Privacy

Privacy Policy

We place great emphasis on the protection of your data and the protection of your privacy. Therefore, we would like to provide you with some information about the collection and use of your personal data when using our website.

Data Privacy
Data protection declaration

Unless otherwise stated 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 our website is accessed, user data is transferred to us or our web hosts/IT service providers by your internet browser and stored in server log files. This stored data includes for example the name of the site called up, date and time of the request, the IP address, amount of data transferred and the provider making the request. The processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1) f) GDPR due to our legitimate interests in ensuring the smooth operation of our website as well as improving our services.
 
Customer account      Orders     

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 withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the withdrawal. Your customer account will then be deleted.
 
Collection, processing, and transfer of personal data in orders
When you submit an order we only collect and use your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment and handling of your order as well as processing of your queries. 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 Article 6(1) b) GDPR and is required for the fulfilment of a contract with you.
Your data is transferred here for example to the shipping companies and dropshipping providers, payment service providers, service providers for handling the order and IT service providers that you have selected. We will comply strictly with legal requirements in every case. The scope of data transmission is restricted to a minimum.

Contact       Evaluations       Newsletter     

Collection and processing when using the contact form
When you use the contact form we will only collect your personal data (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 withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the withdrawal. 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.
 
Data collection when writing a commentary
When commenting on an article or a contribution, we collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, comment text) only to the extent provided by you. The processing serves the purpose of enabling comments and displaying comments. By sending the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. Processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation. Your personal data will then be deleted.

When your comment is published, only the name you have given will be published.

In addition, your IP address is stored when you submit your comment for the purpose of preventing misuse of the comment function and ensuring the security of our information technology systems. By sending the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO with your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation. Your IP address will then be deleted.


Use of your e-mail address for sending newsletters
We use your e-mail address independently of the contract processing exclusively for our own advertising purposes for mailing of newsletters only, as long as you have expressly agreed to it. The declaration of consent to be given in this regard is as follows:
"subscribe to ".
You may unsubscribe at any time, by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by sending a message to us. Our contact details are available on our imprint page.
Subsequently, your e-mail address will be deleted from the mailing list.


Disclosure of personal data
Your data will not be disclosed to third parties without your explicit consent. Exempt from this will be our service partners whose data we need to process the contractual relationship. In such cases, we strictly observe the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act. The amount of data disclosed is limited to a minimum.

Payment service providers     

Use of 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-full?locale.x=en

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.

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 be notified before the setting of cookies and you can decide whether to accept this setting in each individual case as well as 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-gb/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/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac


Technically necessary cookies
Insofar as no other information is given in the data protection declaration below we use only these technically necessary cookies to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies also allow our systems to recognise 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 recognised again after a page change.

Processing is carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our largely justified interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our range of services.
You have the right to veto this processing of your personal data according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, for reasons relating to your personal situation.

Plug-ins

Using YouTube
We use the YouTube video embedding feature of Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ; "YouTube") on our website.
YouTube is an affiliate of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google").
The function displays videos stored on YouTube in an i-Frame on the website. The Advanced Privacy Mode option is enabled. This prevents YouTube from storing information about website visitors. Only when you watch a video will information about it be sent to YouTube and stored there. Your data may be transferred to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield and is therefore committed to complying with European data protection legislation.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of a legitimate interest in the need-based and targeted design of our website. For reasons arising from your particular situation, you have the right at any time to object to this processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Further information on the collection and use of the data by YouTube and Google, on your rights in this regard and on ways of protecting your privacy can be found in YouTube's data protection information at https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy.
Rights of data subjects and storage period.

Rights of persons affected and storage duration


Duration of storage
After complete processing of the contract, the data will initially be stored for the duration of the warranty period, then under consideration of statutory, in particular tax and commercial retention periods and then deleted after expiry of the period if you have not agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the person concerned
If the legal requirements are met, you are entitled to the following rights according to Art. 15 to 20 DSGVO: right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to data transferability.
Furthermore, according to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO and to processing for the purpose of direct advertising.

Please contact us if you wish. You will find the contact details in our imprint.

Right of appeal to the supervisory authority
Pursuant to Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data is not lawful.

Right of objection
If the personal data processing operations listed here are based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to such processing operations with effect for the future.
After objection has been made, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can prove compelling grounds for processing worthy of protection which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you may object to such processing at any time by notifying us. After objection has been made, we will terminate the processing of the data concerned for the purpose of direct advertising.

Last update: 03.12.2019

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