Privacy policy

We are delighted in your interest in the website of SolarWorld Industries GmbH. The protection of your personal data in accordance with statutory provisions is of course ensured during your visit to our homepage. Your data will be collected by us taking into account the valid data protection provisions and will neither be published nor passed on to a third party without authorisation. Below you will find more detailed information about data collection and use:

Use and transmission of personal data

Insofar as you make personal data available to us voluntarily, we will use this only to transmit information to you or to answer your inquiries, depending on the purpose for which you have provided the data to us.

Your personal data will be transmitted to a third party or in another manner only if this is necessary to respond to your inquiry, as well as in cases in which you have specifically agreed for it to be passed on in advance. In all these cases, we ensure that your data will be used only for the specific purpose it was given.

Right to information

You have a right to information with regard to the personal data stored about you. You may request the correction of incorrect data, blocking and deletion of the latter at any time. On request we are happy to inform you about the data stored about you at any time. If you wish to obtain information on your personal data and the use of the latter or intend to correct the data, please contact:

Lennart Andresen
Unter Kahlenhausen 42
50668 Köln

0179-3902276

Entitlement to deletion

You have the right to cancel the permission granted to us to store your data at any time and to request the deletion of the data stored. We will then carry out the deletion of the personal data stored about you immediately. Moreover, a deletion will always take place if the data are no longer required to satisfy the purpose associated with the storage or if storage becomes prohibited for other statutory reasons. If a deletion must not take place for compelling reasons (e.g. statutory periods for safe-keeping), the data will be blocked instead. If you wish your data to be deleted, please contact:

Lennart Andresen
Unter Kahlenhausen 42
50668 Köln

0179-3902276

Logging of data

Collected data

When accessing our homepage and fetching data provided on the homepage, your access data will be logged by us automatically. The data collected in this way will be used for statistical purposes in order to assess the use of our website and optimise our services. It is not possible for us to allocate the data to certain people. In no case will various data be amalgamated.

IP-address

Your IP-address is stored temporarily on our system when it is accessed. This is used exclusively to protect our system against unauthorised intervention and access. It might be possible to identify the user via the IP address – in connection with other user data (date, time). After a maximum of seven days the IP address will be de-personalised and it is then no longer possible to identify the user. The statistical assessment of anonymous data sets in accordance with the previous statements remains reserved.

Cookies

In order to collect data, we use so-called cookies as part of our website. Cookies are small text files, which are filed on a computer and which are stored by your browser. They are used to make our online services more user-friendly, effective and secure for you. The cookies are not allocated to certain persons and do not contain any personal data. We do not amalgamate this data with other data sources. Most of the cookies used by us are so-called "Session-Cookies", which are deleted when you end your browser session. In addition, there are some long-lasting cookies through which we recognise you as a visitor to our site. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses.

You can decide in your browser settings whether cookies are allowed to be applied or not. If you do not agree to the use of cookies on our website, you can prevent this by changing your browser settings accordingly.

Validity of the data protection declaration

By using our website you agree to the above-mentioned regulations regarding data use. The future amendment or (technical) further development of our online services may make it necessary to amend this data protection declaration. We reserve the right to amend the data protection declaration at any time with effect for the future.