register by entering your email address and a password of your choice. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registration, i.e. your registration is only complete when you have previously confirmed your registration via a confirmation email sent to you for this purpose by clicking on the link contained therein. If you do not confirm this within 24 hours, your registration will be automatically deleted from our database. Providing the aforementioned data is mandatory; you can provide all other information voluntarily by using our specialist dealer area.

2. If you use our specialist dealer area, we will store your data required to fulfill the contract, including information on the method of payment, until you permanently delete your access. We also store the voluntary data you provide for the duration of your use of the specialist dealer area, unless you delete it beforehand. You can manage and change all information in the protected customer area. The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR.

3. If you use the specialist dealer area, your data may be accessible to other participants in the specialist dealer area in accordance with the contractual service. Members who are not registered will not receive any information about you. Your specialist dealer name and reference number are visible to all registered members, regardless of whether you have released them. In contrast, your entire profile with the data you have released is visible to all members who have confirmed you as a personal contact.

4. To prevent unauthorized third-party access to your personal data, especially financial data, the connection is encrypted using TLS technology.

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