Privacy Policy

Introduction and General Information

Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data is important to us. In the following, you will find information about processing the data that we collect while you use our website. The processing of your data takes place by the statutory provisions on data protection. To the extent that we provide links to other websites, we can neither influence nor control the linked contents or the data privacy regulations on these websites. We recommend reading the privacy statements of the linked websites to see to which extent personal data is collected, processed, used, or made available to third parties.

2. Contact Information

Controller within the meaning of data protection law:

Amphenol Tuchel Industrial GmbH
August-Haeusser-Strasse 10
74080 Heilbronn
+49 (0)7131 929-0

Contact information of data protection officer

PROLIANCE GmbH / www.datenschutzexperte.de
Datenschutzbeauftragter
Leopoldstr. 21
80802 München
datenschutzbeauftragter@datenschutzexperte.de

3. Definitions

We intend to have a data privacy statement that is easily understandable for everybody. Our data privacy statement generally uses the official terms used in the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The official definitions are detailed in Art. 4 GDPR.

4. Processing of data based on your visit to our website

When you visit our web pages, it is technically required that data is transmitted by your internet browser to our web server. The following data is recorded while there is an active connection for communication between your internet browser and our web server:

Visited domain (Amphenol.de; Amphenol-Industrial.de)
Date and time of the request
Page from which the file was requested
Access status (file transfer, file not found, etc.)
Used web browser and operating system
The IP address of the requesting computer
Transmitted data volume

We collect the listed data to ensure a smooth connection to the website and comfortable use by the users of our website. In addition, log files are used to analyze system security and stability, and for administrative purposes. The legal basis for the temporary storage of data or log files is Art. 6 para 1 letter f GDPR.

For reasons of technical security, and in particular, to prevent intrusion attempts at our web server, this data will be temporarily stored by us as necessary. However, this data cannot be used to identify individual persons. There is no evaluation of this data except for statistical purposes in an anonymized form. Such data will not be merged with data from other sources.

5. General data processing on the website (except for web analytics, advertising tracking, cookies, newsletters, and social media plug-ins)

Contact form and contact via e-mail

If you send us requests through our contact form or by e-mail, we will store the information you enter into the contact form or send by e-mail, including the contact data stated there, to process your request or in the event of follow-up questions. We will not disclose such information without your consent. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in answering your request following Art. 6, paragraph 1, letter f GDPR, and Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR, to the extent that your request is made to conclude a contract.

Registration

You can register for certain services provided on our website and create a user profile. In the course of the registration process and the creation of an account, we use the following personal data:

• First name, last name, address
• Postal address
• E-mail address of user
• Date and time of registration

Moreover, you can enter further information voluntarily (for example, telephone numbers, etc.). Mandatory information to be entered for registration is marked with an asterisk in the entry form. With a user account, you can use further areas of our website and log in for the services you purchased. If consent is given, the legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter a GDPR or Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR, to the extent that the processing is required to render the desired services. Your data will be deleted as soon as the user account on our website is deleted, to the extent that statutory retention obligations do not require otherwise. You can change and/or delete your user account, including the data provided by you, directly in your user account after logging in, or have the changes made or have it deleted by the controller mentioned above.

Shop

To access our online shop, you can register for an account by entering your data. The data entered into the entry form are transmitted to and stored by us. Such information is not disclosed to third parties. When you register for an account, we store the information that is required for entering into a contract and for fulfillment of such contract:

First name
Last name
Address
Telephone number
E-mail address

Registering as a user is required to fulfill the contract or to perform any pre-contractual measures or the desired services. The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR. Even after the conclusion of the contract, it can be necessary to store the personal data of our business partners to fulfill the contractual and statutory obligations. As a user, you can cancel your registration at any time. An early erasure of your information is possible only if there are no contractual or statutory obligations that contradict a deletion.

Algolia

On our website, we use the search engine provider Algolia Instantsearch from Algolia Inc (301 Howard St, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94105 (USA) ("Algolia") to search for and index our website content.

Algolia Instantsearch is used to make it easier to find the information contained on our website thus ensuring user-friendliness. The legal basis for processing the data is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR, our legitimate interest in ensuring a more user-friendly search on our website.

When using Algolia Instantsearch, your IP address, and your search query are sent to an Algolia server and stored there for statistical purposes for 90 days.

Since personal data is transferred to the USA, further protective mechanisms are required to ensure the data protection level of the GDPR. To guarantee this, we have agreed to standard data protection clauses with the provider following Article 46 (2) (c) GDPR. These oblige the recipient of the data in the USA to process the data following the level of protection in Europe. In cases in which this cannot be ensured even with this contractual extension, we endeavor to obtain additional regulations and commitments from the recipient in the USA.

Further information on the processing of your data by Algolia can be found in the provider's data protection declaration: https://www.algolia.com/de/policies/privacy/

YouTube

On our website, we embed videos from "YouTube", a social media platform of Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your given consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

If the display of the embedded YouTube videos is started with your consent, the provider "YouTube" uses cookies to collect information about user behavior. According to information from "YouTube", these serve, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user-friendliness and prevent abusive behavior. If you are logged in to Google, your information is associated directly with your account when you click on a video. If you do not want your profile to be associated with YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores this data as user profiles and uses them for advertising, market research, and/or demand-oriented design of its websites. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (also for users who are not logged in) to present need-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles. Please contact Google directly.

Since a transfer of personal data by Google to affiliates and sub-processors to countries outside the EU and EEA is possible, further, appropriate safeguards are required to ensure the level of data protection under the GDPR. For the U.S., there is an adequacy decision of the EU Commission under Art. 45 (1) GDPR regarding companies with certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and is therefore committed to compliance with adequate data protection standards, which can be verified via the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search

For potential transfers to other countries outside the EU and the EEA, for which no adequacy decision of the EU Commission exists, we have concluded standard contractual clauses with the provider following Art. 46 (2) lit. c GDPR. These oblige the recipient of the data in a country outside the EU to process the data following the level of protection in Europe.

Further information on data protection and data use by Google can be found on the following Google website: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Maps

Our homepage uses the online map service provider Google Maps via an interface. The provider of the map service is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and makes it easy for you to use the map function. To use the functionalities of Google Maps it is necessary to save your IP address.

Google uses Cookies, to collect information about user behavior. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your given consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, Sect. 25 para. 1 TTDSG.

Since a transfer of personal data by Google to affiliates and sub-processors to countries outside the EU and EEA is possible, further, appropriate safeguards are required to ensure the level of data protection under the GDPR. For the U.S., there is an adequacy decision of the EU Commission under Art. 45 para. 1 GDPR regarding companies with certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and is therefore committed to compliance with adequate data protection standards, which can be verified via the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search

For potential transfers to other countries outside the EU and the EEA, for which no adequacy decision of the EU Commission exists, we have concluded standard contractual clauses with the provider following Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c GDPR. These oblige the recipient of the data in a country outside the EU to process the data by the level of protection in Europe.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in Google's privacy policy:

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/

6. Newsletter

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter on our website, to receive regular information about our services and products, you will need to provide your e-mail address. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to send out our newsletter. That means that we can send you our newsletter only after you have expressly consented to our sending you the newsletter by e-mail. You will receive an e-mail from us first that contains a link through which you confirm that you, as the owner of the e-mail address, wish to receive our newsletter as of that date. With your confirmation, you give us your consent as per Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter a GDPR that we can use your personal data to send you the newsletter.

When you register for the newsletter, in addition to the e-mail address required for sending the newsletter, we store the IP address with which you have registered for the newsletter and the date and time of registration and confirmation so that we can trace back any possible misuse at a later point in time.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided in every newsletter or by sending an E-mail to the above-mentioned controller. Once you have unsubscribed from our newsletter, your E-mail address will be removed from the list of recipients, unless you have expressly consented to the continued use of the data that we collected or if the continued processing is permitted by law.

7. Cookies

Our website uses cookies, which are stored by the browser on your device and which include specific settings regarding the use of the website (for example, the current session). Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, more efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and are saved by your browser. Most of the cookies used by us are so-called session cookies which are automatically deleted after closing the browser. Other cookies remain on your device until you delete them or the storage period expires. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you revisit our website.

Cookies are partly used to simplify website processes by saving settings (for example, the saving of priorly selected options). To the extent that individual cookies that were implemented by us process personal data, such processing will be following Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR - either to fulfill a contract or, following Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR, to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of our website, and for a pleasant and efficient user experience at this website.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the storage of cookies or to allow cookies in specific cases only, to accept cookies in certain cases only to exclude the use of cookies generally, and to automatically delete cookies when you close your browser. You can adjust the cookie settings using the following links depending on the browser you use:

You can also individually manage the cookies used for advertising by many companies or functions. For this, you use the respective user tools that are available at
https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
or
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

Most browsers also offer a so-called "Do-Not-Track” function with which you can indicate that you do not wish to be "tracked" by websites. When this function is enabled, your browser tells advertising networks, websites, or applications that you do not wish to be tracked for behavior-based advertising and the like. For information and instructions on how to edit this function, see the links below, depending on the provider of your browser:

You can also prevent scripts from being loaded by default. NoScript allows you to run JavaScripts, Java, and other plug-ins only for trusted domains of your choice. For information and instructions on how to edit this function, see the website of your browser provider (for example, Mozilla Firefox at: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/noscript/).

Please note that by disabling cookies you may limit the functionality of this website.

8. Web analytics and advertising tracking

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of this website. The information about your usage of this website that is generated by the cookie is usually transferred to one of Google’s servers in the USA and stored there. We use Google Analytics only with enabled IP anonymization. That means that a user’s IP address is truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or other states of the European Economic Area which prevents that data can be traced back to individuals. Processing is carried out following Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR and Sec. 15 paragraph 3 TMG [German Telemedia Act] and it is based on our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.
Due to the declaration of invalidity of the EU-US Privacy Shield, personal data will only be transferred to the USA with your consent following DSGVO Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a. and the latest SCCs (Standard Contractual Clauses).

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyze your use of our website, to create reports about website activities, and to perform other services in connection with the use of our website and the internet for the operator of this website. You will find the terms and conditions of Google Analytics and information about data privacy by following the links below:

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
or
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

You can prevent the saving of cookies in the settings of your browser software; however, please note that in that case, you may not be able to use any functions of this website to your full benefit. Moreover, you can prevent the transmission of the data generated by the cookie concerning the use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and their processing by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the browser plug-in that is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

A click on the following link prevents the collection of data by Google Analytics through a so-called opt-out cookie.

For information about the processing of user data through Google Analytics, please see Google’s privacy statement:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Google Ads Remarketing

We use Google Ads to advertise this website in the Google search results. When you visit our website, Google sets a so-called remarketing cookie, which automatically uses a pseudonymous cookie ID and enables interest-based advertising based on the pages you visit.
If you have given your consent following Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO, this website uses Google (Universal) Ads for advertising purposes. The data collected in this context will be deleted after we have discontinued the use of Google Ads Remarketing for the intended purpose and at the end of its use.

Further data processing will only take place if you have agreed to Google linking your web and app browser history to your Google Account and using information from your Google Account to personalize advertisements you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while browsing our website, Google will use your information in conjunction with Google Analytics data to create and define cross-device remarketing audience lists. For this purpose, Google temporarily links your personal data to Google Analytics data to form target groups.

Due to the declaration of invalidity of the EU-US Privacy Shield, personal data will only be transferred to the USA with your consent following DSGVO Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a. and the latest SCCs (Standard Contractual Clauses).

Google Ads is an offer from Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operated under Irish law and located at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de).

You can deactivate the remarketing cookie via this link.

Google Fonts

We use "Google Fonts" on our website, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as: "Google"). Google Fonts enables us to use external fonts. For this purpose, the required Google Fonts are loaded into your browser cache by your web browser when you access our website. This is necessary so that your browser can also display a visually improved representation of our texts. If your browser does not support this function, a standard font will be used by your computer for display. The integration of these Google Fonts is done by a server call, usually a Google server in the U.S. This transmits to the server which page of our website you have visited. Also, the IP address of the browser of the end device of the visitor is stored by Google.

We use Google Fonts for optimization purposes, in particular, to improve the use of our website for you and to make its design more user-friendly. Processing is carried out following Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR on the legal basis of your given consent. This consent can be revoked at any time with effect in the future.

Since a transfer of personal data to the U.S. takes place, further appropriate safeguards are required to ensure the level of data protection under the GDPR. To guarantee this, we have concluded standard contractual clauses with the provider following Art. 46 Para. 2 lit. c GDPR. These oblige the recipient of the data in the U.S. to process the data according to the level of protection in Europe. In cases in which this cannot be guaranteed even by this contractual extension, we endeavor to obtain additional regulations and commitments from the recipient in the U.S.

Further information on data protection can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.

Further information on Google Fonts can be found at https://fonts.google.com/.

Hotjar

Our website uses the web analysis service Hotjar of Hotjar Ltd. Hotjar Ltd. is a European company based in Malta (Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe, Tel: +1 (855) 464-6788).

This tool allows you to track movements on the websites where Hotjar is used (so-called heat maps). For example, you can see how far users scroll and which buttons users click on how often. Furthermore, the tool also makes it possible to obtain feedback directly from the users of the website. Above all, Hotjar's services can improve the functionality of the Hotjar-based website by making it more user-friendly, more valuable, and easier for end users to use.

When using this tool, we take special care to protect your personal data. For example, we can only track which buttons are clicked, the path of the mouse, how far it scrolls, the screen size of the device, device type, and browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language to display our website. Areas of the websites where personal data of you or third parties are displayed are automatically hidden by Hotjar and therefore cannot be traced at any time. To exclude the possibility of direct personal references, IP addresses are only stored and processed anonymously. However, Hotjar uses various third-party services such as Google Analytics and Optimizely. It may therefore be the case that these services collect data that are transmitted by your browser as part of web page requests. These would be, for example, cookies or your IP address. In these exceptional cases, following Art. 6 para. 1 letter a DSGVO and the latest SCCs (Standard Contractual Clauses), this processing is carried out based on the consent you have given for statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.

Hotjar offers every user the option of preventing the use of the Hotjar tool using a "Do Not Track" header so that no data about the visit to the respective website is recorded. This is a setting that is supported by all common browsers in current versions. To do this, your browser sends a request to Hotjar to disable tracking for that user. If you use our websites with different browsers/computers, you must set up the "Do Not Track" header separately for each of these browsers/computers.

You can prevent Hotjar from collecting your data at any time when you visit a Hotjar-based website by going to our opt-out page https://www.hotjar.com/policies/do-not-track/ and clicking deactivate Hotjar.

For more information about Hotjar Ltd. and the Hotjar tool, please visit https://www.hotjar.com.

The privacy policy of Hotjar Ltd. can be found at https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/

Campaign Manager (DoubleClick)

On our website, we use tools from the Google Marketing Platform, a service provided by Google Inc. and Google Ireland Limited, based in Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland.

Among other things, we use the "Campaign Manager", a tool that helps us to place and manage advertisements relevant to you. Through the Campaign Manager, we receive reports on the performance of our campaigns and can prevent you from seeing the same ads multiple times. Furthermore, so-called conversions can be recorded with the Campaign Manager. This tells us and the provider when you view certain ads and make a purchase through them.

If you give us your consent following Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, the Campaign Manager uses cookies to track whether you are performing certain actions on our website. Your IP address is processed and information about your calls and clicks is transmitted to the Google server. If you have a Google account, Google can associate these interactions with your account. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

Further information on the Campaign Manager is available at https://www.google.de/doubleclick.

Further information on data protection at Google can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Leadfeeder

Our website uses the web analytics service Leadfeeder provided by Liidio Oy. Liidio Oy is a European company based in Finland (Liidio Oy., Mikonkatu 17 C, 00100 Helsinki).

Using Leadfeeder, we recognize potential customers interested in our services and can track whether a company has visited our website. Visitor data is collected using a script as well as the use of cookies. The following data is collected:

Time and date of the visit
Source and medium
Number of pages visited
Pages visited (title, URL, and time)
Visitor ID number (set by cookie)
Total duration of the visit
The IP address of the visitor

Leadfeeder identifies companies based on their publicly registered IP addresses and our own IP address database. While the IP address is collected to assign a company and geographic location, it is not processed further. Leadfeeder only displays company visits; the provider automatically filters out all users visiting our website from private IP addresses and ISPs. Accordingly, all visit data is aggregated at the company level.

The use of Leadfeeder is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, your voluntary consent. The consent can be revoked at any time via the cookie settings. The cookies set by Leadfeeder have an expiration date of two years from the time it was first set.

Further information on data protection at Leadfeeder can be found in the provider's privacy policy: https://www.leadfeeder.com/privacy/

9. Social-Media-Plug-ins

Social networks (Facebook, Twitter, and Xing) are only integrated on our website as links to the corresponding services. After clicking on the integrated text/image link, you will be redirected to the page of the respective provider. Information will only be transmitted to the respective provider after the redirection. For information about the processing of your data while you use this website, please refer to the respective data protection provisions of the provider used by you.

10. Data transfer and recipients

We do not disclose any personal data to third parties, unless

we have explicitly pointed this out in the description of the respective data processing activity;
you have given us your express consent following Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter a GDPR;
the disclosure is required as mentioned under Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims, and if we have no reason to believe that you have a legitimate overriding interest in the non-disclosure of your data;
if there is a statutory obligation to disclose the data as set out under Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter c GDPR, and insofar as it is required to fulfill the contract/s with you.

Furthermore, to manage our business, we use the services of third parties whom we have carefully selected and contracted in writing. They are bound by our instructions and are regularly audited by us. If necessary, we have entered into data processing agreements following Art. 28 GDPR. These are service providers used for web hosting, sending E-mails, maintaining our IT systems, etc.

11. Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the relevant statutory retention periods (e.g. under commercial law and tax law). To the extent that data is required for the fulfillment of a contract or contract negotiations, or if we have a legitimate interest in continued storage, the data will be deleted once it is no longer required for these purposes or if you have exercised your right of withdrawal or right of objection.

12. Your rights

In the following, you will find information about which rights data subjects have under the applicable data protection laws concerning the processing of their personal data vis-a-vis the controller:

The right to request access to and information about the personal data processed by us as set out under Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge complaints, the origin of your data - if these have not been collected by us - and the application of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on the details.

The right to request the immediate rectification of incorrect or completion of incomplete personal data stored by us as provided under Art. 16 GDPR.

The right to erasure as set out under Art. 17 GDPR that can be exercised by demanding the deletion of the personal data stored by us, to the extent that its processing is not required to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, to fulfill legal obligations, for reasons of public interest, or the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

The right to demand the restriction of processing of your personal data as set out under Sec. 18 GDPR, to the extent that you have claimed that the data is incorrect, that its processing is unlawful, but you reject its deletion - although we no longer need the data - because you need it to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims, or if you have filed an objection against the processing following Art. 21 GDPR.

The right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to demand its transmission to another controller following Art. 20 GDPR.

The right to complain to a supervisory authority following Art. 77 GDPR- To do so, you can usually contact the supervisory authority of the state in which we have our headquarters as stated above or of the state in which you regularly reside or have your workplace.

Right to withdraw consent following Art. 7 paragraph 3 GDPR: You are entitled to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data at any time in the future. In the event of a withdrawal, we will delete the concerned data immediately if there is no legal basis for further processing without consent. A withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing based on the consent up to the date of withdrawal.

Right to objection

If your personal data is processed by us based on our legitimate interest as per Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you shall be entitled to object to the processing of your personal data following Art. 21 GDPR, to the extent that this is based on your particular situation. To the extent that an objection to the processing of personal data is based on its use for direct marketing, you are generally entitled to object without the need to specify any particular reason.

If you wish to exercise your right of withdrawal or objection, sending an e-mail notification to datenschutzbeauftragter@datenschutzexperte.de will be sufficient.

13. Changes to our data privacy statement

We reserve the right to adapt or update this data privacy statement to comply with the applicable data protection regulations, if necessary. In this way, we can adapt it to the then current legal requirements and consider any changes in our services, for example, when new services are introduced. The valid version at the time of your visit shall be applicable.

Date of this data privacy statement: 09.04.2024