Privacy Policy / Information on the Use of “Cookies”

“Personal data” is information about you, i.e. information that makes it possible to identify you on the basis of one or more characteristics or features, in particular your first name and surname, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number and postal address. An e-mail address or mobile phone number can therefore also be personal data. MAGA STUDIO s.r.o. obtains, collects and uses (hereinafter “processes”) the personal data you provide to the extent necessary for the creation, performance, change or termination of a contractual, pre-contractual or quasi-contractual relationship. Such a relationship arises, for example, if you register to receive a newsletter or take part in surveys, competitions or product tests, or if you wish to receive product samples or contact us to obtain information about us and our products. In such cases we process your personal data in accordance with your requests or for the purposes for which you give us consent. You are free to decide whether to provide us with your data for the above purposes. To the extent permitted by the nature of your request, you can contact us anonymously or under a pseudonym.

When processing your request, MAGA STUDIO s.r.o. may be obliged to provide your personal data to other sister companies in the MAGA STUDIO s.r.o. group or to external suppliers in European or non-European countries. Such suppliers, who act as so-called processors or third parties, may for example be commissioned by us to deliver product samples to you, distribute advertising materials or organise competitions. MAGA STUDIO s.r.o. requires its suppliers to use your personal data only in accordance with our rules, this privacy policy and the relevant legal requirements for the processing of contractual data, i.e. Act No. 122/2013 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data.

Apart from the cases mentioned above, we do not provide your personal data to third parties, nor do we provide or make data available without your consent. However, we reserve the right to provide information about you if we are obliged to do so by law or if such provision is required of us by state authorities or other public authorities on the basis of law.

So-called social plugins (hereinafter “plugins”) of social networks, in particular the Facebook “Like” plugin, may be used on our websites. The website of the plugin provider, i.e. facebook.com, is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. For the German website facebook.de, however, the provider Facebook Ireland Limited, Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland is responsible. The plugins are generally marked with the Facebook logo.

In addition to Facebook plugins, we also use the “Google +” plugin (provider: Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) and “Twitter” (provider: Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103). The following information on Facebook plugins applies correspondingly to these two providers. Further information on the use of data by the “Google +” and “Twitter” plugins can be found at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/-privacy/ and http://twitter.com/privacy. If you visit one of our websites with a plugin, your internet browser creates a link to the Facebook servers and the information that you have visited our website will be passed to Facebook, even if you are not logged in to Facebook and regardless of whether you actually activate the plugin, i.e. click on it.

If you are logged in to your Facebook user account during your visit to our websites, Facebook may associate your visit to our websites with your user account. If you click the “Like” button, this choice will be passed to Facebook and stored there so that you can share the “Like” information with your Facebook friends. The same applies if you use the “Public”, “Share” or “Share with friends” functions available on some of our websites. We cannot influence the nature and scope of the data passed to Facebook. In addition, we do not know exactly which of your data are passed to Facebook and for what purposes Facebook uses these data. In any case, your IP address is passed on in this way and – according to Facebook – information about the website you visited, the date and time of the visit and other information about your browser. You can find more information about Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084

If you do not want Facebook to associate a visit to our websites with your Facebook user account, you must log out of your Facebook user account before visiting our websites. Further information about the collection, recording and use of your personal data by Facebook and settings to protect your personal data can be found in Facebook's privacy statement at http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

To the extent that you consent to the use of your personal data for “advertising purposes, sending offers about our activities, products and services, and market research purposes”, your personal data will be used for these purposes. We will do this only if you freely give your consent to such use, e.g. by ticking the relevant box during an advertising campaign and subsequently confirming.

We may then send you individualised advertising information about our products and services or offer you participation in promotional activities, for example competitions or tests of our products. We may contact you in the way you indicated in your consent to being contacted, for example by e-mail if you provide us with your e-mail address, or by telephone or SMS if you provide us with your landline or mobile phone number. Finally, we also use your data for the purposes of analysing and improving the functionality of our websites, our advertising and for market research.

We process and use your personal data strictly in accordance with Act No. 122/2013 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data, as amended. Our company MAGA STUDIO s.r.o. is the so-called controller in relation to personal data and is registered with the Office for Personal Data Protection. In the future you can at any time withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data free of charge, partially or completely suspend the use of your personal data, delete your personal data, request information about the personal data we process about you, or request correction, blocking or destruction of data. You do not have to do so in any specific formal way. Simply write to maga studio s.r.o., Záhradná 15, 90201 Pezinok, or contact us by e-mail specifying your request. We would like to inform you that the supervisory authority in the field of personal data protection is the Office for Personal Data Protection, based at Hraničná 12, 820 07 Bratislava 27.

On our websites we use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on the hard drive of your computer. Our cookies do not store any personal data and are not capable of identifying you as a specific or identifiable person.

a) Cookies improve the functionality of our websites

One of the reasons for using cookies is to better understand how our websites are used, so that we can improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. Cookies help us, for example, to determine whether subpages of our websites are visited, and if so which ones and what content is interesting for the user. In particular we record the number of visits to the site, the number of subpages displayed, the amount of time spent on our websites, the order of pages visited, which search terms led you to our site, the country, region and, if necessary, the city from which the visit was made, which internet browser and language you use and the percentage of mobile terminals that access our websites. The IP address of your computer, which is transmitted for technical reasons, is automatically anonymised and does not allow you to be identified in any way.

b) Cookies for targeted online advertising

We reserve the right to use the information we have obtained through cookies and anonymous analysis of the way you use the websites to display advertising for our specific products on our websites accordingly. We believe this benefits you as a user because we show you advertisements or content that we are convinced match your interests – based on your behaviour on the websites – and you see fewer randomly displayed advertisements and less content that is of no interest to you. As a company we have voluntarily subscribed to the rules set by the German Data Protection Council for Online Advertising (DDOW). The code of data protection rules we have subscribed to and further information can be found at: www.meine-cookies.org/ddow.html.

c) How to prevent “cookies” from being stored on your computer's hard drive or remove them

You can set your internet browser to prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive; it will then always ask you whether you agree to a cookie file being placed. Cookies already placed on your hard drive can be removed at any time. You will find the specific procedure in your browser's user manual. Written and visual instructions for Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome can be found at this link: http://www.meine-cookies.org/cookies_verwalten/index.html

d) Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google, Inc. (hereinafter “Google”). Google Analytics uses special “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer that enable the analysis of your behaviour on the websites. Information about your behaviour on these websites obtained through the cookie file is sent to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. We would like to emphasise that the Google Analytics service used on these websites contains the code “gat.anonymizeIp();” to guarantee anonymised recording of your IP address (so-called IP masking). Thanks to IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address is shortened by Google within the European Union and the contracting states of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is your full IP address passed to Google servers in the USA and shortened there.

Google uses this information on our behalf to analyse your behaviour on our websites in order to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet use to the website operator. Google does not combine the IP address passed to Google Analytics by your browser with other data. You can refuse the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate setting in your browser, see section 5 c) above. You can also prevent Google from recording data related to your behaviour on this website obtained through cookies (including your IP address) and from processing these data by downloading and installing this browser plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Further information on the terms of use and privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/ or http://www.google.com/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

We also use the Google Analytics service for statistical purposes in the analysis of data from AdWords and all cookies from the “DoubleClick” service. If you do not wish this, you can deactivate this service using the Ad Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb).

We have adopted technical, organisational and personnel measures to protect your data against loss, alteration or unauthorised access by third parties.

We have the right to change or update parts of this Privacy Policy without prior notice. Before using our offers, please read the Privacy Policy to stay informed of its latest changes or updates.