2 Groups of persons, purposes and data categories
Festo processes personal data relating to different groups of persons for different purposes. We would be happy to tell you about the situations in which your data is gathered, saved and processed as part of our collaborative work.
2.1 When using our online platforms
The benefits for you / the purposes for us
Festo provides various appealing online functions for you, which can support you in your day-to-day work in numerous ways. For these, we use personal data to determine your identity and to allow user authentication, e.g. to make your selected services and functions available to you from the Festo online platforms.
In addition, we also process personal data for security reasons, particularly to detect and prevent attacks on our websites or fraud attempts.
Data categories
When you use our websites, web applications or online tools, we save the following personal data, for example:
The type of device, browser and operating system that you used
Your IP address
The date and time of your visits
Use of the websites and their functions
Search terms, error messages, information about files that you have retrieved and the amount of data transmitted
Websites that you used to reach our websites and websites that you visited from our websites
We only save other personal data, such as:
- First name and last name
- Business contact details, such as e-mail address and telephone number
- Information specified as part of an enquiry
if you voluntarily share this data with us, e.g. as part of the registration process, an enquiry, a contact form, a survey or to perform a contract.
Cookies
To gather this data, we use cookies on our Festo online platforms. You can find more information about how Festo uses cookies in our cookie policy. This also explains how you can object to the use of cookies and the processing of the data obtained via cookies.
For your searches on Festo websites, you only need to set your cookie setting once! Your consents are stored and applied to all websites for different devices.
Web tools
Information on web tools used by Festo can be found under Web tools.
Links to other websites
This data privacy statement only applies to Festo online platforms and not to third-party websites and applications. Festo online platforms may contain links to third-party websites and applications that may be of interest to you.
Festo is not responsible for the gathering, processing and use of your data by third parties or for the content of these third-party websites.