Data protection

Mortch Optical respects the protection of your personal data and privacy. The purpose of this data protection declaration is therefore to let you know which data is processed by Mortch Optical , on its websites listed below under the heading "Mortch Optical websites".
Your data is processed in compliance with the principles of Web data protection legislation.

Scope of data processing
We endeavour to gather as little personal data as possible. You may therefore peruse the websites of Mortch Optical without providing any personal data. If you make contact with us by online form or wish to order a catalogue, you must enter at the very least the personal data identified by a star on the corresponding forms. Prior registration is necessary to make use of personalized services, such as the shopping basket function, service desk or newsletter. On the relevant form, you will also see which data we need to obtain about you.

Personal data
By marking the compulsory check box when registering, placing an order for a catalogue or making contact by form you declare your agreement to the following use being made of your personal data by Mortch Optical :

To provide the best possible service, enquiries are processed and contacts made by the appropriate regional sister, subsidiary or distribution company of Mortch Optical, depending on the country of origin of the user. Apart from this, no personal data will be forwarded to any third parties. Any statutory obligation of disclosure is, however, reserved.

Access data
When you visit the websites of Mortch Optical, access data such as the browser type, date and time, the first 6 digits of the IP address, country and place of origin of the IP address, duration of consultation and the number of page accesses and downloads are recorded in a logfile. This data is used solely for statistical and improvement purposes and therefore do not allow for any personal identification. However, it is at any time and with future effect possible to object to the statistical evaluation of your visits to the websites of Mortch Optical.


Cookies
The cookies used by the websites of Mortch Optical do not constitute any safety risk for your computer. They do not enable any recording of individual-related or security-relevant data. The data stored in the cookies can only be retrieved by the sender of the cookies but not by third parties.

You may use the websites regardless of whether your browser settings do or do not permit the storage of cookies. Please consult the online help of the browser if you want to deactivate the storage of cookies permanently, temporarily or at every respective request of the browser.

Under the “Catalogue” heading, selected combinations are stored in a database and linked to the user by means of a temporary ID cookie. This data will be automatically deleted two hours after use.

The cookie only serves the statistical evaluation of the visits to Mortch Optical websites. A cookie will also be put into place for the permanent prevention of statistical evaluation as mentioned before under ‘access data’. This cookie can be manually removed at any time, which will however mean a loss of your personal settings.

Data security
Mortch Optical takes all the appropriate technical and organizational precautions to protect personal data as effectively as possible against loss, damage, manipulation or unauthorized access.

Right to information, deletion and withdrawal of consent
You may at any time ascertain the scope of your stored data, ask for incorrect data to be corrected, or arrange for the completion, blocking or total deletion of your data. You may also withdraw consent to particular uses of your data at any time. For this purpose, it will be sufficient to send a request to Enquiry@mortch.com. Mortch Optical reserves the right to seek proof of identity.

Consent
By making use of this website, the user hereby declares his/her agreement to the conditions set out in this data protection declaration and allows Mortch Optical to process the personal data in the manner described here for the stated purposes.
We reserve the right to amend this data protection declaration at any time. A clear reference on the website will enable you to consult any such amendments.