Privacy Policy

1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. The following information explains how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data refers to all information that can be used to personally identify you.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website, within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Percy & York GmbH, Bocholter Straße 4, 46325 Borken, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0)2861 82525 00, Email: hello@percyandyork.com. The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When you visit our website for purely informational purposes – that is, when you do not register or otherwise provide us with information – we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following information, which is technically necessary for us to display the website:

• Our visited website
• Date and time of access
• Amount of data transmitted (in bytes)
• Source/referrer from which you accessed the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (possibly in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not disclosed or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser bar.

3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network

To host our website and display its content, we use a service provider that performs these services either itself or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers located within the European Union.

All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, ensuring the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

4) Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable certain functions, we use cookies – small text files stored on your device. Some cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period and enable the saving of site settings (“persistent cookies”). You can find the storage duration in the cookie settings of your web browser.

If personal data is processed through cookies that we use, such processing is carried out either in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR for the performance of a contract, Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR if consent has been given, or Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interest in ensuring the best possible functionality of the website and a user-friendly, effective design of your visit.

You can configure your browser to notify you about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them, or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.

Please note that disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.