Terms of Use for Website Best4Tires

Welcome to the Best4Tires website (“Website”). This Website and its contents are property of and managed by Best4Tires GmbH (“B4T”) whose principal office is at Rathausstraße 52-58, 56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen – registration number HRB 12794. 

Applicability

These terms and conditions of use ("Terms of Use") apply to your visits to and your use of the Website, as well as to all information, recommendations and/or services provided to you on or through this Website (the "Information").

By accessing and using this Website you agree to the applicability of our Terms of Use. These Terms of Use can at all times be changed or otherwise amended by B4T. The changed or amended Terms of Use enter into force at the moment of publication on this Website. Users of the Website are advised to regularly read the Terms of Use for possible changes. 

These Terms of Use were last changed on 09 March 2022. 

Information and Liability

The Information is for general information purposes only and does not constitute advice. B4T will make reasonable efforts to keep the Information on this Website accurate and up to date but does not guarantee that the Website and the Information or both is free of errors, defects, malware and viruses or that the Website and/or Information is accurate and up to date. 

B4T shall not be liable for any damages resulting from the use of (or inability to use) the Website, including damage caused by malware, viruses or any incorrectness or incompleteness of the Information or the Website, unless such damage is the result of any willful misconduct or from gross negligence on the part of B4T.

B4T shall further not be liable for damages resulting from the use of (or inability to use) electronic means of communication whether or not relating to the Website, including – but not limited to – damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses.

Privacy Statement

Personal data provided or collected through or in connection with this Website shall only be used in accordance with the Privacy Statement Best4Tires. The Terms of Use shall be subject to the Privacy Statement Best4Tires as posted on this Website. 

Linked Sites

This website may provide links to external internet sites. B4T   shall not be liable for the use or the content of internet sites that link to this site or which are linked from it. The Privacy Statement Best4Tires does not apply to any collection and processing of your personal data on or through such external sites. 

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise indicated, all rights to this Website and the Information, including copyright and other intellectual property rights, are owned by B4T. Users are permitted to read the Website and the Information and make copies for their own personal use, for example by printing or storing it. All other use of Website or the Information, for example the storage or reproduction of (a part of) the Website in any external internet site or the creation of links, hypertext links or deep links between the Website and any other internet site or any other use, is prohibited without the express written consent of B4T. 

"Best4Tires®", and all other trademarks figuring on this Website are registered trademarks of B4T or any of its affiliates and/or subsidiaries. 

Unsolicited Ideas

In the event you post unsolicited ideas and/or materials whether consisting of texts, images, sounds, software, information or otherwise (the " Materials") on this Website or send these to B4T by e-mail or otherwise, B4T shall be entitled to use, copy and/or commercially exploit such Materials to the fullest extent and free of charge and B4T shall not be bound by any confidentiality obligation in respect of such Materials. 

You hereby indemnify and hold B4T harmless from and against all actions, claims and liabilities, suffered, incurred or sustained by B4T as a result of the use and/or exploitation of the Materials infringing the (intellectual property) rights of any third party or otherwise being unlawful towards a third party. 

Severability

In the event that any provision of these Terms of Use or the application thereof becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect and the application of such provision shall be interpreted so as reasonably to effect the intent of the Parties hereto. The Parties further agree to replace such void or unenforceable provision of these Terms of Use with a valid and enforceable provision that shall achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such void or unenforceable provision.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be exclusively governed by the laws of Germany. All disputes arising in connection with these Terms of Use, including disputes concerning the existence and validity thereof, shall be submitted to the competent courts of Neuwied, Germany unless binding statutory requirements specify otherwise.

Privacy Statement Best4Tires

Scope

This Privacy Statement Best4Tires governs the collection, use and other forms of processing of personal data by Best4Tires GmbH (“B4T”) related to our services, our RBest4Tires products and this website. 

Who is responsible for collecting and processing of your personal data?

B4T (Rathausstraße 52-58, 56203 Höhr-Grenzhausen, Deutschland) is the legal entity responsible for all collection and all processing of your personal data in connection with the products, services and websites of Best4Tires. 

B4T is committed to respect and safeguard your privacy and the security of your personal data.

Why do we collect your personal data?

When you choose to register your personal data, contact us, or visit our websites, we will collect some personal data about you. We may process these personal data for the following purposes:

1. communicate with you in a personal way or to inform you about Best4Tires products or services; 

2. provide customer service, including service around the purchase of services and products, fulfil warranty obligations and product recalls for our own services and those of related companies, and to deal with any enquiries or complaints;

3. administer and fulfil your purchases of Best4Tires products including the financial and logistic handling; 

4. administer your account;

5. administer your participation in any contests, promotions, surveys or website features;

6. perform market research and improve our business, services and Best4Tires products; 

7. perform statistical analyses and reporting;

8. providing services on the Internet;

9. communicating with participants and offering a loyalty program;

10. provide app functionality, including providing relevant commercial messages;

11. to communicate future promotional and marketing information including direct marketing purposes and retargeting;

12. to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements;

13. as otherwise stated at or about the time information is collected.

Which personal data we collect?

Which personal data we exactly collect, depends on the which websites, products or services you use. In general there are three categories of personal data we collect or use:

How do we collect your personal data?

In the table below we describe per way of collecting the categories of personal data that are collected and the purposes for which we process the personal data:

If you choose to provide your personal data on one of the above ways and provide your explicit consent or visit our websites and accepts the cookies you authorize B4T and its service providers to collect, store, use, disclose, and otherwise process your personal data in connection with the purposes as described above. 

You have the right to withdraw your consent which you may have given to the processing of your personal data at any time.

How do we share or transfer your personal data?

B4T may share your personal data with third party service providers to perform certain processing activities on behalf of B4T. B4T requires these service providers to process and protect your personal data diligently. Other than set out in this statement, B4T will not sell, rent, lease, or provide your personal data to third parties allowing them to use your personal data for their own purposes.

B4T might sell (part of) a business company to another company. Where such business relates to Best4Tires, such transfer of ownership may include the transfer of your personal data to the new owner. 

We will otherwise only release your personal data if so required or authorized by law, where necessary for preventing or combating fraud, where necessary for dispute resolution, or for any other pressing legitimate need which under the circumstances must outweigh your privacy interests, such as the security of our business and the safety of our staff.

How do we protect your personal data?

B4T will take appropriate technical and organizational security measures against loss or unlawful processing of this data. This may include using secure registration forms, encryption of data, and restricting access to your personal data. 

Please note that some third countries do not provide for an adequate level of protection for your personal data. However, you can be assured that B4T will take appropriate safeguards for the confidentiality and protection of your data. 

How long do we retain your personal data?

After you opt out or delete your account, your personal data will be deleted within a reasonable timeframe. We have a retention policy in place and will only retain the personal data to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Cookies, web beacons and similar techniques

If you are using our websites, services, applications, communications (including email) and accessing or using tools, we may use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies for storing information to provide you with a better, faster and safer browser experience.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy Best4Tires for the explanation of cookies, web beacons and similar techniques, how we use these techniques and how you can control these techniques.

Children

We strongly recommend that parents take an active role in supervising the online activity of their children under the age of sixteen. B4T generally does not intend to collect personal data from and/or generally does not intentionally communicate with children. However, in case we need to communicate with a child, we will endeavour to give the parents or legal guardians a reasonable opportunity to consent before we use the personal data of the child, except where we merely answer the child’s question or service the child’s request. 

Policy changes

We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. We will inform you when we update the Privacy Statement but we also encourage you to take notice of this policy regularly. This policy was last modified on 09 March 2022. 

Your rights

Furthermore, you can at all times request information on the personal data stored about you, their origin, recipients or type of recipients to whom the data are provided, as well as the purpose of the storage and may have the right to request rectification, blocking and/or deletion of your data. For these purposes you can contact us via the below mentioned email address.

Questions and feedback

Please send us your questions and comments about privacy to privacy@reifengundlach.de  

Best4Tires Cookie Policy

Scope

This Website is offered to you by Best4Tires GmbH (“B4T”). B4T aims to make your online experience and interaction with our websites as informative, relevant and supportive as possible. One way of achieving this is to use cookies, web beacons or similar techniques, which store information about your visit to our site on your computer. We feel that it is very important that you know what cookies our website uses and for what purposes. This will help protect your privacy, while ensuring our website's user-friendliness as much as possible. Below you can read more about the techniques used by and via our website and the purposes for which they are used. This is only a statement about privacy and our use of website techniques and is not a contract or agreement. 

What are cookies, web beacons and similar techniques?

A cookie is a tiny data file, which is stored on your computer within the web browser, when certain web pages are visited. A cookie does not contain or collect information in isolation, but when read by a server via a web browser; it can give information to facilitate a more user friendly service such as detecting errors. We do not retain a cookie longer than necessary.

Web beacons are small graphic images (also called "pixel tags" called or "clear POISON's") that may be installed on or in our websites, communication services, applications and other used tools. Web beacons are used for different purposes, including measuring performance of our websites, tracking the number of visitors to our web sites and how to navigate it accordingly.

Under similar techniques for storing information we understand other technologies that store information on your browser or device and that use local shared objects or local storage. Examples include flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods.

For simplicity, we use the term cookie in our policy to cover the total scope of cookies, web beacons and similar techniques.

To use our website fully, you will need to have cookies enabled. If you do not wish to enable cookies, you can still browse the site; however certain features of the site may be limited.

This information is outlined as part of our efforts to comply with recent legislation and to ensure that we are open, honest and clear about cookies and privacy. Please refer to our Best4Tires Privacy Policy for more information about privacy.

How do we use cookies?

You may notice the presence of different types of cookies generated on your visit to this website. We use the following types of cookies:

• Functional cookies;

• Analytical cookies;

Functional cookies

These cookies are necessary to make it possible to surf the website(s) of B4T and use the website's functions, such as accessing protected areas of the website. Without these cookies, such functions, including shopping baskets and electronic payment, are not possible. 

We might use these cookies for:

• Authentication of users for a secured login;

= Remembering products that you add to your shopping basket during online purchasing;

= Remembering information that you fill in on the various pages when paying or ordering so that you don't have to fill in all your details repeatedly;

= Passing on information from one page to the next, for instance if a long survey is being filled in or if you need to fill in a large number of details for an online order;

= Storing preferences such as language, location, the number of search results to be displayed etc;

= Storing settings for optimal video display, such as buffer size and your screen's resolution details;

= Reading your browser settings so that we can display our website optimally on your screen;

= Locating misuse of our website and services, for example by recording several consecutive failed log-in attempts;

= Loading the website evenly so that it remains accessible;

= Offering the option of storing log-in details so that you don't have to enter them every time;

= Making it possible to place a reaction on our website.

Analytical cookies

These cookies gather information about the surfing behavior of visitors to our websites, such as which pages are visited often and whether visitors receive error messages. By doing this we are able to make the structure, navigation and content of the website as user-friendly as possible for you. We do not link the statistics and other reports to individuals.

We might use these cookies for:

= Keeping track of the number of visitors to our web pages;

= Keeping track of the length of time that each visitor spends on our web pages;

= Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages on our website;

= Assessing which parts of our site need to be improved;

• Optimizing the website.

We might use software like Google Analytics to analyze page use, page interactions and the routes taken through our sites. These are known as "website metrics" or ‘analytics’.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service that is offered by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze the usage of the website by Users. Google uses aggregated statistical data to give B4T an insight in the way Users use the website. Based on the guidelines of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, we made Google Analytics more privacy friendly by: 

= Ensuring we have a "Processing Contract" with Google;

= Activating in Google Analytics the IP addresses anonymization;

= Ensuring sharing of data with Google will not take place.

Google may only provide this data to third parties if Google is required to do so by law, or to the extent necessary for third parties processing this data on behalf of Google.

You can prevent collection of the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to their use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Your choices

B4T places and uses the functional cookies when you explore our website to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Only after you have given your consent, B4T places the analytical, advertising and social media cookies. We provide you the choice to set your preference related to the use of the kind of cookies for the first use of the website. We will store you preference for your next visit but you can always adjust your preference. 

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being used. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Policy changes

We may change this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will inform you when we update the cookie policy but we also encourage you to take notice of this policy regularly. This policy was last modified on 09 March 2022. 

Questions and feedback

Please send us your questions and comments about cookies or privacy to privacy@gundlach-automotive.com