Privacy Policy

POLICY

We are delighted that you are interested in our online shop www.chronometryx.com . Protecting your privacy is very important to us. In the following we will provide you with detailed information on how we handle your data.

SAVING ACCESS DATA IN SERVER LOG FILES

You can visit our online shop without having to provide personal information. We simply save access data in so-called server log files, e.g. the name of the accessed file, date and time of access, volume of transmitted data and accessing provider. This data is exclusively evaluated to ensure smooth operation of the site and to improve what we have to offer, and does not allow us to infer anything about you as a person.

DATA COLLECTION AND USE FOR CONTRACT IMPLEMENTATION AND WHEN OPENING A CUSTOMER ACCOUNT

We collect personal data when you voluntarily disclose it to us within the scope of an order, when contacting us (e.g. using the contact form or by E-Mail) or when opening a customer account. The relevant input forms show the data that is collected. We use the data that you provide for order implementation and processing of your enquiries. After complete implementation of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data shall be blocked for further use and deleted after the maintenance periods set out in tax and commercial law. If you have not expressly agreed to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use of the data going beyond this scope, as is permitted by law and of which we inform you below. You may delete your customer account at any time, either by sending a message to the contact details below or by using the designated function in your customer account.

DISCLOSURE OF DATA FOR CONTRACT FULFILMENT

In order to facilitate fulfilment of the contract, we shall pass your data onto the shipping company commissioned to perform delivery, insofar as this is required for the delivery of ordered goods. In order to facilitate processing of payments, we shall pass the required payment details onto the bank or payment service provider commissioned to implement the payment, or to the payment service that you selected during the order process.

USE OF DATA FOR E-MAIL ADVERTISING.

If you sign up to our newsletter, we may use your E-Mail address to send you information about our products and services. At any stage you can ask us to stop using your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

USE OF DATA FOR POSTAL ADVERTISING AND YOUR RIGHT OF OBJECTION

In addition, we reserve the right to save your first name and surname, postal address and - insofar as you give us these additional pieces of information within the scope of the contractual relationship - your title, academic degree, year of birth and professional, industry or business designation in summarised lists and use them for advertising purposes, e.g. for sending interesting offers and information on our products by letter. You may object to storage and use of your data for these purposes at any time by sending a message to the contact details described below.

CREDIT CHECK AND SCORING

If we provide advance performance, e.g. in the case of purchase on account, we may obtain information on your creditworthiness based on mathematical procedures from a credit reference agency in order to protect our justified interests.

PayPal Pte. Ltd. 
5 Temasek Boulevard 
#09-01 Suntec Tower Five 
Singapore 038985

To this end, we shall send the personal data required for a credit check to a credit reference agency and use the obtained information on the statistical likelihood of default on payment to make a decision on the creation, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship.

PayPal Pte. Ltd. 
5 Temasek Boulevard 
#09-01 Suntec Tower Five 
Singapore 038985

USE OF ADDTHIS PLUGINS (E.G. “SHARE” BUTTON)

Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) of the bookmarking service AddThis, which is run by AddThis LLC, Inc. 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210, USA (“AddThis”). The plugins are usually marked with an AddThis logo, for example in the form of a white plus sign on an orange background. You can find an overview of AddThis plugins and how they look here: https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing

If you access a page on our website containing such a plugin, your browser creates a direct connection to the AddThis servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by AddThis, and integrated into the page. By means of this integration, AddThis is informed that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website and saves a cookie on your device for identification of your browser. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly to an AddThis server in the USA by your browser, and stored there. AddThis uses the data to create anonymized user profiles, which serve as the basis for personalised and interest-related advertising being sent to the visitor of internet pages with AddThis plugins.

Please consult the AddThis data protection policy for information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of data by AddThis: https://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

If you wish to object to data collection by AddThis with future effect, you can implement a so-called opt-out cookie, which you can download via the following link: https://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out

You can also completely prevent AddThis plugins from being loaded with add-ons for your browser, e.g. the script blocker „NoScript“ (https://noscript.net/).


USE OF COOKIES

In order to make visiting our online shop attractive and facilitate use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on certain pages. These are small text files that are saved on your device. Some of the cookies that we use are deleted again after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you have closed your browser (known as session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser in such a way that you are informed of the placement of cookies and can decide whether to accept them on an individual basis. Or you can generally exclude acceptance of cookies in certain cases. If you do not accept cookies the functionality of our online shop may be restricted.

Use of Google Analytics for web analysis. This online shop uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (www.google.com). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on your computer and permit the analysis of your use of the website. The information on your use of this online shop gathered by the cookie is as a rule transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If however IP anonymization has been activated on this website, then Google will first abbreviate your IP address if you are within the European Union or in other treaty states of the European Economic Area. It is only in exceptional cases that your complete IP address will be sent to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. IP anonymization is activated on this website. On behalf of the operator of the online shop, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website for the purposes of generating reports on website activity and in order to provide the website operator with further services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted from your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be collated with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by using the appropriate setting on your browser software; however we would point out to you that if you do this, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting the data on your use of the website (including your IP address) generated by the cookie, and also prevent the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

As an alternative to the browser plugin you can click on this link to prevent recording by Google Analytics on this website in future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device.

USE OF FACEBOOK PLUGINS

Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from the social network Facebook, which is run by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the designation “Social plugin from Facebook” or “Facebook social plugin”. You can find an overview of Facebook plugins and how they look here: https://developers.facebook.com/plugins If you access a page in our online shop containing such a plugin, your browser creates a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by Facebook, and integrated into the page. By means of this integration, Facebook is informed that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our online shop, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or you are currently not logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly to a Facebook server in the USA by your browser, and stored there. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook is able to directly match your visit to our website to your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking on the “Like” button or leaving a comment, this information is also directly transmitted to a Facebook server and stored there. This information will also be published on your Facebook profile and shown to your Facebook friends. You can find information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your associated rights and settings options to protect your privacy, in Facebook’s data protection policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php If you do not want Facebook to directly match the data collected via our online shop to your Facebook profile, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent Facebook plugins from being loaded with add-ons for your browser, e.g. the “Facebook Blocker”; you can find the link here: https://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ or the script blocker „NoScript“ you can find the link here: (https://noscript.net/).

USE OF TWITTER PLUGINS (E.G. “TWEET” BUTTON)

Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) of the microblogging service Twitter, which is run by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”). The plugins are marked with a Twitter logo, for example in the form of a blue “Twitter bird”. You can find an overview of Twitter plugins and how they look here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons If you access a page in our online shop containing such a plugin, your browser creates a direct connection to the Twitter servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by Twitter, and integrated into the page. By means of this integration, Twitter is informed that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our online shop, even if you do not have a Twitter profile or you are currently not logged into Twitter. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly to a Twitter server in the USA by your browser, and stored there. If you are logged into Twitter, Twitter can match your visit to our website directly to your Twitter account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking on the “Tweet” button, the information is also directly transmitted to a Twitter server and stored there. This information will also be published on your Twitter account and shown in your contacts. You can find information on the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of data by Twitter, as well as your associated rights and settings options to protect your privacy, in Twitter’s data protection policy; you can find the link here: https://twitter.com/privacy If you do not want Twitter to directly match the data collected via our website to your Twitter account, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent Twitter plugins from being loaded with add-ons for your browser, e.g. the script blocker „NoScript“ (https://noscript.net/).

RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND CONTACT OPTION

You have the right to free information on the personal data that we have stored, as well as a corresponding right to rectification, blocking or deletion of this data. Should you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, if you wish to obtain information on, rectify, block or delete your data, or to withdraw consent that you have granted to certain use of your data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.