Data privacy
The protection of your personal data is our concern:
We appreciate your interest for our company and our products, and we wish you to feel secure while visiting our web pages, when the safety of your personal data becomes our concern. We take the protection of your privacy very seriously. We regard respect for the federal data protection act as a matter of course. We want you to know when we collect which data at what time and how we use it. We have taken technical and organisational measures to ensure the observance of data protection rules within our own company as well as by external service providers.
Personal Data:
Personal data is information related to your personal identity. This includes for example Information such as name, address, telephone number, email address. For using our internet site it is not necessary to reveal any private data. In special cases, however, we need your name, address, etc. to perform the services requested by our clients. The same rules apply for the mailing of information material, goods ordered with us, and the answering of individual queries. Where the declaration of personal data is necessary, we will point this out to you. Beyond that we only safe and process data voluntarily or automatically provided to us. In as far as you request services from us, normally only those data are collected that are necessary to perform the service requested. If we ask you for further information, this is a voluntary transmission of information. The processing of data related to your own person occurs exclusively to render the service requested, and to protect our own legitimate business interests
Purpose of personal data:
The personal data you make available to us is generally used to answer your queries, process your orders, and to make certain offers and information available to you. For the maintenance of customer relations it may also be necessary for us, or a service company under contract with us, to use your data to inform you about products that help you coordinate your business activities, to conduct online surveys, to make us meet your expectations and demands, etc. Of course, we respect if you do not want us to leave (especially direct marketing or market research) to support our customer relationship your personal information. We will not sell your personal data to third parties or otherwise market.
Purpose-bound use of personal data:
We will collect, process, and use the personal data you have provided online only for the purposes communicated to you. A transmission of your personal data to third parties does not occur without your necessary agreement. Collection and transmission of personal data to institutions of the state, i.e. and state departments entitled to receive to this kind of data, does only occur within the frame of the relevant laws or if we are obliged to do so by means of a judicial decision. Our employees and our external service companies are obliged not to divulge any personal data and to act according to federal privacy protection legislation.
Non-personal data collected automatically:
Using our web page the following data is gathered for organisational and technical reasons: the names of the web pages visited, the browser and the computer operating system used, data and time of access, search engines used, names of sites downloaded, and your IP address. We analyse this data anonymously and only for statistical purposes in order to be able to further optimize our internet site and to make our internet offers even more attractive. This anonymous data are being collected separately from personal data and saved in secure systems thus not allowing any conclusions to be drawn about your personal identity. Your personal data and your privacy are protected at all times.
Google Analytics:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”. These are text files placed on your computer which allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize your IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the US and abbreviated there.
On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
Social Plugins:
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please seedevelopers.facebook.com/plugins. When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. We have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge: The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is a possibility that the plugins transmit your IP-address to Facebook. For further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as on your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook's privacy policy:www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Furthermore you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker“.
Cookies:
a) What exactly are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information which are stored on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when Internet pages are visited and which, in general, are used for a more effective design of Internet pages. Some cookies (Session Cookies) are deleted automatically when the browser is closed, others (Persistent Cookies or Tracking Codes) are archived on the corresponding hardware until a certain expiration date or until the temporary memory of your browser has been emptied and enable us to be able to identify you as a repeated visitor of our Internet pages. The majority of Internet browsers accept cookies automatically. However, with simple clicking, you can change the settings of your browser if you do not wish this. More detailed information on cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.
b) Why are cookies used for by us?
We use cookies to:
• guarantee a secure Internet environment
• check our website performance and improve the user-friendliness as well as the online experience for our customers
We do not use cookies to track your Internet activities outside the Internet pages maintained by us.
The types of cookies named in the following are used by us to better enable us to monitor and improve our online services. As a result, we can recognize, for example, when a process is too complex and the users discontinue the process for this reason. With this knowledge, the process steps can be simplified and configured in a more customer-orientated manner.
c) Which types of cookies exist?
Session Cookies
Are deleted after the browser has been closed. Serve to capture the navigation as well as the dwell time on the Internet pages and to keep your login active during the session.
Tracking Codes
Do not contain any personal data. Capture from where the page view has taken place, which search engine has been used, which link has been clicked and which key word has been selected and pinpoint the location of the user at the time of the page view. Capture the number of visits as well as the duration of the first, the current and the previous visit. These cookies only record visits to the Internet pages maintained by us and are not activated during visits to other Internet pages.
You can delete the cookies inserted for our Internet pages. In this case however, your individual data and contents, including your cookie settings, will be lost and you will not be recognized as a returning visitor when you next visit our Internet pages.
d) Do you agree to our cookies?
We provide some online features to you in order to make your visit to our Internet pages as comfortable as possible. However, this is only possible by making use of cookies. If you continue to navigate on our pages, you agree to the use of these cookies. You can revoke your consent at any time. Please note here, however, that for an unhindered navigation on our Internet pages, several ‟basicˮ cookies are indispensable. In addition, these cookies are only used by us to check the efficiency of the Internet pages and to capture the visitor frequency.
Security:
We have made the necessary technical and organisational arrangements to protect confidential data from being lost, destroyed, manipulated and looked at by persons not legitimated to do so.
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures as far as it is necessary for technical development. In these cases, we will adapt our privacy policy accordingly. Please note the latest version of our privacy policy.
Links:
If you use external links offered on our web site, this data protection statement does not apply to the pages those links refer to. We try and make sure that all external links offered by us are in keeping with our data protection commitment. We do not have any influence, however, on the commitments other providers make towards data security and internet safety. Please inform yourselves at external web sites about the data protection commitments applicable for that site.
Information and objection (Affected-rights)
On request, we will send you, free of charge, information about all the personal data we have stored about you.
Should you no longer agree wish the storage of your personal data or if the data is no longer correct, we will ensure the data is deleted or blocked or make the necessary corrections (as far as this is possible according to applicable law) upon request. If required, please contact us at Zieher KG, Kulmbachstr. 15, 95502 Himmelkron, address keyword: Privacy or send an e-mail to the following address: datenschutz(at)zieher.com
Disclaimer
Limitation of liability for internal content
The content of our website has been compiled with meticulous care and to the best of our knowledge. However, we cannot assume any liability for the up-to-dateness, completeness or accuracy of any of the pages. Pursuant to section 7, para. 1 of the TMG (Telemediengesetz – Tele Media Act by German law), we as service providers are liable for our own content on these pages in accordance with general laws. However, pursuant to sections 8 to 10 of the TMG, we as service providers are not under obligation to monitor external information provided or stored on our website or search for any indicator that may indicate unlawful activity. The obligation to remove or ban the use of information according to the general laws are not concerned by this. Any liability concerning this matter can only be assumed from the point in time at which the infringement becomes known to us. Once we have become aware of a specific infringement of the law, we will immediately remove the content in question.
Limitation of liability for external links
Our website contains links to the websites of third parties (“external links”), and whose content is not under our control. We cannot assume any liability for such external content. In all cases, the provider of information of the linked websites is liable for the content. At the point in time when the links were placed, the websites were checked for infringements. No infringements of the law were recognizable to us. However a permanent surveillance of the content of the linked websites is not possible without a reasonable suspicion for an infringement. As soon as an infringement of the law becomes known to us, we will immediately remove the link in question.
Copyright
The content and works published on this website are governed by the copyright laws of Germany. Any duplication, processing, distribution or any form of utilisation beyond the scope of copyright law shall require the prior written consent of the author or authors in question. Downloads and copies of this site are only legal for private, non-commercial purposes. As far as the contents of this page were not created by the operator of the website, the rights of third parties are observed. Especially the content of third parties is marked as such. However, in case you notice a copyright infringement, we would like to be informed about that. Once we have become aware of a specific infringement of the law, we will immediately remove the content in question.
