We, as Lumnion GmbH ("Company"), make use of various technologies, such as cookies, pixels, GIFs, etc., to improve your experience during your use or visit of our websites ("Website"), applications, or all similar online or offline platforms (all mentioned platforms shall collectively be referred to as ("Platform") offered to your use in a digital environment.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our Website. These cookies are returned to us every time you access our Website. This allows us to recognise you or makes navigating our Website easier for you, thanks to the information stored in the cookies. We do not share the information stored in the cookies with third parties without your permission. We are subject to the Data Protection Act 2018 (“Act’’) and applicable data protection laws.
With this Cookie Policy, the usage purposes for which Cookies will be collected during the use of the Platforms and how you can control these Cookies will be explained to your side.
You can opt out of using the cookies we use on our Website and in our application, change their types or functions, or add new cookies to our Website. Therefore, we reserve the right to change the provisions of this Cookie Policy at any time. Any changes made to the current Cookie Policy shall become effective when published on Website, in the application or on any platform open to the public. The latest updated information has been provided at the end of the text.
1. Method and Legal Grounds to Collect Cookies
Cookies obtained within the scope of your visit to our applications or our Website which are technically required to perform the primary functions of our Website will be collected based on the legal grounds for the legitimate interest of our Company as stated under the Act. Cookies collected for preference, statistics and marketing purposes can only be collected upon your explicit consent. You can always manage the use of cookies from the Cookie Settings section. Your collected personal data may be shared with our suppliers, but it is limited to fulfilling the purposes specified under this Cookie Policy and the applicable laws.
2. Cookie Policy
We use cookies and similar technology to collect aggregate (non-personal) information about Website usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit Website. These cookies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. These cookies are usually erased when you close your browser window. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
The cookies we use on our Website include:
Session cookies: These temporary cookies expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We use session cookies to grant our users access to content and to enable actions they must be logged in to do.
Persistent cookies: These usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire, or you manually delete them. We use persistent cookies to understand usage patterns better and improve our customers' sites. For example, we may use a persistent cookie to associate you with your user account or to remember your choices on our Website, but this only works when cookies on our Website are enabled. We do not use technology that recognises a "do not track" signal from your web browser.
Third-party cookies: We allow limited third parties to place cookies through our Website to provide us with better insights into the use of our Website or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a consumer's online activities over time and across different websites when they use our Website. We may also permit third-party service providers to place cookies through Website to perform analytic or marketing functions. For example, we use Google Analytics to assist our marketing and our Website management efforts. We do not control the use of such third-party cookies or the resulting information, and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
Your use of our Website will be deemed your consent to placing cookies on your computer or another device. If you prefer not to receive cookies through our Website, you can set your browser to either reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" websites to set them, or to accept only those cookies from those sites you are currently on. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Website and use it. Rejecting cookies will limit system performance and may even cause certain Website features to malfunction or not work. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
3. Cookies Used on Our Platforms
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Certain Cookies are imperative for our Website and application to function correctly. For example, authentication cookies activated when you log in to our Website allow your session to continue when you switch to different pages within our Website.
Security Cookies
These cookies help us detect suspicious or malicious activity on our Website and support other security features during web visits. (First Party)
Functional Cookies
These Cookies enable you to personalise the services offered on our Website by remembering your preferences and choices on Website and the application. For example, they allow us to remember your choice of language or the font size chosen while reading a text.
_ga cookie is used to identify unique users and expires after two years. (Third Party)
gat cookie - used to throttle the request rate, and it expires after one minute. If Google Analytics uses GTM, this cookie is set as _de_gtm_<property-id>. (Third Party)
_gid - used to identify the user and expires in 24 hours (Third Party)
5. How Can You Control the Use of Cookies?
The preferences of our visitors and users regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies constitute the basis for us. However, cookies must be used for the Website to operate. Furthermore, if some Cookies are turned off, certain functions of the Website may only work partially or partially.You can always manage your preferences in the "Cookie Settings" section.
Please note that using the tools might include transferring your data to recipients outside of the EEA where there is no adequate data protection under applicable laws (e.g. the USA). Also, there might not be a supervisory authority and data processing principles in that third, and data subject rights might not be provided for in the third country.
The information on how you can manage your preferences for cookies used in the Website is as follows:
Visitors can customise their preferences for cookies by changing the browser settings where they display the Website. If the browser offers this option, changing the Cookie preferences through browser settings is possible. Thus, even though it may vary depending on the possibilities provided by the browser, data subjects have the option to block the use of cookies, choose to receive notifications before the cookie has been used or disable or delete some Cookies.
While preferences may vary depending on the browser used, it is possible to find a general explanation about this issue at https://www.aboutcookies.org/. The cookie preferences may need to be adjusted separately for each device that the visitor accesses the Website.
Click here to turn off the Cookies managed by Google Analytics.
Click here to manage the personalised advertisement experience provided by Google.
Preferences regarding the cookies many companies use for advertising can be managed through Your Online Choices.
The mobile device settings menu can manage Cookies over mobile devices.
You can customise your preferences regarding cookies by changing your browser settings.
Google Analytics : https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Chrome : http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Internet Explorer : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox : http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
Opera : http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari : https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
6. User rights
To ensure complete control over your information, you have a comprehensive set of rights that you can use to manage how we process your data.
Your right to information about your data
We will provide information about the data we hold about you on request.
Your right to correct and complete your data
We will correct inaccurate information about you if you notify us accordingly. We will complete incomplete data if you inform us accordingly provided that this data is necessary for processing your data.
Your right to delete your data
We will delete the information we hold about you on request. However, some data will only be deleted subject to a defined retention period because we are required to retain the data by the Act in some cases or because we need the data to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
Your right to have your data blocked
In certain legally determined cases, we will block your data if you want us to. Blocked data is only further processed to a minimal extent.
Your right to withdraw consent
You can withdraw the consent for your data to be processed with effect for the future at any time. The legality of processing your data remains unaffected by this up to the point at which your consent is withdrawn.
Your right to object to the processing of your data
You can object to processing your data with effect for the future at any time if we are processing your data based on the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or legitimate interest. If you object, we will cease processing your data, provided there are no compelling and legitimate grounds for further processing. The processing of your data for direct marketing never constitutes compelling and legitimate grounds for us.
Your right to data portability
We can make certain information available to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format at your request.
Your right to appeal to a regulatory authority
You can lodge an appeal about data protection with a data protection authority. To do so, contact the data protection authority responsible for your residence or the data protection authority under whose jurisdiction we fall (named below).
7. Contact:
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions relating to data protection.If you have any questions relating to data protection or exercising your rights, you can use the following contact information to get in touch with our data protection officer directly:
Data Controller: Lumnion GmbH
Address: Weihenstephaner Str. 12 Macherei, 81673 München, Deutschland
E-mail: info@lumnion.com
Last Update of Cookie Policy:
09.05.2024