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16.06.2025
Thank you for your interest in our company. The protection of your personal data is of paramount concern for us. We therefore want to inform you comprehensively about the information we collect on our websites, the purpose we use it for, who we might make it available to and what rights you have (art. 12 and 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR).
Our personal privacy measures are guided by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, VO EU 2016/679), effective 2018-05-25, and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). With the simple citation of a regulation enclosed in parentheses, we want to express which standard is used to justify the data processing, and if personal data are processed during this process.
Controller in terms of data protection law:
WAGO GmbH & Co. KG
Hansastr. 27
D-32423 Minden
Phone: +49 (0) 571/887-0
Fax: +49 (0) 571/887-169
Email: info@wago.com
We take the company’s internal privacy policy very seriously. We contractually obligate our employees and the processors (service companies) we engage to maintain confidentiality and to observe the IT/security rules and the applicable data protection provisions.
Personal data are the subject of data protection and our privacy policy. Personal data, according to the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), is all individual information about personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. In addition, the GDPR defines “personal data” as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.
To the extent it is not recognizable in this document or due to other circumstances, we are not in a position to identify you.
We as well as our contractual partners protect your personal data against unauthorized access, loss, use or dissemination and ensure that your personal information is in a legally required, controlled, secure environment which prevents unauthorized accesses, loss or dissemination.
Where data is processed on our behalf, we work only with order processors who offer a sufficient guarantee that suitable technical and organizational measures to ensure their data processing complies with Art. 28 GDPR have been enacted and your legal rights are fully protected.
If we contract with one or more partners to determine the purpose and means of the processing, we undertake joint responsibility in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. To this end, we join agreements specifying exactly which contractual partner undertakes which responsibility per GDPR.
Technical and organizational measures have been undertaken in our company to ensure that our company observes the legal requirements of the BDSG and the GDPR and to protect your data against damage, destruction, corruption, manipulation and unauthorized access.
To avoid unnecessary amounts of data, we process and use your personal data only to the extent this is required within the scope of our range of services.
WAGO is a global company. Personal data is preferably stored and processed by our employees, national production sites and sales companies and service providers commissioned by us within the EU. In exceptional cases, processing may also take place outside the EU, e.g. in the USA. In such cases, your personal data is transferred in accordance with art. 44 et seq. GDPR.
In some cases, contracted service providers (e.g. in the context of IT services) may also need to access personal data outside the EU. We select these providers carefully and ensure an appropriate level of data protection through contractual, technical and organizational measures. As a rule, we agree the EU standard contractual clauses, if necessary with supplementary contractual rules.
For some countries outside the EU, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Switzerland, the EU has already established a comparable level of data protection. Due to the comparable level of data protection, the transfer of data to these countries does not require any special authorisation or agreement.
You can, without charge and without giving reasons, obtain information about whether your personal data is processed. Pursuant to art. 15 GDPR and § 34 BDSG, you have the right to information about this personal data and to further information on the processing of your data stored with us.
As part of your legal rights under art. 16 and 17 GDPR and § 35 BDSG, you can have your data which is stored with us blocked, corrected or deleted.
Your personal data is deleted if no legal retention requirements stand in the way and you request deletion in writing or text.
Furthermore, you have the right to have incomplete data completed and to demand the curtailment of processing in the statutorily regulated cases in art. 18 GDPR if the personal data is incorrect.
You also have a right to data portability pursuant to art. 20 GDPR If we have mentioned art. 6 para. 1 a) or b) GDPR, or art. 9 para. 2 a) GDPR in this declaration as a basis of the data processing. When exercising the right to data portability, you have the right to demand that the personal data be transmitted directly from the controller of the data file to another controller of the data file if this is technically feasible.
Pursuant to art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you also have the right to revoke the consent you once grated to us at any time. If you invoke this right, we are no longer entitled to process the data identified under this prior consent.
Generally, it is not required that you provide personally identifiable information to visit our website. Technically, however, the IP address transmitted from your system is necessary to transfer the data from our website to you. Beyond the freely accessible area of our website – to process your registration, for example – we need your personal data, as appropriate, in order to be able to personally respond to you.
We need a legal basis to process your data art. 6 GDPR presents a non-exclusive list of legal bases. Per art. 6 GDPR, processing is permitted when:
When you visit our website, we receive your complete IP address from your EDP. Only with this IP address are we able to transmit the data of our website to you so that the website displays for you (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR). Beyond processing for transmission of the retrieved data, the full IP address is stored for only two (2) days in order to be in a position to initiate defensive measures against attacks on our IT, such as a block of IP addresses as well as possible criminal prosecution (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
We save the date and time of the page view and the page from which you have retrieved our website. We do not save other personal data, unless you log in.
If the programming of our website prompts your browser to load data from servers operated by third parties, we are not, as such, involved in these data transmissions. Our third-party providers have requested we inform you of the following:
We use the services of JENTIS GmbH (Schönbrunner Straße 231, 1120 Vienna, Austria) (‘JENTIS’) to carry out anonymous and limited reach measurement and to optimize the user-friendliness of our website for website visitors. For this purpose, data is transmitted to JENTIS, which JENTIS analyses on our behalf in anonymized form. This means that JENTIS only processes data that cannot be traced back to an identifiable person and provides us with aggregated traffic and performance statistics.
This involves the use of server-side tracking in which certain usage data is not recorded and processed in the browser, but on our server. Here too, anonymization takes place before further processing by JENTIS, so that no personal data is transmitted and no conclusions can be drawn about identifiable persons.
In addition, we use JENTIS to anonymize your personal data before transferring it to a third country and thus protect your data. The processing is based on our legitimate interest in a data protection-friendly and reliable analysis of website use in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
You can view the JENTIS privacy policy here.
This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyze the behavior patterns of website visitors. To that end, the website operator receives a variety of user data, such as pages accessed, time spent on the page, the utilized operating system and the user’s origin. This data is summarized in a user-ID and assigned to the respective end device of the website visitor.
Furthermore, Google Analytics allows us to record your mouse and scroll movements and clicks, among other things. Google Analytics uses various modeling approaches to augment the collected data sets and uses machine learning technologies in data analysis.
Google Analytics uses technologies that make the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing the user behavior patterns (e.g., cookies or device fingerprinting). The website use information recorded by Google is, as a rule transferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored.
The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time.
Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.
The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail? contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Google Analytics IP anonymization is active. As a result, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states that have ratified the Convention on the European Economic Area prior to its transmission to the United States. The full IP address will be transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the United States and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google shall use this information to analyze your use of this website to generate reports on website activities and to render other services to the operator of this website that are related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted in conjunction with Google Analytics from your browser shall not be merged with other data in Google’s possession.
You can prevent the recording and processing of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
For more information about the handling of user data by Google Analytics, please consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
We use Google Signals. Whenever you visit our website, Google Analytics records, among other things, your location, the progression of your search and YouTube progression as well as demographic data (site visitor data). This data may be used for customized advertising with the assistance of Google Signal. If you have a Google account, your site visitor information will be linked to your Google account by Google Signal and used to send you customized promotional messages. The data is also used to compile anonymized statistics of our users’ online patterns.
We have executed a contract data processing agreement with Google and are implementing the stringent provisions of the German data protection agencies to the fullest when using Google Analytics.
This website uses the “E-Commerce Tracking” function of Google Analytics. With the assistance of ECommerce Tracking, the website operator is in a position to analyze the purchasing patterns of website visitors with the aim of improving the operator’s online marketing campaigns. In this context, information, such as the orders placed, the average order values, shipping costs and the time from viewing the product to making the purchasing decision are tracked. These data may be consolidated by Google under a transaction ID, which is allocated to the respective user or the user’s device.
We also use Google Optimize. Google Optimize is a Google service (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; “Google“). We use the Google Optimize service to enhance the attractiveness, content and functionality of our website by statistically evaluating a percentage of our users and their changes in use habits as a response to new functions and contents we introduce. Google Optimize is a sub-service of Google Analytics (see Section “Google Analytics”). In addition, you can prevent collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website − your IP address in particular – as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the Google browser plug-in available at this Link : www.tools.google.com
This website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (‘Google’), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
With the help of Google conversion tracking, Google and we can recognise whether the user has carried out certain actions. For example, we can analyse which buttons on our website were clicked how often and which products were viewed or purchased particularly frequently. This information is used to generate conversion statistics. We find out the total number of users who have clicked on our adverts and what actions they have taken. We do not receive any information with which we can personally identify the user. Google itself uses cookies or comparable recognition technologies for identification purposes.
We also use enhanced conversions. This function supplements the existing conversion tags. We collect data that you provide to us as part of an interaction on our website (e.g. email addresses) and transmit it to Google in encrypted (hashed) form. Encryption is carried out using a secure one-way hash algorithm. The use of extended conversions enables us to allocate conversions more precisely. This allows us to better target our advertising campaigns and measure and optimise the effectiveness of our marketing measures. We can also offer users more relevant and useful content. You can find more information here.
The use of this service is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG. Consent can be revoked at any time. You can find more information about Google Conversion Tracking in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
The company is certified in accordance with the ‘EU-US Data Privacy Framework’ (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA that is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information from the provider can be found here.
This website uses the functions of Google Ads Remarketing. The provider of these solutions is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
With Google Ads Remarketing, we can assign people who interact with our online offering to specific target groups in order to subsequently display interest-based advertising to them in the Google advertising network (remarketing or retargeting).
Moreover, it is possible to link the advertising target groups generated with Google Ads Remarketing to device encompassing functions of Google. This makes it possible to display interest-based customized advertising messages, depending on your prior usage and browsing patterns on a device (e.g., cell phone) in a manner tailored to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g., tablet or PC).
If you have a Google account, you have the option to object to personalized advertising under the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time.
For further information and the pertinent data protection regulations, please consult the Data Privacy Policies of Google at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.
The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail? contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Formation of Target Groups with Customer Reconciliation
For the formation of target groups, we use, among other things, the Google Ads Remarketing customer reconciliation feature. To achieve this, we transfer certain customer data (e.g., email addresses) from our customer lists to Google. If the respective customers are Google users and are logged into their Google accounts, matching advertising messages within the Google network (e.g., YouTube, Gmail or in a search engine) are displayed for them to view.
We use the Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
The Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows us to integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. The Google Tag Manager itself does not create any user profiles, does not store cookies, and does not carry out any independent analyses. It only manages and runs the tools integrated via it. However, the Google Tag Manager does collect your IP address, which may also be transferred to Google’s parent company in the United States.
The Google Tag Manager is used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the quick and uncomplicated integration and administration of various tools on his website. If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. This consent can be revoked at any time.
The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail? contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
We use Google Maps on the website in order to make orientation easier for you. Google Maps is a Google service (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; “Google“). When viewing the contact pages, your web browser is instructed to load the functions and map data needed for this directly from the server of Google. These servers may reside in the United States or other countries of the world. We have no control options for this and receive no information from Google about whether you have exchanged corresponding map information during your visit to our page. Whether Google has only delivered technically necessary information to you or saved and evaluated further data about you or your system, such as IP addresses, information about your browser, etc., is not made available to us. Die Google Privacy Policy statement (https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/index.html) also applies to Google Maps. We expressly indicate here that Google processes the following categories of data: device-related information, IP address, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, date and time of your query and referring URL, cookies (blockable by you in the browser settings, see also above), location-based information. Google can link the data with other data from you and uses the data collected in the course of the services for provisioning, maintenance, protection and improvement of the Google services, for the development of new services as well as to protect Google and its users. Google also uses this data to offer you customized contents – for example, to provide you with more relevant search results and advertisements. Using data collected through cookies and other technologies, such as pixel tags, Google improves your user experience and the quality of Google services as a whole. For example, Google facilitates the storage of your preferred language setting in order to display services in the language you prefer. Before Google uses information for purposes other than those listed by Google in the Google Privacy Policy, Google will ask you for your consent. With your consent, Google also shares data with third parties for contract data processing and for legal reasons. You can also change settings related to data privacy at Google when you log in there. In addition, Google abides by various self-regulation obligations and processes complaints.
The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online promotional program of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Ads enables us to display ads in the Google search engine or on third-party websites, if the user enters certain search terms into Google (keyword targeting). It is also possible to place targeted ads based on the user data Google has in its possession (e.g., location data and interests; target group targeting). As the website operator, we can analyze these data quantitatively, for instance by analyzing which search terms resulted in the display of our ads and how many ads led to respective clicks.
The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time. Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.
The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail? contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
This website uses Google AdSense, an ad embedding service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
We use Google AdSense in the “non-personalized” mode. Contrary to the personalized mode, the ads are not based on your previous user patterns and the service does not generate a user profile for you. Instead, the service uses so-called “context information” to choose the ads that are posted for you to view. The selected ads are thus based e.g., on your location, the content of the website you are visiting at the time, or the search terms you are using. To learn more about the distinct differences between personalized targeting and targeting that has not been personalized by Google AdSense, please click on the following link: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9007336.
Please keep in mind that if Google Adsense is used in the non-personalized mode, it is possible that cookies are stored or comparable recognition technologies (e.g., device fingerprinting) are used.
The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time.
Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.
You have the option to autonomously adjust the advertising settings in your user account. To do so, please click on the link provided below and log in: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
For more information about Google’s advertising technologies, please click here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail? contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
This website uses the remarketing function “Meta Pixels” of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Meta”), which has the data processed by Meta Platforms Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. This active program function (JavaScript) is used to understand the actions of visitors to this website, to measure the effectiveness of the advertising and to present interest-related ads (“Facebook Ads“) in the course of the visit to the social network Facebook and other websites. Through this JavaScript, a direct connection with the Meta servers is established during the visit to the website. In the process, the fact that you have visited this website is relayed to the Meta server, and Meta correlates this information with your personal Facebook user account and other profiles. The basis of the use is § 28 (1) first sentence no. 2 BDSG a. F.; Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. Admittedly, the data of Meta is stored and processed so that a connection with the respective user profile is possible and Meta can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Meta Data Policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). We assume that the information remains saved until you delete your Facebook account. You can find more detailed information about the collection and use of data by Meta and about your relevant rights and options for the protection of your privacy in the Meta Data Policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can mange private sphere settings in your Facebook account. To do so, you must be logged in to Facebook.
Please click this link to prevent future data collection by Meta within this website (the opt-out only functions in this browser and only for this domain) and to exercise your right to object to this. This will save an opt-out cookie on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser you must click on this link again.
Our website uses the marketing function “LinkedIn Insight Tag” of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland; “LinkedIn“). Each time one of our pages containing functions from LinkedIn is viewed, a connection with the LinkedIn servers is established. This informs LinkedIn that you have visited our websites with your IP address. The active program function (JavaScript) serves to understand the actions of visitors to our website in anonymized form, to gauge the effectiveness of advertising and to present interest-related ads (“LinkedIn Ads“) in the course of the visit to the LinkedIn social network and other websites. The LinkedIn Insight tag is integrated into our website for this purpose, which establishes a connection with the LinkedIn server if you visit our website while simultaneously logged into your LinkedIn account. This assignment attempts to function across devices, so that user behavior between different devices is also evaluated. The basis for this use is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR.
We maintain a profile on the social media LinkedIn. Our social media presences, and consequently our profile on LinkedIn, are intended to ensure the broadest possible presence on the internet. When you visit our profile on LinkedIn, LinkedIn can generally analyse your user behavior.
We use "LinkedIn Lead Ads" for customer acquisition. LinkedIn Lead Ads are advertising placements on LinkedIn, in which LinkedIn uses forms to generate leads and functions, and content of the LinkedIn service can be integrated. In such advertising, defined information is requested in accordance with our current campaign or other measures. If you have a LinkedIn account, the advertisement can be prefilled with the information you have shared on LinkedIn.
With LinkedIn Lead Ads we offer you a function with which you can provide us your user information using your LinkedIn account. We use this functionality to be able to address you with relevant content and target group oriented. We have a legitimate interest for the use of LinkedIn Lead Ads, which is for marketing purposes in the context of initiating business. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR.
If you are logged into your LinkedIn account and visit our profile on LinkedIn, LinkedIn can assign this visit to your user account. This also applies to advertising on LinkedIn via LinkedIn Lead Ads. However, your personal data may also be collected under certain circumstances if you are not logged in or you do not have a LinkedIn account. In this case, data may be collected e. g. via cookies that are stored on your end device or by recording your IP address.
With this collected data LinkedIn can create user profiles with your preferences and interests. In this way, interest-based advertising can be displayed to you within and outside the social media presence. If you have a LinkedIn account, the interest-based advertising can be displayed on all devices on which you are already or were logged in.
You can find additional information on data collection and use, as well as your options and rights for the protection of your privacy in the LinkedIn privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. If you are logged in at LinkedIn, you can deactivate data collection at any time at the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/enhanced-advertising.
Please click this link to prevent future data collection by LinkedIn within our website (the opt-out only functions in this browser and only for this domain) and to thereby exercise your right to object to this. This will set an opt-out cookie on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again.
WAGO uses the web analysis service of Crazy Egg, Inc. (16220 E. Ridgeview Lane, La Mirada, CA 90638, USA; "Crazy Egg"). To render the Crazy Egg service, Crazy Egg can gather information (previously accessed websites, country, device type, operating system, browser, browser window size, date, click times, click points and scroll depth, new and recurring) through the use of cookies for analysis and observation. This information is transmitted via direct communication between your browser and the servers of Crazy Egg with the use of your IP address. The data is used to analyze user behavior on our website in groups, never individually, in order to be able to derive optimization potentials therefrom. The data is evaluated manually at irregular intervals, at most one (1) year in the past. Users are randomly selected and not personally identified. According to a statement from Crazy Egg, none of your personal data is collected, processed or used through the operation of Crazy Egg and the use of cookies. Merely usage profiles are created through the use of pseudonyms. The data collected under a pseudonym is not amalgamated with real data from you. The data is collected in order to visually depict the frequency of pages visited and the clicks and may include the following: browser information, end device used, IP address, duration of the visit, location. The results are processed into reports, which we use to optimize our websites.
To exercise your right of refusal and prevent future data collection by Crazy Egg within this website (the opt-out function only takes effect in this browser and only for this domain), please click this link. This will set an opt-out cookie on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser you must click on this link again.
You can find the Crazy Egg Privacy Policy at https://www.crazyegg.com/privacy.
Our website uses the conversion tracking of Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA). For this, Microsoft Bing Ads sets a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website through a Microsoft Bing ad. Microsoft Bing and we can recognize in this manner that someone has clicked on an ad, was redirected to our website and has reached a previously designated target page (conversion page). With this, we learn only the total number of users who have clicked on a Bing ad and were then redirected to the conversion page. No personal information on the identity of the user is communicated. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse the setting of a required cookie for this – for example, through a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. You can find further information on data privacy and the cookies used at Microsoft Bing on the website of Microsoft (https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement).
Please click this link to prevent future data collection by Microsoft Bing Ads within this website (the opt-out only functions in this browser and only for this domain) and to exercise your right to object to this. This will save an opt-out cookie on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser you must click on this link again.
By means of the services of AppDynamics Inc. (“AppDynamics“), a Delaware corporation with registered office at 303 Second Street, North Tower, 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, data is collected and further processed in anonymized form for analysis and for the continuous improvement of our website. This happens through the use of cookies. Analysis of the collected and transmitted data enables AppDynamics to detect and present performance-related weaknesses of our website. The presentation expressly relates to analysis of internal system problems so that they can be recognized and remedied early and the stability of our website can be guaranteed.
We configure AppDynamics in such a way that, in general, no personal data (no anonymized IP addresses as well) is collected and stored. For the review of performance-related vulnerabilities, WAGO only uses data which includes no personal data.
We make a chat function available on our website. Within the chat function, you can interact with a chatbot ("Cognigy.AI") as well as communicate with one of our employees via a live chat ("Userlike").
Cognigy.AI is a chatbot software of Cognigy GmbH, (Speditionstraße 1, 40221 Düsseldorf, Germany). Userlike is a live chat software of Userlike UG (limited), (Probsteigasse 44-46, 50670 Cologne, Germany). We have carefully chosen and engaged these suppliers pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. For this, we have entered into an additional processing agreement with both Cognigy GmbH and Userlike UG which specifies the object and duration of the processing, the type and purpose of the processing, the type of personal data, the categories of data subjects and the duties and rights of the controller (pursuant to Art. 28 (3) GDPR).
When you start a conversation via the chat function, a command is sent to Cognigy via Userlike, which initially makes you interact with the chatbot. In some cases it may be necessary to be redirect you to the live chat (e.g. due to the complexity of the request). If you are redirected to live chat, you will be informed in the chat window that you are now in live chat with one of our employees. To be able to answer your enquiry in the best possible way, the complete, previous communication with the chatbot is visible in the live chat.
Within the chat function, you can give for example the following information about yourself: first name, last name, email address. Depending on the course of the conversation (both with the chatbot and in the live chat), it may happen that you transmit further personal data in the chat. The type of this data hinges strongly on your query or the problem you describe.
However, this data might, by way of example, involve essentially the following types:
We wish to develop our website optimally and, for this, collaborate with trbo GmbH (Leopoldstr. 41, 80802 Munich, Germany; "turbo”), whose tracking tools we use in order to manage and improve our online offerings. We implement these tools in order to quantify the use of our online offerings and the effectiveness of our online advertising. This helps us understand which pages are especially attractive to the users of our services, which products interest our customers most and which individual offerings we should provide for our respective website users.
The data collected and used in this context is always stored only under a pseudonym (e.g. a random identification number) and is not conflated with your personal data (e.g. name, address, account number, etc.). If and when trbo obtains access to the data, this occurs exclusively on our behalf and under our supervision. For this, we have entered into a contract with trbo for processing personal data on our behalf (pursuant to Art. 28 (3) GDPR).
Technically, we use the installed tracking tools, particularly so-called "cookies" and "web beacons," to collect the following information: which pages are visited, when, how often and in what order, which products are searched for, which links or offerings are clicked on and which orders are placed.
Link If you prefer that we not collect and use information on your usage of the website in this manner, you can object to it (so-called “opt-out”) at the following link TRBO OPTOUT COOKIE. For this purpose, a corresponding opt-out cookie, which contains no data suitable for tracking but which merely makes it possible to recognize your objection to the data collection, is set on your computer so that this is no longer performed.
We use „Contentsquare“ a Contentsquare S.A.S. Web analysis service (5 boulevard de la Madeleine, 75001 Paris, France). The German branch is located at Implerstraße 25a, 81371 Munich, Germany.
Contentsquare employs the cookies described in our Cookie Policy that facilitate analysis of your use of our websites and online services
In the event of your consent, the interaction data of your visit to our website is collected in anonymised form with the help of Contentsquare for marketing purposes and to optimise the user-friendliness of the website using cookies. The legal basis f is Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR.
Contentsquare uses the data and information to analyse visits to the website in order to compile reports about the website activities for us and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. This us is anonymised.
Contentsquare will also transfer this information in some cases, when legally mandated or to the extent that third parties process this data on behalf of Contentsquare.
By default, Contentsquare deletes all data, at the latest after 13 months.
If you prefer that we not collect and use information on your usage of the website in this manner, you may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. Alternatively, you can prevent the collection and processing of your data by the Contentsquare analysis tool at any time by making certain browser settings. You can find details on this in the help of your browser.
Further information on the Contentsquare privacy policy is available here: https://Contentsquare.com/de/privacy-and-security/ or here https://Contentsquare.com/de/gdpr/.
In order to design, create and process online and opinion surveys, we work together with the provider Evolute CX GmbH (Speditionstraße 15a, 40221 Düsseldorf). We have carefully selected this provider and commissioned it in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Participation in surveys is purely voluntary. The legal basis is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR. Any personal information you provide during the response will be considered voluntarily given and processed according to the guidelines of local legislation. Personal data will not be disclosed to third parties unless this is explicitly stated in the survey description or you have given your explicit consent for this. Insofar as personal data is requested within the scope of the survey beyond the topic of the survey (e.g. name, address, company, etc.), we point out separately within the scope of the survey that this is additional, voluntary information that we collect and use.
We store your data for two (2) years, or longer if the law requires us to do so. You have the right to object to the data provided to us via the survey with effect for the future. You exercise your right of withdrawal by notifying us (dataprotection@wago.com).
Further information on data protection at Evolute can be found here: https://evolute.app/ds
We use "nexMart" a retail connect tool. We use this tool to link commercial partners of our products on our website. The supplier is nexMart GmbH & Co. KG. KG, Gropiusplatz 10, 70563 Stuttgart, Germany. We carefully selected this provider and commissioned it pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR.
With nexMart, we have established a possibility on our website with which we display selected commercial partners for individual items, in which the item you are looking for is currently available - whether in the online shop or in stationary retail in the vicinity. You have the option of selecting your preferred commercial partner and either purchasing the product from its online shop or having the product reserved in brick-and-mortar stores.
As soon as you have clicked on a commercial partner, you will be redirected to their website. This includes data about the item and, if applicable, Transfer your shopping cart and a transaction number to the retailer. After clicking on the commercial partner, we no longer have any influence on the collection, processing and use of any personal data transferred to the third party when the link is clicked. You can find further information on the privacy of the respective commercial partner in its privacy policy.
You can find more information on nexMart's data protection here: https://www.nexmart.com/en/data-privacy/
V. Collection, storage and use of usage data when visiting one of our websites or when using our services with registration and after logging in
No online orders can be completed without your registration with your company data, with the result that no contracts on the online system can be entered into. If you wish to initially forego the online ordering option, prices and the like, we also offer you a registration with just email address and password. In addition, you can contact our sales team through other means of communication.
We will use the data you supply in the complete registration to verify your eligibility to purchase goods in accordance with our customer criteria. We will store the data and the time and result of the review in order to be able to permanently maintain the activation and perform any further review.
At login, your login data is compared with that in our database of stored access data. We only save failed logins in your user account to enable us to block the account after five successive failed logins to prevent unauthorized access attempts and protect you and us against attempted fraud (Art. 6 (1)(a), (b) and (f) GDPR).
When you place goods in the shopping cart or on the watch list, this is understood as a request to save this accordingly in our systems for you. We will store the noted goods and quantities in the account in order to fulfill your wish that they be stored and in order to be able to make the shopping cart or watch list available to you at the next login; in this way, we can offer you a simple option for ordering a variety of goods at the right time Art. 6 (1)(b) and (f) GDPR). The shopping cart remains stored until the order is placed, but for no longer than two years after the last change. The watch and comparison lists also remain stored for a maximum of two years after the last change, but are only relatable to your browser until you delete cookies or switch the browser or device.
If we display prices to you, we will use your data to identify individual prices, minimum order amounts and free delivery limits from our database that apply to you and make it possible for you to order on these terms (Art. 6 (1)(a) and (b) GDPR).
Data needed for the delivery is queried as part of the ordering process (Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR). At first, this data is cached only briefly on our servers in order to make a multi-step sequence possible and then stored long-term only when you submit the order. In addition, we will also enter data into the database which you submit by fax or telephone and treat it like data from an online order. The data stored for order and service processing, for displaying order tracking and a history in your account, for facilitating subsequent orders and for satisfying legal retention requirements (Art. 6 (1)(b) and (f) (GDPR).
To process the order (Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR), it may be necessary to share your personal data and data arising from the order with enterprises which we engage for contract processing. This may, for example, be Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Limited) as a transaction service provider for payment processing or a logistics partner for shipment of the goods to you. Only necessary data is shared.
In addition, we use your name and address data to conduct a credit check manually, depending on the project. The credit check is not performed based on an automated individual decision of the shop system, but primarily on WAGO's behalf through Verband der Vereine Creditreform e. V. (Hellersbergstraße 12, 41460 Neuss, Germany) and in rare cases additionally through Bisnode Deutschland GmbH (Robert-Bosch-Straße 11, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany). These credit agencies will use your data to check whether you are already listed in the database of the credit agencies and existing data, such as about earlier payment defaults or ongoing contracts, is ascribable to you. In this way, we receive information about your previous payment history and credit information. We use the information from the credit agencies solely to protect us against potential payment defaults, wherein our overriding legitimate interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR exists. We will, in any event, deliver to you with prepayment, submission of a bank guaranty or credit insurance unless other reasons preclude delivery. We save the data we have received from the credit agencies for the duration of the business relationship in order to reduce queries with credit agencies.
We use data from the registration pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR. The credit agencies act based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with § 31 BDSG.
When the contact form is used, the information listed there is transmitted to us and stored because of our legitimate interests in speed as well as optimization of our online offering and customer service. We use the data exclusively for replying to your inquiry and, if the inquiry should relate to a contractual relationship, or a contractual relationship arise therefrom, for initiating and handling the contractual relationship (Art. 6 (1)(a), (b) and (f) GDPR). If you are already our customer or will be in the future, we may collect, save, modify and transmit the data for the establishment, execution or termination of the contractual relationship without the need for your consent and for as long as the law permits us to do so.
In other cases – including while the contractual relationship has not yet come into being – we store your data no longer than two years, or longer if the law requires this of us. You have a right to object, with future effect, regarding data transmitted to us through the contact form. You exercise your right of revocation through a communication to us.
If you have subscribed to our newsletter with your email address, we also use your email address beyond account management for our own advertising purposes, as specified in further detail during the newsletter subscription process, until you unsubscribe from the newsletter (withdrawal option, Art. 6(1)(a) and (b) GDPR). If no other advertising purposes are specified, our newsletter will only contain our company information about product highlights, new products, product updates and services, as well as special offers and contests from WAGO, up-to-date WAGO corporate information and event dates. By subscribing to our newsletter, you consent to receive it and to the described processes.
Platform Used: HubSpot
We use the cloud-based HubSpot platform for email marketing, Web analytics and contact management (HubSpot Germany GmbH, Am Postbahnhof 17, 10243 Berlin). HubSpot supports us in sending, personalizing and analyzing marketing content, as well as tracking user behavior on our website.
Tracking Code & Web Analytics
On our website, we use the HubSpot tracking code to track visitor interactions and optimize marketing processes. If you consent to the use of cookies and tracking technologies, the following personal data is processed:
Technical access data:
Behavior data on the website:
Source and campaign data:
Interaction data:
Cookies & recognition:
Marketing & conversion data:
Tracking takes place only after you have expressly consented via the Consent Management on our website (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The analyses help us better understand users’ behavior and tailor content specifically to their individual interests. Personalized profiling does not take place without your active consent.
Team-Based Access in HubSpot
To protect your data, we have implemented finely differentiated rights management in HubSpot; contacts and account data are automatically assigned to specific country teams based on stored sales organizations (Sales_Orgs / VKOrgs, e.g., Team DE, Team CH and Team US). Only employees with appropriate marketing authorization and team affiliation can access this data. This applies to access both to contacts and to shared marketing folders in HubSpot.
The statistical data collection also includes determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened, which links are clicked and whether the delivery of the emails was successful. In addition, the reading duration is recorded; this is only done on a target group basis. For technical reasons, it is possible to associate this information with the individual newsletter recipients, but it is neither our aim nor that of HubSpot to monitor individual users. Instead, the analyses help us discern the reading habits of our users and customize our content to them or send different content corresponding to our users’ interests.
We use a “double opt-in” process to document consent to receive the newsletter and prevent misuse of your data. Through this process, we ensure that the recipient actually wants to receive our newsletter. After subscribing, you receive an email in which you are asked to confirm your newsletter subscription. We will not send our newsletter to you until you confirm. The newsletter subscriptions are logged in order to document the subscription process in accordance with the legal requirements. This includes the storage of subscription and confirmation time, as well as the IP address. Changes in your stored data are also logged.
You can withdraw your consent to the receipt of our newsletter at any time. You can unsubscribe by clicking the link in the newsletter or by sending a written notice to WAGO GmbH & Co. KG, Digital: Newsletter Department, Hansastraße 27, 32423 Minden. In case of a written notice, we implement the cancellation within three (3) weeks of receipt.
Consent to the sending of email addresses is based on Art. 6(1)(a), Art. 7 GDPR and Sec. 7(2) No. 3 or (3) of the German Fair Trade Practices Act (UWG). Statistical data collection and analyses, as well as the logging of the subscription procedure, are performed on the basis of our legitimate interests under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our interest is directed towards the deployment of a user-friendly and secure newsletter system that serves our business interests, such as direct advertising, and meets user expectations. If we use your personal data for direct advertising, you may object to this at any time pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR by notifying us.
1. General
We offer you an application service in the form of a login area. You can register there and call up the application assistant, which will lead you through our application service. There you will have to give at least the following information about yourself: first name, last name, email address and user name. Other than that, you can supply all data about yourself that you feel is useful for the application.
When you submit an application or when we initiate a potential employment relationship, if applicable, we use your personal data to check the suitability of the application as well as to make personal contact with you (Art. 6 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR). Should the advertised position be outside the European Union, we will forward your personal data, as needed, to the corresponding country outside the EU (Art. 49 (1) (b) GDPR, if no adequacy decision exists for the country pursuant to Art. 45 (3) GDPR or appropriate safeguards are in place pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR).
In the event that your application cannot be considered at the moment, you have the option to manage your application data in the login area. We store and use your login data, as well as the data you have given, in order to provide you access, and management and application options (Art. 6 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR). In addition, when you submit new applications, we use the data from your earlier application for comparison (Art. 6 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR). We initiate the erasure process six (6) months after your last login. This begins with a notice to you about the imminent erasure, for which we use your email address (Art. 6 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to the storage and processing of your application data at any time with future effect and, in addition, manage each individual application in the login area.
If you do not wish to consent to our online application service, you are welcome to send us an application by email or on paper with the same prospects. We will review this application only once (Art. 6 (1) (a) and (b) GDPR).
If we enter into an employment relationship with you, we will migrate your data from the application to the personnel file and store it for the duration of the employment relationship plus any additional statutory retention periods (Art. 6 (1) (a), (b) GDPR, § 26 (1) BDSG). Before execution of the employment contract, we will again inform you specifically of our use of data in the employment relationship.
2. Performance of management audit
We conduct management audits to check various leadership skills. For this purpose, we employ the services of the service provider Moldzio & Partner – Institut für Personalauswahl (Große Straße 21, 22926 Ahrensburg, Germany; “Moldzio & Partner”). We have carefully chosen and engaged this service provider pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. For this purpose, we have concluded a commissioned data processing agreement which specifies the subject-matter and duration of the processing, the nature and purpose of the processing, the type of personal data, the categories of data subjects and the obligations and rights of the controller (pursuant to Art. 28 (3) GDPR).
As part of the selection process, it may be necessary to transmit all or parts of your application documents to Moldzio & Partner. This might be necessary to make the most accurate forecast as possible for the fit between the individual applicant and the vacant position.
The processing of your application documents by Moldzio & Partner is based on the verification of suitability and thus, for the initiation of a possible employment. The processing is carried out exclusively for diagnostic purposes. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
If the service provider Moldzio & Partner conduct a management audit, we will inform you in advance (in text form). Afterwards, you will receive an invitation to the management audit from Moldzio & Partner, or eventually from us, with further information about the audit process.
You may object to the processing of your personal data at any time. To do so, simply send an informal message to jobs@wago.com.
Further information regarding the data protection regulations of Moldzio & Partner is available here: https://moldzio.com/datenschutz/.
3. Recruiting through XING TalentManager and XING TalentpoolManager
a) You maintain a XING profile.
If you have a XING profile, we use the XING TalentManager (XTM) and XING TalentpoolManager (XTP) to discover and contact you at XING as a potential new employee. XTM and XTP are products of New Work SE (Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, “XING).
We can search for candidates on XING and manage applications and profiles from XING members for our recruiting purposes. Our recruiting manager (“Recruiter”) is the only person to use and access XTM.
Inside the XTM, several of our recruiters can work together and exchange or share information (correspondence, conversations, projects, notes, commentary, etc.). This prevents us from approach applicants several times or losing important the important information about applicants.
When you specify WAGO in your user profile as preferred employer, we additionally process your profile in XTP. With XTP, it is possible for us to create ”Talent Pools” and use them to manage interesting XING members and maintain contact with them for future searches. We are informed about the talent pool’s relevant activities in XING and can use campaigns to easily keep in contact with candidates.
In XTM and XTP, we process all data disclosed by your XING profile, as well as additional information you might voluntarily relate in the context of a contact solicitation by our Recruiter. We do not save or copy your XING profile at this stage; instead, we create a link to your profile through a service offered by XING.
The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the profession and career network XING, and in actively searching for suitable candidates for our company and contacting the users. We also have a legitimate interest in recording your profile if you have entered WAGO as desired employer.
We delete the link to your profile as soon as we determine that we would not contact you as potential candidate or as soon as you signal us that you have no interest in occupation in our company. If you delete your XING profile, your data is no longer visible in XTM or XTP; not even for us.
Further, you have the option of restricting the visibility of the data you entered in your XING profile. You can make the necessary settings under https://www.xing.com/settings/privacy.
Information about data processing in association with the e-Recruiting products is available in the XING privacy policy.
If you would like to retrieve the data kept by XING, you call this up yourself in the settings area of your XING profile, or contact New Work SE, Data Protection Officer, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg.
b) You do not maintain a XING profile.
If you do not have your own XING profile, you are only admitted in the XTM and/or XTP XTP account if you have voluntarily granted us your consent to do so. When the application process is finished (rejected application), we will inform you about the possibility for recording in the XTM or XTP, including further information about data protection and revocation options in transparent form. The legal basis for this collection is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
Of course, you may object to the processing of your personal data in both cases a) and b) at any time. To do so, just send a corresponding informal message to jobs@wago.com. After receiving your objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can verify compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of yourself and/or others, or the processing serves the assertion or exertion of, or defense against, legal claims.
For webinars we use the services of the provider Cisco Systems Inc. (170 West Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA 95134, USA; "Cisco"). We have entered into contractual arrangements with Cisco which ensure the privacy of our webinar participants. In provisioning the webinar and associated data processing, Cisco is the controller for the processing. You can find the privacy policy here: https://www.cisco.com/c/de_de/about/legal/privacy-full.html.
Your data is processed based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). To participate in the webinars, it is required that you give at least the following information about yourself: first name, last name and email address. The following information is additionally required: company name and headquarters (street, number, postal code and town).
The webinars are regularly recorded in order to provide them on our website for later retrieval. In order to avoid recording the real name of the participants, questions posed by participants during the seminar are not recorded. However, the orally repeated questions and the associated responses are recorded and provisioned for later access. However, the questions are reproduced orally only in anonymous form, disallowing any identification of the participants.
If you attend a webinar, you receive additional information on the event in a suitable manner with the registration for attendance and, where applicable, after the end of the webinar. This information might, for example, be an event reminder, the webinar recording or also customer satisfaction surveys on the webinar (Art. 6 (1) (b), (f) GDPR).
If, along with registering for a webinar, you have also registered for our newsletter, we will also use your email address beyond account management. However, this only applies to our own advertising purposes, which are described in detail in the newsletter registration, until you cancel your newsletter subscription (objection option, Art. 6 1(a) and (b) GDPR). The regulations under Chapter V, “Collection, Storage and Utilization of Usage Data when Visiting our Website with Registration and after Login” and Section 5, “Email Newsletter and Other Direct Advertising.”