Privacy policy

1. general information

HA-CO GmbH, is operator of the website www.ha-co.eu and provider of the services and products offered on this website. HA-CO GmbH is therefore responsible for the collection, processing and use of your data and must ensure that it complies with Austrian law. HA-CO GmbH attaches great importance to the protection of your personal data. In this document we inform you about which data is collected on www.ha-co.eu and how it is used. You will also find out how to check the accuracy of this information and how you can arrange for us to delete this data. Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We therefore recommend that you read this privacy policy regularly to ensure that you are always familiar with the latest version.

2. collection, use and processing of personal and company data

When you visit www.ha-co.eu, certain data is automatically stored on our servers or on servers of services and products that we purchase and/or have installed, for purposes of system administration, for statistical or backup purposes or for tracking purposes. These are as follows:

•     the name of your internet service provider
•     your IP address (under certain circumstances)
•     the version of your browser software
•     the operating system of the computer with which www.ha-co.eu was accessed
•     the date
•     the time of day
•     the website from which you visit www.ha-co.eu
•     the search words you used to find www.ha-co.eu

This data may allow conclusions to be drawn about a particular visitor. However, personal data will not be used in this context.

By registering as a user and entering your data at www.ha-co.eu, you consent to the use of your entered data for service-related use.

Furthermore, you agree that your data may be used for advertising measures / advertising purposes of third parties. If you do not agree to the use of your data for advertising purposes, you can prohibit this at any time by sending an e-mail to info-atha-co.eu.

3. disclosure to third parties

Your data will be transferred to our partners (third parties) as far as the order processing makes it necessary. If we pass on data to external service providers, technical and organizational measures are taken to ensure that the data is passed on in accordance with the legal provisions of data protection. If you provide us with personal or company-related data of your own accord, we will not use, process or pass on this data beyond the scope permitted by law or specified by you in a declaration of consent. In addition, we will only pass on your data to external service providers to the extent necessary for the execution of the contract and if they have agreed to the corresponding confidentiality and due diligence provisions. Furthermore, we will only pass on your data if we are obliged to do so by law, official or court orders.

4. information, deletion and correction

You can request information about your data stored by us at any time. To do so, we ask you to send an e-mail request for information to the address below. Together with the request, proof of identity must be sent to the same address.

You have the possibility to request the deletion or correction of your data at any time. You are of course also entitled at any time to revoke any consent you have given to the use or processing of personal data with effect for the future. We ask you to write us for this purpose by e-mail to info-atha-co.eu. Stored data will be deleted by us when they are no longer required for the stated purpose.

With regard to the deletion of data, it should be noted that we are subject to certain legal obligations which stipulate that certain data must be retained. We must comply with this obligation. If you wish the deletion of data which are subject to the legal obligation to retain, the data will be blocked in our system and only used to fulfill the legal obligation to retain data. After expiry of the retention period, your request for deletion will be complied with.

5. data security

We will keep your information secure and therefore take all reasonable steps to protect your information from loss, access, misuse or alteration. Our employees and contractual partners who have access to your data are contractually bound to secrecy and compliance with data protection regulations. In some cases it may be necessary for us to pass on your requests to companies affiliated with us. In these cases, your data will also be treated confidentially.

6. cookies

To facilitate the use of our www.ha-co.eu we use so-called cookies. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are temporarily stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive and are necessary for the use of our www.ha-co.eu. Thus, the information contained in the cookies is used for session control, in particular to improve navigation and enable a high degree of user-friendliness of a website. The cookies we use do not store any personal information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can avoid this by changing the settings of your browser. You can remove cookies stored on your PC at any time by deleting the temporary Internet files (browser bar "Extras-Internet Options").

Deactivating cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our portal.

Here you will also find the instructions for deleting cookies for Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

7. plug-ins

7.1 Facebook Plugins

On our website, plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" or "Share" button on our site. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our pages, the plug-in establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which integrates it into the website. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you click the Facebook "Like-Button" while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our Pages with your user account. The information of your interaction is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook.

Facebook may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and the design of the Facebook Pages to meet the needs of our customers. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Facebook.

You can find more information on this in the Facebook privacy policy at www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our sites with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account before using our website.

7.2 Twitter

On our website we have integrated plugins of the short message network Twitter Inc. 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. You can recognize the Twitter plugins (Tweet button) by the Twitter logo on our site.

If you visit a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, a direct connection between your browser and the Twitter server in the USA will be established. Twitter thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the "Tweet button" while logged into your Twitter account, you can link the contents of our pages on your Twitter profile. This allows Twitter to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. For further information, please refer to the Twitter privacy policy.

If you do not want Twitter to be able to assign visits to our pages, please log out of your Twitter user account.

7.3. linkedIn

On our Internet pages, plugins of the social network LinkedIn of the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "LinkedIn") are integrated. You can recognize the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo or the "Recommend" button ("Recommend") on our site. When you visit our pages, the plug-in establishes a direct connection between your browser and the LinkedIn server. LinkedIn thereby receives information that you have visited our site using your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn "Recommend-Button" while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages on your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to our sites with your LinkedIn account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. Details on the collection of data (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy.

You can find this information at: www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

7.4 YouTube

Our web pages contain at least one YouTube plug-in, belonging to Google Inc., located at LLC 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. As soon as you visit a page of our website equipped with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the servers of YouTube is established. This tells the YouTube server which specific page of our website you visited. In addition, if you are logged into your YouTube account, you would allow YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can negate this possibility of assignment if you log out of your account before. For more information about YouTube's collection and use of your information, please see their privacy policy at www.youtube.com/t/privacy.

7.5 Google Adsense

These Internet pages use Google AdSense, a service for the integration of advertisements of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google AdSense uses so-called "cookies", text files which are stored on the user's computer and which enable an analysis of the use of the website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (invisible graphics). Through these web beacons, information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this offer can be evaluated.

The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the use of this website (including the user's IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information may be passed on by Google to contractual partners of Google. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data stored by you.

Users may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on their browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, users agree to the processing of data collected about them by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above.

7.6 Instagram

On our Internet pages we use so-called social plugins from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an "Instagram Camera".

When you access a page on our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser will establish a direct connection to Instagram's servers. The content of the plug-in is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. This integration informs Instagram that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can immediately attribute your visit to our website to your Instagram account. When you interact with the plug-ins, for example by clicking the "Instagram" button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information is also published to your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of the data by Instagram, as well as your rights and privacy preferences, please refer to Instagram's Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com.

If you do not want Instagram to associate the data collected through our web site directly with your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our web site.

7.7 Google Adwords

Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you reach www.ha-co.eu via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. These cookies lose their validity after a predefined period of time and are not used for personal identification. If you revisit certain pages on our site and the cookie hasn't expired, we and Google may recognize that you clicked on an ad and were redirected by it. Cookies vary from customer to customer, each customer receives their own. The conversion cookie tells us the total number of users who have clicked on an ad and been redirected to a specific page. However, we do not receive any personal information so that you could be identified as a user.

If you do not wish to be tracked you can set a Do Not Track cookie or set your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

7.8 Facebook Remarketing

Remarketing tags of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our pages. When you visit our pages, the remarketing tags establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This tells Facebook that you have used your IP address to visit our site. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We can use the information thus obtained to display Facebook Ads. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in the Facebook privacy policy at www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. If you do not wish to collect data via Custom Audience, you can deactivate Custom Audiences here.

7.9 Google Remarketing

On our pages are Remarketing Tags from Google Inc. ("Google") are integrated. With a remarketing tag, a direct connection between your browser and Google is established when you visit our website. We receive the information that your IP - address has visited our site via Google. This information can be used by us for specific advertising.

7.10. Google Tag Manager

Our website uses the Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed through an interface. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. That means: no cookies are used and no personal data is collected. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags as long as they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.

7.11. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie (browser type/version, operating system used, referrer URL previously visited website, IP address, time of server request) about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, in the event that IP anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before this happens.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner described above and for the aforementioned purpose. Further information about the web analysis service used can be found on the Google Analytics website. Instructions on how to prevent the processing of your data by the web analysis service can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

8. changes

Changes to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. In this way, you can inform yourself at any time about what data we store, how we collect and use it. We may change this privacy policy at any time and without notice. The current version published on our website applies.

Traun, 01.11.2022