RMG Messtechnik GmbH - Privacy policy

Information collected directly from you. In general, you can visit RMG's websites without providing any personal information. However, on certain pages, we may ask you for personal information in order to provide a specific service or to complete a transaction you have requested. The personal information we collect may include the following:

Information collected directly from you. In general, you can visit RMG's web sites without providing any personal information. However, on certain pages, we may ask you for personal information in order to provide a particular service or to complete a transaction you have requested. The personal information we collect may include the following:

• Contact information, such as name, title, name of your company/organisation, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers and postal address;
• information about your company and your position;
• your preferences for e-mail marketing;
• financial information (including credit card or account information);
• information about your nationality and place of residence which allows us to determine whether you are entitled to receive information about certain technologies under certain export control regulations;
• Information that is used to customize and facilitate your use of our websites, including login
• and technical data;
• enquiries about our products and services and orders thereof;
• information that helps us identify the products and services that best meet your needs;
• registration information for events;
• Feedback about our websites and our products and services in general

You do not have to provide any of this information, but in this case we may not be able to provide the service you have requested or complete the transaction you have requested.

Automatically collected information. We collect information about your visit to our websites. This includes the number of pages you view, the number of bytes transferred, the links you click, the material you view, and other actions taken on RMG sites. On sites that you visit by entering a user ID, we may link this information to your identity in order to determine your potential interest in our products and services. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to all websites you visit. This information includes your IP address, browser type, functionality and language, operating system, date and time you access the site and the website from which you accessed our site. This information is not linked to your identity.

Cookies are small files that websites store on your hard drive or in the memory of your browser. Cookies enable us to record the number of your visits to the site, track the number of visitors to the site, determine and analyze how users use our sites (including the effectiveness of online advertising), record information you provide, such as your preferences, and store technical data useful for your interactions with our sites. We may use session cookies (cookies that are deleted when the browser session is closed) to store your user ID, certain elements of your user profile or other data useful for session management, to facilitate navigation on our websites (particularly in connection with information searches and placing orders). You have the option of accepting or rejecting cookies. Most web browsers accept cookies. However, you can usually modify your browser settings to block cookies or to be notified when a cookie is placed on your computer. If you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of the features on RMG web sites or other web sites. Our sites may contain electronic images called web beacons (sometimes referred to as "single-pixel gifs") that allow us to determine the number of users for each page. RMG may use Web beacons in promotional e-mails or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and actions taken.

You have the possibility to change your cookie settings at any time and to withdraw your consent at a later date. Here you can agree to the use of cookies or reject them.

Except as set out below, information that you have provided to RMG through our web sites will not be shared with companies outside of RMG, its subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission.

Sharing Information with Service Providers. RMG hires other companies to perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, sending information, processing transactions, and analyzing our websites. We provide these companies only with the information they need to deliver the service in question. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using this information for any other purpose.

Sharing Information with Distributors. In the course of processing a request received from you, we may share your personal information with companies that distribute our products. In such cases, we will only provide those companies with the information they need to process your request. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using this information for any other purpose. In some cases, we may ask you for permission to share your information with distributors for marketing purposes beyond the processing of your inquiry. However, we will only share your personal information for such marketing purposes if you have given us your express permission to do so.

Disclosure in connection with transactions. In connection with certain transactions, we may share your personal information, or a portion thereof, with financial institutions, government agencies, freight carriers, or postal authorities involved in fulfilling your order.

Passing on information in connection with acquisitions or divestments. Circumstances may arise in which RMG decides, for strategic or other business reasons, to sell, acquire, merge or otherwise reorganize business interests in certain countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers or receiving it from sellers. It is RMG's practice to seek appropriate privacy protection in such cases.

Passing on information for other reasons. We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations or requests, to protect our rights or property, or in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of any person.

RMG is very concerned about the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, or improper disclosure. For example, your personal information is stored on computer systems with limited access that are located in facilities with strict access controls. When you log on to one of our sites, request information specific to you or your business, or conduct a commercial transaction, we use proven security technologies such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to encrypt your information for transmission over the Internet. For sites where you log on, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your password and for not disclosing this information to any third party. When you navigate a site to which you have logged on, or when you move from one site to another site with the same login mechanism, we verify your identity by means of an encrypted cookie placed on your computer.

In some cases, you can view and, if necessary, change the personal information provided through our websites by going to the page where you originally provided the information. In all cases, it is possible to review and change your personal information collected through our websites or request RMG to stop using it by completing our contact form and submitting a request. We may take certain steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information. You can help us keep your information up to date by notifying us of any changes to your mailing address, telephone number, or e-mail address.

Personal information collected on our websites may be provided to the United States and any other country in which RMG, its affiliates, subsidiaries or contractors maintain facilities. We may also store and process the data there. RMG is committed to protecting your privacy, even though the laws protecting personal data may differ in these countries from those in your own country. By using our websites and submitting your data, you agree that your data may also be transferred to another country.

RMG does not knowingly collect information from children. The targeted audiences of its websites where information is collected are not children.

Our Web sites may contain links to other Web sites, such as RMG distributors and affiliated sales companies, professional associations and government agencies, and publications. We also maintain links to third-party providers who host, maintain and operate online training curricula. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of other sites.

Carina Quast

Ingenieurbüro Quast

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our handling of your personal data, please feel free to contact us under Contact. We will immediately deal with the matter you have raised and will endeavour to find a satisfactory solution.

RMG may update this privacy policy at irregular intervals. In this case, the date of the last update at the beginning and end of this document will also be adjusted accordingly. We will seek your consent for any updates to this Privacy Policy that materially expand the sharing or use of your personal information in ways not disclosed in this Privacy Policy at the time of collection.