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Privacy Policy

for Lossless GmbH and its websites and products

Some general notes

All websites and products we maintain ("we" is the company Lossless GmbH and its owners) take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. We'll refer to all those websites and products as "our websites and products" from hereon.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

Our websites and products may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Google Adsense

We use Google Adsense to display adverts to you. You can control your AdSense settings and opt-out of personalized Advertisement through Google here: Google Ads Settings

Contact and communication

Users contacting our websites and products and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

Our websites and products and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties that are not directly related to fullfill your original and intently expressed request.

Use of cookies

Our websites and products (websites and products created and maintained by Lossless GmbH) use cookies to better the users experience while visiting Our websites and products. Where applicable those websites use a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

External Links

Although our websites and products only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; www.websitename.co.uk.)

We (the company Lossless GmbH and its owners) cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we as company cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Email Newsletter

Our websites and products operate an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by Lossless GmbH. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with the European Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website's email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list]. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

Shortened Links in Social Media

Our websites and products plus its owners may share web links to relevant web pages through their social media platform accounts. Some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls through their social media platform accounts web addresses.

As a result we advise users to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by our websites and products plus its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that our websites and products plus its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

We hereby advise our users to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. We will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

Our websites and products may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Analytics and Tracking

Our websites and products use tracking software to monitor its visitors, users and customers to better understand how they use it.

We also use Google Analytics and our own tracking solution to track usage of some of our npm packages. The information that is stored does not contain any private information or specific IP information and only serves as an indicator of relative quantity of feature usage.

We use service workers on our websites to perform background tasks. Those service workers may continue to run after you leave the site and may request data from out servers to provide certain funcionality at a later point in time.

Third party service providers

Whereever Lossless GmbH uses third party service providers to process unencrypted customer data, we make sure to have compliant Data Processing Addendums in place signed by both parties. Thus we ensure safe processing of data throughout our infrastructure without loosing control. Any data that we don't need to comply with European or German law will be deleted whenever it is not needed anymore.

Changes to Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any given time in the future. The latest valid version of this Privacy Policy will always be available at https://lossless.gmbh/privacy for review.

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