Data Protection

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

We have implemented additional procedures that anonymize the user's IP-address. With the so called "User-ID-Disguise" the last 2 digits of the IP-address are deleted and therefore the visitor of the website stays anonymous.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
To provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, we have developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js).

If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 8-11, Safari, Firefox and Opera. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. For Internet Explorer, 3rd-party cookies must be enabled. Learn more about the opt-out and how to properly install the browser add-on here.
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Use of Facebook Social Plugins
Our website uses social plugins ("plugins") of the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. The plugins can be identified by one of the Facebook logos (white "f" on a blue tile, or a "thumbs up" sign) or are marked with the notation "Facebook Social Plugin". The list and the appearance of Facebook social plugins can be viewed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins.

If you visit a web page on our site containing such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The contents of the plugin are transmitted from Facebook directly to your browser and incorporated into the website. We therefore have no effect on the amount of data gathered by Facebook using this plugin and thus inform you according to our level of knowledge:

By integrating the plugins, Facebook receives the information that you have visited the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, by using the Like button or leaving a comment, the corresponding information is sent from your browser directly to Facebook, where it is stored. If you are not a member of Facebook, Facebook may nevertheless find out and store your IP address.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights and privacy protection setting options relating to this, please see Facebook's data privacy information.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website and to link this to your account information stored on Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

It is also possible to block Facebook Social Plugins with add-ons for your browser.

Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH has appointed an external data protection officer, Mr. Henning Welz.
gds – Gesellschaft für Datenschutz Mittelhessen mbH
datenschutz@gdsm.de
www.gdsm.de