Würth Company
The aim of data protection, and also our objective at Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, is to ensure that personal data are handled in such a way that every data subject’s right to privacy is protected.
In order to achieve this objective, all functions responsible for the processing of personal data must observe applicable EU legislation (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) and all national data protection laws.
Personal data may only be collected and processed subject to the GDPR or other applicable laws. The essential underlying principles of the GDPR are:
Handling personal data responsibly but also being aware of the risks of IT systems and applications are other key objectives of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG.
The controller is the natural person or legal entity that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).
The data controller for data processing on this website is:
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG
Reinhold-Würth-Straße 12–17
74653 Künzelsau-Gaisbach
Telefon: +49 7940 15-6200
E-Mail: kultur@wuerth.com
You can contact our data protection officer at datenschutz@wuerth.com.
The potential recipients of personal data include:
Should we transfer your data to a country outside the EU (countries that are not members of the European Union) or to international organizations, this will be done exclusively in compliance with all data protection requirements. If we transfer your data to a third country or an international organization in individual cases, we will provide you with the information required for this case.
Personal data will be deleted in accordance with the legal or contractually established regulations on the disposal of data and considering any legal or contractually established retention periods. Most of these legal requirements are based on the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the German Fiscal Code (AO). The retention and documentation periods set out in these codes require data controllers to retain data for up to ten years after the end of a business relationship or pre-contractual legal transaction.
Other legal provisions may impose even longer retention periods on data controllers, for instance, for the retention of evidence in accordance with relevant statutes of limitations. The general statute of limitations is three years. Special statutes of limitation of up to 30 years or longer may, however, apply in certain situations. Personal data that are not subject to a legal or contractual retention period or erasure obligation must be deleted immediately after they are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
The data subject has various data protection rights. These rights are explained below. The contact information indicated above can be used to exercise these rights.
Subject to applicable legal regulations, you have the right to obtain, at any time and free of charge, information about all of your personal data stored by the data controller, including its origin, recipients, purpose of storage, and, where applicable, the right to rectify, restrict processing, or erase your data
Every data subject has the right to object to the processing of their personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR or for direct marketing purposes. In the event we receive an objection to the processing of your personal data, we will carefully review your objection on a case-by-case basis. If your objection to the processing of your personal data requires us to delete your data, we will delete your data in accordance with statutory retention requirements. Your objection does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract provided to you or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transmission of the data to another controller, this will only be done if it is technically feasible.
Every data subject has the right to know whether the provision of personal data is a legal or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether the data subject is obliged to provide the personal data and what the possible consequences of failure to provide such data would be.
The data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority if the data subject believes that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes his or her rights. The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer responsible for the federal state in which our company has its registered office. The data subject may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for the data subject’s habitual place of residence or place of the alleged infringement. A list of data protection officers and their contact information can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.
Many data processing operations can only be performed with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. All you need to do is send an informal email to this effect to one of the email addresses indicated above. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Irrespective of your subscription to our newsletter, we may use your data, and especially your email address, for (direct) marketing purposes. We only use your data if you have not objected to the use of your data for this purpose. We would like to inform you in this statement, and every other contact, that you can object to the use of your data for (direct) marketing purposes at any time and without incurring any additional costs other than the usual transmission costs according to the basic rates of your Internet provider.
This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection when you see the address bar of your browser change from “http://” to “https://” and when the lock symbol appears in your address bar.
When SSL and/or TSL encryption is activated, the data that you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.
Further data is collected when publicly accessible spaces are observed by means of optical-electronic equipment (video surveillance) on the premises of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG. The visual data collected will immediately be deleted when it is no longer required for its specific purpose – observing the domiciliary right – or if the interest of the data subject conflicts with its further storage.
We use your personal order data for the purpose of performing the contract concluded with you.
We collect and process the following data from you:
The data collected is used for the following purposes:
Your data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for the fulfillment of the contract for the purchase of tickets.
The data processed in connection with the performance of the contract will be stored for as long as is necessary for the stated purposes. Statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.
Your data will not be passed on to third parties unless this is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or we are obliged to do so by law.
Some of the websites of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG use cookies. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your web browser.
You can adjust your browser settings to make sure you are informed about the use of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, accept cookies only for certain applications, or decline all cookies and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing your web browser. When cookies are deactivated, some of the functions available on this website may no longer work properly.
We process cookies for the performance of contracts, wherever they are necessary for electronic communication processes or the provision of our services (e.g., shopping car function). Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG uses these cookies primarily to process your orders in the online shop. The storage of any other cookies (e.g., cookies to analyze your browsing behavior) is treated separately in this privacy statement, and processing is subject to your prior consent.
For an overview of active cookies, please refer to this page: Cookie Policy. Cookie settings can be changed on this page at any time.
You can also control the storage of cookies by adjusting the "Do Not Track" (DNT) settings in your web browser. Depending on the browser, DNT is available either as a setting in the program settings or as a plug-in or add-on. By enabling this setting, the browser signals that you do not wish for your browsing behavior to be tracked by these tools without your explicit consent. If the setting is enabled, the tracking features of our tools will be anonymized. Please note that different web browsers may require different settings to enable DNT.
Alternatively, you can check on the deactivation page for EU consumers (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices) whether advertising cookies are being stored on your browser and disable them if so.
When visiting our website, we process information in so-called server log files, which your browser transmits to us automatically. The purpose of the processing is the correct displaying of our internet presence and ensuring the secure operation of our website.
The categories of data collected are:
This data is not merged with other data sources.
Data is processed on the lawful basis set out in Article 6 (1)(f) EU GDPR and Section 25(2) 2 TDDDG (German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Ac). As the website operator, we have a legitimate interest in a correct presentation of our internet presence and in ensuring the website’s secure operation.
The data processed in connection with the collection of server log files is stored as long as required for their specific purposes.
We collect, process and use personal data only if it is required for the creation, formulation of the content or changes to the contract (contractual data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6 sect. 1 b GDPR, permitting data processing to fulfill a contract or pre-contractual measures. We only collect, process and use personal data about the usage of the websites (usage data) if it is required to allow our customer to use the service and to invoice it.
The customer data collected will be deleted after the order has been processed or the business relationship has ended. Legal retention periods will remain unaffected.
If you send us an inquiry via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions.
The following categories of personal data are processed for an inquiry via the contact form:
We collect, process and use personal data only insofar as it is necessary for the establishment, content or amendment of the contract (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data about the use of our website (usage data) only insofar as this is necessary to enable or charge the user for the use of the service.
The customer data collected will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.
You can register in our web store in order to use additional functions on the site. We will only use the data you enter for the purpose of using the respective offer or service for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise we will reject the registration.
For important changes, such as changes to the scope of the offer or technically necessary changes, we will use the e-mail address provided during registration to inform you in this way.
Registration in our web store serves to execute or initiate a contract between you and Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
The data collected during registration will be stored by us as long as you are registered in our web store and will then be deleted. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.
This website uses features from the web analytics service Google Analytics for the statistical analysis of website user behavior. These features are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (hereinafter “Google Ireland”). We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google Ireland. The use of Google Analytics may result in the transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google LLC”) in the United States. Google Ireland has concluded standard contractual clauses, as approved by the European Commission, with Google LLC for the transmission of personal data to Google LLC based in the United States.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google Ireland will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage for the website operator.
We have enabled the IP anonymization function on this website. As a result, Google Ireland shortens your IP address within the member states of the European Union or in other EFTA member states of the European Economic Area before transmitting data to the United States. Only under exceptional circumstances is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google LLC server in the United States and shortened there.
We are also using the “Demographics” feature of Google Analytics. This allows us to generate reports on the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This information is collected based on web-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This information cannot be attributed to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ad settings in your Google account or by objecting to the collection of your data by Google Analytics, as described in the “Objection to data collection” section.
You can permanently object to the collection of your data for the purpose of anonymous statistics by disabling personalized advertising in the Google Ads options by following this link: https://www.google. com/settings/ads/onweb/
For more information on Google Analytics and Google Ireland and Google LLC’s privacy policy, please visit:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ (Google privacy policy)
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en (Data privacy and security in Google Analytics)
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-intro (Terms of Google services)
https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en (How Google uses cookies)
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en&ref_topic=7668613 (information about Google Signals)
Google Analytics and Google Signals are used for the statistical analysis of our website on the basis of your consent in compliance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG (German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act).
You can prevent the use of cookies by not consenting to the use of cookies. However, please note that by doing so, you may not be able to use all of the features on this website.
If you do not agree to your data being stored and used, you can disable the storage and use features here. Your opt-out decision will be stored in a cookie. If you delete your cookies, this will also delete your opt-out cookie. The next time you visit our site, you will be asked again whether cookies may be used for web analytics purposes.
We operate user profiles on social networks for the purpose of presenting our company and communicating with existing and prospective customers. For more information on the related processing activities, please refer to the notice below.
Social networks help us present our company to persons that own a social network account (hereinafter “users”) and all visitors of our profile without a social network account (hereinafter “guests”). Customers and interested parties can also get in touch with us through our profile. Our profiles and contributions are generally visible to all users and guests (hereinafter collectively referred to as “visitors”). When commenting on our contributions or sending us a message, these data are stored by the social network and can be viewed by us. We can reply to your comments or messages. Your comments and our replies may remain visible for all visitors of the social network in question.
When viewing our profile, the social network can store and analyze your accessing of the profile page and all other interactions on the social network’s website. This information is provided to the profile owners in statistical form and further processed by the social networks for other purposes, including advertising purposes.
If you have an account on this social network and are signed into your account when visiting our profile, the social network provider can link your interactions with our profile to your account details and process them further. Any data on your interactions with our profile may also be stored and processed for other purposes by the social network, even if you are not signed in or do not have an account with the social network in question. In this case, you can be linked to your account details with the help of cookies, small files stored on your end device, or your IP address.
Your data are generally processed for the purpose of creating a profile of interests for each visitor, and these profiles are used for advertising purposes. When a person visits certain websites, information on this browser activity is analyzed and the provider adds certain interests to the visitor’s profile. The visitor is shown ads based on these identified interests. The provider can show such interest-based ads both on and outside the social network’s websites.
Persons that access our profile on a social network (both users with an account with the social network provider and visitors without account).
Should you wish to request further information or exercise your rights as a data subject, we would recommend contacting the provider in question directly, as only the provider has full access to the data processed when visiting our profile or interacting with us on the social network. You can find all contact details of the social networks to exercise your rights as a data subject under “Information about the social networks we use.” You can contact us to exercise your rights as a data subject regarding all data processing activities for which the provider of the social network and we are jointly responsible. In such cases, we will forward your inquiry to the social network provided your inquiry relates to data or processing activities carried out by the social network.
Provider
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Irland
Website
Instagram’s privacy policy
https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect
Our Profile
https://www.instagram.com/wuerth_collection/
Provider
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Irland
Website
Facebook’s privacy policy
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
Our Profile
https://www.facebook.com/wuerthcollection/
Provider
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Irland
Website
Privacy Policy
https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944
Our Profile
Should you wish to receive the newsletter offered on our website, we need an email address from you along with information allowing us to verify that you are the owner of the indicated email address and that you agree to receiving our newsletter. Any additional data are collected on a voluntary basis only.
The data entered in the newsletter registration form will be processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to the processing of your data for the distribution of our newsletters at any time, for example, by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG uses the newsletter distribution service Inxmail. This service is provided by Inxmail GmbH, Wentzingerstr. 17, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Inxmail is a newsletter distribution service for the organization and analysis of newsletter marketing. The data processed for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletter will be stored on Inxmail's servers in Germany. We provide an unsubscribe link in every newsletter we send out.
To analyze the success of our newsletter marketing, all emails sent out with Inxmail utilize web beacons or “tracking pixels,” which track recipients’ interactions with the newsletter. Pixels track whether an email newsletter has been opened, which links recipients clicked on, and at what time a newsletter was read.
You can withdraw your consent to these newsletter analytics separately. If you do not want Inxmail to analyze your data, you have to deactivate analytics for the newsletter in question. We provide an unsubscribe link in every newsletter we send out.
These data are processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG (German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Ac)). You can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used to distribute the newsletter until such time as you cancel your subscription, when said data will be deleted. This does not apply to data we store for other purposes (e.g., email addresses needed for online shop registration).
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Inxmail in accordance with Art. 28(3) GDPR to ensure that Inxmail protects the personal data of our customers and does not disclose any personal data to third parties.
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG uses Bazaarvoice to send out product review emails and process product reviews. This service is provided by Bazaarvoice Inc, 10901 Stonelake Blvd, Austin, TX 78759, USA.
We use Bazaarvoice to send you product review emails asking you to submit product reviews on products you have purchased. Your personal data will be passed on to Bazaarvoice for this purpose. Bazaarvoice will use your data solely to personalize and distribute these review emails. Your data are not stored permanently nor disclosed to third parties by Bazaarvoice.
More information on Bazaarvoice’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.bazaarvoice.com/legal/privacy-policy/. Bazaarvoice processes some of your personal data in the United States. Bazaavoice has concluded standard contractual clauses, as published by the European Commission, with us for the transmission of personal data to the United States.
Your personal data are processed on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1a) GDPR. You can withdraw your consent at any time if you no longer wish to submit product reviews. We provide an unsubscribe link in every product review email.
We will store the data you have entered for the purpose of submitting a product review until you withdraw your consent to receiving our product review emails or request the erasure of the data, in which case your data will be deleted from Bazaarvoice’s servers. Bazaarvoice uses this data solely for sending out product review emails and processing product reviews.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Inxmail in accordance with Art. 28 (3) EU GDPR to ensure that Inxmail protects the personal data of our customers and does not disclose any personal data to third parties.
We have embedded YouTube videos in our online services, which are stored on www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. These features are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. The use of YouTube may result in the transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC in the United States. Google LLC has concluded standard contractual clauses, as approved by the European Commission, with us for the transmission of personal data to Google LLC based in the United States. These standard contractual clauses can be viewed here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/.
The YouTube videos on our website are all embedded in “privacy-enhanced mode,” which means no user data about you are sent to YouTube as long as you do not interact with these videos. No data are transferred until you play a video. We have no influence over this data transfer. Before any data are transmitted, you will be notified again that your data will be transferred to YouTube when you play a video. Your data will be transferred to YouTube regardless of whether you are signed into a YouTube user account or not. If you are signed into your Google account, your data will be linked directly to your account.
If you do not wish to be linked to your YouTube profile, you have to log out of your Google account before playing a video. YouTube stores your data as a user profile and uses that information for the purposes of advertising, market research, and/or designing its website to meet users’ needs. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles; to do so, please send your request to YouTube.
Furthermore, we offer you the option of contacting us using the comment or chat function. In order to use this function, you have to be logged into your Google account. If you comment on our posts or send us a message via chat, this information will be saved by YouTube and is visible to anyone who opens the video.
Data are processed by Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG (German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Ac). You can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
For more information on YouTube and Google’s privacy policy, please visit:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ (Google privacy policy)
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-software (Google terms of services)
https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms&hl=en (YouTube Terms of Service)
We use services of Google Maps on this website to display interactive maps directly on the website, allowing you to use convenient features of the map function. These features are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. The use of Google Maps may result in the transmission of personal data to the servers of Google LLC in the United States. Google LLC has concluded standard contractual clauses, as approved by the European Commission, with us for the transmission of personal data to Google LLC based in the United States.
When you visit this website, Google receives information that you have accessed this subpage of our website. Your data will be transferred to Google regardless of whether you are signed into a Google user account or not. If you are signed into your Google account, your data will be linked directly to your account. If you do not wish to be linked to your Google profile, you have to log out of your Google account before viewing a map. Google stores your data as a user profile and uses that information for the purposes of advertising, market research, and/or designing its website to meet users’ needs. This type of analysis is carried out (even for users who are not logged in) in order to provide appropriate advertising in particular and in order to inform other users in the same social network of your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles; to do so, please send your request to Google.
Data are processed by Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG (German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Ac). You can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
For more information on Google Maps and Google’s privacy policy, please visit:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ (Google privacy policy)
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-software (Google terms of service)
We use Friendly Captcha (hereinafter “Friendly Captcha”) on our website. This service is provided by Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3-5, 82237 Wörthsee, Germany.
Friendly Captcha is used to check whether the data entered on this website (e.g., in a contact form) have been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, Friendly Captcha analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. Friendly Captcha uses various information for the analysis (e.g., anonymized IP address, referrer, visit time, etc.). For further information, please refer to: https://friendlycaptcha.com/en/legal/privacy-end-users/.
The data are saved and analyzed by virtue of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website against spam and other types of automated abuse.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Friendly Captcha GmbH in accordance with Art. 28(3) GDPR to ensure that Friendly Captcha GmbH protects the personal data of our customers and does not disclose any personal data to third parties.
The privacy statement of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG does not apply to applications, products, services, websites, or social media functions of third-party providers that can be reached through links we offer for information purposes. When using these links, you leave the website of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, resulting in the possibility that information about you may be collected or passed on by third parties. Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG has no influence whatsoever over the websites of third parties and makes no recommendations or warranties regarding these websites or their data protection practices. We therefore encourage you to read and review the privacy policies of any websites with which you interact very closely before allowing them to collect, process and use your personal data.
We kindly ask you to read the contents of our data privacy policy regularly. We update our privacy policy as required by any changes to how we process personal data. Please note that any addresses and contact information of companies and organizations indicated in this privacy policy may change over time. Please verify the information before making contact.
Version: April 2024
