Data Protection

Privacy Policy

Optical design unit gmbh cares a great deal about your privacy and respects your rights under applicable data protection laws. We have developed this privacy policy to inform you how we collect, store, use and process your Personal Data on our website www.o3u.at. Please carefully read this privacy policy before providing Personal Data to Us. Our website makes use of cookies and similar technologies. To learn more on this, please also read our Cookie Policy below.

What Personal Data do we process, how and for what purposes?

Personal Data

“Personal Data” for the purpose of this Privacy Policy, means any information that can be used to personally identify you or contact you online or offline or that relates to you and is processed by Us in a way that is connected to your person.

What Personal Data we process, how and why we process your Personal Data, will vary according to the type of services or content you use or request. It is possible that several of the following categories apply to your situation at the same time.

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. You can disable analytics at any time via our cookie banner.

Contact form

When you submit information to this website via the contact form on our website, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, so that they can provide website services to us.

Your Personal Data will be stored for a limited and reasonable period of time, as necessary to respond to your question and to follow up on your interest in our services or products. In any case, we will no longer use or process your Personal Data if you request to have your data erased.

The use of cookies and similar technologies on our website www.o3u.at

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website, for various reasons, amongst others to improve your user experience, to match the contents of our website to your personal preferences, to enable third-party services (e.g. video plugins), to learn about how you use our website and content, etc. Our use of cookies and similar technologies may imply the processing of data that can be considered as Personal Data.

To learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies, please read our Cookie Policy below.

Sharing or disclosure of Personal Data

Optical design unti gmbh will not share your Personal Data with any third party unless we have specifically informed you or unless explained in this Privacy Policy or the Cookies Policy or if you have given us specific permission to do this. We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our website and the services we provide (“Service Providers”), to perform related services or to assist us in analyzing how our website is used.

These third parties may have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may use service providers, agents or contractors to provide support for our operations and to assist Us with administering our services. For instance:
- CRM service provider
- IT service providers

Any such third party must at all times provide the same levels of security for your Personal Data as optical design unit gmbh and, where required, shall be bound by a legal agreement to keep your Personal Data private, secure and to process it only on our specific instructions.

We may also disclose your personal information if we are required to do so by law, or if in our good faith judgment, such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes, to respond to any claims, or to protect the safety or rights of optical design unit gmbh, its customers, or the public.

In the event of a merger or acquisition of all or part of optical design unit gmbh by another company, or in the event that optical design unit gmbh were to sell or dispose of all or a part of its business, the acquirer would have access to the information maintained by us, which could include Personal Data, subject to applicable law. Similarly, Personal Data may be transferred as part of a corporate reorganization, insolvency proceeding, or other similar event, if permitted by and done in accordance with applicable law.

What happens if you decide not to provide your Personal Data?

If you choose not to submit any Personal Data when requested, you may not be able to make use of our services and the content we provide, or we may not optimize our content for you. For example:

  • if you refuse to share your email address, you will not be able to receive any of our newsletters;

  • if you refuse to share your contact information when you contact us with a question, we cannot get back to you with an answer

Transfer of Personal Data

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your Personal Data.

What rights do you have when we process your Personal Data?

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) accessing our website, you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. Your rights and how you can exercise them are detailed in this section.

Persons residing outside of the EEA may have similar rights under applicable data protection laws. We strive to respect your applicable rights.

The right to access your Personal Data

You can contact us at any time to request access to the Personal Data we hold about you as well as why we have that Personal Data, who has access to the Personal Data and where we got the Personal Data from.

The right to correct and update the Personal Data we hold about you

If the Personal Data we hold about you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and we will ensure that it is updated after we are satisfied that the new Personal Data you have provided is accurate.

The right to have your Personal Data erased

If you feel that we should no longer be using your Personal Data or that we are illegally using your Personal Data, you can request that we erase the Personal Data we hold. When we receive your request, we will confirm whether the Personal Data has been deleted or tell you the reason why it cannot be deleted. If we are required by law to comply with your request, we will fully anonymise your Personal Data it so that it is no longer Personal Data and cannot be used to identify you.

Restricted processing rights

You can ask for the processing of your Personal Data to be restricted in some circumstances, for example if your Personal Data could be inaccurate and needs to be verified, or if we no longer require the data but need to keep for you to exercise your own legal rights. Restricting your Personal Data means that we only store your Personal Data. We cannot continue to process it unless permitted to by you or in order to exercise a legal claim or to protect a third party or the public.

The right to object to the processing of your Personal Data

Insofar the applicable regulatory conditions have been fulfilled, you have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data . Upon receiving the request, we will contact you to tell you if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue processing your Personal Data. If Personal Data is no longer used by us, we may continue to hold your Personal Data to comply with our other rights. If we have compelling legitimate grounds to carry on processing your Personal Data, we will be able to continue to do so. Otherwise, we will cease processing your Personal Data.

The right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing

You have the right to request at any time that we stop contacting you with direct marketing or advertising. In order to process your request we may need to verify your identity for your security. To opt out of email marketing specifically, you can use the “unsubscribe” option in any of our email marketing communications which means that we will no longer process your Personal Data for this purpose.

Please note: It can take a short time for opt-out requests to take effect.

The right to data portability

This only applies to information you have given us. You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us from one organisation to another, or give it to you. The right only applies if we are processing information based on your consent or under, or in talks about entering into a contract and the processing is automated. Once we have received your request, we will comply where it is feasible to do so.

Consent

In those cases where we need your consent to hold your information, we may ask you to check a box on any form requiring consent. By checking these boxes you are stating that you have been informed as to why we are collecting the information, how it will be used, for how long it will be kept, who else will have access to it, what your rights are as a data subject as well as you agree with the processing of your Personal Data for the described purpose. You have the right to withdraw your consent, at any time. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing made prior your withdrawal.

How to exercise your rights

If you wish to exercise your rights above, please send an e-mail detailing your request and your identity to privacy@o3u.at . In order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases your response will be necessary for you to exercise this right. We may also require additional information, i.e. to help us to locate the particular data specified in your request.

A request to exercise your rights will be responded to as soon as possible and no longer than one month from receiving your request and all necessary identification proof or further information. For particularly difficult or complex requests, or if you have submitted a large volume of requests, we may take up to three months to respond. In such cases we will advise you as soon as possible but no later than one month following the reception of your request, explaining why it will take longer.

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

What can you do if you have questions or complaints?

If you have any further questions on our processing of your Personal Data, you can contact us at privacy@o3u.at or via the contact form on our website. If you believe that we process your Personal Data unlawfully, you may have the right to make a complaint with the local competent data protection authority.

Changes to this Policy

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time for various reasons. For instance, we may change this Privacy Policy in order to comply with changes in the applicable laws and regulations, if We provide new services or content or make changes to the services or content we provide. You should check this Privacy Policy occasionally to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access the website. Where feasible, you may also be notified of any significant changes by email.

Cookie Policy

Optical design unit gmbh cares a great deal about your privacy and respects your rights under applicable data protection laws. We have developed this cookie policy to inform you on how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website www.o3u.at. To learn more on how we may process your Personal Data, please also read our Privacy Policy.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. Cookies can improve our visitors’ browsing experience because they help our website remember preferences and understand how people use different features. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Analytics and performance cookies

Squarespace uses analytics and performance cookies to collect information on our behalf about how visitors interact with our site.

You can disable these cookies at any time via our cookie banner.

Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose
ss_cid | Two years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cpvisit | Two years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvisit | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvr | Two years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvt | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

How can you manage cookies?

You can manage which cookies our Website places by indicating your preferences in the banner that is displayed when first visiting our Website.

If you do not want cookies being used or placed, you can also use your browser settings to delete any cookies set on your device, or to prevent new cookies from being placed on your device.

Browser manufacturers provide help pages on how to manage cookies in their browsers in their products.

What can you do if you have questions or complaints?

If you have any further questions on how We use cookies, you can contact us at privacy@o3u.at or via the contact form on our website.

Changes to this Policy

We may change our Cookie Policy regularly for various reasons. For instance, we may change this Cookie Policy if the technologies used on our website change or in order to comply with changes in the applicable laws and regulations.

 

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