Privacy

Privacy Policy in Accordance with the GDPR

We process your personal data exclusively within the framework of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Note: For easier readability, the term “data” is generally used, although personal data is meant. Legal provisions without indication refer exclusively to those of the GDPR, unless otherwise specified. Below, we inform you according to the provisions of the GDPR about the nature, scope, and purpose of the data collection and its use:

Responsibility

Responsible for data processing:

Lehmit GmbH
Quadernstraße 7
6824 Schlins
Austria

Phone: +43 5524 8327
Email: info@lehmit.com
Website: www.lehmit.com

General Data Processing

Scope of Processing

We collect and use personal data of our users only to the extent necessary to provide a functional website and our content and services. The collection and use of personal data of our users regularly occurs only with the user’s consent. An exception applies in cases where obtaining prior consent is not possible for factual reasons and the processing of the data is permitted by legal regulations.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

If we obtain consent from you for processing operations involving personal data, Art. 6(1)(a) serves as the legal basis. For processing data necessary for the performance of a contract with you, Art. 6(1)(b) serves as the legal basis. This also applies to processing operations required to carry out pre-contractual measures. If processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which we are subject, Art. 6(1)(c) serves as the legal basis. If processing is necessary to protect a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and your interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms do not override the former interest, Art. 6(1)(f) serves as the legal basis.

Data Deletion and Storage Duration

Your data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Storage may also occur if provided for by European or national regulations, laws, or other provisions to which we are subject. Data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned regulations expires, unless further storage of the data is necessary for a contract conclusion or performance.

Provision of the Website and Creation of Log Files

Description and Scope of Data Processing

Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer. The following data is collected: information about the browser type and version used, the user’s operating system, the user’s internet service provider, the user’s IP address, date and time of access, websites from which the user’s system accesses our website, websites accessed by the user’s system through our website.

Legal Basis for Data Processing

The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Art. 6(1)(f).

Purpose of Data Processing

The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable the website to be delivered to the user’s computer. The IP address of the user must be stored for the duration of the session. Storage in log files occurs to ensure the functionality of the website. The data also helps us to optimize the website and ensure the security of our information technology systems. Data analysis for marketing purposes does not take place in this context. These purposes constitute our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f).

Duration of Storage

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. In the case of data collection for website provision, this is the case when the respective session ends. In the case of log file storage, this occurs after no more than seven days. Further storage is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are deleted or anonymized, so that assignment of the accessing client is no longer possible.

Objection and Removal Possibility

Data collection for website provision and log file storage is essential for website operation. Therefore, the user cannot object to this.

Use of Cookies

Description and Scope of Data Processing

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on the user’s computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie may be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that allows the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is accessed again. We use cookies on our website that allow analysis of users’ browsing behavior. The following data can be transmitted: entered search terms, frequency of page views. The data collected in this way is anonymized. Therefore, it is not possible to assign the data to the accessing user. This data is not stored together with other personal data of the users. When accessing our website, users are informed about the use of cookies for analysis purposes via an info banner. There is also information on how to prevent cookies from being stored in the browser settings.

Legal Basis for Data Processing

The legal basis for processing data using technically necessary cookies is Art. 6(1)(f). For cookies used for analysis purposes, the legal basis is the user’s consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a).

Purpose of Data Processing

The purpose of using technically non-essential cookies is to analyze the browsing behavior of users. All functions of our website can also be offered without using these cookies. The use of analysis cookies is for the purpose of improving the quality of our website and its content. Through analysis cookies, we learn how the website is used and can thus constantly optimize our offer. These purposes constitute our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f).

Duration of Storage, Objection, and Removal Possibility

Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted to our site. Therefore, as a user, you have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your internet browser, you can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies. Already stored cookies can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. Several options for managing cookies are available. The help button on most browser toolbars shows you how to stop accepting cookies, how to be notified when a new cookie is set, and how to block cookies altogether. Blocking cookies may prevent you from registering, logging in, or fully using the services.

Newsletter

Description and Scope of Data Processing

On our website, you have the option to subscribe to a free newsletter. When registering for the newsletter, the data from the input mask is transmitted to us. Specifically, we need your email address, your first and last name with salutation, and information on whether it is a private or business address. Additionally, the following data is collected during registration: IP address of the accessing computer, date and time of registration. During the registration process, your consent to process the data is obtained, and this privacy policy is referred to.

In connection with data processing for sending newsletters, data is passed on to third parties, as we send our newsletters via Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Straße 126, 10179 Berlin). These contain web beacons, also known as tracking pixels. This allows us to determine whether the emails were opened or whether the links contained in the emails were clicked. We use this information to improve our email service and evaluate which information is most read or clicked. This data is linked to actions taken by you on our website. The information collected this way is stored on Brevo’s server. Brevo is authorized to pass on your user data to third parties in certain cases. You can object to this tracking at any time by clicking the separate link provided in each email.

Brevo is a Privacy Shield-certified company. These data transfers are permissible based on the European Commission’s adequacy decision (EU) 2016/1250. The scope and purpose of data collection and further processing and use of the data by Brevo, as well as your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Brevo’s privacy notices: Brevo Privacy Policy and Brevo Data Security.

When the email is deleted, the web beacon is also deleted automatically. Our normal text emails do not contain web beacons. Except for using the Brevo newsletter tool, your data will only be used to send the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties by us.

Legal Basis for Data Processing

The legal basis for processing your data after registering for the newsletter is the user’s consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a).

Purpose of Data Processing

Collecting your email address serves to deliver the newsletter.

Duration of Storage

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for achieving the purpose of its collection. The user’s email address is therefore stored as long as the newsletter subscription is active. The other data collected during the registration process is generally deleted after a period of seven days.

Objection and Removal Possibility

The newsletter subscription can be canceled by the affected user at any time. For this purpose, there is a corresponding link in each newsletter. Deleting the email also automatically deletes the web beacon. Our normal text emails do not contain web beacons. This also enables the withdrawal of consent to the storage of personal data collected during the registration process.

Web Analytics Services

Scope of Processing

We use various tools on our website to analyze users’ browsing behavior. The software sets a cookie on the user’s computer (for cookies, see above). When individual pages of our website are accessed, the following data is stored: (1) Two bytes of the IP address of the user’s accessing system, (2) The accessed website, (3) The website from which the user accessed the accessed website (referrer), (4) The subpages accessed from the accessed website, (5) The duration of stay on the website, (6) The frequency of accessing the website. The software runs exclusively on the servers of our website. Storage of users’ personal data only occurs there. The data is not passed on to third parties.

Legal Basis for Processing

The legal basis for processing users’ personal data is Art. 6(1)(f).

Purpose of Data Processing

Processing users’ personal data allows us to analyze users’ browsing behavior. By evaluating the obtained data, we can compile information about the use of individual components of our website. This helps us to continually improve our website and its usability. These purposes constitute our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f). Anonymizing the IP address sufficiently considers the users’ interest in protecting their personal data.

Duration of Storage

The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for our recording purposes.

Objection and Removal Possibility

Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted to our site. Therefore, as a user, you also have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your internet browser, you can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies. Already stored cookies can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies for our website are deactivated, it may not be possible to use all functions of the website to their full extent.

Rights of the Data Subject

If your personal data is processed, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR, and you have the following rights towards the controller:

  1. Right to Information
    You can request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning you is processed by us. If such processing occurs, you can request the following information from the controller: (1) The purposes for which the personal data is processed, (2) The categories of personal data that are processed, (3) The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been or will be disclosed, (4) The planned duration of the storage of personal data concerning you or, if specific information is not possible, criteria for determining the storage duration, (5) The existence of a right to rectify or erase personal data concerning you, a right to restrict processing by the controller, or a right to object to such processing, (6) The existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, (7) All available information about the origin of the data if the personal data is not collected from the data subject, (8) The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, pursuant to Art. 22(1) and (4) and — at least in these cases — meaningful information about the logic involved as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

  2. Right to Rectification
    You have a right to rectify and/or complete your personal data if the processed personal data concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must make the correction without undue delay.

  3. Right to Restrict Processing
    You can request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you under the following conditions: (1) You contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data, (2) The processing is unlawful, and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of its use instead, (3) The controller no longer needs the personal data for processing purposes, but you require it for establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims, (4) You have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21(1) pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override your grounds. If the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, this data may only be processed — except for storage — with your consent or for establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims or for protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State. If the restriction on processing has been restricted under the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.

  4. Right to Erasure
    You can request the controller to erase personal data concerning you without undue delay, and the controller is obliged to erase this data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies: (1) The personal data concerning you is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed, (2) You withdraw consent on which the processing is based according to Art. 6(1)(a), or Art. 9(2)(a), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing, (3) You object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(1) and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Art. 21(2), (4) The personal data concerning you has been unlawfully processed, (5) The personal data concerning you has to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, (6) The personal data concerning you has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Art. 8(1). If the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged pursuant to Art. 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers processing the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, this personal data. The right to erasure does not apply to the extent that processing is necessary for (1) Exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, (2) Compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, (3) Reasons of public interest in the area of public health in accordance with Art. 9(2)(h) and (i) and Art. 9(3), (4) Archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89(1), insofar as the right referred to in (a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or (5) Establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.

  5. Right to Data Portability
    You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data has been provided, where (1) The processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) or Art. 9(2)(a) or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) and (2) The processing is carried out by automated means. In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. The right referred to above must not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others. The right to data portability does not apply to processing necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

  6. Right to Object
    You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on Art. 6(1)(e) or (f), including profiling based on those provisions. The controller shall no longer process the personal data concerning you unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. Where personal data concerning you is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Where you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you shall no longer be processed for such purposes. In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

  7. Right to Withdraw Consent
    You have the right to withdraw your consent under data protection law at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

  8. Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
    Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy to adapt it to new legal situations or changes in the scope of services or data processing. However, this only applies to statements about data processing. If user consent is required, or if parts of the privacy policy contain provisions of the contractual relationship with the users, changes will only be made with the user’s consent.

For questions about data protection, please contact us at any time via the contact details provided above.