Privacy Policy of Core Botanica
Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in our company. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We process your data in accordance with applicable personal data protection legislation, which may include the EU-GDPR in case you are an EU-data-subject or where we are having personal data processed by EU-data processors. Hereby, we inform you about the processing of your personal data by the Core Botanica LLC (Core Botanica) and your rights as a data subject under the EU-GDPR.
Personal data is any information that makes it possible to identify a natural person. This includes, in particular, your name, date of birth, address, telephone number, email address and IP address. Anonymous data is available if no personal reference to the individual/user can be made.
Responsible body and data protection officer
Core Botanica LLC
5549 Lone Pine Rd
Terrebonne, OREGON 97760
Company’s contact information
+1 877 680 51 81
smeiers@corebotanca.com
Contact info of the data protection officer
datenschutz@martin.bauer.group.com
Your rights as a data subject
Your rights as a data subject are set out in Articles 15 - 22 EU-GDPR, and include the right of access, to rectification, data portability objection against data processing, erasure / right to be forgotten, as well as the right of restriction of data processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact: datenschutz@martin.bauer.group.com The same applies if you have any questions regarding data processing in our company or when you withdraw your consent. You also have a right of appeal to the relevant data protection supervisory authority.
Purposes and legal bases of data processing
The processing of your personal data complies with the provisions of the EU-GDPR and all other applicable data protection regulations. Legal bases for data processing arise in particular from Art. 6 EU-GDPR.
We use your data to initiate business, to fulfil contractual and legal obligations, to conduct the contractual relationship, to offer products and services and to consolidate customer relationships.
Your consent also may constitute a legal basis for data processing. Whenever we should ask for your consent, we will inform you of the purposes of data processing and the right to withdraw your consent. If the consent also relates to the processing of special categories of personal data, we will explicitly notify you in the consent process.
Processing of special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 I EU-GDPR (that is data on racial and ethnical origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical belief, union membership, biometric and genetic data allowing to identify you as an individual person, as well as data on your health, sexuality or sexual orientation) may only take place where necessary on the grounds of legal regulations and there is no reason to assume that your legitimate interests should prevail to the exclusion of processing such data.
Data transfers / Disclosure to third parties
We will only transmit your data to third parties within the scope of given statutory provisions or based on consent. In all other cases, information will not be transferred to third parties unless we are obliged to do so owing to mandatory legal regulations (disclosure to external bodies, including the competent supervisory authorities or law enforcement authorities).
Data recipients / categories of recipients
Within our organisation, we ensure that only individuals who are required to process the relevant data to fulfil their contractual and legal obligations are authorised to handle personal data. Within our corporate group your data can be transferred for service hosting purposes.
In certain cases, service providers assist our specialist departments to fulfil their tasks. The necessary data protection contracts have been concluded with all service providers.
Transfers of personal data to other countries
A transfer of data to other countries (outside the US) shall only take place if required by law or if you have provided your consent for such a transfer We transfer your personal data to service providers and corporate group companies located in Germany and therefore inside the European Union.
Period of data storage
We store your data for as long as such is required for the relevant processing purposes. Please note that numerous retention statutory periods require that data must be stored for a specific period of time. This relates in particular to retention obligations for commercial or fiscal purposes (e.g. commercial code, tax code, etc.). The data will be routinely deleted after use unless a further period of retention is required. We may also retain data if you have given us your permission to do so, or in the event of any legal disputes and we use the evidence within the statutory limitation period.
Secure transfer of data
We implement the appropriate technical and organisational security measures to ensure the optimum protection of your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised parties. The measures are continuously reviewed in cooperation with security experts and adapted to current security standards.
The data exchange to and from our website is encrypted. We provide https as a transfer protocol for our website and always use the current encryption. You may use alternative communication channels (e.g. surface mail).
Obligation to provide data
A range of personal data is required to establish, implement and terminate the obligation and the fulfilment of contractual and legal obligations. The same applies to the use of our website and the various functions it provides. In some cases, legal regulations require data to be collected or made available. Please note that it will not be possible to process your request or execute the underlying contractual obligation without the respectively required information.
Data categories, sources and origin of data
The data we process is defined by the relevant context: it depends on whether, for example, you are just surfing our website or enter a request into our contact form.
Please note that from time to time we may also provide information for specific processing situations separately where appropriate.
We collect and process the following data when you visit our website:
• Name of the Internet service provider
• Web browser and operating system used
• Information on the website from which you visited us
• The IP address by your allocated Internet service provider
• Files accessed, volume of data transferred, downloads/file export
• Information on websites accessed on our site, including date and time
For reasons of technical security (in particular concerning the prevention of attacks of our web server), this data is stored in accordance with Article 6 I 1 f EU-GDPR basing on our legitimate interest in operating our website technically safe and secure. Anonymization takes place no later than after seven days by abbreviating the IP address so that no reference is made to the user.
Concerning a contact request, we may process the following data:
• Name, surname, salutation
• Contact information,
• Your request
Contact form / Contact via email (Article 6 I 1 a, b EU-GDPR)
If you make use of our contact form, we will process the data you submit to reply to your request.
Here, we comply with the principle of data minimisation, as you only have to provide the information we require to contact you, which is your email address and the message itself. Your IP address will also be processed for technical and legal reasons. All possible further data may be provided on a voluntary basis.
If you contact us by email, we will process the personal information provided in the email solely for the purpose of processing your request.
Please keep in mind, that for handling your request, your personal data is processed byour corporate service provider in Germany.
Automated decisions in individual cases
We do not use fully automated processing to take decisions.
Cookies
Our website uses “cookies” for purposes of making it more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device and stored by your browser (locally on your hard disk).
Depending on their individual nature, cookies may enable us to analyse how users use our websites so we can design the website content in accordance with the visitor’s needs or may allow us to measure the effectiveness of a particular ad and, for example, to place it based on the user's interests. The legal basis for our use of cookies to operate the website technically and secure is our legitimate interest herein, Art. 6 I 1 f EU-GDPR.
Most of the cookies we use are "session cookies", which will be automatically deleted after your visit. “Persistent cookies”, which are representing another category of cookies, are automatically deleted from your computer as soon as their individual period of validity has expired or upon deletion, which you may execute even beforehand of expiry.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You may generally change your browser's settings to disable the automated accepting of cookie. Such, however, may influence the usability of our website I general or at least in regard of certain functions.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater, Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the EU or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the EEA. The full IP address will only be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
We allow to mention, that Google Analytics has been expanded to include IP anonymization on this website in order to ensure the anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). The IP address transferred by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent cookies from being stored by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we allow to mention that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by using the browser add-on available under the following link. Download and install on. The current link is http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Links to other providers
Our website may contain links to the Internet sites of other parties. We may, however, not influence such content and do not accept any liability for such third-party content. The content of these pages is always within the sole responsibility of the third party offering the service or content.
Any pages linked are checked for potential legal violations and identifiable infringements before being linked. We are executing whatsoever legally required checks of content we are linking and will immediately respond to any notification on infringements by taking down the respective link(s).