Data privacy

This is a service of Smart Factory (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.

Protecting your personal data during its collection, processing, and use while visiting our website is an important matter to us. We handle your personal data confidentially and according to the legal data protection regulations as well as according to this data privacy statement.

1 Collection and processing of data; when necessary, personal data

1.1 Logging of non-personal data

You can visit our website without registering yourself or furnishing personal details. With every access of a user on our website and with each access of a file, data concerning these events are automatically collected and stored in a log file. In detail, the following data are stored about each access:

• Name of the accessed file.
• Date and time of the access.
• Amount of data transferred.
• Notification of whether the access was successful.
• Description of the type of web browser used.
• Requested domain.

IP addresses are not fully recorded, but are shortened before being saved, and do not permit any identification of a particular computer. The storage exclusively supports internal system-related and statistical purposes. We use this information to continuously improve and update our website in order to increase its attractiveness.

The recorded data will not be pooled together with other data sources, in particular data which permits an association with a particular person.

1.2 Collection of personal data

Personal data such as your name, your address, telephone number, or electronic mail address are not collected unless you provide this data voluntarily; for example, in connection with a registration you wish to make, with a survey, with a prize competition, with carrying out a contract, or with a request for information.

We call your attention to the fact that transferring data in the Internet (for example, during communicating by electronic mail) is subject to security breaches. It is not possible to completely protect such data against access by third parties.

1.3 Use of personal data

Insofar as you have made personal data available to us, we use these solely for the purpose of technically administering the website and fulfilling your wishes and requests, in particular for processing a contract made with you, or for answering your inquiry.

If you have made inquiries through our contact form, the information from the contact form, including the contact data you have entered into the form, will be saved by us to process your inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions.

Forwarding, selling, or otherwise transferring your personal data to third parties does not occur; excepting that:

• This is necessary to conclude the contract. Thus it can be necessary, for example, that for product orders, your address and order data are forwarded to our suppliers.
• This is necessary for billing purposes.
• You have previously consented to it.

You have the right to revoke such an agreement anytime, effective for the future. Your personal data are deleted:

• When you revoke your agreement for their retention.
• When knowledge of the personal data is no longer necessary to fulfill the purpose achieved by their retention or their retention is illegal for other legal reasons.
• When their retention is illegal for other legal reasons.

2 Cookies and Web analysis tools

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that make it possible to save specific information related to the user on the terminal device of the user while the user uses the website. Cookies enable us to determine, in particular, the frequency of use and the number of users of web pages, to analyze website activity behaviours, and to design our offering in a more customer-friendly manner.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” These cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain saved on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.

If you do not wish that we recognize information about your computer, please configure your browser so that it deletes cookies from your computer’s hard drive, blocks all cookies, or warns you before a cookie is saved. However, in those cases, not all functions of this website may be available to you.

If you leave our website through a link or through clicking possible banner advertising, and reach the site of a third party, it can happen that the addressee of the clicked-on target site sets cookies. We are not legally responsible for these cookies. Please refer to the privacy policies of those third parties concerning the use of such cookies and the information recorded in them through our advertising partners.