Privacy Policy

When you visit our websites, certain data is automatically stored on our servers for system administration, statistical or backup purposes. The data concerned are the name of your internet service provider, possibly your IP address, the version of your browser software, the operating system of the computer from where our site has been accessed, the website from where you are visiting us, and possibly the search words you have used to find our website. Under certain circumstances, these data might permit to track the person who visited the website. Personal data, however, are not exploited in this connection. Exploitation of these data is generally anonymous. If PI forwards data to external service providers, technical and organizational measures are taken that ensure that the forwarding is done is accordance with the statutory provisions on data privacy.

Any modification of our privacy policy shall be published on this website, you can at any time obtain information on what data we store and how we collect and use them.

When you submit your data through our website you have the option to opt-in and give your consent to receive our e-newsletter and press-release mailings. These electronic mailings comply with both the GDPR and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). Each electronic mailing provides the link to unsubscribe at any time.

It may be possible that social plug-ins ("plug-ins") of the social network facebook.com operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook") are used on the PI Internet pages. This relates in particular to the "Like" button of Facebook.

When you visit one of our Internet pages that includes such a plug-in, your browser will establish a direct connection to the Facebook servers. Facebook will transmit the content of the plug-in directly to your browser, which will include it into the Internet page. By the integration of the plug-ins, Facebook will receive the information that you have accessed the Internet page concerned. If you are logged in into your Facebook account while visiting the website, Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. When you interact with the plug-ins, e.g. by pressing the "Like" button" or writing a comment, the corresponding information will be transmitted directly to Facebook by your browser and stored there.

For the purpose and the scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights and the setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the data protection information of Facebook.

If you do not want that Facebook assigns the visit on our website to your Facebook account, you have to log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysing service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies that permit an analysis of how you have used the website. The information concerning your use of this website (including your IP address) created by the cookie is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. But if the IP anonymization is activated on this website, the IP address will be truncated before it is transmitted within the member states of the European Union or other states that are contracting parties of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information in order to evaluate your use of the website, to prepare reports about the website activities for the website operators and to provide further services connected to the use of the website and the Internet. Google might also transmit this information to a third party as far as this is legally required or if third parties process these data on behalf of Google.

In no case shall Google establish a connection between your IP address with other data stored by Google.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent this by modifying the settings of your browser. But we explicitly point out that you may then be no longer able to use all functions of the PI website to the full extent.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the way and for the purpose described above.

Another possibility to prevent the transmission of data to Google Analytics: >> Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-ons.

You can deactivate the function of having your data recorded by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents your data from being recorded when visiting this website: >> Deactivate Google Analytics.

You provide us with personal data directly through contact with us by email, telephone, fax, personal interaction at a trade show or conference, submission of an enquiry on our website, or subscription to our newsletter. This information may include name, position, address, email address, telephone number and fax number, but the set of information collected varies with the circumstances. For email newsletter subscriptions and contact form submissions, we also collect IP address and time stamp.

We may also keep information contained in any correspondence you may have with us via email (including attached documents) or received from you by fax, post or other delivery mechanisms. We do not record telephone conversations, but may make a written note of the substantive points.

We obtain information from suppliers whose products we place on the market in our appointed sales territories, where you have requested information from the supplier by email, telephone, fax, personal interaction at a trade show or conference, or submission of an enquiry on their website. Our purpose in using this information as provided to us by the supplier is to respond to your enquiry in a satisfactory manner. We use information obtained in this way in the same way as if it had been provided to us by you directly.

PI does not want to collect any personal data of persons under the age of 14. Should it be required, PI shall explicitly point out to children, wherever appropriate, that they should not send any personal information to PI.

We use your data to allow us to conduct a business relationship with you, including response to technical or commercial enquiries, provision of quotations at your request, supply of goods and services, formation of contracts, records of end user statements where appropriate for export control, provision of invoices, payment processing, provision of appropriate marketing information for products that align with your areas of interest or previous purchases, and other similar business related matters. We retain the data as a resource for future reference regarding your enquiries and purchasing history. We protect your personal data according to our internal policies in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation concerning data protection. The emphasis of these policies is to ensure that your data remains secure against loss or unauthorized access to the fullest reasonable extent possible within our organisation. Our use of your personal data is proportionate and has a minimal impact on your privacy.

PI shall keep all your data safe and take any precautionary measures to protect your data against loss, misuse or being modified. Contractors of PI who are given access to your data in order to provide services for you on behalf of PI shall be contractually obligated to keep these data in secrecy and shall not be permitted to use these data for any other than the intended purpose.

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest. From time to time we may use your details to send you marketing information appropriate to the category or categories of product interest as expressed by you in previous interactions with our company. Your data subject rights will be respected. We acknowledge that the right to object to direct marketing is absolute and we must stop processing your data for this purpose if you object.

Third parties also serve cookies via this site. On many of our pages you will see social buttons that enable you, among other functions, to share our web pages. For these buttons to work, the services to which they apply will be collecting information. Therefore you may wish to check the respective privacy policies of each service to see how they use your information and to find out how to opt out or delete it. We also use external web services, for example YouTube, to show videos, and such embedded content will also be collecting information on your usage. If you are not logged in to these services, only anonymous data will be collected.

For the purposes of complying with the export controls applicable to some of our suppliers located outside the EEA, we do where necessary as part of due diligence transfer your name, address, email and telephone number to those suppliers in order to permit the release of goods that you have ordered from us. We may also request that you complete an end user statement to describe your intended use of certain goods, including your personal details, and this end user statement may also be transferred outside the EEA. We ensure that the receiving suppliers maintain adequate safeguards to protect your personal data.