This privacy policy provides information about the processing of your personal data when you use our website under the domain fuchsgruppe.com. Personal data is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable person (i.e. in particular you as a visitor to the website), e.g. name, IP address, email addresses, user behaviour. When using our website, personal data such as information about your use of our website may be processed. This includes, for example, connection data or sources accessed by you. This information is usually collected through the use of log files and cookies.
The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”) is
DF World of Spices GmbH
Dieter-Fuchs-Straße 10
49201 Dissen a.T.W.,
Germany, Phone: +49 (0) 5421 309-0,
E-mail: info@fuchsgruppe.com (see our imprint)
(hereinafter “World of Spices” or “we“)
In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and contracted by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored. If we use contracted service providers, we will inform you in detail below about the respective processes.
You can reach our data protection officer under
DF World of Spices GmbH
Data protection officer
Dieter-Fuchs-Straße 10
49201 Dissen a.T.W.,
E-mail: datenschutz@fuchs.de
Every data subject can contact our data protection officer directly at any time with any questions or suggestions regarding data protection.
(a) Right of access, Art. 15 GDPR
You can comprehensive request about your personal data and the circumstances of the processing, such as the purposes for which this data is processed or the duration of storage.information
(b) Right to rectification Art. 16 GDPR
You can request that incorrect data concerning you be corrected.
(c) Right to erasure of data, Art. 17 GDPR
You can request that we delete the data relating to your person if this data is no longer required for legal reasons or may no longer be processed.
(d) Right to restriction of processing, Art. 18 GDPR
You may request a restriction of processing for the period required to verify the accuracy of the requested data if the accuracy of the data is disputed between you and us. Furthermore, if you have an existing right to erasure, you may request restricted processing instead of erasure. Furthermore, if the data is no longer required for the purposes we pursue, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and if the successful exercise of an objection is still in dispute between us and you.
(e) Right to object to the processing, Art. 21 GDPR
If personal data is processed for the performance of tasks carried out in the public interest (Art. 6 (1) 1 letter e) GDPR) or to safeguard legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (1) letter f) GDPR), you can object to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of an objection, we must refrain from any further processing of your data for the aforementioned purposes, unless there are compelling, legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
(f) Right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR
You can request to receive the data concerning you in a commonly used, machine-readable format from us or to have it transmitted to another controller.
(g) Right not to be subject to an automated decision-making, including profiling, Art. 22 GDPR
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, if this has legal implications for you or similarly affects you.
An automated decision is permitted in exceptional cases if you have either (i) given your explicit prior consent or (ii) the decision is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between you and us or (iii) applicable legal provisions permit this and these provisions contain appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests.
In cases (i) and (ii), we will take appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests. This includes that you can explain your point of view, contest the automated decision and request a personal consultation with one of our employees.
Note: No automated decisions are made on this website.
(h) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.
Of course, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time if you believe that our processing of data concerning you is in breach of the GDPR.
The supervisory authority responsible for World of Spices is:
The State Data Protection Officer for Lower Saxony
E-mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de
Telephone number: +49 511 120 4500
Fax number: +49 511 120 4599
Postal address: P.O. Box 221, 30002 Hanover
Visitor address: Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hanover
You can also contact any other data protection supervisory authority.
We take technical and organisational precautions on our websites to protect personal data stored by us from access by third parties, loss or misuse and to enable secure data transfer. We would like to point out that, due to the structure of the internet and e-mail transmission, unwanted access by third parties may occur during the transmission of information. It is therefore also your responsibility to protect your data against misuse by means of encryption or other methods. Our websites contain links to other websites of other providers. We are not responsible for the content and data processing of these other websites.
If you only use the website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server.
World of Spices requires the data mentioned in Section 6 of this Privacy Policy to be processed to ensure the long-term functionality and security of our website’s information technology systems. We also use the data to provide you with the website in the language of your choice and to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack. The legal basis for the processing of this data is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR“) based on our legitimate interest in providing you with a functional and user-friendly website. You can object to the processing at any time with effect for the future, see Section 4 (e) of this Privacy Policy.
The data in accordance with Section 6 of this Privacy Policy will be processed and stored for as long as is necessary to fulfil the aforementioned purposes. If data is required to provide the website, the requirement ceases when the respective session has ended. Your data will then be automatically deleted.
If the data is stored in log files, deletion usually takes place after seven (7) days at the latest. However, if the data is stored further, your IP address will be deleted or anonymised in this case, so that it is no longer possible to assign it to the accessing internet connection. The collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage of data in log files is essential for the operation of the website. Consequently, there is no possibility for you to object.
Insofar as we evaluate user behaviour on our website beyond this and in a legally permissible manner without express consent, we use only anonymised data that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual persons in order to improve the usability of the website and the user experience for our visitors.
No products can be ordered on this website. If you use the contact form to request our products or place an order via another website, or submit a complaint about the purchased products via this website, the legal basis for processing the customer request is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter a) GDPR. We will inform you about the data processing related to the purchase of the products in the privacy policy of the other websites.
If you enter data in the input mask provided for the contact form, this data will be transmitted to us and processed by us. This concerns the following data: subject, company, first name, last name, street, house number, postcode, city, e-mail address, telephone number or mobile phone number, as well as the message you have entered.
For other enquiries from you via e-mail, the legal basis for the above-mentioned processing is Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is communicating with existing and potential customers and offering customer service for the purpose of customer acquisition and retention.
We generally process personal data of the data subject for the period required to achieve the purpose of storage or for the period required by law. If the storage purpose no longer applies or if the prescribed storage period ends, the personal data is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with the statutory provisions. Detailed information on deletion periods can be found in the respective descriptions of the individual data processing operations.
Legal obligations include in particular the retention periods under the German Commercial Code (hereinafter “HGB”) or the German Fiscal Code (hereinafter “AO”) as well as the collection of evidence within the framework of the statutory limitation periods. According to the statute of limitations of the German Civil Code (hereinafter “BGB”), these limitation periods can be up to 30 years in some cases, the regular limitation period is three years.
The sole purpose of this website is to present the Fuchs Group. Orders for products or the provision of other services are made via other websites. You will find information about data processing in the context of ordering products or other services in the privacy policies of the other websites.
We use so-called “cookies” on our website. These are text files that are stored in or by your internet browser on your computer system when you visit our website. This text file contains an individual character string that can be used to identify your internet browser the next time you visit the website. These are stored on your computer and the data is transmitted from your computer to our website. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time and automatically by making the appropriate settings in your internet browser.
In the following sections “necessary cookies” (Section II.3) and “statistical cookies” (Section II.2), we explain in detail whether a World of Spices cookie (first-party cookie) or a third-party cookie (third-party cookie) is set, for what purpose the data is processed, what data is processed, whether data is transferred to a third country, the storage period of the cookie and the legal basis for setting the cookies and subsequent processing.
We only set cookies – except for necessary cookies -– with your express consent. When you visit our website for the first time, you can consent to the use of all “statistics cookies” (Section II.2) either by clicking on “I accept all” or by selecting your cookie settings individually by clicking on “Individual data protection preferences“. Here you can select which cookie category you would like to activate by clicking on the corresponding checkbox. You can activate or deactivate all cookies within a category using a slider. You can revoke your consent at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link in the page footer. You can also use our website without statistical cookies to their full extent. If you wish to deactivate the use of individual cookie categories and revoke your consent, you can do so by subsequently deactivating the category using the slider.
Statistical cookies allow us to analyse and evaluate your surfing behaviour. We process data on surfing behaviour to create anonymised statistical evaluations, reports and analyses that help us optimise our processes and workflows.
We use necessary cookies on our website. These are cookies that are used to enable basic functions of the website as well as those that are essential for a normal visit to the website.
We use the external consent management tool “borlabs cookie” from Borlabs GmbH, Hamburger Str. 11, 22083 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter “Borlabs”), to store the cookie settings you selected when you entered our website. The “borlabs cookie” is stored for 60 days.
The following data is stored in borlabs cookie:
The information generated by borlabs cookie is not used to personally identify the user of this website and is not passed on to Borlabs.
If you do not consent to the use of non-essential functions and cookies, this decision is documented in your browser via a cookie. As a result, only cookies that are technically necessary for the error-free and optimised provision of the website are provided.
The legal basis for the use of the cookie called “borlabs cookie” is our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 letter f) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25 (2) TDDDG, to be able to display the necessary contents of the website to you individually and correctly (the purpose is to ensure the data protection-compliant use of cookies on our website).
Please note that if you delete all of your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and may need to be reactivated by you.
This website uses the open-source analysis service Matomo, InnoCraft Limited, 7 Waterloo Quay, PO625, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand (hereinafter “Matomo”), for tracking, which anonymises your IP address. Matomo uses cookies for this purpose.
The purpose of using the tool is to compile statistics about visits to our website. This includes information such as language settings, timestamps, drop-out rates, the browser and its plug-ins used, the search engine and search terms used, and the IP address.
The information about visits to our website is not shared with third parties. Anonymised data is excluded from this.
The legal basis for the data processing described is your consent, Art. 6 (1) 1 letter a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 25 (1) 1 Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (hereinafter “TDDDG”), which we request from you when you access the website and which we store for a maximum of 13 months.
You can withdraw your consent at any time without this affecting the permissibility of processing up to the time of withdrawal. Once you have given your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future deactivating the cookie in the cookie settings.
Below you will find a detailed overview of the cookies we use, which category of cookies they are, which provider they are from, which data is processed for which purpose, whether there is a third country transfer, and how long they are stored.
Necessary (2) |
Name | Provider | Purpose | Processed Data | Third country transfer | Procedure | Type |
borlabs-cookie | Borlabs | Stores consent information for service groups and individual services | Consent preferences | No | 60 days | HTTP Cookie |
wp-wpml_current_language | WordPress | Saves the current language. This cookie is activated by default on websites that use the language filtering function for AJAX operations. | Language setting | No | 1 day | HTTP Cookie |
Statistics (2) |
Name | Provider | Purpose | Processed Data | Third country transfer | Procedure | Type |
‘_pk_ses.*.* | Matomo | Session analysis | Number of page views during the session, timestamp, referral data | No | 30 minutes | HTTP Cookie |
_pk_id.*.* | Matomo | Identification of returning visitors and their interactions over several sessions | Anonymised: Visitor ID, timestamp, number of previous visits to the website, referral data | No | 13 months | HTTP Cookie |
