Pri­va­cy Policy

1. Scope and Trade­mark Notice

This Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy applies to the fol­low­ing websites:

https://www.aft-microwave.com
and
www.wavoniq.com

includ­ing the fea­tures and con­tact options pro­vid­ed on these web­sites.
Wavoniq is a reg­is­tered trade­mark of AFT microwave GmbH and is not a sep­a­rate legal enti­ty.
AFT microwave GmbH is there­fore the con­troller respon­si­ble for pro­cess­ing per­son­al data on both web­sites. Where spe­cif­ic pro­cess­ing activ­i­ties take place on only one of the two web­sites, this is express­ly indi­cat­ed in the fol­low­ing sections.

2. Con­troller

The con­troller with­in the mean­ing of the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion and oth­er applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion laws is:

AFT microwave GmbH
Donaus­traße 18
71522 Back­nang
Ger­many

Phone: +49 7191 96590
Email: info@aft-microwave.com
Web­site: https://www.aft-microwave.com

Data Pro­tec­tion Officer

The controller’s Data Pro­tec­tion Offi­cer is:

Dat­a­Co GmbH
Sand­straße 33
80335 München
Ger­many

Phone: +49 89 740045840
Web­site: www.dataguard.de

4. Gen­er­al Infor­ma­tion on Data Processing

We process per­son­al data only to the extent nec­es­sary to pro­vide our web­sites, respond to inquiries, ful­fill con­trac­tu­al or legal oblig­a­tions, pur­sue legit­i­mate inter­ests, or where pro­cess­ing is based on con­sent.
Depend­ing on the pro­cess­ing activ­i­ty, we rely in par­tic­u­lar on the fol­low­ing legal bases:

  • Arti­cle 6(1)(a) GDPR where you have giv­en your consent
  • Arti­cle 6(1)(b) GDPR for con­tracts and pre­con­trac­tu­al measures
  • Arti­cle 6(1)© GDPR for com­pli­ance with legal obligations
  • Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR for the pur­pos­es of legit­i­mate inter­ests, pro­vid­ed that such inter­ests are not over­rid­den by the inter­ests or fun­da­men­tal rights and free­doms of the data subject

Per­son­al data is delet­ed or its pro­cess­ing is restrict­ed as soon as the respec­tive pur­pose of the pro­cess­ing no longer applies and there are no statu­to­ry reten­tion oblig­a­tions or oth­er law­ful grounds requir­ing con­tin­ued storage.

5. Rights of Data Subjects

Where the applic­a­ble legal require­ments are met, you have the fol­low­ing rights in particular:

  • Right of access pur­suant to Arti­cle 15 GDPR
  • Right to rec­ti­fi­ca­tion pur­suant to Arti­cle 16 GDPR
  • Right to era­sure pur­suant to Arti­cle 17 GDPR
  • Right to restric­tion of pro­cess­ing pur­suant to Arti­cle 18 GDPR
  • Right to data porta­bil­i­ty pur­suant to Arti­cle 20 GDPR
  • Right to object pur­suant to Arti­cle 21 GDPR
  • Right to with­draw con­sent at any time with future effect pur­suant to Arti­cle 7(3) GDPR
  • Right to lodge a com­plaint with a data pro­tec­tion super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty pur­suant to Arti­cle 77 GDPR

To exer­cise your rights, you may con­tact either the con­troller or the Data Pro­tec­tion Officer.

6. Pro­vi­sion of the Web­sites and Serv­er Log Files

When you access our web­sites, the host­ing serv­er process­es tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary access data. This data may include in particular:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • Page or file accessed
  • Refer­rer URL
  • Brows­er type and brows­er version
  • Oper­at­ing system
  • Tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion relat­ing to the request
  • Amount of data transferred

This pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary to make the web­sites tech­ni­cal­ly avail­able, ensure their prop­er oper­a­tion, detect errors, and pre­vent attacks or unau­tho­rized use.
The legal basis is Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est is the secure, reli­able, and unin­ter­rupt­ed oper­a­tion of our web­sites.
The data is retained only for as long as nec­es­sary for the pur­pos­es stat­ed above or to inves­ti­gate spe­cif­ic secu­ri­ty inci­dents. Statu­to­ry reten­tion require­ments remain unaffected.

7. Host­ing

Both web­sites are host­ed by:

Het­zn­er Online GmbH
Indus­tries­traße 25
91710 Gun­zen­hausen
Ger­many

Tech­ni­cal serv­er and log data may be processed in con­nec­tion with the host­ing ser­vices. We have entered into a data pro­cess­ing agree­ment with Het­zn­er pur­suant to Arti­cle 28 GDPR. The servers host­ing the web­sites are locat­ed in Germany.

8. Cook­ies and Con­sent Management

Our web­sites use cook­ies and com­pa­ra­ble tech­nolo­gies. Tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary tech­nolo­gies are used where required for the oper­a­tion or secu­ri­ty of the web­sites or to pro­vide fea­tures express­ly request­ed by the user. Tech­nolo­gies that are not tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary are acti­vat­ed only after you have pro­vid­ed your con­sent, where required by law. Where tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary, infor­ma­tion is stored on or accessed from your device on the basis of Sec­tion 25(2) of the Ger­man Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Dig­i­tal Ser­vices Data Pro­tec­tion Act (TDDDG). For tech­nolo­gies that are not nec­es­sary, infor­ma­tion is stored or accessed on the basis of your con­sent pur­suant to Sec­tion 25(1) TDDDG in con­junc­tion with Arti­cle 6(1)(a) GDPR.

8.1 Con­sent Man­age­ment on aft-microwave.com

Google Maps may be used on https://www.aft-microwave.com wird Bor­labs Cook­ie als Ein­willi­gungs­man­age­ment einge­set­zt. Bor­labs spe­ichert Ihre im Cook­ie-Ban­ner getrof­fene Auswahl und ermöglicht es Ihnen, erteilte Ein­willi­gun­gen jed­erzeit mit Wirkung für die Zukun­ft zu ändern oder zu wider­rufen. Hierzu wird ins­beson­dere das Cook­ie bor­labs-cook­ie ver­wen­det. Die derzeit kon­fig­uri­erte Spe­icher­dauer beträgt 60 Tage. Zur Spe­icherung der auf der Web­site aus­gewählten Sprache wird außer­dem durch Poly­lang das tech­nisch erforder­liche Cook­ie pll_language einge­set­zt. Die Spe­icher­dauer beträgt 365 Tage.

8.2 Ein­willi­gungs­man­age­ment auf wavoniq.com

Google Maps may be used on www.wavoniq.com wird Com­pli­anz als Ein­willi­gungs­man­age­ment einge­set­zt. Com­pli­anz spe­ichert Ihre Ein­willi­gungsentschei­dung und steuert die Aktivierung von Dien­sten entsprechend Ihrer Auswahl. Einzel­heit­en zu den ver­wen­de­ten Cook­ies, Dien­sten, Zweck­en und Spe­icher­dauern kön­nen dem jew­eili­gen Ein­willi­gungs­di­a­log ent­nom­men wer­den. Sie kön­nen Ihre Entschei­dung jed­erzeit mit Wirkung für die Zukun­ft über die Cook­ie-Ein­stel­lun­gen ändern oder widerrufen.

9. Google Ana­lyt­ics 4

Auf unseren Web­sites kann nach entsprechen­der Ein­willi­gung Google Ana­lyt­ics 4 einge­set­zt wer­den. Anbi­eter ist:

Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed
Gor­don House
Bar­row Street
Dublin 4
Ire­land

Google Ana­lyt­ics is used to sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­lyze and improve our web­sites. The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion may be processed in particular:

  • Pages accessed
  • Time and dura­tion of page views
  • Device and brows­er information
  • Refer­rer
  • Tech­ni­cal usage information
  • Inter­ac­tions with the website
  • Pseu­do­ny­mous identifiers
  • IP-relat­ed information

Google Ana­lyt­ics wird erst aktiviert, wenn Sie über den jew­eili­gen Ein­willi­gungs­man­ag­er in die sta­tis­tis­che Auswer­tung eingewil­ligt haben. Auf aft-microwave.com erfol­gt die Ein­willi­gungss­teuerung über Bor­labs Cook­ie. Auf wavoniq.com erfol­gt die Ein­willi­gungss­teuerung über Com­pli­anz. Rechts­grund­lage ist Ihre Ein­willi­gung gemäß Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO in Verbindung mit § 25 Abs. 1 TDDDG. Sie kön­nen Ihre Ein­willi­gung jed­erzeit mit Wirkung für die Zukun­ft über die Cook­ie-Ein­stel­lun­gen wider­rufen. Empfänger kön­nen Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed sowie ver­bun­dene Unternehmen und Dien­stleis­ter sein. Eine Ver­ar­beitung per­so­n­en­be­zo­gen­er Dat­en außer­halb der Europäis­chen Union beziehungsweise des Europäis­chen Wirtschaft­sraums kann nicht voll­ständig aus­geschlossen wer­den. In diesem Fall erfol­gt die Über­mit­tlung auf Grund­lage der jew­eils gel­tenden geset­zlichen und ver­traglichen Schutzmech­a­nis­men. Weit­ere Infor­ma­tio­nen find­en Sie in der Daten­schutzerk­lärung von Google.

10. Con­tact and Email Communication

You may con­tact us using the email address­es pro­vid­ed on our web­sites. In this con­text, we process in particular:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Com­pa­ny and posi­tion, where applicable
  • Con­tact infor­ma­tion includ­ed in your email signature
  • Con­tent of your message
  • Attached files
  • Tech­ni­cal deliv­ery information

This infor­ma­tion is processed for the pur­pose of han­dling and respond­ing to your inquiry.The legal basis is Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est is respond­ing to busi­ness inquiries and oth­er requests addressed to us. If your inquiry relates to a con­tract or pre­con­trac­tu­al mea­sures, Arti­cle 6(1)(b) GDPR also serves as a legal basis.

Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online

Unsere geschäftliche E‑Mail-Kom­mu­nika­tion wird über Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online ver­ar­beit­et. Anbi­eter ist:

Microsoft Ire­land Oper­a­tions Lim­it­ed
One Microsoft Place
South Coun­ty Busi­ness Park
Leop­ard­stown
Dublin 18
Ire­land

Microsoft process­es per­son­al data in accor­dance with the applic­a­ble con­trac­tu­al agree­ments and the Microsoft Prod­ucts and Ser­vices Data Pro­tec­tion Adden­dum. Email data may be processed, trans­mit­ted, and stored with­in Microsoft’s infra­struc­ture. The gen­er­al reten­tion and dele­tion of busi­ness emails is gov­erned by the com­pa­ny-wide data pro­tec­tion, reten­tion, and dele­tion poli­cies estab­lished by AFT microwave GmbH. These poli­cies also apply to com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­duct­ed under the Wavoniq brand. Statu­to­ry reten­tion require­ments under com­mer­cial or tax law remain unaffected.

11. Prod­uct Inquiry Form on aft-microwave.com

Google Maps may be used on https://www.aft-microwave.com ste­ht ein For­mu­lar für Pro­duk­tan­fra­gen zur Ver­fü­gung. Wenn Sie dieses For­mu­lar nutzen, ver­ar­beit­en wir insbesondere:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Com­pa­ny or institution
  • Infor­ma­tion about the request­ed prod­uct configuration
  • Prod­uct appli­ca­tion or oth­er information
  • Quan­ti­ty information
  • Tech­ni­cal requirements
  • Any addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion entered in a free-text field

The prod­uct inquiry form cur­rent­ly in use does not col­lect a mail­ing address or phone num­ber. The infor­ma­tion is processed to han­dle your inquiry and ini­ti­ate or con­duct a busi­ness rela­tion­ship. The legal basis is Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est is respond­ing to busi­ness and tech­ni­cal inquiries. Where the inquiry relates to enter­ing into a con­tract or tak­ing pre­con­trac­tu­al mea­sures, Arti­cle 6(1)(b) GDPR also serves as a legal basis. The form sub­mis­sion is trans­mit­ted through Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online to the respon­si­ble func­tion­al email address. The sub­se­quent pro­cess­ing and reten­tion of the result­ing busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tions is gov­erned by the com­pa­ny-wide data pro­tec­tion, reten­tion, and dele­tion poli­cies of AFT microwave GmbH.

12. Google Cloud Fraud Defense / reCAPTCHA on aft-microwave.com

Zum Schutz des Pro­duk­tan­frage­for­mu­la­rs auf https://www.aft-microwave.com vor Spam, automa­tisierten Eingaben und miss­bräuch­lich­er Nutzung set­zen wir Google Cloud Fraud Defense beziehungsweise Google reCAPTCHA ein. Anbi­eter ist Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed. Nach dem tech­nisch geprüften Stand wird die entsprechende Kom­mu­nika­tion mit Google nicht bere­its allein durch den Aufruf der Pro­duk­tan­frage­seite aus­gelöst, son­dern im Zusam­men­hang mit der Prü­fung beziehungsweise dem Absenden des For­mu­la­rs. Dabei kön­nen ins­beson­dere ver­ar­beit­et werden:

  • IP address
  • Brows­er and device information
  • Time­stamp
  • Tech­ni­cal inter­ac­tion data
  • Infor­ma­tion relat­ing to the form submission

This pro­cess­ing serves to pro­tect our forms and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy sys­tems. The legal basis is Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est is pro­tect­ing our sys­tems against spam, auto­mat­ed attacks, and mis­use. Google process­es the data in accor­dance with the applic­a­ble pri­va­cy terms and con­trac­tu­al pro­vi­sions. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion is avail­able in Google’s Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy and Google’s Terms of Service.

13. Google Maps on wavoniq.com

Google Maps may be used on www.wavoniq.com o dis­play loca­tions and geo­graph­ic infor­ma­tion. The provider is Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed. The map ser­vice is acti­vat­ed only after you have con­sent­ed to its use through the con­sent man­age­ment tool. The con­nec­tion to Google remains blocked until con­sent has been pro­vid­ed. When the ser­vice is acti­vat­ed, the fol­low­ing data in par­tic­u­lar may be processed or trans­mit­ted to Google:

  • IP address
  • Brows­er and device information
  • Page accessed
  • Based on the cur­rent tech­ni­cal con­fig­u­ra­tion, the fonts used on www.wavoniq.com are host­ed local­ly on our own web serv­er. When these local­ly stored fonts are loaded, no con­nec­tion is estab­lished to the servers of the orig­i­nal font provider.

The legal basis is your con­sent pur­suant to Arti­cle 6(1)(a) GDPR in con­junc­tion with Sec­tion 25(1) TDDDG. The pro­cess­ing of data out­side the Euro­pean Union or Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area can­not be com­plete­ly ruled out.

14. Local­ly Host­ed Fonts on wavoniq.com

Google Maps may be used on www.wavoniq.com ver­wen­dete Schrif­tarten wer­den nach dem derzeit­i­gen tech­nis­chen Stand lokal vom eige­nen Web­serv­er bere­it­gestellt. Beim Laden dieser lokal gespe­icherten Schrif­tarten wird keine Verbindung zu Servern des ursprünglichen Schrif­tan­bi­eters hergestellt.

15. Word­fence on wavoniq.co

Google Maps may be used on www.wavoniq.com wird Word­fence to pro­tect the Word­Press sys­tem. Word­fence is used in par­tic­u­lar for:

  • Detect­ing and pre­vent­ing mali­cious access
  • Secur­ing login processes
  • Detect­ing tech­ni­cal attacks
  • Log­ging secu­ri­ty-relat­ed events

The fol­low­ing data may be processed in particular:

  • IP address
  • Time of access
  • Request­ed URL
  • Brows­er information
  • Login attempts
  • Secu­ri­ty-relat­ed events

The legal basis is Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est is pro­tect­ing the web­site, the data processed on it, and our tech­ni­cal infra­struc­ture. Pro­cess­ing is lim­it­ed to the infor­ma­tion required to secure the web­site. Data is retained only for as long as nec­es­sary to detect, inves­ti­gate, and pre­vent secu­ri­ty incidents.

16. Data Backups

Back­ups are cre­at­ed reg­u­lar­ly to safe­guard and restore our web­sites. These back­ups may con­tain per­son­al data stored in the rel­e­vant sys­tems at the time the back­up is cre­at­ed. Access to back­ups is restrict­ed to autho­rized per­sons. Back­ups are over­writ­ten or delet­ed in accor­dance with the applic­a­ble back­up and dele­tion schedules.

17. Appli­ca­tions Sub­mit­ted by Email

If you apply for a posi­tion at AFT microwave GmbH by email, we process your con­tact infor­ma­tion and the appli­ca­tion doc­u­ments you sub­mit. This may include in particular:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Con­tact information
  • Résumé
  • Infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing your qualifications
  • Cer­tifi­cates and oth­er attachments
  • Any addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion you pro­vide voluntarily

The infor­ma­tion is processed for the pur­pose of con­duct­ing the appli­ca­tion process. The legal bases are Arti­cle 6(1)(b) GDPR and Sec­tion 26(1) of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Act (BDSG). Appli­ca­tion data is delet­ed after the appli­ca­tion process has con­clud­ed, pro­vid­ed that there are no statu­to­ry, con­trac­tu­al, or oth­er legit­i­mate grounds requir­ing its con­tin­ued retention.

18. Links to Social and Pro­fes­sion­al Networks

Our web­sites may con­tain links to exter­nal web­sites and com­pa­ny pro­files, par­tic­u­lar­ly on LinkedIn or XING. Based on our cur­rent assess­ment, sim­ply access­ing our web­sites through ordi­nary exter­nal links does not result in per­son­al data being trans­mit­ted to the respec­tive plat­form oper­a­tors. The exter­nal web­site of the respec­tive provider is accessed only when you active­ly click the cor­re­spond­ing link. From that point onward, the pri­va­cy poli­cies of the respec­tive plat­form oper­a­tor apply. The respec­tive provider is gen­er­al­ly respon­si­ble for the pro­cess­ing of data per­formed on its platform.

19. Recip­i­ents and Processors

We engage ser­vice providers where nec­es­sary for host­ing, email com­mu­ni­ca­tions, IT secu­ri­ty, main­te­nance, ana­lyt­ics, or the pro­vi­sion of spe­cif­ic fea­tures. Ser­vice providers pro­cess­ing per­son­al data on our behalf are engaged in accor­dance with the applic­a­ble statu­to­ry require­ments and on the basis of Arti­cle 28 GDPR. Per­son­al data is dis­closed to oth­er recip­i­ents only where a legal basis exists, you have pro­vid­ed your con­sent, or dis­clo­sure is oth­er­wise per­mit­ted under applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion law.

20. Trans­fers of Data to Third Countries

or cer­tain ser­vices we use, the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data out­side the Euro­pean Union or Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area can­not be com­plete­ly ruled out. Where per­son­al data is trans­ferred to a third coun­try, we ensure com­pli­ance with the statu­to­ry require­ments gov­ern­ing inter­na­tion­al data trans­fers. Rel­e­vant safe­guards may include in particular:

  • An ade­qua­cy deci­sion adopt­ed by the Euro­pean Commission
  • The EU‑U.S. Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work, where applicable
  • Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Claus­es adopt­ed by the Euro­pean Commission
  • Sup­ple­men­tary tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­za­tion­al safeguards
21. Data Security

We imple­ment appro­pri­ate tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­za­tion­al mea­sures to pro­tect per­son­al data against loss, mis­use, unau­tho­rized access, and unau­tho­rized alter­ation. Data trans­mit­ted through our web­sites is encrypt­ed using TLS or HTTPS.

22. Com­pe­tent Data Pro­tec­tion Super­vi­so­ry Authority

You have the right to lodge a com­plaint with a data pro­tec­tion super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty. The super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty with par­tic­u­lar juris­dic­tion over AFT microwave GmbH is:

The State Com­mis­sion­er for Data Pro­tec­tion and Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion of Baden-Würt­tem­berg
Laut­en­schlager­straße 20
70173 Stuttgart
Ger­many

Phone: +49 711 615541–0
Email: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de
Web­site: www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

23. Effec­tive Date and Amend­ments to This Pri­va­cy Policy

We review this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy reg­u­lar­ly and update it when­ev­er changes are made to our web­sites, the ser­vices used, tech­ni­cal process­es, or applic­a­ble legal require­ments. The most recent ver­sion is pub­lished on:

https://www.aft-microwave.com
and
www.wavoniq.com

veröf­fentlicht.

Effec­tive: August 2026