PRIVACY

We are pleased that you have visited our shop and would like to thank you for your interest in our company, our products and our web pages. It is important to us that your private information be protected while using our web pages. Therefore, please be aware of the following information:

1. Anonymous Data Collection

On principle, you may visit our web pages without informing us of your identity. We only save the name of your Internet Service Provider, the web page from which you are visiting us and the name of the file requested. This information is analysed solely for statistical purposes and serves to improve our service. As an individual user, you remain anonymous for these purposes.

2. Collection and Processing of Personal Data

Personal data are only collected and saved if you instruct us to do so, for example, for performance of a contract or upon opening a customer account. These data are only used without your express permission for the conclusion of contracts and to process your orders, as well as for customer information in the form of our newsletter. After the contract has been completed and the full price has been paid, your data will be saved in accordance with record keeping periods imposed by tax and commercial law; however, the data will be deleted after the expiry of these periods provided you have not expressly authorised the further use of your data.

The email address you provided us with at the time of forming the contract shall, after the completion of the contract, be used solely for our own promotional purposes in the form of our newsletter to advertise similar products also produced by us or services similar to those you ordered. You may at any time object to the use of your email address without incurring any costs in excess of those required to communicate your objection to us in accordance with the basic rates. Your objection (and with it, the cancellation of your subscription to our newsletter) can be entered using the link provided in the newsletter for this purpose or by sending us a message. After successful objection, your email address will immediately be deleted.

Your order data will be sent to you by email.

Personal data will be used for other purposes only with your express authorisation to do so.

3. Transfer of Personal Data, Credit Check

In order to complete the contract, the personal data collected from you shall be provided to the carrier company commissioned for your delivery, to the extent necessary for the delivery of the item.

Further transfer of personal data may occur if this is necessary to protect our rights, such as may occur if a claim is asserted.

For all orders that are not paid in advance, we reserve the right to perform a credit check to protect our legitimate interests. For this purpose, data transfer in accordance with the applicable legal provisions shall occur with the following service provider:

Schufa Holding AG
Hagenauer Strasse 44
D - 65203 Wiesbaden

Otherwise, your personal data will not be made available to third parties. 

4. Cookies

Our online shops use so-called “cookies,” among others, which on the whole make our website more user-friendly, more effective and safer – including for the purposes of facilitating navigation on our platform. Additionally, cookies give us the ability to measure the frequency with which pages are called up and the navigation of the site in general. We hereby draw your attention to the circumstance that some of these cookies will be copied from our server to your system and saved there as so-called “session cookies.” “Session cookies” are characterised by being automatically deleted from your hard drive afterwards. Of course, you may at any time refuse cookies, provided your browser supports this functionality.

5. Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics employs so-called “cookies,” which are text files that are saved on your computer and which enable your use of the website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, in order to generate reports regarding website activity for the operator of the website and further to offer goods and services connected to the use of websites and the internet. Google will potentially also forward this information to third parties, insofar as this is provided for by law or provided third parties have been commissioned by Google to process this data. In no case shall Google associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You may prevent the installation of cookies by choosing the appropriate setting in your browser software; however, we hereby inform you that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. By using the website, you accept the processing of the data collected by Google about you in the aforementioned ways and manners and for the aforementioned purpose.

6. Further Information and Contacts

Should you have further questions regarding data protection, please contact us. The contact addresses may be found in our Website Credits section. You may enquire at any time regarding what data of yours we have saved. You may further send us information regarding your data, regarding the deletion or correction of your data and may also make requests by email or letter.