Privacy Policy

1. Controller

bq-microwave GmbH & Co. KG
Hohe Str. 23
71549 Auenwald
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 151 25290128
E-mail: info@bq-microwave.de

General partner: bq-microwave Verwaltung GmbH, registered office Auenwald, Stuttgart Local Court HRB 803687, Managing Director Dion Gallinat.

2. General Information

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and treat your data confidentially in accordance with statutory data protection regulations (GDPR, BDSG, TDDDG) and this privacy policy. This website can generally be used without providing personal data.

3. Hosting

This website is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. Server location: Nuremberg, Germany. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in a stable and secure web presence). A data processing agreement (DPA) pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with Hetzner.

4. Server Logs

When you visit our website, the browser automatically transmits information to our server, which is temporarily stored in server log files:

This data is automatically deleted after 7 days. No cross-referencing with other data sources takes place. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in error-free operation and security of the website).

5. Contact Form and E-mail Contact

When you contact us via the contact form or by e-mail, your details (name, company, e-mail address, phone number and address where applicable, message text) will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for any follow-up questions.

For the technical delivery of contact form e-mails, we use the service provider Resend Inc. (Plus Five Five, Inc.), 2261 Market Street #5039, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. A Data Processing Addendum (DPA) pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with Resend. Resend is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF); additionally, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses pursuant to Decision 2021/914 apply.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR (pre-contractual measures) or Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in efficient communication). The data will be deleted as soon as the request has been finally processed, unless statutory retention obligations (§ 147 AO, § 257 HGB) prevent deletion.

Additionally, your request data is securely stored on our own server (Hetzner, location Germany). Date/time, IP address, and browser information are also stored to detect abuse (e.g. spam attempts) and to ensure that your request reaches us even if the e-mail delivery service should fail. This processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in data security, spam protection, and availability of our communication). Access is password-protected and exclusively reserved for the Managing Director.

6. Cookies

This website only sets marketing/tracking cookies if you actively consent via our cookie banner (see Section 7b on Google Ads). Without your consent, no marketing or tracking cookies are set. Our web analytics (Plausible, Section 7a) is cookie-free. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by deleting this website's cookies in your browser. Legal basis for consent-based cookies: § 25 (1) TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR.

7. Embedded YouTube Videos

On a few product pages (Modules & Systems), we embed videos from the YouTube platform. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA).

We use the extended privacy mode (youtube-nocookie.com). According to YouTube, cookies are only set when you actually play the video. However, when you visit a page with a YouTube embed, a connection to Google servers is still established, during which your IP address may be transmitted.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in clear product presentation). Third-country transfer to the USA: Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; additionally, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses apply. Further information at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

7a. Web Analytics with Plausible Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly web analytics service. The provider is Plausible Insights OÜ, Sepapaja 6, 15551 Tallinn, Estonia.

Plausible generates aggregated, anonymised statistics about the use of our website (e.g. page views, referral sources, device types, countries). No cookies are set, no personal data is processed, and there is no cross-site tracking. IP addresses are neither stored nor used to identify individual users. Technical re-identification of individual visitors is not possible.

Data processing takes place exclusively on servers within the EU. Legal basis is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in aggregated, privacy-friendly usage statistics for improving our service). Consent pursuant to § 25 TDDDG is not required, as no information from end-user devices is accessed. Further information: https://plausible.io/data-policy.

7b. Google Ads Conversion Tracking

We use Google Ads, the online advertising service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). To measure the success of our ads, we use conversion tracking: if you reach our website via a Google ad and then perform a defined action (submitting the contact form), this is transmitted to Google.

This involves processing a cookie or device identifier, a shortened IP address, the Google Click Identifier (GCLID), and the conversion event. This tracking is loaded exclusively after your active consent via our cookie banner (Google Consent Mode v2). Without consent, no processing for advertising purposes takes place.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 (1) TDDDG (consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by deleting this website's cookies in your browser. Third-country transfer to the USA: Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; additionally, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Decision 2021/914) apply. Further information at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

8. Third-Country Transfers

We transfer personal data to the USA in the following cases:

Both recipients are certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Additionally, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Decision 2021/914) apply. An adequate level of data protection within the meaning of Art. 45 et seq. GDPR is thus ensured.

9. Storage Period

Personal data is only stored for as long as necessary for the respective purposes:

10. Recipients of Your Data

Your data is only passed on in the following cases and on the following legal basis (Art. 6 (1) lit. b and f GDPR):

11. Your Rights

You have the following rights at any time vis-à-vis us as the controller:

To exercise your rights, an informal notification to info@bq-microwave.de is sufficient. We process your request within the statutory period of one month (Art. 12 (3) GDPR).

12. Right to Lodge a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The competent authority for us is:

Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg
Königstraße 10a
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 711 615541-0
E-mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de

13. SSL/TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://".

14. Currency and Changes to this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is currently valid. Due to the further development of our website or because of changing legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be accessed by you on this website at any time.

Last updated: June 2026

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