Source: https://www.diamondas.com/en/data-privacy
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 00:23:12+00:00

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Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about our handling of your data.
DIAMONDAS Bvba has implemented a variety of technical and organisational measures to guarantee the best possible protection for you and your personal data.
We process and store your data only as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract and/or pre-contractual fulfilment of necessary steps with you or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 b DSGVO), for example in response to your contact request, you have given your consent to the processing of the personal data concerning you for one or more specific purposes (Art. 6 Para. 1 b DSGVO). 6 para. 1 a DSGVO), the processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of us or a third party (Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO) or the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which we as a company are subject (Aufbewahrungspflichten gem. § 257 Abs.1 Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB), § 147 Abgabenordnung (AO).
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. We only store the access data in server log files, such as the name of the file requested by you, the date and time of the request, the transferred data volume and the requesting provider. These data are evaluated exclusively to ensure trouble-free operation of the site and to improve our offer and do not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person.
All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.
In order to fulfil the contract with our customer, we may pass on your address and telephone number to third parties with your consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO) , e.g. to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery and selected by us with the greatest care so that the latter can contact you before delivery for the purpose of announcing or coordinating the delivery. We have concluded close contracts with all service providers for order processing. For reasons of security and protection of our customers, we do not provide any further information on the cash-in-transit companies here. You are welcome to contact us at any time in advance via the contact details in our imprint or at info@diamondas.com. We will be happy to answer your questions about our shipping service providers personally.
Your consent can be revoked at any time by sending a message to the contact option described above or directly to the shipping service provider. After revocation, we will delete your data provided for this purpose, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data in excess thereof, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.
We regularly inform our customers about current developments in the world of diamonds. On our website we offer you the opportunity to receive the market report of our company free of charge. The type and scope of the personal data collected can be found in the corresponding form. For registration we use the "Double-Opt-In" procedure. After the registration you will receive an automatically generated e-mail from us asking you to confirm your e-mail address. Your data will only be saved and the market report sent after authorization has been completed. We log the time of your registration, the verification of your e-mail address and your IP address.
We use the data received from you in this context only for the purpose of sending the market report on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO. The unsubscription is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided directly in the market report. If you unsubscribe from the market report, we will interpret this as a revocation of your consent and will delete all personal data provided by you upon registration.
When sending the market report, our contractual partner CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede. This service provider is a German, certified provider selected in accordance with the requirements of the Basic Data Protection Ordinance and the Federal Data Protection Act. It is strictly forbidden by contract to pass your data on to third parties and to use it for other purposes than for sending newsletters. The data protection regulations of the shipping service provider can be viewed here.
The market report contains an embedded pixel tag for the purpose of statistical evaluation (opening rate of the market report, browser used, number of views of the links contained). We use this data exclusively for the purpose of improving the market report and secure shipping and serves the expectations of our customers as well as our business interests.
We enable our customers to contact us quickly and conveniently. The forms we provide for this on the website are protected by the highest possible level of protection (256-bit Secure Sockets Layer). If you contact us via one of these forms, your data will be transmitted to us in encrypted form and stored for the purpose of processing the request and for later assignment in the event of queries. We process your data from the respective contact form on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. You can revoke this consent at any time at info@diamondas.com. Your data will remain with us until a) you request us to delete it, b) you revoke your consent or c) the purposes of data storage cease completely. Should mandatory legal retention periods exist, these shall remain unaffected. We assure you that your data will not be passed on to third parties.
If you call us at peak times, you may be redirected to an external German service provider. This service provider is a German, certified provider selected by us in accordance with the requirements of the Basic Data Protection Ordinance and the Federal Data Protection Act. This service provider has been bound to secrecy by us through the conclusion of a contract. The type of data collected results from their voluntary information (Art. 6 para. 1 a DSGVO). We collect this data for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 Para. 1 b DSGVO). These data remain with us until a) you request us to delete them, b) you revoke your consent or c) the purposes of data storage cease completely. Should mandatory legal retention periods exist, these shall remain unaffected.
DIAMONDAS processes and stores the data collected from you until the purpose for which the data was collected has been achieved. In some cases, it may also be necessary to store your data, for example to comply with higher-level laws and regulations such as, for example: Storage obligations pursuant to § 257 (1) of the German Commercial Code (HGB), § 147 of the Fiscal Code (AO).
If the purpose or one of the above-mentioned periods of the regulations and laws expires, we will irretrievably block your data from further use or delete them.
To protect against misuse of our contact forms we use in selected cases the service reCAPTCHA of the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The service includes sending your IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. The deviating data protection regulations of the company Google apply to this data.
Our site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google to display fonts uniformly. This use is necessary for a smooth and uniform presentation of our webshop and represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. When you visit our site, your browser loads the required fonts into the cache. This enables texts and fonts to be displayed correctly.
For this it is necessary that your used browser establishes a connection to the servers of Google. Google thus becomes aware that our Internet presence has been accessed via your IP address. If your browser does not support Google web fonts, a default font will be displayed.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, please visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and read Google's privacy statement: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
The Trusted Shops Trustbadge is included on this website to display our Trusted Shops seal of approval and the collected evaluations as well as to offer Trusted Shops products to buyers after an order.
This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. The Trustbadge and the services advertised with it are an offer of Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15C, 50823 Cologne.
Further personal data will only be transferred to Trusted Shops if you have consented to this, decide to use Trusted Shops products after completing an order or have already registered for use. In this case the contractual agreement between you and Trusted Shops applies.
If you have given us your express consent to this during or after your order in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO, we will use your e-mail address as a reminder to submit an evaluation of your order via the evaluation system used by us. This consent can be revoked at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below.
To find out more about the daily number of visitors to our site and for market research purposes, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LCC. Google Analytics uses "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer. The information generated about your use of this website (browser type/operating system, IP address, time of enquiry, previously visited page) is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We use IP anonymization ("_gat._anonymizeIp") on this website. The IP address is reduced prior to transmission within the Member States of the European Union or in other States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymous IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
As an alternative to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An "opt-out cookie" is stored on your terminal device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.
Google Analytics is operated by Google LLC, headquartered in the USA and certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. As a result of this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
Google Adword is a service of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA (= operating company). We use this service to serve ads in Google's search engine results for certain keywords and on the Google network. Neither we nor other customers of the operating company receive information that could identify you personally.
If you do not wish this procedure, you can, as already mentioned, prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly.
If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, blocking or deletion of data as well as revocation of consent given or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly via the contact data in our imprint or at info@diamondas.com.
Insofar as we process personal data as described above in order to protect our legitimate interests, which predominate within the scope of a balance of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing takes place for other purposes, you are only entitled to a right of objection if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.
This data protection declaration is valid (as of May 2018).

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