Data Privacy Policy

DATA PROTECTION AT A GLANCE

GENERAL PROVISIONS

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our data protection statement listed under this text.

DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Their contact details can be found in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your personal data?
On the one hand, your data is collected by you providing it to us. This may be data that you enter in a contact form, for example.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page access).

This data is collected automatically as soon as you access our website.

What do we use your personal data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to obtain information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the rectification, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice for this purpose and for further questions on the subject of data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

ANALYSIS TOOLS AND TOOLS FROM THIRD PARTIES

When you visit our website, your browsing behaviour can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your browsing behaviour is generally anonymous; your browsing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information on this can be found in the following privacy policy.

GENERAL NOTES AND MANDATORY INFORMATION

Data Privacy Policy

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection statement.

Various personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

INFORMATION ON THE RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT

The party responsible for data processing on this website can be found in the imprint of this website.

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

WITHDRAWAL OF YOUR CONSENT TO DATA PROCESSING

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke your consent at any time. For this purpose, informal notification by e-mail is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

RIGHT TO LODGE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COMPETENT SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY

In the event of data protection violations, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of the data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.DE/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in the performance of a contract handed over to yourself or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only take place to the extent that it is technically feasible.

INFORMATION, BLOCKING, DELETION

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing and, if necessary, a right to rectification, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice for this purpose and for further questions on the subject of personal data.

OBJECTION TO MARKETING EMAILS

The use of contact data published as part of the legal notice obligation for the transmission of advertising and information materials not expressly requested is hereby objected to. The operators of the websites expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam emails.

DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

COOKIES

Some of the websites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies that are necessary for the implementation of the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions requested by you (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 litre. f GDPR is stored. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your browsing behaviour) are stored, these are dealt with separately in this privacy policy.

SERVER LOG FILES

The provider of the pages automatically collects and saves information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This is done through:

Browser type and version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Time of server request
IP-addresses
This data will not be merged with other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 litre. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

CONTACT FORMS

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

The data entered in the contact form is therefore processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. For this purpose, informal notification by e-mail is sufficient. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage ceases to apply (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

PROCESSING OF DATA (CUSTOMER AND CONTRACT DATA)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent necessary for the establishment, content or change of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 litre. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data about the use of our websites (usage data) only insofar as this is necessary to enable the user to use the service or to invoice the user.

The customer data collected will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

DATA TRANSFER WHEN CONCLUDING A CONTRACT FOR ONLINE SHOPS, RETAILERS AND GOODS DISPATCH

We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of contract processing, such as to the companies entrusted with the delivery of the goods or the credit institution commissioned with payment processing. The data will not be transferred further or will only be transferred if you have expressly consented to this. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, for example for advertising purposes.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 litre. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

DATA TRANSFER UPON CONCLUSION OF CONTRACT FOR SERVICES AND DIGITAL CONTENT

We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of contract processing, such as to the credit institution commissioned with payment processing.
The data will not be transferred further or will only be transferred if you have expressly consented to this. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, for example for advertising purposes.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 litre. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

ANALYSIS TOOLS AND ADVERTISING

MATOMO

This website uses the open source web analysis service Matomo. Matomo uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and allow analysis of your use of the website. For this purpose, the information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is stored on our server. The IP address is anonymised before storage.
Matomo cookies remain on your end device until you delete them.

Matomo cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 letter f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the anonymised analysis of user behaviour in order to optimise both its web offering and its advertising.

The information generated by the cookie about the use of this website is not passed on to third parties. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

If you do not consent to the storage and use of your data, you can deactivate the storage and use here. In this case, an opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, which prevents Matomo from storing usage data. If you delete your cookies, the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be deleted. The opt-out must be reactivated when you visit our website again.

NEWSLETTER

If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter offered on the website, we require an e-mail address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data is not collected or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We use this data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form is processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time, for example via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. This does not affect data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the member area).

PLUGINS AND TOOLS

GOOGLE MAPS

This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this page has no influence on this data transfer.

Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the locations we specify on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

More information on how user data is handled can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.