Privacy Policy
We are pleased that you visit our website and thank you for your interest! The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us, so please take note of the following information about the handling of your data:
1) Principles of handling personal data
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Every time our website is accessed, usage data is transmitted by the respective Internet browser and stored in log files, the so-called server log files, such as the date and time of access, the name of the page accessed, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person and is exclusively used to ensure the trouble-free operation of our website and to improve our services.
Personal data is collected when you voluntarily provide it to us for the execution of a contract or when opening a customer account. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. Your customer account can be deleted at any time and can be done by sending a message to the contact option described below. We store and use the data provided by you for contract processing. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked in consideration of tax and commercial retention periods, deleted after expiry of these periods, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or a legally permitted further use of data has been reserved by our site, about which we inform you accordingly below.
In the context of contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for the answering of your request and/or for the establishment of contact and the associated technical administration. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request, provided that you wish to do so and there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary.
For our own advertising purposes we reserve the right to store your first and last name, your postal address and - if we have received this additional information from you within the scope of the contractual relationship - your title, academic degree, year of birth and your professional, industry or business name in combined lists and to use them for sending interesting offers and information on our products by letter post. You can object to the storage and use of your data for this purpose at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below.
2) Passing on of personal data for order processing
2.1 The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery within the framework of contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of the processing of payments.
2.2 When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "Purchase on account" via PayPal, we pass your payment data on to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal"). PayPal reserves the right to carry out credit checks for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" via PayPal. PayPal uses the result of the credit assessment in relation to the statistical probability of non-payment for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report can contain probability values (so-called score values). If score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data is included in the calculation of the score values. For further information on data protection law, including the credit agencies used, please refer to PayPal's data protection declaration: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
2.3 If you choose a payment method as part of Klarna's checkout, payment will be processed by the payment service provider Klarna AB, Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden. You can read about Klarna's collection and processing of your personal data for the purpose of payment processing in Klarna's data protection declaration under the following link: https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/data/de_en/data_protection.pdf Our checkout solution is provided by Klarna (Klarna AB, Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden) and uses cookies to provide you with an ideal online experience tailored to your needs when using Klarna's checkout. A detailed list of cookies and an explanation of their purpose can be found at http://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/cookie/de_en/checkout.pdf
2.4 The person responsible for processing has integrated the component secupay.credit card of secupay AG (hereinafter referred to as "secupay"), Goethestr. 6, 01896 Pulsnitz, into this Internet site. secupay is a payment institution within the meaning of the Payment Services Supervision Act (Zahlungsdiensteaufsichtsgesetz, ZAG) and is registered with the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin), Graurheindorfer Str. 108, 53117 Bonn (registration number: 126737) and enables cashless payment of products and services on the Internet. secupay depicts a procedure by which the purchase price claim is assigned to secupay. This enables a merchant to deliver goods, services or downloads to the customer immediately after the order is placed. If you, as the person concerned, select "credit card" as the payment option during the ordering process in our online shop, your data is automatically transmitted to secupay. By selecting this payment option, you consent to the transmission of personal data required for the processing of payments. In the case of payment processing with "credit card", you as the buyer transmit the payment data to secupay. secupay then carries out a technical check of the risk of non-payment. The online merchant is then automatically informed of the transaction result. The personal data exchanged with secupay is first name, surname, address, e-mail address, IP address, telephone number or other data necessary for payment processing. The data is transmitted for the purpose of payment processing and fraud prevention. The person responsible for processing will also transmit other personal data to secupay if there is a justified interest in the transmission. The personal data exchanged between secupay and the person responsible for processing may be transmitted by secupay to credit agencies. The purpose of this transmission is to check identity and creditworthiness. The identity and creditworthiness check does not take place when payment is made by prepayment/bank transfer. If necessary, secupay passes on the personal data to affiliated companies and service providers or subcontractors if this is necessary to fulfil the contractual obligations or if the data is to be processed by order. You have the option of withdrawing your consent to the handling of personal data at any time from secupay. Revocation does not affect personal data that must be processed, used or transmitted for the (contractual) handling of payments. The applicable data protection regulations of secupay can be viewed at https://www.secupay.com/de/datenschutz.
2.5 If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider DHL (Deutsche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn, Germany), we will pass on your e-mail address to DHL prior to delivery of the goods for the purpose of agreeing a delivery date or notifying the shipping status, provided you have expressly consented to this as follows: "I agree that my e-mail address may be passed on to DHL (Deutsche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn) so that DHL can contact me by e-mail or provide status information on delivery before the goods are delivered for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date. I can revoke my consent to this at any time." Otherwise we only pass on the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DHL. In this case, it is not possible to agree the delivery date with DHL beforehand or to transmit status information on shipment delivery.
2.6 If UPS (United Parcel Service Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG, Görlitzer Straße 1, 41460 Neuss) delivers the goods, we will forward your e-mail address to UPS prior to delivery of the goods for the purpose of agreeing a delivery date or notifying UPS of the shipping status, provided you have expressly consented to this as follows: "I agree that my e-mail address may be passed on to UPS (United Parcel Service Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG, Görlitzer Straße 1, 41460 Neuss) so that UPS can contact me by e-mail or provide status information for shipment delivery prior to delivery of the goods for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date. I can revoke my consent to this at any time." Otherwise, we will only give the name of the recipient and the delivery address to UPS. In this case, prior agreement of the delivery date with UPS or transmission of status information for shipment delivery is not possible.
3) Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your mobile device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your terminal and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
4) Using Google AdWords Conversion Tracking
This website uses the Google AdWords online advertising program and Google AdWords Conversion Tracking. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on a Google-served ad. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired yet, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can not be tracked through AdWords advertisers' websites. The information gathered using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie through its Internet browser under User Preferences. You will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
For more information about Google's privacy policy, visit http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
5) Your rights and contact
You have a right to free information about your stored data and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. If you have any further questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact us. The same applies to information, blocking, deletion and correction requests regarding your personal data as well as to revocations of consents given. You will find the contact address in our imprint. For security reasons, the IP addresses are stored with every order.
For security reasons the IP address will be stored automatically when an order is placed.