Privacy policy

1. General information about data processing

Data protection:

The protection of your personal information is very important to us. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and this Privacy Policy. For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as data of the contact form that you send to us, the site www.microcentric.de uses an SSL resp. TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by changing the address line of the browser from "http: //" to "https: //" and the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us can not be read by third parties.

If you use this website or you are in a business relationship with us, various personal data are collected. Personal data is nformation that personally identifies you, e.g. Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or even your IP address. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for.

We expressly point out that the transmission of data on the Internet (for example, when communicating by e-mail) may have security vulnerabilities.

Name and address of the responsible person:

MicroCentric GmbH
Ringstrasse 134
70839 Gerlingen
Deutschland Tel.: 07156 17819 0
E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: www.microcentric.de

Questions or comments:

If you have any questions or comments regarding the privacy of MicroCentric, please contact us by e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2. Capture of data

Contact form:

If you send us inquiries via the contact form on the website, your information from the form including the contact details you provided there will be stored for processing the request and in case of follow-up questions (according to Art. 6 (1a) GDPR). The following fields are defined as mandatory fields:

  • Title
  • Surname
  • E-mail Address

Before sending the data, we hereby expressly ask for your consent to the processing of data.

At cooperation with customers, prospects, suppliers:

In this context, we create master data sets in our ERP system and in particular store the following data (in accordance with Art 6 (1b) or (1f) of the GDPR):

  • Company name
  • Address
  • Phone
  • E-mail address
  • Contact details for contact persons
  • Customer or supplier number
  • Delivery, payment and shipping conditions

These personal data from you are collected primarily for the following purposes:

  • Initial business contact
  • Offering products and services
  • Conclusion and fulfillment of contracts
  • Improvement of the customer or supplier relationship

Our legitimate interest stems from our quest to promote and sell MicroCentric products and services. You are not obliged to provide your personal information. Without this data, however, we can not conclude contracts with you.

Cookies:

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies (according to Art. 6 (1f) GDPR). Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies", e.g. for language setting. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally exclude and enable the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Server log files:

The website operator or website provider collects data about access to the site and saves it as "server log files" (according to Art. 6 (1f) GDPR). The following data is logged in this way:

  • Visited website
  • Time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you came to the page
  • Used browser type and version
  • Used Operating system
  • Used IP address

The data collected are for statistical purposes only and to improve the website. A merge of this data with other data sources will not be done. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively, if we become aware of specific indications for illegal use.

3. Duration of storage of personal data

Your data will be stored after collection only for as long as the respective processing purpose requires. In this context, commercial and tax retention periods (6 or 10 years after the end of the fiscal year) in the execution of contracts must be observed.

4. Disclosure of data

There is no disclosure of data unless it is necessary for the execution of contracts or due to legal obligations. The following are possible reasons for sharing data:

  • Transmission of address data to freight and parcel service providers for the execution of contracts
  • Transmission of bank data to banks for the settlement of contracts
  • Transmission of data to the tax office for tax obligations
  • Submission of data to our tax advisor for commercial and tax obligations

5. Your rights in connection with the data collection

Revocation of your consent to data processing:

Some data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke any consent given to us for data processing at any time (Art. 21 GDPR). An informal message by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out on the basis of your consent until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to information:

Within the framework of the applicable legal provision (Art. 15 GDPR) you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing at any time.

Right to rectification, deletion, limitation of processing:

On the basis of the legal provisions (Articles 16 to 18 GDPR), you have the right to free correction, deletion or restriction of the processing of this data.

Right to data portability:

On the basis of the legal provision (article 20 of the GDPR) you have the right to hand over to us data that we process on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract in a standard, machine-readable format.

Right to complain to a supervisory authority:

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights are violated in any other way, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. This can be with the supervisory authority responsible for your place of work, for a list see Federal Commissioner for data protection: www.bfdi.bund.de.

Or you contact the supervisory authority responsible for us, country representative for data protection Baden-Württemberg: www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

6. Plugins und Tools

Google Maps:

This site uses the mapping service Google Maps via an API. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and an easy findability of the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1 f) GDPR.

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.