Introduction

Uhrig Kanaltechnik GmbH, a private limited liability company formed under German law ("Company" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.uhrig-quick-lock.us (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

· On this Website.

· In email, text, our contact provided on our Website, and other electronic messages between you and this Website, including when creating an account with, contacting our customer shop, contacting us for products complaints or returns on our Website, applying for a job with us, inquiring about our services or our events, trade fairs or generally, subscribing to our newsletter, downloading certain Company content available on our Website or making a purchase through the Website.

· Any other communication we have with you, whether initiated by you or us, by using personal information (as defined below) provided to us through the Website or otherwise available to us, whether offline or online, directly or by using other means of communication such as phone, email, audio or video conference tools like “Microsoft Teams”.

It does not apply to information collected by:

· Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

· By which you may be personally identified, such as full name, company, postal address, email address, telephone number, any information you provide or that is assigned to you when communicating with us (such as account name, number, password, or any access data you use for communicating with us using electronic means such as “Microsoft Teams”) ("personal information")

· That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your product preferences, and any information you research on our website as to a particular product, topics you inquire on our Website, or if you contact us with any products complaints on our Website; and/or

· About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details (such as the webpages you review and the time you spend reviewing them).

We collect this information:

· Directly from you when you provide it to us, upon our request or otherwise, through our Website, by any other means of communication, or otherwise.

· Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, or Matomo Web Analytics.

· From third parties, for example, our certified business partners or any institution or entity we are members of such as chambers of commerce or chambers of crafts, including third parties that use cookies or other tracking technology (such as Google reCaptcha).

 

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

· Information that you provide by creating an account, subscribing to our newsletter, inquiring on our products or services, our trade shows or other events, or generally, or filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our newsletter, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion, a trade fair or other event sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website, or a product complaint or return on our Website.

· Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

· Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

· Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

· Your business inquiries via the inquiry mask or search queries on the Website.

· Any information that are provided for the purpose of or during any communication we have with you by using other means of (electronic) communication, e.g. audio and/or video conferencing by “Microsoft Teams”, such as access data, content data (see, “User Contributions” immediately below), profile data, dial-in data, support/feedback data, or telemetry data.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website or other communication tools (such as audio and/or video conferencing tools), or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties, or shared by you, on your behalf or by another participant during or for the purposes of such other communication via an audio and/or video conferencing tool such as files, photos, videos, links or other content (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we take all reasonable and necessary steps and establish the required setting to protect your personal information, in particular while relying on other means of (electronic) communications, such as audio and video conferencing, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

· Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic/usage data and other communication data, the URL of the website accessed, the date and time of access, information about a successful page view, the amount of data transferred, the loading time, and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

· Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, your device’s operating system and the name of your internet service provider, your browser type and version, and the website from which you accessed our Website.

The information we collect automatically is mainly statistical or technical data, however may include personal information, and we do not store it with other personal information about. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

· Display our Website to you, and establish a smooth and uninterrupted connection,

· Ensure stability and security of our Website’s system, and protect against misuse.

· Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

· Speed up your searches.

· Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

· Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, certain functions of our Website may not perform properly. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For Information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Terms of Use.

· Matomo Web Analytics. We use the open source web analytics application Matomo on our Website. We have configured Matomo Web Analytics in a way that it does not collect personal information from users of our Website. In addition, IP anonymization ensures that IP addresses cannot be directly attributed to specific data subjects. Matomo Web Analytics is hosted exclusively on our own servers, and the data collected is only stored there. Matomo Web Analytics collects device information such as a device’s operating system, type and version of the browser used to access our Website, and user behavior such as anonymized IP addresses, title and URL of retrieved web pages, and date and time of any such requests.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

 

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies, alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Terms of Use.

 

Website hosting

Our Website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected via our Website is stored on the hoster's servers. Our hoster's servers are located in Germany. Our hoster processes the personal data only insofar as this is necessary to fulfill its contractual obligations to us. We have concluded an order processing contract (AVV) with our hoster. This ensures that the hoster processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with applicable laws.

 

Use of Google reCAPTCHA

For example, we use Google reCAPTCHA on our Website that uses cookies to analyze certain data (such as the IP address of your end device, the webpages you visited and on which the reCAPTCHA is integrated, the date and duration of your visit, technical data of your browser and operating system, your mouse pointer movements on the reCAPTCHA interface) that distinguish human traffic from bot traffic.

How We Use Your Information:

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

· To present our Website and its contents to you.

· To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

· To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

· To provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription of our newsletter, including expiration and renewal notices.

· To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

· To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

· In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

· For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. For more information, see Choices about How We Use and Disclose your Information. We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

 

Linking to Social Media

You will find buttons from the following social media services on our Website: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn.

For data protection reasons, we have deliberately decided against using direct plug-ins from social networks on our Website. By placing the buttons, we do not establish a direct connection from your Internet browser to the servers of the respective provider of the integration. It is merely a redirection through a link. Only when you actively click on the button of a network and thereby activate it does your browser establish a connection to the respective network and content from its site is loaded. The network provider (operator) receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding web page of our website. In addition, the data specified in the section "Processing of personal data when visiting our website" is transmitted to the respective provider and processed there (in the case of US providers in the USA). In the case of Facebook, according to the respective provider in Germany, the IP address is anonymized immediately after collection.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

· To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

· To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

· To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Uhrig Kanaltechnik GmbH's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Uhrig Kanaltechnik GmbH about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

· To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

· For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information. · With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

· To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

· To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

· If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Uhrig Kanaltechnik GmbH, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

· Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

· Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by send us an email stating your request to info@quick-lock.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

· Unsubscription from the newsletter

If you do not longer wish to receive the company´s newsletter, you can unsubscrible by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button in the footer of any newsletter.

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Residents of certain states, such as California, may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at info@uhrig-quick-lock.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

Residents of certain states, such as California may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

 

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

· Confirm whether we process their personal information.

· Access and delete certain personal information.

· Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).

· Data portability.

· Opt-out of personal data processing for:

· targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);

· sales; or

· profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).

· Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights or to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request send an email to info@quick-lock.us.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policys

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

 

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@uhrig-quick-lock.com.

 

Last modified: 30th of June, 2025