Privacy Policy

Personal data (usually referred to just as "data" below) willonly be processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose ofproviding a functional and user-friendly website, including its contents, andthe services offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the General DataProtection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the "GDPR"),"processing" refers to any operation or set of operations such ascollection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation,alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission,dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment, or combination,restriction, erasure, or destruction performed on personal data, whether byautomated means or not.

The following privacy policy is intended to inform you in particularabout the type, scope, purpose, duration, and legal basis for the processing ofsuch data either under our own control or in conjunction with others. We alsoinform you below about the third-party components we use to optimize ourwebsite and improve the user experience which may result in said third partiesalso processing data they collect and control.

Our privacy policy is structured as follows:

I. Information about us as controllers of your data
II. The rights of users and data subjects
III. Information about the data processing

I. Information about us ascontrollers of your data

The party responsible for this website (the "controller") forpurposes of data protection law is:

Veinlite Service Center forEurope

Dipl.Vw.Ing. Norbert ArtnerFabriksteig 10/4 A-9500 Villach

Telephone: +43 664 2843 664

Email: office@veinlite.eu


The controller's data protection officer is:

Dipl.Vw.Ing. Norbert Artner

II. The rights of users anddata subjects

With regard to the data processing to be described in more detail below,users and data subjects have the right

• to confirmation of whether data concerning     them is being processed, information about the data being processed,     further information about the nature of the data processing, and copies of     the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
• to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete     data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
• to the immediate deletion of data concerning     them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alternatively, if further processing is     necessary as stipulated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said     processing per Art. 18 GDPR;
• to receive copies of the data concerning them     and/or provided by them and to have the same transmitted to other     providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
• to file complaints with the supervisory     authority if they believe that data concerning them is being processed by     the controller in breach of data protection provisions (see also Art. 77     GDPR).

In addition, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whomit discloses data of any such corrections, deletions, or restrictions placed onprocessing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this obligationdoes not apply if such notification is impossible or involves adisproportionate effort. Nevertheless, users have a right to information aboutthese recipients.

Likewise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and datasubjects have the right to object to the controller's future processing oftheir data pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In particular, an objectionto data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible.

III. Information about thedata processing

Your data processed when using our website will be deleted or blocked assoon as the purpose for its storage ceases to apply, provided the deletion ofthe same is not in breach of any statutory storage obligations or unlessotherwise stipulated below.

Server data

For technical reasons, the following data sent by your internet browserto us or to our server provider will be collected, especially to ensure asecure and stable website: These server log files record the type and versionof your browser, operating system, the website from which you came (referrerURL), the webpages on our site visited, the date and time of your visit, aswell as the IP address from which you visited our site.

The data thus collected will be temporarily stored, but not inassociation with any other of your data.

The basis for this storage is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Ourlegitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality, andsecurity of our website.

The data will be deleted within no more than seven days, unlesscontinued storage is required for evidentiary purposes. In which case, all orpart of the data will be excluded from deletion until the investigation of therelevant incident is finally resolved.



Cookies

a) Session cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files or otherstorage technologies stored on your computer by your browser. These cookiesprocess certain specific information about you, such as your browser, locationdata, or IP address.  

This processing makes our website more user-friendly, efficient, andsecure, allowing us, for example, to display our website in different languagesor to offer a shopping cart function.

The legal basis for such processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR,insofar as these cookies are used to collect data to initiate or processcontractual relationships.

If the processing does not serve to initiate or process a contract, ourlegitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our website. Thelegal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your browser, these session cookies are deleted.

b) Third-party cookies

If necessary, our website may also use cookies from companies with whomwe cooperate for the purpose of advertising, analyzing, or improving thefeatures of our website.

Please refer to the following information for details, in particular forthe legal basis and purpose of such third-party collection and processing ofdata collected through cookies.

c) Disabling cookies

You can refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on yourbrowser. Likewise, you can use the browser to delete cookies that have alreadybeen stored. However, the steps and measures required vary, depending on thebrowser you use. If you have any questions, please use the help function orconsult the documentation for your browser or contact its maker for support.Browser settings cannot prevent so-called flash cookies from being set.Instead, you will need to change the setting of your Flash player. The stepsand measures required for this also depend on the Flash player you are using.If you have any questions, please use the help function or consult thedocumentation for your Flash player or contact its maker for support.

If you prevent or restrict the installation of cookies, not all of thefunctions on our site may be fully usable.

Contact

If you contact us via email or the contact form, the data you providewill be used for the purpose of processing your request. We must have this datain order to process and answer your inquiry; otherwise we will not be able toanswer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted once we have fully answered your inquiry andthere is no further legal obligation to store your data, such as if an order orcontract resulted therefrom.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a web analytics serviceprovided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4,Irland (hereinafter: Google).

Through certification according to the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guarantees that it will follow the EU's data protectionregulations when processing data in the United States.

The Google Analytics service is used to analyze how our website is used.The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies inthe analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our site.

Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, place, time, orfrequency of your visits to our website will be transmitted to a Google serverin the United States and stored there. However, we use Google Analytics withthe so-called anonymization function, whereby Google truncates the IP addresswithin the EU or the EEA before it is transmitted to the US.

The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide uswith an evaluation of visits to our website and what visitors do once there.This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of ourwebsite and of the internet in general.

Google states that it will not connect your IP address to other data. Inaddition, Google provides further information with regard to its dataprotection practices at

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners,

including options you can exercise to prevent such use of your data.

In addition, Google offers an opt-out add-on at

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

in addition with further information. This add-on can be installed onthe most popular browsers and offers you further control over the data thatGoogle collects when you visit our website. The add-on informs GoogleAnalytics' JavaScript (ga.js) that no information about the website visitshould be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, this does not prevent information frombeing transmitted to us or to other web analysis services. You can of coursealso find out in this data protection declaration whether and which other webanalysis services we use.