1. Privacy Policy
With the following information we would like to demonstrate to you,
- how we regard data protection,
- how we go about protecting personal data,
- how we utilize your data if you make them available to us in conjunction
with the services we offer (e.g. newsletters)
- that you may rescind your consent to the storing and use of your personal data at any time.
Our attitude to data protection
We take the protection of personal data very seriously and are committed to respecting the privacy of all persons using our site. We guarantee that our handling of the personal data of our site's users is in accordance with data protection and telecommunications data protection laws.
What are personal data and why do we use them?
Personal data include, for example, name, street address, e-mail address, phone number, age, gender, areas of interest, contents of shopping cart, methods of payment.
We retrieve, store and use for specific purposes - with your consent - only data we need to enable us to register you, for example, as a customer, newsletter subscriber or participant in one of our sweepstakes, to process an order or to send you information tailored to your individual interests.
Do we ever make your personal data available to third parties?
In principle we utilize your personal data only internally, within our own company. However, for the processing of some of our online services we also avail ourselves of other firms within the Universal group and affiliated partner organizations. We guarantee that we have obliged these companies to use your personal data solely according to our instructions and for the specific purpose we have determined. The possibility of further access to or use of the data by these firms is excluded. Besides that your personal data will only be passed on to third parties after having obtained your express consent.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that can be stored on the visitor's computer during visits to our website. They facilitate the use of our site and help us in recognizing you on your next visit. Cookies can thus serve to establish user profiles. They help us to attune the contents of our site even better to the needs of visitors. Our organization's cookies contain no information about you, only an identification number that has no significance outside of our online offerings.
Moreover, cookies pose no threat of harm to the visitor's system. If you prefer not to take advantage of cookies, you can disable (or reactivate) them by a simple procedure in your web browser.
No liability for links to websites of other online services
Please note that online services of other providers that are accessible through our websites and collect data in conjunction with newsletter subscriptions, etc. are individually responsible for adhering to the legal requirements pertaining to data protection and, as a rule, have their own data protection guidelines. We assume no responsibility or liability in these cases.
Your right to alter and delete stored personal data
You have the option at any time of rescinding your consent to the processing and use of your personal data or to alter your data. If you so desire, please write to us at the e-mail contact address given on the website (Impressum).
Our right to alter this data protection declaration
We reserve the right to alter this data protection declaration at any time in accordance with the currently applicable data protection regulations.
2. Conditions of Use
The following “General Conditions of Use” are valid for all applications of this online offering. Reference to supplementary conditions will be made at the relevant place. The initiator of these conditions of use reserves the right to modify them at any time. By making use of the offer the user agrees to the prevailing version of these conditions.
Content of the online offer
The Arka Design assumes no liability for the currency, correctness, completeness or quality of the information or content provided. Liability claims against the author, whether the damage is material or non-material in nature, brought about through the use or non-use of the information provided or through the use of incorrect or incomplete information, are categorically excluded, unless evidence of intent or gross negligence on the part of Arka Design is produced. All offers are subject to alteration and are made without obligation. Arka Design expressly reserves the right, without prior announcement, to change, augment or cancel portions of pages or the entire offer, or to discontinue its publication temporarily or permanently. All e-mails received by Arka Design will be dealt with confidentially, and their content – unless expressly indicated otherwise – will not be shared with any third party.
References and links
Despite exercising careful control, Arka Design hereby expressly dissociates itself from the contents of all linked or connected pages that have been modified since the link was established. This statement applies to all links and references within our own Internet offerings as well as to external entries in guest books, discussion forums or mailing lists generated by Arka Design. For any illegal, inaccurate or incomplete contents, and especially for damages arising from the use or non-use of such forms of presented information, liability is borne solely by the provider of the page in question, not by the party merely referring via links to the respective publication.
Copyright and legal protection of intellectual property
Arka Design endeavours in all its publications to respect the copyright of the graphics, sound documents, video sequence and texts it utilizes, to make use of graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts created by Arka Design itself or to have recourse to graphics, sound documents video sequences and texts that are in the public domain. All brand names occurring in the Internet offers that may fall under the protection of third parties are unconditionally subject to the applicable laws of trademark protection. The copyright in published objects produced by the Arka Design itself, such as audio and video recordings, photos and covers, is owned solely by Tom Allwood. Reproduction or use of such graphics, sound documents, video sequences or texts in any electronic or printed publications without the Label's express permission is prohibited. All sound files and covers presented on this site are protected by law.
Legal applicability of this liability disclaimer
This disclaimer of liability is to be regarded as part of the Internet offer from which the reference to this page was effected. In the event that any portions or individual provisions of this text may not, no longer or not wholly correspond to the prevailing legal position, it shall not invalidate the rest of this document which shall remain in full force and effect.