Hödl Hof

Statement on information Requirement

(Privacy­Policy)


The protection of your personal data is very important to us. Therefore we process your data exclusively on the basis of legal regulations (DSGVO, TKG 2003). In this privacy policy we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing in the context of www.edelbrand.at


Hödl Hof Fruchtdestillerie und Spirituosen GmbH
Stubenberg 21, 8223 Stubenberg am See
Telephone: +43 316 8502
E-Mail: office@edelbrand.at


1. General Information on the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Data of the Responsible Party

In the following privacy statement we will infor you how we treat your personal information when it is used on our website. Data is personal if it can clearly be assigned to a specific person.
Your personal data (e.g. name, address, email, telephone number, etc.) will only be processed by us in accordance with in the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [Datenschutz-Grundverordnung/DSGVO]. The personal responsible for processing the personal data is

Hödl Hof Distillery and Spirits GmbH
0043/3176/8502
office@edelbrand.at

In order to keep possible security gaps to a minimum, the sepsite uses SSL or TLS encryption. However, we would like to acknowledge that internet-based data transmission has security gaps, therefore complete protection against access by third parties is impossible.

It is possible to use our website without disclosing personal data. The use of individual services on our site may be subject to different regulations, which will be explained separately below. The following regulations will tell you more about the type, scope, purpose, and processing of personal data by the responsible party.

2. Server Data

For technical resons, the following data from your internet browser is transmitted to us or our web space provider is recorded (and called server log files):

-Browser type and version
-Operating system used
-The website from which you accessed ours (Referall URL)
-Websites that you visit
-The date and time of your access
-Your Internet Protocol (IP) address

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data that you may have provided and thus does not allow us to draw any specific conclusions about a person. They are evaluated for statistical purposes in order to guarantee our internet presence, security, stability, and functionality as well as to optomise offers.

3. Cookies

We use cookies on our site to recognize multiple visits by the same users/internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your computer. They serve as means of optimizing our internet presence and our offers. These are mostly called “session cookies” which are deleted after the end of your visit.

However, in some cases, cookies provide information to recognize your automatically. This recognition is based on your IP address. This makes it possible for us to optimize our offers and easier for you to access our site. This also applies in part to our partner companies/advertising partners (third party cookies), which help make the internet presence more interesting. Information on third party cookies is followed in the following paragraph.

You may refuse cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. But please note that this may limit your ability to use the full functionality of our website. Settings differ from browser to browser, which is why we ask you to read the instructions given by your browser provider.

4. Registration function

We offer the option of registering yourself on our site. The data retrieved during the course of the registration, which is apparent from the registration input form, is collected and stored exclusively for the use of our offer.

With your registration, we will also store your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This will serve as security on our part in the event that a third party misuses your data without your knowledge. We do not pass your information on to third parties. We also do not compare data collected during registration with data collected by other means on our website. If the registered account is deleted, the data attributed to that account is also deleted.

5. Newsletter

5.1 Newsletter distribution to subscribers
On our site, we offer the ability to follow our newsletter. The newsletter regularly informs you about new products, novelties, special offers, raffles, etc. In order to sign up, you need a valid e-mail address. We will check the email address you have entered to ensure that you are the owner of the email address and if the owner has authorized to receive the newsletter. This is done through an opt-in procedure in which you receive an e-mail with a confirmation link to confirm the provided e-mail address. Newsletters will only be sent after the e-mail address has been confirmed.

With your registration to our newsletter, we will save your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This will serve as security on our part in the event that a third party misuses your data without your knowledge. We will not collect any further data. The data collected during this process will only be used to subscribe you to our newsletter. It will not be passed on to third parties. We also do not compare data collected during registration with data collected by other means on our website. You can cancel your subscription to this newsletter at any time. Details can be found in the confirmation e-mail and in each individual newsletter. If you unsubscribe from the newsletter, your associated data will be deleted unless there are other retention periods.


5.2 Newsletter distribution to existing customers
In the event that you have provided us with your e-mail during the purchase of goods or services, we may periodically send you offers that are similar to the goods or services that you purchased. This data processing is based on the legitimate interest in personalized direct advertising pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If the usage of this data has been objected to previously, the distribution of such newsletters will be omitted.  Should you object to the sending of these newsletters in the future, you have the right to send this to us in writing to the contact named above. After receipt of the objection the dispatch of these newsletters will be halted immediately.

6. How to contact us

There are several options we have provided on our website that you may use to contact us including e-mail and/or a contact form. In this case, any data provided by the user would be stored for the purpose of processing the contact request and the necessary technical management. . It will not be passed on to third parties. We also do not compare data collected during registration with data collected by other means on our website. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed. This can be accepted if the content of the request has been clarified and there are no other legal retention periods.

7. Web analysis services

7.1 Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a service provided the company Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, referred to as “Google” hereafter. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the website.

The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place and frequency of your website visit including your IP address, is sent to Google in the USA and stored there.

We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization feature on our website. In this case, your IP address will already be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thus made anonymous.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.


Google will not, according to its own information, associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.

Google also offers a opt-out option for the most popular browsers, giving you more control over what information Google collects and processes. If you choose to opt out, no website visit information will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use. For more information about the opt-out option provided by Google and how to opt-in, please see the link below: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Alternatively, you can click on the following link to set an "Opt-Out-Cookie". This causes Google Analytics to refrain from collecting and processing cookies in the future. It should be noted that this opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for this domain. As soon as you delete the cookies in your browser, this link must be clicked again.

 

 

For more information on how Google Analytics uses user data, please refer to Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

8. Use of Google Maps

We use the component "Google Maps" of the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, here after referred to as "Google", on our site.


Google sets a cookie each time the "Google Maps" component is accessed in order to process user settings and data when the page on which the "Google Maps" component is integrated is displayed. As a rule, this cookie is not deleted when you close your browser but expires after a certain period of time unless you delete it manually beforehand.

 

If you do not agree with this processing of your data, it is possible to deactivate the "Google Maps" service and thus prevent the transmission of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the JavaScript function in your browser.  However, we would like to point out that in this case you cannot use "Google Maps" or can only use it to a limited extent.

 

The use of "Google Maps" and the information obtained via "Google Maps" is governed by the Google Terms of Use. 

https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en

and the additional terms and conditions for Google Maps.

https://www.google.com/intl/en_en/help/terms_maps.html

9. Online Marketing

9.1 Use of Google AdWords
We also use the Google advertising tool "Google-Adwords" to advertise our website. As part of this, we use the "Conversion Tracking" analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, here after referred to as "Google" on our website. If you have reached our website via a Google advertisement, a cookie is stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores on your computer. These "conversion cookies" lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve your personal identification. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, our website and Google can recognize that you as a user have clicked on one of our ads placed with Google and have been forwarded to our page.

The information collected using "conversion cookies" is used by Google to compile visit statistics for our website. These statistics tell us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and also which pages of our website were subsequently visited by the respective user. However, we or others who advertise through Google AdWords do not receive any personally identifiable information.


You can prevent the installation of the "Conversion-Cookies" by a corresponding setting of your browser, e.g. by a browser setting which generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or specifically blocks only the cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com". Alternatively, you can permanently deactivate cookies for advertising purposes by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996


You can find Google's data protection declaration in this regard under the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html

10. Remarketing/Retargeting/Recommended advertisements

10.1 Facebook Pixel
We use the "Facebook Pixel " of Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Facebook") on our website. This is a survey of user behavior after the user has seen or clicked on a Facebook ad. The purpose of this process is to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes in order to optimize any future advertising measures.

The collected data is anonymous for the company and does not provide any information about the identity of the users. Facebook stores and processes the data in order to enable a connection to the respective user profile and that Facebook can subsequently use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook Data Usage Guidelines (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). There is the option to enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and outside Facebook. A cookie may be stored on your computer for these purposes.

The processing operations mentioned take place exclusively with the express permission of Article 6 Paragragh 1 lit. a GDPR. Consent to the use of the Facebook Pixel may only be given by users who are at least 14 years old. If you are younger than the stated minimum age, we request you to ask your legal guardian for permission.

Facebook Inc, headquartered in the USA, is certified for the U.S.-European Privacy Shield Agreement, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU. You can set your internet browser so that the use of cookies on your computer is deactivated, and therefore no cookies can be stored on your computer in the future, and the already stored cookies can be deleted.

If you disable cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features on our website, and you may disable the use of cookies by third parties, such as Facebook, at the following Digital Advertising Alliance Web site: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Alternatively, you can click on the following link to set an "Opt-Out-Cookie". This causes Facebook to refrain from collecting and processing the cookie in the future. Please note that this opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for this domain. As soon as you delete the cookies in your browser, this link must be clicked again.

10.2 Google Remarketing

We use the Google Remarketing service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, here after referred to as "Google" on our website. Google Remarketing allows us to serve ads to users who have visited our site in the past. Within the Google advertising network, this allows us to display ads on our site that are tailored to your interests. Google Remarketing uses cookies for this purpose.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of the use of the website. This makes it possible to recognize our visitors as soon as they visit the websites within the Google advertising network. This way within the Google advertising network, advertisements can be presented that relate to content previously accessed by the visitor on Google's advertising network websites that also use Google's Remarketing function. Google does not collect any personal data. You can deactivate this function if you make the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

11. Data Processing for Order Processing

To process your order, we cooperate with the following providers, who support us in whole or in part in fulfilling orders. These service providers receive the following information to execute their tasks.

Personal data, which is stored and processed by us during the process of your order, will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery as part of the processing contract. This only takes place if the delivery of goods is necessary for the completion of the contract. If the transfer of personal data to the respective payment provider, these will be passed on to the responsible payment provider. In the following, we inform you about the payment providers that are offered in the context of contract processing. The legal basis for the disclosure of the data is Article 6(1) of the lit. b GDPR.

11.1 Use of Payment Service Providers
PayPal
If you select the payment method with the online payment service provider PayPal, your contact details will be transmitted to PayPal as part of the order being initiated. PayPal is a service of PayPal (Europe) S.A.R.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. PayPal takes over the function of an online payment service provider as well as a trustee and offers buyer protection services.

The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually name, address, telephone number, IP address, e-mail address, or other data required to process the order, as well as data related to the order.

This transmission is necessary to process your order with the payment method you have selected, in particular to confirm your identity, to administer your payment, and the customer relationship.

PayPal may also disclose personal information to service providers, subcontractors, or other affiliates to the extent necessary to fulfill the contractual obligations of your order or to process the personal information on behalf of PayPal.

Depending on the payment method selected via PayPal, e.g. invoice or direct debit, the personal data transmitted to PayPal is transmitted by PayPal to credit agencies. This transmission serves the identity and credit check in relation to your order. To find out which credit agencies are involved and the general data collected, processed, stored and passed on by PayPal, please refer to PayPal's data protection declaration at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary to process your payment in accordance with the contract.

Sofortüberweisung
If you decide to pay with the online payment service provider Sofortüberweisung within the framework of your order, your contact data will be transmitted to Sofortüberweisung within the framework of the order being initiated. Sofortüberweisung is an service of SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany. Sofortüberweisung assumes the function of an online payment service provider that enables cashless payment for products and services on the Internet.

The personal data transmitted to Sofortüberweisung is usually first name, surname, address, telephone number, IP address, e-mail address, or other data required for order processing, as well as data related to the order, such as number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent, invoice information, etc.

This transmission is necessary to process your order with the payment method you have selected, in particular to confirm your identity, to administer your payment and the customer relationship.

However, please note: Personal data may also be passed on by Sofortüberweisung to service providers, subcontractors, or other affiliated companies if this is necessary to fulfil the contractual obligations arising from your order or if the personal data are to be processed on behalf of the customer.

Under certain circumstances, the personal data transferred to Sofortüberweisung may be transferred from Sofortüberweisung to credit agencies. This transmission serves the identity and credit check in relation to the your order.

You can find out which data protection principles Sofortüberweisung follows when processing your data from the data protection notices that are displayed to you during the payment process of Sofortüberweisung.

If you have any further questions regarding the use of your personal data, please contact Sofortüberweisung by e-mail (datenschutz@sofort.com) or in writing (SOFORT GmbH, Datenschutz, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 München).

Klarna
If you decide to pay Klarna AB, business resident Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden, as part of the order process for Klarna invoice and Klarna installment purchase as a payment option with us, you agree that we collect the personal data necessary for the processing of the invoice purchase and an identity and credit check and transfer them to Klarna AB.

These specifically include first and last name, title, address, date of birth, gender, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number. It also includes data that is necessary for the completion of the invoice purchase and data in connection with the order such as number of articles, article number, invoice amount and taxes in percent, invoice information, bank connection, card number, validity date, CCV code, information about goods/services, historical information, Information about your previous purchases, payment history, possible refusals, financial information, information about possible credit obligations and payment notes, information about the interaction between you and KlarnaCheckout, page loading times, download errors and methods used to leave the displayed page, information about electronic communication, receipts, device information, geographical information.

This transmission is necessary to process your purchase with the requested invoice processing, in particular to confirm your identity, to administer your payment and the customer relationship, for customer analysis. It is also a means for the administration of Klarnas services and for internal processes, including troubleshooting, data analysis, internal tests, development, statistical information to improve Klarna's services, to ensure the necessary information for you and your device is displayed as effectively as possible, to prevent misuse or improper use of Klarnas services, to help Klarnas strive to make its services as secure as possible, to assess what payment methods we can provide you through Klarna, to conduct internal credit evaluations, to perform risk analysis and risk management, to conduct business development, and to comply with applicable laws. Klarna has a legitimate interest in the transfer of the customer's personal data and requires this in order to obtain information from credit agencies for the purpose of identity and credit checks. In Germany, the aforementioned data may be passed on to the following credit agencies:

  • Arvato Infoscore Consumer Data GmbH und Infoscore Consumer Data GmbH, Rheinstraße 99, 76532 Baden-Baden
  • Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH & Co. KG, Postfach 5001 66, 22701 Hamburg
  • CreditreformBoniversum GmbH, Hellersbergstraße 11, 41460 Neuss
  • Deltavista GmbH, FreisingerLandstr. 74 80939 München
  • SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65201 Wiesbaden
  • Klarna may also make your personal data available to other companies within the Klarna Group, service providers and subcontractors to the extent necessary to fulfil the contractual relationship with you or with them.

 

Klarna collects and uses information on the buyer's previous payment behavior as well as probability values for this behavior in the future as part of the decision on the establishment, execution or termination of the contractual relationship. Klarna calculates this scoring on the basis of scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical methods.

It is possible to revoke your consent to the use of personal data at Klarna at any time. However, in this case Klarna may still be entitled to process, use, and transmit the personal data, asis necessary for the contractual processing of payment by Klarnas services, is legally required, or is required by a court or an authority.


Further information on data protection can also be obtained directly from Klarna:

Privacy policy of Klarna AB

You can obtain information about the personal data stored by Klarna at any time by writing to Datenschutz@klarna.de .

12. Information/Withdrawal/Cancellation

You can contact us free of charge if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data and its correction, blocking, deletion or revocation of a consent given. We would like to point out that you have the right to correct incorrect data or delete personal data if there is no legal obligation to retain it.

Contact: office@edelbrand.at or 0043/3176/8502