Privacy

Privacy policy Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is not required by law or contract, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Non-provision has no consequences. This applies only insofar as no other information is given in the following processing procedures. "Personal data" means all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Server log files You can visit our websites without giving any personal information. Whenever you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host / IT service provider by your Internet browser and stored in log files (so-called server log files). These stored data include, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (German Data Protection Act) out of our predominant legitimate interest in ensuring the trouble-free operation of our website as well as to improve our offer. Orders Collection, processing and transfer of personal data for orders When you place an order, we collect and process your personal data only to the extent necessary to fulfill and process your order and to process your inquiries. The provision of the data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide the data means that no contract can be concluded. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and is necessary for the fulfilment of a contract with you. Your data will be passed on, for example, to the shipping companies and dropshipping providers you have chosen, payment service providers, service providers for order processing and IT service providers. In all cases we strictly observe the legal requirements. The extent of the data transfer is limited to a minimum. Contact Reviews Newsletter Collection and processing when using the contact form When using the contact form, we only collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, message text) to the extent that you have provided it. The data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact. By sending your message you agree to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. We will only use your e-mail address to process your request. Your data will then be deleted unless you have agreed to further processing and use. Data collection when writing a commentary When commenting on an article or contribution, we only collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, comment text) to the extent that you have provided it. The processing serves the purpose of enabling commenting and displaying comments. By sending the comment, you agree to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. Your personal data will then be deleted. If your comment is published, only the name you have given will be published. In addition, your IP address will be saved when you submit your comment for the purpose of preventing misuse of the comment function and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. By sending the comment you agree to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. Your IP address will then be deleted. Buyer's seal customer evaluation On our website we use the buyer's seal customer evaluation tool of the Händlerbund Management AG (Torgauer Straße 233 B, 04347 Leipzig). After your order we would like to ask you to rate and comment on your purchase with us. For this purpose you will be contacted by us by e-mail, whereby we will use the technical system of the provider of the Buyer's Seal evaluation tool within the framework of order processing. Your data will be processed either with your consent or on the basis of our legitimate interest. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 letter a DSGVO with your consent, provided that you have expressly agreed to receive the evaluation request. You can revoke your consent at any time by using the corresponding link in the e-mail, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. Your e-mail address will then be removed from the mailing list. Processing without express consent is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 letter f DSGVO from the legitimate interest in truthful, verified evaluations of our services in the context of direct advertising. For this purpose, we will send an electronic request for evaluation of your own goods or services that you have already purchased from us. The mailing is sent to the e-mail address that we have received from you in the course of the sale of a product or service. The dispatch of the request for evaluation is subject to the proviso that you have not objected to this use of your e-mail address. The objection is possible at any time by notifying us. The contact details for exercising the objection can be found in the imprint. You can also use the link provided for this purpose in the evaluation request. This will not incur any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs. The personal data stored in this context in the technical system of the Buyer's Seal evaluation tool will be deleted 3 months after the delivery of goods recorded for evaluation. Use of the e-mail address for sending newsletters We use your e-mail address independently of the contract execution exclusively for our own advertising purposes for the newsletter dispatch, provided that you have expressly agreed to this. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing that has taken place on the basis of the consent until revocation. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by informing us. Your e-mail address will then be removed from the distribution list. Your data will be passed on to a service provider for e-mail marketing within the scope of order processing. Your data will not be passed on to other third parties. Your data will be transferred to a third country for which an appropriateness decision of the European Commission exists. Payment service provider credit information Use of PayPal All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal Privacy Policy. This can be found at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-f... Use of the Klarna Checkout The checkout solution is provided by Klarna AB (Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden) and uses cookies to provide you with an ideal, customized online experience when using the checkout. The processing is based on art. 6 par. 1 letter a DSGVO with your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing that has taken place on the basis of the consent until revocation. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate technical settings in your browser software; 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. A detailed list of cookies and an explanation of their respective purpose can be found here https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/c... Use of personal data when choosing Klarna as a method of payment If you have chosen Klarna's payment services Klarna Invoice and/or Klarna Installment Purchase as payment option, you have agreed that we have collected and transmitted to Klarna the following personal data necessary for the processing of the purchase on account and an identity and credit check, such as first and last name, address, date of birth, gender, e-mail address, IP address, telephone number as well as the data necessary for the processing of the purchase on account, which are related to the order, such as the number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent. The data processing serves the purpose of offering the payment methods invoice purchase and installment purchase as well as the necessary credit assessment. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 letter a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. This data is transmitted so that Klarna can issue an invoice and carry out an identity and credit check in order to process your purchase with the invoice processing you requested. Klarna needs the personal data of the buyer to obtain information from credit agencies for the purpose of identity and credit assessment. In Germany these can be the following credit agencies: - Schufa Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65203 Wiesbaden - Bürgel Business Information GmbH & Co. KG, Postfach 5001 66, 22701 Hamburg - Creditreform Bremen Seddig KG, Contrescarpe 17, 28203 Bremen - infoscore Consumer Data GmbH, Rheinstraße 99, 76532 Baden-Baden. As part of the decision on the establishment, execution or termination of the contractual relationship, Klarna collects and uses information on the buyer's past payment history and probability values on this behavior in the future, in addition to address verification. Klarna's calculation of these score values is based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Klarna will also use your address data for this purpose. Should this calculation show that your creditworthiness is not given, Klarna will inform you immediately. Revocation of the use of personal data to Klarna 1. you can revoke your consent to Klarna to use your personal data at any time. However, Klarna may still process, use and transfer your personal data if this is necessary for the contractual handling of payments by Klarna's services, if it is required by law or if it is demanded by a court or an authority. 2. you can of course obtain information about the personal data stored by Klarna at any time. This right is guaranteed by the Federal Data Protection Act. If you as a buyer wish to do so or if you want to inform Klarna about changes regarding the stored data, you can contact datenschutz@klarna.de. Cookies Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on a user's computer system. If a user calls up a website, a cookie can be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again. We use these cookies for the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a change of page. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of our predominantly justified interest in guaranteeing the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our offer. Cookies are stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and can decide individually whether to accept them or not, as well as prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Already stored cookies can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. Under the following links you can find out how you can manage the cookies of the most important browsers (including deactivating them): Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?h... Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/win... Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben... Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manag... Advertising Analysis The data processing described below in this section, in particular the setting of cookies, is carried out with your consent on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation. Use of Google Analytics We use the web analysis service Google Analytics of Google LLC on our website. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). The data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this website and its visitors. To this end, Google will use the information obtained on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services to the website operator in connection with website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymization is activated on this website. As a result, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is thus committed to complying with the European data protection guidelines. 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 plug-in available at the following link [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]. To prevent data collection and storage by Google Analytics across devices, you can set an opt-out cookie. Opt-out cookies prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website. You must opt-out on all systems and devices in use to be fully effective. If you delete the opt-out cookie, requests will again be sent to Google. If you click here, the opt-out cookie will be set: Disable Google Analytics. For more information on terms of use and privacy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. Use of the remarketing or "similar target groups" function of Google We use the remarketing or "Similar Target Audience" feature of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google") on our website. The application is designed to analyze visitor behavior and interests. Google uses cookies to perform website usage analysis, which is the basis for the creation of interest-based advertisements. The cookies are used to record visits to the website as well as anonymous data on the use of the website. There is no storage of personal data of visitors to the website. If you visit another website in the Google Display network, you will be shown advertisements that most probably take into account previously accessed product and information areas. Your data may be transferred to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is thus committed to complying with the European data protection guidelines. You can permanently disable Google's use of cookies by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=d... Alternatively, you can prevent the use of cookies by third parties by going to the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and following the opt-out information provided there. For more information about Google Remarketing and the associated privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ Use of Google Ads conversion tracking We use the online advertising program "Google Ads" on our website and, in this context, conversion tracking (visitor action evaluation). Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). When you click on an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is placed on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity, do not contain any personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages on our site and the cookie has not expired, Google and we may recognize that you have clicked on the ad and been directed to that page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. As a result, there is no way that cookies can be tracked across the sites of ads customers. The information collected through the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics. This tells us the total number of users who have clicked on one of our ads and been redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, we do not receive information that personally identifies users. Your information may be transferred to the USA. Google has certified itself under the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is committed to complying with European privacy laws. You can disable personalized advertising for you in Google's advertising settings. You can find instructions on how to do this at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=d... Alternatively, you can prevent the use of cookies by third parties by going to the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and following the opt-out information provided there. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. For more information and Google's privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ Use of Facebook Remarketing On our website we use the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" of Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; "Facebook"). The purpose of the application is to target website visitors with interest-based advertising on the social network Facebook. For this purpose, the Facebook remarketing tag was implemented on the website. This tag is used to establish a direct connection to the Facebook servers when visiting the website. This tells the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When you visit the social network Facebook, you will then see personalized, interest-based Facebook ads. Your data may be transferred to the USA. Facebook has certified itself according to the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is thus committed to complying with European data protection guidelines. You can deactivate the remarketing function "Custom Audiences" here. You can find more detailed information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, on your rights in this regard and on ways to protect your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Use of Google AdSense We use the AdSense function of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google") on our website. The data processing serves the purpose of renting advertising space on the website and to target visitors to the website with interest-related advertising. This feature enables the provider to serve personalized, interest-based advertising from the Google Display Network to visitors to the provider's website. Google uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Google has certified itself in accordance with the US-EU data protection agreement "Privacy Shield" and is thus committed to comply with the European data protection guidelines. You can permanently disable the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=d... Alternatively, you can prevent the use of cookies by third parties by going to the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and following the opt-out information provided there. For more information and Google's privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/,... https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ Use of Bing Ads We use Bing Ads of Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA; "Microsoft") on our website. When you click on an ad placed by Microsoft Bing Ads, a conversion tracking cookie is placed on your computer. This cookie has a limited validity and is not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages on our site and the cookie has not expired, Microsoft and we may recognize that you have clicked on the ad and been directed to that page. Information collected using the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics. We learn the total number of users who clicked on one of our ads and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. This does not allow us to personally identify those users. Your data may be transferred to the USA. Microsoft has certified itself under the U.S.-E.U. Privacy Shield Agreement and is committed to complying with the European Data Protection Directives. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. As a result, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. For more information on data protection and the cookies used by Microsoft Bing, please visit: https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystateme... Plug-ins Use of Facebook plug-ins This website uses the plug-ins of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). If you call up pages of our website provided with such a plug-in, a connection to the Facebook servers is established and the plug-in is displayed on the page by informing your browser. This tells the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Facebook, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plug-in functions (e.g. clicking the "Like" button, submitting a comment) this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plug-in. If you do not want Facebook to assign the collected information directly to your Facebook profile, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our website or block the loading of the Facebook plug-ins on our pages by using a "Facebook blocker". You can find more detailed information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, on your rights in this regard and on ways to protect your privacy in Facebook's privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php Using the Google "+1" button This website uses the "+1" button of the social network Google Plus of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page of our website marked with the "+1" button, a connection to Google's servers in the USA is established and the button is displayed on the page by notifying your browser. In doing so, both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited are transmitted to the Google server. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in to Google Plus. Even if you are not registered or not logged in, a transmission will take place. The "+1" button is not used to record your visits to the Internet. Google does not permanently log your browsing history when you click on a "+1" button, nor does it otherwise analyze your visit to a page with a "+1" button. Google stores data about your visit for about two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. However, this data is not structured according to individual profiles, user names or URLs and is not forwarded to us. In addition, if you are a member of Google Plus and logged into Google Plus while using the plug-in, the information collected about your site visit will be linked to your Google Plus account and shared with other users. Also, in the case of interactions that are possible with the various Google plug-ins, the corresponding information about you is collected, transmitted to Google and stored. An overview of the different types of Google Plug-ins can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/ If you have made your profile publicly available in Google Plus Preferences, your "+1" may be displayed by Google as clues along with your profile name and photo in Google services, such as search results or your Google Profile, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the Internet. If you do not want Google to associate the information collected directly with your Google Plus profile, you must log out of Google Plus before visiting our website. For more information about Google's collection and use of this information, your rights in this regard, and ways to protect your privacy, please refer to Google's privacy policy: www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html You also have the possibility to prevent the Google plug-ins from loading by installing appropriate add-ons in your browser. Use of Twitter plug-ins The functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our website. Twitter is a social media portal of the company Twitter Inc.,795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, (USA) We use Twitter plug-ins. If you visit a page that contains such a plug-in, the data will be exchanged with the Twitter servers located in the USA. Also, in the case of interactions that are possible with the various Twitter plug-ins, the corresponding information about you will be collected, transmitted to Twitter and stored. Furthermore, if you are a member of Twitter and logged in to Twitter while using the plug-in, the collected information about your website visit will be linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. If you do not want Twitter to link and merge the information with your Twitter account information, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website. For more information about Twitter's collection and use of data, please visit https://twitter.com/privacy. Use of Pinterest plug-ins This website uses plug-ins from the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA ("Pinterest"). The different logos that contain the plug-in (e.g. the "Pin-it button" or the "P″ button) can be viewed at the following link: https://business.pinterest.com/pin-it-button/ When you access a page on our website that contains such a plug-in, a link is established between your computer and Pinterest's servers, and the plug-in is displayed on the page by notifying your browser. This will transmit both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited to the Pinterest server in the USA. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in with Pinterest. Even if you are not registered or not logged in, the information is transmitted. Furthermore, if you are a member of Pinterest and are logged in to Pinterest when you use the plug-in, the information collected about your visit to the site will be linked to your Pinterest account and shared with other users. Also, in the case of interactions that are possible with the various Pinterest plug-ins, the corresponding information about you is collected and transmitted to Pinterest and stored. If you do not want Pinterest to link and merge the information with your Pinterest account data, you must log out of Pinterest before visiting our website. For more information on the collection and use of data by Pinterest, please visit https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy. Using Instagram plug-ins This web site uses plug-ins from the Instagram online service, which is operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). When you access pages on our Web site that contain such plug-in, a connection to the Instagram servers is established and the plug-in is displayed on the page by notifying your browser. The Instagram servers receive both your IP address and information about which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram associates this information with your personal account. When using the plug-in functions (e.g. clicking the "Instagram" button) this information is also associated with your Instagram account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plug-in. If you do not want Instagram to associate the collected information directly with your Instagram account, you must either log out of Instagram before visiting our website or use an add-on, such as the script blocker "NoScript" (noscript.net), to block your browser from loading the Instagram plug-in on our website. For more information about Instagram's collection and use of data, your rights and ways to protect your privacy, please refer to Instagram's Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 Using YouTube We use the YouTube video embedding feature on our website provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; "YouTube"), a company affiliated with Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google"). The feature displays videos stored on YouTube in an iFrame on the website. The option "Advanced Privacy Mode" is activated. As a result, YouTube does not store any information about visitors to the website. Only when you watch a video is information about it sent to YouTube and stored there. Your data may be transferred to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement and is thus committed to complying with the European data protection guidelines. For more information about YouTube's and Google's collection and use of data, your rights in this regard, and ways to protect your privacy, please refer to the YouTube Privacy Notice (https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy). Data subject rights and storage duration Duration of storage After the contract has been completely processed, the data will be stored initially for the duration of the warranty period, thereafter under consideration of legal, in particular tax and commercial law retention periods, and then deleted after the period has expired, unless you have consented to further processing and use. Rights of the person concerned If the legal requirements are met, you are entitled to the following rights in accordance with Art. 15 to 20 DSGVO: right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to data transferability. In addition, according to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO as well as to processing for the purpose of direct advertising. Please contact us upon request. The contact details can be found in our imprint. Right of appeal to the supervisory authority In accordance with Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you believe that your personal data is being processed unlawfully. Right of objection If the personal data processing activities listed here are based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Par. 1 letter f DSGVO, you have the right to object to these processing activities at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation, with effect for the future. After the objection has been made, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims. If personal data is processed for purposes of direct advertising, you can object to this processing at any time by notifying us. Once you have done so, we will stop processing the data concerned for the purpose of direct marketing. last update: 19.11.2018