Data Protection Policy

HellermannTyton North America, 7930 North Faulkner Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (hereinafter, “HellermannTyton” or “we”) is pleased that you are visiting our website. Data protection and data security are very important to us. We are therefore committed to protecting your privacy and treating your data confidentially.

We would like to inform you at this point which of your personal data we collect, for which purposes they are used, to whom we may forward them, and whom you may contact if you have any questions.

Since changes in the law or changes to HellermannTyton internal processes may make it necessary to adapt this data protection policy, we ask that you read this data protection policy regularly.

Responsible

HellermannTyton North America

7930 North Faulkner Road

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53221

United States

E-mail: Danielle.LeMieux@htamericas.com

Website Privacy

You can use a large part of our website without providing your data. When and to what extent we collect and process personal data when you use our website is described below.

When you access our website, log files are stored on our servers for system security purposes and to prevent misuse. The following data includes, but is not limited to:

• Remote IP address
• Remote user (only for protected areas)
• Local time
• Request (URL called)
• HTTP status code
• Number of bytes sent
• Referring pages (referrer)
• Identification of the client (user agent)

The stored log files are made anonymous and deleted after seven days, provided there is no suspicion of disruption or misuse.

We process and store your personal data on the legal basis of legitimate business interest. Our legitimate business interests include, but are not limited to, administering our website and maintaining the availability and functionality of the website.

Contact Form

If you want to use our contact form, you need to enter your contact information. Mandatory fields are first name, last name, company name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. This data is stored by us for the purpose of processing the request and in the event of follow-up questions.

Newsletter

If you sign up for our newsletter, we use your e-mail address to send you additional information about products and services that may be of interest to you. After registration, we will send a confirmation to the e-mail address you provided. You will only receive our newsletter after you have clicked on the confirmation link.

If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. To do this, simply click on the unsubscribe link that is included in each of our newsletters. You will not receive any further newsletters from us afterward.

Disclosure of Data to Third Parties

In order to process personal data for our legitimate business purpose, we must sometimes pass on your personal data to other companies in the HellermannTyton group or to external third parties. We take all reasonable efforts to ensure the data recipients provide lawful and secure data use protections and contractually undertake, where necessary, compliance measure for such data protection.

If you decide to actively use the social network functions offered on our website, personal data will be forwarded to the respective external providers of these social networks. See the section below for more information.

We also reserve the right to disclose personal data to third parties if we are compelled to do so by law, a court decision, or an order of a competent and recognized legal authority, or if we are compelled as a result of your actions or omissions.

Google reCAPTCHA

On this website we use the reCAPTCHA function of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon house, 4 Barrow St. Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). This function is primarily used to distinguish whether an entry is made by a natural person or whether it is misused by machine and automated processing. The service includes sending the IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google and is carried out in accordance with our legitimate business interest in determining individual personal responsibility on the interest and avoiding abuse and spam. When using Google reCAPTCHA, personal data may also be transmitted to the servers of Google LLC.

Further information on Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s data protection declaration can be found at Google’s website.

Social Networks

We use social plug-ins from various social networks on our website. These plug-ins are functions of the respective social networks via which you are able, for example, to share the contents from our website with your contacts in the social networks or recommend the content to others. The social plug-ins can be recognized by the logo of the respective social networks.

• Facebook: Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94302, USA
• Google: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
• Twitter: Twitter Inc., Folsom St., Ste. 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
• Xing: XING SE, Dammtorstrasse 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
• Instagram: Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

All social plug-ins are deactivated on our website as a default setting so that no data will be transmitted to the providers of the social networks by calling up our website. If you activate an initially deactivated social plug-in and use the functionality of the corresponding social networks, you explicitly give your consent that data will be transferred to the operator of the social network from this point onward. We have no influence on the extent of the data captured in this way by the providers of the social networks.

According to our knowledge, if the following data is transmitted:

• IP Address
• User identification if you are registered with the corresponding social network
• Previously visited page(s) (referrer) if you have followed a link
• Type and settings of browser
• Installed plug-ins such as Adobe® Flash® or Adobe® Reader®
• URL of the page on which the social plugin is integrated
• The date and time of the visit
• Technical data of the operating system
• Site related information
• Cookies

Through incorporation of the social plug-ins, the operators of the social networks receive the information that you have retrieved respective pages of our internet presence. If you are simultaneously logged into one of the social networks, the operator will be able to allocate the pages called up to your account with the respective social network. If, in addition to this, you interact with the social plug-ins, e.g. click on the “Like” button for Facebook, the corresponding information will be transmitted to the respective social network.

Even if you are not a member of the social network(s) named, there is a possibility that they will detect and save your IP address via the social plug-in. Our privacy policy does not apply to your activities on social networking sites that you access through links on our site. Please consult the data protection policies of the social networks for details of the purpose and extent of the data processing, acquisition and use by the social networks and on your rights and setting options in this respect.

If you wish, you can permanently activate the social plug-ins of one or more providers. In this case, data will be permanently transmitted to the provider of the social network as soon as you open a page. You can deactivate individual or even all social plug-ins at any time.

Furthermore, you may also be able to stop data transmission to social networks by technical means. To do this, adjust the security settings in the web browser you are using. Please refer to the “Help” section in your web browser.

Facebook Pixel, Custom Audiences and Facebook Remarketing

Our online information contains the so-called "Facebook pixel" from the social network Facebook – which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are a resident of the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"). We use the Facebook pixel for our legitimate interests and for the purpose of analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online information.

Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law. With the help of the Facebook pixel, it is possible for Facebook to determine the visitors to our online pages as a target group for the display of advertisements (so-called "Facebook ads"). Accordingly, we use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook ads placed by us only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online information or who have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products determined on the basis of the websites visited) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called "Custom Audiences"). With the help of the Facebook pixel, we also want to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interest of the users and do not have a harassing effect.

With the help of the Facebook pixel, we can also track the effectiveness of the Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion"). The processing of the data by Facebook takes place within the framework of Facebook's data use policy. Accordingly, general information on the display of Facebook ads, in Facebook's data usage policy. Specific information and details on the Facebook pixel and how it works can be found in Facebook's help section.

You can object to the collection and use of your data by the Facebook pixel to display Facebook ads. To adjust which types of ads are displayed to you within Facebook, you can go to the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions there on the settings for usage-based advertising. The settings are platform independent, i.e. they are applied to all devices, such as desktop computers or mobile devices. You can also opt out of the use of cookies for reach measurement and advertising purposes via the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

LinkedIn Insight Tag and LinkedIn Ads

We use the conversion tracking technology and the retargeting function of LinkedIn Corporation on our website. LinkedIn is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thereby offers a guarantee of compliance with European data protection law.

In other words: This website uses the Insight Tag from LinkedIn. The provider of this service is LinkedIn.

We use the conversion tracking technology and the retargeting function of LinkedIn Corporation. With the aid of this technology, visitors to this website can be served personalized ads on LinkedIn. Furthermore, the possibility arises to create anonymous reports on the performance of the ads as well as information on website interaction (conversion measurement). For this purpose, the LinkedIn Insight Tag is embedded on this website, which establishes a connection to the LinkedIn server if you visit this website and are logged into your LinkedIn account at the same time.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag also provides a retargeting feature that allows us to display targeted off-site advertising to visitors to our website, which LinkedIn states does not identify the ad recipient.

In other words: The data collected by LinkedIn cannot be assigned to specific individuals by us as the website operator.

See LinkedIn's privacy policy for more information about data collection and use, as well as your privacy options and rights.

If you are logged in to LinkedIn, you can deactivate the data collection at any time by going into your settings and modifying your options. You can also object to the analysis of usage behavior as well as targeted advertising by going to your settings in LinkedIn. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

The data processing is justified in each case according to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, because we have a legitimate interest in displaying personalized advertising to you and evaluating the use of our website.
If a corresponding consent has been requested (e.g. consent to store cookies), the processing is based exclusively on Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. 

Cookies

We use cookies on our website to enable the use of certain functions of the website, to analyze how visitors use our website and to offer certain services from third-party providers.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies that we use are deleted from your hard disk at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer on your next visit (so-called long-term cookies). In addition, cookies from the third-party providers are also used on our website.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

If you do not want our cookies to be stored on your computer, please disable the storage of cookies from our website in your browser or adjust your browser so that cookies are generally not stored on your computer. Any already stored cookies can also be deleted in your browser.

Disabling the use of cookies may possibly require storing a permanent cookie on your computer. If you subsequently delete this cookie, you will have to carry out the deactivation once again.
The following categories of cookies are used on our website:

Session cookies

To facilitate browsing on our website, we make use of what are known as session cookies. Their purpose is to enable our server to recognize you or your computer/browser as the same visitor despite a possible interim change in IP address. These session cookies enable several connected requests from a user to be allocated to one session. The session cookie is only valid until the end of a session. It is automatically deleted when you close the browser.

Long-term cookies

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your computer, to help analyze your use of a website.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by servers operated by Google in the United States. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield.

We employ Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “anonymizeIp” for IP anonymization, which ensures that your IP address is truncated prior to transmission by Google within the European Union / European  Economic Area in order to prevent it being linked to a particular individual. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. The IP address transferred by your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings for your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Furthermore, you can prevent the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being captured and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at Google.

Third-party cookies

Services from third-party providers are also incorporated into our website. With respect to these services, use of personal data takes place by the providers named below, who do not fall within the area of responsibility of the provider of this website.

HubSpot

HellermannTyton NA needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services and analyze our web traffic cases to deliver a superior web experience for our users. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. For information on how to unsubscribe, as well as our privacy practices and commitment to protecting your privacy, please contact our legal counsel.

YouTube

Our online presence includes videos from the external platform YouTube. The platform is operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you call up a website on our Internet presence that contains YouTube videos, your browser will establish a direction connection with the YouTube servers and thus a connection to Google. YouTube will transfer the video directly to your browser and incorporate it into the website. Consequently, we have no influence on the scope of the data captured by YouTube via this method.

You can find information on the purpose and extent of data acquisition as well as how the data is processed further and used by YouTube, together with your rights and optional settings to protect your private sphere, in the data protection notes of YouTube.

YouTube, and therefore Google, processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield.

Google Maps

Furthermore, our web presence also uses Google Maps on a number of subpages to display interactive maps and create route maps.

Google Maps is a cartographic service from Google. Using Google Maps may lead to information on the use of this website, including your IP address and the (starting) address used within the scope of the route planning function being transferred to Google. Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield.

If you call up a website from our Internet presence that contains Google Maps, your browser will establish a direction connection with the Google servers. Google will transfer the map contents directly to your browser and incorporate them into the website. Consequently, we have no influence on the scope of the data captured by Google via this method.

According to our knowledge, this involves at least the following data:

• Date and time of the visit to the web page concerned.
• Internet address or URL of the web page retrieved
• IP address
• The (starting) address entered during the route planning operation

We have no influence on the further processing and use of the data by Google and cannot assume responsibility for this.

If you do not want Google to acquire, process or use data about you via our website, you can deactivate JavaScript in your browser. In this case, however, you will not be able to use the map display.

You can find information on the purpose and extent of data acquisition as well as how the data is processed and used by Google, together with your rights and optional settings to protect your private sphere, in the data protection notes of Google.

Microsoft Clarity

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first- and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity.

Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement page.

Hyperlinks to external websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to websites of other providers. When clicking on these links, you will be transferred from our website directly to the website of other providers. The change in the URL amongst other factors will help you to recognize this.

We cannot accept any responsibility for the confidential handling of your data by these providers on such external websites, as we have no influence on whether these other providers adhere to the data protection provisions. You should therefore directly consult the information contained in the privacy statement for the website of the respective provider.

Protection of your data

Whenever we acquire personal data, we or our processors store such data on specially protected servers. Access is restricted to a limited number of authorized personnel, who are involved with the technical commercial or editorial support.

To avoid any loss or misuse of the data, we take extensive technical and organizational precautions, which undergo regular auditing and adaptation to technical progress. We protect the security of your data during transmission by using state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

However, we wish to point out that the structure of the Internet means that the regulations of data protection and data security may not be observed by other persons or institutions that do not lie within our area of responsibility.

Your right as data subject

Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR): You can request information at any time on whether and which personal data is being used by us, for what purposes the processing is taking place, where the data originate from, to which recipients the data is transferred if necessary and how long such data is stored by us.

Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): If you see that personal data concerning you is incorrect, you can demand that such data be rectified at any time. Where in your view data are incomplete, you can also demand that data should be completed.

Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): If, in your opinion, the use of your personal data is no longer necessary or is taking place without sufficient legitimate basis or is unlawful for other reasons, you can demand for this data to be erased.

Right to restriction of processing (Art 18 GDPR): Instead of the erasure of data, you can also demand the processing of your data to be restricted if data is being processed unlawfully. In particular, you can also demand such a restriction of processing when you contest the accuracy of data or you have objected to use of the data.

Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): With respect to personal data that you have provided yourself and which are being used on the basis of a contract or consent, you can demand for this data to be made available to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You can also demand for this data to be transferred directly to another controller.

Right to object (Art 21 GDPR): If grounds arise relating to your particular situation that render use of your personal data that we process on the basis of a balancing of interests impermissible, you have the right to object to such use of the data. If your personal data is used for direct marketing, you do in any case have a right to object.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR): If in your opinion, your rights relating to the personal data concerning you have been infringed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In particular, you may contact the supervisory authority responsible for your place of residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.

To send us an enquiry relating to your data, please send us a request

• Please send the completed form by post or e-mail to our legal counsel for HellermannTyton Corporation- North America: 

Danielle LeMieux
Tel.: (414) 355-1130 Ext. 8728
7930 North Faulkner Road, Milwaukee, WI 53224, USA
E-mail: Danielle.lemieux@htamericas.com

• Please remember to attach documents that enable your identity to be verified.