Privacy Policy
1. In General
Compliance with Data Protection Laws. The collection, administration and use of personal details by Geislinger GmbH complies with applicable data protection laws.
The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations as well as this data protection statement.
The use of our website is normally possible without giving personal data. If personal data (for example name, address or e-mail addresses) are collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. These data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.
We would like to point out that the transmission of data on the Internet (for example, by e-mail communication) may present security gaps. A complete protection of the data before access by third parties is not possible.
2. Personally Identifiable Information
2.1 Personally Identifiable Information. Geislinger GmbH collects information from users upon registration on its website (the “Registration” and a user then a “Registered User). Personally identifiable information (personenbezogene Daten) within the meaning of the European data protection regulation shall be saved and used in particular in order to offer new applications to the user, to improve such applications and conform them to the users' needs
2.2 Data Collection. Upon Registration, certain user data is collected in several ways (the “Registration Information”)
2.2.1 Mandatory Information. Certain information has to be given by a user in order to register for a shop account, such as:
· Email address
· First and last name
· Gender
· (Business ID)
· Address (street, zip code, city, country)
· Phone number
· IP-Address
3. Use and sharing of personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information with third parties
3.1 Confidentiality and Security. Geislinger GmbH deems all user information confidential and does not disclose such information without the express informed consent of the user. Geislinger GmbH has implemented reasonable security policies and procedures designed to protect user information.
3.2 Registration. With Registration, the user explicitly agrees that Geislinger GmbH shall have the right to use all collected personally identifiable information, for purposes of the Geislinger GmbH Products and generally agrees with this Privacy Policy.
3.3 Sharing of Information. Geislinger GmbH does not pass on personally identifiable information to third parties, except as response to lawful requests from federal, state, local, or foreign law and civil enforcement agencies, as required by law, or with the explicit consent of the user, especially as set forth herein. Geislinger GmbH implements all reasonable measures to prevent the unauthorized access by third parties to saved details.
4. The purposes of processing
4.1 Provision of products and services. We may process and use your personal data to provide you the product or service you have requested, fulfill your other requests such as customer service, process your order or as otherwise may be necessary to perform or enforce the contract between you and Geislinger GmbH. We may also process and use your personal data to ensure the functionality and security of our products and services, to identify you, and to prevent and detect fraud and other misuses.
4.2 Development of products and services. We may process and use your personal data to develop our products and/or services. However, for the most part we only use aggregate and statistical information in the development of our products and services, and not data directly identifiable to you. We may also process and use your personal data to personalize our offerings and to provide you with service more relevant to you, for example, to make recommendations and to display customized content and advertising. We may combine personal data collected in connection with your use of a particular Geislinger GmbH product and/or service with other personal data we may hold about you, except where such personal data was collected for a different purpose.
4.3 Communicating and marketing. We may process and use your personal data to communicate with you, for example, to provide information relating to our products and/or services you are using or to contact you for customer satisfaction queries. We may process and use your personal data for marketing. Marketing purposes may include using your personal data for personalized marketing or research purposes in accordance with applicable laws, for example, to conduct market research and to communicate our products, services or promotions to you via our own or third parties’ electronic or other services.
4.4 Personalization. We may process and use your personal data for profiling/personalization for such purposes as targeted direct marketing and improvement of our products or services. We may also create aggregate and statistical information based on your personal data. Profiling/personalization includes automated processing of your personal data for evaluating, analyzing or predicting your personal preferences or interests in order to, for example, send you marketing messages concerning products or services best suitable for you.
5. Payment service provider
We use "Mollie" to process your orders. Mollie is a payment service provider that offers her customers (for instance webshops) the possibility to accept online payment from their consumers (payers). Via Mollie we can give our customers the choice between different payment methods. All information regarding Mollie's data protection can be found at the following link: https://www.mollie.com/en/privacy
6. Plugins and widgets for social media
6.1 This website includes social media plugins, such as (i) Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; (ii) Google +, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043; (iii) Twitter, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA; (iv) Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA; (v) YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA; (vi) Pinterest, Inc., 808 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
6.2 Such plugins can recognize a user’s IP address and the page visited on the levitaz.com platform and, possibly, store cookies, so that the services offered by Geislinger GmbH work properly. Social media plugins and widgets are hosted either by third party providers or directly by us. Your interactions with these plugins are subject to this privacy policy or the privacy policy of any third party that offers such feature. Geislinger GmbH is not responsible for the use of, or guidelines regarding the use of, personal data by third party providers.
6.3 Users may recognize the respective plugins, e.g., by the respective logo or other respective characteristic typical for the respective social media-platform on our pages.
6.4 If a user interacts with the plugins, e. g. by clicking on the Facebook "Like-Button" or entering a comment, while being logged in to such user's Social Media-account on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, a user links the contents of the levitaz.com page to his or her respective social media-profile. Thereby, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube can associate a user's visit of the levitaz.com with such user's social media-account. Geislinger GmbH as the provider of levitaz.com does not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its usage by Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. Users can find more information on the issue of data transmission in the privacy policy of the respective social media-platform:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
- Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines
6.5 If users do not want to have the respective social media-platform associate their visits on our site with their social media-account, users must log out from their social media-account.
7. Cookies
7.1 General. Several areas of the levitaz.com website use 'cookies' ─ small text files that are placed on the user's computer and stored by the browser. They are used by Geislinger GmbH to provide a more user-friendly, effective and secure service. Cookies also enable Geislinger GmbH to identify a user's browser and offer services to such user. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.
7.2 Installation. You can prevent the installation of cookies by entering the corresponding settings in your browser software. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to use the complete range of functions of the levitaz.com platform to its full extent.
8. Google Analytics and app analytics
8.1 Levitaz.com uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses 'cookies' (see Section 5, above). The information about your visit collected by the cookies, including your IP address, is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Levitaz.com has activated IP anonymization. Google first abbreviates your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA or Asia and abbreviated there. Google will use the information collected on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of levitaz.com, to compile reports about your activities within the website, and to provide further services. Google will under no circumstances associate the IP address transmitted by your browser within the operations of Google Analytics with other Google data.
8.2 You can prevent the data related to your use of levitaz.com, including your IP address, generated by the cookies from being recorded by Google and Google's processing of this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
8.3 Further information regarding terms of use and privacy provisions may be found on the websites https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/
and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=de . Levitaz.com expanded the Google Analytics-Service with the “anonymizeIP”-Code to anonymize the user’s IP-address.
8.4 Levitaz.com uses Google DoubleClick for Publishers (“DFP”). DFP uses Cookies to provide the user with user-relevant advertisements – further information may be found at https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/2839090?hl=en . The user may disable the DFP’s cookie placement and the placement of user-relevant advertisements for use of the levitaz.com: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en
9. Data Quality and retention
We take reasonable steps to keep the personal data we possess accurate and up-to-date and to delete out of date or otherwise incorrect or unnecessary personal data. We store your personal data only for a period necessary for the purpose in question or as long as required by applicable laws.
10. Deletion of user information
Upon the Registered User’s request, all User Information not required for Geislinger GmbH performance of contractual obligations or compliance with statutory retention obligations, shall be irrevocably deleted. The user shall request such deletion by email sent to shop@levitaz.com, which shall include the email address provided upon registration, or via the website. Geislinger GmbH will comply with such requests within thirty days and maintain a record of the deletion for one year after the deletion.
By using our site as a non-registered user, you consent to our privacy policy only for those areas not subject to Registration. Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website and apps. https://levitaz.com/shop-info/terms-conditions