Privacy Policy

Where data processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time and without giving reasons. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data carried out on the basis of your consent before its withdrawal (see Section IV, “Right to Object”).

1. Visiting the website

When you visit our website, our servers temporarily store data in a log file known as a server log file. This data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. The following data is stored:

• IP address of the requesting computer

• Date and time of access/retrieval

• Name and URL of the data retrieved

• Operating system of your computer and the browser you use

• Country from which our website is accessed

• Name of the Internet service provider

• Time difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

• Content of the request (specific page)

• Access status/HTTP status code

• Amount of data transferred in each case

• Website visited immediately beforehand

• Browser settings

• Language and version of the browser software

• Enabled browser plug-ins

Legal basis: Processing is based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Retention period: Personalized data is stored for 30 days and then deleted. 

Provision of data: The provision of the personal data listed above is not required by law or contract. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. 

2. Contact 

When you use the online forms available on our website (e.g. contact forms, event registration forms or other registration forms), we process the personal data you submit in order to deal with your enquiry and to handle and process the relevant request or registration. The information marked as mandatory is required for this purpose.

• Salutation

• First name

• Last name

• Company

• Street

• Postcode

• City

• Country

• Telephone

• Email address

• Reason for enquiry (message)

The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in providing this service. If the contact is made for the purpose of performing a contract to which you or the company for which you work is a party, or for taking steps prior to entering into a contract, this constitutes an additional legal basis for processing the data. Your data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

3. Newsletter

If you have consented to receive our newsletters or other electronic communications, we may use technologies to measure their effectiveness and analyse their use. These include, in particular, tracking pixels and personalised links.

These technologies enable us, in particular, to determine whether and when an email was opened and which links were clicked. Technical information such as your IP address, details of the device or browser used, and the times of interactions may also be processed. The purpose of this processing is to analyse and optimise our communications, improve our services and tailor marketing activities to users’ needs. Your consent is the legal basis for this processing. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future, in particular by using the unsubscribe link in the relevant email or by contacting us.

We may use external service providers to send and analyse our electronic communications.

Recipients of the data: We use HubSpot Germany GmbH, Koppenstrasse 93, 10243 Berlin, for sending and, where applicable, analysing our communications. The company acts as our data processor.

Retention period: In this context, data is processed only for as long as the relevant consent remains in place.

Voluntary provision of data: You provide your personal data voluntarily and solely on the basis of your consent. Unfortunately, we cannot send you our newsletter without your consent.

Withdrawal of consent: You may unsubscribe from the newsletter and withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data at any time. The unsubscribe link is included in every newsletter.

4. Registration for Downloads

Purpose: Registration is required to access certain downloads. Your data is used exclusively to enable you to access the download you have requested. The data you enter is stored for the purpose of communicating with you individually.

Once you have successfully registered, you will be given access to the password-protected download area. The following information is required:

• First name

• Last name

• Email address

• Company

• Password

• Confirm password

• Product SAP number (as shown on the type plate)

• Product serial number (as shown on the type plate

Your consent is the legal basis for each of these processing activities.

Retention period: In this context, data is processed only for as long as the relevant consent remains in place.

Voluntary provision of data: You provide your personal data voluntarily and solely on the basis of your consent. Without the required information, we cannot provide you with access to the download area.

Withdrawal of consent: You may close your registration account at any time. If you close your registration account, your data relating to the download portal will be deleted, subject to statutory retention obligations.

5. Job Applications

If you apply for a position with us, your personal data will be processed by the Human Resources department of ARGO-HYTOS GmbH or by the group company offering the position for the purpose of handling the application process. This processing may also be carried out electronically. If we enter into an employment contract with an applicant, the data submitted will be stored for the purpose of administering the employment relationship, in compliance with statutory requirements.

If the application process ends without employment being offered, your data will be deleted in accordance with the retention periods applicable in your country, unless you have expressly consented to longer storage. You may withdraw this consent at any time.

6. Orders and Contracts

If you are named as a contact person in connection with a supply contract or order between us and a company, or in connection with an order we place with a company, your personal data will be processed for the purpose of performing and administering the relevant contract or order. This processing may also be carried out electronically. The following data is stored:

• Last name

• First name

• Company

• Position within the company

• Telephone number (direct line)

• Email address

The legal basis for processing is the performance of the relevant contract, order or assignment. Your data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose for which it was collected or when statutory retention periods have expired.

II. Disclosure of Data

We disclose your personal data only if you have expressly consented to this, if we are legally required to do so, or to the extent necessary in connection with your use of the website, responding to enquiries, processing orders or providing the services you have requested. In addition, we may transfer your data to affiliated group companies and sales partners as listed on our website.

The use of data disclosed to third parties is limited to the purposes stated above. These third-party companies are required to protect your data and privacy to the same extent as we do. If the level of data protection in a country is not considered equivalent to that required in Switzerland under the FADP or under the EU GDPR, we will use a contract to ensure that your personal data remains protected at all times in accordance with the FADP or the EU GDPR.

We disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

•  Group companies

• External sales partners

• Logistics partners

• Internet service providers

• IT service providers

• Email marketing partners

• Credit-check companies and debt collection partners

If we engage subcontractors to provide our services, we take appropriate legal precautions and implement suitable technical and organizational measures to ensure that personal data is protected in accordance with the applicable statutory provisions.

III. Data Retention Period

We retain personal data for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected, or for the period for which we are required to retain it under applicable laws and regulations or contractual agreements. We delete personal data that we no longer need.

IV. Your Data Protection Rights

Where ARGO-HYTOS collects and processes personal data about you, you have the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing, the right to data portability, the right to object and the right to withdraw consent. To ensure that we do not disclose personal data to unauthorised persons, we may require proof of identity and information about your interactions with us.

Access: You have the right to request information about whether and to what extent we process personal data about you, as well as more detailed information about how your data is used.

Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct data we hold about you if you believe it to be inaccurate or incomplete.

Erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. This is possible if you withdraw your consent to data processing, if we no longer need your data for the original purpose, or if we are not legally required to retain the data.

Restriction of processing: You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted, for example if you dispute the accuracy of the personal data or wish to limit its use.

Data portability: In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that the personal data you have provided to us be made available to you or to a controller designated by you in a commonly used, electronic, machine-readable format.

Right to object: You have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you where such processing is based on legitimate interests or the public interest. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Withdrawal of consent: You may withdraw your previously given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more purposes at any time by notifying us. Please note that withdrawal takes effect only for the future. It does not affect processing carried out before withdrawal.

If you are a citizen of the European Union or the European Economic Area, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority responsible for you locally in your country. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector), including their addresses, is available (in German only) at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html

Requests concerning the data protection rights listed above may be submitted informally, including by email, to any of the addresses provided at the beginning of this Privacy Notice.

V. Data Security

We implement technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data against manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorised persons, and to safeguard your rights and ensure compliance with the applicable data protection provisions.

The measures taken are intended to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your data and to maintain the availability and resilience of our systems and services over time when processing your data. They are also intended to ensure that, in the event of a physical or technical incident, data can be restored quickly and made available.

As a general rule, we restrict access to personal data. Persons who have access to personal data are obliged to keep this information confidential.

VI. Data Analysis

1. Cookies

This website also uses cookies to track website usage. Cookies are small files that a web portal places on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit it. This enables the portal to “remember” certain entries and settings (e.g. login details, language, font size and other display preferences) for a certain period, so that you do not have to enter them again each time you visit or navigate the portal.

We use cookies on our pages to record whether you have participated in a survey about the usefulness of the content (so that you are not prompted again by a pop-up window to respond) or your decision to allow or refuse the use of cookies on this portal. Some videos embedded on our pages also use cookies to create anonymous statistics about the pages previously visited and the videos selected.

The information collected using cookies is not used to identify you. Cookies are not used for any purposes other than those stated here.

If you block or delete cookies, you may have to adjust certain settings manually each time you visit our website and may experience limitations in some functions.

2. Web Analytics

Web analytics tools provided by the providers listed below are used to analyse usage data (connection data) in order to identify trends and improve our online services.

This means that these data are processed not only by us, but also on our behalf by web analytics service providers. They use the information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services relating to website and internet use. The web analytics service providers may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where third parties process the data on behalf of the web analytics service providers. The IP address transmitted by your browser in connection with Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data (see the Google Analytics terms below).

• Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google DoubleClick. Provider: Google Inc.; purpose: website analysis), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
  Google privacy policy
• HotJar Web Analytics Service. Provider: HotjarHotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3 Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 3155, Malta
  Hotjar Privacy Policy

To analyse and optimise our website, we use the marketing automation software HubSpot, provided by the US company HubSpot Inc., 2 Canal Park, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA. Various information about the use of our website and blog may be collected and analysed, including:

• Sections of the website and blog visited

• Frequency of visits to individual pages and time spent on them

• Order in which pages are visited

• Number of downloads

• Whether and which files offered on the website are downloaded

• Frequency of visits to landing pages

• Open rate of our emails to you

By visiting and using our website, you agree to the collection and analysis of these data. You can disable HubSpot tracking at any time by selecting “reject” in the cookie notice.

3. Links

This website may contain third-party content or links to third-party websites, which are provided solely for convenience and information. Please note that this Privacy Notice does not apply to third-party content or websites.

Third-party content and websites—including third-party websites that link to this website, display it in frames or are displayed in frames on this website—are outside our control. We accept no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or lawfulness of the content or links to other websites contained therein, or for any offers, services or similar items that may be provided there. You use such content or websites at your own risk.

3.1 Social Media

Our website contains links to our profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and YouTube. These links do not transmit personal data to the respective providers when you visit our website. A connection to the provider’s platform is established only when you click the relevant link. From that point onward, the provider processes data under its own responsibility. The provider’s privacy policy applies.

VII. Amendments to this Privacy Policy

Changes in legislation or the introduction of new services may make it necessary to amend this Privacy Notice. We therefore reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice as required. The version of the Privacy Notice in force at the time of your visit to our website shall apply.

Last updated: October 2026