Privacy Policy

1.  Data Protection Overview

General instructions

The following instructions provide a basic overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data refers to all data by which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Collection of Data on this website

Who is accountable for the collection of data on this site?

Data processing on this website is handled by the website operator. You can find the operator's contact details in the legal notice of this website. 

How do we collect your data?

We collect your data on one side when you communicate them to us. This can be data that you enter in a contact form, for example.

Additional data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when visiting the website. This represents mainly technical data (e.g. browser, operating system or time of access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website. 

What do we use your data for?

A part of the data is collected in order to ensure that the website is delivered without errors. Some other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

Which rights are you entitled to regarding your data?

At any time you are entitled to receive information about the origin, receiver and intended purpose of your stored personal data - free of charge. You are also entitled to demand the rectification or erasure of this data. If you have granted your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this consent at any time in the future. Furthermore, you are also entitled to demand, given certain circumstances, the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Additionally, you are entitled to a right of objection to the responsible regulatory authority. 

For this purpose, along with other questions on the issue of data protection, you can always contact us at the address given in the legal notice.

2.  General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

The providers of these pages are highly committed to the protection of your personal data. We take your personal data confidentially and in compliance with the legal Data Protection Regulations and this Privacy Policy.

Various personal data is collected when you use this website. Person-related data is data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains the kind of data we collect and what we use it for. It further explains the way in which this is done and for which purpose.

We draw your attention to the fact that Data Transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security risks. A comprehensive protection of your data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the Responsible Party

The responsible party for the processing of data found on this website is:

BKI Beteiligungs GmbH
Bahnhofstraße 157
46562 Voerde

Telephone: 0203 / 60016290
E-Mail:  info@bki-gruppe.de

The responsible party is the physical or legal person who decides alone or jointly with others about the purposes and means by which personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.) is processed.

Storage Period (of Data)

Insofar as no specific storage period has been specified within this privacy policy, your personal data will be retained by us until there is no longer a purpose for data processing. If you submit a justified request for erasure or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be erased as long as we have no other legally valid reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. tax or commercial law retention periods); if the latter applies, the data will be erased after these reasons have ceased to apply.

Revocation of the Consent for Data Processing

Many procedures of data processing can only be carried out with your explicit consent. You can revoke your previously given consent at any time. This does not affect the legality of any data processing carried out up to the time of revocation.

Right to object to data collection in special cases and direct mail (Article 21 GDPR)

IF THE PROCESSING OF DATA ON THE BASIS OF ARTICLE 6 PARA. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE ARE ENTITLED TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, INCLUDING PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS UPON WHICH PROCESSING IS PERFORMED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE SHALL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE HAVE COMPELLING REASONS FOR PROCESSING WORTHY OF PROTECTION THAT PREVAIL OVER YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ASSERT, EXERCISE OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).

IN CASE OF PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU ARE ENTITLED AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING, INCLUDING PROFILING, INSOFAR AS IT IS LINKED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, THEN YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 21 PARAGRAPH 2 GDPR).

Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities

In the event of GDPR violations, those affected are entitled to a Right of Appeal to a regulatory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the presumed violation. This Right of Appeal is irrespective of any other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability

You are entitled to request that data we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contractual agreement be handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be carried out to the extent that it is technically possible.

Information, blocking, deletion

In accordance with the applicable legal regulations, you are entitled to receive information free of charge at all times about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients as well as the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correct or delete this data. In this regard, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.

Right to limit processing

You are entitled to request limitation of the processing of your personal data.

Herefore, you can always reach out to us via the address given in the legal notice. The right to limit processing exists in the following situations:

If you contest the validity of the personal data we have stored, we generally require time to review this. You are entitled to demand that we limit the processing of your personal data for the length of the investigation.

If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted unlawfully, you are entitled to request the limitation of data processing instead of deletion.

When we no longer need your personal data, but you do need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you are entitled to demand that we limit the processing of your personal data instead of deleting it.

Once you have filed an objection in accordance with Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, a careful weighing up of your interests and ours must be carried out. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you are entitled to demand the limitation of processing of your personal data.

In case you have limited processing of your personal data, such data - with the exception of its storage - may only be processed following your consent or in order to assert, exercise or defend legal claims as well as to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of an important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

3. Data collection on this website

Request via e-mail, telephone or fax

If you reach out to us via e-mail, telephone or fax, your inquiry including all personal data (name, inquiry) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your request. This data will not be passed on without your consent.

We process this data in accordance to Art. 6 Par. 1 Lit. b GDPR, insofar as your request is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. Otherwise, processing is based on our justified concern for the effective processing of inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 Par. 1 Lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 Lit. a GDPR), insofar as this has been requested.

Any data sent by you to us via contact requests will remain with us until you request us to erase it, revoke your consent in regard to its storage or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Compulsory legal regulations - in particular legal storage periods - remain unaffected.