Data protection

 

Data protection policy

Data protection and data security for customers and users have a high priority for us. Therefore, the protection of personal data during all business processes is also very important to us. Data protection and information security are part of our corporate policy.

 

Information on the collection of personal data

In the following we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that makes a natural person identifiable, whether directly by name or indirectly through additional information.

Responsible according to article 4 paragraph 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is OPTIPACK GmbH, An den Breiten, 01454 Wachau OT Leppersdorf. You can reach our data protection officer at datenschutz@optipack.de or our postal address with the addition "To the data protection officer".

When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer required, or restrict processing if there are legal storage obligations.

If we wish to use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In so doing we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

 

Your rights

(1) You have the following rights against us in relation to the personal data concerning you:

  • Right to information,
  • Right to correction or deletion,
  • Right to restriction of processing,
  • Right to objection to processing,
  • Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

 

Collection of personal data when visiting our website 

If you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transfers to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure its stability and security (the legal basis is article 6 paragraph 1, page 1 lit. f of the GDPR)

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access status/HTTP status code
  • Amount of data transmitted in each case
  • Website from which the request comes
  • Browser
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the site that sets the cookie (in this case by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer altogether more user-friendly and effective.

 

Use of cookies: 

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:

  • Transient cookies
  • Persistent cookies

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. This includes in particular session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the shared session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a preset period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in your browser's security settings at any time.

You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. We point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

We use cookies to identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise you would have to log in again upon each visit.

Furthermore we use HTML5 storage objects, which are stored on your end device. These objects store the required data regardless of the browser you use and have no automatic expiration date. If you do not want Flash cookies to be processed, you must install an appropriate add-on, such as "Better Privacy" for Mozilla Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/) or the Adobe Flash Killer cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by setting your browser to private mode. We also recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browser history manually.

 

Adobe Typekit

We use Adobe Typekit to display fonts on our website. Adobe Typekit is a service that provides access to a font library and is provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA (Adobe). When you view a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display text and fonts correctly. In the course of providing the Typekit service, no cookies are placed or used to provide the fonts. In order to provide the Typekit service, Adobe may collect font information that identifies the website itself and the associated Typekit account.

For more information, visit the Adobe Typekit privacy information page and Adobe's privacy policy.

 

Analysis tools

This website uses the analysis tool Matomo, an open source web analysis tool (https://matomo.org/).

Matomo uses so-called "cookies", which are text files that are stored on your computer and which enable us to analyse the use of the website. For this purpose, the usage information generated by the cookie (including your shortened IP address) is transferred to our server and stored for usage analysis purposes, which serves to optimise our website. Your IP address is immediately anonymised during this process, so that you as a user remain anonymous to us. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is not passed on to third parties. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

If you do not agree with the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, you can subsequently object to the storage and use of this data at any time with a mouse click. In this case a so-called opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, with the consequence that Matomo does not collect any session data. Attention: If you delete your cookies, this means that the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may have to reactivate it.