Data Protection

The protection of your personal information when you visit our website is important to us. Therefore, we comply with all applicable legal provisions regarding data protection, in particular the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz -BDSG), the German Teleservices Act (Telemediengesetz – TMG) and the data protection legislation of each German federal state. All the information you may need to provide us with in order that we could process and manage your purchase order is considered confidential. As a general rule, we do not disclose your details for use by any third party, unless you give us your consent thereto or we are obliged to disclose such information by administrative or judicial order. Your personal information will be collected, stored, processed and used only in accordance with the following privacy policy.

1. Collection, Storage, Processing and Use of Personal Information

a) Collection, storage, processing and use of information when accessing www.myhusqvarna.com.
We collect, store, process and use none of your personal information when you just visit www.myhusqvarna.com. There is some information, however, that is temporarily saved on our server for data security reasons and may allow identification (e.g., IP address, date, time, downloaded files, browser type and version, operating system, source URL). This usage data is analysed anonymously for statistical purposes using internal surveys of user interests and behaviour. For this purpose, the last octet (subsegment) of your IP address is deleted before being analysed. Such usage data is not analysed to create your user profile if you have not expressly agreed to this. We expressly reserve the right to analyse such data should our website be used improperly or be otherwise infringed, which may be reported to law enforcement agencies. In no event will your usage data be analysed for any other purposes or disclosed to any third party whatsoever. Such statistical raw data is deleted after 30 days.

b) Storage, Processing and Use of the Information You May Expressly Provide Us with
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we collect personal information that you may choose to make available to us, e.g. when you send us an e-mail, you contact us, or we process your purchase order. We use such information in accordance with applicable German data privacy laws. The personal information that is necessary for the substantiation, development or amendment of any contractual relationship (inventory data) is used only for the performance of any agreement that you may have entered into with us. In addition, your inventory data will not be used for the purposes of conducting market research or adapting our offerings to demand.

2. Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses the so-called cookies, which are text files that are saved on your computer to analyse how you use a website. Cookie-generated information on your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google’s US server, where it is stored. Each time the last octet (sub-segment) of the recorded IP address is deleted before such information is sent and processed further. In no case can your personal details be identified then. Google will use such information to analyse your use of the website, to compile activity reports for the website’s administrators and to provide other services related to your use of the website and the Internet. Google, too, will transmit such information, if necessary, to third parties provided that this is required by law or these third parties process such information on behalf of Google. Google will in no case combine your IP address with other of Google’s data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Please note, however, that, if you do so, you may be not able to use fully all of this website’s features. By using this website, you acknowledge that you have accepted the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the above-mentioned way and manner and for the above-mentioned purpose.

3. Social Media Plug-ins

a) Facebook Social Media Plug-in
Our website uses social plug-ins (Plug-ins) of the facebook.com social network, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (Facebook). The Plug-ins are identified with a Facebook logo. Whenever you access a page of our website that contains such a Plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection with Facebook’s servers. The content of the Plug-in is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website. Due to integrated Plug-ins, Facebook is informed that you have accessed a page of our website. If you are logged onto Facebook, Facebook can associate your visit with your Facebook account. If you interact with Plug-ins, e.g. you click on the Like button or post a comment, your browser transmits the relevant information directly to Facebook, where it is saved. For the purpose and scope of data collection and subsequent processing and use of data by Facebook as well as the relevant rights and possible settings of privacy protection, please consult Facebook’s privacy policy (http://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php). Please log out of Facebook before you visit our website if you do not want Facebook to associate any data through our website directly with your Facebook account.

b) Google Adsense
This website uses Google AdSense, a service of Google Inc. (Google) that integrates advertisements. Google AdSense uses the so-called cookies, which are text files that are saved on your computer to analyse how you use a website. Google AdSense also uses the so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). With these web beacons, information such as visitor traffic can be analysed on these pages. Generated by cookies and web beacons, information on your use of this website (including your IP address) and the distribution of advertising formats is transmitted to Google’s US server, where it is stored. Such information can be forwarded by Google to its affiliates. Google will not merge your IP address with other of your saved data, however. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. Please note, however, that, if you do so, you may be not able to use fully all of this website’s features. By using this website, you acknowledge that you have accepted the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the above-mentioned way and manner and for the above-mentioned purpose.

c) Google plus
The Google +1 button enables you to publish information worldwide. By clicking on the Google +1 button, you and other users receive personalised content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the information that you have given +1 to some content and that on the page that you were watching when clicking on +1. Your +1s together with your profile name and your photo can be shown in Google services such as search results, in your Google profile, or elsewhere, as references to websites and online advertisements. Google records information on your +1 activities to improve Google services for you and others. To use the Google +1 button, you need to have a worldwide visible, public Google profile, which has to contain at least the chosen profile name. This name will be used across all Google services. In some cases this name can also replace the other name you have used to share content via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be shown to users who know your e-mail address or have other information that identifies you. Use of collected information: In addition to the purposes explained above, information that you may make available will be used in accordance with Google’s current privacy policy. Google may publish and forward aggregated statistics on +1 user activities to users and partners such as publishers, advertisers or associated sites.

d) Twitter
Our website incorporates features of the Twitter service. These features are provided by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and its re-tweet feature, the websites you visit are associated with your Twitter account and made known to other users. This also involves data transmission to Twitter. Please note that as a website provider we do not receive any information regarding the content of any transmitted data and how it is used by Twitter. More details in this respect can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy under http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your Twitter privacy settings in the account settings under http://twitter.com/account/settings.

4. Third Party Contractors
We are entitled under the German Federal Data Protection Act to have some tasks in connection with achieving the purpose laid down in this privacy policy taken over or performed on our behalf by carefully selected companies or individuals. They include but are not limited to web providers, service operators, payment processing companies and other support companies or individuals. Such companies may obtain access to personal information that they may need for the performance of their activities. Such companies or individuals are not allowed to use this information otherwise.

5. Withdrawal, Disabling, Deletion and Revision of Your Personal Information

a) Withdrawal
At any time you are entitled to recall free of charge your consent to the storage of or demand a revision of your personal information. At any time you are also entitled to revoke your consent to our collection and storage of any other data you may have provided us with on a voluntary basis. Please note that in order to protect your privacy and security we have to check your identity before you can take such measures.
If you do not wish your data to be processed in future and/or you would like to revoke your consent to this extent, please write to the following address, attaching, if possible, a copy of your identity card: M.J. Raak GmbH, Berner Straße 38, 60437 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As soon as you revoke your consent to the storage, processing and use of your personal information, we will delete all stored data immediately. We expressly point out that despite the revocation of your consent we are entitled under the German Federal Data Protection Act to process and/or use your data if this takes place for the purpose of any contractual relationship or a quasi-contractual relationship of trust and/or this is necessary for the preservation of our reasonable interests and after weighing up such interests it cannot be reasonably assumed that your legitimate interest in stopping the processing and/or use of your personal information prevails.

b) Disabling, Deletion and Revision of Your Personal Information
You are entitled to have any of your personal information that we store disabled or deleted and revised. If you wish to have any of your personal information that we store disabled, deleted or revised, please write to the following address, attaching, if possible, a copy of your identity card: M.J. Raak GmbH, Berner Straße 38, 60437 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

6. Inquiry About Stored Information
At any time you are entitled to check free of charge which of your personal information we store. You will be informed about it in writing. If you wish to inquire about which of your personal information is stored, please write to the following address, attaching, if possible, a copy of your identity card: M.J. Raak GmbH, Berner Straße 38, 60437 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We strive to ensure the safety of your personal information as required under applicable data protection laws. For this reason, data and information are generally transmitted to our server and to our affiliates in encrypted form. Please note, however, that no electronic communication is completely secure. This means that all data and information that you have provided us with on a voluntary basis may be accessed through illegal data acquisition. We cannot be held responsible or liable for any disclosure of information due to any error and/or unauthorized access by a third party during data transmission.

7. Amendment of the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We will inform you about any change to this privacy policy by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address you provided during the registration.

8. Retrieval of the Privacy Policy
By clicking on the Privacy Policy link , you can retrieve the privacy policy from any page within the www.myhusqvarna.com domain and print it out. Please note that as soon as you leave our website by clicking on any link on our website the privacy policy of another site operator apply, which may deviate from this privacy policy.