Privacy Policy of ALBILEX GmbH & Co. KG

The protection of your Personal Data is important to us.

“Personal Data” within the scope of this Policy means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

At this point we like to inform you about how data protection is practiced in our company. Of course, we handle your Personal Data in accordance with European and National Data Protection Legislation.

This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any Personal Data we collect from you, or that you provide to us via our website www.albilex.de, will be processed by us.

1. Controller

ALBILEX GmbH und Co. KG acts as controller within the meaning of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, as such, determines the purposes and means of the processing of your Personal Data.

Contact details:
Achtzehnmorgenweg 3
61250 Usingen
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2. Collection and Using of Personal Data

The way in which your Personal Data will be collected and processed by us, depends on whether you visit our website for information purposes only or make use of the specific functions we offer to you via our website.

2.1 Using our Website for Information Purposes

When you are using our website for information purposes only, we only collect and use the data that your Internet browser automatically transmits to us, such as for example:

• date and time of access to our website,
• your IP-address,
• your browser-type and the browser version used,
• the operating system used,
• the amount of data transferred and the access status (e.g. file transferred, file not found, etc.),
• the loading times of our website,
• your last visited page,
• your next visited page.

We do not use the aforementioned data for person-related analysis. On the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR we use this data to provide access to our website and its contents, e.g. to ensure that our website is correctly displayed in your browser.

2.2 E-Mail Contact

You can communicate with us by using the e-mail-addresses published on our website. In this case we collect the Personal Data you provide to us during the communication. This usually involves your mail-address, your name and the content of your mail.

We only process the aforementioned Personal Data, which you provide to us during the e-mail communication, in order to answer your questions.

Processing of your Personal Data to handle your requests and maintain contacts is carried out for legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Regarding business related communication the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

2.3 Newsletter, Right to Object

By entering your e-mail address and your name and surname in the respective field of the registration form available on our website, you can subscribe to our newsletter.

By subscribing to our newsletter, you will receive product-related information.

With your registration to our newsletter you give us consent to process and use the aforementioned contact details for the distribution of our newsletter (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR).

We rely on the so called “double opt-in” process when sending out newsletters, which means that you will receive our newsletter only after confirming your order of our newsletter by clicking on the link included in the confirmation mail, we send to you after subscribing to our newsletter. This ensures that only the owner of the provided e-mail-address can subscribe to our newsletter.

You can object the receipt of our newsletter and unsubscribe from it at any time by sending an informal e-mail to the e-mail address mentioned under number 1 or by clicking on the link on the bottom of each newsletter.

3. Cookies

Our website uses so called “Cookies”.

3.1 What Are Cookies?

Cookies are text files that are sent to your browser during your visit of our website and stored on your device for later retrieval. By the next time you visit our website on the same device, the information saved on your device will be sent back to us. This exchange of information serves to structure our website in a user friendly and effective manner.

3.2 Which Cookies Do We Use?

Our Website uses Session Cookies. These Cookies only save and retrieve information that is necessary for technically providing the functions included in our website (e.g. language settings).

Session cookies will be deleted when terminating the session.

The use of Cookies is carried out for legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) to provide to you a technically error-free and optimized website.

3.3 How You Can Prevent Placing Cookies?

You can determine whether Cookies can be set and retrieved using the settings in your browser. For example, you can completely deactivate the storage of Cookies in your browser, restrict it to certain web pages or configure your browser in such a way that it automatically notifies you as soon as a Cookie is to be set and asks you for feedback. You can block or delete individual Cookies. For technical reasons, however, this may result in some of the functions of our website being impaired and no longer functioning completely.

4. Google Web Fonts

For a uniform presentation of fonts, our website uses “WebFonts” provided by Google Inc.

When visiting our website your browser loads the relevant fonts into its cache to display text and typo correctly. Therefore, your browser establishes a direct connection to Google servers and submits to Google the information that our website was accessed via your IP-address.

Based on Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR we use Google WebFonts for the purpose of a uniform and attractive presentation of the content provided via our website.

Further information on Google WebFonts can be obtained at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

5. MailChimp

This website uses the services of MailChimp for sending newsletters. The provider of this services is Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

MailChimp offers technical solutions for the design, sending and analysis of newsletter campaigns. If you register for our newsletter by providing your e-mail address, your e-mail address will be transmitted to the servers of MailChimp in the USA and stored there. If you open a newsletter sent with MailChimp, a connection to the servers of MailChimp in the USA will be established. Thus, it can be determined, that you have opened our newsletter and which link, included in the newsletter, you clicked on. In addition, technical information such as the time of retrieval, your IP address, browser type and operating system are transmitted to the MailChimp servers in the USA.

MailChimp is certified according to the EU-US Privacy Shield, which shall ensure compliance with European data protection standards: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active.

We use MailChimp in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO in the legitimate interest of an appealing design of our newsletter and the adaptation of the contents of our newsletter to the interests of the recipients. MailChimp also enables us to track the reach of our advertising campaign and the successful delivery of newsletters and thus to detect and eliminate technical errors.

Further information can be obtained from the privacy policy of MailChimp under:

https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

6. Involvement of External Service Providers and Transfer of Data to Third Parties

6.1 Involvement of External Service Providers

For the provision of this website and to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy we cooperate with external technical service providers (e.g. website hosting, maintenance of mail servers). Your data will be transferred to these external technical service providers only to the extent that is necessary for carrying out the abovementioned services.

Of course, we have carefully selected the service providers who support us and demand that they process your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and existing order processing agreements. The service providers commissioned by us process the Personal Data transferred to them according to our instructions.

6.2 Transfer of Data to Third Parties

Besides that, we only transfer the personal data, that we collect and process in accordance with Number 2 to 5, to third parties, if you have given us your prior consent, unless expressly stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy.

In addition, we transmit your data to third parties, if we are required to do so by law or by court or official orders.

7. Storage of Personal Data

We store your Personal Data in Germany.

We will only keep your personal data for as long as required to achieve the aforementioned processing purposes. If the respective processing purpose ceases to apply, the personal data will be deleted or blocked in accordance with legal provisions.

If the storage of your personal data is necessary due to a legal provision to which the data controller is subject, your personal data will be blocked or deleted when the storage period prescribed by the legal provision expires.

8. Data Security

We have established technical and organizational precautions to protect Personal Data collected by us and/or provided by you, in particular against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against attacks from unauthorized persons.

However, we would like to mention, that transmission via the internet (e.g. when communicating via e-mail) cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will do our best to protect your Personal Data but cannot guarantee its complete security.

9. Your Rights

You have the right to request access to your Personal Data (Art. 15 GDPR). You can also request rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), deletion (Art. 17 GDPR) and portability (Art. 20 GDPR) of your Personal Data.

You can object to (Art. 21 GDPR) or restrict (Art. 18 GDPR) the processing of your Personal Data.

You can revoke any consent granted to us for the processing of your Personal Data at any time with effect for the future.

For asserting your rights, please use the contact details provided to you under number 1.

Further, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.