Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither required by law or contract nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to provide it has no consequences. This applies only insofar as no other information is given for the following processing operations.
"Personal data" is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Server Log Files
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Usage data is transmitted by your internet browser and stored in log files (server log files) each time you access our website. This stored data includes, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider. This data serves exclusively to ensure the smooth operation of our website and to improve our offering. It is not possible to assign this data to a specific person.
Collection and Processing When Using the Contact Form
When using the contact form, we collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, message text) only to the extent that you provide it. This data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact. By submitting your message, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR with your consent.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal. We use your e-mail address only to process your inquiry. Your data will then be deleted, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.
Customer Account
When opening a customer account, we collect your personal data to the extent specified there. This data processing serves the purpose of improving your shopping experience and simplifying order processing. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR with your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal. Your customer account will then be deleted.
Data Collection When Writing a Comment
When commenting on an article or a post, we collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, comment text) only to the extent that you provide it. This processing serves the purpose of enabling commenting and displaying comments. By submitting the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR with your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal. Your personal data will then be deleted.
When your comment is published, only the name you provided will be published.
Collection, Processing and Use of Personal Data for Orders
When placing an order, we collect and use your personal data only to the extent necessary to fulfil and process your order and to handle your inquiries. Providing the data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide it means no contract can be concluded. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR and is necessary for the performance of a contract with you. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. The only exceptions are our service partners, which we need to process the contractual relationship, or service providers we use as part of order processing. In addition to the recipients named in the respective clauses of this privacy policy, these include, for example, recipients in the following categories: shipping service providers, payment service providers, inventory management service providers, order processing service providers, web hosts, IT service providers, and dropshipping merchants. In all cases, we strictly comply with legal requirements. The scope of data transmission is limited to the minimum necessary.
Use of the E-mail Address for Sending Newsletters
Independent of contract processing, we use your e-mail address exclusively for our own advertising purposes to send newsletters, provided you have expressly consented to this. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR with your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by notifying us. Your e-mail address will then be removed from the distribution list.
Your data will be passed on to a service provider for e-mail marketing as part of order processing. It will not be passed on to any other third parties.
Your data is transferred to a third country for which an adequacy decision by the European Commission exists.
Use of an External Inventory Management System
We use an inventory management system as part of order processing. For this purpose, your personal data collected as part of the order is transmitted to
Billbee GmbH, Paulinenstrasse 54, 32756 Detmold, Germany
.
Use of PayPal
All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal privacy policy. You can find it at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev?locale.x=de_DE
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in, or by, the internet browser on a user's computer system. When a user visits a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified the next time the website is visited. We use cookies to make our offering more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Furthermore, cookies allow our systems to recognise your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognised again even after a page change.
We also use cookies on our website to enable an analysis of our website visitors' surfing behaviour.
Furthermore, we use cookies for the purpose of subsequently addressing website visitors on other websites with targeted, interest-based advertising.
Processing is carried out on the basis of Section 15 (3) TMG as well as Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on the legitimate interest in the purposes stated above.
The data collected from you in this way is pseudonymised through technical measures. It is therefore no longer possible to assign the data to your person. The data is not stored together with any other personal data of yours.
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Cookies are stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your internet browser, you can prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Cookies already stored can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
You can find out how to manage (including disable) cookies in the most common browsers via the following links:
Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Use of Google Analytics
We use the web analytics service Google Analytics from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google") on our website. Data processing serves the purpose of analysing this website and its visitors. To this end, Google will use the information obtained on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide the website operator with further services related to website usage and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.
Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. IP anonymisation is activated on this website. As a result, your IP address is shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Your data may be transferred to the USA. An adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for data transfers to the USA. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on the legitimate interest in the demand-oriented and targeted design of the website. You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate technical settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]. To prevent tracking by Google Analytics across devices, you can set an opt-out cookie. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. You must carry out the opt-out on all systems and devices used for it to take full effect. If you click here, the opt-out cookie will be set: Disable Google Analytics.
Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
Use of Facebook Remarketing
We use the "Custom Audiences" remarketing function of Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; "Facebook") on our website.
This function serves the purpose of targeting website visitors with interest-based advertising on the Facebook social network.
For this purpose, the Facebook remarketing tag has been implemented on the website. When the website is visited, this tag establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. This transmits to the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. If you visit the Facebook social network, you will then be shown personalised, interest-based Facebook ads. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR based on the legitimate interest in the purpose stated above.
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
You can deactivate the "Custom Audiences" remarketing function here.
Further information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your related rights, and options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook's privacy notices at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
Use of Facebook Plug-ins
This website uses plug-ins from the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). When you visit pages on our website that contain such a plug-in, a connection to the Facebook servers is established, and the plug-in is displayed on the page by notifying your browser. This transmits to the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a Facebook member at the same time, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plug-in functions (e.g. clicking the "Like" button, leaving a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plug-in.
If you do not want Facebook to directly assign the collected information to your Facebook profile, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our website or block the loading of Facebook plug-ins on our pages by using a "Facebook blocker".
Further information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your related rights, and options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook's privacy notices: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Use of the Google "+1" Button
This website uses the "+1" button of the Google Plus social network of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page on our website containing the "+1" button, a connection to the Google servers in the USA is established, and the button is displayed on the page by notifying your browser. Both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited are transmitted to the Google server. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in with Google Plus. Transmission also takes place for unregistered or non-logged-in users. The "+1" button is not used to track your visits on the internet. When displaying a "+1" button, Google does not permanently log your browser history, nor does it otherwise evaluate your visit to a page with a "+1" button. Google stores data about your visit for around two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. However, this data is not structured by individual profiles, usernames, or URLs, and is not forwarded to us. If you are also a member of Google Plus and are logged in to Google Plus while using the plug-in, the collected information about your page visit is linked to your Google Plus account and disclosed to other users. Corresponding information about you is also collected, transmitted to, and stored by Google in the case of interactions possible with the various Google plug-ins. You can view an overview of the various types of Google plug-ins here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/
If you have made your profile publicly accessible in your Google Plus settings, your "+1" may be displayed by Google, together with your profile name and photo, as notices in Google services such as search results or your Google profile, or elsewhere on websites and advertisements on the internet. If you do not want Google to directly assign the collected information to your Google Plus profile, you must log out of Google Plus before visiting our website.
Further information on the collection and use of data by Google, your related rights, and options for protecting your privacy can be found in Google's privacy notices: www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.
You also have the option of preventing the loading of Google plug-ins by installing appropriate add-ons in your browser.
Use of Twitter Plug-ins
The functions of the Twitter service are integrated into our website. Twitter is a social media portal operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, (USA).
We use Twitter plug-ins. When you visit a corresponding page containing such a plug-in, data is exchanged with Twitter's servers located in the USA. Corresponding information about you is also collected and transmitted to and stored by Twitter in the case of interactions possible with the various Twitter plug-ins. If you are also a member of Twitter and are logged in to Twitter while using the plug-in, the collected information about your website visit is linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users.
If you do not want Twitter to link and merge the information with your Twitter account data, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website.
Further information on the collection and use of data by Twitter can be found at https://twitter.com/privacy.
Use of Pinterest Plug-ins
This website uses plug-ins from the social network Pinterest, operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA ("Pinterest").
You can view the different logos containing the plug-in (e.g. the "Pin It" button or the "P" button) at the following link: https://business.pinterest.com/pin-it-button/
When you visit a page on our website containing such a plug-in, a connection is established between your computer and Pinterest's servers, and the plug-in is displayed on the page by notifying your browser. Both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited are transmitted to the Pinterest server in the USA. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in with Pinterest. Transmission also takes place for unregistered or non-logged-in users.
If you are also a member of Pinterest and are logged in to Pinterest while using the plug-in, the collected information about your page visit is linked to your Pinterest account and disclosed to other users. Corresponding information about you is also collected and transmitted to and stored by Pinterest in the case of interactions possible with the various Pinterest plug-ins.
If you do not want Pinterest to link and merge the information with your Pinterest account data, you must log out of Pinterest before visiting our website. Further information on the collection and use of data by Pinterest can be found at https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Use of YouTube
We use the function for embedding YouTube videos from YouTube LLC. (901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA; "YouTube") on our website.
YouTube is a company affiliated with Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google").
The function displays videos stored on YouTube in an iFrame on the website. The "enhanced privacy mode" option is activated. As a result, YouTube does not store any information about the website's visitors. Only when you watch a video is information about it transmitted to and stored by YouTube.
Further information on the collection and use of data by YouTube and Google, your related rights, and options for protecting your privacy can be found in YouTube's privacy notices (https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy).
Use of Google Maps
We use the function for embedding Google Maps maps from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google") on our website.
The function enables the visual display of geographic information and interactive maps.
When pages containing embedded Google Maps maps are accessed, Google also collects, processes, and uses visitor data. Further information on the collection and use of data by Google can be found in Google's privacy notices at https://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. There, in the privacy centre, you also have the option of changing your settings so that you can manage and protect your data processed by Google.
Your data may also be transferred to the USA in this context. An adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for data transfers to the USA.
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
To do so, you must disable JavaScript in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website, such as the interactive map display, to their full extent.
Duration of Storage
After the contract has been fully processed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, and thereafter in accordance with statutory retention periods, in particular tax and commercial law requirements, and is then deleted after the expiry of these periods, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.
Rights of the Data Subject
Provided the statutory requirements are met, you are entitled to the following rights under Art. 15 to 20 GDPR: the right to information, to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, and to data portability.
Furthermore, under Art. 21 (1) GDPR, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, as well as to processing for the purpose of direct marketing.
Please contact us if you wish. Contact details can be found in our legal notice.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority
In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your personal data is not lawful.