Your data protection is our concern
We are delighted that you are interested in our company and our products and/or services and we would like you to feel safe when visiting our web pages, also as regards the protection of your personal data, as we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Observing the regulations contained in the Federal Data Protection Act is a foregone conclusion for us.
We would like you to know when we collect data and how we use it. We have taken technical and organ-isational steps that ensure that the regulations concerning data protection are complied with both by us and by external service providers.
Personal data
Personal data provides information on your identity. This includes for example data such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address. You do not need to disclose personal data when using our website. In certain cases however we need your name and your address as well as other data so that we can provide the requested services.
The same applies for example when sending information material and ordered goods or when answering individual questions. When this is required, we will point this out to you accordingly. Furthermore, we only store and process data that you have provided us with voluntarily or automatically.
If you make use of the services, then, as a rule, only such data is collected that we need to provide the services. If we ask you for more extensive information, this will be voluntary information. Personal data is only processed so that we can provide the requested service and to safeguard our own legitimate busi-ness interests.
Intended use of the personal data
We generally use the personal data provided by you so that we can answer your queries, process your orders or provide you with access to certain information or offers. In order to look after customer relations, we or a service company appointed by us may need to use this personal data so that we can let you know about product offers which are useful for your business activities. We may also need to use this personal data so that we can conduct online surveys in order to deal with the tasks of our customers and meet their requirements more efficiently.
Obviously we respect the fact that you may not wish us to have your personal data to support our cus-tomer relations (particularly for direct marketing or for market research purposes). We will not sell your personal data to third parties nor will we market it in any other way.
Ear-marked use
We will only collect, process and use the personal data provided by you online for the purposes as stated to you. We will not pass on your personal data to third parties without your express approval.
Collecting personal data and passing it on to state institutions and authorities that are entitled to receive information will only be done within the context of the relevant laws or if we are obliged to do so because of a judicial ruling. We place our employees and the service companies appointed by us under an obliga-tion to maintain secrecy and to comply with the regulations contained in the Federal Data Protection Act.
Non-personal data that is captured automatically
The following data is stored when using our web pages: the names of the web pages accessed, of the browser used and the operating software system, the date and time of access, the search engines used, names of downloaded data files and your IP address. Your IP address will however be captured with the last octet truncated so that a clear unambiguous assignment is not possible. We evaluate this data anonymously and simply for statistical purposes in order to further optimise our Internet presence and to be able to make our Internet offers even more attractive. This data that is captured automatically is sepa-rated from personal information. It is stored in secured systems and does not allow an individual person to be identified.
Cookies
When you visit one of our web pages, it may be that we file information in your computer in the form of a cookie. Cookies are small text files that are sent from a web server to your browser and that are stored on the hard disk of your computer.
In addition the Internet protocol address of the user is stored. This information serves to automatically recognise you when you next visit our website and makes navigation easier for you. By way of example, cookies allow us to adapt a web page to your interests or to store your password so that you do not need to key it in again each time.
The data contained in cookies is not used in any way for evaluations or similar.
Obviously you can also look at our web pages without cookies. If you prefer that we do not recognise your computer, you can prevent cookies being stored on your hard disk by choosing "do not accept any cook-ies" in your browser settings. Please check the instructions from your browser manufacturer to see how that functions on an individual basis. If you do not accept any cookies, this may however result in func-tional limitations in respect of our offers.
Data protection declaration for the use of GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files which are stored on your computer in order to analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is as a rule trans-ferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will however be truncated beforehand by Google within the Member States of the European Union or within other contracting states covered by the Agreement on the European Eco-nomic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide website operators with other services relating to website and internet usage. The IP address that your browser transmits within the context of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however we must point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from capturing the data generated by the cookie that relates to your use of the website (including your IP address) and you can also prevent the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
You can find more detailed information about this under http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de and/or under http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information about Google Analytics and data protection). Please note that on this website Google Analytics was expanded by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to guarantee an anonymised capture of IP addresses (so-called IP Masking).
Data protection declaration for the use of FACEBOOK plugins (Like Button)
Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our pages. You will recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like But-ton" ("I like that") on our page. You will find an overview of Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, no direct link will be created between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. You will only activate the button and allow data to be transferred to Facebook by clicking on the Facebook symbol and moving the control to the right. With a further click you can further recommend the page. If you click on the Facebook "Like Button" whilst you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Face-book profile. As a result, Facebook can assign the visit to our pages to your user account. We must point out that we, as the supplier of the pages, do not receive any information about the content of the transmit-ted data or about its usage by Facebook. You can find further information about this in the data protection declaration of Facebook under http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign the visit to our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
Data protection declaration for the use of GOOGLE +1
This Internet presence uses the +1 button of google.com, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi-theatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The button is marked with the addition/logo "+1". With the help of the Google +1 push button you can publish information worldwide. Via the Google +1 push button, you and other users receive personalised contents from Google and their partners. At the time of the visit to our website, the push button is deactivated. You will only activate the button and allow data to be transferred to Google by clicking on the Google +1 button and moving the control to the right. With a further click you can further recommend the page. Google stores both the information that you have given for a content +1 and information about the page that you have looked at by clicking on +1. As references your +1 can be blended in together with your profile name and your photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or with other places on websites and adverts on the Internet. Google records information about your +1 activities in order to improve the Google services both for yourself and for others. In order to be able to use the Google +1 push button, you need a Google pro-file that is public and visible worldwide and which must, as a minimum, contain the name selected for the profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases this name can also replace another name that you have used for parts of contents via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be communicated to users who know your e-mail address or who have other information from you that identifies you.
In addition to the uses explained above, the information provided by you is used in accordance with the Google +1 data protection provisions that apply and which you can access under http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/+1button.html. Google may disclose compiled statistics concerning the +1 activities of the users and/or pass these on to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or associated websites. If you do not want Google +1 to be able to assign the visit to our pages to your Google user account, please log out of your Google user account beforehand.
Data protection declaration for the use of TWITTER
Functions of the Twitter services are integrated on our pages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. At the time of the visit to our website, the Twitter button is deactivated. You will only activate the button and allow data to be transferred to Twitter by clicking on the Twitter button and moving the control to the right. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In the process, data is also transferred to Twitter. We must point out that, as the suppliers of the pages we do not receive any information about the content of the transmitted data or about its usage by Twitter. You can find further information about this in Twitter's data protection declaration under http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your data protection settings with Twitter in the account settings under http://twitter.com/account/settings. If you do not want Twitter to be able to assign the visit to our pages to your Twitter user account, please log out of your Twitter user account beforehand.
Children
Persons under the age of 18 should not send any personal data to us without the authority of their parents or guardians. We do not ask for any personal data from children and young persons, we do not collect such data or pass it on to third parties.
Security
We have taken technical and organisational security measures in order to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorised access. All our employees and any third parties involved in data processing are obliged to comply with the Federal Data Protection Act and to treat personal data as confidential.
If personal data is collected and processed, the information is transmitted in an encoded form in order to prevent misuse of the data by third parties. Our security measures are revised on an ongoing basis in accordance with the technological developments.
Changing our data protection provisions
We reserve the right to alter our security and data protection measures if this is necessary because of technical developments or statutory provisions. In these cases we will alter our information on data protec-tion accordingly. Please therefore take note of the version of our data protection declaration that is valid at the time.
Links
If you use external links, which are offered within the context of our web pages, this data protection decla-ration does not extend to these links. If we offer links, we endeavour to ensure that these also contain our data protection and security standards. We do not however have any influence on compliance with the data protection and security regulations by other suppliers. Therefore please also look at the web pages of other suppliers in order to obtain information on the data protection declarations provided there.
Right to information
You can obtain information about the data stored by us that concerns you at any time. If you require this please write to OLYMP Bezner GmbH & Co. KG, Höpfigheimer Str. 19, 74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen or send an e-mail to datenschutz@olymp.com.
Right to object
Furthermore, you can at any time cancel your agreement regarding the collecting and storing of your per-sonal data by us. If you wish to cancel this please write to OLYMP Bezner GmbH & Co. KG, Höpfigheimer Str. 19, 74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen or send an e-mail to datenschutz@olymp.com.
Questions, suggestions, complaints
If you have any further questions regarding our information on data protection and the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer directly using the contact details stated below. He is also your contact person if you require information or if you have any suggestions or wish to make a complaint.
OLYMP Bezner GmbH & Co. KG
Höpfigheimer Straße 19
74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen
Germany
Phone +49 7142 592-0
Fax +49 7142 592-19
datenschutz@olymp.com
As at: January 2012
