Privacy Policy

for the website www.spectralis-eyehealthcheck.co.uk
of Heidelberg Engineering GmbH

We appreciate your interest in our website and our company.

The protection of your personal data, collected, processed, and used during your visit to our website, and the use of our portals is important to us. Your data will be protected in accordance with legal regulations. The following information is about the data recorded and how it is used:

1. Personal data

Personal data is factual or personal information about a specific or specifically identifiable person.

2. The type, scope, and purpose of the personal data collected, processed, and used

(1) Every visit to our website and each request for data from the website is logged by the IP address of the computer from which it was requested. This information is saved for internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following information is logged: the name of the requested file, the date, and the time of the request, the amount of data transferred, the IP address, the notification of a successful request, the web browser, and the requesting domain.

Additional personal data (name, job title, company, address, phone, fax, email address) is only collected if you voluntarily disclose this information online in the form of an information material requirement, a subscription to Heidelberg Engineering News or other portals of Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, a quotation, support or purchase request or sweepstakes registration.

(2) If you have provided us with personal data, we will only use it for the purposes of communication regarding your requests, to process contracts concluded with you, or as described below:

a) Contact Form

You have the option of contacting the Sales and Support departments via the form available under the “Contact” tab.
In this context your data is processed and transferred solely for the purpose of responding to your questions or comments. Prior to sending a contact request, you are obliged to agree to the privacy policy.

b) Newsletter

You have the option of registering for our free online newsletters via our homepage. We use the “double-opt-in” process for this. In order to send the subscription you will need to confirm, by clicking a tick box, that you have read the privacy policy, that you accept it and that you have been notified that you have the option of cancelling the subscription at any time.

You will then receive a confirmation email for the subscription sent to the email address you provided. Your subscription does not take effect until you click on the confirmation link enclosed.
Where you confirm your order of our newsletter as described, we will store your email address until you unsubscribe from the newsletter.

Your information is saved solely for the purpose of being able to send you the newsletter.
You may cancel your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time. To cancel, just click on the link provided in each newsletter or send an email to Info-UK@HeidelbergEngineering.com or write to Heidelberg Engineering Ltd., 55 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1LE, United Kingdom.

3. Forwarding and transfer of data

(1) Your personal information will only be passed on to third parties or otherwise transferred if it is required for the processing of the contract. A requirement exists especially in the transfer of order information to suppliers, for example, for the purposes of supplying or billing, for the provision of requested training, or for answering questions raised. Data is forwarded or otherwise transferred in compliance with Section 11 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (FDPA) for the processing of order data or Sections 4b and 4c of the FDPA (transfer to third countries) unless you have given prior consent to its being forwarded or transferred.

(2) Disclosures to authorized state institutions and authorities are only made if required by law or we are obliged by court order to do so.

(3) Our employees are bound under Section 5 of the FDPA to maintain confidentiality and to comply with data protection provisions.

4. Storage of personal data

Heidelberg Engineering Ltd. collects personal data for as long as it is required to provide a service you have requested or to which you have given your consent, except where legal obligations otherwise exist.

5. Right of withdrawal

You may object to the use of your personal data with immediate effect in the future at any time by withdrawing your consent. The notice of withdrawal should be sent to the Privacy Officer at Info-UK@HeidelbergEngineering.com or in writing to Heidelberg Engineering Ltd., 55 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1LE, United Kingdom.

6. Right to information, correction, blocking, deletion

(1) If you have questions or remarks about the processing of your personal data, you can contact our Privacy Officer at:

Info-UK@HeidelbergEngineering.com
or
Heidelberg Engineering Ltd.
55 Marlowes
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 1LE
United Kingdom

(2) In accordance with the applicable laws and regulations we will, on request, inform you in writing as soon as possible whether and which personal data about you is saved by us. If outdated or incorrect information has been saved, we will correct it at your request. You also have the right to block or delete the data, taking the legal obligations into account.

7. Cookies

(1) This site uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are sent from the web server to your PC and generally saved on your hard drive. These are not programs that can cause damage to the computer of the user. Cookies allow us to determine if you are revisiting our website. Personal data will only be saved with your explicit approval. If this is not the case, the information is not assigned to a specific person.

(2) You may disable the use of cookies via your browser settings. We must point out, however, that you will not be able to use all the functions of our website.

8. Web analysis

(1) On this website, etracker technology (www.etracker.com) is used to collect and save data for marketing and optimization purposes. From this data, user profiles may be created using a pseudonym. Cookies may be used. The cookies allow us to recognize your web browser.

(2) The data collected using etracker technology is not used to identify a visitor personally and is not aggregated with any personal data about the owner of the pseudonym without the explicit consent of the person concerned. The data collection and storage can be revoked at any time for future effect.

9. Links

(1) This website contains links to websites operated by third parties. The links were carefully reviewed before activation. We cannot exclude, however, that contextual changes may have been made by the respective operators. No liability is accepted for the content or accuracy of the privacy policy of websites of other providers. For more information about the privacy policy of other providers, please check the respective website or contact the provider.

(2) On our site you will find links amongst others to our corporate presence on Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube.

 

Click the “f” button to access our corporate presence on Facebook. Clicking on this will establish a direct connection with the browser and the Facebook servers. If you are logged into your personal Facebook account during your visit to our site, Facebook can assign this visit to the site to your account. The information is transmitted directly to Facebook and saved. If you wish to prevent the transfer of data to your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account before clicking on the Facebook button.

Please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy for more information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of your information by Facebook. The social network Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

 

Click the “g+” button to access our corporate presence on Google+. Clicking on this will establish a direct connection with the browser and the Google servers. If you are logged into your personal Google+ account during your visit to our site, Google can assign this visit to the site to your account. The information is transmitted directly to Google and saved. If you wish to prevent the transfer of data to your Google+ account, please log out of your Google account before clicking on the Google+ button.

Please refer to Google’s privacy policy and Google+’s terms of use for more information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of your information by Google. The social network Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

 

Click the “in” button to access our corporate presence on LinkedIn. Clicking will establish a direct connection with the browser and the LinkedIn servers. If you are logged into your personal LinkedIn account during your visit to our site, LinkedIn can assign this visit of the site to your account. If you wish to prevent the transfer of data to your LinkedIn account, please log out of your LinkedIn account before clicking on the LinkedIn button.

Please refer to LinkedIn’s privacy policy and terms of use for more information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of your information by LinkedIn. The social network LinkedIn is operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.

 

Click the “YouTube” button to access our corporate presence on YouTube. Clicking will establish a direct connection with the browser and the YouTube servers. If you are logged into your personal YouTube account during your visit to our site, YouTube can assign this visit to the site to your account. If you wish to prevent the transfer of data to your YouTube account, please log out of your YouTube account before clicking on the YouTube button.

Please refer to YouTube’s terms of use and Google’s data privacy policy on YouTube’s website for more information about the purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of your information. The YouTube website is operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 – represented by Google Inc.

10. Security during data transfer

We use technical and organizational measures to protect your data against manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are constantly updated in line with the latest technical developments.

11. Contact

If you have questions or remarks about the processing of your personal data, please contact us using the details given below:

Heidelberg Engineering Ltd.
55 Marlowes
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 1LE
United Kingdom
Phone: 01442 502 330
Fax: 01442 242 386
Email: DataProtection@HeidelbergEngineering.com