Braun Opticians Ltd. is aware that the protection of your privacy when using our websites is of utmost concern. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Therefore we want you to know when we save which data and how we us it. With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about our data protection measures.

Scope of privacy policy

This privacy policy is valid for all websites that the Braun Opticians Ltd. is resposible for. Insofar as our Internet pages contain links to other companies the privacy policy does not cover these. Braun Opticians Ltd. guarantees the confidentiality of your personal data. All employees are obliged to maintain confidentiality according to the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). Safety precautions are promptly adjusted to the current state of the art.

Collection and processing of personal data

In accordance with the principle of data avoidance and data minimization, we only collect personal data on our website if they are required for your intended purpose and/or you voluntarily provide it.

Personal data is information with which a person is identifiable, thus information that can be traced back to a person. These include the name, e-mail address or phone number. As well as data about preferences, hobbies, memberships or visited websites.

Accordingly, we do collect

• no personal data but the possibly personal IP address of your computer, the date and the time, the browser type, and the operating system of your computer as well as the pages viewed by you when you retrieve information from the proper websites of Braun Opticians Ltd.
• at least your name, your e-mail address, and your message and, as voluntary information, further details of contact (address, phone number), which we shall send our reply to or at which we can contact you when you send an e-Mail to us.

We do not create or process personal surf profiles or the like. As far as we make use of service providers for the implementation and execution of processing operations we make sure that the contractual relationships are regulated according to the regulations of the BDSG.

Contacting

While contacting Braun Opticians Ltd. your data are stored for the purpose of processing your request as well as in case that follow-up questions arise.

The contact form is only sent to us when you have previously confirmed the privacy policy via click in the check box: “I took note of the privacy policy. I agree that my data are saved permanently for making contact and for enquiries. I can revoke my consent at any time via e-mail to info@optiker-braun.de”.

Intended purpose

The personal data you provide us with via the Internet (e.g. name, address or e-Mail address) are processed only for corresponding with you or for the purpose for which you have provided us with the data. In addition, we will use these data to occasionally inform you about interesting offers for products and services as long as you agree or you do not disagree.

We inform you with our newsletters about our company and our services. If you would like to receive a newsletter we need your valid e-mail address, your first and last name, and information that allows us to check that you are the owner of the specified e-mail address respectively that their owner agrees with the reception of the newsletter. More data are not collected. These data are only used for sending the newsletter and are not passed on to third parties.

You have to confirm your registration to our newsletter twice. We store your IP address and the date of your application when you submit the registration for the newsletter. In case of misuse of your e-mail address or unauthorised registration to the newsletter, this electronic storing serves as proof.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of all your data and their use for the mailing of the newsletter at any time. The revocation can be done via a link in the newsletter itself or via notice to the above mentioned possibilities of contact. Your data is saved by us only as long as is absolutely necessary.

We assure you that we do not disclose your personal data to third parties, unless we are obliged to do so by law or in case of your written consent.

The use of all offered services is, as far as technically possible and reasonable, permitted without providing such data or stating anonymised data or an alias.

Right of access and rectification

You have the right to information about all your personal data that we have stored, as well as about which persons are involved in this process. Furthermore, you are entitled to the rectification of incorrect data as well as to the deletion of personal data, if there does not result an obligation of storage from other legal regulations. Subject to the legal conditions, you are also entitled to the blocking of the data.

Only send an e-mail to the e-mail address given in the legal notice.

Right to objection

You are entitled to oppose the use of personal data. Only send an e-mail to the e-mail address given in the legal notice.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the Internet user’s computer. Their purpose is e.g. the control of connections during your visit to websites. We use cookies only for the duration of the stay on the website. They include purely technical information and no personal data. Of course, they will be removed again when you leave the websites.

Update of the privacy policy

Should we change our Internet technology or should the Internet and computer security technology enhance this privacy statement will be updated.

eTracker

On this website, data for marketing and optimisation purposes are collected and stored, using technologies of the eTracker Ltd. (www.etracker.com). From this data, user profiles can be created under a pseudonym. For this, cookies can be used. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the site visitor’s Internet browser. The cookies allow the recognition of the Internet browser. The data collected using the eTracker technologies will not be used to identify visitors to this website personally without the explicit consent of the person concerned and will not be merged with personal data about the person with the pseudonym. The data collection and storage may be revoked at any time with effect for the future.