LightTrans USA

Fast physical optics design software VirtualLab Fusion for North America

Connecting Optical Technologies

Privacy Policy

We respect your personal data

Last Updated: 22 April 2022


This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how LightTrans USA L.P. ( “LightTrans USA“) collects, uses, and discloses information through its websites, such as, but not limited to www.lighttrans.us (each, a “Site” and collectively, the “Sites”), and other products and services (the “Services”) as well as when you otherwise interact with us.


We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the Policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Policy whenever you access the Sites and Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Information Collection


Information You Provide to Us
In the course of using our Sites, you may provide us with certain information about you, such as when you fill out a form, subscribe to an email list or newsletter, request customer support, place an order, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information that we may collect include, but are not limited to, Contact Information such as your name, phone number, fax number, email address, home and business postal addresses; Payment Information such as your credit card number or other billing information; and optional Demographic Information such as your age and gender. We may also collect information you supply to us concerning your preferences and interests expressed in the course of using our Sites and Services as well as any other information you choose to provide to us.


Usage Information
We collect information about your use of the Services.


Automatically Collected Information
When you access or use our Sites and Services, we automatically collect information about you, including:
 

  • Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Sites and Services, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, browser type, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services.
     
  • Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our Services, including the hardware model, operating system and version, and unique device identifiers.
     
  • Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: Like most online services, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Sites are popular and count visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our Sites or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
     
  • Transactional Information:  When you make a purchase, we collect information about the transaction, such as product details, purchase price, and date of the transaction as well as information about the individual making the purchase on behalf of the customer.
     

Information We Collect from Other Sources
We may obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through our Sites and Services. For example, we collect information about you from third parties, including but not limited to publicly available sources, LinkedIn, conferences, events, and third-party contact lists. When we collect information about you from a third-party source, we endeavor to send you a separate Indirect Privacy Notice by email providing you with additional information including the source of the information.
 

Use of Information

Information we collect about you is used to provide, maintain, and improve our Sites and Services, such as to administer your use of our Sites and Services, to process your orders, and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate the Sites.


We also use the information we collect to:

  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
     
  • Respond to your comments, questions and customer service requests;
     
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, and events offered by us and others, and provide newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, whitepapers, webinars, and information we think will be of interest to you;
     
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Sites and Services;
     
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities;
     
  • Protect the rights and property of LightTrans USA and others;
     
  • Personalize and improve the Sites and Services and provide advertisements, content or features that match user interests; and
     
  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

 

Information Sharing

We share information about you as follows or as otherwise describes in this Policy:
 

  • With vendors, service providers, and business partners, who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf including, among other things, to facilitate operation, access and use of our Sites and Services, provide the Sites and Services on our behalf, perform Site-related services (including, but not limited to, data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, CRM services, payment processing, and improvement of the Sites’ features) or assist us in analyzing how our Sites and Services are used.
     
  • In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;
     
  • If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of LightTrans USA;
     
  • In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company;
     
  • Between and among LightTrans USA and our current and future partners, affiliates, subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership; and
     
  • With your consent or at your direction.


We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms. We may also disclose aggregated information about the use of our Sites and Services to business partners, prospective investors, and others in order to demonstrate usage of the Sites and Services, spot industry trends, generate publicity for the Services and for other business purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts cannot be traced back to you personally.

Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Others
 

We may allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the internet and in applications.  These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by LightTrans USA and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Services and other websites and better understand your online activity. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info or, for EU users, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

Data Retention
 

We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.


By default, we will retain your data for 3 years since your data was obtained, or 3 years since your last interaction with us, whichever is the greater.


If you become a customer of LightTrans USA or are already a customer of LightTrans USA, we will retain your data for 7 years after your last purchase with us (in line with financial laws for record keeping), or for as long as you are an end user of our products.


We will endeavor to contact you before deletion in case such a deletion is against your wishes.

Users Around the Globe
 

LightTrans International GmbH is located in Germany and processes and stores information in Germany according to the EU-GDPR. As such, we and our service providers may transfer your information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.  We will take steps to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.


If you are in the European Economic Area, we provide adequate protection for the transfer of personal data to countries outside of the EEA, including through a series of intercompany agreements based on the Standard Contractual Clauses authorized under EU and German law.


Residents of the European Economic Area
 

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or your data is processed within the EEA, you have certain rights and protections under the law regarding the processing of your personal data.

Legal Basis for Processing

If you are a resident of the EEA or your data is processed within the EEA, when we process your personal data we will only do so in the following situations:

  • We need to use your personal data to perform our responsibilities under our contract with you such as to process payments for and provide the Services you have requested.
     
  • We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data. For example, we may process your personal data to communicate with you about changes to our Services, and to provide, secure, and improve our Sites and Services.
     
  • We need to process personal data about you in accordance with legal obligations we have including our need to retain certain transaction records as well as records of some of our communications.


Data Subject Requests

If you are a resident of the EEA or your data is processed within the EEA, you have the right to access personal data we hold about you and to ask that your personal data be corrected, erased, or transferred. You may also have the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing, as well as the right to withdraw consent for the processing of your personal data if you previously provided it to us.  If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please email us at contact (at) lighttrans.us with the nature of your request in the subject line (e.g., “Data Access Request” or “Data Deletion Request”).


Questions or Complaints

If you are a resident of the EEA and have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data privacy authority.  For contact details of your local Data Protection Authority, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/news-overview.cfm.


Your Choices


Account Information
You may review, update, correct or delete the information provided to us contacting us at contact (at) lighttrans.us. Please note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.  We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time


Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.


Promotional Communications
You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions at the bottom of those emails or by contacting us with your request at contact (at) lighttrans.us.  If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.


Any Questions?

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at contact (at) lighttrans.us,
call us at +1 (770) 274-2418,
or mail us at:
LightTrans USA L.P.
5126 South Royal Atlanta Dr Tucker
GA 30084