Data Privacy
Privacy Policy
We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest! The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us; therefore, please take note of the following information regarding the handling of your data:
1) Fundamental Principles for Handling Personal Data
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time our website is accessed, usage data is transmitted by the respective internet browser and stored in protocol files, known as server log files, such as the date and time of access, the name of the page accessed, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person and serves exclusively to ensure the trouble-free operation of our website and to improve our services.
Personal data is collected if you voluntarily provide it to us for the execution of a contract or when opening a customer account. The specific data collected can be seen in the respective input forms. You may delete your customer account at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below. We store and use the data you provide for contract processing. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked with respect to tax and commercial retention periods and deleted after these periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or a legally permitted further use of data has been reserved by us, about which we inform you accordingly below.
When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is collected. The data collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for responding to your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your inquiry, provided you so wish and there are no legal retention obligations to the contrary.
Furthermore, personal data is collected when you subscribe to our email newsletter.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by sending a corresponding message to us. After unsubscribing, your email address will be immediately deleted from our newsletter distribution list.
2) Disclosure of Personal Data for Online Payments
2.1 When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or – if offered – “purchase on account” via PayPal, we pass your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”), as part of the payment processing. PayPal reserves the right to conduct a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or – if offered – “purchase on account” via PayPal. PayPal uses the result of the credit check regarding the statistical probability of payment default for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things, is included in the calculation of the score values. For further information on data protection law, including the credit agencies used, please refer to PayPal’s privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
2.2 If you choose a payment method from the payment service provider Stripe, payment processing is carried out via the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2, Ireland, to whom we pass on the information provided during the ordering process along with information about your order (name, address, account number, bank code, possibly credit card number, invoice amount, currency, and transaction number). Your data is passed on exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. Further information on Stripe’s data protection can be found at the URL https://stripe.com/de/terms
3) Cookies
In order 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 end 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 end device and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
4) Web Analysis Service
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer 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 a Google server in the USA and stored there.
However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened 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 activity, and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we 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 and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as 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=en
As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent future collection by Google Analytics within this website (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain; if you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again):
Please note that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” and therefore IP addresses are only processed in shortened form to exclude direct personal reference.
5) Your Rights and Contacting Us
You have a right to free information about your stored data as well as, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. If you have further questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, please contact us. The same applies to information, blocking, deletion, and correction requests regarding your personal data as well as for the revocation of granted consents. The contact address can be found in our Legal Notice.