Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
General information on the processing of personal data
You can visit our website without having to provide personal information. Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily disclose such data for the purpose of concluding a contract, opening a customer account or the establishment of contact. Without your explicit consent, this data is merely used for contract performance and processing your inquiries. Upon complete fulfillment of the contract and complete payment of the purchase price your data will be stored for tax and commercial law retention periods and will be deleted upon expiry of these periods, except if you explicitly agreed to the further use of your personal data. Furthermore, personal data is collected, if you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter. We use this data for our own advertising purposes in terms of our e-mail newsletter, provided you have explicitly consented to it. Your e-mail address will be deleted immediately after unsubscribing.
Transfer of Personal Data
Personal data is not disclosed to third parties, except if we need to disclose it to fulfill orders. If you provide personal data and agreed to the use of your personal data, these data are only used within the context you agreed to beforehand. We will save your personal data only for the time required to fulfill the purpose for which they were intended or for the time required due to legal regulations. When processing data, your concerns will be considered in accordance with the statutory provisions at all times. You can request information on your saved data at the competent department according to paragraph 1. Personal data is not disclosed to third parties except for the purposes of fulfilling the contract and settling payment.
Cookies
In order to make our website more user-friendly and provide special functionality, we use cookies on various sites. These are small text files stored on your computer. Some cookies (“Session cookies”) are automatically deleted from your hard drive upon the end of the browser session. Other cookies (“Permanent cookies”) remain on your computer system and allow us to recognize your computer system during your next visit. You can configure your Browser to notify you whenever a cookie is saved on your computer, so that you can decide to accept the cookie or not or to completely deactivate cookies. Please note that if you deactivate cookies, certain features of this website may not be available or restricted.
Use of Social Plugins
On our website, we use so-called Social Plugins (“Plugins”) of the social network Google+ of the Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The plugins are characterized by buttons displaying “+1” on white or colored background. An overview on Google Plugins and their representations are available here: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins If you open a webpage on our site, that contains such a plugin, your Browser opens a connection to Google Servers. The content of the plugin is directly transferred by Google to your browser and integrated on the site. By integrating the plugin, Google receives the information that your browser has visited the respective webpage of our website even if you do not have a Google+ user account or are not currently logged into Google+. This information (including your IP address) will be sent directly from your browser to a server from Google in the United States and stored there. If you are logged in to Google+, Google can directly associate the visit of our website with your Google+ profile. If you interact with one of the plugins for example by clicking the “+1” button, the corresponding information is also sent directly to a Google server and stored there. This information is also published on Google+ and your contacts can view it. For more information on the purpose, scope, processing and use of your data by Google and your corresponding rights, please see Google’s privacy policy: www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/. If you want prevent Google from associating data of your visit to our site with your Google+ profile, you have to log out from Google+. You can disable Google plugins by using add-ons like „NoScript” (http://noscript.net/) in your browser.
On our website, we use so-called Social Plugins (“Plugins”) of the social network Facebook of the Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plug-ins are characterized by the facebook logo or a note indicating “social plug-in by Facebook” or “Facebook social plug-in”. An overview on Facebook Plugins and their representations are available here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins. If you open a webpage on our site, that contains such a plugin, your Browser opens a direct connection to Facebook Servers. The content of the plugin is directly transferred by Facebook to your browser and integrated on the site. By integrating the plug-in, Facebook receives the information that your browser has visited the respective webpage of our website even if you do not have a Facebook user account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) will be sent directly from your browser to a server from Facebook in the United States and stored there. If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly associate the visit of our website with your Facebook profile. If you interact with one of the plugins for example by clicking the “Like” button or entering a comment, the corresponding information is also sent directly to a Facebook server and stored there. This information is also published on your Facebook profile and your friends can view it. For more information on the purpose, scope, processing and use of your data by Facebook and your corresponding rights, please see Facebook’s privacy policy: www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you want prevent Facebook from associating data of your visit to our site with your Facebook profile, you have to log out from Facebook. You can disable Facebook plugins by using add-ons like “Facebook Blocker” (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/) in your browser.
On our website, we use so-called Social Plugins (“Plugins”) of the micro-blogging service Twitterof the Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”). The plug-ins are characterized by the Twitter logo as for example the “Twitter bird”. An overview on Twitter Plugins and their representations are available here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons. If you open a webpage on our site, that contains such a plugin, your Browser opens a direct connection to Twitter Servers. The content of the plugin is directly transferred by Twitter to your browser and integrated on the site. By integrating the plugin, Twitter receives the information that your browser has visited the respective webpage of our website even if you do not have a Twitter account or are not currently logged in to Twitter. This information (including your IP address) will be sent directly from your browser to a server from Twitter in the United States and stored there. If you are logged in to Twitter, Twitter can directly associate the visit of our website with your Twitter account. If you interact with one of the plugins for example by clicking the “Twitter” button, the corresponding information is also sent directly to a Twitter server and stored there. This information is also published on your Twitter account and your contacts can view it. For more information on the purpose, scope, processing and use of your data by Twitter and your corresponding rights, please see Twitter’s privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy. If you want prevent Twitter from associating data of your visit to our site with your Twitter account, you have to log out from Twitter. You can disable Twitter plugins by using add-ons like „NoScript” (http://noscript.net) in your browser.
Web Analyses Service
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analyses service provided by Google Inc. („Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called ”cookies”, text files stored on your computer allowing to analyze your use of the website. The information provided by the cookie on your use of the website is usually transmitted to and stored on a server from Google in the United States. Within the member states of the European Union or in other countries that are parties to the European Economic Area Agreement, however, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google beforehand if IP anonymisation is activated on this website. Only in exceptional cases the complete IP address is sent to a Google server in the United States and abbreviated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and provide other services for the website operator relating to website and Internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google. You may prevent the storage of cookies by activating the respective setting on your browser software; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website to their full extent.. Furthermore, you may prevent Google from collecting and processing data on your website use generated by the cookie (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Please note that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” so that IP addresses are only processed in abbreviated form and users cannot be identified personally
Your rights and contact information
You are entitled to obtain information on your saved data free of charge and to correct, block or delete this data where applicable. Please contact us if you have any further questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data. The same shall apply for obtaining information, your requests to block, delete or correct your personal data as well as for withdrawals of granted consents. You can find our contact address in the About section.