1.1 In the following, we inform you about the processing of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior. In this way, we would like to inform you about our processing operations and at the same time comply with the legal obligations.
1.2 Responsible for the data processing on this website is the SmartDeals USA Customer Support Team.
1.3 The data controller has appointed a data protection officer. He can be reached as follows by contacting us.
1.4 When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, name, and telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data accruing in this context, if the inquiry is assigned to a contract, after the time limits for the term of the contract, otherwise after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there are statutory retention obligations that exist.
1.5 If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will always carefully select and monitor these service providers and inform you in detail about the respective processes below.
You have the following rights with regard to personal data concerning you:
– Right of information,
– Right to rectification or erasure,
– Right to restriction of processing,
– Right to object to processing,
– Right to data portability.
During the informational use of the website, i.e. the mere viewing without registration and without you providing us with any other information, we process the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. The data described below is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security and must therefore be processed by us.
– Date and time at the time of access
– Amount of data transferred in bytes
– Source/ referrer from which you reached the page
– Browser used
– Operating system used
– Domain and IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– Content of the request (page visited)
– Access status/HTTP status code
– Language and version of browser software
The processing is carried out based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. A transfer or other use of the data does not take place. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use. The data is stored for 7 days.
4.1 In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested and use other usual functions to analyze or market our offers, which are presented in more detail below. For this purpose, you usually have to provide further personal data or we process such further data that we use to perform the respective services. For all data processing purposes described here, the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
4.2 In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These are carefully selected by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.
4.3 Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if participation in promotions, competitions, conclusion of contracts or similar services are offered by us together with partners. Depending on the service, your data may also be collected by the partners on their own responsibility. You will receive more information when providing your data or below in the description of the respective offers.
5.1 If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us. The permissibility of the processing of your data up to the time of your revocation remains unaffected.
5.2 Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you can object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the fulfillment of a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data in the way we have carried out. In the event of your objection, we will review the situation and either discontinue or adjust the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue the processing.
5.3 Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. The best way to exercise your advertising objection is to contact us using the contact details provided above.
6.1 In addition to the above data, we use technical aids for various functions when you use our website, in particular cookies, which can be stored on your terminal device. When you call up our website and at any time later, you have the choice of whether you generally permit the setting of cookies or which individual additional functions you would like to select. You can make changes in your browser settings or via our Consent Manager.
6.2 Cookies are text files or information in a database that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using so that certain information can flow to the entity that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer but are primarily used to make the website faster and more user-friendly. This website uses the following types of cookies, whose functionality and legal basis we will explain below:
– Transient cookies: Such cookies, especially session cookies, are automatically deleted when the browser is closed or by logging out. They contain a so-called session ID. In this way, various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session and your computer can be recognized when you return to our website.
– Persistent cookies: Such cookies are automatically deleted after a specified duration, which is set differently depending on the cookie. You can view the cookies set and the durations at any time in the settings of your browser and delete the cookies manually.
– Other technologies: These features do not rely on cookies but on similar technical mechanisms, such as Flash cookies, HTML5 objects, or an analysis of your browser settings. The result is likewise that we can use the techniques described below. Here, too, you can of course consent or object.
6.3 Mandatory functions that are technically necessary to display the website: The technical structure of the website requires that we use techniques, in particular cookies. Without these techniques, our website cannot be displayed (completely correctly) or the support functions could not be enabled. These are transient cookies that are deleted after the end of your website visit, at the latest when you close your browser. You cannot deselect these cookies if you wish to use our website.
6.4 Optional cookies when you give your consent: We set various cookies only after your consent, which you can select during your first visit to our website via the so-called cookie consent tool. The functions are only activated in the event of your consent and may serve in particular to enable us to analyze and improve visits to our website, to make it easier for you to use it via different browsers or terminal devices, to recognize you when you visit, or to serve advertising (possibly also to orient advertising to interests, to measure the effectiveness of ads, or to show interest-oriented advertising).
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined based on the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and – if relevant – additionally based on the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
If there are legal retention periods for data that is processed in the context of legal transactions or obligations similar to legal transactions, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of the contract and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part to continue storing it.
Within SmartDealsUSA, those departments will receive access to the data that need it to fulfill contractual and legal obligations.
These service providers can be:
– The service providers named in this data protection declaration, insofar as they are involved in the use of the corresponding services or another authorization basis is given (e.g. our legitimate interest in the data processing, insofar as we can base the processing on this).
– Affiliated companies, insofar as these are required for the fulfillment of the contract
– Service providers for the processing of customer service requests
– IT service providers, hosting service providers, and service providers for the operation of the IT system
– Service providers for newsletter dispatch if consent has been given.
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