2.1 What is personal data?

Personal data is all information that can be assigned to a specific or identifiable person (e.g. your name, your address or your telephone number).

2.2 What information do we collect and for what purpose?

Every access to our website and every retrieval of a file stored on the website is logged. The following are logged Name of the retrieved file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser, operating system and requesting domain. The IP addresses of the requesting computers are also logged.

Further personal data is only collected if you provide this information voluntarily, for example as part of an enquiry or registration.

In the "Contact" section, you can get in touch with us using a contact form. If you use this contact form, we collect and store the following data:

Title; first name; surname; e-mail; telephone number; your message

On various product and service pages, such as "SC 100", "Kit" or "Rent a dyno", you can send us an enquiry using a form. When you use these forms, we collect and store the following data:

Title; first name; surname; e-mail; telephone number; your message. In addition, you can optionally tell us Desired consultation date.

The data you provide is transmitted by your browser to our server, where it is converted into an e-mail, which is then sent to us. Please note that the data you enter in our forms and the e-mail sent to us are not encrypted during transmission. Your message is therefore sent in a similar way to a postcard. If you have provided us with personal data, we will only use it to answer your enquiry or to process contracts concluded with you. Your personal data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of processing the contract or for billing purposes or if you have given your prior consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

2.3 Which Internet technologies are used?

2.3.1 Use of cookies

Cookies are text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. Cookies make it possible to recognise the Internet browser, among other things so that data already entered is not lost during the interruption of a usage process (e.g. interruption of the Internet connection) or change to another service within our offer.

The data collected when using our services is stored and statistically analysed for marketing and optimisation purposes. However, the data collected will not be used to personally identify the visitor to the website and will not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym unless you have expressly authorised us to do so.

You can also delete cookies at any time. Please note that deactivating or deleting cookies may restrict the use of the website and the services offered.

2.3.2 Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"), which uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have activated IP anonymisation on this website so that the IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google may use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link.
tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website.

Deactivate Google Analytics

You can find more information on this at
 tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or under
 www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html (general information on Google Analytics and data protection).

2.3.3 Google Ads

Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you have reached our website via an advert placed by Google, Google Ads will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an advert placed by Google. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of Ads customers.

The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their advert and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

You can find more information on how Google Ads handles user data in the Privacy policy of Google.

In this context, we would like to point out that the USA is an unsafe third country in which there is no adequate level of data protection within the meaning of the GDPR. In order to nevertheless establish such a level, Google accepts the so-called. Standard contractual clauses. Nevertheless, there may be a risk that your data will have to be handed over to security authorities due to the laws in force in the USA, without you having the opportunity to take legal action against this.

Data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent). You can revoke your consent for Google Ads via the privacy settings of the Consent Managers at any time with effect for the future.

2.3.4 Integrated maps (Google Maps)

We use Google Maps on our website to show our location and to provide directions. Google Maps is an online map service of the US company Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").

When you call up a corresponding page on our website, your browser establishes a direct connection to Google's servers and retrieves a map there to display it to you. In order to use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to process your IP address and information about your possible use of the map. This information is transferred from your Internet browser to a Google server in the USA and processed there by Google. 

In this context, we would like to point out that the USA is an unsafe third country in which there is no adequate level of data protection within the meaning of the GDPR. In order to nevertheless establish such a level, Google accepts the so-called. Standard contractual clauses. Nevertheless, there may be a risk that your data will have to be handed over to security authorities due to the laws in force in the USA, without you having the opportunity to take legal action against this.  

You can find more information on the handling of user data in the Privacy policy of Google.

The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on our legitimate interest in providing visitors to our website with up-to-date location and travel information).

2.3.4 Embedded videos (YouTube)

Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at
 https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de

2.3.5 Use of Facebook Pixel

Our website uses the visitor action pixel from Meta to measure conversions.
This allows the behaviour of site visitors to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider's website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This allows the effectiveness of Facebook ads to be evaluated for statistical and market research purposes and future advertising measures to be optimised.
The data collected is anonymous for us as the operator of this website; we cannot draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Data Usage Policy. This enables Facebook to place adverts on Facebook pages and outside of Facebook. This use of the data cannot be influenced by us as the site operator.
The use of Facebook pixels is based on your consent.

You can find further information on protecting your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy:
 https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
You can also use the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" in the ad settings section under
 https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen deactivate it. You must be logged in to Facebook to do this.
If you do not have a Facebook account, you can deactivate usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance:
 https://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

2.3.6 Use of Facebook Remarketing

This website uses the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" from Meta. This function is used to present interest-based adverts to visitors to this website when they visit the Facebook social network. The Facebook remarketing tag has been implemented on the website for this purpose. This tag establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers when you visit the website. It is transmitted to the Facebook server that you have visited this website and Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account.

For more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook as well as your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Alternatively, you can deactivate the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads#_=_. To do this, you must be logged in to Facebook.