Privacy policy

We appreciate your interest in our online shop. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information on how we handle your data.

1. Access Data and Hosting

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. When you access a webpage, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file, which includes, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider (access data), and documents the access.
This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of the site and improving our offering. This is in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering within the scope of a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

Hosting Services by a Third Party Provider

As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider hosts and displays the website for us. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering within the scope of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in forms provided in the online shop as described below is processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework described here.

This service provider is located in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. An up-to-date certificate can be viewed here. Due to this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

2. Data Collection and Use for Contract Processing and When Opening a Customer Account

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us in the context of your order, when contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), or when opening a customer account. Mandatory fields are marked as such, as in these cases, we require the data to process the contract, handle your inquiry, or open the customer account, and you cannot complete the order and/or account opening, or send the inquiry without providing it. The data collected is evident from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for contract processing and handling your inquiries. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after expiry of the tax and commercial retention periods, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond that, which is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this statement. You can delete your customer account at any time, either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.

3. Data Transfer

For contract fulfillment pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, we pass on your data to the shipping company responsible for delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on the payment service provider you select during the ordering process, we pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to payment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service. Some of the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account there. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. The data protection declaration of the respective payment service provider applies in this respect. We use payment service providers located outside the European Union. The transfer of personal data to these companies takes place only within the scope of the necessity for contract fulfillment.

4. Email Newsletter

Email Advertising with Newsletter Registration

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required or separately provided by you to regularly send you our email newsletter based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond that, which is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this statement. The newsletter is sent on our behalf by a service provider to whom we pass on your email address for this purpose.
This service provider is located in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. An up-to-date certificate can be viewed here. Due to this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

5. Cookies and Web Analysis

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products, or for market research purposes, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offering within the scope of a balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e., after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can find the duration of storage in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers at the following links:

Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for Web Analysis

This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (www.google.de), for website analysis. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offering within the scope of a balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before being transmitted within the member states of the European Union or other contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. After the purpose has been fulfilled and the use of Google Analytics by us has ended, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. An up-to-date certificate can be viewed here. Due to this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Alternatively to the browser plugin, you can click on this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will need to click the link again.

6. Social Media Plugins

Use of Social Plugins from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest using the Shariff Solution. Our website uses social buttons from social networks. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offering within the scope of a balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not embedded as plugins, but are only integrated into the page using an HTML link. This integration ensures that when you access a page on our website that contains such buttons, no connection is yet established with the servers of the provider of the respective social network.
When you click on one of the buttons, a new window of your browser opens and calls up the page of the respective service provider, where you can (possibly after entering your login data) e.g., press the Like or Share button.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers on their pages, as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, can be found in the data protection information of the providers.

http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

https://twitter.com/privacy

http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

7. Contact Options and Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:
pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent described therein;
pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
– for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information;
– to fulfill a legal obligation;
– for reasons of public interest or
– to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims;
pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
– the accuracy of the data is disputed by you;
– the processing is unlawful, but you refuse its deletion;
– we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims, or
– you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common, and machine-readable format or to request the transmission to another responsible party;
pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our company headquarters for this purpose.
If you have any questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking, or deletion of data, as well as revocation of granted consent or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details provided in our Legal Notice.

Right of Objection

To the extent that we process personal data as explained above to protect our legitimate interests, which outweigh our interests in a balance of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for purposes of direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If processing is carried out for other purposes, you have the right to object only if there are reasons arising from your particular situation. After exercising your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims. This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. In this case, we will not process your personal data for this purpose.