**Privacy Policy for VGWBälte Website and Online Shop**
When you use our services, you entrust us with your data. In this privacy policy, we specify the data we collect, why we collect it, and how it is used.
We value your personal privacy and want to be as clear as possible about how your personal data is processed. We provide information about your rights to access your stored personal data, how you can update it, and how you can delete your personal data.
### 1. Information We Collect
By collecting information, we can improve our services for all users. We collect data that you provide and data that we receive when you use our services.
#### 1.1 Information You Provide
You need an account to use our services or purchase our products. When you register an account, we ask for personal information such as your email address, phone number, billing address, delivery address, and organization number or personal identification number.
#### 1.2 Information We Receive When You Use Our Services
We collect information about the services you use, how you use them, which products you purchase, and how much you purchase.
We collect visitor statistics using Google Analytics and display ads from Google Adsense. This means that information about how you use our services is stored on Google's servers.
##### 1.2.1 Device Information
We collect information about the specific device used (e.g., hardware model, operating system version, unique device ID, and information about mobile networks, including phone numbers).
##### 1.2.2 Log Information
When you use our services or view content provided by us, certain information is automatically collected and stored in server logs. Log data includes the following:
- Information about how you used our service, such as your search queries.
- Information about telephony, such as your phone number, the number of the calling party, forwarding numbers, call durations, SMS routing information, and call types.
- IP address.
- Information about events on your device, such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, date and time of your request, and referral address.
- Cookies that can identify your browser.
##### 1.2.3 Location Information
When you use our services, we may collect and process information about your location. We use various technologies to determine your location, including IP address, GPS, and other sensor data from your device that can inform us about nearby Wi-Fi access points and mobile towers.
##### 1.2.4 Local Storage
We may collect and store information (including personal data) locally on your device using features like browser storage (including HTML 5) and application caches.
##### 1.2.5 Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our business partners use various technologies to collect and store information when you use our services. This may involve using cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or device. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website.
### 2. How We Use the Information We Collect
The information we collect from our services is used to provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services, develop new services, and protect VGWBälte and our users.
We may use your name, email address, and public description to describe you to other users of our service, for example, when you actively contact another user or write a review.
When you contact us, we save your messages to resolve any issues you may be facing. We may use your email address to inform you about our services, for example, to tell you about upcoming changes or improvements.
The information we collect through cookies and other technologies, such as pixel tags, is used to improve the user experience and the overall quality of our services. One of the products we use for this purpose in our own services is Google Analytics. For example, by saving your language settings, we can display our services in the language you use. When we display personalized ads, we do not link identifiers from cookies or similar technologies to sensitive categories of personal data, such as those based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or health status.
If we want to use the information for purposes other than those described in this privacy policy, we will first ask for your consent.
### 3. Transparency and Choice
Different users have different views on privacy. We want to be clear about what information we collect so that you can make informed decisions about how it may be used. For example, you can:
- Choose whether your email address and name should appear in your reviews and comments.
- Access information about your stored personal data.
- Disable cookies by changing the security settings in your browser and you can also delete previously stored cookies through your browser's settings. Remember that many of our services may stop working if you disable cookies.
### 4. Information You Share
In many of our services, you can share information with others. Remember that information you share publicly may be indexed by Google and other search engines. In our services, you can choose how you want to share and remove content.
### 5. Accessing and Updating Personal Data
We want you to be able to access your personal data whenever you use our services. If the data is incorrect, we want to give you the ability to easily update or delete it, provided that the information does not need to be retained for valid business purposes or legal reasons.
We aim to keep our services in such a state that information is not accidentally or maliciously destroyed. When you delete information from our services, it may take some time before copies of the deleted information disappear from our active servers. Additionally, the information may remain in our backup systems.
### 6. Information We Share
We do not share personal data with companies, organizations, or individuals outside VGWBälte except in the following situations:
#### 6.1 With Your Consent
We share personal data with companies, organizations, or individuals outside VGWBälte if you have permitted us to do so. We must have your active consent to share sensitive personal data with others.
#### 6.2 For External Processing
We forward personal data to our affiliated companies or other trusted businesses and individuals who are tasked with processing the information on our behalf, according to our instructions, this privacy policy, and all other appropriate privacy and security measures.
#### 6.3 For Legal Reasons
We share personal data with companies, organizations, or individuals outside VGWBälte if we have good reason to believe that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such data is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or mandatory requests from authorities.
- Ensure compliance with applicable terms of use, including investigating potential violations.
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security issues, or technical problems.
- Protect against harm regarding rights, property, safety, users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
We may share data that cannot be linked to a specific individual publicly and with our partners, such as publishers, advertisers, or affiliated websites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends in how our services are used in general.
If VGWBälte were to be involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other form of sale, we will ensure the confidentiality of all personal data and notify affected users before their data is transferred or falls under another privacy policy.
### 7. Data Security
We constantly work to protect VGWBälte and our users from unauthorized access or unauthorized changes that could expose or destroy the information we hold.
- We encrypt many of our services with SSL.
- We review our data collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to protect against unauthorized access to systems.
- We limit access to personal data to our employees, suppliers, and agents who need the information to process it on our behalf. They are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet the requirements.