data protection

We are delighted that you are interested in our online shop. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we will provide you with detailed information about how we handle your data.

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time you access a website, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.

This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offering. In accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, this serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

Hosting services provided by a third party
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the forms provided for this purpose in the online shop as described below are processed on their servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework explained here.

This service provider is based in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can can be viewed here . Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

2. Data collection and use for contract processing 

We collect personal data when you provide it to us as part of your order or when you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases we absolutely need the data to process the contract or to process your contact and you cannot complete the order or send the contact without providing this data. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b of GDPR to process the contract and process your enquiries. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after any retention periods under tax and commercial law have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

3. Data transfer

In order to fulfil the contract in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b of GDPR, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to payment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service in order to process payments. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the data protection declaration of the respective payment service provider applies.

4. E-mail newsletters and postal advertising

E-mail advertising with newsletter registration
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration.

The newsletter will be sent as part of processing on our behalf by a service provider to whom we pass on your email address for this purpose.

This service provider is based in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can can be viewed here . Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

Postal advertising and your right to object
In addition, we reserve the right to use your first and last name as well as your postal address for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to send you interesting offers and information about our products by post. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in advertising to our customers, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR.

5. Cookies and web analytics

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. Cookies are small text files that are automatically saved on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can find out how long they are stored for in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US
Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html

If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (www.google.de), to analyze its website. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other Google data. Once the purpose no longer applies and we no longer use Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be here Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to 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 under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.

6. Advertising via marketing networks

Google AdWords Remarketing
We use Google Adwords to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. When you visit our website, Google sets a so-called remarketing cookie, which automatically enables interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you visit. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our website, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. Once the purpose no longer applies and we no longer use Google AdWords Remarketing, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any further data processing will only take place if you have given Google your consent to link your web and app browsing history to your Google account and to use information from your Google account to personalize ads that you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. To do this, Google will temporarily link your personal data to Google Analytics data to create target groups.

Google AdWords Remarketing is an offer from Google LLC (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be here Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can delete the remarketing cookie via this link deactivate. You can also log in to the Digital Advertising Alliance inform you about the setting of cookies and make settings accordingly.

7. Social Media Plug-Ins

Use of social plugins from Instagram
Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks. 
If you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plug-in, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page on our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile in the respective social network. If you interact with the plug-ins, for example by pressing the "Like" or "Share" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our offer, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. 
The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as a contact option and your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers. 
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

If you do not want the social networks to assign the data collected via our website directly to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the relevant service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the plugins from loading using add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/).

8. Contact options and your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

• pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;
• pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the rectification of inaccurate or completion of your personal data stored by us;
• pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing
  - to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
  - to fulfill a legal obligation;
  - for reasons of public interest or
  - to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
  is required;
• pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
  - you dispute the accuracy of the data;
  - the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure;
  - we no longer need the data, but you require it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
  - you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
• pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
• pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or of our company headquarters.

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consent granted or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.