Privacy Policy

The use of our site is pos­si­ble wit­hout per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on. The use of some ser­vices on our web­site may cau­se dif­fe­rent regu­la­ti­ons, which will be explai­ned below. We coll­ect your per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on (such as name, address, e‑mail, tele­pho­ne num­ber, etc.) only in accordance with the Ger­man Data Pro­tec­tion Law. Per­so­nal Infor­ma­ti­on is infor­ma­ti­on rela­ting to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fia­ble natu­ral per­son. The legal basis for data pro­tec­tion can be found in the Fede­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Act (BDSG) and the Ger­man Tele­me­dia Act (TMG). The fol­lo­wing regu­la­ti­ons inform you in this respect about the type, scope and pur­po­se of the coll­ec­tion, use and pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on by the provider.

Alpha Pho­to­nics GmbH & Co KG

Paul-Ehr­lich-Str. 28–30
63322 – Rödermark
Germany

Tel: +49 (0)6074–69 09 114
Fax: +49 (0)6074–69 26 030
E‑mail: mail[at]alpha-photonics.com

We point out that the inter­net-based data trans­mis­si­on has secu­ri­ty gaps, a com­ple­te pro­tec­tion against access by third par­ties is thus impossible.

Coo­kies

We use coo­kies to coll­ect infor­ma­ti­on about mul­ti­ple use of our web­site by the same user / Inter­net access hol­der. Coo­kies are small text files pla­ced in the memo­ry of your brow­ser. Coo­kies allow a web­site to reco­gni­ze a par­ti­cu­lar device or brow­ser. We use them to opti­mi­ze our web­site and our offers. The­se are most­ly ses­si­on coo­kies which expi­re at the end of your brow­ser ses­si­on. Howe­ver, the­se coo­kies some­ti­mes are stored on your device to reco­gni­ze you using the IP-address. The infor­ma­ti­on obtai­ned in this way ser­ves to opti­mi­ze our offers and to give you easier access to our site.
Coo­kies can be dis­ab­led or remo­ved by tools that are available in most brow­sers; howe­ver, this might affect the func­tion­a­li­ty and com­fort of our website.

Ser­ver logfiles

Due to tech­ni­cal reasons, we store infor­ma­ti­on that your Inter­net brow­ser trans­mits to us or to our web space provider:

– Brow­ser type and version
– Ope­ra­ting system
– Web­site from which you are visi­ting us (Refer­rer URL)
– Web­site you visit
– Date and time of your access
– Your Inter­net Pro­to­col (IP) address.

The­se log records are dis­as­so­cia­ted from per­so­nal iden­ti­fiers. We eva­lua­te this data for sta­tis­ti­cal pur­po­ses only, in order to impro­ve our web­site and our offers.

Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on

If you cont­act us via E‑mail or the cont­act form on our site we will coll­ect infor­ma­ti­on you pro­vi­de us rela­ting to your cont­act issues. We don’t share this data with third par­ty or match it with any infor­ma­ti­on we coll­ect on ano­ther way.

Use of anony­mi­zed Goog­le Ana­ly­tics with anony­miza­ti­on function

We use Goog­le Ana­ly­tics, a web ana­ly­tics ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, here­af­ter “Goog­le”. Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses coo­kies, text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter and ther­eby allow an ana­ly­sis how you use our website.

The infor­ma­ti­on gene­ra­ted by the­se coo­kies, such as the time, loca­ti­on and fre­quen­cy of your web­site visit, inclu­ding your IP address, is trans­mit­ted to Goog­le in the United Sta­tes and stored there.

We use Goog­le Ana­ly­tics on our web­site with an IP anony­miza­ti­on func­tion. It means that your IP address will be anony­mi­zed by Goog­le within the Euro­pean Uni­on or other sta­tes within the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area.

Goog­le will use this infor­ma­ti­on to eva­lua­te your use of our site, to com­pi­le reports on our web­site acti­vi­ty, and to pro­vi­de other ser­vices rela­ted to web­site acti­vi­ty and inter­net usa­ge. Goog­le may also trans­fer this infor­ma­ti­on to third par­ties if requi­red by law or as far as third par­ties pro­cess this data on behalf of Google.

Goog­le does not cla­im to link your IP address to any other data pro­vi­ded by Goog­le. Coo­kies can be dis­ab­led or remo­ved by tools that are available in most brow­sers; howe­ver, this might affect the func­tion­a­li­ty and com­fort of our website.

Also, Goog­le pro­vi­des a deac­ti­va­ti­on opti­on for the most brow­sers, giving you more con­trol over what data Goog­le coll­ects and pro­ces­ses. If you enable this opti­on, web­site visit infor­ma­ti­on will not be sent to Goog­le Ana­ly­tics. Thus, dis­ab­ling of this func­tion does not pre­vent the trans­mis­si­on of your data to us or to any other web ana­ly­tics ser­vices we might use. For more infor­ma­ti­on about Google’s opt-out opti­on, plea­se visit the fol­lo­wing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Use of Goog­le+ recom­men­da­ti­on components

On our site we use the “+1” but­ton of the Goog­le+ pro­vi­der of Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, here­af­ter “Goog­le”. Each time you visit our web­site with a “+1” com­po­nent, your brow­ser down­loads its image from Google.

This way Goog­le gets the infor­ma­ti­on which spe­ci­fic page of our web­site is curr­ent­ly being visi­ted. Accor­ding to Goog­le, your visit will not be fur­ther eva­lua­ted if you are not log­ged in to your Goog­le Account.

If you visit our site while log­ged in to Goog­le, by cli­cking the “+1” but­ton, Goog­le might coll­ect infor­ma­ti­on about your Goog­le account, the web­site you recom­mend, your IP address, and other brow­ser-rela­ted information.

After that, your “+1” recom­men­da­ti­on might be saved and published. It can be used as a refe­rence with your account name and, if appli­ca­ble, your pho­to stored on Goog­le+ in Goog­le ser­vices, such as in search engi­ne or your Goog­le account, third par­ty sites or ads. Also, Goog­le may link your visit of our site to your data stored in Goog­le. Goog­le records this infor­ma­ti­on to con­ti­nuous­ly impro­ve Google’s ser­vices. If you want to pre­vent this track­ing by Goog­le on the best pos­si­ble way, you have to sign out of your Goog­le account befo­re visi­ting our website.

You can access Google’s pri­va­cy poli­cy “+1” but­ton with all other infor­ma­ti­on about Google’s coll­ec­tion, dis­clo­sure and use of data, your rela­ted rights, and pro­fi­le set­ting opti­ons here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy

Use of Goog­le Maps with recom­men­da­ti­on components

On our site we use the com­po­nent “Goog­le Maps” in com­bi­na­ti­on with the sha­ring func­tion. “Goog­le Maps” is a ser­vice of Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, her­ein­af­ter “Goog­le”.

Each time you use this com­po­nent, Goog­le sets a coo­kie to pro­cess user set­tings and data while vie­w­ing the page with the inte­gra­ted Goog­le Maps com­po­nent. This coo­kie is usual­ly not dele­ted by clo­sing the brow­ser, but expi­res after a cer­tain amount of time unless you manu­al­ly dele­te it.

If you dis­agree with the pro­ces­sing of your data this way, you may disable the “Goog­le Maps” ser­vice and pre­vent the trans­mis­si­on of data to Goog­le. To do this you need to disable the Java­Script fea­ture in your brow­ser. Howe­ver, plea­se note that in this case the use of “Goog­le Maps” is limi­t­ed or impossible.

Use of “Goog­le Maps” and infor­ma­ti­on obtai­ned through “Goog­le Maps” is sub­ject to the Goog­le Terms of Use
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en&gl=en

and the “Goog­le Maps” Addi­tio­nal Terms
https://www.google.com/intl/en_de/help/terms_maps.html

The Goog­le Maps fea­ture also includes the fol­lo­wing recom­men­da­ti­on buttons:

• “Goog­le + But­ton” from Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA;
• “Face­book But­ton” from face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cali­for­nia Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA;
• “Twit­ter But­ton” from Twit­ter Inc., 795 Fol­som St., Suite 600, San Fran­cis­co, CA 94107, USA.

By cal­ling up the “Goog­le Maps” page, the­se “recom­men­da­ti­on com­pon­ents, your brow­ser down­loads its image from the respec­ti­ve pro­vi­der, men­tio­ned abo­ve, in order to inform him, which spe­ci­fic page of our web­site is curr­ent­ly being visited.

If you visit our site while log­ged in to one of the pro­vi­ders, men­tio­ned abo­ve, by using the “Goog­le Maps” com­po­nent, they might coll­ect infor­ma­ti­on about your per­so­nal account, the web­site you recom­mend, your IP address, and other brow­ser-rela­ted infor­ma­ti­on and link it to your per­so­nal account.

If you want to pre­vent this track­ing, you have to sign out of your account befo­re visi­ting our website.

You can find out more about the data coll­ec­tion of the respec­ti­ve pro­vi­ders via the fol­lo­wing links:

Pri­va­cy Poli­cy Twit­ter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
Pri­va­cy Poli­cy Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Pri­va­cy Poli­cy Goog­le+: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy

Use of Goog­le Maps

We use the “Goog­le Maps” com­po­nent of Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, “Goog­le”, on our site.

Each time you use this com­po­nent, Goog­le sets a coo­kie to pro­cess user set­tings and data while vie­w­ing the page with the inte­gra­ted Goog­le Maps com­po­nent. This coo­kie is usual­ly not dele­ted by clo­sing the brow­ser, but expi­res after a cer­tain amount of time unless you manu­al­ly dele­te it.

If you dis­agree with the pro­ces­sing of your data this way, you may disable the “Goog­le Maps” ser­vice and pre­vent the trans­mis­si­on of data to Goog­le. To do this you need to disable the Java­Script fea­ture in your brow­ser. Howe­ver, plea­se note that in this case the use of “Goog­le Maps” is limi­t­ed or impossible.

Use of “Goog­le Maps” and infor­ma­ti­on obtai­ned through “Goog­le Maps” is sub­ject to the Goog­le Terms of Use https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en&gl=en

and the addi­tio­nal terms and con­di­ti­ons for “Goog­le Maps“

https://www.google.com/intl/en_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Use of You­Tube com­pon­ents with pri­va­cy-enhan­ced mode

On our web­site, we use com­pon­ents (vide­os) from the com­pa­ny You­Tube, LLC 901 Cher­ry Ave., 94066 San Bru­no, CA, a com­pa­ny of Goog­le Inc., Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Here we use the opti­on pro­vi­ded by You­Tube “pri­va­cy-enhan­ced mode”.

When you visit a page that has an embedded video, it will con­nect to the You­Tube ser­vers and dis­play the con­tent by noti­fy­ing your brow­ser on the website.

Accor­ding to You­Tube, in “pri­va­cy-enhan­ced mode” only data is trans­mit­ted to the You­Tube ser­ver, in par­ti­cu­lar which of our web pages you have visi­ted while wat­ching the video. If you are log­ged in to You­Tube at the same time, this infor­ma­ti­on will be asso­cia­ted with your account on You­Tube. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your account befo­re visi­ting our website.

Addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on about YouTube’s pri­va­cy is pro­vi­ded by Goog­le at the fol­lo­wing link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=de

Use of Goog­le Adwords

We also use the Goog­le adver­ti­sing tool “Goog­le-Adwords” to pro­mo­te our web­site. As part of this, we use the “Con­ver­si­on Track­ing” ana­ly­sis tool from Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, “Goog­le”, on our web­site. If you reach our web­site via a Goog­le ad, a coo­kie will be stored on your com­pu­ter. Coo­kies are small text files pla­ced in the memo­ry of your brow­ser. The­se so-cal­led “con­ver­si­on coo­kies” expi­re 30 days and are not used for your per­so­nal iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on. If you visit cer­tain pages on our web­site and the coo­kie has not expi­red yet, we and Goog­le may track that you cli­cked on one of our Goog­le-ads and were redi­rec­ted to our site.

The infor­ma­ti­on obtai­ned through the “con­ver­si­on coo­kies” is used by Goog­le to crea­te visi­tor sta­tis­tics for our web­site. It helps us to know the total num­ber of users who cli­cked on our ad, and which parts of our site were sub­se­quent­ly acces­sed by them. Howe­ver, we do not recei­ve any iden­ti­fy­ing information.

You can pre­vent the instal­la­ti­on of “con­ver­si­on coo­kies” by set­ting your brow­ser accor­din­gly, for exam­p­le by set­ting a brow­ser that gene­ral­ly deac­ti­va­tes the auto­ma­tic set­ting of coo­kies or spe­ci­fi­cal­ly blocks only coo­kies from the domain “googleadservices.com”.

Google’s pri­va­cy poli­cy can be found at the fol­lo­wing link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html

Use of Goog­le AdSense 

We use Goog­le AdSen­se on our web­site. Goog­le AdSen­se is a ser­vice of Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, for the inte­gra­ti­on of adver­ti­se­ments. Goog­le AdSen­se uses coo­kies, text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter and allow ana­ly­zing the use of our web­site. Goog­le AdSen­se also uses web bea­cons. With web bea­cons Goog­le is able to eva­lua­te infor­ma­ti­on, such as the visi­tors’ traf­fic on our site. This infor­ma­ti­on as well as your IP address and adver­ti­sing for­mat will be trans­mit­ted to and stored by Goog­le in the United Sta­tes and may be shared with third par­ties by Goog­le. Howe­ver, Goog­le will not match your IP address with other data it coll­ec­ted about you. You can pre­vent the instal­la­ti­on of coo­kies by set­ting your brow­ser accor­din­gly; howe­ver, in this case you may not be able to ful­ly use all func­tions of our web­site. By using our web­site, you agree to the pro­ces­sing of your data by Goog­le like descri­bed and for the pur­po­se sta­ted above.

Use of Goog­le Remarketing

We use the Goog­le Remar­ke­ting ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Goog­le Inc., 1600 Amphi­thea­ter Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA, her­ein­af­ter “Goog­le”, on our web­site. Goog­le Remar­ke­ting can show ads to peo­p­le who have alre­a­dy visi­ted our web­site in the past. Within the Goog­le ad net­work, adver­ti­se­ments adjus­ted to your inte­rests can be dis­play­ed on our site. Goog­le Remar­ke­ting uses coo­kies for that. Coo­kies are small text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter and allow ana­ly­zing the use of the web­site. This will allow us to reco­gni­ze our visi­tors as soon as they visit web­sites within Google’s adver­ti­sing net­work. In this way, within the Goog­le ad net­work, adver­ti­se­ments rela­ted to con­tent that the visi­tor pre­vious­ly visi­ted on Goog­le Network’s web pages can also be pre­sen­ted, inclu­ding the remar­ke­ting fea­ture from Goog­le. Goog­le does not coll­ect any per­so­nal data. You can disable this fea­ture if you make the appro­pria­te set­tings at https://adssettings.google.com/anonymous?sig=ACi0TCg74IMsym-f7EdD3XjNoSziTpJPHjzKqkGahLVUovR774P6KXu_Lw1qZSLZEWIM7nSj_6BvFJHL2_UBiyaRIoLg6YZifA&hl=en.

Access, recall, and dele­ti­on of your per­so­nal information

Accor­ding to the Fede­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Act you can cont­act us free of char­ge with ques­ti­ons regar­ding the coll­ec­tion, pro­ces­sing or use of your per­so­nal data and their cor­rec­tion, blo­cking, dele­ti­on or recall of a given con­sent. Plea­se note that you are entit­led to a cor­rec­tion of incor­rect data or dele­ti­on of per­so­nal data if we are not bound by legal duty to pre­ser­ve information.