PRIVACY STATEMENT
Data protection policy of DuraShaft
DuraShaft respects your privacy
The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention during our business processes. We process personal data collected during your visit to our websites confidentially and solely in compliance with legal provisions.
Data protection and information security are part of our corporate policy.
Collection and processing of personal data
Personal data is only stored when voluntarily given by you for a determined purpose e.g. in context of contacting us.
Use of personal data and purpose specification
DuraShaft or a service provider engaged by DuraShaft may use your personal data for the purpose of:
technical administration of our website
customer or supplier administration
product surveys
enquiries you submit to DuraShaft
Marketing
compliance with legal requirements and only in the scope necessary for this purpose.
Your individual, identifiable, personal data will not be disclosed to third parties, other than DuraShaft’s affiliated entities, without your consent.
Collection and processing of non-personal data
When you visit our websites, we may also collect automatically the following non-personal data: IP addresses, the website from which you visit us, pages viewed, files downloaded (downloads), videos viewed/audio tracks listened to, individual links clicked, search words or search phrases (site search), duration of visit, browser used, etc. If the visit is a result of online advertising such as banners, video ads, search engine advertising, etc., we may record which banner, adword, etc. motivated the visit to DuraShaft websites.
The insights gained enable us to further optimize our websites and tailor them even better to our visitors’ needs.
Only authorized persons have access to this anonymized data.
Use of social plugins as part of social media
DuraShaft websites use social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. The plugins are identified with the respective social media logo or the respective suffix.
If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to the respective social network and declare your consent to the transmission of data to it. If you are logged into the social network, it can associate the visit with your social network account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to the social network by your browser and stored there.
If you do not want a social network to collect data about you via our website, you have to log out of the social network before visiting our site.
Our websites may also use the YouTube video platform that enables playback of audio and video files. When you load a page on our website, the integrated YouTube player establishes a connection to YouTube in order to ensure the technical transmission of the video or audio file. When the connection to YouTube is established, data is transferred to YouTube.
For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by these social media companies, and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to their data protection notices.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or use any personal data from online visitors under the age of thirteen. We do not knowingly allow visitors under the age of thirteen to participate in any promotions or contests made available on our websites from time to time.
California Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine The Light” law permits those of our customers who are residents of California to annually request a list of their personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year, and the names and addresses of those third parties. At this time, we currently do not share any personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Use of external links
Our websites may contain links to third-party websites operated by providers that are not associated with us. After you click the link, we no longer have any influence over the collection, storage, or processing of any personal data transmitted by clicking the link (such as the IP address or URL of the page that contains the link), as the behavior of third parties is, by nature, beyond our control. Therefore, DuraShaft is not responsible for the processing of personal data by third parties.
Security
DuraShaft takes security precautions to ensure that your data we have under our control is protected against tampering, loss, destruction, access by unauthorized persons, or unauthorized disclosure. Our security measures are being continuously improved in accordance with the state of technological developments.
Use of cookies
1) DuraShaft cookies
DuraShaft uses cookies and active components (e.g. JavaScript) to track visitors’ preferences and customize the design of the websites.
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit our website. If you like, you can delete the cookies at any time. However, this can result in some functions no longer being available. For information on deleting the cookies, please consult your browser‘s help function.
DuraShaft makes it possible to control the use of cookies. To do so, click the “cookie settings” link in the footer. This link gives you additional information about the cookies used. In addition, you can configure which cookies you want to use there.
2) Third-party cookies
Our websites may incorporate content and services from other providers (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter) who, in turn, may use cookies and active components. DuraShaft has no influence on the processing of personal data by these providers. Please note that the option provided by DuraShaft to configure settings for cookies used has no effect on cookies and active components from other providers (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter). Please refer to the respective provider’s websites for information about how your data is handled.
International Users
This is a U.S. website, and this site and our services are subject to U.S. laws, including those governing the privacy and security of your information. If you use our services, you are transferring your information to DuraShaft in the United States. By using the services or providing your information to us through the services you consent to the transfer of your personal information to the United States, and our handling of your information in accordance with applicable U.S. requirements.
Changes to Privacy Policy
Due to the constantly changing nature of our business, we reserve the right to change, update or modify this privacy statement at any time at our sole discretion, and will post any new privacy statement here. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on this website. Use of information that we gather now will be subject to the privacy statement in effect at the time of use. By using or navigating around the website or utilizing any of the services we provide here, you acknowledge that you have read and understand and agree to be bound by this privacy statement. If you do not agree to be so bound, do not remain on the website. You are responsible for checking our website frequently to keep apprised of recent changes.
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The effective date of this privacy statement is January 23, 2019
Last modified: January 23, 2019
Contact
To obtain more information or to submit suggestions or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our Privacy Policy Administrator.
If incorrect information has been stored despite our efforts to maintain correct and up-to-date data, we will correct this upon your request.