Privacy Policy

The following privacy policy applies to the use of our online service
www.meteor-umformtechnik.de.

We attach great importance to data protection. The collection and processing of your personal data is carried out in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We collect and process your personal data in order to offer you the aforementioned portal. This policy describes how and for what purpose your data is collected and used, and what choices you have regarding your personal data.

By using this website, you consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your data in accordance with this privacy policy.

1. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for the collection, processing, and use of your personal data within the meaning of Article 4 No. 7 GDPR is:

Meteor Umformtechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Talstraße 54 - 56
D-98544 Zella-Mehlis

Telephone: +49 (0) 3682 / 89760
Fax: +49 (0) 3682 / 482882

E-mail: This email address is protected against spambots! JavaScript must be enabled to view it.
Internet: www.meteor-umformtechnik.de

Legally required data protection officer: We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Mr. Lars Janßen,

Mendritzki Holding GmbH & Co. KG
Herscheider Str. 102
D-58840 Plettenberg

Telephone: +49 (0) 2391 812 294, Email: This email address is protected against spambots! JavaScript must be enabled to view it.

If you wish to object to the collection, processing, or use of your data by us in accordance with these data protection provisions, either in general or for specific measures, you can address your objection to the data controller. You can save and print this privacy policy at any time.

2. General Use of the Website

2.1 Hosting
The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services, and technical maintenance services, which we use for the purpose of operating the website. In this context, we, or our hosting provider Pixel X eK, Braunschweig, process the inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, prospective customers, and visitors to this online service based on our legitimate interests in the efficient and secure provision of this online service pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR.

2.2 Access Data
We collect information about you when you use this website. We automatically collect information about your usage patterns and interactions with us, and we record data about your computer or mobile device. We collect, store, and use data about every access to our online services (so-called server log files).
Access data includes:

• Name and URL of the retrieved file
• Date and time of retrieval
• amount of data transferred
• Message indicating successful retrieval (HTTP response code)
• Browser type and browser version
• operating system
• Referrer URL (i.e., the previously visited page)
• Websites accessed by the user's system via our website
• User's Internet service provider
• IP address and the requesting provider

We use this log data without associating it with your identity or creating any other profile for statistical analysis for the purposes of operating, securing, and optimizing our online services, as well as for anonymously recording the number of visitors to our website (traffic) and the extent and nature of the use of our website and services. This data is also used for billing purposes to measure the number of clicks received from our partners. Based on this information, we can provide personalized and location-based content, analyze traffic, troubleshoot and resolve errors, and improve our services.

This also constitutes our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR.

We reserve the right to review the log data retrospectively if there is a legitimate suspicion of unlawful use based on concrete evidence. We store IP addresses in the log files for a limited period if this
is necessary for security purposes, for the provision of services, or for billing purposes, for example, when you use one of our services. After the order process is cancelled or payment is received, we delete the IP address if it is no longer required for security purposes. We also store IP addresses if we have concrete suspicion of a crime related to the use of our website. In addition, we store the date of your last visit (e.g., registration, login, clicking on links, etc.) as part of your account information.

2.3 Cookies
We use session cookies to optimize our online services. A session cookie is a small text file that is sent by the respective servers when you visit a website and is temporarily stored on your hard drive. This file contains a session ID, which allows different requests from your browser to be associated with the same session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. These cookies are deleted after you close your browser. They are used, for example, to allow you to use the shopping cart function across multiple pages.


Our legitimate interest in using cookies pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) GDPR lies in making our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure.

The following data and information are stored in the cookies:

• Login information
• Language settings
• entered search terms
• Information about the number of visits to our website and the use of individual functions of our website.

When a cookie is activated, it is assigned an identification number, and your personal data is not linked to this identification number. Your name, IP address, or similar data that would allow the cookie to be associated with you are not stored in the cookie. Using cookie technology, we only receive pseudonymized information, such as which pages of our shop were visited, which products were viewed, etc.

You can configure your browser to notify you before cookies are set and decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject cookies for specific cases or in general, or to block cookies entirely
. This may limit the functionality of the website.

2.4 Email Contact
When you contact us (e.g., via contact form or email), we store your information to process your request and in case of follow-up questions.

This also constitutes our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 f) GDPR.

We only store and use further personal data if you consent to this or if it is legally permissible without special consent.


2.5 Data Retention Period
Unless otherwise specified, we store personal data for approximately 5 weeks, after which the data is deleted or anonymized.

3. Processing of Inventory Data
We also process the inventory data described below.


3.1 Legal Basis and Data Retention Period
The legal basis for data processing according to the preceding sections is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 a), b) and f) GDPR. Our interests in data processing include, in particular, the initiation, conclusion and fulfillment of contracts, as well as direct marketing and
product information. Unless otherwise specified, we store personal data for approximately 5 weeks, as is necessary to fulfill the purposes pursued or as required by law.

4. Your Rights as a Data Subject
Under applicable law, you have various rights regarding your personal data. If you wish to exercise these rights, please send your request by email or post to the address specified in Section 1, clearly identifying yourself.
An overview of your rights is provided below.

4.1 Right to Confirmation and Access
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed. If this is the case, you have the right to request from us, free of charge, information about the personal data stored about you, along with a copy of this data. Furthermore, you have the right to the following information:

1. the purposes of processing;
2. the categories of personal data that are processed;
3. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
4. If possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored, or, if this is not possible, the criteria used to determine that duration;
5. the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing;
6. the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
7. If the personal data is not collected from you, all available information about the source of the data;
8. The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Article 22, paragraphs 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 you. If personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR relating to the transfer.

4.2 Right to rectification
You have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate personal data concerning you without undue delay. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

4.3 Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
Pursuant to Article 17(1) GDPR, you have the right to request that we erase personal data concerning you without undue delay, and we are obligated to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following
grounds applies:

1. The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
2. You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 a) GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
3. You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR.
4. The personal data was processed unlawfully.
5. The erasure of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which we are subject.
6. The personal data were collected in relation to information society services offered, in accordance with Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

If we have made the personal data public and are obliged to erase it pursuant to Article 17(1) GDPR, we will take reasonable steps, including technical measures, taking into account available technology and the cost of implementation, to inform controllers who are processing the personal data that you have requested the erasure of all links to, copies of, or replications of that personal data.

4.4 Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data if one of the following conditions applies:

1. You contest the accuracy of the personal data, for a period that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data
2. the processing is unlawful and you have refused to have your personal data erased and have instead requested the restriction of its use;
3. we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or
4. You have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, pending verification of whether our company's legitimate grounds override yours.

4.5 Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to another controller without
hindrance from us, provided that

1. the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a) GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 b) GDPR and
2. The processing is carried out using automated procedures. When exercising your right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, you have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller, where technically feasible.

4.6 Right to object
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. We will no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which
is carried out for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

4.7 Automated decisions including profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. No automated decision-making based on the collected personal data takes place.

4.8 Right to withdraw consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal data at any time.

4.9 Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of
personal data relating to you is unlawful.

5. Data security
We make every effort to ensure the security of your data within the framework of applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities.
Your personal data is transmitted to us in encrypted form. This applies to your orders and also to the customer login. We use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption system; however, we would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g., when communicating by email) can have security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
To secure your data, we maintain technical and organizational security measures in accordance with Article 32 GDPR, which we continuously adapt to the state of the art.
We also do not guarantee that our services will be available at all times; disruptions, interruptions, or outages cannot be ruled out. The servers we use are regularly and carefully backed up.

6. Disclosure of Data to Third Parties; No Data Transfer to Non-EU Countries.
As a general rule, we only use your personal data within our company.
If and to the extent that we engage third parties in the performance of contracts (such as logistics service providers), these third parties receive personal data only to the extent that the transfer is necessary for the respective service.
In the event that we outsource certain parts of data processing ("contract processing"), we contractually obligate the processors
to use personal data only in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws and to guarantee the protection of the rights of the data subject.
Data transfers to entities or persons outside the EU, other than in the cases mentioned in section 2 of this statement, do not take place and are not planned.