Legal Notices

Exclusion of liability

The information and other data on our website are provided purely for information purposes and are non-binding; we reserve the right to amend the information at any time. We do not guarantee or make any warranties or representations regarding the correctness or completeness of any information, pricing, quotes, fees, terms, rates, discounts, specials, products or services offered, or made available through our website or that such are the best terms or lowest rates available.

Content

Copyright

The whole contents of this website are owned by or licensed to Bihl+Wiedemann and are subject to patent, trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property laws of the United States and foreign countries. The content in this website is provided for your personal use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without our prior written consent, which permission may be withheld in our sole discretion.

 

You are solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of this website, infringement of our or any third party’s intellectual property rights regarding the website, and/or any other harm incurred by us or our affiliates as a direct or indirect result of your copying, distributing, redistributing, transmitting, publishing or using the same for purposes that are contrary to the terms and conditions of this Notice.

 

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to make personal use of the contents of this website; provided, however, that you may not delete any proprietary notices. You may not modify the content or utilize it for any commercial purpose or any other public display, distribution, performance, sale, or rental, and may not decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the content, or transfer or distribute the content to another person.

 

Except as otherwise permitted under the copyright laws of the United States, no other copying, distribution, redistribution, transmission, publication or use, other than as expressly permitted by this Notice, is permitted by you without our express prior written permission, which permission may be withheld in our sole discretion.

 

Product cross-reference comparisons do not imply that all products compared are available, or in the case of functional equivalency, that performance and other characteristics are fully comparable. Please review specifications prior to purchase.

Children’s Information

This website is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18 and have reached this Website, please leave the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18, unless we have received consent from a parent or guardian.

 

If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at mailbihl-wiedemann.com. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, without consent, we will delete that information and otherwise comply with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and other applicable laws such as the California Online Privacy Protection Act.

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Privacy

Bihl+Wiedemann takes protection of your personally identifiable information very seriously. Personally identifiable information is only gathered from you if you voluntarily submit the information to us. Certain personally identifiable information must be submitted in order to register for a username or to place orders through this website. The data we receive, including personally identifiable information, will not be shared with third parties other than affiliated companies or business partners, such as shippers and order fulfillment organizations.

 

Although we largely only collect personally identifiable information from registered users, we may collect non-personally identifiable information from everyone that accesses this website.

 

We may collect demographic information about you including but not limited to gender, IP address, zip code, and information regarding your preferences and usage. This type of information is not, by itself, personally identifiable information. However, as stated above, if we link such information with personally identifiable information in a manner that identifies a particular individual, then we will treat all such information as personally identifiable information as described above.

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3. Social Media

Facebook CDN

Nature and Scope of Processing

 

We use Facebook CDN to properly deliver the content of our website. Facebook CDN is a service of Facebook, Inc., which acts as a content delivery network (CDN) on our website to ensure the functionality of other services of Facebook, Inc. You will find a separate section in this privacy policy for these services. This section is only about using the CDN.

 

A CDN helps to provide content related to our website – especially files, such as diagrams or scripts – more quickly through the use of regionally or internationally distributed servers. When you access this content, you connect to servers of Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, whereby your IP address and possibly browser data such as your user agent are transmitted. This data is processed exclusively for the purposes mentioned above and to maintain the security and functionality of Facebook CDN.

 

Scope and Legal Basis

The use of the Content Delivery Network is based on our legitimate interests, i.e., interest in secure and efficient presentation and optimization of our website acc. to GDPR Art. 6 (1) lit. f.

 

Storage Duration

The exact storage duration of the processed data cannot be influenced by us, but is determined by Facebook, Inc. For further information, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Facebook CDN: www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.


Facebook Plugin

Nature and Scope of Processing

We have integrated Facebook Plugin components in our website. Facebook Plugin is a service of Facebook, Inc. and offers us the possibility to aggregate content from the social media platform and display it on our website.

 

When you access this content, you connect to servers of Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, whereby your IP address and possibly browser data such as your user agent are transmitted. This data is processed exclusively for the purposes mentioned above and to maintain the security and functionality of Facebook Plugin.

 

If a user is registered with Facebook, Inc., Facebook Plugin can associate the viewed content with his/her profile.

 

Scope and Legal Basis

The use of the service is based on our legitimate interests, i.e., interest in platform-independent provision of content acc. to GDPR Art. 6 (1) lit. f.

 

Storage Duration

The exact storage duration of the processed data cannot be influenced by us, but is determined by Facebook, Inc. For further information, please refer to the Privacy Policy of Facebook Plugin: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

 

LinkedIn

We use LinkedIn CDN to properly deliver the content of our website. LinkedIn CDN is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, which acts as a content delivery network (CDN) on our website to ensure the functionality of other services of LinkedIn Corporation. You will find a separate section in this privacy policy for these services. This section is only about using the CDN.

 

A CDN helps to provide content related to our website – especially files, such as diagrams or scripts – more quickly through the use of regionally or internationally distributed servers. When you access this content, you connect to servers of LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, USA, whereby your IP address and possibly browser data such as your user agent are transmitted. This data is processed exclusively for the purposes mentioned above and to maintain the security and functionality of LinkedIn CDN.

 

Scope and Legal Basis

The use of the Content Delivery Network is based on our legitimate interests, i.e., interest in secure and efficient presentation and optimization of our website acc. to GDPR Art. 6 (1) lit. f.

 

Storage Duration

The exact storage duration of the processed data cannot be influenced by us, but is determined by LinkedIn Corporation. For further information, please refer to the Privacy Policy of LinkedIn CDN: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy.

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Financial Information

We do not collect any financial information on this website. If you make a debit or credit card payment online, you will be taken to a secure payment service provider who will take your payment on our behalf and return you to this website when your order has been completed. You should not communicate credit card or other payment information via email, as it is not secure.

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Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

 

You can also prevent capturing the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) on Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in at the following link:

Download Browser-Plugin (new Window)

Instead of the browser plug-in you can also prevent processing of your data by clicking on the following link. This sets a so-called “opt-out cookie” which disallows processing in your current browser.

 

Reject data processing / Set Opt-Out-Cookie


More information on terms of use and data protection for Google Inc. can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html or at https://www.google.com/intl/us/policies/. Please note that on this Google Analytics website the code „gat._anonymizeIp();“ has been added, which ensures anonymous capturing of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).


By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

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Use of wiredminds

We use products of WiredMinds AG (www.wiredminds.de) for marketing and optimization purposes. These products collect and process your personal data and use it to create usage profiles under a pseudonym. These usage profiles are fully anonymized where possible and appropriate. We and WiredMinds employ cookies and/or Web beacons (also known as tracking pixels) on this website. We transfer the data we collect about you, which may also include personal data, to WiredMinds or WiredMinds gathers this data directly. WiredMinds is entitled to use information that you leave behind by visiting our Web sites to create anonymized usage profiles. The data collected shall not be used to personally identify visitors to this website without the express permission of the party affected and shall not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym. Any IP addresses recorded are anonymized immediately by deleting the last number block. Permission to collect and store data in the future may be revoked at any time.

 

You can prevent processing of your data by clicking on the following link. This sets a so-called “opt-out cookie” which disallows processing in your current browser.

Reject data processing / Set Opt-Out-Cookie

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Do Not Track Requests

This website does not respond to “do not track” requests. All traffic is treated as equal and processed the same in that we will track users and Registered Users use of the website and/or Services as well as the webpage that the user or Registered Users came from before reaching the website and the webpage to which he or she went after leaving the website. If you desire to have your browsing be private, we suggest that you use your web browser’s private, incognito or other similar options.

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Operation of this Website in the United States

This website is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using this website or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer and to the applicable laws of the United States.

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Changes to these Legal Notices

We may amend these Legal Notices at any time in order to provide you with the most up-to-date and accurate information about our collection of data. Amendments will take effect immediately upon us posting the updated Legal Notices on this website. Your use of the website after the posting of updated Legal Notices constitutes your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the updated Legal Notices. We may, but do not obligate ourselves, to notify registered users of any such changes or updates. However, we recommend that everyone, especially users, revisit these Legal Notices from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. The date on which these Legal Notices were last updated will be noted immediately below these Legal Notices.

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Contacting Us

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices or wish to make a request regarding your personally identifiable information or the personally identifiable information of someone for which you are the legal guardian, please contact us at any of the following:

 

Via telephone:
+1 (616) 345-0680

 

Via fax:
+1 (616) 345-0681

 

Via mail:

Bihl+Wiedemann, Inc.

Attn: Ron Dibling

5570 Wilson Ave. SW Suite E

Grandville, MI 49418


Via email:

mailbihl-wiedemann.com

 

SPECIAL NOTIFICATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS - YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

 

Individuals who are residents of California and have provided their personally identifiable information to us may request information regarding our disclosures, if any, of their personally identifiable information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us at mailbihl-wiedemann.com or in writing at:

 

Bihl+Wiedemann, Inc.

Attn: Ron Dibling

5570 Wilson Ave. SW Suite 4E

Grandville, MI 49418


Fax Number:
+1 (616) 345-0681

 

California privacy rights requests must include the reference “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of the message and must include the e-mail address or mailing address, as applicable, for us to send our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph.

 

Updated by The Bihl+Wiedemann Legal Team on Dec. 7, 2015

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11. Rights of the data subject as granted by the European directive and regulation agencies

a) Right of access

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to make use of this right of access, he or she may contact an employee of the controller at any time.

 

b) Right of access

The data subject shall have the right to obtain information at no charge and at any time concerning the personal data stored and to obtain a copy of this information. Access to the following information shall also be provided:

  • The purposes of the processing
  • The categories of personal data concerned
  • The recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations
  • Where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period
  • The existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing
  • The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
  • Where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source
  • The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Art. 22 Par. 1 and 4 of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

 

Where personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization, the data subject shall have the right to be so informed. When this is the case, the data subject further has the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer. If a data subject wishes to make use of this right to access, he or she can at any time do so by contacting any employee of the controller.

 

c) Right to rectification

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

 

If a data subject wishes to make use of this right rectification, he or she can at any time do so by contacting any employee of the controller.

 

d) Right of erasure (‘right to be forgotten‘)

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

 

  • The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are collected or otherwise processed.
  • The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (a) GDPR or Art. 9 Par. 2 Point (a) GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
  • The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 Par. 1 GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21 Par. 2 GDPR.
  • The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
  • The personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
  • The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Art. 8 Par. 1 GDPR.

 

If one of the above reasons applies and a data subject wishes to have his or her personal data which are stored at Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH deleted, this can be accomplished at any time by contacting an employee of the controller.

 

Where Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH have made the personal data public and our company is obliged pursuant to Art. 17 Par. 1 GDPR to erase the personal data, Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data to the extent that they are not necessary for processing.

 

e) Right to restriction of processing

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:

  • The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
  • The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead.
  • The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
  • The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 Par. 1 GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

 

If one of the above conditions is met and a data subject would like to request restriction of processing of personal data stored by Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH, he or she may any time contact any employee of the controller. The data protection deputy of Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH or another employee will initiate restriction of processing.

 

f) Right to data portability

The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided. This shall apply where the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (a) GDPR or Art. 9 Par. 2 Point (a) GDPR and the processing is carried out by automated means, presuming the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

 

Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 Par. 1 GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and to the extent that this is technically feasible and does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

 

To assert the right to data portability the data subject may contact an employee at any time.

 

g) Right to object

The data subject shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her which is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (e) or (f) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions.

 

Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH shall no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

 

Where Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH process personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Where the data subject objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data shall no longer be processed for such purposes.

 

Where personal data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 Par. 1 GDPR, the data subject, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, shall have the right to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

 

To exercise the right to object the data subject may turn directly to an employee. In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, the data subject may exercise his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

 

h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly affects him or her, presuming the decision (1) is not necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject’s explicit consent.

 

If the decision is necessary (1) for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, Bihl+Wiedemann GmbH shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decison.

 

To assert his or her rights with respect to automated decision-making, the data subject may contact an employee at any time.

 

i) Right to withdraw consent

Every data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at anytime.

 

To exercise his or her right to withdraw consent, he or she may at any time contact an employee of the controller responsible for the processing. 

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12. Data protection for application forms and in the application process

The data controller gathers and processes personal data from applicants for the purpose of carrying out the application process, including in electronic form. When the data controller forms an employment contract with an applicant, the transmitted data are retained for the purpose of the employment relationship according to legal requirements. If no contract is concluded with the applicant, the application documentation are automatically deleted two months after notification of the rejection decision unless there are no other legitimate interests for its processing. Other legitimate interest in this context is for example a burden of proof in a matter related to the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).

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13. Lawfulness of processing

Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (a) GDPR serves for our company as the legal basis for processing where the data subject has given consent to the processing or his or her personal data for a specific purpose. Where processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract, such as in cases of inquiries about our products or services, then such processing is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (b) GDPR. When processing by our company is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject, such as compliance with tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (c) GDPR.

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13. Processing necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party

If the processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 Point (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest is the performance of our business activity for the welfare of all our employees.

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15. Duration of personal data retention

The criterion for the duration of retention of personal data is the respective legal preservation period. After expiration of the period the corresponding data are routinely deleted unless they are still required for fulfillment or initiation of a contract.

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16. Legal or contractual regulations for providing personal data; necessity for concluding a contract; obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of non-provision

We are making you aware that providing of personal data is in part a legal requirement (e.g. for tax purposes) or can result from contractual obligations (e.g. information about the contractual partner). Sometimes the drawing up of a contract may require that a data subject provides us with personal data which consequently must be processed by us. Before the data subject provides personal data, he or she must contact our data protection deputy.

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17. Existence of automated decision making

As a responsibility conscious company we do not engage in automated decision making or profiling.

 

GDPR: English abbreviation for General Data Protection Regulation.

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