Data protection

and information on any consent you may have

As responsible person in the sense of the data protection regulations we inform you below about the processing of your personal data by us.

I. The concept of personal data and other important terms

Personal data, in simple terms, is all information that relates to you personally as the data subject. Provisions on what the term „personal data“ means and what other mean important terms for the following data protection information, see Article 4 of the DS-GVO (General Data Protection Regulation).

II. Name and contact details of the person responsible; Contact details of the data protection officer

In a simplified sense, the person responsible is the one who, alone or in concert with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data. The name and contact details of the person responsible (and as far as a data protection officer has been appointed, the contact details of the data protection officer) can be found in our provider identification / our imprint.

III. Purposes of processing your personal data; Legal basis for processing

We process your personal data as part of our work for the following purposes in accordance with the legal basis specified.

1. For the purpose of carrying out pre-contractual measures, which are based on a request from you, the processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR or on the basis of Article 6 para. 1 letter b) of the GDPR.

2. In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in responding to requests and taking any other action that you may take based on a request, your personal data will be processed on the basis of the consent you have given in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a). DS-GVO or on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR.

3. For the performance of a contract of which you are a party, the processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR or on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) DS-GMO.

4. For the purpose of implementing advertising measures, your personal data will be processed either on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR or on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) ) DS-GMO.

5. In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in the maintenance of the proper functioning of our website, the provision of user-friendly functions and the analysis of the use of our website, your personal data will be processed on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) DS -GVO.

6. In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in the enforcement of our rights and in the defense against us, the processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR.

Our systems are backed by state-of-the-art technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration or disclosure, loss or destruction.

For information on the processing of your personal data for each processing purpose, please refer to the relevant further information in the context of this Privacy Policy.

IV. Transmission of your personal data to third parties; Categories of recipients of your personal data

If this is necessary to achieve the purpose of processing your personal data, we will transfer your personal data to third parties to the extent required by law. Detailed information on the transmission of your personal data to third parties for the individual processing purposes can be found in the relevant further information in the context of this Privacy Policy. In cases of transmission of your personal data to third parties, the amount of data transmitted is limited to the minimum required.

V. Scope of processing of your personal data for each processing purpose

Below we will inform you in detail about the processing of your personal data for the various processing purposes.

1. Use of our website for informational purposes

If you visit our websites without providing us with information, we will only process the personal data of you that your browser transmits to our server. These are the following data that are technically necessary to show you our website and to ensure stability and security:

the page you have visited
Date and time of the request
transferred amount of data
Source or reference from where you came to the page
Browser used by you
operating system you are using
your IP address

The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR in order to safeguard our legitimate interest in maintaining the proper functioning of our website.

Your personal data will be deleted after 6 months, unless they are still needed for the assertion of rights or the enforcement of claims due to measures against the proper operation of our website. In this case, the deletion takes place immediately after completion of the corresponding procedure.

2. Processing of inquiries

If you contact us with a request or request, we will process the personal data and information / documents you provide. Regardless of the way in which you submit your inquiry or concerns to us, these may be:

Date and time of contact
name data
Contact details
Data on request / request
transmitted information / documents

The processing of your personal data and the information / documents provided will be based on your consent under Article 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR to answer your request or on the basis of your request or concern of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) of the GDPR for the implementation of pre-contractual measures or on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) of the GDPR for the performance of a contract of which you are a party or on the basis of Article 6 para 1 letter f) of the GDPR in order to safeguard our legitimate interest in answering inquiries / requests and in carrying out other measures in connection with processing requests / concerns.

As far as we provide a contact form and you contact us via this contact form, you consent to the following content by sending your message, which you will be informed about in the contact form:

„I consent to the processing of my e-mail address and other personal information provided by me for the purpose of responding to my communication. I can revoke this consent at any time and without stating reasons with effect for the future. The legality of the processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected in case of revocation. „

You can revoke your consent at any time and without stating reasons with effect for the future. For this purpose, a corresponding message to the person in charge, whose contact details you can take from the details of the person responsible. The legality of the processing up to the revocation remains unaffected in case of revocation.

As far as this is necessary for the processing of your inquiry / your request, we transfer your personal data within the scope of the legal requirements to third parties. In cases of transmission of your personal data to third parties, the amount of data transmitted is limited to the minimum required.

Your personal data will be deleted if your request / concerns are resolved, unless we may continue to process the data for another processing purpose within the scope of the legal requirements and according to the information contained in this privacy policy.

3. Fulfillment of contracts

If you provide us with personal data for the purpose of concluding a contract or in connection with the creation of a customer account, we will process the data you have provided for the execution of the contract. These are your customer data (for example, your name and address) and the contract information (such as details of the products in the contract, as well as payment and delivery information).

The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b) of the GDPR for the performance of a contract of which you are a party.

As far as this is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract with you, we transmit your personal data within the scope of the legal requirements to third parties. This transfer is made to the service providers involved in the contract. These are the providers of the processing tools we use. These are also the companies commissioned with the transport. Incidentally, these are the payment service providers responsible for the payment matters.

If you use the payment service provider PayPal for the processing of payment transactions, we expressly point out that the PayPal privacy policy applies to all PayPal transactions:

https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full?locale.x=de_DE

In cases of transmission of your personal data to third parties, the amount of data transmitted is limited to the minimum required.

Your personal data will be deleted after expiry of the tax and commercial retention periods of 6 or 10 years, unless we continue to process the data for another purpose in the context of legal requirements and in accordance with the information in this privacy policy.

4. Advertising by newsletter

When you sign up for our newsletter, we will process the email address provided by you – and if you provide other personal data – also to send you information about our offers via email. Obligatory is the specification of your email address. If you voluntarily submit further personal data, we process this data, if necessary, to personally address you in the newsletter.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you give consent with the following content: „I agree to be informed by e-mail about interesting offers and therefore consent to the processing of my e-mail address and the other personal information I have provided for the purpose sending the newsletter. I can revoke this consent at any time and without stating reasons with effect for the future. The legality of the processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected in case of revocation. „

The registration for our newsletter takes place in the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means: After logging in, you will first receive an e-mail with a message about the registration for the newsletter and a request for confirmation of the registration. Your confirmation of registration is required in order to document the required consent to the sending of the newsletter and to be able to recognize registrations on external e-mail addresses. In connection with the subscriptions to the newsletter and the confirmations, the IP address as well as the date and time are logged in order to be able to prove the grant of the consent in accordance with the legal requirements.

The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of your consent given in accordance with Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a) of the GDPR.

If you revoke your consent or unsubscribe from our newsletter, you will immediately delete your email address and any other data transmitted, unless we may continue to use the data for another processing purpose in accordance with the legal requirements and according to the information contained in this privacy policy to process.

5. Advertising by post

We process the personal data provided by you on first and last name and address, if necessary, for the purpose of sending information about our offers by post.

The processing of your personal data takes place in this respect on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interest in the implementation of advertising by letter.

You can object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of advertising by letter. For this purpose, a corresponding message to the person in charge, whose contact details you can take from the details of the person responsible.

If you object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of advertising by post, an immediate deletion of the personal data you give us on first and last name and address, unless we may use the data for another purpose in the The legal requirements and according to the information contained in this privacy policy.

6. Use of cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that are stored on your device and through which certain information is transmitted to us. The use of cookies serves to enable you to use certain functions and to make our offer more user-friendly overall.

Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, ie after closing your browser (so-called session or session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device even after the end of the browser session, ie after closing your browser, and allow us or our affiliate (third-party cookies) to recognize you on your next visit to our website (so-called persistent cookies).

Some of the cookies we use are technically required to enable you to use certain features. This is the case, for example, with regard to the storage of entries in connection with the use of the shopping cart function. The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR for the purpose of taking precontractual measures that are based on your request as a data subject or on the basis of Article 6 (1) (b) of the DS. GMOs for the performance of a contract of which you are a party or on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR for the purpose of safeguarding our legitimate interest in providing functions that are as user-friendly as possible. As far as we or our partner companies use cookies for the purposes of measuring reach or for marketing purposes, you can find detailed information on this subject, if applicable, in the relevant further information in the context of this Privacy Policy.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. If necessary, please refer to the program help for the browser you are using to find out how the corresponding setting can be made. We point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all the features of our website to the full extent. For example, we refer to the information for the following popular browsers:

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE

7. Use of Google Analytics

In our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. („Google“).

The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR in order to safeguard our legitimate interest in the analysis of the use of our website.

Google Analytics uses so-called „cookies“. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of our website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We point out in this context that on our website Google Analytics has been extended by the code „anonymizeIp“. This ensures an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking) ensures that your IP address is shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area in order to exclude a personal reference. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other website and internet related services to us as website operators. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. If necessary, please refer to the program help for the browser you are using to find out how to make the appropriate settings. We point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website in full.

In addition, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of our website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install. The current link is https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Alternatively, you can prevent the future collection of your data by Google Analytics by setting an opt out cookie. You set this cookie by clicking this link. Please note that the opt-out cookie only works in this browser and for this website. If you delete the cookies in your browser, you must click the link again.

For more information about the Terms of Use between us and Google regarding privacy see https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and more information about Google’s privacy policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, guaranteeing compliance with European data protection law.

8. Enforcement of our rights and defense against us claims

If necessary, we process your personal data in order to safeguard our legitimate interest in enforcing our rights and in defending against us.

In this case, the processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f) of the GDPR.

Insofar as this is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests, we will transfer your personal data to third parties within the scope of the legal requirements. This transfer is made to the debt collection service providers involved or our lawyers.

In cases of transmission of your personal data to third parties, the amount of data transmitted is limited to the minimum required.

Your personal data will be deleted after completion of the procedure, but at the earliest after expiry of the tax and commercial retention periods of 6 or 10 years, unless we may use the data for another processing purpose in accordance with legal requirements and in accordance with the information in this privacy policy continue to process.

VI. Duration for which your personal data is stored or criteria for determining this duration

Your personal data will be deleted if it is no longer needed for processing for the respective processing purpose, unless we may continue to process the data for another processing purpose in accordance with the legal requirements and according to the information contained in this privacy policy. For information on the length of time your personal information is stored or the criteria for determining that duration, see the information on how your personal data is processed for each processing purpose in this privacy statement.

VII. Your rights

1. Overview

In order to ensure a fair and transparent processing of personal data, you as the data subject have the following rights according to the data protection regulations:

the right to information under Article 15 of the GDPR;

the right of correction under Article 16 of the GDPR,

the right to cancellation under Article 17 of the GDPR,

the right to restriction of processing under Article 18 of the GDPR;

the right to data portability under Article 20 of the GDPR

the right to revoke consent at any time pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 DS-GVO,

the right to object to the processing according to Article 21 of the DS-BER, about which we will inform you separately below

and the right to complain to the supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 DS-GVO, about which we will inform you separately below.

2. Your right to object to the processing

The processing of personal data is permitted if processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject requiring personal data protection prevail, in particular if: the person concerned is a child, Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR.

You, the data subject, have the right, at any time, to object to the processing of personal data relating to the processing of personal data resulting from their particular situation on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

If you exercise your right to object, we will no longer process your personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh their interests, rights and freedoms as the data subject, or the processing is for assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

If we process your personal data in order to operate direct mail, you as the data subject have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct mail. If you, as the data subject, object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, your personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes.

3. Your right of appeal to the supervisory authority

As affected person, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your whereabouts, place of work or place of alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data concerns you violates the requirements of the DS-GVO.

VIII. Information about the basis for the provision of your personal data

Insofar as you wish to conclude a contract with us or to contact us with a request, the provision of your personal data is required to conclude a contract or to process your request. You are not required to provide your personal information. However, failure to provide your personal information would result in us not entering into a contract with you or processing your request.