Data Protection

K & W Drive Systems appreciates your interest in our company. We take the protection of your personal data seriously, and the protection of your privacy when processing personal data is an important concern for us. We process personal data collected during visits to our websites in accordance with data protection regulations. 

When you visit one of our websites (kwds.at, kwds.cz, kwds.ro), personal information is used. Personal data is information that can be assigned to your person. This includes, for example, information such as name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. In addition, when visiting our website, for technical reasons additional data automatically accumulates, such as: the IP address your Internet Access Provider assigns to your computer when connecting to the Internet, or information about the Internet site from which you accessed our offer or the Internet browser you are using.

Our websites may contain links to other websites to which this privacy statement does not extend. K&W Drive Systems assumes no liability for the content of external Internet sites that are accessible via the K&W Drive Systems Internet. We further point out that data transmission over the Internet (for example, when communicating by e-mail) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that are temporarily stored on your hard drive. They make navigation easier and offer a high degree of user-friendliness on a website. Cookies can be used to determine whether there has been a communication from your computer to our sites. These cookies make it possible to identify your computer, but not to establish a link to a particular person.

K & W Drive Systems uses cookies solely to control its programmes in the course of the temporary storage of results and control features. You can of course also view our website without cookies. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by selecting "do not accept cookies" in your browser settings. For full details of how this works, please read the browser instructions provided by the developer.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses various techniques, including so called 'Cookies', which are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of visitors' use of this website. The information obtained from Google Analytics about your use of this website is transmitted to Google servers, which may operate in countries outside the Member States of the European Union and possibly also outside the Agreement on the European Economic Area. If you activate the IP anonymisation function within the Google Analytics tracking code for this site, your IP address will anonymised before transmission. This website uses a Google Analytics tracking code with the extension "gat._anonymizeIp ();" which only allows an anonymised collection of IP addresses (known as IP masking). On behalf of the operator of this website Google will use this information to evaluate your visit to this website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other website and Internet-related services to the website operator. Google Analytics will not link the IP address transferred by your browser with any other data held by Google. You may prevent cookies from being saved by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we would like to point out that if you do this, not all functions of this website may be available to you to the full extent. For more about the security and privacy policies of Google Analytics, please visit: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

Google Maps

This website uses the web service Google Maps for the representation of interactive cards and in order to create route descriptions. Google Maps is a map service offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA (Google). By using Google Maps information about the use of this website including your IP address and addresses used to profit of the route planner function might be transferred to Google in the US. Once you open a website of our internet presence that contains Google Maps your browser will build up a direct connection to the servers of Google. The map content will be transferred by Google directly to your browser and implemented by the browser in the website. Therefore we have no influence on the volume of the collected data by Google. We have no influence on the further processing and use of the data and thus cannot assume liability. If you do not want that Google collects processes or uses your data via our internet presence you can deactivate JavaScript in your browser settings. In this case you cannot use the map function.

Contact forms

On our website there are contact forms. According to Art. 6 (1) (b) or (f) of the GDPR, we use your information to quickly process and respond to your request. We store this data for a maximum of six months after the completion of your request, unless other statutory retention periods apply.

Instagram Plugin

Functions of the service Instagram are integrated on our sides. These features are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States. If you are logged in to your Instagram account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We point out that we as the provider of the pages do not receive knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their use by Instagram. For more information, see the Instagram Privacy Policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Vimeo plugin

We use the provider Vimeo for the integration of videos. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo, LLC, headquartered at 555 West 18th Street, NY, New York 10011. On some of our websites we use plugins of the provider Vimeo. If you call the Internet pages provided with such a plugin, a connection is made to the Vimeo servers and the plugin is displayed. This will be transmitted to the Vimeo server, which of our websites you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Vimeo, Vimeo assigns this information to your personal user account. You can prevent this association by logging out of your Vimeo user account before using our website and deleting the corresponding cookies from Vimeo. For more information about data processing and privacy by Vimeo, see https://vimeo.com/privacy.Vimeo