Data protection

Thank you for your interest in our online store. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

1. access data and hosting

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time a website is accessed, the web server only automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.

This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offer. In accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our offer, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to our website.

Hosting services by a third-party provider
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our website, which are overriding in the context of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the forms provided for this purpose in the online store as described below are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the scope described here.

This service provider is based in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

This service provider is based in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

2. data collection and use for contract processing

We collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order or when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail). Mandatory fields are marked as such, as in these cases we need the data to process the contract or to process your contact and you cannot send the order or contact without providing it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data provided by you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for contract processing and processing your inquiries. If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR by deciding to open a customer account, we will use your data for the purpose of opening a customer account. 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 retention periods under tax and commercial law, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done 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

In order to fulfill the contract in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we will pass on the payment data collected for the processing of payments to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to the payment service provider commissioned by us or to the selected payment service. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.

We also use an external merchandise management system to process orders and contracts. The data transfer or processing that takes place in this respect is based on order processing.

We use payment service providers based in a country outside the European Union. The transfer of personal data to this company only takes place within the scope of the necessity to fulfill the contract.

4. e-mail newsletter

E-mail advertising with registration for the newsletter
If you register for our newsletter, we will use the data required for this or separately provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.

Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your e-mail address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

E-mail advertising without subscribing to the newsletter and your right to object
If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of a product or service and you have not objected to this, we reserve the right to regularly send you offers for similar products to those you have already purchased from our range by e-mail on the basis of Section 7 (3) UWG. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in a promotional approach to our customers.
You can object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the advertising e-mail, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates.

The newsletter is sent as part of processing on our behalf by a service provider to whom we pass on your e-mail address for this purpose.

This service provider is based in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

5. cookies and web analysis

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 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 again 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). The duration of storage can be found 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 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. These can be found for the respective browsers under the following links
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
Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

As part of the use of Google Analytics (see below), this website also uses the so-called DoubleClick cookie, which enables your browser to be recognized when you visit other websites. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The information automatically generated by the cookie about your visit to this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The IP address is shortened by activating IP anonymization on this website before transmission within the 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. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Google will use this information to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google DoubleClick by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.
Google Double Click is an offer from Google LLC. (www.google.de).
Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. For companies certified under the Privacy Shield, an adequate level of data protection is established on the basis of the agreements between the USA and the European Commission and Switzerland.

You can deactivate the DoubleClick cookie via this link. You can also obtain information from the Digital Advertising Alliance about the setting of cookies and make settings for this. Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (www.google.de), to analyze web pages. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable your use of the website to be analyzed, 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 transmission within the 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. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google Analytics by us, 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. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

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

As an alternative to the browser plugin, you can click 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 must click the link again.

6. online marketing

Google AdWords Remarketing
We use Google AdWords to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, the so-called remarketing cookie is set by Google when you visit our website, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you visit. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google AdWords Remarketing by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any further data processing will only take place if you have consented to Google linking your web and app browsing history to your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalize ads you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, Google temporarily links your personal data with Google Analytics data to create target groups.

Google AdWords Remarketing is an offer from Google LLC (www.google.de).
Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can deactivate the remarketing cookie via this link. You can also obtain information from the Digital Advertising Alliance about the setting of cookies and make settings for this.

BingAds Remarketing
We use BingAds to advertise this website in the Bing, Yahoo and MSN search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, a cookie is automatically set when you visit our website, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you visit. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of BingAds Remarketing by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

BingAds is an offer from Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com). Microsoft Corporation is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
You can deactivate the remarketing cookie via this link. You can also obtain information from the Digital Advertising Alliance about the setting of cookies and make settings for this.

7. social media plugins

Use of social plugins from Instagram
Social plugins ("plugins") from social networks are used on our website.
When you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile in the respective social network. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Like" or "Share" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy in this regard can be found in the providers' data protection notices.
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

If you do not want the social networks to assign the data collected via our website directly to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the respective service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (https://noscript.net/).

8. contact options and your rights

As the data subject, you have the following rights:

• in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;
• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, the right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
• in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing
  - to exercise 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
  is required;
• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if
  - the accuracy of the data is disputed by you;
  - the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it;
  - we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
  - you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller;
• in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters.

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, restriction or deletion of data as well as revocation of consents granted or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.