Privacy and data protection

Privacy Policy

Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal data is neither required by law or contract, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to provide it will have no consequences. This applies only to the extent that subsequent processing operations no other indication is made. "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

E-mail advertising with newsletter registration

If you register for 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 pursuant to Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either 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 e-mail address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.

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Server log files:
You can visit our websites without providing any personal information.
Every time you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web hoster / IT service provider by your Internet browser and stored in log data (so-called server log files). These stored data includes, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO due to a legitimate interest in ensuring the trouble-free operation of our website as well as to improve our offer.

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 provided by you. The data processing serves the purpose of contacting you. By sending your message, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data.
The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO with your consent.
You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of theprocessing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is affected. We will use your e-mail address only for processing your request. Your data will then be deleted unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Customer account:
When opening a customer account, we collect your personal data to the extent specified there.The data processing serves the purpose of improving your shopping experience and simplifying the order processing. The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation is affected. Your customer account will subsequently deleted.

Collection, processing and disclosure of personal data when placing orders:
When you place an order, we collect and process your personal data only insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment and processing of your order and to process your requests. The provision of the data is
necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide the data means that no contract can be concluded. The processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and is required for the fulfillment of a contract with you.
A transfer of your data takes place in this context, for example, to the shipping companies and Dropshipping providers, payment service providers, service providers for order processing and IT service providers. In all cases, we strictly observe the legal requirements. The scope of the data transfer is limited to a minimum.

Buyer seal customer rating:
On our website, we use the Käufersiegel customer rating tool of Händlerbund Management AG (Torgauer Straße 233 B, 04347 Leipzig). After your order, we would like to ask you to rate and comment on your and comment on your purchase.
For this purpose, you will be contacted by us via e-mail, whereby we will use the technical system of the of the provider of the Käufersiegel rating tool as part of an order processing.
Your data will be processed either with your consent or on the basis of our legitimate interest.
The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para.1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent, provided that you have given your
of evaluation request explicitly. You can revoke your consent at any time by use the appropriate link in the email, without affecting the legality of the consent given on the basis of the consent until the revocation is affected. Your e-mail address will then be removed from the removed from the distribution list.
The processing without explicit consent is based on Art. 6 para.1 lit. f DSGVO from the legitimate interest in truthful, verified assessments of our services in the context of direct direct advertising. For this purpose, we send an evaluation request in electronic form for our own goods or services that you have already purchased from us. The dispatch takes place to the e-mail address that we have received from you in connection with the sale of a good or service.
The sending of the evaluation request is subject to the proviso that you have not objected to this use of your e-mail address.
The objection is possible at any time by notifying us.
You can find the contact data for the exercise of the objection in the imprint. You can also use the link provided for this purpose in the
evaluation request. This does not incur any costs other than the transmission costs according to the prime rates.
The personal data stored in this connection in the technical system of the buyer seal evaluation tool will be deleted personal data will be deleted 3 months after the delivery of goods recorded for evaluation.

Use of PayPal:
All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal privacy policy. This can be found at
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev?locale.x=de_DE

Use of Klarna:

In order to be able to offer you the payment options of Klarna, we will transmit personal data, such as contact data and order data, to Klarna. This allows Klarna to assess whether you can use the payment options offered through Klarna and to adapt the payment options to your needs. General information about Klarna is available >here<. Your personal information will be treated by Klarna in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations and as specified in >Klarna's Privacy Policy<.

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Cookies:
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the internet browser on the computer system of a user. If a user calls up a website a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again. We use cookies for the purpose of making our website more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after a page to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered not be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is also recognized be recognized after a page change. The processing is carried out on the basis of § 15 (3) TMG as well as Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO from the legitimate interest in the above-mentioned purposes.
The data collected from you in this way is pseudonymized by technical precautions. An assignment of the data to your person is therefore no longer possible. The data will not be stored together with stored together with other personal data of yours. You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to exercise this right at any time based on processing of personal data relating to you based on Art. 6 (1) f DSGVO. Cookies are stored on your computer. Therefore, you 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 transmission of the data they contain. Already stored cookies can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all of the not be able to use all the functions of this website.

Under the following links you can find out how to manage cookies in the most important browsers (including deactivating them).
(including how to deactivate them):
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

Duration of storage:
After the contract has been fully processed, the data will initially be stored for the duration of the warranty period, thereafter under consideration of legal, in particular tax and commercial law retention periods and then get deleted after expiry of the period, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Rights of the data subject:
You are entitled to the following rights according to Art. 15 to 20 DSGVO if the legal requirements are met:
Right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to Data portability.
In addition, according to Art. 21 (1) DSGVO, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 (1) f DSGVO, as well as against processing for the purpose of direct marketing.
Contact us if you wish. You can find the contact details in our imprint.
Right of complaint to the supervisory authority Pursuant to Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you are of the view that the processing of your personal data is not carried out lawfully.

Right of objection:
If the personal data processing listed here is based on our legitimate
interest according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, you have the right to object to these processing operations at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object to this processing at any time with effect for the future. After the objection has been lodged, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
If personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you may 
object to this processing at any time by notifying us. After the objection has been made, we will terminate the processing of the data concerned for the purpose of direct marketing.
last update: 25.04.2018