Privacy statement

Panasonic Electric Works Europe AG takes the protection of your personal data seriously. It is a major concern of ours to protect your privacy when processing personal data, and this is considered in the course of our business operations. We would like you to know what data we collect and how it is used.

It may also become necessary to amend this privacy statement as we develop our web pages further and possibly apply new technology with the aim of improving the site for you. We therefore recommend you call up this privacy statement from time to time.

Collection of personal data; Limitation of purpose for use; Logging

When you register as a user, personal data from yourself is collected, processed and used by Panasonic Electric Works Europe AG, Rudolf-Diesel-Ring 2, 83607 Holzkirchen. We also only store personal data from you where you have yourself volunteered by such data, e.g. during a survey, for a competition or performance of a contract.
According to the statutory provisions we will only make use of your data where we need to do so, either when handling the relevant contractual relationship with yourself or to allow you to take advantage of a telemedia service offered by our company.
In the context of telemedia services we will only use your personal data for the purposes of advertising, market or public opinion research where you have given your consent.
We will not pass on personal data collected without your consent - except where we are obliged to do so on the basis of the statutory provisions.
It will be logged whenever you access our home page or download files stored on our home page. Logging will include the following: name of file downloaded, date and time of downloading, volume of data downloaded, confirmation of successful download, web browser and domain involved. The IP addresses of the computers making the request will also be logged. The stored data will only be analyzed in order to optimize our Internet presence.

Cookies

Cookies are small files which are stored on your hard disk, with the aim of making navigation easier and ensuring a high level of user friendliness. Our company stores so-called session cookies on your hard disk, i.e. they are only valid while you are using our website. We require such cookies for the purpose of identification and authorization after successful login to the protected area of our website as long as you remain there. Cookies however also help us to track user preferences, so allowing us to optimize the design of our web pages. In addition, cookies enable us to identify the most popular areas of our Internet site. This means we can specifically tailor our Internet pages to your needs and so improve content for you.
You can also view our website without cookies by selecting "Block All Cookies" in your browser settings. If you do not accept cookies, this may however impair proper functioning.
Session cookies will be automatically deleted from your hard disk when you leave our site (logout) or after 30 minutes of inactivity.

Data security

If you call up pages and files on this site and are asked to enter data while doing so, we should like to point out that the transmission of such data via the Internet is not secure unless we explicitly confirm SSL encryption.

Right of access

You are entitled to ask for access to the personal data stored about yourself free of charge. You are also entitled to ask for any incorrect data to be rectified, blocked or deleted.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries regarding processing of your personal data, would like further information or have suggestions to make:

Panasonic Electric Works Europe AG
Rudolf-Diesel-Ring 2
83607 Holzkirchen, Germany
Tel.: +49(0)8024648-155
Fax: +49(0)8024648-115
e-mail