Privacy Policy
Welcome to LUKAS.com ("this Website"), a website operated by LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH. LUKAS Hydraulik is a subsidiary of the IDEX Group. References to the IDEX Group and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to with "us", "our" or the "Company" in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy sets forth our methods for recording and distributing data for this Website. Since the Company gathers data about users from many parts of this Website, we are of the opinion that one should be able to understand the Company's approach to any kinds of identifiable personal information that users may provide. Our understanding of identifiable personal information is information from which the user may be identified, including name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, employer and professional rank, without necessarily being limited to this information.
User acceptance
Any use of this Website by you clearly indicates that this Privacy Policy has been carefully read and accepted by you. Should you object to any one of these provisions in this Privacy Policy, then you should avoid using this Website.
Recorded data
In various parts of this Website, personal information may be requested, including name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, employer and professional rank, without necessarily being limited to this information. If you do not specifically and knowingly provide such information, then the Company will not record any personal information of yours.
Forms
Forms are used by this Website to get information from you that should enable us to perform a certain number of tasks, including those such as indication of literature preferences, responses to product requests or technical questions, and the processing of questions about your personal employment situation, without necessarily being limited to this information. All personal information that is gathered is exclusively intended for data storage or usage in follow-up activities. In order to effectively react to and support user requests, the Company can share your information with its partners in various business channels, such as authorised dealers and sales representatives, who are involved in the sale of the Company's products. At any time, you can demand that you no longer be contacted or receive any more follow-up mail. (See Choice/Opt-out below.)
Online surveys
The Company will occasionally request your participation in online surveys. In these surveys, you may be asked for contact information (such as your e-mail address) or for commercial and demographic information (such as your postal code or the state in which your company is situated). Contact information is used to establish contact with you, if and always when necessary with reference to the survey, unless you yourself have specifically stipulated otherwise. At any time, you can demand that you no longer be contacted or receive any more follow-up mail. (See Choice/Opt-out below.) You do not necessarily need to take part in these surveys to be able to use this Website.
Public forums
This Website uses public forums such as discussion groups and bulletin boards for the exchange of messages. Information made public in these areas can also be accessible to other visitors of this Website and if you decide to release any personal information, you should do so with due care. If a third party approaches you by e-mail after you have sent personal information to a public forum, you should not assume that the Company circulated personal information about you or that the contact was established on behalf of or with the authorisation of the Company.
Log files
Like most standard Web servers, this Website's servers generate log files which store non-personal data about your visit to this Website. These data include the duration of the visit, the pages viewed, number of visits, Internet address and provider, referring/cancelled pages and the processor architecture you used, without necessarily being limited to this information (Internet addresses etc. are not linked with identifiable personal information). The data recorded in the log files is only used by the Company for internal purposes, to analyse market trends, to manage this Website, to record user movements in the data network, and to collect a wide range of demographic data for cumulative reporting and statistical purposes.
Cookies
This Website uses "cookies" to lead you through your session. (A cookie is a file that is stored on your computer and contains data related to your use of this Website.) Cookies can also assist in recognising returning visitors, adapting and enhancing functionality and interfaces for your online visits to us, and collecting data for website visit statistics. The cookies used by this Website can contain your preferred language, your geographical region, and an individual session identification key that allows this Website to record information about your session and differentiate it from all other currently active users, without necessarily being limited to this information. It is not necessary to have cookies in your browser that are capable of gaining access to this Website and using it. However, some functions of this Website can be dependent on the availability of cookies, so that you may not have access to those functions without cookies.
Google Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer to make an analysis of your use of the website possible. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this Website (including your IP address, which is, however, anonymised with the _anonymizeIp() method before it is saved, so that it can no longer be associated with a connection) is transmitted to and stored on a server at Google in the USA. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website and to prepare reports about the website activity for the website operator, and to provide other services related to the website use and Internet use. Google may also provide this information to third parties to the extent that this is legally required or that third parties are engaged by Google to process this data. In no case will Google link your IP address with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of the cookies with an appropriate setting of your browser; however, we advise you that in this case you may not be able to use all features of the website to their full extent. By using this Website, you agree to Google's processing of the data gathered about you in the manner described above and for the purpose described above.
You can object to the gathering of the data by Google-Analytics with future effect by installing a deactivation add-on (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) for your browser.
Communication resulting from this Website
Handling of requests
The Company contacts users of this Website regularly to answer technical questions or requests for literature and product information. It is normal for the Company to contact users by e-mail, post or phone, depending on their personal preferences.
Shared use and disclosure of information
The Company will not sell, rent, share with or distribute to third parties any of your identifiable personal information that was gathered on this Website. However, it can happen that the Company uses your personal and non-personal information with its partners in various business channels, such as authorised dealers and sales representatives, who perform services or sell Company products in which you might be interested.
In addition, the Company reserves the right to use your personal and non-personal information for any lawful purposes, including improvement of the content and to create statistical representations and general presentations for internal use by the Company, its dealers, suppliers, licensees, experts, advertising staff and consultants, without necessarily being limited to these. These statistics and reports normally contain only summarised data; your personal identity remains anonymous.
Exemption of confidentiality for personal information
Although the Company strives to protect the privacy of the users, in accordance with statutory requirements it may be required to reveal personal information, including when it assumes in good faith that such action is necessary or appropriate in connection with judicial or official procedures, but also to comply with a judicial or official summons, decree or court proceeding, without necessarily being limited to these points.
Security
The Company takes preventive measures to protect your data online and offline, including secure servers, firewalls for protection against unauthorised access to the servers, and the encryption of financial data. The company also strives to maintain the reliability, precision, completeness and currentness of your personal information in its data archives. However, the Company cannot rule out the loss, misuse, unauthorised disclosure, change or destruction of your personal information.
Links
From time to time, this Website can be linked with other websites. The Company accepts no responsibility for the practices regarding protection of privacy at other websites that are not operated by the Company. As soon as you leave this Website, you should read the privacy policies of the other websites and be aware that this Privacy Policy applies for no other than this Website. This Privacy Policy only applies for data that were gathered by this Website.
Choice/Opt-out
On request, the Company will remove your personal information from this Website's data archives or delete you from any mailing lists. All such requests should be sent to webmaster@IDEXcorp.com.
Correction/Update
On request, the Company will correct or update data gathered from you. All such requests should be sent to webmaster@IDEXcorp.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Company reserves the right to modify, alter, add or remove parts of this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason, without prior notice. We encourage you to examine this Privacy Policy critically from time to time to ensure that you completely understand the extent to which changes made to it could affect you. This Privacy Policy will always be put into the Internet on this Website.
Contacting this Website
For questions about this Privacy Policy, whatever their nature, about this Website's methods or your use of it, please contact webmaster@IDEXcorp.com.
