Privacy Notice
1.4. For the technical and functional management of the Website
We process your personal data to help you find information in a quick and easy way and to improve access to and functionality of this site.
We may process cookies, your IP-address, the internet browser you use, the visited webpages, previous/next visited websites and the duration of your visit.
We process this information for our legitimate business purposes, i.e. to better understand how our customers interact with our websites.
1.5. When you create an account with us, to administer the account
Upon your request, we can create a personal account for you to make the purchasing process easier for you. Upon creating your account, we will send you your personal login information.
We may process your name, a valid email address and any other information requested. We also process your display name, your role and your login data.
We process this information on the basis of your consent, which can be withdrawn by you at any time.
1.6. Compliance with laws and legal obligations and protection of SPARC assets and interests
We will process your personal data as appropriate or necessary (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence and including e.g. counterparty due diligence, money laundering, financing of terrorism and other crimes; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions and other applicable policies; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of yours or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
If so required, we may process your name, your contact information, your correspondence with SPARC, your use of any of our products and/or services and any other information mentioned in this Statement or otherwise provided to us by you, if such is required for one of the purposes mentioned in the previous paragraph.
We process this information on the basis of our legitimate business purposes.
2. With whom do we share your personal information?
We do not share your data with third parties other than those mentioned in this Privacy Statement.
Service providers and other external parties
We may also use third-party service providers to perform certain data processing activities on our behalf, such as information technology and related infrastructure provision, security (including identity and access management) services, and legal, financial/accounting and other similar services.
We have agreed technical, organizational and contractual measures (data processing agreements) with these third parties to ensure that your personal data is exclusively processed for the purposes mentioned above and to ensure that the data is well secured.
Only if we are required to do so by law, your personal information may be provided to supervisory agencies, fiscal authorities and investigative agencies.
3. Where do we store your personal data?
Your personal data may be processed in a country other than the one you reside in if:
a.if these countries guarantee an adequate level of protection and as such have been formally recognized by being placed on the ‘ adequate list’ of the European Commission; or
b.use is made of a model contract (eg EU Model Clauses).
4. How do we secure the data?
Your personal data are treated confidentially and we have taken technical and organizational security measures against loss or unlawful processing of this data. We use several security techniques including secure servers, firewalls and encryption, as well as physical safeguard of the locations where data are stored.
5. How long do we retain personal data?
We will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law. In the event of data which have been provided with your personal content we will keep them until we receive your request to remove such data.
6. Rights regarding personal data
You have certain rights with regard to your personal data. In accordance with the law you may have the right to request a copy of your personal data and further, where reasonably possible, have access to your personal data. You also may have the right to rectify and erase your personal data or to restrict or object to the use of your personal data. Furthermore you may have the right of data portability. In addition to that you may at any time withdraw the consent that you gave to using your personal data. Withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent before the withdrawal.
The request to exercise one or more of the above rights can be submitted in writing to the address stated at the end of this statement.
When we receive a request, depending on the nature of the request, we will first weigh up the interests and assess whether we can and must comply with the request. Then we will send an appropriate response.
If you have not received a timely reply to your request or if the request has been rejected, you can lodge complaint. Send your complaint to: [email protected].
7. Links to other websites and social media
On the Website you might find a number of links to other external websites. Although these websites are selected with care, we are not responsible for personal data processed through these websites.
8. May persons below the age of 16 provide personal data?
Persons below the age of 16 may only provide personal data to us if they have written permission of one of their parents or their legal guardian who has read this Privacy Statement.
9. Who to address with questions about your personal data?
You can ask questions about your personal data at any time by sending a request to:
SPARC GmbH
Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse 6a84034
Landshut
In order to process your request, we will require (and therefore process) your name and contact details.
If you want to exercise one of your rights we ask you to send a copy of your ID with the request. To protect your privacy, we ask you to blacken your passport photo and Citizen Service Number in this copy.
10. Cookies
Our website does use cookies. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. The data may be used at a later time to improve the performance of the website. The used data for this are anonymized.
We use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting our website. Most of the cookies used by SPARC are so-called session cookies: they will be deleted after your session automatically. SPARC also uses cookies to identify a user during a session, so the user does not have to log in on any personalized site again and again.
Other (non-SPARC) third parties may also place cookies on your device, when you visit SPARC websites. These cookies are similar to “first-party” cookies; however they originate from a different domain (non-SPARC) than the domain you are visiting.
Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that, by not accepting cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all features on this website.