Data protection

Lorch places great importance on the protection of your personal data. Observation and compliance with the legal requirements relating to data protection and data security are self-evident for us.

Your personal data is collected, stored, and used by us only with your knowledge and agreement. You may withdraw your agreement at any time. In this case, please contact info(at)lorch.eu.

We collect, store, and use your personal data (e.g. name, E-mail, etc) in order to give you access to special information and to communicate with you. We pass on your personal data only to companies within the Lorch group or to our marketing and service partners in the countries which are relevant to you.

When you access our websites, additional information is automatically collected which is not linked to a specific person (e.g. the Internet browser and operating system used, number of visits, average duration of visit, pages accessed, etc). Lorch Schweißtechnik uses this information in order to determine the attractiveness of the websites, and of their content, and to continually improve the service for our customers.

Disclaimer for Facebook (Facebook Social Plug-in)

Our website uses so called Social Plugins („Plugins) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).

The plugins are identifiable by one of the Facebook logos (white “f” on a blue background or a “thump-up” sign) or are identified by the phrase “Facebook Social Plugin”. The list and the look of Facebook Social Plugins can be found here: developers.facebook.com/plugins.

Purpose and detail of the data assessment and the further use and analysis of the Data through Facebook and your thus related personal rights and control functions to protect your private data can be found in the data disclaimer of Facebook: www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you are a member of Facebook and do not want Facebook to collect your data via our website and stores it in relationship to your Facebook member account, you will need to log out of Facebook prior to the visit of our website and you may also have to delete any related cookies stored locally by Facebook.

Use of third-party tracking tools and programs

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files stored on your computer, to facilitate analysis of your use of the website. The information on your use of the website generated by the cookie (including your IP address) is transferred to and saved on a Google server in the USA. Google will use such information to analyse your use of the website to compile reports on website activity for the website operators and provide further services associated with use of the website and of the Internet. Google may also transfer the information to third parties, if applicable, insofar as may be required by law or insofar as third parties may process such data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will Google link your IP address to other data which it may store. You can prevent the installation of cookies by an appropriate setting on your browser software. However, we would like point out that in this case you may then be unable to use all the website functions in full. By using this website, you declare that you consent to processing of the data which Google has collected about you in the aforesaid way and for the aforesaid purpose.

Exclusion of liability

Our Internet presentation has been created and is maintained with the maximum possible care. However, Lorch Schweißtechnik GmbH can accept no guarantee for the exactness, completeness, and freedom from errors of the data, and the company therefore excludes liability for loss or damage of any type which may arise directly or indirectly from the use of the online presentation of this website. Lorch Schweißtechnik GmbH equally accepts no liability for the website presentations of other operators which are accessed by users of this website via links included here. This external content is the responsibility of its providers alone.