Privacy

Privacy Policy
We appreciate your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about how your data is handled.

Storage of Access Data in Server Log Files
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. We only store access data in so-called server log files, such as the name of the requested file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider. This data is evaluated exclusively to ensure trouble-free operation of the site and to improve our services, and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about your identity.

Data Collection and Use for Contract Processing and Opening a Customer Account
We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us in the course of your order, when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email), or when opening a customer account. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you have provided for contract processing and handling your inquiries. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after expiry of the tax and commercial law retention periods, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we have reserved the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you below. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a dedicated function in the customer account.

Data Transfer for Contract Fulfillment
For contract fulfillment, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. For processing payments, we pass on the necessary payment data to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to payment service providers commissioned by us or to the payment service selected by you during the ordering process.

Data Use When Subscribing to the Email Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to regularly send you our email newsletter. 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 designated link in the newsletter.

Data Use for Email Advertising Without Newsletter Subscription and Your Right to Object
If we receive your email address in connection with the sale of a product or service and you have not objected to this, we reserve the right to regularly send you offers for similar products to those already purchased from our range by email. You can object to this use of your email address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a designated link in the advertising email, without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs at the basic rates.

Credit Check and Scoring
If we provide advance services, e.g. when purchasing on account, we reserve the right to obtain identity and credit information from specialized service companies (credit agencies) to protect our legitimate interests. For this purpose, we transmit your personal data required for a credit check to the following company/companies:

Creditreform Boniversum GmbH
Hellersbergstraße 11
41460 Neuss

The credit information may contain probability values (score values) that are calculated on the basis of scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical methods and in whose calculation, among other things, address data are included. The information obtained about the statistical probability of a payment default is used by us for a balanced decision on the establishment, execution, or termination of the contractual relationship. Your legitimate interests are taken into account in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Use of Cookies
To make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google Remarketing
This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. ("Google"). This function is designed to present interest-based advertisements to visitors of the website within the Google advertising network. The website visitors browser stores so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that make it possible to recognize the visitor when they visit websites that belong to the Google advertising network. On these pages, advertisements can then be presented to the visitor that relate to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use the Google remarketing function. According to its own statements, Google does not collect any personal data during this process. If you nevertheless do not wish to use the Google remarketing function, you can generally deactivate it by making the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-based advertising via the advertising network initiative by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Further information on Google Remarketing and the Google privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

Use of Google Analytics for Web Analysis
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (www.google.de). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. IP anonymization is active on this website. 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 activity, and to provide other services related to website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; 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 the collection of data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
As an alternative to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. In doing so, an opt-out cookie will be placed on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will need to click the link again.

Google Ads and Conversion Measurement:
Online marketing procedures for the purpose of placing content and advertisements within the advertising network of the service provider (e.g. in search results, in videos, on websites, etc.), so that they are displayed to users who have a presumed interest in the advertisements. In addition, we measure the conversion of the advertisements, i.e. whether users have taken them as an occasion to interact with the advertisements and to use the advertised offers (so-called conversions). However, we only receive anonymous information and no personal information about individual users.

Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR)
Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Basis for third country transfers: Data Privacy Framework (DPF), Data Privacy Framework (DPF)
Further information: Types of processing and data processed: https://business.safety.google/adsservices/. Data processing terms between controllers and standard contractual clauses for third country data transfers: https://business.safety.google/adscontrollerterms.

Review Reminder by Trusted Shops
If you have given us your express consent during or after your order by activating a corresponding checkbox or clicking a button provided for this purpose ("Rate later"), we will transmit your email address for the purpose of reminding you to submit a review of your order to Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15c, 50823 Cologne (www.trustedshops.de), so that they can remind you by email of the possibility of submitting a review. This consent can be revoked at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or directly to Trusted Shops.

Right to Information and Contact Options
You have the right to free information about the data stored about you, and if applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. If you have questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking, or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consent given or objection to a particular data use, please contact us directly via the contact details in our legal notice.