Privacy Policy

1) Information on the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data refers to all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

IVKO Industrieprodukt Vertriebskontakt GmbH
Kiefernweg 13
56729 Baar
Germany
Tel.: +49 – 2656 – 95 262 80
Fax: +49 – 2656 – 95 262 99
E-mail: info@hoffmann-eyewear.com

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

1.3 Our data protection officer is available to you as a contact person for all data protection-related concerns as well as for the exercise of your rights. Please direct your inquiries to:

IVKO Industrieprodukt Vertriebskontakt GmbH
Kiefernweg 13
56729 Baar
Germany
E-mail: Info-datenschutz@ivko.de

1.4 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

When using our website purely for informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

– Our visited website

  • Date and time at the time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/reference from which you reached the page
  • Used browser
  • Used operating system
  • Used IP address (if applicable: in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively should concrete indications of unlawful use arise.

3) Cookies

To make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values to an individual extent. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie.

If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

We may work with advertising partners who help us make our internet offer more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies may also be stored on your hard drive when you visit our website (third-party cookies). You will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected within the following sections.

4) Contacting Us

When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your inquiry; this is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

5) Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account and for Contract Execution

According to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide it to us for the execution of a contract or when opening a customer account. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done by sending a message to the above-mentioned address of the controller. We store and use the data you provide for contract processing. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked with regard to tax and commercial law retention periods and deleted after these periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or a legally permitted further data use has been reserved by our side.

6) Use of Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager

On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website and internet usage to us. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Further information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics can be found in Google’s privacy policy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

The integration of Google Analytics takes place via Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows us to centrally manage and implement website tags. No personal data is processed by Google Tag Manager itself. Further information about the use of Google Tag Manager can be found here:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/tagmanager/use-policy.html.

7) Embedding of YouTube Videos

We have embedded YouTube videos on our website, which are stored on the YouTube platform and can be played directly from our website. YouTube is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

We use YouTube in the “extended data protection mode,” meaning that YouTube does not store information about visitors unless they play the video. However, when you play a YouTube video, data is transmitted to YouTube servers, including which of our pages you visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, YouTube may store cookies on your device after you play a video or use similar recognition technologies (e.g., device fingerprinting). This allows YouTube to collect information about visitors to our website. This information is used, among other things, to compile video statistics, improve the user experience, and prevent fraud attempts.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of providing an appealing presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If consent has been requested (e.g., via a cookie consent banner), the processing is based exclusively on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information about data protection at YouTube can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

8) Rights of the Data Subject

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

  • Pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection, data portability, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information about its details.
  • Pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to request the immediate correction of incorrect data or the completion of your personal data stored by us.
  • Pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
  • Pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful, but you oppose its deletion, we no longer need the data, but you require it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR.
  • Pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to request its transmission to another controller.
  • Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Generally, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our company headquarters.

9) Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to always comply with the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. Your new visit will then be subject to the new privacy policy.