Privacy notice

Data protection information for our business partners can be downloaded here (as of July 2024)

Data protection information for our website:

This website privacy notice describes how Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH, as the legal entity responsible for the processing of your personal data (data controller), processes the personal data and other information of users ("you" or "your"), in particular within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), when you use the websites www.fire-protectors.com , www.wolman.de and www.wolman-gmbh.de.

1. Categories of personal data, processing purposes, legal basis and source

a. Personal data actively provided by you

Below you will find information on the processing of your data that you have actively provided to us.

aa. Newsletter Registration

If you register for the newsletter and agree to receive the newsletter and the processing of your e-mail address for this purpose, you will be asked to provide your e-mail address. We will use your e-mail address to send you regular newsletters. Providing your e-mail address is voluntary. However, you will not receive any newsletters without providing your e-mail address. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data for sending newsletters is consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). To prove your consent, we also store your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c in conjunction with Art. 5 para. 1 lit. a, para. 2, Art. 7 para. 1 (fulfilment of a legal obligation) and on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In doing so, we pursue the legitimate interest of being able to prove that consent has been given.

bb. Contact Form

If you use our contact form, you can enter the following personal data about yourself: Company, first and last name, position, postal address, country, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address and the content of your message. Only the company, first and last name, country, telephone number and e-mail address are mandatory details (see * marking) that we require in order to process your contact enquiry. We cannot process your enquiry without this personal data. The other details are voluntary information. The purpose of processing your data is to receive and process enquiries, complaints and other feedback. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in pursuing the aforementioned purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). We may also be obliged to disclose your data at the request of public authorities (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR).

b. Other passively recorded information:

In addition to the personal data that you actively provide, further information is automatically collected, processed and stored when you access the website - possibly for technical reasons.

aa. Provision of our website and creation of server log files

The following personal data is processed for the purpose of providing our website: Specific information about the device used to access the website, including model, operating system, IP address, language, operator information and similar information.

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the provision of the website.

We process your personal data for the purposes of statistical analysis, improving the website, system security (e.g. preventing misuse) and error diagnosis. In doing so, we record information about each of your accesses to the server on which this website is located (so-called server log files). Your personal data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, your operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider.

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the pursuit of the stated purpose. If it is necessary to disclose your personal data to government authorities at their request, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

The following recipients may have access to your personal data Our hosting provider, internal departments, external service providers for technical support, government agencies on request.

bb. Use of cookies and similar technologies

We also use cookies and similar technologies on the website. Cookies are small files that can be stored on your device by a website. When you visit our website, we inform you about how we use cookies via our cookie banner. The cookie banner and the website distinguish the respective cookies according to their type and implement an "opt-in" consent (consent by confirmation) if this is required by law. Cookies that require opt-in consent are disabled on our website until you give your prior and explicit consent.

Some cookies are always activated because they are necessary for the operation and functioning of the website. The legal basis for these cookies is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in the proper functioning of the website). You are therefore not asked to give your consent to the activation of these cookies.

Other cookies, such as analytics or performance measurement cookies, are used to collect information about how you interact with our website and allow us to recognise you

We use this information to optimise and customise your browsing experience, as well as for analysis and metrics of our visitors both on this website and in other media. Our cookie banner offers you the option of giving or refusing your consent to the activation of these cookies. The legal basis for these cookies is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

If you refuse the use of cookies for purposes other than just the functioning of this website, your information will not be tracked when you visit this website. A single cookie will then be used in your browser to save your preference not to be tracked.

For more information, please see our cookie notice, which is available in the Privacy settings at the bottom of our website and in our cookie notice.

2. Sale of personal data

Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH does not sell personal data.

3. Recipient

In principle, only those departments within our company and the employees working there have access to your personal data that absolutely require such access to fulfil their functions or tasks.

We only pass on your personal data to external recipients if there is a legal justification for doing so or if you have consented to this. External recipients may be:

a. Transfer to service provider

Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH uses external service providers who act as processors for Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH to provide certain services to Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH, such as our marketing and communications agency (MAGENTA KOMMUNIKATION, DESIGN UND NEUE MEDIEN GMBH & CO. KG, Keplerstraße 42, 68165 Mannheim, Germany) and our website host (Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG, Königsberger Straße 4-6, 32339 Espelkamp, Germany).

In providing such services, the external service providers may have access to and/or may process your personal data.

These external service providers are subject to contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect personal data and to process personal data only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

b. Other recipients

Some of our colleagues who administer the Website and provide IT services may be employees of our group companies. In managing the website, our colleagues may have access to and/or process your personal data. In these cases, the respective group company acts as our processor.

The respective transfer of your personal data is based on our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests are the transfer of personal data within the group of companies for internal administrative and support purposes. Access is limited to employees who only need to have the necessary knowledge.

Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH may also transfer your personal data to law enforcement agencies, government authorities, legal advisors and external consultants in accordance with applicable data protection laws. The legal basis for such processing is compliance with a legal obligation to which Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH is subject (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR) or legitimate interests, such as the exercise or defence of legal claims (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

4. Third Country Transfers

Some of the recipients to whom personal data is transferred may be located in third countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area. For some countries in which recipients are located, adequacy decisions have been issued by the EU Commission. The transfer of data to Switzerland is legitimised on the basis of an adequacy decision by the EU Commission. A copy of the decision can be viewed at: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/. Where recipients are located in third countries without an adequacy decision by the EU Commission, Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH takes the necessary measures to ensure that such transfers are adequately protected in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations (e.g. by implementing EU standard contractual clauses). You can request a copy of the specific safeguards to ensure an adequate level of data protection using the contact details provided in section 7.

5. What rights do you have and how can you assert your rights?

If you have given your consent, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal has no effect on the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal of consent.

Under applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to access, rectification of your personal data, erasure of your personal data, restriction of processing of your personal data, data portability and the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Please note that these rights may be restricted under applicable national data protection law.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. To exercise your rights, please contact us as indicated in section 7. Or use the specific web form "Exercising your data protection rights" available on the Company's website.

Further information on these rights can be found in Appendix I.

6. How long do we store your personal data?

Your personal data will be retained for as long as necessary to provide the requested services. In addition, we will delete your personal data when Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH no longer needs to use it to fulfil contractual or legal obligations or the data is no longer necessary for our legitimate interests and no other legal basis for processing the data applies. We will remove it from our systems and records unless we need to retain your data, including personal data, to fulfil legal or regulatory obligations to which Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH is subject, e.g. statutory retention periods.

7. Data protection for minors

This website is intended for use by persons at least 18 years of age. We do not seek to collect information about persons under the age of 18.

Persons under the age of 18 should not submit or post any information to the Website. If such a person submits personal information via the Website, we will delete that information as soon as we are made aware of that person's age and will not process the information thereafter.

8. Contact details

If you have any concerns or questions about the website, please contact us as follows:

Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH
Dr.-Wolman-Strasse 31 – 33
76547 Sinzheim
E-Mail: info@wolman.de

If you have any questions about data protection, please contact our data protection officer Mr Kanthaus at datenschutz@de.sika.com.

Appendix I: Your rights

(a) Right of access: You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed and, where that is the case, to request information about the processing of your personal data. The information to be provided includes, inter alia, the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other persons may restrict your right of access.
You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data being processed.
Your requests are generally free of charge. If your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs, in particular due to the repetition rate.

(b) Right to rectification: You have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purpose of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

(c) Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data and we may be obliged to delete this personal data.

(d) Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. In this case, the relevant data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes.

(e) Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us.

(f) Right to lodge a complaint: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law, you can also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the EU member state or federal state of your habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged violation you are complaining about. This also applies to the supervisory authority responsible for us: The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg, Königstraße 10a, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany.

(g) Revocation of your consent: If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your data until you withdraw your consent.

(h) Right to object: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of your personal data by us which is based on point (f) of Art. 6 (1) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. In the event of an objection, the controller will no longer process the personal data unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you also have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case, your personal data will no longer be processed by us for such purposes.

Appendix II: Social Media-Channels

We provide links to the various social media channels on our website to promote our business and advertise our products.

Depending on the social media channel and service used, we may have access to personal data provided by you, such as personal data available on your social media profile.

1. Social-Media-Channels

a. LinkedIn

Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH uses services of the provider

• LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland for users residing in the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland

LinkedIn uses advertising cookies, which you can deactivate via the following link:
https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

You can find more information about LinkedIn's privacy policy at:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

aa. Page-Insights

We use the “Page Insights” functionality of our LinkedIn company page as joint controllers with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (contact the data protection officer). Only statistical data on usage is made available to us for the jointly responsible Page Insights service. We process this data to optimize our LinkedIn company page with regard to user-friendliness and the further development of our services and products. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). In doing so, we pursue the legitimate interest of making our LinkedIn company page more user-friendly and further developing our services and products. In addition to the platform provider, the recipients of your data are the responsible employees and external agencies for managing our profile, such as our marketing and communications agency (MAGENTA KOMMUNIKATION, DESIGN UND NEUE MEDIEN GMBH & CO. KG, Keplerstraße 42, 68165 Mannheim, Germany) and our website host (Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG, Königsberger Straße 4-6, 32339 Espelkamp, Germany).

With regard to this service, we have concluded a contract with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, which you can view here. You can access the LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company's privacy policy here: Privacy Policy

You can assert your rights as a data subject both against us (see section 2) and directly against LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company. The LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company will be able to respond more quickly with regard to the processes for which it is responsible, which is why we recommend that you contact it directly.

LinkedIn also processes personal data in connection with your visit to our company profile. In this case, the processing is carried out under the sole responsibility of LinkedIn and without our knowledge. LinkedIn provides information on its data processing at de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Please note that LinkedIn processes your personal data when you visit our company profile even if you do not have a user account or are not logged in.

bb. Interaction (use of the LinkedIn functions)

We process the following categories of data from you if you wish to contact us via our LinkedIn page: Profile name, profile picture, “Like” information, sharing a post, “Follower” request and status, comment, comment period, content of the message, date and time of the message. You can voluntarily provide further personal data. Data processing for the purpose of contacting us and responding to your request is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). In doing so, we pursue the legitimate interest of further developing our services and products as well as effective public communication for brand building. In addition to the platform provider, the recipients of your data are the responsible Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH employees and external agencies for managing our profile. All personal data collected in connection with your request will be deleted after your request has been processed, unless the storage is necessary for the documentation of other processes (e.g. for a later conclusion of a contract).

b. YouTube

Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH uses services of the provider

• Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, For users residing in the European Economic Area or Switzerland

The following information relates to the processing of your personal data in connection with your visit to our YouTube channel [@wolman4544 and @fireprotectors6130] or access to our YouTube videos published via this channel, insofar as this processing is carried out under our sole responsibility.

We process the following categories of data from you when you interact with us via our YouTube channel: Profile name, profile picture, “Like”/“Dislike” indication, content and time of a comment, “Subscribe to channel” indication, sharing a video. Data processing is carried out for the purpose of interacting with visitors, receiving and processing inquiries, complaints and other feedback. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). In doing so, we pursue the legitimate interest of further developing our services and products, controlling and improving our business processes, business analyses, public communication for branding and processing messages. The recipients of your data are the responsible Wolman Wood and Fire Protection GmbH employees and external agencies for managing our profile. All personal data collected in connection with your request will be deleted after your request has been processed, unless the storage is necessary for the documentation of other processes (e.g. for a later conclusion of a contract).

You can find further information on the data protection guidelines for YouTube at
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Please note that Google processes your personal data when you visit our company profile even if you do not have a user account or are not logged in.