Microbox GmbH Online Privacy Statement

MICROBOX GmbH takes the privacy of our customers very seriously and is committed to provide security for their personal information. We provide you with this online version of our privacy statement to inform you first of all what information we do collect and secondly how we protect and use it.

In general, you can visit our web sites without providing us any information.

Scope

This statement applies to all data collected by MICROBOX GmbH through the majority of its web sites and services worldwide. Everybody from MICROBOX GmbH as well as our agents and subcontractors are bound to honor this statement.

Personal information

Collecting, gathering and using of personal information.

We only collect personal information that you provide to us voluntarily or that is given to us by affiliated companies or third parties that have your permission to share those information. Personal information only means your name, your address, your telephone and/or fax numbers, your email address and your product preferences.

We gather those information during the following transactions. The main purpose is to operate and improve its sites and deliver services or carry out transactions you have requested.

  • Requesting information material, catalogs or brochures (This service is optional) to process your order assiduously.
  • Email Newsletters (This service is optional) For your convenience, when you try to get in contact with us through the contact form, the option to receive our periodic email newsletter is pre-checked. If you do not want to receive those informations feel free to un-check the yes-box or follow the unsubscribe-link provided in the email message.
  • Promotional Features (This service is optional) You may be contacted with promotional features if you have opted to receive them. To stop these emails, follow the unsubscribe-link provided in the email message.

Sharing personal information

MICROBOX GmbH may share your personal information with our affiliated companies, as necessary to complete a transaction that you specifically requested. Under certain situations, we may be required by law to disclose personal information.

Relationships with Third Parties and Affiliates

We may share personal information limited to your name and mailing address with our customers and email providers. This use of information is restricted to purposes connected with their administration and delivery of email.

Business Transactions

We may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose personal information including but not limited to your name and mailing address, in connection with a fundamental corporate change such as a merger, consolidation, or the sale of substantially all assets.

  

How you can control the use of your personal information

If you would like to change your personal information or remove your name from our mailing lists, contact us.

  • email at: privacy@microbox.de and include your name, telephone number and mailing address so that we can contact you; or
  • write to us at: MICROBOX GmbH, Privacy Director, Salinenstrasse 52, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany, and include your name, telephone number and mailing address so that we can contact you.
  • if you have any question about the genuineness of an email you receive that appears to be from MICROBOX GmbH, contact us at abuse@microbox.de and do not respond to the email.

How you can control email, you receive from us

You may cancel our email newsletters at any time by choosing the unsubscribe-link provided in each message.

Other types of information we gather

We may use electronic images known as web beacons – sometimes called single-pixel gifs – in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails the recipients have opened. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails see the “How you can control email marketing you receive from us”–section.

Security

How we strive towards the protection of personal information

MICROBOX GmbH web sites may contain links to other web sites out of our hosted domains. MICROBOX GmbH is not responsible for the privacy, terms of use or other policies of those web sites.

Consent to transfer

MICROBOX GmbH web sites are operated in Germany and please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to Germany. By using our web sites and/or providing us with your personal information through those web sites, you consent to this transfer.

Updates to this statement

We reserve the right to make changes at any time to our policies and/or alter the look and the functionality of our web sites. We encourage you to periodically review this statement.

Our current statement was last updated at March 1st, 2006.

 

How to contact us

If you have further questions or how MICROBOX GmbH is handling your information we welcome your comments regarding this statement, please contact us:

  • email at: privacy@microbox.de and include your name, telephone number and mailing address so that we can contact you; or
  • write to us at: MICROBOX GmbH, Privacy Director, Salinenstrasse 52, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany, and include your name, telephone number and mailing address so that we can contact you.

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