Privacy Policy

Introduction

Purpose

The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide you with information on how we:

• collect personal data and other information when you use this website
• use, handle and disclose collected information
• choices you have about the ways we collect and use the information

Personal data

Personal data is any information that relates to a living individual and helps identifying that individual. Examples of personal data are: name, age, address, phone number, date of birth, email, IP address, user behavior, photo or dental print.

Anonymizing

The anonymizing is changing the personal data in a way not allowing identifying you.

Data controller responsible for data processing

Pawel Idzikowski
Hans-Kalscheuer-Str. 45
51149 Cologne, Germany
info@polenter.com       (neither for support nor advertisement)
Tel. +492203 98 97 2010 (neither for support nor advertisement)
Fax. +492203 98 97 2019 (neither for support nor advertisement)

According to the art. 37 GDPR there is no data protection officer required.

Contact us

If you would like to review, correct, restrict the processing thereof, object to direct marketing, or request erasure of your personal data, please send us a request.

Pawel Idzikowski
Hans-Kalscheuer-Str. 45
51149 Cologne, Germany
privacy@polenter.com

Scope

This privacy policy applies to the following websites:

• edi-texteditor.com
• contact.polenter.com

Purpose of data processing

Your personal data is processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its contents, and the services offered there.

Scope of data processing

Your personal data is processed on servers, localized within the European Union.

Data you provide on this website (e.g. contact form or sign-in dialog) is encrypted, and cannot be tampered by malicious parties. Encrypted websites are prefixed with "https://" and marked with a lock symbol in your browser.

We don't forward your personal data to third parties, unless it's required by the law, or you gave as your consent for processing the data.

We don't use automated, individual decision-making, including profiling according to art. 22 GDPR.

Email, phone, fax

Transmission of not encrypted emails over the Internet may be a security risk and complete protection from access by third parties is not possible.

Scope

We collect only data, you voluntarily provide.

Legal basis

By providing your contact data you grant us the right to answer you, for processing your request, using the communication channel, you've provided (art. 6 par. 1 lit. b GDPR).

By providing additional information you explicitly grant your consent for processing your data in accordance with art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can always withdraw this permission for the future.

Deleting

The data will be deleted, when its processing is no more required, unless continued storage is required for evidentiary purposes.

Website

Protocol of the visited web pages

Scope

The protocol is based on log files, stored on the web server. The following data is included in the protocol:

• IP address of your computer
• Website address
• Timestamp
• Referrer URL, what page are you coming from
• Used web browser
• Current language/country
• Used operating system

Legal basis

The temporary storage of the IP address is necessary in order to deliver the website to the user’s computer.

Storing the data is required for for evidentiary purposes and law enforcement (art. 6 par. 1 lit. e GDPR). Additionally our legitimate interest lies in the stability and security of our website (art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Deleting

Your IP address is deleted or anonymized after 4 weeks. The rest of the protocol is used for the statistical analysis.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files, stored on your computer by a web server, during your visit on a web page. On the next visit of the web page, the stored cookies are provided to the web server by your web browser. Cookies are an external data storage of a web server.

Technically necessary cookies contain your settings, e.g. preferable language, content of a shopping basket, access credentials to a secured web page, or an information that you don't wish to be tracked (do-not-track-cookie).

Marketing cookies contain data concerning your user behavior on a web page. They're used to build your customer profile.

Scope

We use only the technically necessary cookies on our website.

Legal basis

Without the technically necessary cookies the functionality and usability of our website would suffer (art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Deleting

Session cookies are removed immediately after leaving out website (e.g. antiforgery cookie), the user credential cookies are removed after you sign-off. Other cookies are removed by their expiry date.

You can delete cookies in your web browser by clicking Ctrl-Shift-Delete.

It's also possible to completely disable using the cookies by your web browser, however disabling the technically necessary cookies is not recommended.

Form data

Scope

By using the form data (e.g. contact form or posting a comment), we store your IP address, your email and all information you voluntarily provide.

Legal basis

Storing the IP address and the email is necessary for evidentiary purposes and law enforcement (art. 6 par. 1 lit. e GDPR). Additionally our legitimate interest lies in the stability and security of our website (art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By providing your contact data you grant us the right to answer you, for processing your request, using the communication channel, you've provided (art. 6 par. 1 lit. b GDPR).

By providing additional information you explicitly grant your consent for processing your data in accordance with art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can always withdraw this permission for the future.

Deleting

You IP address is deleted or anonymized after 4 weeks.

The rest of your data will be deleted, when its processing is no more required, unless continued storage is required for evidentiary purposes.

External links

Our website contains links to other websites. Those websites have their own privacy policies, e.g.
Google Privacy Policy
Privacy at Microsoft

The external links are marked as follows - .

At the time of your landing on our website, there are only contents of our server presented to you. After clicking an external link, your IP address, your cookies are transmitted to the target website. Since we do not control privacy policy of third party websites, please carefully review each privacy policy posted on each external website you visit.

You can preview the URL of the target website after mouse over on the link, in your web browser.

Newsletter, advertising emails

Scope

We store your contact data to inform you about updated contents, you've subscribed.

After subscribing the newsletter we send you an email with a confirmation link (double opt-in). By clicking the link, you authorize your subscription. We collect the timestamp, your email address and your requested subscription status.

The newsletter can contain tracking links. Each tracking link is unique and it let us identify you, after you click the link. Due to the tracking links we can estimate contents, which are especially interesting to you and better fit our offer to you.

Legal basis

By subscribing to our newsletter you explicitly grant your consent for processing your data in accordance with art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR.

We log each change of the subscription status for evidentiary purposes (art. 6 par. 1 lit. f and art. 7 par. 1 GDPR).

You can always withdraw your permission concerning the newsletter subscription for the future.

Deleting

Your email address is removed from the newsletter, immediately after you unsubscribe.

The subscription protocols are removed after 3 years.

Webshop

Scope

For fulfillment of highest purchase security, we do not sell our products by ourself, but we cooperate with professional e-commerce companies.

Since we do not control privacy policy of our partners, please carefully review each privacy policy of our partner.

Our partners provide us your personal data after you purchase our product on their website. The information includes your name, address, contact, transaction details and eventually your consent for receiving a newsletter.

Legal basis

We need those informations for identifying you as our customer, for warranty, technical support, restoring the product activation keys or similar purposes (art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By requesting our newsletter you explicitly grant your consent for processing your data in accordance with art. 6 par. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can always withdraw this permission for the future.

Deleting

After purchasing a product with a lifelong update or support policy, we collect your data until you withdraw your permission to collect them. The rest of your data will be deleted, when its processing is no more required, unless continued storage is required for evidentiary purposes.

Your rights

You have the right to receive free information about your personal data, its origin and recipients as well as the purpose of data processing (art. 15 GDPR), and you have the right to correction (art. 16 GDPR), deletion (art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of use of those data (art. 18 GDPR), if applicable.

If the technological provisions allow for it, you have the right to receive your personal data in a common, machine-readable format, to be transferred directly to another data controller (art. 20 GDPR).

In some particular situations (art. 21 par. 1 GDPR), you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of data processing in the public interest (art. 6 par. 1 e GDPR), or data processing to safeguard a legitimate interest (art. 6 par. 1 f GDPR).

In case, you explicitly granted consent for processing of personal data (e.g. by subscribing a newsletter), you have the right, at any time, to revoke your consent to the future processing of those data (art. 21 par. 2 GDPR).

You have the right to report to your local supervisory authority where you feel as though your rights under data protection legislation have not been appropriately considered. However, before doing so, please contact us directly as we are committed to working with you to help resolve any concerns about your privacy.

Annotations

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy according to current technical and legal developments.

The last update was on 25 Oct 2020.