Market Grounds is pleased about your visit to its website and your interest in our company and our products. We take the protection of your private data seriously and would like you to feel at ease while visiting our website. The protection of your privacy with the processing of your personal data is an important concern for us, which we take into account in our business processes. We process personal data, which is collected while visiting our website, in accordance with the data protection regulations of the country in which the responsible office for data processing is domiciled. Market Grounds websites may contain links to websites of other providers, to which this data protection policy does not extend.

 

Collection and processing of personal data

We you visit our website, our web servers store the name of your Internet service provider, the website from which you are visiting, the web pages that you visit with us and the date and duration of the visit, as standard. Furthermore, personal data are only stored if you provide it of your own accord, e.g. within the context of registration, a survey, a competition or to execute a contract.

 

Use and disclosure of personal data and earmarking

Market Grounds only uses your personal data for the purpose of technical administration of the website, for customer administration, for product surveys and for marketing to the respective necessary extent. Sending of personal data to government institutions and authorities only take place within the context of mandatory national legislation. Our employees, agencies and dealers are obligated by us to maintain non-disclosure.

 

Option

We intend to use your data in order to inform you about our products and services and ask you about these, if applicable. Participation in such campaigns is naturally voluntary. If you do not consent to this, you can notify us at any time, so that we can block the data accordingly. You can find further information on the respective local website.

 

Cookies

Market Grounds uses cookies in order to track the preferences of the visitors and optimally design the website accordingly. Cookies are small files that are filed temporarily on your hard drive. The information contained in cookies serves to simplify the navigation and enable a high degree of user friendliness of a website. You can naturally also view our website without cookies. Our cookies do not contain any person-specific information, so that your privacy is protected. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by selecting *do not accept cookies* in your browser settings. Please see the instructions for your browser to find out how this works in detail. However, if you do not accept any cookies, this can lead to functional limitations on our website.

 

Safety

Market Grounds uses technical and organisational security measures in order to protect the data administered by us from accidental or premeditated manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are improved continuously, in accordance with technological development.  If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, you can contact our Group Data Protection Representative, who is also available with his team in the case of information requests, suggestions or complaints. 

 

Right to information

Upon request, Market Grounds or the representative office that is responsible for you will inform you whether and which personal data about you is stored with us, as soon as possible, in written form. If you are registered as a user, we also offer you the opportunity to see the data yourself and delete or change it, as necessary. Should incorrect information be stored in spite of our efforts made for data correctness and topicality, we will correct this upon request by you.

 

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on the user’s computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about use of the website by the user will usually be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. However, in the case of activation of IP anonymisation on this website, the IP address of the user will previously be abbreviated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other Contract States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, it the full IP address transferred to a server of Google in the USA and abbreviated there. The IP anonymisation is active on this website. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information in order to evaluate the use of the website by the users, in order to compile reports about the website activities and in order to provide further services associated with website and Internet use for the website operator. The IP address sent by your browser within the context of Google Analytics will not be associated by Google with any other data.