DATA PROTECTION POLICY
Collected Information
We only collect the information that’s needed for the inquiry/registration procedure at our website or when fill up the registration form on the site. The information that we gathered are voluntarily submitted by the customers/visitors to us. We collect customer/visitor's personal information during the account registration/inquiry submission/form registration on our site.
Personal Identification Details
Your personal identification details are used to process your inquiry/registration, internal usage with legal requirements, and also to update our customers with our latest news of updates/changes, promotions and events.
Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties
We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this data protection policy. A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned does not take place. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:
• You have given your express consent
• the processing is necessary to process a contract with you,
• the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,
• Processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data.
Confidentiality
Your personal information is well kept confidential. We will not share any of your personal details to any responsible body or third parties other than for the purposes mentioned above.
Changes to our data protection policy
We reserve the right to update this data protection policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in privacy policy, e.g. B. when introducing new services. The new data protection policy will then apply to your next visit.
Collection of general information when you visit our website
When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically recorded. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content you have requested and is mandatory when using the Internet. The data is kept for up to a week. In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:
• Ensuring a problem-free connection to the website,
• Ensuring that our website can be used smoothly,
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well as
• for further administrative purposes.
The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest for the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use this data to draw conclusions about you personally. The recipients of the data are only the person responsible and, if applicable, the processor. Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.
The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.
Cookies
Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred to your hard drive by a website server.
Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable our website to be displayed correctly.
We process and use the resulting data to improve the marketing of our website, to increase the user-friendliness of the website and for other optimization purposes. The analysis required for marketing and optimization purposes does not usually allow us to draw any conclusions about your person or personal data. In particular, names, addresses, telephone numbers or other data that can be directly assigned to individuals are not stored. The analysis only provides aggregated data, such as the number of visitors and page views. However, we would like to point out that according to a widespread opinion, dynamic IP addresses and the associated usage data are also classified as personal data.
Cookies allow us, among other things, to adapt our website to your wishes, to establish connections between different visits to our website or to save your password in the browser so that you do not have to re-enter it every time. We also use cookies for target group-oriented advertising. We also allow data providers or other automatic data collection tools to use our cookies so that they can help us deliver our own content and advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertising measures. These cookies can provide anonymized or other data, linked to data that you have transmitted to us and that we pass on to data providers in a hashed form, i.e. in a form that cannot be read by humans. For registered users, the data collected on our website is not anonymous. We use this information together with other information that we know or derive about you, e.g. B. Your preferences in order to provide content, services and advertisements tailored to you.
Some of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can see the duration of the storage in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. In addition, the general storage principles outlined above apply. Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how you can change these settings. Instructions for managing / deactivating cookies:
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/Cookies-blockieren
• Firefox for Android: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-aktivieren-deaktivieren-firefox-android
• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
• Opera: https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/
• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
You will also find the options for deactivation directly in the description of the cookies, plugins, tracking measures and other tools, as far as this is possible there.
Registration and contact on our website
Registration form
When registering for the use of our personalized services, some personal data is collected, such as name, address, contact and communication data such as telephone number and email address. If you are registered with us, you can access content and services that we only offer to registered users. Registered users also have the option of changing or deleting the data provided during registration at any time, if necessary. Of course, we will also provide you with information about the personal data we have stored about you at any time. We will be happy to correct or delete these at your request, provided that there are no statutory retention requirements to the contrary.
Contact form
If you contact us with questions of any kind by e-mail or contact form, give us your voluntary consent to process your personal data for the purpose of contacting us. A valid email address and the address are required for this. These are used to assign the request and then answer it. In addition, we are required to collect the title, surname, the addressed SONAX business area, your request and, optionally, the first name and telephone number.
We process the personal data to process your inquiries, to provide the services you require and to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
The personal data collected will be stored for as long as is necessary for the purposes presented. Insofar as the data are subject to statutory retention requirements.
SSL encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) over HTTPS.
Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of the map functions by visitors. You can find more information about data processing by Google in the Google data protection information at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection center.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy findability of the places we have indicated on the website.
You can find detailed instructions on how to manage your own data in connection with Google products at http://www.dataliberation.org/.
The general deactivation of cookies is described in the Cookies section.
Google Tag Manager
This website uses the Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed via an interface. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. This means: no cookies are used and no personal data is recorded. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags, provided that they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.
Google Analytics
The Google Analytics service is used to analyze the usage behavior of our website. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website.
Usage and user-related information, such as IP address, location, time or frequency of visits to our website, are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The data collected in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an evaluation of the visit to our website and of the usage activities there. This data can also be used to provide other services related to the use of our website and the use of the Internet.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Social plugins
Social plugins from the providers listed below are used on our website. You can recognize the plugins by the fact that they are marked with the corresponding logo.
Via these plugins, information, which may also include personal data, may be sent to the service operator and may be used by the operator. We prevent the unconscious and unwanted collection and transmission of data to the service provider with a 2-click solution. In order to activate a desired social plug-in, it must first be activated by clicking on the corresponding switch. Only when the plug-in is activated is the collection of information and its transmission to the service provider triggered. We do not collect any personal data ourselves using the social plugins or their use.
We have no influence on which data an activated plug-in collects and how it is used by the provider. It must currently be assumed that a direct connection to the provider's services will be established and that at least the IP address and device-related information will be recorded and used. There is also the possibility that the service provider will try to save cookies on the computer used. Which specific data is recorded and how it is used, please refer to the data protection information of the respective service provider. Note: If you are logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook can identify you as a visitor to a specific page.
We have integrated the social media buttons of the following companies on our website:
• Facebook - Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
• Instagram, Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.
• Youtube - YouTube LLC., 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA
Facebook
Plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, are integrated on this website. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button on the website. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ .
The purpose of the integration is simply to leave a "like" on the Facebook platform. When you visit this website, the plug-in establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives the information that you have visited the website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook "Like" button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of the page to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to assign your visit to the site to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or its use by Facebook. You can find more information on this in Facebook's data protection declaration at https://www.facebook.com/policy.
If you do not want Facebook to be able to assign your visit to this website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
The function is deactivated by default and must first be activated with a click.
Instagram
This website uses the "Follow" functions of Instagram. The provider is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Youtube
We use YouTube on our website. This is a video portal from YouTube LLC., 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, hereinafter referred to as “YouTube”.
YouTube is a subsidiary of Google LLC., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, hereinafter referred to as “Google”.
Through certification according to the EU-US data protection shield ("EU-US Privacy Shield")
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
We use YouTube in connection with the "Extended data protection mode" function in order to be able to show you videos. The legal basis is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in improving the quality of our website. According to information from YouTube, the "extended data protection mode" function means that the data described in more detail below are only transmitted to the YouTube server when you actually start a video.
Without this "extended data protection", a connection to the YouTube server in the USA will be established as soon as you call up one of our Internet pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.
This connection is required in order to be able to display the respective video on our website via your internet browser. In the course of this, YouTube will at least record and process your IP address, the date and time and the website you visited. A connection to the Google “DoubleClick” advertising network is also established.
If you are logged into YouTube at the same time, YouTube will assign the connection information to your YouTube account. If you want to prevent this, you must either log out of YouTube before visiting our website or make the appropriate settings in your YouTube user account.
For the purpose of functionality and to analyze usage behavior, YouTube permanently saves cookies on your device via your internet browser. If you do not agree to this processing, you have the option of preventing the storage of cookies by setting your Internet browser. You can find more information on this under "Cookies" above.
Further information about the collection and use of data as well as your rights and protection options in this regard is available from Google at
https://policies.google.com/privacy available data protection information.
The data processed in this way for the stated purposes serve to safeguard the overriding legitimate interests of our company and third parties, in particular in advertising to our customers and users, and are therefore required according to the principle of proportionality.