1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we will inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data means any data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is USTC, 225 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08837, Tel: 833-NETCEED, Email: hello.us@netceed.com. The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
2.1 When you visit our website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the data that your browser sends to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website:
Our visited website
Date and time of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/referral from which you came to the page
Browser used
Operating system used
IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. There is no further dissemination or use of the data. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server log files if concrete indications point to unlawful use.
2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses an SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after you close your browser (so-called "session cookies"). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser during your next visit (persistent cookies). You can find the duration of storage in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser.
If individual cookies used by us also process personal data, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of a contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.
You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use all functions of this website.
Constant Contact, Inc.
The dispatch of our email newsletters is carried out through this provider: Constant Contact, Inc. 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02451, United States
Based on our legitimate interest in effective and user-friendly newsletter marketing, we pass on the data provided by you during newsletter registration in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to this provider so that they can handle the newsletter dispatch on our behalf.
Subject to your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the provider also conducts a statistical evaluation of newsletter campaigns using web beacons or tracking pixels in the emails sent, which can measure opening rates and specific interactions with the content of the newsletter. In this process, device information (e.g., time of access, IP address, browser type, and operating system) is also collected and analyzed but not merged with other datasets. You can revoke your consent to newsletter tracking at any time with effect for the future.
We have concluded a contract for order processing with the provider, ensuring the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
5.1 Google Analytics 4
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), which enables an analysis of your use of our website.
By default, when visiting the website, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies, which are small text elements stored on your device and collect certain information. This information includes your IP address, which, however, is truncated by Google to exclude direct identifiability.
The information is transmitted to Google servers and processed there. Transmissions to Google LLC servers in the USA are also possible.
Google uses the information collected on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity for us, and provide other services related to website usage and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics 4 is not merged with other Google data. The data collected during the use of Google Analytics 4 is stored for a period of two months and then deleted.
All the described processing activities, especially the setting of cookies on the device used, are only carried out if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without your consent, the use of Google Analytics 4 will not occur during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, please deactivate this service using the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
We have concluded a contract for order processing with Google, ensuring the protection of the data of our website visitors and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further legal notices regarding Google Analytics 4 can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Demographic Features
Google Analytics 4 uses the special feature "demographic features" to create statistics that provide information about the age, gender, and interests of website visitors. This is done by analyzing advertising and information from third-party providers. This allows target groups to be identified for marketing activities. However, the collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person and will be deleted after storage for a period of two months.
Google Signals
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals may be used on this website to create cross-device reports. If you have enabled personalized ads and linked your devices to your Google account, Google, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, may analyze your usage behavior across devices and create database models, including cross-device conversions. We do not receive any personal data from Google, only statistics. If you want to stop cross-device analysis, you can disable the "Personalized Advertising" function in your Google account settings. Follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en Further information on Google Signals can be found at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en
UserIDs
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, the "UserIDs" feature may be used on this website. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4 pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, have set up an account on this website, and log in to this account on different devices, your activities, including conversions, can be analyzed across devices.
The provider has joined the EU-US Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission, for data transfers to the USA.
5.2 Google Tag Manager
This website uses "Google Tag Manager," a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as "Google").
Google Tag Manager provides a technical basis for bundling various web applications, including tracking and analytics services, and calibrating, controlling, and conditioning them via a unified user interface. Google Tag Manager itself does not store any information on user devices or read it. The service also does not perform independent data analyses. However, when the page is accessed, Google Tag Manager transfers your IP address to Google and may store it there. Transfers to servers of Google LLC in the USA are also possible.
This processing is only carried out if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without this consent, Google Tag Manager will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, please deactivate this service using.
We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider, ensuring the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibiting unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
The provider has joined the EU-US Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission, for data transfers to the USA.
LinkedIn Insight
This website utilizes retargeting technology provided by the following provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
This technology enables us to target visitors to our websites with personalized, interest-based advertising who have already shown interest in our shop and products. The display of advertising material is based on cookie-based analysis of past and current usage behavior, without storing any personally identifiable information. In cases of retargeting technology, a cookie is stored on your computer or mobile device to collect pseudonymized data about your interests and thus tailor advertising individually to the stored information. These cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device. As a result, you will be shown advertising that is highly likely to correspond to your product and information interests.
All the described processing activities, especially the setting of cookies to read information on the device used, are only carried out if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without this consent, the use of retargeting technology will not occur during your visit to the site.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, please deactivate this service using the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
Cookie Consent Tool
This website uses a so-called "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consent for consent-required cookies and cookie-based applications. The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users in the form of an interactive user interface when they visit the site, allowing them to give consent for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking boxes. By using the tool, all consent-required cookies/services are only loaded if the respective user gives corresponding consent by checking boxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the respective user's device if consent is given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed in this context.
In individual cases, if personal data (such as IP addresses) is processed for the purpose of storing, associating, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in legally compliant design of our website.
Another legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As data controllers, we are legally obliged to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user's consent.
If necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider to ensure the protection of our website visitors' data and to prohibit unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further information about the operator and the settings options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.
8.1 The applicable data protection law grants you, as the data subject, the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data by the data controller (information and intervention rights), with reference to the legal basis for exercising each right:
Right to information pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
Right to withdraw consent granted pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR;
Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.
8.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST IN THE CONTEXT OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ASSERT, EXERCISE, OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and, if applicable, additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods).
If personal data is processed based on explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you revoke your consent.
If there are legal retention periods for data processed in the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for contract performance or contract initiation and/or there is no longer a legitimate interest on our part in continued storage.
If personal data is processed based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.
If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise indicated in the other information in this statement about specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.