Privacy Policy

PERSONAL DATA

Personal data is information about your identity. It includes information like names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

While using our website, it is not necessary to disclose any personal data. However, in certain cases we need to collect your name and address as well as other details to be able to provide the services requested.

The same applies for example, to shipping information and orders or to answer individual questions.

Where necessary, we will inform you appropriately.

Furthermore, we only store and process data which you voluntarily submit or data which is automatically gathered while visiting our website (e.g. your IP address and the names of the web pages you visited, your browser type and operating system, the date and time of your visit to our website, the search engine you used, and the names of downloaded files).

If you intend to make use of our services, we usually only collect data which is needed to provide the service. Any request for further data is voluntary. Personal data will only be processed to perform the service requested and to protect our own business interests.

PURPOSE OF COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA

The information you provide is only used to fulfill your specific requests or to give you access to certain information or offers. In order to maintain our customer relationships, it may also be necessary for us or for a service provider appointed by us to use personal data to inform you about product offers or to conduct online surveys in order to better fulfill our customers' requests.

If you choose not to have your personal data used to support our customer relationship (in particular for direct marketing or market research), we will respect your choice. We will not sell personal data to third parties nor market it in any other form.

PURPOSE-RELATED USE

We will only collect, process and use personal data provided by you online only for the purposes stated to you. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties without your permission.

The collection of personal data and the transmission of such data to state institutions and authorities that are entitled to receive such information shall only be carried out within the framework of relevant legislation, or when we are obligated to do so under the terms of a court judgment.

Our employees and the service providers appointed by us are bound to confidentiality and are under an obligation to obey the provisions of the Austrian Federal Data Protection Act.

AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRED DATA

For organisational and technical reasons, the following data is stored when using our website: the names of the pages viewed, the browser and operating system used, the date and time of access, search engines used, the names of downloaded files and your IP address.

This data remains anonymous and it is used only for statistical purposes in order to improve our website and online services. This data is stored on secure systems, separate from personal data, which allows no reference to individual persons.

COOKIES

When you visit one of our websites information may be saved on your computer as a "cookie". Cookies are small text files which are sent to your browser by a web server and are saved on your computer's hard drive. Thereby, no personal data of the user is stored, only the IP-address. This information is used to automatically recognize you during your next visit to our website and to make it easier to navigate. Such cookies allow us to e.g. adapt a web site to your interests or to save your password so that you will not have to enter it every time.

Of course you can also view our website without cookies. If you do not wish us to recognize your computer, please adjust your web browser settings by selecting “Do not accept cookies”. Please read your browser instructions onhow to carry out the single steps. However, if you choose not to accept cookies, this can limit the functions available to you on our site.

CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Persons below the age of 18 should not transmit any personal information to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We do not request, collect or pass on personal data from children and adolescents.

SECURITY

We have taken appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your data from manipulation, loss, destruction, and unauthorized access.

All our employees and third parties involved in the data processing are bound by the Federal Act Concerning the Protection of Personal Data (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) and other privacy policies and will handle such personal data confidentially.

Whenever we collect and process personal data, their transfer will be encrypted in order to prevent data abuse by third parties. Our security measures are constantly updated according to the latest technological developments.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change our safety and data protection measures as far as this becomes necessary because of technical developments. In such cases we will adapt our data protection information accordingly. We therefore ask you to take not of the latest version of our privacy policy.

LINKS

If you use external links offered on our web site, this privacy policy does not cover these links. Where we offer links to other websites we ensure that such websites also maintain our data protection and security standards (at the time the link was created). However, we have no influence on the commitments other providers make towards data security and internet safety. Therefore, please visit these websites to inform yourself about the privacy policies posted there.

PRIVACY CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions concerning your personal information saved by us, please feel free to contact us using the information below:

address: Backhausen GmbH, A-3945 Hoheneich 136
email: datenschutz@backhausen.com

RIGHT OF OBJECTION

Furthermore, you may at any time revoke your agreement to the acquisition and storage of your personal data by us. Therefore, please contact us at:

Backhausen GmbH, A-3945 Hoheneich 136
or send us an email: datenschutz@backhausen.com