1) Introduction and Contact Information of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when using our website. Personal data includes all data that can be used to personally identify you.

1.2 The data controller for the processing of data on this website, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is RoboTec Homes GmbH, Am Kirschgarten 9, 02627 Weißenberg, Germany, Tel .: +49 (0) 1590 6310 846, Email: anfrage@robotec-homes.com. The data controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data that is technically necessary for us to display the website:

– Our visited website
– Date and time of access
– Amount of data sent in bytes
– Source/reference from which you accessed the page
– Used browser
– Operating system used
– Used IP address (if applicable, in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. Data is not shared or otherwise used. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server log files if there are specific indications of illegal use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the prefix “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

3) Cookies

To make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period and allow us to save your settings for future visits (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in your web browser’s cookie settings.

If certain cookies used by us also process personal data, processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, either for the performance of a contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR for our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit. You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and individually decide on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.

Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4) Contact

When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. The specific data collected when using a contact form can be found in the respective contact form. This data is collected and used solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your inquiry, provided that there are no legal retention obligations.

5) Website Functions

5.1 Google Maps

This website uses an online map service provided by Google Maps (API) from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (land) maps to visually present geographic information. When you visit the subpages containing Google Maps, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers and stored there. This may also involve transmission to Google LLC servers in the USA, regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged into or whether a user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not want this association with your Google profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as user profiles and evaluates it.

The collection, storage, and evaluation are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on Google’s legitimate interest in displaying personalized advertising, market research, and/or the needs-based design of Google websites. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles; to exercise this right, you must contact Google. If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google when using Google Maps, you also have the option to completely deactivate the Google Maps web service by disabling JavaScript in your browser. In this case, Google Maps and the map display on this website cannot be used.

If required by law, we have obtained your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR for the processing of your data as described above. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect. To exercise your revocation, please follow the above-mentioned option to object.

5.2 hCaptcha

This website uses the CAPTCHA service provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., 350 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. The service checks whether an input is made by a natural person or is abusive through machine and automated processing, blocking spam, DDoS attacks, and similar automated malicious access. To ensure that an action is taken by a human and not an automated bot, the provider collects the IP address of the device used, recognition data of the browser and operating system type used, as well as the date and duration of the visit, and transmits this data for evaluation to the provider’s servers.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in determining individual responsibility on the Internet and preventing misuse and spam in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties. For the transfer of data to the USA, the provider relies on standard contract clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

6) Tools and Miscellaneous

6.1 Cookie Consent Tool

This website uses a “Cookie Consent Tool” to obtain effective user consent for cookies subject to consent and cookie-based applications. The “Cookie Consent Tool” is displayed to users in the form of an interactive user interface when they visit the page, allowing them to grant consent for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking boxes

. By using the tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user grants consent by checking boxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user’s device in case of granted consent.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Generally, personal user data is not processed. If, in individual cases, personal data is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings (such as IP address), this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly cookie consent management and, thus, a legally compliant design of our website.

Another legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As the controller, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the user’s consent. If necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider to ensure the protection of our website visitors’ data and to prohibit unauthorized disclosure to third parties. Further information about the operator and the settings of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

6.2 Wordfence

For security purposes, this website uses the service of Defiant Inc., 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. The provider protects the website and its associated IT infrastructure against unauthorized third-party access, cyberattacks, viruses, and malware. The provider collects users’ IP addresses and, if applicable, further data about their behavior on our website (especially accessed URLs and header information) to detect and defend against illegitimate page accesses and threats. The collected IP address is compared with a list of known attackers. If the collected IP address is recognized as a security risk, the provider can block access to the site for this IP address.

The described data processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interests in protecting the website from harmful cyberattacks and in safeguarding the structure, data integrity, and security. If website visitors have login rights, the provider also sets cookies (small text files) on the visitor’s device. These cookies can read certain location and device information that allows an assessment of whether the login-authorized access is from a legitimate person. At the same time, access rights can be evaluated through the cookies and released through an internal firewall according to the permission level. Finally, the cookies are used to register irregular access by site administrators from new devices or new locations and to notify other administrators. These cookies are only set if a user has login rights. The processing of personal data through these cookies is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interests in preventing unauthorized access to site administration and defending against unauthorized administrator access.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider to ensure the protection of the data of our website visitors and to prohibit unauthorized disclosure to third parties. For the transfer of data to the USA, the provider relies on standard contract clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

7) Rights of the Data Subject

7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you, as the data subject, the following rights in relation to the processing of your personal data by the controller, with reference to the legal basis mentioned for each right:

– Right to information according to Art. 15 GDPR;
– Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR;
– Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR;
– Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR;
– Right to notification according to Art. 19 GDPR;
– Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR;
– Right to withdraw consent granted according to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR;
– Right to lodge a complaint according to Art. 77 GDPR.

7.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR LEGITIMATE INTEREST PURSUANT TO A BALANCE OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE MAY CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH MARKETING AT ANY TIME. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

8) Duration of Personal Data Storage

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and, if applicable, the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods).

If personal data is processed based on explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you revoke your consent.

If there are legal retention periods for data processed in the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, these data will be routinely deleted after the expiration of the retention periods, provided they are no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or for the initiation of a contract, and unless there is a legitimate interest in continuing to store them on our part.

If personal data is processed based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the specific processing situations in this statement, stored personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.