Last Modified: November 11, 2019

By accessing or using this Website (https://www.zircoa.com) or by engaging with our sales team, you agree to the Privacy Policy as outlined below. This Privacy Policy explains when, why, and how Zircoa, Inc. (“Zircoa,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and stores personal information about persons who visit this Website and engage with our sales team. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this Website. Zircoa reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. Your use of this Website will be subject to the most current version at the time of such use. All changes are effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of the Website following updates to the Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the updated Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, please follow the instructions below in “Changing Your Privacy Preferences” and do not access or use this Website thereafter.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Data

When you engage in certain activities on this Website we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. These forms are provided for your convenience. When you elect to submit any of our forms you will be required to provide personally identifiable information or personal data. We use this information solely for the purpose(s) described in the form. You will not be contacted as a result of submitting any of these forms for any reason other than as stated on the form. Your submission of these forms is interpreted as your explicit consent to our processing of your personal data for the purposes described herein. If you require the assistance that any of our forms provide but do not wish to submit personal information online, please call our offices for assistance:

When you engage with our sales team, our team members may collect personally identifiable information or personal data about you in connection with purchase orders and sales reports for the purpose of recording your purchase history and enhancing your customer experience.

Type of Information Collected

We may collect personally identifiable information or personal data from you such as your first and last name, e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, information regarding the pages you accessed and when, and other identifying information that may be necessary in order to communicate with you and record and support your participation in the activities you select. It is completely optional for you as to whether you engage in these activities. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is mandatory for you to continue with that activity and some is voluntary. If you decline to provide information to us, or if you provide erroneous or incomplete information, it may not be possible for you to gain access to certain parts of the site or for us to respond to your inquiries.

If you choose to purchase a product from us, we or our third-party payment processors will collect your payment information. This payment information will not be used for any purpose other than processing the purchase you have made.

Use of Collected Information

Zircoa may use your information to process orders that you have submitted; to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by us to provide you with our services and products; seek your feedback or comments on the services and products we provide in order to improve those services; notify you of changes to our services; send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you with respect to Zircoa, our products, and services. Zircoa, Inc. will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information or personal data to others but may share information with our third-party service providers and vendors for purposes of completing certain tasks and providing services and products to you on our behalf. We may share your information for the purposes of administering this website, providing customer support, or transferring information in the event of a sale, merger, or consolidation of our business. When Zircoa does use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service. We may also share your information to the extent that it is required by law.

When you submit personal information to Zircoa, Inc. through this Website or through engagement with our sales team, you understand and agree that this information may be transferred across state or national boundaries and may be stored and processed in any of the countries and locations in which Zircoa, Inc., its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries and trusted vendors maintain web servers or offices, including, without limitation, the United States. You also acknowledge that in certain locations or with respect to certain activities, the collection, transferring, storage and processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted vendors of Zircoa, Inc.

International Privacy Laws

Zircoa, Inc. processes personal information both as a Processor and as a Controller as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU 2016/679). If you are visiting our Website from outside the United States, please be aware that you are sending information to the United States where our servers are located and that by using our Website and providing us with your data you are consenting to such a transfer. That information may then be transferred within the United States or back out of the United States to other countries outside of your country of residence, depending on the type of information. These countries (including the United States) may not necessarily have data protection laws as comprehensive or protective as those in your country of residence; however, our collection, storage, and use of your information will at all times continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy.

Notices

Zircoa acts as both the processor and controller where the GDPR is concerned. You may contact Zircoa directly via email at TLeitzel@Zircoa.com. You may also send a traditional letter to the address listed at the end of this policy.

Zircoa is not required to appoint a DPO under the current law, although appropriate safeguards are in place to protect or disguise all personal data in its possession.

Personal data will not be processed without explicit consent from the data subject. These data will be processed for the reasons listed above.

Zircoa may share personal data collected as outlined in the paragraph titled “Use of Collected Information” above. These recipients include, but are not limited to, Zircoa, Inc., its parent company and affiliates, and trusted vendors. These parties compliant with the GDPR to the extent that Zircoa understands it.

Subjects for which Zircoa collects personal data have the right to request access to their personal data, the purposes of the processing of their data, what categories of data Zircoa possesses, how Zircoa came to possess that data, how long Zircoa will store that data and what criteria Zircoa will use for the destruction of that data, if the data have been shared, and what safeguards were in place if the data were transmitted to a 3rd country. Data subjects have the right to request that Zircoa modify, erase, or restrict or object to the use of any of the personal data that Zircoa have on them at any time. A data subject may request that Zircoa transfer their personal data to another controller if this transfer proves to be technically feasible. These requests will be handled free of charge to the data subject.

A data subject may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if their request is not handled within 30 days of our receipt of their request.

These notices apply whether Zircoa has obtained personal data directly from the data subject, or the data were obtained from a third party.

Should a data subject choose to file a complaint they may do so by contacting the Hessian data protection officer or, if in the United States, the State Attorney General’s office for Ohio. Their contact information follows:

Anschrift / address: Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1, 65189 Wiesbaden
Postfach / PO Box 31 63, 65021 Wiesbaden
Telefon / phone: +49 (0)611 14080
Telefax: +49 (0)611 1408 - 900
E-Mail: poststelle@datenschutz.hessen.de
Internet: https://www.datenschutz.hessen.de
Address: Ohio Attorney General 30 E. Broad St., 14th Floor Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 800-282-0515
Internet: https://Ohioattorneygeneral.com/about-ag/contact

Information Retention, Protection, and Other Websites

Data submitted through this website will be retained in principal for 10 years and shall only be used for the business purposes for which it was submitted. Data collected shall be periodically reviewed for continued relevance and shall be purged when no longer relevant for the reason it was submitted.

Zircoa, Inc. recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible use and protection of your information, and has implemented appropriate physical, technical, and managerial safeguards to protect your information, but no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Zircoa, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy statements of other Websites to which we may link, and makes no representations whatsoever about other websites, including but not limited to Websites that may contain a link to, or information about Zircoa, Inc. You should examine the privacy statements posted on those third-party websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information. This Website may incorporate Google Maps and YouTube videos. If you are logged in to your Google or YouTube account and access any page on this Website containing a Google map or a YouTube video, that usage will be logged to your Google account profile and may be used by them elsewhere for purposes beyond our control. To avoid this inadvertent use, please always log out of these accounts before clicking any such features on this Website. This Website cannot control your logged-in status with Google or YouTube or other such sites and has no access to or control over that information.

Use of Cookies

With this cookie policy, the website operator informs the user of the website about the use of cookies or similar storage technologies (hereinafter referred to as "cookies") on this website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored by the web browser on the user's device for storing certain information. The next time you visit our website using the same device, the information stored in cookies will be returned to our website ("First Party Cookie") or another website to which the cookie belongs ("Third Party Cookie").

The information stored in the cookie and returned by the respective website recognizes that the user has already accessed and visited it using the web browser of their device. We use this information to optimally display the website to the user according to their preferences.

However, only the cookie itself on the terminal is identified here. Any further storage of personal data will only take place if the user gives us his explicit consent or if this storage is absolutely necessary in order to use the offered and called service.

Consent to the use of cookies

Cookies, which are not absolutely necessary to make the services available on this website, are only used after the consent. By continuing to actively use this website after the display of the cookie banner, the user consents to the use of cookies.

The cookie settings can be customized by the user at any time, for example by activating or deactivating individual cookie categories.

How the user generally deactivates or can delete cookies in his browser (including the strictly required cookies) is described under "deactivating or deleting all cookies".

Categories of used cookies

Depending on the purpose and function, we divide the cookies used by the website into the following categories:

ESSENTIAL COOKIES

Absolutely necessary cookies ensure that this website or service works properly. This means that without these cookies, this website, or the service, can not be used as intended. This type of cookie is used exclusively by the website operator (First Party Cookies) and all information stored in the cookies is only sent to this website.

The following strictly required cookies are used on our website:

Surname purpose running time
ckies_functional Opt-out for functional cookies 1 year
ckies_performance Opt-out for performance cookies 1 year
ckies_marketing Opt-out for marketing / third party / consent cookies 1 year

The use of strictly necessary cookies on this website is possible without the consent of the user. For this reason, essential cookies can not be disabled or activated individually. This feature is only available for cookies that require consent, such as Functional Cookies, Performance Cookies, and Marketing / Third Party / Approval Cookies. However, the user always has the option of generally deactivating cookies in his browser (see point "Disabling or deleting all cookies").

The legal basis for the use of the First Party Cookies is a legitimate interest (ie interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.

FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

Functional cookies allow this website, information provided, such. For example, the user name or the language selection to save and provide the user based on improved and personalized features. These cookies collect and store only anonymized information.

The following functional cookies are used on our website:

Surname purpose running time
cookielaw Has the cookie banner been clicked 1 year
shd Set when the user logs on to his Jimdo page 1 year
has_close_teaser Indicates whether the user closed a teaser so that it does not reappear session

The user can object to the use of Functional Cookies at any time by adjusting his cookie settingsaccordingly.

The legal basis for the use of functional cookies is a legitimate interest (ie interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of this website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

Performance cookies collect information about how our websites are used to improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. These cookies help us determine, for example, whether and which subpages of our website are visited and what content users are particularly interested. We record the number of visits to a page, the number of pages visited, the time spent on our website, the order of pages visited, which search terms our users have brought to us, the country, the region and, if applicable, the city of the Access, as well as the proportion of mobile devices that access our web pages.

The user of the website also has the right, for reasons that arise from his particular situation, in the processing of personal data related to him for statistical purposes gem. Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR is to be contradicted. In order to exercise these and other data subjects' rights, a data subject can turn to the contact address specified in the imprint or in the privacy policy at any time.

The following performance cookies are used on our website:

Surname purpose running time

The user of the website may at any time object to the use of performance cookies by adjusting his cookie settings accordingly.

The legal basis for the use of performance cookies is a legitimate interest (ie interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.

MARKETING / THIRD PARTY / APPROVED COOKIES

Marketing / Third Party / Approval cookies originate, among others, from external advertising companies and are used to gather information about the websites visited by the user, for B. create targeted advertising for the user.

The following marketing / third party / consent cookies are used on our website:

Surname purpose running time
_ga This Google Analytics cookie allows the user to be identified. 2 years
_gat This Google Analytics cookie allows the user to be identified. 2 years
__utma Jimdo statistics function (Google Analytics) 2 years
__utmb Jimdo statistics function (Google Analytics) 1 day
__utmc Jimdo statistics function (Google Analytics) session
__utmz Jimdo statistics function (Google Analytics) 6 months
__utmt_b Jimdo statistics function (Google Analytics) 1 day

The user can contradict the use of marketing cookies at any time by adjusting his cookie settings accordingly.

For the purposes described above, the legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is set out in Article 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. If the user has given consent to the use of cookies on the basis of a notice given by us on the website ("cookie banner"), the legality of the use is additionally governed by Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

Deactivation or deletion of all cookies

The user can set his web browser so that the storage of cookies on his device is generally prevented or he is asked each time whether he agrees to the setting of cookies. Once set cookies, the user can delete at any time. How this works is described in the help function of the respective web browser.

A general deactivation of cookies may lead to functional limitations of this website.

Privacy Policy for the web analytics service Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have activated IP anonymization. Google's IP address on this website is therefore shortened beforehand within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. 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 other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google information. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in full. You may also record the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

Information about data processing in connection with Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the person responsible for data processing on this website is located outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, then Google Analytics will be processed by Google LLC. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are hereinafter referred to as "Google."

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on the computer of the site visitor and allow an analysis of the use of the website by the site visitor. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website by the site visitor (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there.

Google Analytics is used exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()" on this website. This extension ensures anonymization of the IP address by shortening and excludes a direct personal reference. The extension truncates Google's IP address within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics within the context of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google.

On behalf of the site operator, Google will use the resulting information to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the site operator (Art. 6 (1) lit. DSGVO). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of the use of the website and the adaptation of the content. The interests of the users are adequately protected by the pseudonymization.

Google LLC. is certified according to the so-called Privacy Shield (list entry here) and ensures an adequate level of data protection on this basis. The data sent and linked to cookies, user IDs (eg user ID) or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 50 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached is done automatically once a month.

Capturing by Google Analytics can be prevented by the site visitor adjusting the cookie settings for this site. In addition, the collection and storage of the IP address and the data generated by cookies may be objected to at any time with future effect. The corresponding browser plugin can be downloaded and installed at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

The site visitor can prevent the collection by Google Analytics on this website by clicking on the following link . An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the future collection of data when visiting this website. For more information about Google's data usage, hiring and disagreement options, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and Google's Ads Ads Settings (https://adssettings. google.com/authenticated.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Our webserver automatically records certain information about each visit to the Website. This information does not track visitors, is not attributable to an individual, and is not merged with other data sources.

Other information may be collected through your use of the Website via cookies and Google Analytics. Cookies are used to collect some non-personally identifiable information such as anonymous usage data, browser and platform types and versions, and number of clicks.

The coding method we utilize with Google Analytics generates data that does not personally identify you. The code includes “anonymize_ip,” which abbreviates the IP address reported when you are visiting the Website. The abbreviated IP address prevents Google from individually identifying your visit to this Website.

Forms you submit to us may also automatically log this information as well as the date and time the form was submitted. The collected information is used to provide an overview of how and where people are accessing and using the Website in order to improve and optimize the Website and for security purposes. It is not used for any additional purpose. Under no circumstances does Zircoa, Inc. use this information to identify you personally. We reserve the right to provide aggregate data to third parties for statistical analysis. Such data will not be linked to any particular individuals or contain personally identifiable information.

Changing Your Privacy Preference

You may indicate your desire to change your privacy preferences at any time. You have the right to request access to, correct, or delete the information that Zircoa, Inc. has about you. You can contact us at any time to request access to, correct, or delete any information that Zircoa, Inc. has about you. In order to comply with your request, we may ask you to verify your identity. Please include your name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us, with as much detail as possible regarding the change you wish to make. Direct your request to the address listed in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy below.

Please note that we will acknowledge and follow any changes to your privacy preferences as of the date of the creation of this policy but may not be able to implement such changes with respect to information that Zircoa, Inc. has already used or transmitted in the past based on its reliance of your prior preferences.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to:

Zircoa, Inc.
Internet Privacy
31501 Solon Rd.,
Solon, OH 44139-3526