Data Protection
Welcome to the website of Corning Cable Systems GmbH & Co. KG (hereinafter "CCS"). We are pleased to have you visit out site and thank you for your interest in our company and our products.
The protection of your privacy during the collection, processing and use of your personal data in accordance with legal requirements is a matter we take very seriously. On this page, we provide a summary for you of how we intend to handle your data and your privacy.
This data protection declaration only applies to the CCS website. Please note that it does not apply to third-party websites which we may direct you to via links.
1. What constitutes personal data?
Personal data as defined under the German Data Protection Act [Bundesdatenschutzgesetz "BDSG"] are particulars regarding personal and material circumstances of a defined or definable natural person. In addition to your name and address, this also includes, for instance, your telephone number or email address and other personal information.
In accordance with the BDSG and other legal data protection regulations, all such data is subject to specific protection which we ensure through technical and organizational measures.
2. Collection of non-personal data
In order to visit our website you do not initially have to communicate any of your personal data to us. You can access the information you need anonymously.
However, our web server automatically collects log information, regarding the details of each visit to our website and each file access. This data is not personal. It is therefore not possible for us to match up the recorded data with a particular natural person.
In detail, the following data is recorded:
- Name and/or IP address of your internet service provider,
- Browser type and version,
- Operating system used,
- The website last visited before accessing our website,
- Our websites that you visit,
- Name of the files accessed,
- Date and time of access,
- Data volume transferred,
- Notification of whether access was successful.
All of this information is evaluated by us solely for statistical purposes. We do not connect this data to any other data.
We only evaluate this data statistically and in a way which cannot be linked back to yourself, in order to further improve our web presence for you.
3. Collection of personal data
Your personal data is only collected, processed and used by us when you choose to communicate your data to us, for instance, in the context of a query, application, registration, survey or similar. We will only collect, process and use such personal data to the extent required for the following purposes:
- To answer your query and/or process your order,
- To provide you with access to special information or offers,
- To send you customer information or a newsletter,
- For customer management and care, as well as
- For our own marketing purposes.
4. Newsletter
If you would like to receive our newsletter, we will need your email address as well as confirmation that you are the owner of the given email address and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Data is only collected in order to be able to send you the newsletter and to document our authorization to do so. Data is not passed on to third parties. You can cancel your subscription to the newsletter and your agreement to the storage of your email address at any time. Further information on this issue is contained in every newsletter; alternatively you can also write to the contact address listed below.
5. Transmission of personal data
We will neither sell nor otherwise market your personal data to third parties. The transfer of personal data to state institutions and authorities will only occur within the context of mandatory national statutory provisions. We require that all our employees agree to maintain confidentiality and to abide by legal data protection regulations.
In order to fulfill our business objectives named above, it may further be necessary that we communicate your personal data to other Corning Group companies both inside and outside Europe, so that we are able, for example, to process specific queries correctly or to inform you of other CCS products.
6. Cookies
We use cookies on this website. Cookies are short text files in which information is saved on your PC and can be accessed again during your next visit, in order to temporarily store technical data on your computer or information necessary for individual offers to work correctly.
If you do not wish to use cookies, we ask that you make use of your browser’s option to block cookies. You can find further details using the Help function of your browser. It may occur that, due to technical reasons, individual offers on our website may not work fully when cookies are blocked.
7. Security of personal data
CCS takes certain technical and organizational precautions in order to ensure the security of your personal data handled by us. Your data is carefully protected against loss, deletion, corruption, manipulation and unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure.
Please note that data you send to us by email or contact forms on our websites is transmitted unencrypted over the Internet, and therefore it cannot be warranted that this data is not accessed by unauthorized third parties. We therefore request that you send us confidential information only by post, fax or encrypted email.
8. Right of access and correction of stored personal data
In accordance with section 34, BDSG, you have the right to access your personal data stored with us as well as, in accordance with section 35, BDSG, the right to correct incorrect data and/or delete/block illegally stored data.
If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints regarding the handling of your personal data, please contact us using the reference/subject line: "Data Protection". Please contact us in one of the following ways:
Email: Emea.cs@corning.com
Fax: +49 30 5303 2335
Post: Corning Cable Systems GmbH & Co.KG
Wolfratshauserstraße 84
81379 Munich, Germany