1. Information on the collection of personal data
The protection of your privacy when using our web sites is very important to us. We therefore use your personal data in accordance with the legal provisions on data protection. Personal data are all data that can be personally related to you, e. g. your name, address, e-mail address, user behaviour. In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data.
The responsible party in accordance with art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
Rail Power Systems GmbH, Garmischer Str. 35, 81373 München, Germany.
You can contact the data protection officer of Rail Power Systems GmbH at datenschutz@rail-ps.com or at our postal address with the addition "der Datenschutzbeauftragte".
If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail below about the respective procedures. We will also mention the defined criteria of the storage period.
If you are under the age of 16, please obtain the permission of a parent/guardian before providing us with any personal information.
1. Stability and security of the web site
In principle, you can use our web site without telling us who you are. If you do not register or provide us with any information in any other way, we will only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. These following data are technically necessary for us and ensure the stability and security of the web site (the legal basis is art. 6 (1.1) lit. f GDPR – legitimate interest):
2. General information about the use of cookies
This web site does not use cookies.
3. Use of Matomo
We use Matomo (formerly Piwik) for web analytics, a service of InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, NZBN 6106769, ("Matomo"). The protection of your data is important to us, which is why we have also configured Matomo in such a way that your IP address is only recorded in abbreviated form.
No cookies are used for web analysis with Matomo. Instead, your IP address is anonymised immediately after collection, so that no conclusions can be drawn about you. This specifically means that the IP address is shortened before it is stored and processed. This rules out any unambiguous identification of web site visitors.
The processing of data takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR in the anonymised analysis of user behaviour in order to optimise and improve our web site.
You have the option of objecting to Matomo's anonymous data collection at any time. You can do this by activating the "Do Not Track” setting in your browser. Matomo will then no longer record your visits.
Further information about Matomo's terms of use and data protection regulations can be found at: https://matomo.org/privacy/
4. Contact by e-mail, contact form
When you contact us by e-mail or via the contact form, the personal data you provide, such as your e-mail address, will be processed to respond to your request.
We process the information used to contact you on the basis of art. 6 (1.1) lit. b GDPR – to fulfil a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures, and, if necessary, on the basis of art. 6 (1.1) lit. f GDPR – legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest is to answer your concerns.
We will delete the data arising in this context when the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are any statutory retention obligations. If there are other legal reasons for longer storage, we will retain the data until these legal reasons expire.
We have various appearances on what are referred to as social media platforms. This appearances involve with the following providers:
1. LinkedIn
From LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
2. Xing
From New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, tel.: +49 40 419 131-0, fax: +49 40 419 131-11, e-mail: info@xing.com
3. YouTube
From Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
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4. Vimeo
Vimeo.com, Inc., 330 West 34th Street, 10th Floor, New York, New York 10001, USA
5. Kununu
From New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, tel.: +49 40 419 131-0, fax: +49 40 419 131-11, e-mail: info@xing.com
6. Instagram
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland
7. Facebook
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland
Under the provisions of the GDPR, you can assert the following rights against us:
Right to information in accordance with art. 15 of the GDPR
Right to rectification in accordance with art. 16 of the GDPR
Right to restriction of processing in accordance with art. 18 of the GDPR
Right to deletion / right to be forgotten in accordance with art. 17 of the GDPR: Under certain circumstances, legal provisions, in particular with regard to data for billing and accounting purposes, may prevent deletion.
Right to data portability in accordance with art. 20 of the GDPR
Right to object according to art. 21 of the GDPR
If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time, with future effect. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of consent until revocation will remain unaffected.
To assert one of your rights listed above or to contact our data protection officer, you can always use the contact details listed under 1).
If you believe that we are processing your personal data in an inadmissible manner, please also contact us using the contact details mentioned under 1).
You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority of your choice.
The criterion for the duration of the storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. At the end of this period, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted if they are no longer necessary for the fulfilment or initiation of the contract and no legal reasons allow a longer storage.
We process your data exclusively in Germany.
We will pass on your personal data only to bodies that need your data to fulfil our tasks. This may require service providers to support us. In doing so, we will comply with the data protection regulations. Your personal data may be passed on to the following recipients in particular:
Insofar as we forward data to our service providers within the scope of the services described here, they are bound by contractual requirements with us on the subject of data protection in addition to the mandatory statutory provisions. We take security measures, which we continuously optimise in accordance with technical and legal developments, to protect your data as best as possible against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised third parties.
Our online offer contains links to other web sites. However, this privacy policy does not extend to other providers. We have no influence on their operators' compliance with data protection regulations and therefore assume no responsibility if the information provided there is not correct, up-to-date and complete. The RPS website may contain hyperlinks to web sites that are the property of third parties and are operated by third parties. These third-party websites have their own privacy policies, they probably use cookies and we recommend you to check them. The policies of these websites regulate the use of the personal data you transmit when visiting the web site in question, which can also be retrieved by means of cookies.
If you have any questions or comments on this privacy and cookie policy, please contact us using the contact details of the responsible party provided in this statement (see section 1). For further information and contact details, please refer to our imprint.
Date: July 2024
