Privacy Policy

We attach maximum importance to protecting your data and safeguarding your privacy. Therefore, we provide information below regarding collection and use of personal data while using our website.

Data protection declaration
Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligatory, nor required for conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your data. Not providing it will have no consequences. This only applies as long as the processing procedures below do not state otherwise. “Personal data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Server log files
You can use our websites without submitting personal data. Every time you access our website, user data is transmitted by your internet browser and stored in protocol files (server log files). This stored data includes e.g. name of the site called up, date and time of the request, amount of data transferred and the provider making the request. This data serves exclusively to ensure smooth operation of our website and to improve our offering. It is not possible to assign this data to a particular person.

Collection and processing when using the contact form
When you use the contact form we will only collect your personal data (e. g. name, email address, message text) in the scope provided by you. The data processing is for the purpose of making contact. By submitting your message you agree to the processing of your transmitted data. Processing will be carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by contacting us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the revocation. We will only use your email address to process your request. Finally your data will be deleted, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Customer account
When you open a customer account, we will collect your personal data in the scope given there. The data processing is for the purpose of improving your shopping experience and simplifying order processing. The processing will be carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by contacting us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the revocation. Your customer account will then be deleted.

Collection, processing, and use of personal data in orders
When you submit an order, we only collect and use your personal data where this is necessary for the fulfilment and handling of your requests. The provision of data is necessary for conclusion of a contract. Failure to provide it will prevent the conclusion of any contract. The processing will occur on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR and is required for the fulfilment of a contract with you. We will not forward your data to third parties without your explicit consent. This only excludes our service partners who we require in order to handle the contractual relationship or service providers we use to process an order. Along with the recipients named in the clauses of this data protection declaration, these may be recipients in the following categories: Shipping providers, payment service providers, merchandise management service providers, service providers for order processing, web hosts, IT service providers and drop shipping dealers. We will comply strictly with legal requirements in every case. The scope of data transmission is restricted to a minimum.

Use of your email address for mailing of newsletters
We use your email address outside of contractual processing exclusively to send you a newsletter for our own marketing purposes, if you have explicitly agreed to this. The processing will be carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the revocation. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the relevant link in the newsletter or by contacting us. Your email address will then be removed from the distributor. Your data will be forwarded to a service provider for email marketing in the course of order processing. It will not be forwarded to other third parties. Your data will be transferred to a third country, which is covered by an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Forwarding of your email address to shipping companies for information on shipping status
We forward your email address to the shipping company in the course of contractual processing. The forwarding is for the purpose of informing you by email on the shipping status of your order. The processing will be carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time by contacting us or the transport company without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the revocation.

Using PayPal
All PayPal transaction are covered by the PayPal Data Privacy Statement. You can found this at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev?locale.x=en_GB

Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files which are saved in a user’s internet browser or by the user’s internet browser on their computer system. When a user calls up a website, a cookie may be saved on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic character string which allows the browser to be clearly identified when the website is called up again. We use cookies to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies also allow our systems to recognize your browser after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. These services require the browser to be recognized again after a page change. Processing is carried out on the basis of GDPR (DSVGO) as well as art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our justified interest in the purposes above. The data collected in this way is pseudonymized using technological measures. It is therefore not possible to connect the data to your person. The data will not be stored together with other personal data pertaining to you. You have the right to veto this processing of your personal data according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR by contacting us, for reasons relating to your personal situation. Cookies will be stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By choosing corresponding technical settings in your internet browser, you can prevent the storage of cookies and transmission of the data they contain. Cookies which have already been saved may be deleted at any time. We would, however, like to point out that this may prevent you from making full use of all the functions of this website.   Using the links below, you can find out how to manage cookies (or deactivate them, among other things) in major browsers: Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Use of GoogleMaps
Our website uses Google Inc.’s feature for the embedding of Google Maps (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).This feature visually represents geographical information and interactive maps. Google also collects, processes and uses data on visitors to the website when they call up pages with embedded Google maps.or website uses Google Inc.’s feature for the embedding of Google Maps (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). This feature visually represents geographical information and interactive maps. Google also collects processes and uses data on visitors to the website when they call up pages with embedded Google maps. Further information on the data collected and used by Google, your rights and privacy can be found in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html You also have the option of changing your settings in the data protection center, allowing you to administer and protect the data processed by Google. Your data may also be transmitted to the USA. Transmission of data to the USA is covered by an adequacy decision by the European Commission. You have the right to veto this processing of your personal data according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR by contacting us, for reasons relating to your personal situation. For this purpose you must turn off the JavaScript application in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing this may prevent you from using all of the website’s functions, for example the interactive map display, in full.

Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to art. 21 (1) GDPR.

Contact us at any time
Our contact details can be found in our legal notice.

Right to complain to the regulatory authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.

Newsletter
Following we want to inform You about the contents of our newsletter, as well as the necessary application, mailing and statistic analyzation procedures, as well as your right to revoke from that. By subscribing to our newsletter you declare to agree to our newsletter process and to receiving our newsletters. Content newsletter: we send newsletters, E-mails and other electronical notifications with commercial informations only by legal assent or assent by the recipient. Our newsletters contain information regarding our products, necessary security informations, offers and special sales. Double-Opt-In and recording: the registration to the newsletter is done through a so called Double-Opt-In-procedure. That means after registration an e-mail is send to You that asks to confirm Your registration. This confirmation of yours is necessary to avoid registrations with somebody else’s e-mail address. The registration to the newsletter is recorded to prove the process of registration according the legal requirements. This includes the recording of the certain time of registration and confirmation, as well as the IP address. Just as well data modifications safed at your shipping service provider are recorded. Registration data: to register to the newsletter it is sufficient to enter your e-mail address. Optional you are asked to enter your name for the purpose of proper addressing you when sending the newsletter. The mailing of newsletters and its related performance measurement occurs on basic of addressee’s agreement in accordance with art. 6 (1) lit. A, art. 7 f GDPR according § 107 (2) TKG or if no agreement is neccessary on basic of our interesst of direct marketing according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR § 107 (2) and (3) TKG. The recording of the subscription process occurs on basic of our justifiable interest according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our interests follow the use of user friendly and secure newsletter systems, that both serves our business interests and corresponds with our user’s expectation and therefore allows us the recording of agreement. Cancelling / revocation – you can cancel, in other words revocation, to receive our newsletter at any time. A link to cancel the newsletter can be found at the end of every newsletter. We are allowed to keep deleted e-mail addresses saved up to three years before deleting them on behalf of our justifiable interests to be able to give prove of a former agreement. The processing of this data is limited for reason of possible repelling of claims. An individual application of cancelling is possible any time if at the same time a proof of former agreement is confirmed.

Newsletter – Mailchimp
The newsletter mailing is done via the service provider „MailChimp“, a newsletter sending platform of the US-providers Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. This Privacy Policy can be looked up through the following link: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp is certified by the Privacy-Shield-Agreement and herewith offers a guarantee to maintain the european quality of data privacy protection (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active). The service provider is used on basic of our justifiable interest according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR and an agreement of processing according a. 28 Abs. (3) S. 1 GDPR. The service provider can use the recipients data in pseudonymized form, which means without any user assignments, for optimization or improvement of its own services, like for technical optimizations of the mailing and the newsletters depiction or for statistical reason. The service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to mail them on their own or to sell the data to third parties.

Google Analytics
On behalf of our justifiable interest (that means interests in analysis, optimization and economic process of our offers online according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR) we use Google Analytics, a web analysis provider of Google LLC („Google“). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie through the users use of our online offer are in general send to a server of Google in the USA and saved there. Google is certified by the Privacy-Shield-Agreement and herewith offers a guarantee to maintain the european quality of data privacy protection (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active). Google will use this informations in orders, to evaluate the use of our online offers through the users for reporting the activities within this online offer. Herewith pseudonymized user profiles can be generated with the data processing. We use Google Analytics only with activated IP-anonymizing. Which means that the users IP-address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or within other states in contract of the agreement of the european economic area. The IP-address submitted by the user is not merged with other data from Google. The users can avoid the cookie saving by changing the browser software settings; the users further more can avoid the recording generated by the cookie according your use of our online offer send to Google by downloading and installing the following plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Further informations according the data use by Google, setting possibilities and revocation you can look up here: (https://policies.google.com/privacy) as well as in the settings for depiction and commercial inserts by Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated). The personal user data are deleted or anonymized after forteen months.

Online presence in social media
We have online presences in social media networks and platforms for communicating with the active client, potential buyer and user to inform about our products. We inform that user data may be processed outside the region of the European Union. Therefore risks for the users may arise, because legal enforcements for the user may be more difficult. According the US providers certified under the Privacy-Shield-Agreement we point out that by that they oblige to maintain the european quality of data privacy protection. In addition user data are as a rule processed for market research and advertising purpose. Through the user’s utilization habits utilization profiles can be designed. Utilization profiles again can be used to create adds inside and outside the platforms, that presumed correspond with the users interests. For that reason cookies are saved on the user’s computer as a rule that save the user’s utilization habits and interests. In addition data independent from the users devices can be saved in the utilization profiles (in particular if the users are members of the respective platform and are logged in). The processing of user’s personal data occurs on behalf of our justifiable interests on an effective information of and communication with our users according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If the users are asked by the respective providers of the platforms for an agreement for the mandatory data processing the processing‘s legal basis is based on art. 6 (1) lit. a art. 7 GDPR For a detailed depiction of the respective processing and the possibilities of revocation (Opt-Out), we refer providers informations linked below. Also in the case of enquiries requests and the assertion of user rights we point out that they are asserted most effective directly at the providers itself. Only the providers themselves have access to the user’s data and can set relevant actions and give appropriate information. If you need help never the less you can contact us. - Facebook, -sites, -groups, (Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Irland) – privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, especially for sites:https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data , Opt-Out:https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads and http://www.youronlinechoices.com, Privacy Shield:https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active. - Google/ YouTube (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) – privacy policy:  https://policies.google.com/privacy, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated, Privacy Shield:https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active. - Instagram (Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA) – privacy policy / Opt-Out:http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/. - Twitter (Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) - privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy, Opt-Out: https://twitter.com/personalization, Privacy Shield:https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active. - Pinterest (Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA) – privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy. - LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland) - privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy , Opt-Out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out, Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active. - Xing (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Deutschland) - privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung. - Wakalet (Wakelet Limited, 76 Quay Street, Manchester, M3 4PR, United Kingdom) - privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://wakelet.com/privacy.html. - Soundcloud (SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany) - privacy policy / Opt-Out: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

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Last update: 05.11.2018