version 1.0 (9 May 2025)
1. Information on the use of technical means (in particular cookies)
Our website uses technical aids for various functions, in particular so-called cookies.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and saved by your browser.
They are used to make our offers more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. We use so-called temporary cookies, which are deleted automatically when you close your browser (“session cookies”), as well as persistent (permanent) cookies.
When you visit our website, and at any time afterwards, you can choose whether to allow cookies and individual additional functions to be installed.
You can make changes in your browser settings or through our website.
If you refuse functions or cookies, you may not be able to use our website fully.
When we use cookies, we distinguish between essential cookies (for displaying and operating the website) and additional cookies, such as anonymous measurement of the number of visits (functional cookies) and marketing cookies (for advertising purposes and displaying relevant, personalised content).
Below, we would like to inform you about the various processing purposes and the services actually used. We will also describe the data processing that will take place.
2. Essential functions and cookies when using the website
We use functions that are essential for using the PADELXP website. These include so-called session cookies, which allow us to recognise you again when you visit the website during a single session. These session cookies contribute to the secure use of our website.
The legal basis for the processing is Article 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.
3. Use of functions for recording usage behaviour (tracking)
The use of tracking functions, which mainly collect information through cookies, allows us to analyse the use of our website and improve it accordingly. For this purpose, we may use either usage statistics (anonymous results) or functions that allow us to recognise users again when our website is accessed. This allows us to record access to our website and analyse it systematically.
Specifically, we use the following tracking functions: analysing how users navigate the website (for example, pages visited, length of visit, interactions with content) in order to generate anonymous statistics on the use of the website.
In this context, cookies are generally used to allow statistical analysis of how users use the website and to display content or advertising related to that use. Such cookies do not include any information that would make it possible to identify a user.
The data is processed on the basis of the legal provisions of Article 6(1)(1)(f) of the GDPR. Our concern under the GDPR (legitimate interest) is to analyse the use of our website and obtain statistics on its use, in order to ensure regular optimisation of our online service and our internet presence, so that our website becomes more interesting for you as a user. Because the privacy of our visitors is important to us, any data that may allow a reference to a natural person, such as the IP address, login data and device identifiers, is pseudonymised or anonymised as quickly as possible. There is no other processing or combination with other data or transfer to third parties.
4. Use of functions for advertising purposes
We use functions that use cookies for marketing purposes, for example to tailor advertising to the interests of a website’s visitors. They are also used to limit how often ads are shown and to measure the effectiveness of ads. They record the elements that are clicked. This allows us to record information about users’ habits in order to provide interest-based advertising. The advertising networks used may share this information with third parties. In such cases, the advertising partner regularly sets the cookies directly.
5. Use of Google Ads / Google Remarketing
We use the Google Ads service to draw attention to our attractive products on external websites using advertising tools (so-called Google advertising). These advertising tools are provided by Google through so-called “ad servers”. Ad server cookies are used in this process, which allow performance parameters to be analysed, for example ad impressions, clicks and conversions. This allows us to determine how successful individual advertising measures are in relation to advertising campaign data.
If you visit our website through a Google ad, Google Ads will save a cookie on your device. These cookies are not intended to identify you personally. Through the cookie integration, Google is informed that you have visited the corresponding page of our website or clicked on one of our ads, through the inclusion of tracking tools. If you are registered with a Google service, Google may link the visit to your account.
Even if you are not registered with Google or are not logged in, the provider may find out and store your IP address. With the help of the company’s conversion remarketing technologies, users who have already visited our website and online services and shown an interest in our products will see other related ads on other websites in the Google Partners network.
As a rule, the following analysis values are also saved:
- Unique cookie ID
- Number of ad impressions per placement (frequency)
- Last impression (relevant for post-view conversions)
- Opt-out information (marking that the user no longer wishes to be contacted)
The cookies set by Google allow Google to recognise your internet browser again in future. If a user visits certain pages of an Ads customer’s website and the cookie saved on their device has not expired, Google and the customer can detect that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this website.
Each Ads customer is assigned a different cookie, so the cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of Ads customers.
Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Google server on the basis of the marketing tools implemented.
We ourselves do not independently collect any personal data during the advertising measures mentioned; we only give Google the opportunity to obtain the data.
In this respect, we are jointly responsible with Google for the collection and transfer of data.
Under data protection law, Google is responsible for the further processing of the data.
The statistical analysis is provided to us by Google only. This analysis allows us to identify which of the advertising measures implemented are particularly effective.
We do not receive any other data as a result of implementing the advertising measures and, in particular, we cannot identify users on the basis of this information.
The legal basis for processing your data is Article 6(1)(1)(a) of the GDPR.
Please note that Google may process data outside the European Union. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has undertaken to comply with a standard corresponding to the former EU-US Privacy Shield. We have also agreed so-called standard contractual clauses with Google, the purpose of which is to ensure a reasonable level of data protection in the third country.
We use Google Ads with the Google Remarketing function to offer you advertising tailored to your interests.
This application allows our advertising to be shown when you visit other websites after visiting our website. This is done using cookies saved in your browser, through which your usage behaviour is captured and analysed by Google when you visit various websites.
This allows Google to determine whether you have previously visited our website. According to Google, the data collected in remarketing is not combined with your personal data that may be stored by Google. In particular, according to Google, pseudonymisation is used during remarketing. You can prevent the remarketing function by not accepting its use and also by subsequently revoking your consent, as described in the paragraph below. The legal basis is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(1)(a) of the GDPR.
If you do not want advertising tailored to your interests to be displayed after you have given your consent, or if you do not want the remarketing function to be used, you can revoke your consent in the cookie settings on our website or disable this function in the cookie settings of your browser.
You can also notify Google of this directly for the future via the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/ .
You can also object to Google remarketing via the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): http://optout.networkadvertising.org .
Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies by third-party providers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out site ( http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp ) or by managing the use of device identifiers in your device settings ( https://support.google.com/ads/answer/1660762#mob). Further information about the provider can be found at https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2549063?hl=de/ . Full information on data protection at Google can be found on the company’s website at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html
6. LinkedIn Insight Tag
In addition, the website uses the so-called LinkedIn Insight Tag (or LinkedIn Pixel) of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn”). Through the integration of the JavaScript tag, you as a user of our website may be shown interest-based ads (“ads”) that are relevant to you when you visit the LinkedIn social network or other websites that also use the procedure, and we receive statistics about website visitors and demographic data.
In addition, we can evaluate your use of our LinkedIn advertising and your interest in our services through a conversion tracking function, and we can also show you LinkedIn ads on other websites through retargeting. In this way we pursue our interest in improving the effectiveness of LinkedIn ads and making our website more interesting for you.
Through the integration of the LinkedIn Insight Tag, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the LinkedIn server, both when you visit the LinkedIn website and when you visit websites that have integrated the LinkedIn Insight Tag. LinkedIn and PADELXP are jointly responsible for collecting your usage data when you visit our website and for transmitting it to the provider, but LinkedIn is solely responsible for the processing relevant to achieving the objectives described once the data has been transferred.
We have no influence over the extent and type of use of the data by LinkedIn, so we inform you according to the state of our knowledge: through the integration of the LinkedIn Insight Tag, LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our website or clicked on one of our ads. If you are registered with a LinkedIn service, LinkedIn may link the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered on LinkedIn or are not logged in, the provider may obtain information about your IP address, time window and other identifying characteristics and associate it with actions that can be attributed to you.
You can disable the LinkedIn Insight Tag and other advertising objections in the ad settings at https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62931?trk=microsites-frontend_legal_privacy-policy&lang=en and also at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out. Further configuration options and additional information can be found in the LinkedIn Privacy Centre: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1337839/gestionarea-setarilor-de-cont-si-confidentialitate?lang=ro-RO
The legal basis for processing your data for the purposes mentioned above is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(1)(a) of the GDPR.
You can revoke your consent at any time. The easiest way to do this is to deselect the function in the cookie settings.
LinkedIn also processes your personal data in the USA and has undertaken to comply with a standard corresponding to the EU-US Privacy Shield. We have also agreed so-called standard contractual clauses with LinkedIn, the purpose of which is to ensure a reasonable level of data protection in the third country.
By giving your consent, you agree not only to the setting of cookies and the analysis of usage, but also to the transfer of the information saved in cookies to the USA and to the possible access to this data by US authorities.
The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(a) and Article 49(1)(a) of the GDPR.
Further information on data processing by LinkedIn can be obtained from the provider, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Attn: Legal Dept. (Privacy Policy and User Agreement), Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland; information about the LinkedIn Insight Tag: https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/a420835/-linkedin-insight-tag?lang=ro-RO ; data protection information: https://ro.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy%2F
7. Integration of Google Maps
Through an API, this website uses Google Maps, a map service provided by Google Inc. To use the functions of Google Maps, Google sets technically necessary cookies and possibly tracking and analysis cookies, so that your user behaviour can be analysed. For this purpose, Google processes your IP address and other usage data, such as GPS location data, if you have given your consent before using the map service. This information is normally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have no influence over this data transfer. Google may link the usage data with other data and assign it to your Google account if you are logged in to it. Google Maps is used to provide an attractive presentation of our online services and to help you easily find the locations shown on our website.
The legal basis for processing your data for the purposes mentioned above is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(1)(a) of the GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. The easiest way to do this is to deselect the function in our cookie settings.
By giving your consent, you agree not only to the setting of cookies and the linking of your usage data by Google, but also to the transfer to the USA and the possible access to this data by US authorities.
The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(a) and Article 49(1)(a) of the GDPR.
Further information on the processing of your user data can be found in Google’s data protection policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=ro
8. PADELXP social media profiles. Facebook fan page
For the information services offered here, we use the technical platform and services of Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. We would like to inform you that you use our Facebook page and its functions at your own risk. This applies in particular to the use of interactive functions (for example, Comment, Share, Rate).
When you visit our Facebook page, Facebook records, among other things, your IP address and additional information found on your PC in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the provider of the Facebook pages, with statistical information about the use of our Facebook page (so-called Facebook “insights”). Facebook provides further information via the following link. When you visit our Facebook page, Facebook records, among other things, your IP address and additional information found on your PC in the form of cookies. This information is used to provide us, as the provider of the Facebook pages, with statistical information about the use of our Facebook page (so-called Facebook “insights”). Facebook provides further information via the following link: http://de-de.facebook.com/help/pages/insights.
The data collected in this context is processed by Facebook Ltd. and may be transferred to countries outside the European Union, in particular the USA. Your data may be transferred to the USA, where, according to the information provided by Facebook, a reasonable level of data protection is maintained, corresponding to the former EU-US Privacy Shield ( www.privacyshield.gov). Facebook describes in general terms what information it receives and how it uses it in its Data Use Guidelines. These also provide information on how to contact Facebook and how to change your advertising settings. The data use policies are available at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0 . The following Facebook help pages provide details on how to manage and delete existing information about you: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=data_policy_redirect&entry=0
Facebook does not state conclusively and clearly, and we do not know, to what extent Facebook uses the data from your visit to the Facebook pages for its own purposes, to what extent activities on the Facebook pages are assigned to individual users, how long Facebook stores this data and whether data from a visit to the Facebook page is passed on to third parties. Processing of data by Facebook may vary depending on whether you are registered and logged in to Facebook or visit the website as an unregistered and/or logged-out user.
When you access a Facebook page or contribute to a page, the IP address assigned to your device is transmitted to Facebook. According to Facebook, this IP address is anonymised and deleted after 90 days. In addition, Facebook saves information about its users’ devices (for example, as part of the “Login Notification” function); this may allow Facebook to assign IP addresses to individual users. If you are currently logged in to Facebook as a user, a cookie containing your Facebook ID is currently saved on your device. This allows Facebook to track that you have visited this page and how you used it. This also applies to all other Facebook pages. With the help of Facebook buttons embedded in websites, Facebook can record your visits to these websites and assign them to your Facebook profile. On the basis of this data, content or advertising can be tailored to you.
If you want to avoid or restrict the data processing described above by Facebook, you must log out of Facebook or disable the “stay logged in” function, delete all cookies on your device and restart your browser. This deletes the Facebook information that can be used to identify you, and you can use our Facebook page without revealing your Facebook ID. If you try to use the interactive functions of the page (Like, Comment, Share, Messages, etc.), a Facebook login screen is displayed. After you log in, Facebook can identify you again as a specific user.
In addition, as a provider of information services, we only process the data from the use of our service that you provide and that requires interaction. For example, if you ask a question that we can only answer by email, we will save your information in accordance with our general data protection principles, as described in this document.
The legal basis for processing your data on the fan page is Article 6(1)(1)(f) of the GDPR.
You can contact either us or Facebook to exercise your rights as a data subject. If one party is not responsible for providing an answer or needs to receive information from the other party, we or Facebook will forward the query to the other relevant party. Please contact Facebook directly with any questions about the creation of your profile, the processing of your data when you use the website and insights (see the link above).
For more information about Facebook, other social networks and how you can protect your data, see www.youngdata.de.
9. Integration of YouTube
On this website we use components of the YouTube video platform, operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“YouTube”).
YouTube sets cookies that allow information about users and their behaviour to be collected in order to provide video functionality, personalise content, recommend videos and track user interaction with the platform. When you watch a YouTube video embedded on our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the YouTube servers. This allows data such as your IP address, device type, pages accessed and viewing time to be collected.
If you are logged in to your Google account, your visit to our website may be linked directly to your YouTube profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Google account before visiting our website.
The legal basis for the use of YouTube is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) and Article 49(1)(a) of the GDPR, where data is transferred to the USA.
You can revoke your consent at any time by changing your cookie settings. Further information on data processing by YouTube/Google is available here: Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google
10. Use of the TikTok Pixel
On this website we use the TikTok Pixel, a service provided by TikTok Technology Limited, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland (“TikTok”). The TikTok Pixel is an analysis tool that helps us understand the actions of visitors to our website and the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns on the TikTok platform.
Through this pixel, TikTok collects data such as IP address, device type, operating system, browser type, browsing behaviour on the website (for example, pages viewed, conversions, products added to the cart) and data about interactions with TikTok ads.
This data may be linked to users’ TikTok accounts and used to display personalised ads (retargeting), optimise ad performance and create custom audiences.
The legal basis for the use of the TikTok Pixel is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) and Article 49(1)(a) of the GDPR, where data is transferred outside the European Union.
Further information on how TikTok collects and processes data can be found in the TikTok privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy-eea?lang=ro