Data Protection

The website at www.karvin.eu is provided by company Marek £uczak, Rudé armady 2088/29a, 73301 Karviná, Czech Republic. We are company in terms of data protection provisions. When you place an order by email or phone, we will use your information only for the purpose of processing your order. The protection of your personal details and your private sphere is important to us. All information is of course handled confidentially and collected, processed and used in compliance with Czech data protection regulations, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).


What information is collected?

It is generally possible to visit our website without having to disclose any personal details. When you make the order we request data such as name, postal address, e-mail address and, in particular when you register as a user, additional personal details that are necessary for us to provide our services.

Purpose of data collection

We process and use the personal details we collect for the sole purpose of providing our services. This includes, above all, collection, processing and use for authentication for services with restricted access.
We evaluate visits to our website pages with the assistance of Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files placed on your computer which help us to analyse how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on a server in the USA. In the event that IP anonymisation is active for this website, Google will however shorten your IP address within member states of the European Union and other signatory countries to the Treaty on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional situations. Google will use this information on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the website, to compile on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to the website operator. The IP address communicated by your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with any other data from Google. You may prevent cookies from being stored by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

What are cookies?

Pages on our website use "cookies" in various places. They serve to make our offering more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer. Session-specific cookies are deleted when you leave our website. Permanent cookies (for functions like "Remember password") remain on your computer's hard disk until they are deleted by your browser. You can prevent cookies from being installed using a corresponding setting in the browser software. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website.

Are data shared with third parties or collected by third parties?

We do not disclose or share any of the data we collect with third parties in any unauthorised way, i.e. without your consent. Excepted from this are our service partners who require the transfer of data in order to process orders (e.g. shipping companies commissioned with delivery or the bank instructed to process payment). However, the volume of data transferred in such cases is limited to the minimum required. We may nevertheless be legally obliged to disclose data.
We will obtain your explicit consent in advance in cases where we wish to use your data in any way that goes beyond what is described above.

Your rights concerning stored data

You have the right to enquire free of charge about the details we store about you at any time and have the right to have the these personal details corrected, deleted or blocked. Please contact info@karvin.eu or send us your request by post. In cases where deletion is prevented by retention periods or other reasons dictated by commercial or tax-related regulations, the data will be blocked instead of deleted.
Furthermore, you may revoke any data protection-related consent with future effect at any time. You may prohibit the use of personal data for pseudonym-based use profiles for advertising and market research purposes or for the design of offers in line with demand with future effect at any time. This may necessitate the use of so-called opt-out cookies.
As a general rule, our data privacy policy and the associated liability does not extend to referenced websites.

Security measures

We use technical and organisational measures to protect the data that we maintain on your behalf against random or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction and against access by unauthorised persons. Payment details are transmitted in encrypted form (128 bit SSL).

Social network functionality

Our website uses functionality from various social networks ("plug-ins"): • Plug-ins from Facebook • Plug-ins with a white "f" on a blue tile or a "thumbs-up" or "Like", operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").

If you call a page on our website that uses such plug-ins, your browser will connect to servers run by the plug-in operators, possibly located in the USA. We have no influence on the scope of data collected by the operators via their plug-ins. According to the information given to us, personal details such as the IP address are only collected and processed when members are logged in. Please refer to the data protection information provided by the relevant operator for details concerning the reason why and the extent to which they collect, process and use the data

• Facebook

If you are a member of one of these networks but do not wish the operator to collect data relating to you via our website and to link this with other stored data, you can take the following steps:

• Always log out completely from the network in questions before visiting other websites, and delete any related cookies;
• Hide the plug-ins using your ad blocker. You can find information on this topic here.