Privacy Statement
of
STRONG Ges.m.b.H.
Teinfaltstraße 8/4.Stock
A- 1010 Vienna
Austria
registered in Vienna at Commercial Court, FN 248817 h
Dated 1st October 2019
a. STRONG Ges.m.b.H. is providing every effort to keep the number of required data of our clients, customers and suppliers to a minimum and to use it only for intended purposes agreed upon with the subject or for mutual fulfilment of the contract.
b. STRONG Ges.m.b.H. expressly points out that the data provided by the client, customers and / or suppliers are stored electronically as long as this is required by law.
c. The personal data such as name, title, address, telephone and fax numbers and other information required for addressing, resulting from modern communication techniques (e.g.: email address or website), delivery and billing addresses, commercial register data, the VAT number, the subject of the service and the corresponding data of the respective contact persons and authorized signatories of the client, customers and / or suppliers as well as granted credit limits and any reminders are processed and stored by STRONG Ges.m.b.H. for the purpose of accounting and logistics until the expiry of the warranty, statute of limitations and statutory retention period, beyond until the termination of possible legal disputes.
d. The necessary data for the fulfilment of the order and the contract can be forwarded to our logistics partners, customer service partners, tax consultants, fiscal representatives, auditors, banks and credit insurers as well as in the course of web shop orders to our payment service provider.
e. For orders via our web shop, the payment process takes place via a payment service provider. STRONG Ges.m.b.H. therefore does not receive or store any credit card or other bank details. However, in order to complete the order after completing the payment process, STRONG Ges.m.b.H. is using HTTP cookies which are stored on your computer.
f. If authorities or courts expressly request relevant data from our clients, customers and / or suppliers and this request complies with the relevant statutory laws, we have to forward the requested data, too.
g. In addition, it should be noted that within the Group our parent companies may have access to data of clients, customers and / or suppliers for controlling purposes only.
h. In case STRONG Ges.m.b.H. has to forward the data of our clients, customers and / or suppliers to collection agencies, lawyers and the responsible judicial bodies for the purpose of collecting our claims, this forwarding is justified according Art. 6 Para. 1(f) GDPR pursuing our legitimate interests.
i. After his or her explicit consent STRONG Ges.m.b.H. will use the data of clients, customers and / or suppliers only for sending of marketing materials, product support or other service information. In addition, our business partners are only mentioned as such to other customers, media and other third parties when clients, customers and / or suppliers have explicitly agreed to it beforehand. However, consent to the above points may be objected in writing (for example by email) at any time.
j. We would like to outline in particular that all devices which are connected to the Internet, like but not limited to Smart TVs or Receivers with OTT functionalities, might store also the Device ID, the IP address and MAC address as well as further information about the device itself and its configuration. Our service partners or third parties applications which you install might use the IP address and MAC address, Device-ID, the version of the operation system of the device, client type of your device and in case of a TV set its panel resolution, the project ID (i.e. information regarding configuration files), time zone, country and language settings in order to provide your device access to their services or to services provided by content partners. Purpose of that is to provide location-based services to you; to avoid abuse, to manage security incidents, monitor the availability of services, and to provide backup services of user preferences.
k. Please be aware that whenever you turn on a Smart TV or a device, which is connected to the Internet, the services which were installed by our service partners and/or third party applications installed by you, might automatically connect to the corresponding service providers. Your device will then be authenticated as being certified for access to the services. It may be that services of our service partners or your installed third party applications store one or more unique numeric identifiers or small text files (so called “Cookies”) related to your device for authentication purposes.
l. Clients, customers and / or suppliers are obliged to announce changes of their residential or business address as well as changes of contact persons to STRONG Ges.m.b.H., as long as the contractual transaction is not completely mutually fulfilled. If the information is omitted, statements shall be deemed as received even if they were sent to the last known address or the last known contact person.
m. Of course, a natural person is also entitled after clear identification of her or his identity to view her or his personal data stored and processed by STRONG Ges.m.b.H., to cause changes in his or her data, to learn the source of this data, as long as this information does not violate any rights deserving protection of any third parties, and to determine the erasure of her or his own data, if this does not contradict any statutory storage requirements.
n. STRONG Ges.m.b.H. takes all technically and economically reasonable measures to protect stored data against any unauthorized access. Insofar as STRONG Ges.m.b.H. is not intentionally or grossly negligent disregarding their care, the assertion of claims for damages of legal persons is excluded.