The following privacy policy applies to the use of our online offering (hereinafter "Website").
We place great importance on data protection. The collection and processing of your personal data occurs in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, particularly the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We collect and process your personal data to provide you with the aforementioned portal. This policy describes how and for what purpose your data is collected and used and what options you have regarding your personal data.
By using this website, you agree to the collection, use, and transfer of your data in accordance with this privacy policy.
The party responsible for the collection, processing, and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is
If you wish to object to the collection, processing, or use of your data by us in accordance with these data protection provisions as a whole or for individual measures, you can address your objection to the responsible party.
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The hosting services we use serve the provision of the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space, and database services, security services, as well as technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating the website.
In doing so, we or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, interested parties, and visitors to this online offering based on our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of this online offering pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR.
We collect information about you when you use this website. We automatically collect information about your usage behavior and your interaction with us and register data about your computer or mobile device. We collect, store, and use data about every access to our online offering (so-called server log files). The access data includes:
We use this log data without assigning it to your person or otherwise creating a profile for statistical evaluations for the purpose of operating, securing, and optimizing our online offering, but also for anonymously recording the number of visitors to our website (traffic) as well as the scope and type of use of our website and services, as well as for billing purposes to measure the number of clicks received from cooperation partners. Based on this information, we can provide personalized and location-based content, analyze traffic, troubleshoot and fix errors, and improve our services.
This is also our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) GDPR.
We reserve the right to check log data retrospectively if there are concrete indications of a justified suspicion of illegal use. We store IP addresses in the log files for a limited period if this is necessary for security purposes or for the provision of services or billing for a service, e.g., if you use one of our offers. After the termination of the order process or after receipt of payment, we delete the IP address if it is no longer required for security purposes. We also store IP addresses if we have a concrete suspicion of a criminal offense in connection with the use of our website. In addition, we store the date of your last visit as part of your account (e.g., during registration, login, clicking links, etc.).
We use so-called session cookies to optimize our online offering. A session cookie is a small text file that is sent by the respective servers when visiting an internet page and is temporarily stored on your hard drive. This file as such contains a so-called session ID, with which various requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. These cookies are deleted after you close your browser. They are used, for example, to allow you to use the shopping cart function across multiple pages.
We also use a small amount of persistent cookies (also small text files that are stored on your device), which remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit. These cookies are stored on your hard drive and delete themselves after the specified time. Their lifespan is from 1 month to 10 years. This allows us to present our offering to you in a more user-friendly, effective, and secure manner and to show you information tailored to your interests on the site.
Our legitimate interest in the use of cookies pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) GDPR is to make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure.
The following data and information are stored in the cookies, for example:
When the cookie is activated, it is assigned an identification number, and your personal data is not assigned to this identification number. Your name, IP address, or similar data that would allow the cookie to be assigned to you are not placed in the cookie. Based on the cookie technology, we only receive pseudonymized information, for example, about which pages of our shop were visited, which products were viewed, etc.
We use "Google Conversion Tracking" ("Google AdWords") on our website. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). If you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is stored on your computer. These cookies have a limited lifespan and do not contain any personal data. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not expired, Google and we can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to this page. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create visitor statistics. This tells us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a tracking tag. However, we do not receive any information that personally identifies users. The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR out of legitimate interest in targeted advertising and the analysis of the effect and efficiency of this advertising.
Advertisements are served on this site as part of the Adsense advertising network of Google. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on previous visits to this website. This is intended to tailor the ads displayed to your interests.
The use of so-called DART cookies enables Google and its partner websites to serve ads based on users' visits to their sites and other sites on the internet.
For more information on data protection related to Adsense advertising and to disable DART cookies, please visit http://www.google.de/privacy/ads.
You can set your browser to inform you in advance about the setting of cookies and decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept cookies or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, or to prevent cookies completely. This may limit the functionality of the website.
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google has submitted to the Privacy Shield agreement between the European Union and the USA and has certified itself. By doing so, Google undertakes to comply with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. More information can be found in the following linked entry: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.
Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website by the site visitors is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
This is also our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) GDPR.
In the event of the activation of IP anonymization on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. IP anonymization is active on this website. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services related to
website and internet use.
The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Alternatively, to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, you can click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent the collection by Google Analytics within this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again): Disable Google Analytics
If you contact us (e.g., via contact form or email), we store your details for processing the request and in case follow-up questions arise.
This is also our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f) GDPR.
We store and use further personal data only if you consent to it or if this is legally permissible without special consent.
Unless specifically stated, we store personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the pursued purposes.
We also process the following described inventory data.
For membership, we or the payment service providers need your master, communication, and payment data so that we can communicate with you and provide our service.
For new registration, we collect master data (e.g., name, address), communication data (e.g., email address), and payment data (bank details) as well as access data (username and password).
To ensure proper registration and to prevent unauthorized registrations by third parties, you will receive an activation link by email after your registration to activate your account. Only after successful registration do we store the data you have submitted permanently in our system. When paying via the provider PayPal, data is transferred to PayPal. Information on data protection at PayPal can be found at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
When paying via immediate transfer, data is transferred to the service provider. Information on data protection can be found at https://www.klarna.com/sofort/datenschutz/.
You can have a customer account once created deleted by us at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs. A message in text form to the contact details mentioned under item 1 (e.g., email, fax, letter) is sufficient for this. We will then delete your stored personal data, as far as we do not still have to store it for the processing of orders or due to legal retention requirements.
As part of your membership, you have the option to upload pictures to your profile. The storage of the pictures is voluntary and takes place on the server space of a third-party provider. You can delete pictures completely at any time.
The legal basis of data processing according to the above sections is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 a), b), and f) GDPR. Our interests in data processing are in particular the initiation, conclusion, and fulfillment of contracts.
Unless specifically stated, we store personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the pursued purposes or as required by law.
Under applicable laws, you have various rights regarding your personal data. If you wish to assert these rights, please send your request by email or by post, clearly identifying yourself, to the address mentioned in section 1.
Below you will find an overview of your rights.
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us at any time as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. If this is the case, you have the right to obtain free information from us about the personal data stored about you, along with a copy of this data. Furthermore, there is a right to the following information:
If personal data is transferred to a third country or to an international organization, you have the right to be informed about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer.
You have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Considering the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of a supplementary statement.
According to Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR, you have the right to obtain from us the deletion of personal data concerning you without undue delay, and we are obliged to delete personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:
If we have made the personal data public and are obliged pursuant to Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR to delete the personal data, we, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers who are processing the personal data that you have requested the deletion by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, that personal data.
You have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing where one of the following applies:
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us, where
In exercising your right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, you have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller, where technically feasible.
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 e) or f) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. We no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Where personal data is processed by us for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
Where personal data is processed by us for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR, you have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning you, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Automated decision-making based on the collected personal data does not take place.
You have the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you is unlawful.
We are committed to the security of your data within the framework of the applicable data protection laws and technical possibilities to the maximum extent.
Your personal data will be encrypted during transmission by us. This applies to your orders and also to the customer login. We use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) coding system but point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g., communication by email) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
To secure your data, we maintain technical and organizational security measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, which we continually adapt to the state of the art.
We also do not guarantee that our offering will be available at specific times; disruptions, interruptions, or failures cannot be excluded. The servers we use are regularly and carefully secured.
As a rule, we use your personal data only within our company.
If and to the extent that we engage third parties in the performance of contracts (such as payment service providers), they receive personal data only to the extent that the transfer is necessary for the respective service.
If we outsource certain parts of data processing ("order processing"), we contractually oblige processors to use personal data only in accordance with the requirements of data protection laws and to ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.
Data transfer to entities or persons outside the EU, other than those referred to in this declaration in section 2, does not take place and is not planned.