Data Privacy
Last updated: August 2026
1. Controller
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is:
Barnes Group Acquisition GmbH (SPECTRIX)
Unter Gereuth 9–11
79353 Bahlingen a. K., Germany
Phone: +49 (0)7663 609-0
Email: data.protection(at)spectrix.com
(hereinafter “Spectrix”, “we”, “us”)
2. Data Protection Officer
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:
Fieldfisher Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB
Amerigo-Vespucci Platz 1
20457 Hamburg
Email: hamburginfo@fieldfisher.com
3. General Information
The protection of your personal data is important to us. We process personal data exclusively in accordance with applicable data protection laws, in particular:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG)
- Act on Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Digital Services (TDDDG)
- Other applicable data protection regulations
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
4. Categories of Data Subjects
We process personal data in particular relating to:
- Visitors to our website
- Prospective customers
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Business partners
- Applicants
- Representatives of legal entities
- Users of our contact form
5. Visiting Our Website
When you access our website, our web server automatically processes the following information:
- IP address
- Date and time of access
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referrer URL
- Pages accessed
- Amount of data transferred
- Access status
Purpose
- Provision of the website
- Ensuring system security
- Error analysis
- Cybersecurity measures
- Detection of misuse and fraud
Legal basis
- Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR
- Legitimate interest
- Secure and uninterrupted operation of our website
Storage period
The data is generally deleted no later than 30 days after collection, unless longer storage is required for the prevention, investigation, or clarification of security incidents.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website uses cookies, local storage, pixel technologies, and similar technologies.
Technically Necessary Cookies
Technically necessary cookies are used to ensure the secure provision of the website.
Legal basis
- Section 25(2)(2) TDDDG
- Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR
Analytics and Marketing Cookies
Analytics and marketing cookies are activated exclusively with your express consent.
Legal basis
- Section 25(1) TDDDG
- Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR
You may withdraw or modify your consent at any time via the Consent Management Tool.
6. Consent Management Platform
We use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) to manage your cookie settings.
In particular, the following data may be processed:
- Consent status
- Timestamp
- Device information
- Browser information
- Truncated IP address
- Purpose
- Evidence of consent granted
- Management of withdrawals of consent
Legal basis
Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR
Storage period
Until the expiry of statutory documentation and retention obligations.
7. Contact Form
If you contact us via the contact form, we process:
- Name (if provided)
- Company
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Country
- Content of your message
Purpose
Processing your request and communicating with you.
Legal bases
- Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (pre-contractual inquiries)
- Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (general business communication)
- Legitimate interest
- Efficient processing of contact inquiries
Storage period
Until your inquiry has been finally processed and thereafter in accordance with statutory retention obligations.
8. Marketing Communications
If you have expressly consented, we use your contact details to send you:
- Product information
- Invitations to events
- White papers
- Newsletters
- Industry information
Legal basis
- Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR
- Double opt-in
Registration takes place using a double opt-in procedure.
Withdrawal of Consent
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
9. CRM System and Lead Management
Where we use a CRM system (e.g. HubSpot or comparable systems), we process personal data for the management of our business relationships.
Data processed
- Contact details
- Communication history
- Areas of interest
- Sales information
Legal basis
- Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR
- Legitimate interest
- Maintaining customer and prospect relationships
10. Job Applications
If you apply for a position with us, we process in particular:
- Contact details
- CV/resume
- References and certificates
- Proof of qualifications
- Correspondence
Legal bases
- Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR
- Section 26 BDSG
Storage period
In the event of an unsuccessful application, data is generally stored for six months after completion of the application process, unless longer storage is permitted on the basis of your consent.
11. Recipients of Personal Data
Personal data may be transferred to the following categories of recipients:
- IT service providers
- Hosting providers
- Cloud service providers
- CRM providers
- Marketing service providers
- Legal advisors
- Auditors
- Public authorities
- Group companies
Where required, data processing agreements pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR are in place.
12. International Data Transfers
Where personal data is processed outside the European Economic Area, such processing takes place exclusively in compliance with Art. 44 et seq. GDPR.
Appropriate safeguards may include, in particular:
- EU Standard Contractual Clauses
- Adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission
- Binding Corporate Rules
13. Social Networks
Our website may contain links to social networks.
In particular:
- YouTube
By clicking on these links, you leave our website.
The respective operators’ privacy policies apply to the processing of data by these providers.
14. Embedded Media
Where third-party content is embedded (e.g. videos, maps, documents, or marketing tools), data may be transmitted to these providers.
Such content is generally loaded only after the relevant consent has been obtained, where consent is legally required.
Legal basis
- Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR
15. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR.
These include, in particular:
- TLS/SSL encryption
- Access controls
- Role and authorization concepts
- Data backups
- Security monitoring
- Incident management processes
16. Retention Periods
We store personal data only for as long as this is:
- necessary for the respective purposes,
- required due to statutory retention obligations, or
- deemed necessary for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
17. Your Rights
You have the following rights at any time:
- Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR
- Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR
- Right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
- Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR
18. Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection law.
19. Obligation to Provide Personal Data
The provision of personal data is neither required by law nor by contract.
However, certain functions of our website and the processing of your inquiries may not be possible without providing certain data.
20. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
No automated decision-making, including profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR, takes place.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time with effect for the future, in particular in the event of changes to our processing activities or due to new legal requirements.
Molding Solutions Data Privacy
Introduction
Website Privacy Notice – last updated May 22, 2023
Barnes Group Inc. respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, share, and use personal information about you in connection with our business activities, including when you access our website. This Privacy Notice provides information regarding how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice only applies to personal information that we collect through our websites at Onebarnes.com, BarnesAero.com and Synventive.com.
Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), which includes the member states of the European Union (“EU”), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, should consult the sections of this policy relating to “EEA Residents” and “International Data Transfers” for provisions that may apply to them.
California residents should consult the section titled “Your California Privacy Rights” for rights that apply to them.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
What personal information do we collect and why?
We may collect the following categories of personal information:
Information that you provide voluntarily
When you visit our website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including countries in the EEA, this information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our website, including the pages accessed and links clicked.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website, where they come from, and what content on our website is of interest to them. We may combine information we obtain from individuals from more than one source, and we use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website to our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies or similar tracking technology.
In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
Cookies and similar tracking technology
We and third parties performing website services for us may send cookies and similar tracking technology (collectively, “Cookies”) to your computer to collect and use personal information about you. We use cookies to track your activity on our website. You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set, or to prevent cookies from being set altogether. Please note, if you decline the use of cookies, you may experience reduced functionality and a slower website response time.
For further information about the types of Cookies we use, why, and how you can control Cookies, please see our Cookie Notice I.
Who do we share your personal information with?
We do not sell, trade, or license personal information about you for marketing purposes.
We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:
- Our group companies, third-party services providers and partners who provide data processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our website), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information;
- Any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
- An actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice; and/or
- Any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA visitors only)
If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area, including the member states of the EU as well as visitors from Switzerland and the UK all processing of personal data is performed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. Under the GDPR, we are the controller and processor of the personal information you provide.
We will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights, or (iii) where we have your consent to do so. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our platform and communicating with you as necessary to provide our services to you and for our legitimate commercial interest, for instance, when responding to your queries, improving our platform, undertaking marketing, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities.
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.
California Privacy Rights
If you are an individual or household from the State of CalifornACia, all processing of personal information is performed in accordance with California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) and (CPRA).
We do not share personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes.
California consumers may have the following rights:
- The right to know and the right to delete personal information we collect and use.
- The right to request we disclose the categories of personal information we collect.
- The right to correct the personal information we collect and use.
- The right, in certain circumstances, to delete the personal information we collect and use.
How Do We Keep Your personal information secure?
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. Specific measures we use include encryption, secure passwords, physical access controls, internal access controls, firewalls, rapid recovery and virus protection.
International data transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. Our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information, and we may process it in any of these countries.
We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. This includes implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies.
Data retention
We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal data has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Your data protection rights
If you are a resident of the EEA, including Switzerland and the United Kingdom, you have the following data protection rights:
- Access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information.
- Object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.
- You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time.
- If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
- You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below. We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Updates to this Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make and as required by applicable data protection laws.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us by email: privacy@onebarnes.com or mail: Barnes Group Inc., Compliance Office, 123 Main Street, Bristol, Connecticut 06010, USA.
The data controller of your personal information is Barnes Group Inc.