Privacy protection
Welcome to wuestdesign.com (this "site", this website), a website owned by WÜST DESIGN GmbH.
This privacy protection notice describes how we collect and distribute data for this website. Since the company collects data on users in many areas of this website, we believe that it is important to disclose in which way the company approaches any kind of detectable data users may provide. By detectable personal data, we mean information that may serve to identify the user, including such data as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, employer and professional rank, without having to be limited to this data.
User acceptance
Any use of this website on your part is irrevocable proof that you have read this privacy protection statement critically and accepted it. Should you disagree with any of the provisions in the present privacy protection statement, you should avoid using this website.
Collected data
It will occur at various points throughout this website that you are prompted to state your personal data, including such information as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, employer, and professional rank, without the data having to be limited to this information. If you do not submit such pieces of information precisely and knowingly, the company shall not collect any data from you.
Forms
Forms are used on this website in order to gather information from you so that we may carry out a certain number of tasks, including such that include information on literary preferences, responding to enquiries or technical queries, and the processing of questions relating to your personal work situation, without the data having to be limited to this information. All personal data that is collected shall only be used for purposes of data storage or follow-ups. In order to effectively react to certain queries from users and in order to support these, the company may share your information with its partners such as licenced dealers or field staff who work in the sale of products produced by the company. You can demand that you no longer be contacted or no longer receive follow-up mail at any time (see “Choice/Opt-Out” below).
Online surveys
Our company will occasionally ask you to take part in online surveys. In these surveys, you may be asked for contact information (for example your e-mail address) or commercial and demographic information (such as your zip code or the state your company is located in). Contact details are used to contact you, in case and each time it is necessary with regard to the survey, unless you have determined something to the contrary. You can demand that you no longer be contacted or no longer receive follow-up mail at any time (see “Choice/Opt-Out” below). Taking part in these surveys is not a requirement in order to be able to use this website.
Log files
Like most standard web servers, the servers of this website also generate log files that store data of a non-personal nature in connection with your visit to this website. The collected data contain the duration of the visit, the pages accessed, number of visits, web address, Internet provider, linked/aborted sites as well as the processor architecture used, without the data having to be limited to this information (web addresses, etc., are not connected to identifiable personal information). The company uses the data stored in the log files for internal purposes only, for example analyzing market tendencies, administering this website, tracking user movements within the data network, and in order to collect the widely varied demographic data for cumulative reports and statistical purposes.
Cookies
This website uses "cookies" (little parcels of information) to lead you through your visitor session (a "cookie" is a file that is stored on your computer which in turn contains information regarding your use of the website). Cookies can help us recognize returning visitors, adjust and enhance the site's functions and surfaces for their online visits, as well as collect data for website traffic statistics. The cookies that are used by this website may contain your preferred language, your geographic region, as well as a session ID that allows this website to record information relating to your visitor session and to distinguish this from all other currently active users, without having to be limited to this data. It is not necessary to have cookies in your browser that are capable of gaining access to this website and using it. Nevertheless some applications found on this website may depend on the existence of cookies, so that you may not have access to these applications without cookies.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of the use of the website. The information collected on your use of this website through cookies (including your IP-address, which is then anonymized via the method _anonymizelp() prior to storage so that they may not be used to identify to your connection) is transmitted to a server in the US and stored there. Google will use this information in order to assess your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activity for its owners, and to provide further services in connection with the use of this website and the Internet. Google will also transmit this information to third parties if necessary, inasmuch as this is legally required or inasmuch as the third party is processing these files on Google's behalf. Google will in no case establish any connection between your IP-address and other data from Google. You can prevent the installation of cookies by changing the corresponding settings in your browser software; we would like to remind you, however, that you may not have full access to all applications on this website in that case. By using this website, you agree to Google's processing of data collected on you in the manner described and for the purpose specified above.
You can effectively object to the collection of data through Google Analytics by installing a deactivation add-on for your browser (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
Communication resulting from use of this website
Procedure for queries
The company contacts the users of this website on a regular basis in order to respond to queries regarding literature and product information or to answer technical questions. It is common that the company contacts users via e-mail, mail, or telephone, depending on their personal preferences.
Sharing and publication of information
The company will not sell, rent out, share or distribute any of your identifiable personal data that was collected on this website. It may, however, occur that the company uses your personal as well as non-personal data together with its partners in different business channels, such as licensed dealers or field staff, who provide services or sell some of the company's products which you too may be interested in.
The company reserves the right to use your personal as well as non-personal data for possible legitimate uses, including for the improvement of the content and to generate statistic views and overall views to be used by the company, its dealers, suppliers, licensors, experts, advertising specialist, and advisors, without there having to be any restrictions of such use to these persons. These statistics and reports will normally only contain data in summarized form. Your personal identity remains anonymous throughout this process.
Exclusion from confidentiality of personal data
Although the company strives to uphold the users' sphere of privacy, it can become necessary for the company to reveal personal data for legal reasons, including in such cases where the company takes it in good faith that such action in connection with legal or official proceedings may be necessary or appropriate or in order to comply with a summons or subpoena, court order, or any legal proceedings, without such cases having to be restricted to those listed.
Security
The company takes precautionary measures in order to protect your data online as well as offline, including the use of secure servers, firewalls for protection against unauthorized access to the server, and the encryption of financial data. The company further strives to preserve the reliability, accuracy, completeness, and topicality of your personal data in its data bases. However, the company cannot exclude the possibility of loss, abuse, unauthorized publication, alteration, or destruction of your personal data.
Links (data connections)
This website may from time to time be linked to other websites. The company accepts no liability for the privacy policies pursued by other websites which are not run by the company. As soon as you leave this website, you should read the privacy policy statements of the relevant websites and be fully aware that this privacy protection statement may not be applied to any website other than this one. This privacy protection statement only applies to data collected by this website.
Choice/Opt-out
On request the company will remove your personal data from the data bases of this website or remove you from any kind of client list. All such requests are to be directed to webmaster@wuestdesign.com.
Correction/Update
On request the company will correct or update the data collected from you. All such requests are to be directed to webmaster@wuestdesign.com.
Amendments made to this privacy protection statement
The company reserves the right to change, alter, amend, or remove parts of this privacy protection statement for whichever reason and without prior announcement. We would like to encourage you to question this privacy protection statement critically from time to time in order to ensure that you fully understand to what extent the changes made to it may affect you. This privacy protection statement will always be uploaded to this website.
Contacting this website
If you have questions of whichever nature regarding this privacy protection statement, the methods used on this website, or the use of the website itself, please feel free to contact webmaster@wuestdesign.com.