Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The responsible party according to Art. 4 para. 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Brand Kore e.U. (hereinafter "we"), located at Am Brand 8, 6900 Bregenz, Austria. We collect and use your personal data exclusively in accordance with legal regulations. Below, we inform you about the use of your personal data. You can access this information at any time on our website www.brand-kore.com via the "Privacy Policy" link.

When you contact us via email or through a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, your name, salutation, and if necessary your residential or business address, telephone number, the UID number for businesses as customers) is stored by us in order to answer your questions and maintain the customer relationship. We delete the data collected in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are legal retention obligations. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR, or, if it serves the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures, Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR.

If we use commissioned service providers for individual functions of our offer or if we want to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also specify the criteria for the storage duration.

Responsible for Data Protection

Brand Kore e.U., Am Brand 8, 6900 Bregenz, Austria

Phone: +43 (0) 6601036262

Email: thomas.dausel@brand-kore.com

Your Rights You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to information
Right to correction or deletion
Right to restriction of processing
Right to object to the processing
Right to data portability

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

Collection and Storage of Data for Internal and Statistical Purposes You can visit our website without providing any personal information. If you do not contact us, we only store access data without personal reference. These data are evaluated solely to improve our offer and do not allow any inference about your person. For technical reasons, your internet browser automatically transmits the following data to our web server every time you access our internet offer:

The current IP address of the internet connection you are using
If you visit our website via a link, the web URL from which you visit us
The websites that you visit within our offer
Date and time of your visit
The operating system you are using, the browser name (e.g., Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) and the browser version
The Internet service provider
Data volume transmitted
Access status/http status code

These data are stored anonymously and are used exclusively for statistical purposes (such as how often the individual pages of our offer are visited) or for technical network and system monitoring to detect disruptions in server operation (log files). The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Newsletter With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, which will inform you about our current interesting news.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registering for our newsletter. This means that we will send you an email to the specified email address in which we ask you to confirm that you want the newsletter to be sent. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your information will be deleted. Additionally, we store your IP addresses and the times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify possible misuse of your personal data.

The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your email address. The specification of additional, separately marked data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we store your email address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR.

You can revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter email or by sending a message to the contact details below. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected.

The legal basis for the processing of your email address in this context is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Cookies We use cookies on our site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our site. Cookies do not harm your device, do not contain viruses, trojans, or other malicious software. The cookie stores information that arises in connection with the specific terminal used. This does not mean, however, that we immediately gain knowledge of your identity.

The following types of cookies are used on our website:

Essential cookies
Marketing and statistic cookies
Cookies for external media

Essential Cookies Essential cookies are necessary to navigate the website, use basic functions, and secure the website. The legal basis for the use of essential cookies is our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in enabling the use of a functional website.

If you disable the use of necessary cookies, the full functionality and usability of the website can no longer be guaranteed.

The following essential cookies are used by us as the provider of the cookies:

Bibprom
- Purpose: Stores the advertising origin used in the link. Used for internal evaluations of advertising measures and displaying advertising offers.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 8 months.
Borlabs-Cookie
- Purpose: Stores the user's cookie settings.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 2 years or renews itself after settings are made for 2 years.
PHPSESSID_1
- Purpose: Stores the session ID.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends.
woocommerce_cart_hash
- Purpose: Identification and storage of the shopping cart.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends.
woocommerce_items_in_cart
- Purpose: Counts the items in the cart.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends.
wp_woocommerce_session_*
- Purpose: Stores cart data such as products and quantity.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 3 days.
wc_cart_created
- Purpose: Stores the time the cart was generated.
- Type/Duration: Session-Cookie / Expires after the session ends.
wc_cart_hash_*
- Purpose: Stores an encrypted cart ID to identify the cart.
- Type/Duration: Session-Cookie / Expires after the session ends.
wc_fragments_*
- Purpose: Stores parts of the cart in the session.
- Type/Duration: Session-Cookie / Expires after the session ends.
wordpress_logged_in_*
- Purpose: Provides information about the user's login status.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends.
wordpress_sec_*
- Purpose: Security against hackers.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends.
wordpress_test_cookie
- Purpose: Security check after logout.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends.
yith_wcwl_products
- Purpose: Stores the products of a wishlist.
- Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 30 days.

Areas marked with * are names of the cookie enhanced with encryption. For example, for property ID, campaign ID, analytics account ID, cart ID, or similar.

Session Expiry: 30 minutes without interaction or closing the browser.

Marketing and Statistic Cookies Marketing and statistic cookies are used to offer website users needs-based advertising on the website or third-party offers and to measure the effectiveness of these offers.

The legal basis is your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time, for example, by setting the web analysis cookies to inactive in the cookie settings. However, the revocation does not affect the processing that took place before this point.

The collected data is transmitted to the providers of the cookie services. The provider of the marketing and statistic cookies we use is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Since Google Ireland Limited also has servers in the USA, a data transfer to the USA cannot be excluded. Such a transfer would take place based on EU standard contractual clauses. More information on this, as well as a copy of the EU standard contractual clauses, can be obtained under the following link: https://support.google.com/policies/answer/9581826?hl=en&visit_id=637829347173847256-990985794&rd=1.

Overview of Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

– Google Analytics and Google Ads Conversion (formerly Google Ads) We use Google Analytics and Google Ads to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. The statistics gained help us improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user.

The following marketing and statistic cookies from the provider Google Ireland Limited are used on our website: _ga

Purpose: This cookie is used to distinguish users.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 2 years. ga*
Purpose: Stores and counts page views.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after one year. gac*
Purpose: Cookie contains campaign-related information about the user.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 90 days. _gat
Purpose: This cookie limits the requests sent.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 10 minutes. _gid
Contains a randomly generated user ID.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 24 hours. __utma
Purpose: Cookie serves to distinguish users and sessions and to create visitor statistics.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 2 years. __utmb
Purpose: This cookie stores the time when the user entered the website.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / This cookie expires after the session ends. __utmc
Purpose: This cookie can be used to determine the duration of the session.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after the session ends. __utmt
Purpose: This cookie limits the requests sent.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 10 minutes. __utmz
Purpose: This cookie records the traffic sources of the website: search engine, search queries, linked pages.
Type/Duration: Permanent – First-Party Cookie / The cookie expires after 6 months. Areas marked with * are names of the cookie enhanced with encryption. For example, for property ID, campaign ID, analytics account ID, cart ID, or similar.

Session Expiry: 30 minutes without interaction or closing the browser.

Social Media Plug-ins We currently use the following social media plug-ins: LinkedIn. We use the so-called two-click solution. This means that when you visit our site, no personal data is initially passed on to the providers of the plug-ins. You can recognize the provider of the plug-in by the marking on the box above its initial letter or logo. We give you the opportunity to communicate directly with the provider of the plug-in by clicking the button. Only when you activate the marked field by clicking on it does the plug-in provider receive the information that you have accessed the corresponding website of our online offer. In addition, the data mentioned under the point "Collection and Storage of Data for Internal and Statistical Purposes" of this declaration are transmitted. In the case of LinkedIn, according to the respective providers in Germany, the IP address is anonymized immediately after collection. By activating the plug-in, personal data from you is therefore transmitted to the respective plug-in provider and stored there (for US providers in the USA). Since the plug-in provider collects data mainly via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies via the security settings of your browser before clicking on the greyed-out box.

We have no influence on the collected data and data processing operations, nor are we aware of the full scope of data collection, the purposes of processing, or the storage periods. We also do not have information about the deletion of the data collected by the plug-in provider.

The plug-in provider stores the data collected about you as user profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such an evaluation takes place especially (also for non-logged-in users) for the display of demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right. The processing of personal data regarding the collection and transmission of the user's IP address and information about the browser type and version used to the third-party provider is necessary for the usability and technical necessity of providing the third-party online offer. The IP address is necessary for the delivery of third-party content by the third-party provider. Information about the browser type and version used is necessary to deliver the content in the correct format.

The legal basis for the collection and transmission of the IP address and information about the browser type is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in the provision and improvement of an online offer and the user-friendliness of the offer.

The legal basis for the collection and transmission of cookies and the information you provide is your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time. The legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected.

Data transfer occurs regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in there. If you are logged in with the plug-in provider, your data collected with us will be directly assigned to your existing account with the plug-in provider. If you activate the button and link the page, for example, the plug-in provider also stores this information in your user account and shares it publicly with your contacts. We recommend that you regularly log out after using a social network, especially before activating the button, as this will avoid linking to your profile with the plug-in provider.

The collected data is transmitted to the respective third-party providers. The transmission of personal data is justified by our legitimate interest in passing on the data for the provision and improvement of our online offer and for reasons of user-friendliness and your rights and interests in the protection of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR do not outweigh.

More information about the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the following privacy statements of these providers. There you will also find more information about your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy.

Addresses of the respective plug-in providers and URL with their privacy notices: LinkedIn Corporation: Sunnyvale, 1000 W Maude Ave, United States

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

If you have questions about the use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, and your other rights mentioned above, please contact: Brand Kore e.U. Am Brand 8 6900 Bregenz Austria Phone: +43 6601036262 or send an email to thomas.dausel@brand-kore.com

Consent Provision and Right to Withdraw If we want to collect, process, or transmit personal data for purposes other than those mentioned above, we will obtain your express and voluntary consent beforehand. The use of our offer will not depend on the granting of your consent, as far as this is legally and technically possible.

If you have given consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. The revocation is effective for the future. Processing of personal data prior to the revocation is not affected. Please direct the revocation to the address or email address mentioned above.

The data subject has the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them. We will then no longer process the personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims (Art. 21 GDPR). The revocation is effective for the future. Processing of personal data prior to the revocation is not affected. Please direct the revocation to the address or email address mentioned above.

Transfer of Personal Data to Third Parties We use your personal data exclusively for our own purposes mentioned above. Subject to the exceptions explained above, there is generally no transfer to third parties.

If we commission third parties as technical service providers to support our business processes with data processing, they must commit to comply with our data protection standards and grant us the right to verify compliance with these standards and legal requirements. Schicht GmbH remains legally responsible for compliance with legal data protection regulations in this case ("order processing").

Security We protect your data with secure SSL encryption. The encryption takes place with the standard RC4 128 Bit, key length RSA 1024 Bit / 128 Bit. The abbreviation "SSL" stands for "Secure Socket Layer" and is an encryption process that is successfully used throughout the World Wide Web. All personal data such as credit card number, bank code, bank account number, name and address are encrypted and are thus secure during transmission via the internet. This information cannot be read by unauthorized persons during transmission on the internet. Please make sure to use a current browser and install the latest security updates for your operating system to ensure the highest possible security.

All our employees who may come into contact with personal data are obliged to confidentiality and to comply with data protection regulations and are instructed about the

legal requirements.

Updating this Privacy Policy Brand Kore e.U. reserves the right to update this privacy policy as needed to adapt to technical developments or in connection with the offer of new services or products. You can always view the current version on the website www.brand-kore.com via the "Privacy" link.

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