Privacy Policy


Data Protection Policy

Storage and processing of personal data

Every time a user accesses a page on our website, and every time a file is accessed, access data regarding these actions is anonymised and stored in a log file on our server or on the servers of our service providers. This procedure immediately and automatically deletes any references to specific persons in the data.

Every data record consists essentially of the following:

  • the page from which the file was requested

  • the name of the file

  • the date and time of the request

  • IP address of the device from which the request was made

  • the volume of data transmitted

  • the access status (file transmitted, data not found, etc.)

  • a description of the type of web browser used

These anonymized, stored data are only evaluated for statistical purposes.

Where there is an option to enter personal or commercial data (email addresses, names, addresses) on one of our websites, this disclosure of this data by the user is always expressly voluntary. We only use the data provided to fulfil the desired purpose. Data is strictly processed in accordance with legal provisions. Mandatory information is clearly marked as such.

We exclusively store and process your personal details to fulfil our own business purposes. We handle your data confidentially and do not disclose it to third parties without justification.

Data regarding use of our website is only allocated to individual users with the users’ prior consent (see below).
We use third parties as service providers to process data, including personal data in the context of our own business purposes. These third parties are cloud providers, activity analysis service providers and web analysis services. The following text contains more detailed descriptions of these services providers.

You can, on request and at any time, obtain information on the type and scope of personal data we hold concerning you. Additionally, in accordance with legal provisions, you have the right to rectification, the right to block and the right to deletion of this personal data.

Responsible contact

The body responsible for processing the data collected on this website and as part of using the webshop is:
HARTING Korea Limited Tel .: +82 31 750 0380; Email: [email protected]

The contact persons at HARTING Korea are:
Lee, Seung-Pyo, B-B108, Worim Lions Valley 5th, 302 Galmachi-ro, Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13201 Republic of Korea
Tel: +82 31 750 0380; Email: [email protected]

Kim Heung-Tae, B-B108, Worim Lions Valley 5th, 302 Galmachi-ro, Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13201 Republic of Korea
Tel: +82 31 750 0380; Email: [email protected]

Tracking mechanisms

Tracking mechanisms permit the operators of a website to monitor and if necessary control the online marketing measures deployed on the basis of their effect. The terms “web controlling”, “web analysis” or “traffic analysis” are frequently used synonymously with the term tracking. Tracking comprises monitoring the success, controlling and analyzing the efficiency of a website and the online marketing measures employed.

Mechanisms used for tracking generally examine where the visitors to a website come from, the nature of their conduct and activities on the platform and also, if relevant, what happens after they leave the site. There are basically two different methods for carrying out tracking.
HARTING uses tracking mechanisms to measure or analyze reach and to personalize offers. If you are a registered user and you have logged on, HARTING will also use tracking mechanisms to build a profile.

Measurement and analysis of reach

The measurement and analysis of reach (also referred to as clickstream analysis, data traffic analysis, traffic analysis, web analysis, web controlling, etc.) is the collection of data and their evaluation with respect to the behaviour of visitors to websites. One analytical mechanism typically examines where visitors come from, which areas of a website they visit and how often and for how long individual pages and categories are viewed. It serves primarily to optimize the website and to better achieve certain objectives (e.g. to increase page views, visitor frequency, newsletter subscriptions). A fundamental distinction can be drawn in web analysis between evaluation procedures for permanently measuring the effectiveness of pages and methods for identifying weaknesses on the website and ways of improving them.

Cookies

On this website we use cookies which are stored on your end device as soon as you use the website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard disk, assigned to the browser you use. These cookies transfer information, e.g. about the use of a website, to the processing unit which sets the cookie. This could be us as the website operator, but also a third parties. Cookies do not execute programs and are not able to transfer viruses to your computer.

Using cookies enables us to make it easier to navigate a website and also offers a high degree of user-friendliness. Moreover, cookies help us to identify particularly popular areas of our website. They make it possible to collect information regarding a specific period of time and identify the visitor’s computer. We use permanent cookies to improve user guidance and provide personalised content (“persistent cookies”). We also use so-called session cookies, which are automatically deleted when you close your browser (“transient cookies”).

We use the following categories of cookies on our website:

Essential cookies: These cookies are required for you to be able to move around the website and use specific functions, esp. relevant for security reasons. They ensure the stability of the website, offer a secure log-in, store e.g. the progress of your order, your log-in data and your shopping cart. It also saves your language settings.

Functional cookies: They are used to provide the services you request, for example, if you want to watch a video. Functionality cookies are also used to maintain settings you make on the website (e.g. location). These cookies are not able to track your browsing on other websites and cannot track where you have surfed the Internet outside of our website. Without these cookies, we will not be able to provide certain services you request. All information collected by these cookies is anonymous and is used solely to improve the functionality and service of the website.

Statistic cookies: To further improve our offer and our website, we collect anonymous data for statistics and analysis. With the help of these cookies we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages of our website and optimise our content. In addition, we use cookies on our website which enable us to analyse the surfing behaviour of our users. Analytical cookies enable us to analyse the website so that we can measure and improve the performance of our pages. The data collected from you in this way is pseudonymised by technical precautions so that it is no longer possible to assign the data to you. The data will not be stored together with other personal data about you.

Personalisation cookies: We use personalisation cookies to recognize you when you visit our website again and to personalize content and save your settings. These cookies are used to display personalized content to you according to your interests. We also use retargeting or remarketing cookies to help us deliver ads that are relevant to your interests based on your individual browsing habits within the respective advertising network. On these pages, you may be presented with advertisements relating to content that you have previously viewed on other websites

Control cookie deployment: Cookies required for the operation of this website are set automatically when the website is called up. Other cookies and functionalities not required for use by us as website operator and by any third party may only be used after your consent. To this end, when you call up this website, you will be asked to select a selection of permitted cookies and functions. This selection is in turn stored in a cookie until you delete this cookie from your end device.

In the cookie settings on our website, you may find further information about the specific cookies used. There you can also correct the selection of permitted cookies and functions at any time via the user guide for the consent of cookies. In general, you can preset the use of cookies on your hard drive in your browser settings. Please note in this case: If you completely block cookies from being used in the settings of the web browser you use, you will be unable to use certain functionalities of our website or will be restricted in doing so.

Contentsquare

At HARTING.com, we use the service Acquia Lift supplied by Acquia Inc., 53 State Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, USA. All data collected are stored and processed on servers within the EU.
Provided you give us your consent, this website uses technologies from Content Square SaaS. Interaction data of the website visitor is collected in a pseudonymized form for the purpose of optimizing the usability of the website using cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is usually transmitted to a Contentsquare server and stored there. The IP address transmitted by your browser is not merged with other Contentsquare data. Contentsquare guarantees the shortening of your IP address so that all data is collected anonymously. The following cookies are stored by Contentsquare: _cs_id, to recognize returning website users (up to 13 months) _cs_s, a session cookie that is created at the beginning of the website visit, and deleted 30 minutes after the last page view. The use of Contentsquare is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO).

Newsletter and Microsoft Marketing

As part of your registration for an email newsletter, we need your email address to which the newsletter is to be sent. Any other information is given voluntarily and will be used to address you personally and tailor the newsletter to your personal preferences and clarify queries regarding your email address.

A valid email address, the country and a language are needed to receive the newsletter. The IP address through which you register for the newsletter as well as the date and time when you order the newsletter are also stored. We need these data as evidence in the event of abuse, in case the email address registered for the newsletter does not belong to the user. To provide further security against an email address being improperly registered by third parties in our circulation list, we provide a “double opt-in” procedure. In this procedure, you will receive a confirmation email after registering, sent to the email address specified. You will only receive the desired email newsletter if you confirm your registration by clicking on a link contained in this email. As part of this procedure, the order for the newsletter, the despatch of the confirmation email and receipt of the confirmation of registration are all logged.

We would draw your attention to the fact that we will evaluate your user habits when sending newsletters. To do so, we use the tracking functions of Microsoft Marketing (Sandyford Business Estate, Dublin 18, Ireland). The data is stored in Microsoft Azure Services of Microsoft Ireland Operations (Sandyford Business Estate, Dublin 18, Ireland) such as MS Dynamics or Power BI. Your data is not stored on servers outside the EU.

The emails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels which represent one-pixel image files which are stored on our website. For these evaluations, we combine the data collected and the web beacons with your email address and an individual ID. Links received in the newsletter also contain this ID. We use the data thus acquired to create a user profile to tailor the newsletter to your individual interests. In the process, we record when you read our newsletter, which links you click on and from this we deduce your personal interests. We combine these data with the actions you perform on our website.

Tracking by means of web beacons or tracking pixels is not possible if you have deactivated the display of images in your email program as your standard setting. In this case, the newsletter will not be fully displayed and you may not be able to use all its functions. If you have the images displayed manually, the tracking described above will be performed. In the cookie settings on our website, you may find further information about the specific cookies and technologies used.

You have the option at any time to revoke your consent to the storage of your data, email address and their use for the despatch of the newsletter, with effect for the future. We provide you with a link in every newsletter for such revocation. You also have the option to communicate your desire to revoke your consent in writing to be sent to the contact options listed in the legal notice.

myHARTING

If you use myHARTING, we will store the data we require from you to provide this service until you deactivate your access according to Article 50(1) of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. We will also store the details which you provide voluntarily for as long as you use myHARTING. You can view all your details in the protected customer area and if so desired, you can have them changed or deleted by us. The legal basis is provided by Article 50(1).

If you use myHARTING, we will store the data we require from you to provide this service until you deactivate your access according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We will also store the details which you provide voluntarily for as long as you use myHARTING. You can view all your details in the protected customer area and if so desired, you can have them changed or deleted by us. The legal basis is provided by Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

To prevent unauthorized access to your personal data by third parties, the connection is encrypted by means of TLS technology.

Usage-based and/or personalized offers

We want our offers to be as useful and interesting as possible for our users. For this purpose, we send offers and make product recommendations which if possible match the user’s personal interests (personalized and/or usage-based offers). We use cookies and other technologies to record such data.

Usage-based online advertising: Our website or the linked website from which a user comes, collects and processes a visitor’s usage habits. The latter benefits as the advertising generated matches certain areas of interest — altogether, less randomly scattered advertising is shown. A cookie is stored on the user’s PC to record their user habits.

We use tools of the following companies to collect data in order to provide user-based online advertising:

  • Google

  • Facebook

  • Quora

  • Twitter

  • LinkedIn

  • Bing

In the cookie settings on our website, you may find further information about the specific cookies used.

Personalized offers: We also use these technologies to recognize users again. Personalized offers are based on the analysis of the particular visitor’s purchase habits as well as their use of our electronic media.

Specifically, we use the following data to tailor advertising to you and your interests:

  • data contained in your customer account and data which you communicate to us when processing purchases (master data)

  • data relating to your — previous or future — purchases made from HARTING (transaction data) and information derived from them (e.g. what products you prefer to purchase or configure)

  • information (including cross-device information) automatically generated on visits to our electronic media (website or app) including date and time of the visit (usage data) and information derived from such visits (e.g. what content you frequently view)

  • products which you have searched for or viewed in our electronic media

The analysis and evaluation of the information specified allow us to make offers and product recommendations individually tailored to users’ interests. Personalized offers can be sent by letter, on visits to our electronic media (website and app) or — if separate consent has been given — by email or push notification.

To optimize our offers on the basis of your usage interests, we use the following tool:

Measuring and analyzing reach with Google Analytics

To design our website in a way that meets users’ needs, we create pseudonymised user profiles with the help of Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway 1600, 94043 Mountain View, CA (US) and Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). Google uses cookies to facilitate analysis of how individual visitors use a website. The information generated by the cookie regarding use of this website is generally transmitted to, and stored on, one of Google’s servers in the USA. However, as we have activated IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google prior to its transmission from within European Union member states or in other signatory countries of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances will your full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA before being truncated. Google will use this information on behalf of us in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports regarding website activities and to provide us with additional services relating to usage of the website and the internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.

Preventing the measurement and analysis of reach and the creation of profiles

You can prevent the measurement of reach and the creation of user profiles (pseudonymous or personalized) by Google Analytics at any time. The following options are available to you:

  • You can prevent storage of the cookies used to create a profile by making the appropriate setting in your browser software, as described above.

  • A further option is to install an “opt-out cookie” which you can find under the following link: However, the web analysis is only discontinued for as long as the opt-out cookie is stored by the browser.

  • Depending on the browser used, you also have the option to install a browser plug-in which prevents tracking. Simply install the browser plug-in which can be downloaded there.

Data security

We would point out that the protection of personal data cannot be comprehensively guaranteed for transmission within the internet with the technology currently available. Under certain circumstances, third parties may be able to intervene in network security without authorization and follow email correspondence. Please note in this context that the transmission of data by email is generally performed without encryption.

Retention period

HARTING will store personal detail collected for business purposes for as long as this is required for the business relationship, and will then delete the data. Business necessity no longer applies at the latest when all claims which may arise from the business relationship have expired in accordance with general regulations. In the event of doubt, this can be assumed to be the case 10 years after the last business transaction. If HARTING has received personal data and no business transaction ensues, the data will be deleted after 3 years at the latest. HARTING will of course also delete data if the business purpose does not apply, or no longer does so, and the user revokes their consent.

Right of access, rectification and information

You have the right to obtain information about the personal data concerning you (Art. 15 GDPR) that is processed by us. Furthermore, you have a right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), deletion (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and a right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning them or similarly significantly affects them. In order to safeguard the rights and freedoms as well as the legitimate interests of the data subject, there is therefore at least the right to express one's point of view and to contest the decision. There is also the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority at any time.

Right to object to your consent or against data processing

If you have given your consent for the processing of your data (6 I a GDPR or Art. 9 I I a GDPR), you have the right to revoke this consent at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. Right to object to data collection in special cases and to direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 ABS. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSERTING, EXERCISING OR DEFENDING LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(1) GDPR). IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

Right to object to your consent or against data processing

You also have the right to submit complaints at any time to the respective supervisory authority for data privacy. To do so, please contact the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for North Rhine-Westphalia, Kavalleriestrasse 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany – Postal address: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit NRW, PO Box 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf, Germany.

Revocation

You can at any time revoke consent granted for the use of your data in writing or electronically. The same applies if your personal data are processed in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR.

Revocation by email: [email protected]

Revocation by post: attn.: Lee, Seung-Pyo, Gamchero 302, Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Worim Lions Valley 5th B-B108, 13201.

If you revoke your consent to the storage and processing of your data, HARTING Korea will not be able to provide certain services such as participation in competitions.

If you lodge an objection, we will no longer process your personal data. This does not apply if we can show compelling, sensitive reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

Validity of data protection policy

We reserve the right to amend or adapt this data protection policy from time to time. This policy was last amended on 28 August 2023.