PRIVACY POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY
- LEGAL INFORMATION
Website
This website (the “Website”), and all personal information collected from users of this Website, are owned solely by Artimex Sport GmbH Markenbilchenweg 34,56068 Koblenz,Germany.
By visiting or using any of the pages available on the Website on which this Privacy Policy or a link to this Privacy Policy appears, you are deemed to agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully prior to visiting or using any such pages or otherwise providing any personal data.
If you wish to opt-out of this Privacy Policy, amend or remove any of your personal data in our possession, please refer to clause IV for the required procedure.
- COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal data refers to data about an individual who can be identified from either that particular data, or from that data and other information which Artimex Sport GmbH has or is likely to have access to. Commonly collected personal data of our customers typically include, amongst other things, names, addresses, telephone (landline and mobile) numbers, e-mail addresses, identification numbers, nationalities, dates of birth and credit card information.
Collection of personal data
Wherever possible, we only collect personal data directly from you. Without limitation, this can occur during or before you: –
(1) sign up to receive information;
(2) set up an account on the Website;
(3) place an order for Products through the Website;
(4) provide any feedback or complaints with regards to our Products or services through the Website;
(5) participate in any social media offerings (such as signing up through our Facebook page); and/or
(6) participate in any marketing activity held by us.
In addition to personal data provided to us, certain information related to you that is not considered personal data may also be collected. We collect this information to improve our Website and other online services. Such non-personal data may include information such as your IP address, the internet browser you use, details of your interaction with our Website, shopping habits, preferences and information about your lifestyle or preferences such as your hobbies and interestsand other types of non-personal data.
We may also receive personal information about you from other sources if you have given permission for that information to be shared. This may include information from commercially available sources, such as public databases and data aggregators, and information from third parties.
Use of cookies
We may use data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the Website to personalise your online experience, help analyze our Website flow and measure promotional effectiveness. “Cookies” are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We may offer features that are only available through the use of a “cookie”. We also use cookies to reduce the number of times you need to enter your password. Cookies may also help us provide to you information targeted in accordance to your interests. Most browsers automatically accept cookies but you can modify your browser to decline cookies (if your browser permits you to do so), although in such a case you may not be able to access certain features on our Website or some interactive features offered on our Website may be restricted or rendered inoperable.
Our Website may allow third parties (for example, analytics firms and business partners) to download cookies to your device. These third parties may use cookies and other technologies to collect non-personal data about your online activities while you are using our Website. We have no access to, or control over these cookies, or other features these third parties use, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
For further information about how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy here.
Using the Remarketing or “Similar target groups” function of Google Inc.
The supplier uses the Remarketing or “Similar target groups” function of Google Inc. (“Google”) on the website. The supplier can use this function to specifically approach the visitors of this website with advertisements by running personalised, interest-related advertisements for visitors of the supplier’s website if they visit other websites in the Google Display network. Google uses so-called cookies for analysing the website usage, which forms the basis for developing the interest-related advertisements. For this, Google saves a small file with a numerical sequence on the browsers of the website’s visitors. This number is used to record the visits to the website as well as anonymised data about the website usage. Personal data of the website’s visitors is not saved. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display network, pop-ups are displayed to you, which are likely to take into account previously accessed product and information fields.
You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link given below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de
Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third=party suppliers by calling the deactivating site of the network advertising initiative on http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the additional information for Opt-Out mentioned there.
Additional information regarding Google Remarketing as well as the data protection declaration of Google can be viewed on: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
Using Google Adwords conversion tracking
We use the online advertising service “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking within the scope of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).
If you click an advertisement run by Google, a cookie for the conversion tracking is saved on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity, do not contain any personal data and thus do not help in personal identification.
If you visit specific webpages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can identify that you have clicked on the advertisement and were forwarded to this page.
Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Thus, there is no option that cookies can be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers.
The information that is obtained with the help of the conversion cookie helps to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have decided on conversion tracking. Here, the customers find out about the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were forwarded to a site provided with a conversion tracking tag. You however do not receive any information which can be used to identify users personally.
If you do not wish to take part in the tracking, you can disagree to this use by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software (deactivation option). You are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics.
For additional information as well as for the data protection declaration, please visit: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
Use of Google Analytics
We use so called tracking technologies in order to improve and optimize our offer continuously. We use the services of Google Analytics .
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of the Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so called “cookies”, text files, which are saved on your pc and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. As a rule, the information produced by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted to a server of Google in the US and is saved there. In case of activating the IP anonymization on this website, your IP address is shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contractual states of the convention of the European Economic Area beforehand. On rare occasions, the complete IP address is transmitted to a server of Google in the US and is shortened there. Google uses this information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities and to render further services related to website use and Internet use towards the website operator. The IP address, which is transmitted from your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other data of Google. You can prevent the storing of cookies by an appropriate preference of your browser software; though we point out that you might probably not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent in this case. Moreover, you can prevent the recording of data by Google, which are produced by the cookie and are related to your use of the website (incl. IP address) as well as processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available on the following link.
Collection of personal data by other websites
Using Facebook plugins
This Website uses plug-ins from the social network Facebook, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. If you access a page on our Website that contains a plug-in, your browser will establish a direct link to Facebook’s servers. The plug-in content will then be sent directly to your browser by Facebook and included on the relevant web page. Facebook will be notified that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our Website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or if you are not logged on to your Facebook account. You IP address will be sent directly by your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and registered on that server.
If you are logged on to Facebook when you browse our Website, Facebook may directly link your visit to our Website, to your Facebook account. If, for example, you click on ‘Like’ or leave a comment on Facebook in relation to our Website while using a plug-in, the corresponding information will be transmitted to and registered on a Facebook server and published on your Facebook account. Facebook may use such information for advertising and market research purposes, and may adapt its pages accordingly. Facebook may therefore create user profiles including information about users’ interests and relationships, to determine how users react after having seen an advertisement on Facebook, inform other Facebook users about the activity of our Website and offer other services linked to Facebook.
If you do not wish Facebook to link information collected via our website to your Facebook account, you should log out of Facebook before visiting our Website.
Data privacy information of Facebook
Using the Google “+1” button
On these webpages, the “+1” button of the social network Google Plus of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereafter referred to as “Google”) is used. If you invoke a webpage of our Internet presence, which is provided with the “+1” button, a link is established with the Google servers in the USA, and the button is displayed on the Internet page through a notification to your browser. Here, your IP address as well as the information, as to which of our Internet sites you have visited, is forwarded to the Google server. This is independent of whether you have registered with or are logged in on Google Plus. Data is transferred even in case of users who are not registered or logged in on these sites. The “+1” button is not used to record your visits on the Internet. When displaying a “+1” button, Google does not permanently log your browser history and also does not analyse your visit to a page with “+1” button in another manner. Google saves the data of your visit for about two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. However, this data is not structured as per the individual profiles, user names or URLs, and is also not forwarded to us.
Moreover, if you are a member of Google Plus, and if your are logged in on Google Plus during the period in which you use the plugin, the information collected about your website visit is linked to your Google Plus Account and disclosed to other users. Even in case of interactions, which are possible with various Google plugins, the corresponding information about you is collected and transmitted to Google and stored there. For an overview of the different types of Google plugins, log on to:
https://developers.google.com/+/plugins
If you have made your profile publically accessible in the Google Plus settings, your “+1” can be superimposed by Google as information together with your profile names and your photo in Google services, e.g. in search results or in your Google profile, or at other places on websites and advertisements on the Internet. If you do not want Google to allocate the collected information directly to your Google Plus profile, you must first log out of Google Plus before visiting our site.
Other information about the collection and usage of the data by Google, about your relevant rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Data Protection information of Google: www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.
You have an option to prevent downloading Google plugins by installing corresponding add-ons in your browser.
Data privacy information of Google+
Using Twitter plugins
The functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our website.
Twitter is a social media portal of the company Twitter Inc.,795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, (USA).
We use Twitter plugins. If you invoke a corresponding website that has such a plugin, the data is exchanged with the Twitter servers located in the USA.
Even in case of interactions, which are possible with various Twitter plugins, the corresponding information about you is collected and transmitted to Twitter and stored there.
Moreover, if you are a member of Twitter, and if your are logged in on Twitter during the period in which you use the plugin, the information collected about your website visit is linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users.
If you do not wish that Twitter links and combines the information with the data of your Twitter account, you must log out from Twitter before visiting our website.
Log on to https://twitter.com/privacy for more information on the collection and use of data through Twitter.
III. USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Using your personal data
We collect personal data from our existing and prospective customers and employees for various reasons. Without limitation, these purposes include:-
(1) improving our products and your experience on our Website;
(2) analyzing the effectiveness of our advertisements, competitions and promotions;
(3) customising your Website experience, as well as evaluating statistics on website activity, such as what time you visited it, whether you have visited it before and what site referred you to it;
(4) making the Website easier to use and tailoring the Website and products to your interests and needs;
(5) processing orders and administering accounts in relation to your use of our products and services;
(6) sending you information, products or samples you have requested;
(7) responding to your comments or queries;
(8) improving the quality of our services with market research and surveys;
(9) supplying you with information that is relevant to your existing relationship with us; or
(10) offering you the opportunity to take part in competitions and promotions.
Where we collect personal data for a specific purpose, we will not keep it for longer than is necessary to fulfil that purpose, unless we have to keep it for legitimate business or legal reasons.
- AMENDMENTS TO PERSONAL DATA / OPT OUT
You have a right to access, change and remove the personal data held by Artimex Sport GmbH . If you wish to do so, please refer to ‘Contact Us‘. You may also decline to receive e-mails by clicking on ‘unsubscribe’ in any marketing e-mail you receive.
If you do not want your personal data to be shared among affiliates, business partners or unrelated third parties, you may opt-out of such information sharing by sending us the appropriate withdrawal of consent form. For details on how to obtain such a form, please refer to ‘Contact Us‘.
- SECURITY
Artimex Sport GmbH uses reasonable measures to protect your personal data and to store it securely. Where personal information is entered on our Website, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While security cannot be guaranteed, we strive to protect your personal data and are constantly reviewing and enhancing our security protocols to ensure that your personal data is not subject to unnecessary risks.
- RIGHTS TO AMEND THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If material changes are made to this Privacy Policy, they will be posted on this page and date stamped. We encourage you to review this page periodically in order for you to stay notified of any changes.
Your continued use of this Website and acceptance of our services after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your consent to any such changes, to the extent such consent is not otherwise provided.
