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Protecting your privacy is extremely important to us. The following information covers whether and to what extent your personal data is collated, processed or used when you visit our websites.
You can generally use our websites without providing us with specific personal details. We shall solely be informed of the name of your Internet service provider, your IP address, the website from which you linked to our site and the web pages on our site that you visit. In this regard, an evaluation occurs for statistical purposes without the anonymisation of your details.
Data protection & security
Our data protection practices comply with the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG).
Encryption (SSL)
To protect your personal data against misuse and unauthorised access, your orders are transmitted over the Internet in encrypted format. During the encryption process, your personal details such as your address, telephone number or credit card number are converted into a code, which cannot be read by unauthorised persons during transmission over the Internet. We encrypt your personal data using 256 bit SSL.
Information
On request, we will provide you with free information about the data stored about you, the data recipients and the reasons why the data is stored. If you wish to receive such information, please e-mail us at info@edel-optics.sg. We are also obliged, at your request, to correct, bar or delete the data stored about you.
Use of cookies
To make our website more attractive to visitors and make it possible to use certain functions, we use ‘cookies’ on several pages. These are small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of your browser session, i.e. when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies. To use our shopping basket, session cookies must be enabled. Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). We store persistent cookies for a maximum of 6 months, after which time they are automatically deleted. You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the placement of cookies and can decide whether to accept them on a case by case basis or in particular circumstances or to generally decline them. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all the functions on our websites.
The personal data collated on our websites will only be used without your consent for contract fulfilment and performance and to process your enquiries.
Furthermore, your data shall only be used for our own marketing purposes if you have given us your prior consent to do this. On subscribing to our newsletter, your e-mail address shall be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe. You can withdraw your permission for Edel-Optics to use your e-mail address to send you service and product information e-mails at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs in accordance with the basic rates. If you no longer wish to receive service and product information e-mails, simply e-mail us at info@edel-optics.sg. We of course guarantee the security of your data in accordance with the German Data Protection Act.
You can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. In accordance with the German Data Protection Act, you also have the right to free information about the data saved about you and, where applicable, the right to the correction, barring or deletion of this data. For return matters or information about personal data, please contact:
Edeloptics GmbH
Straßenbahnring 19a
20251 Hamburg
Germany
Telephone: 006531588292
Fax: +49 40 689878-828
E-mail: info@edel-optics.sg
Internet: www.edel-optics.sg
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’ – text files that are stored on your computer and can be used to analyse your website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your usage of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA, where it is saved. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address shall however be shortened by Google within the European Union Member States or other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before its transmission. Only on exceptions shall the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and then shortened. Google shall use this information on behalf of this website’s operator to evaluate your usage of the website, create reports about the website activities and provide the website operator with further services associated with the website usage and the internet usage. The IP address transmitted from your browser within the scope of Google Analytics shall not be consolidated with other data from Google. You can prevent cookies from being stored by activating the relevant browser settings. Please note, however, that doing so may prevent you from being able to use all of this website’s functions in full. You can also prevent Google from collating and processing the cookie-generated website usage data (incl. your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.