1. Data privacy at a glance

General information

The following document provides a simplified overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data includes all data that can be used to personally identify you. Full information on the topic of data privacy is available in the Data Privacy Declaration provided under this text.

Data capturing on our website

Who is responsible for data capturing on this website?

Data is processed on this website by the website operator. The operator's contact information is provided in the Legal Notice for this website.

How do we record your data?

Your data is recorded first when you share it with us. This may include data, for instance, that you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit our website. This includes, primarily, technical data (e.g. your web browser, operating system or the time you accessed the page). This data is recorded automatically when you access our website.

How do we use your data?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free delivery of the website. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have with respect to your data?

You have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time regarding the origin, recipients, and purpose of your saved personal data. You also have a right to request the rectification, blockage or deletion of this data. If you have questions in this respect or other questions on the topic of data privacy, you can contact us at the address indicated under our Legal Notice at any time. In addition, you have the right to submit complaints to a responsible supervisory authority.

Analytic tools and tools from third party providers

When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour may be statistically evaluated. We do so primarily using cookies and with so-called analytic programmes. Typically, your surfing behaviour is evaluated anonymously; your surfing behaviour cannot be tracked back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information is provided in the following Data Privacy Declaration.

You can object to this analysis. We will inform you of your options for objecting in this Data Privacy Declaration.

2. General information and obligatory information

Data protection

The operator of this website takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with statutory data privacy regulations and this Data Privacy Declaration.

A variety of personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data includes data that can be used to personally identify you. This Data Privacy Declaration explains what data we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose data is collected.

Please note that data transmission through the internet (such as when communicating via e-mail) may involve security gaps. It is not possible to ensure seamless protection of your data against access by third parties.

Notification of the data controller

The data controller for data processing on this website is:

The data controller is the natural or legal person that decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (such as names, e-mail addresses, etc.), either alone or along with other parties.

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are not possible without your explicit consent. You can revoke an existing consent at any given time. In this context, an informal e-mail from you to us would suffice. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

The affected person has a right of appeal to a supervisory authority, if they consider that there have been violations of data protection law. The competent supervisory authority for data protection is the data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company is located. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found on 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 we process automatically based on your consent or to fulfil an agreement delivered to you, or to have such data delivered to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request that the data be directly transmitted to another data controller, we will only do so if technically possible.

SSL and TLS encryption

For security reasons, and to protect the transmission of confidential content such as orders or inquiries you sent to us as the page operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection because the address line of the browser will switch from “http://” to “https://” and a lock symbol will appear in your browser line.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Encrypted payment transactions on this website

If a paid agreement is concluded and you are obligated to send us your payment data (such as an account number for a direct debit authorisation), this data is required to process the payment.

Payment transactions using common payment methods (Visa/MasterCard/direct debiting) is completed exclusively through an encrypted SSL or TLS connection. You can recognise an encrypted connection because the address line of the browser will switch from “http://” to “https://” and a lock symbol will appear in your browser line.

During encrypted communication, the payment data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Right to information, blocking, deletion

You are entitled free of charge to receipt of information about the personal data relevant to you that is stored by us, source of the data and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and have right to rectification, blocking or deletion of this data if and where necessary. If you have questions in this respect or other questions on the topic of personal data, you can contact us at the address indicated under our Legal Notice at any time.

Objection to advertising e-mails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published to fulfil our Legal Notice obligations to deliver advertisements or informational material we have not expressly requested. The operator of this website expressly reserves the right to take legal steps if advertising information such as spam e-mails are sent without our request.

3. Data Protection Officer

Legally appointed Data Protection Officer

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer for our company.

4. Data capturing on our website

Cookies

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

Most of the cookies we use are called “session cookies”. These are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain saved on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.

You can change your browser settings so you will be informed when cookies are saved, or allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. If you deactivate cookies, the function of this website may be restricted.

Cookies required to carry out electronic communication or provide certain functions you request (such as the shopping cart function) are saved pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in saving cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services. If other cookies (such as cookies used to analyse your surfing behaviour) are saved, these are dealt with separately in this Data Privacy Declaration.

Server log files

The provider of this website automatically collects and saves information in so-called server log files, which your browser transmits to us automatically. This includes:

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server inquiry
• IP address

This data is not combined with data from other data sources.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which allows for data processing to fulfil an agreement or carry out pre-contractual measures.

Contact form

If you send us an inquiry using the contact form, we will save your information from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, for the purpose of processing your inquiry and answering any follow-up questions. We do not transmit this data to other parties without your consent.

Data entered into the contact form, therefore, is processed solely on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. In this context, an informal e-mail from you to us would suffice. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

We retain data you enter into the contact form until you request that we delete it, revoke your consent to save data, or until the purpose for data processing is complete (e.g. after we finish processing your inquiry). Mandatory legal regulations, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.

Registration on this website

You can register on our website to use additional functions on the page. We only use the data you enter for this purpose to use the offers or services for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration must be completed in full. Otherwise, we will reject the registration.

We use the e-mail address you entered during registration to inform you of important changes, for instance to the scope of services or technically required changes.

Data entered during registration, therefore, is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke consent you have granted at any time. In this context, an informal e-mail from you to us would suffice. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to that point remains unaffected by the revocation.

We save data recorded during registration for as long as you are registered on our website, after which we delete it. Statutory retention periods shall remain unaffected.

Comment function on this website

In addition to your comment, information on the time the comment was created, your e-mail address, and, if you do not post anonymously, the user name you select will be saved for the comment function on this website.

Saving your IP address

Our comment function saves the IP addresses of users who enter comments. Since we do not review comments before they are released on our website, we need this data to prosecute the commenter in case of illegal content such as libel or propaganda.

Duration of saving comments

Comments and associated data (such as IP addresses) are saved and remain on our website until the content on which the comment was posted is completely deleted, or the comment must be deleted for legal reasons (such as abusive comments).

Legal basis

Comments are saved on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke consent you have granted at any time. In this context, an informal e-mail from you to us would suffice. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to that point remains unaffected by the revocation.

Processing data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only if it is necessary for initiating, designing the content of, or changing a legal relationship (existing data). This is done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which allows for data processing to fulfil an agreement or carry out pre-contractual measures. We only collect, process and use personal data on the use of our website (usage data) if this is necessary to allow the user to take advantage of our services or to bill our services.

The collected customer data is deleted after the conclusion of the order or the end of the business relationship. Statutory retention periods shall remain unaffected.

Data transmission when concluding agreements for online ships, dealers and merchandise deliveries

We transmit personal data to third parties only if necessary to carry out an agreement, for instance to companies engaged to deliver merchandise or a credit institution commissioned with payment processing. Data is not transmitted to other parties, or is only transmitted if you have expressly agreed to the transmission. Your data is not transmitted to third parties without your express consent, for instance for advertising purposes.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which allows for data processing to fulfil an agreement or carry out pre-contractual measures.

Data transmission upon conclusion of contract for services and digital content

We transmit personal data to third parties only if necessary to carry out an agreement, for instance to the credit institution commissioned with payment processing.

Data is not transmitted to other parties, or is only transmitted if you have expressly agreed to the transmission. Your data is not transmitted to third parties without your express consent, for instance for advertising purposes.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, which allows for data processing to fulfil an agreement or carry out pre-contractual measures.

5. Social media

This website does not use any social media plug-ins (Facebook, Google+1, Twitter, etc.).

6. Analytic tools and advertisement

Matomo

Data is collected and saved on this website using the web analytic software Matomo (www.matomo.org), a service of the provider InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand (“Matomo”) based on our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Pseudonymised user profiles can be created and analysed for the same purpose based on this data. Cookies may be used to do so. Cookies are small text files saved locally in the buffer storage of the website visitor's internet browser. These cookies allow us to recognise the internet browser, among other services. Data collected using the Matomo technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) is processed on our servers. . Information in the pseudonymised user profile generated through the cookie is not used to personally identify visitors to this website, and is not combined with personal data on the bearer of the pseudonym. If you do not consent to the storage and analysis of this data resulting from your visit, then you can object to the storage and use by clicking on the following at any time. If you do so, an opt-out cookie will be saved in your browser, which will prevent Matomo from saving any session data. Please note that if you delete all cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may have to reactivate it.

7. Newsletter

Newsletter data

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we will need an e-mail address from you and information allowing us to ensure that you are the owner of the provided e-mail address and that you consent to receive the newsletter. Further data will not be collected, or will only be collected on a voluntary basis. We only use this data to send the information you request, and do not provide it to third parties.

Data entered into the newsletter registration form is processed solely on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent granted to save your data and your e-mail address and to use it to send the newsletter at any time, for instance by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to that point remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data we have saved on you for the purpose of sending the newsletter will be saved until you deregister from the newsletter, and then deleted after you unsubscribe from the newsletter Data saved for other purposes (such as e-mail addresses for the member area) shall remain unaffected.

8. Plug-ins and tools

YouTube

Our website uses plug-ins from the page YouTube, which is operated by Google. The website operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit a page which includes a YouTube plug-in, a connect is created to YouTube servers. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, this allows YouTube to directly associate your surfing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

We use YouTube in the interest of presenting our online services in an attractive manner. We have a legitimate interest in doing so in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on how user data is handled is provided in the YouTube Data Privacy Declaration at:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy .

Vimeo

Our website uses plug-ins from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit a page which includes a Vimeo plug-in, a connect is created to Vimeo servers. The Vimeo server is informed which of our pages you visited. In addition, Vimeo receives your IP address. This also applies even if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have a Vimeo account. Information recorded by Vimeo is transmitted to Vimeo servers in the USA.

If you are logged into your Vimeo account, this allows Vimeo to directly associate your surfing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

Further information on how user data is handled is provided in the Vimeo Data Privacy Declaration at:
https://vimeo.com/privacy .

Google Maps

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

Use of Google Maps functions is required to save your IP address. This information is typically transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there. The provider of this website has no influence over this data transmission.

We use Google Maps in the interest of designing our online services in an attractive manner and making it easier to find the locations provided by us on the website. We have a legitimate interest in doing so in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on how user data is handled is provided in the Google Data Privacy Declaration at:
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .