Data protection


Privacy statement

1. Data protection at a glance

General notes

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens with your personal details when you visit our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be identified personally. You can find detailed information on the subject of data protection in the privacy statement below this text.

Data recording on our website


Who is responsible for recording data on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. His contact details are stated on the “Company Information” page of this website.

How do we record your data?
On the one hand your data are obtained when you communicate them to us. This may be, for example, details that you enter when filling in a contact form.
Other data are recorded automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are above all technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time the website is visited). This information is obtained automatically as soon as you enter our website.


What do we use the data for?

Part of the data is obtained in order to guarantee the faultless provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have concerning your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your saved personal data free of charge. You also have the right to demand the correction, barring or deletion of these data. You can contact us in this respect and regarding any other data protection questions at any time at the address stated in the company information. You also have a right to complain to the responsible supervisory authority.


2. General notes and obligatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal regulations on data protection and this privacy statement.

When you use this website, a certain amount of personal data are gathered. Personal data are data with which you can be identified personally. This privacy statement explains which data are recorded and what they are used for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We would like to point out that data transfer on the internet (e.g. when communicating via email) may have security gaps. Complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.

Note on the responsible party

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

gpi green partners international GmbH & Co. KG

Rockwoolstr. 14

45966 Gladbeck

Phone: +49 (0) 2043 37960

Email: kontakt@g-p-i.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who either alone or with others decides the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. name, email address).

Withdrawal of your consent to process data
Many data processing procedures are only possible with your express permission. You can withdraw consent that you have already given at any time. A formless email to us in this respect is sufficient. The legality of the data processing conducted up to the time of the withdrawal is unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to complain to the responsible supervisory body
In the event that data protection laws are violated, the person affected has the right to complain to the responsible supervisory body. The responsible supervisory body in questions of data protection regulations is the state data protection officer of the state in which our company has its headquarters. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be viewed by clicking on the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

The right to transfer data
You have the right to have data that we process on the basis of your consent or in the process of fulfilling a contract handed out either to yourself or to third parties in a standard, machine-readable format. If you demand the direct transfer of data to another responsible person, this can only be done if it is technically feasible.

SSL and TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transfer of confidential data such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as website operators, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You will recognise an encrypted connection by the browser address changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol on your browser line.
When the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by any third parties.

Information, deletion, blocking

You have the right, within the framework of the legally applicable regulations, to obtain information about your saved personal details, their origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing free of charge at any time, and the right to correct, block or delete these data. You can contact us at any time regarding this or any other matter pertaining to personal details using the website operator's address as stated on the company information page.

Contradiction to advertising mails
The use of contact details published as part of the legal obligation in Germany to provide a masthead (company information page) to communicate unsolicited advertising and information material is hereby contradicted. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take recourse to legal measures in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as via spam emails.


3. Data protection officer

Legally mandatory data protection officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Peter Strotmann

gpi green partners international GmbH & Co. KG

Rockwoolstr. 14

45966 Gladbeck


Phone: +49 2043 379618

Email: peter.strotmann@g-p-i.de



4. Data recording on our website

Contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your information from the form, including the contact details you have given there, will be saved by us for the purpose of answering your enquiry and in the event of any subsequent questions. We will not pass on this information without your consent.
This means that the processing of the data entered on the contact form takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 (a) GDPR). You can withdraw this consent at any time. A formless email to us in this respect is sufficient. The legality of the data processing steps conducted up to the time of the withdrawal is unaffected by the withdrawal.
The information provided by you on the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent for us to store it or the purpose of the data storage is no longer present (e.g. after your enquiry has been processed completely). Any mandatory legal regulations, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.


Comment function on this website

In addition to your comment, information about the time the comment was written, your email address and, if you are not posting anonymously, the user name you have chosen will be saved via the comment function on this website.

Duration of commentary storage

Comments and the data connected to them (e.g. IP address) are saved and remain on our website until the content commented on has been completely deleted or the comment has to deleted for legal reasons (e.g. offensive comments).

Legal basis

Comments are saved on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Section 1 (a) GDPR). You can withdraw consent that you have given at any time. A formless email to us in this respect is sufficient. The legality of the data processing steps conducted up to the time of the withdrawal is unaffected by the withdrawal.

5. Plug-ins and tools

Google Web Fonts
In order to present fonts in a uniform style, this website uses what are known as web fonts, which are provided by Google. When calling up a page, your browser downloads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
To this end, the browser you are using must connect to the Google servers. This means that Google has access to the knowledge that our website has been called up via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interests of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This is deemed to be a justified interest in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 (f) GDPR.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

You can find further information on Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy statement: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use the Google Maps functions, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the US and saved there. The provider of this website has no influence over this data transfer.
We use Google Maps in the interests of making an appealing presentation of our online offers and to facilitate finding the locations mentioned on our website. This is deemed to be a justified interest in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 (f) GDPR.
You can find more information on dealing with user data in Google’s privacy statement: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.