Privacy policy

Status 10/28/2024: This English version of the privacy policy is a translation of the German text on this website. In case of doubt, the German text shall prevail.

Arichemie GmbH (hereinafter “Arichemie GmbH” or “we”) operates a website under the domain www.arichemie.com (hereinafter “website”). In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using this website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

Your data is collected, processed and used in accordance with the provisions of the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG) and data protection law, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By means of this privacy policy, we inform about the collection of personal data on and via our website from the data subject in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR.

1. Collection of personal data for personalized use

(a) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you must generally provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service. If additional voluntary information is possible, this is marked accordingly. We only collect, process and use the personal data that is necessary for your use of the website and/or the fulfillment of a contract concluded with us or that you provide yourself.

(b) Inventory data and usage data are used by us in order to establish a contractual relationship with you, if necessary, to design its content, to change or terminate it, to fulfill our contractual obligations, to log the user in to the website, and to contact you, if requested by you or required within the framework of the contractual relationship or permitted by law. With the exception of the data collected by the third-party providers mentioned below, the personal data is stored and processed within the European Union.

2. Deletion periods

Unless otherwise described in this data protection notice, we will only store your data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed, unless statutory retention periods require longer storage. Your personal data will therefore be deleted after your request has been processed, unless otherwise agreed or required by law. Inventory data will be deleted two years after termination of the contractual relationship at the end of the calendar year, unless longer storage is required and permitted by law.

3. Subcontractors and recipients of personal data

(a) Data processing

As part of the processing of personal data, we use subcontractors and conclude a contract with these processors in accordance with the requirements of Article 28 GDPR.

(b) Hosting

All data to be processed in connection with the operation of this website is stored as part of hosting. This is necessary to enable the operation of the website. We process the data accordingly on the basis of our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR. To provide our online presence, we use the services of web hosting providers to whom we transmit the above-mentioned data.

We take technical and organizational measures in accordance with the requirements of Art. 32 GDPR to protect the user's personal data. All our employees who are involved in the processing of personal data are obliged to maintain data secrecy. The user's personal data is encrypted during transmission to the website using HTTPS.

(d) Legal bases

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we inform you of the legal basis of our data processing.

Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis.
When processing personal data that is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures.
Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which our company is subject, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR serves as the legal basis.
The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
If the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for the processing.
If the processing of personal data is based on Art. 6 I lit. f GDPR, our legitimate interest is the performance of our business activities for the benefit of the well-being of all our employees and our shareholders.

(e) No automated decision-making / no profiling

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

(f) Rights of affected persons

Users and other data subjects have the following rights in relation to their personal data:

Right of access to the personal data concerned (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to object to processing if the data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or lit. f GDPR (Art. 21 GDPR); see also the following reference to the right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
Right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal if the data processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) or Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR. You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us (Art. 77 GDPR).

(g) Reference to the right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR

A. Right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) (public security) or (f) (data processing on the basis of a balancing of interests) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. We will no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

B. Exercising the right to object

The right to object can be exercised informally, for example by post to

Arichemie GmbH
Valterweg 21-22
65817 Eppstein-Bremthal

or by e-mail to datenschutz@arichemie.com

(h) Responsible authority

The service provider pursuant to the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Media Act (TDDDG) and the responsible authority within the meaning of the GDPR, other data protection laws applicable in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions of a data protection nature is the:

Arichemie GmbH
z.H. Verantwortlicher im Sinne der DSGVO
Valterweg 21-22
65817 Eppstein-Bremthal

or by e-mail to info@arichemie.com

The responsible authority is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

Right to information, revocation, blocking, correction, deletion, data transfer
You can request information about the personal data stored about you at the above address of the controller.

If you have given separate consent to the processing of personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time. By withdrawing your consent, the data processed up to the point of withdrawal will remain lawfully processed. The withdrawal of consent is made by declaration to the controller. In addition, under certain circumstances, you can request the rectification or erasure of your data. You may have the right to restrict the processing of your data and the right to receive the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

(i) Data protection officer

You can contact our company data protection officer by post at the address below with the addition “For the attention of the data protection officer” or by e-mail at

Thomas Malik
Malik Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Straße 69
61250 Usingen

T +49 6081 949 04 00
E-Mail: datenschutz@arichemie.com

(j) Right to complaint with the competent supervisory authority
As an affected person, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the event of a breach of data protection law. The competent supervisory authority with regard to data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. The supervisory authority responsible for us is

The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI)
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1
65189 Wiesbaden

The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI)
P.O. Box: Postfach 3163
65021 Wiesbaden

(k) Updating this privacy policy

From time to time it is necessary to adapt the content of this data protection notice. We therefore reserve the right to amend it at any time. We will publish the amended version of the data protection information in the same place as this data protection information.