Legal notice
Service provider
Ingenieurbüro Rörden GmbH
Europaplatz 2
44269 Dortmund
Germany
Contact options
E-mail address: service [at] emc-railway.com
Phone: +49 (231) 7005242
Fax: +49 (231) 70083742
Authorized representatives
Authorized to represent: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Uwe Rörden (Executive Director) & Dr.-Ing. Udo Kappel (Executive Director)
Details relating to the company
Value added tax identification number (VAT ID): DE270271689
Sphere of business: Engineering office
Register and register number
Commercial register. Registered at: Dortmund Local Court
Number: HRB 22861
Information on liability and property rights
Exclusion of Liability: The content of this online offering has been created with care and on the basis of our current knowledge, but serves information purposes only and has no legally binding effect unless it concerns legally required information (e.g. the Legal Notice, the Privacy Policy, GT&Cs or mandatory information for consumers). We reserve the right to alter or delete the content, in whole or in part, provided that and insofar as contractual obligations remain unaffected. All offers are subject to change without notice and non-binding.
Links to external websites: The content of external websites to which we refer directly or indirectly is outside our sphere of responsibility, and we do not claim ownership of it. We accept no responsibility for any content or disadvantages arising from use of the information available on the linked websites.
Copyrights and trademark rights: All content presented on this website, such as texts, photographs, graphics, brands and trademarks, is protected by the respective property rights (copyrights, trademark rights). Use, reproduction, etc. are subject to our rights or the rights of the respective creators or rights holders.
Information on violations of law: If you notice any violations of law within our Internet presence, please inform us. We shall remove unlawful content and links without delay upon becoming aware of them.
Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy clarifies for you the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter “data” for short) within our online offering and the associated websites, functions and content as well as within our external online presence, e.g. our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offering”). With regard to the terminology used, e.g. “processing” or “controller”, we refer to the definitions in Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Types of data processed:
- customer data (e.g. names, addresses).
- Contact details (e.g., e-mail, telephone numbers).
- Content data (e.g., text entries, photographs, videos).
- Usage data (e.g., websites visited, interest in content, access times).
- Meta/communication data (e.g., device information, IP addresses).
Categories of data subjects
Visitors to and users of the online offering (the data subjects are hereinafter also collectively referred to as “users”).
Purpose of the processing
- Provision of the online offer, its functions and content
- Responding to contact requests and communicating with users.
- Security measures
- Reach measurement/marketing
Terminology used
“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookie) or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means The term has a broad meaning and encompasses practically any handling of data.
“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
Applicable legal bases
In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we inform you of the legal bases for our data processing. Where the legal basis is not specified in the Privacy Policy, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6 (1) a) and Art. 7 GDPR; the legal basis for the processing for the performance of our services and implementation of contractual measures as well as responding to enquiries is Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR; the legal basis for the processing for the fulfilment of our legal obligations is Art. 6 (1) c) GDPR, and the legal basis for the processing for the protection of our legitimate interests is Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR. In the event that vital interests of the person concerned or another private individual require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 (1) d GDPR serves as the legal basis.
Cooperation with processors and third parties
Where, in the course of our processing, we disclose data to other persons and companies (processors or third parties), transfer data to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this will take place only on the basis of legal permission (e.g. where the transfer of the data to third parties, such as payment service providers, is necessary for the performance of a contract in accordance with Art. 6 (1) b) GDPR), if you have given your consent or a legal obligation provides for this, or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).
Where we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called “data processing agreement”, this occurs on the basis of Art. 28 GDPR.
Transfers to third countries
Insofar as we process data in a third country (i.e. outside of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)), or this occurs in the case of the use of third-party services or disclosure or transfer of data to third parties, this takes place only for the purpose of fulfilling our (pre)contractual duties or on the basis of your consent, a legal obligation or our legitimate interests. Subject to statutory or contractual permissions, we process the data, or have the data processed, in a third country only if the particular prerequisites of Art. 44 et seqq. GDPR are met. This means that the processing takes place, for example, on the basis of particular safeguards, such as the officially recognised determination of a level of data protection corresponding to that of the EU (e.g. for the USA through the “Privacy Shield”) or compliance with officially recognised special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).
Rights of the data subjects
You have the right to obtain confirmation of whether data concerning you are being processed, and the right to access these data as well as to obtain further information and a copy of the data in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR.
You have the right under Art. 16 GDPR to obtain completion of the data concerning you or rectification of incorrect data concerning you.
You have the right under Art. 17 GDPR to obtain the erasure of the data concerned without delay or alternatively the right under Art. 18 GDPR to obtain restriction of the processing of the data.
You have the right to receive in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR the data concerning you that you have provided to us, and the right to have these data transferred to other controllers.
Furthermore, you have the right under Art. 77 GDPR to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
Right of withdrawal
You have the right under Art. 7 (3) GDPR to withdraw previously given consents with effect for the future.
Right of objection
You may, in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, object at any time to future processing of the data concerning you. In particular, you may object to processing for the purposes of direct marketing.
Data protection
The operators of this website take the privacy of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data privacy regulations and this Privacy Policy.
You can typically use our website without providing personal data. Personal data (such as names, addresses or email addresses) are always provided on a voluntary basis if possible. Those data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit consent.
However, we would like to point out that data transfer via internet (e.g. email communication) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of personal data against unauthorised access by third parties is not possible.
Cookies
These websites make use of cookies to some extent. Cookies do not inflict any damage on your computer and do not contain any viruses. The purpose of cookies is to make our online services more user-friendly, effective and safe. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.
Most of the cookies used by us are so-called “session cookies”. They are erased again automatically after the end of your website visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you erase them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.
You can adjust the settings of your browser in such a way that you are informed about the creation of cookies and permit such cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies whenever you close the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transfers to us. This includes:
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
It is not possible to attribute these data to any specific person. This data will not be collated with other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently review this data if we become aware of any specific indications of illegal use.
Contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, we shall store your information provided in the enquiry form, including your contact data stated therein, for purposes of processing the enquiry and in the event of additional questions. We shall not pass on these data without your consent.
Newsletter data
If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter offered on this website, we shall require an email address and information from you, which allows us to ensure that you are the owner of the indicated email address and agree with receiving the newsletter. Further data will not be collected. We shall use these data exclusively for sending the requested information and not pass them on to any third party.
You shall be entitled, at any time, to withdraw the provided consent of our storage of your data, email address and their utilisation for distribution of our newsletter via the link “Unsubscribe” in the newsletter.
Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the website analysis tool, Google Analytics. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer to analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is sent to and stored on a Google server in the USA.
IP anonymization
We have enabled the functionality of IP anonymization on this website. As a result, your IP address is truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to and truncated on a Google server in the USA. Google uses this information on behalf of the website operator to evaluate the way you use the website, to collate reports on website activities and to provide the website operator other services related to website and internet use. The IP address sent by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data held by Google.
Browser plugin
You can change your browser settings to prevent cookies from being stored; however, the provider draws your attention to the fact that, in these circumstances, you may find that you are unable to make full use of functions on the website. Further, you may prevent the collection of data generated through cookies (incl. your IP address) and related to your use of this website as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the plugin at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Objection to data collection
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link. This will place an opt-out cookie that will prevent the future collection of your data during visits to this website: [google_analytics_optout]Deactivate Google Analytics[/google_analytics_optout]
You can find more detailed information about dealing with user data at Google Analytics in Google’s privacy policy at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de
Order data processing
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google and fully implement the stringent requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Demographic characteristics in Google Analytics
This website uses the “demographic features” function of Google Analytics. That means that reports can be prepared which contain statements on the age, sex and interests of the visitor to the website. Such data originates from interest-related advertisements of Google, as well as visitor data from third party providers. Such data cannot be allocated to any particular person. You may deactivate this function at any time via the display settings in your Google account or generally prohibit your data from being collected by Google Analytics, as explained under “Objecting to data collection”.
Facebook plugins (Like button)
Plugins of the social media network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated in our pages. You can recognise these plugins by the Facebook logo or the Like button on our site. For an overview of Facebook plugins, please see here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
When you visit our websites, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established by this plugin. This way, Facebook receives information that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while being logged in to your Facebook account you may link the contents of our websites to your Facebook account. Thereby Facebook can associate your visit of our websites with your Facebook account. We would like to point out that we, as providers of these websites, do not obtain knowledge about the content of the transmitted data as well as the use of such by Facebook. For further information, please check the Privacy Policy of Facebook under http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not wish Facebook to associate your visit of our websites with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.
On our websites functions of the service Twitter are integrated. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St., Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter as well as the function “Re-Tweet”, websites visited by you are linked to your Twitter account and posted to other users. In doing so, data will be transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that we, as providers of these websites, do not obtain knowledge about the contents of the transmitted data as well as the use of such by Twitter. For further information, please review the Privacy Policy of Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your privacy settings with Twitter in your account settings at: https://twitter.com/account/settingsändern.
On our websites functions of the service Instagram are embedded. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged in to your Instagram account, you can link contents of our websites to your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button. This way, Instagram will associate the visit of our websites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as providers of these websites, do not obtain knowledge about the contents of transmitted data as well as the use of such by Instagram.
Further information on this can be found in the Instagram privacy policy at: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/
Our website uses functions of the network LinkedIn. The provider of LinkedIn is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. On every access to our websites which contain LinkedIn functions, a connection to the servers of LinkedIn will be established. LinkedIn will be informed that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the “recommend” button of LinkedIn and are logged in to your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn can associate your visit of our websites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as providers of these websites, do not obtain knowledge about the contents of transmitted data as well as the use of such by LinkedIn.
For further information, please review the Privacy Policy of LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
On our website, we use social plugins of the social media network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA (“Pinterest”). Whenever you access a page that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct link to Instagram’s servers. The plugin thereby transfers the protocol data to Pinterest’s server in the USA. These protocol data potentially contain your IP address, the address of visited websites, which also contain Pinterest functions, type and settings of the browser, date and time of the inquiry, the way you used Pinterest as well as cookies.
Further information on the purpose, scope and further processing and use of the data by Pinterest as well as on your relevant rights and options for the protection of your privacy can be found in the Pinterest privacy notice at: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy- policy
SoundCloud
Plugins from the social network SoundCloud (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, United Kingdom) can be integrated on our websites. You can recognise the SoundCloud plugins by the SoundCloud logo on the websites concerned.
When you visit our websites, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server will be established once the plugin is activated. This way, SoundCloud receives information that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the “Like” or “Share” button while logged in to your SoundCloud user account, you can link and/or share the content of our websites with your SoundCloud profile. This enables SoundCloud to associate the visit to our websites with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as providers of these websites, do not obtain knowledge about the content of the transmitted data as well as the use of such by SoundCloud. Further information on this can be found in the SoundCloud privacy policy at: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy
If you do not want SoundCloud to associate the visit to our websites with your SoundCloud user account, please log out of your SoundCloud user account before you activate the content of the SoundCloud plugin.
Spotify
Functions of the music service Spotify are embedded on our websites. The provider is Spotify AB, Birger Jarlsgatan 61, 113 56 Stockholm, Sweden. You can recognise Spotify plugins by the green logo on our website. An overview of the Spotify plugins can be found at https://developer.spotify.com
This enables a direct connection between your browser and the Spotify server to be established via the plugin when you visit our websites. This way, Spotify receives information that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the Spotify button while logged in to your Spotify account, you can link the content of our websites with your Spotify profile. This way, Spotify will associate the visit of our websites with your user account.
Further information on this can found in the Spotify privacy policy at: https://www.spotify.com/de/legal/privacy-policy/
If you do not wish Spotify to associate your visit of our websites with your Spotify account, please log out of your Spotify account.
Our website uses functions of the network XING. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Every time our websites containing XING functions are accessed, a connection to XING servers is established. As far as we are aware, no personal data are stored in the course thereof. In particular, no IP addresses are stored, and no usage behaviour is evaluated.
Further information on data privacy and the XING share button can be found in the XING privacy policy at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
Tumblr
Our websites use buttons from the service Tumblr. The provider is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. These buttons enable you to share a post or a website on Tumblr or to follow the provider on Tumblr. If you access one of our websites containing a Tumblr button, the browser establishes a direct connection to the Tumblr servers. We have no influence over the scope of the data that are collected and transmitted by Tumblr with the aid of this plugin. According to our latest information, user IP addresses as well as the URL of the respective website will be transmitted.
Further information on this can be found in Tumblr’s privacy policy at: https://www.tumblr.com/policy/de/privacy.
Comment function on this website
For the comments function on this website, we store your comment together with details of the time when the comment was made, your e-mail address and, unless you post anonymously, the username you have chosen.
Storage of the IP address
Our comments function stores the IP addresses of users who write comments. As we do not check comments on our website before they are activated, we need these data to be able to take action against the author in the event of violations of law, such as insults or propaganda.
Subscribe to comments
As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments after registering. You will receive a confirmation email to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided. You can unsubscribe from this function at any time via a link in the information emails.
SSL encryption
For security reasons, and to protect the transfer of confidential content, such as the queries that you transmit to us in our capacity as website operators, this site uses SSL encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that your browser’s address bar changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol shown in your browser’s browser line.
If the SSL encryption is enabled, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by any third parties.
Hosting
The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services as well as technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating this online offering.
In this respect, we, or our hosting provider, process customer data, contact details, content data, contract data, usage data, meta data and communication data of customers, potential customers and visitors to this online offering on the basis of our legitimate interests in the efficient and secure provision of this online offering in accordance with Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR (conclusion of a data processing agreement).
Right to information, deletion, blocking
You shall be entitled, at any time, to receive information free of charge on any data stored relating to you personally as well as on their origin, their recipient and the purpose of data processing. You shall also be entitled to demand the correction, blocking or erasure of such data. For further questions about this as well as general questions about personal data, you may contact us at any time under the address displayed in the Legal Notice.
Incorporation of third-party services and content
Within our online offering, we use content or service offerings from third-party providers on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. our interest in the analysis, optimisation and cost-effective operation of our online offering within the meaning of Art. 6 (1), f) GDPR) in order to integrate their content and services, e.g. videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “content”).
This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the user’s IP address, as they would not be able to send the content to their browser without the IP address. The IP address is hence necessary for the presentation/display of these contents. We endeavour to use only contents regarding which the respective providers use the IP address solely for the delivery of these contents. Third-party providers can also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also referred to as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. Pixel tags enable information such as visitor traffic to the pages of this website to be evaluated. Furthermore, the pseudonymous information may be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offering. It may also be combined with such information from other sources.
YouTube
Our website uses plugins of the Google-operated website YouTube. Operator of the website is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our websites with an embedded YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers will be established. The YouTube server will then receive information about which of our website pages you visited.
If you are logged on to your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account or using this opt-out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Google Fonts
We integrate the fonts (“Google Fonts”) from the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.