This privacy statement was last changed on September 10, 2021, last checked on January 12, 2022, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States.
In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you through https://option.news. We recommend that you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:
- we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
- we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
- we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
- we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
- we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted at your request.
If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep or you, please contact us.
1. Purpose and categories of data
We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following: (click to expand)
1.1 Contact - Through phone, mail, email and / or webforms
1.1 Contact - Through phone, mail, email and / or webforms
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- Account name or alias
- A home or other physical address, including street name and name or a city or town
- An email address
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.2 Registering an account
1.2 Registering an account
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- Account name or alias
- A home or other physical address, including street name and name or a city or town
- An email address
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
- Photos
- Social media accounts
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.3 Newsletters
1.3 Newsletters
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- Account name or alias
- A home or other physical address, including street name and name or a city or town
- An email address
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
- Geolocation data
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.4 To be able to comply with legal obligations
1.4 To be able to comply with legal obligations
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- Account name or alias
- A home or other physical address, including street name and name or a city or town
- An email address
- Geolocation data
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
1.5 Compiling and analyzing statistics for website improvement.
1.5 Compiling and analyzing statistics for website improvement.
The following categories of data are collected
- A first and last name
- Account name or alias
- An email address
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
- Geolocation data
- Social media accounts
Retention period
We retain this data until the service is terminated.
2.Disclosure practices
We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.
3. How we respond to Do Not Track signals & Global Privacy Control
Our website responds to and supports the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to us in the HTTP request header, and we will not track your browsing behavior.
4. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our website Cookie Policy (US) webpage.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google.
Google may not use the data for any other Google services.
The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.
5. Security
We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.
6. Third party websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties will handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.
7. Amendments to this privacy statement
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you regularly consult this privacy statement in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will inform you wherever possible.
8. Accessing and modifying your data
If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always state clearly who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data or the wrong person. We will provide the requested information only upon receipt or a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us using the information below. You have the following rights:
8.1 You have the following rights with respect to your personal data
- You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you.
- You may object to the processing.
- You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
- You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.
8.2 Supplements
This section, which supplements the rest of this Privacy Statement, applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of California (DNSMPI and CPRA)
California
California
Right to know what personal information is being collected about you
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:
- The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
- The categories of sources from which the personal information has been collected.
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer's personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:
- The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
- The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
- The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer who has collected the business from the consumer.
A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer's personal information from subdivision (a) or this section shall delete the consumer's personal information from its records and directly any service providers to delete the consumer's personal information from their records.
A business or service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer's request to delete the consumer's personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer's personal information in order to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business's ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) or Title 12 or Part 2 or the Penal Code.
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses' deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research , if the consumer has provided informed consent.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer's relationship with the business.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Otherwise use the consumer's personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
Right to opt out
You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.
financial incentives
Selling personal data to third parties
We have not sold consumers' personal data in the preceding 12 months
A list of the categories we have disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months:
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
9.Children
Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intention to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We therefore request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.
10.Contact details
Helmut Melzer, Option Medien e.U.
Johannes de La Salle Gasse 12, A-1210 Vienna, Austria
Austria
Website: https://option.news
Email: ta.noitpoeid@eciffo
Suggestions and Complaints
WooCommerce
This example shows basic information about what personal information your store collects, stores, shares, and who might have access to that information. Depending on the enabled settings and the additional plugins used, the specific information that your store uses will differ. We recommend legal advice to clarify what information your privacy policy should contain.
What we collect and save
As you visit our website, we record:- Featured Products: Here are some products you have recently viewed.
- Location, IP address and browser type: We use this for purposes such as estimating taxes and shipping costs
- Shipping address: We will ask you to indicate this, for example to determine the shipping costs before you place an order, and to be able to send you the order.
Note: You should supplement your cookie policy with more details and link to this area here.
- Sending information about your account and order
- Answer to your inquiries, including refunds and complaints
- Processing of payment transactions and prevention of fraud
- Set up your account for our shop
- Compliance with all legal obligations, such as tax calculation
- Improvement of our shop offers
- Send marketing messages if you would like to receive them
Who from our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide to us. For example, both administrators and shop managers can access:- Ordering information such as purchased products, the time of purchase and the shipping address and
- Customer information such as your name, e-mail address, and billing and shipping information.
What we share with others
In this section you should list to whom and for what purpose you pass on data. This may include, but is not limited to, analytics, marketing, payment gateways, shipping providers, and third-party items.
Payments
In this subsection, you should list which external payment processors process the payments in your shop, as they can process customer data. We use PayPal as an example, but if you do not use PayPal, you should remove it.
WooCommerce
This example shows basic information about what personal information your store collects, stores, shares, and who might have access to that information. Depending on the enabled settings and the additional plugins used, the specific information that your store uses will differ. We recommend legal advice to clarify what information your privacy policy should contain.
We collect information about you during the ordering process in our shop.What we collect and save
As you visit our website, we record:- Featured Products: Here are some products you have recently viewed.
- Location, IP address and browser type: We use this for purposes such as estimating taxes and shipping costs
- Shipping address: We will ask you to indicate this, for example to determine the shipping costs before you place an order, and to be able to send you the order.
Note: You should supplement your cookie policy with more details and link to this area here.
When you shop with us, we will ask you to provide information such as your name, billing and shipping address, e-mail address and phone number, credit card details / payment details, and optional account information such as username and password. We use this information for the following purposes:- Sending information about your account and order
- Answer to your inquiries, including refunds and complaints
- Processing of payment transactions and prevention of fraud
- Set up your account for our shop
- Compliance with all legal obligations, such as tax calculation
- Improvement of our shop offers
- Send marketing messages if you would like to receive them
Who from our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide to us. For example, both administrators and shop managers can access:- Ordering information such as purchased products, the time of purchase and the shipping address and
- Customer information such as your name, e-mail address, and billing and shipping information.
What we share with others
In this section you should list to whom and for what purpose you pass on data. This may include, but is not limited to, analytics, marketing, payment gateways, shipping providers, and third-party items.
We share information with third parties that help us to offer you our orders and services. For example -Payments
In this subsection, you should list which external payment processors process the payments in your shop, as they can process customer data. We use PayPal as an example, but if you do not use PayPal, you should remove it.
We accept payments with PayPal. When processing the payment, some of your data will be passed on to PayPal. Only information required for processing or carrying out the payment is passed on, such as the total purchase price and payment information. Here you can get the PayPal Privacy Policy look at.