Privacy Policy

Introduction
Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your personal data is important to us. This
privacy policy is intended to inform the users of this website about the nature, scope and purpose of the
collection and use of personal data by the website operator [insert your contact details].

We take your privacy very seriously and treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with
the statutory provisions. As new technologies and the continuous development of this website may result
in changes to this privacy policy, we recommend that you read through the privacy policy again at
regular intervals.

Your personal data (e.g. title, name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and payment details)
will only be processed by us in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law and the
data protection law of the European Union (EU). In addition to the processing purposes, recipients, legal
bases, and storage periods, the following regulations also inform you about your rights and the person
responsible for your data processing. This privacy policy refers only to our websites. If you are
forwarded to other sites via links on our sites, please inform yourself there about the respective handling
of your data.

Server-Logfiles
Once you visit our website, it is technically necessary that data is transmitted to our web server via your
Internet browser. The following data is recorded during an active connection for communication between
your internet browser and our web server-

➢ Date and time of the request
➢ Name of the requested file
➢ Page from which the file was requested
➢ Access status
➢ Web browser used and operating system used
➢ (Full) IP address of the requesting computer
➢ Transmitted amount of data
We collect the listed data to guarantee a frictionless connection establishment and to enable
comfortable use of our website by the users. The log file also serves for evaluating system security and
stability as well as administrative purposes. The legal basis for the temporary storage of data or log files
is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For reasons of technical security, to prevent attempts to attack our web server, we may temporarily store
this data. It is not possible for us to draw conclusions about individual persons based on this data. After
90 days at the latest[A1], the data is made anonymous by shortening the IP address at the domain level, so
that it is no longer possible to establish a reference to the individual user. This data is not evaluated in
an anonymous form except for statistical purposes. This data is not combined with data from other data
sources.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies which are stored on your device by the browser and contain certain settings
for the use of the website (e.g. the current session). 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 stored
by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies, which are automatically
deleted after the browser is closed. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete
them, or the storage period expires.

These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit. In some cases, cookies are used
to simplify website processes by saving settings (e.g. settings that have already been made during
previous visits). If personal data are also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the
processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either to fulfil the contract or in
accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible
functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
To accept or refuse all or certain cookies, you can set up your browser to inform you when cookies are
set. You can also activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. The cookie
settings for the respective browsers can be customized under the following links:
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
You can also individually manage the cookies of many companies and functions that are used for
advertising purposes. Details about the user tools are available at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
Most browsers also offer a “do-not-track- feature” This feature allows you to indicate that you do not
want to be “tracked” by websites. When the function is activated, the browser will tell ad networks,
websites, and applications that you do not want to be tracked for the purpose of behavior-based
advertising and such like. For information and instructions on how to use this feature, see the links
below:
Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/dnt/
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17288/windows-internet-explorer-11-usedo-not-track
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en-GB
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri40732/mac
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/de/notrack.html
In addition, you can prevent the loading of scripts by default. No Script allows you to run Java Scripts,
Java, and other plug-ins only on trusted domains of your choice. Information and instructions on how
to use this function can be obtained from your browser’s provider (e.g. for Mozilla Firefox at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/noscript/).
Please note that deactivating cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
Payment service providers
Use of PayPal
All PayPal transaction is covered by the PayPal Data Privacy Statement. You can find this at
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full?locale.x=en
Use of PayPal Express
Our website uses the payment service PayPal Express from PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. (22-
24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg; “PayPal”).
The processing of data enables us to offer you the option of paying via the PayPal Express payment
service. To integrate this payment service, it is essential that PayPal collects, stores, and analyses data
when you access the website (e.g. IP address, device type, operating system, browser type, device
location). Cookies may be used for this purpose. Cookies allow your internet browser to be recognized.
The use of cookies or comparable technologies is based on § 15 para. 3 p. 1 TMG. The processing of
your personal data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR out of our overriding legitimate interest in a
customer-oriented offer of different payment methods. On grounds relating to your particular- situation,
you have the right to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you.
By selecting and using “PayPal Express”, the data required for payment processing will be submitted to
PayPal to execute the agreement with you using the selected payment method. The data is processed
based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Further information on data processing when using the Paypal Express
payment service can be found here in the associated data privacy policy.
Shipping companies
Forwarding your email address to shipping companies for information on shipping status We forward
your email address to the shipping company during contractual processing, if you have explicitly agreed
to this in the order process. The forwarding is for the purpose of informing you by email of the shipping
status of your order. The processing will be carried out based on art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us or the transport company without affecting
the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the withdrawal.
Analysis

Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, an internet analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited,
Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”
and web beacons. The information generated in relation to the use of this website is transferred by default
to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We use Google Analytics only with IP anonymization
enabled. This means that Google will reduce the IP address of users within Member States of the
European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, which
may exclude any personal relationship. Google Inc., based in the USA, is certified for the US-European
data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level
applicable in the EU. Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR based on
your given consent.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyze your use of the
website and to generate reports on website activity. Google also uses this information to provide other
services related to the use of the website and the internet to the website operator. The IP address sent by
your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data. The terms of use of
Google Analytics and information on data protection can be accessed via the following links:
http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/
You can prevent cookies from being saved by adjusting the settings of your browser software
accordingly. However, we must point out that in this case, you will not be able to use all functions of this
website without restrictions. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the
cookie and analyzing your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data
by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Facebook Pixel
We use “Facebook Pixel” on our website. Facebook Pixel is a service by Facebook Inc., 1601 S
California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA (“Facebook”). Facebook Pixel enables Facebook to
display our advertisement on Facebook, so-called “Facebook Ads”, to Facebook users who visit our
website and are interested in our online offer. Facebook Pixel allows us to check whether a user was
redirected to our website after clicking on the Facebook advertisement. Facebook Pixel uses cookies,
and small text files, which are locally stored on your web browser in your terminal device.
(1) When you are logged in to your Facebook account, visiting our online offer will be noted in your user
account. The collected data are anonymized, so conclusions about user identities cannot be made.
Nevertheless, Facebook may link these data to your user account. If you have a registered Facebook
account, data concerning the website visit can be linked with your user account.
(2) If you have given your consent, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We
use Facebook Pixel for marketing and optimizing purposes to improve our offers.
(3) You can object to the acquisition of data by Facebook Pixel as well as the use of your data to display
advertisement. You can adjust your settings regarding the advertisements displayed to you by Facebook
at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads. We want to point out that this setting will be deleted when
you delete your cookies. You can Cookies used for advertising purposes and reach measurement at:
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
http://www.aboutads.info/choices
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/
This setting will be deleted when you delete your cookies.
(4) Facebook is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which
guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. More information can be
found at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active
(5) Further information concerning Facebook’s privacy, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square,
Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Irland, are available at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.
Information concerning Facebook Pixel is available at:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616
Google Maps [A3]
We use Google Maps on this website. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon
House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To guarantee the functionality of Google Maps, we store your
IP-address. This information is sent to and stored on Google’s servers in the USA. We want to provide
our online offer in an appealing way and ease the search for addresses. If you have given your consent,
the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The provider of this website has no
influence on the data transfer. Google is certified for the US-European data protection agreement
“Privacy Shield”, which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. More
information can be found at
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active. Further details
about the handling of data can be found in Google’s privacy policy:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/
Google Web Fonts
This site uses web fonts provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4,
Ireland (“Google”) to uniformly display fonts. Google Web Fonts allows us to use external fonts, so-called Google Fonts. When you visit our website, the required Google Font is loaded from your web
browser into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. This is necessary so that your
browser can also show an optically improved representation of our texts. If your browser does not
support this feature, your computer will use a standard font for display. These web fonts are integrated
by a server call, usually a Google server in the USA. This transfers to the server which page of our
website you have visited. Google also stores the IP address of the browser of the visitor’s terminal device.
We use Google Web Fonts for optimization purposes, to improve the use of our Internet presence for
you and to make its design more user-friendly. This is also our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para.
1 lit. f GDPR.
Google has signed and certified itself under the Privacy Shield Agreement between the European Union
and the USA. By doing so, Google undertakes to comply with the standards and regulations of European
data protection law. Further information can be found at:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Further information on data protection can be found in Google’s data protection declaration:
http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
For more information about Google Web Fonts, visit http://www.google.com/webfonts/,
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?hl=en-GB&csw=1
https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about.
Data Transfer and Recipients
Your personal data is not transferred to third parties, unless
➢ we have explicitly pointed this out in the description of the respective data processing.
➢ you have given your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
the transfer pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the assertion,
exercise or defence of legal claims and our legitimate interests are not overridden by your
fundamental rights and freedoms.
➢ there is a legal obligation to transfer data pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, and
➢ required by Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for the execution of contractual relationships
with you.
In addition, we use external service providers for the processing of our services, whom we have carefully
selected and commissioned in writing. They are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored
by us. Required data processing agreements pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR are concluded before the
commission. These contracts concern web hosting services, the dispatch of emails and IT updates and
maintenance. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties by our service providers.
Rights of persons affected and storage duration
Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the
warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and
commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further
processing and use.
Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR:
Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a
right of objection against processing based on Art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of
direct marketing, according to Art. 21 (1) GDPR.
Right to complain to the regulatory authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that
your data is not being processed legally.
Right to object
If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f)
GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your situation to object at any time to the processing
of your data with future effects.
If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate
compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms,
or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
If personal data is being processed for the purposes of direct advertising, you can object to this at any
time by notifying us. If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data for the
purposes of direct advertising.
last update: 10.03.2024