Privacy Policy
We are pleased about your interest in our online magazine. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.
1. Access data and hosting
You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time a webpage is accessed, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.
This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site as well as for improving our offer. This serves according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in a correct representation of our offer as part of a balancing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after your visit to the site.
Hosting services by a third party
As part of processing on our behalf, a third party provides us with services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in a correct representation of our offer as part of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in forms designed for this purpose in the online shop, as described below, will be processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework explained here.
This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
2. Data collection and use for contract execution and when 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. Mandatory fields are marked as such since we need the data in these cases for the contract processing or for processing your contact request or opening of the customer account, and you cannot complete the order and/or the account opening without providing this information.
Which data are collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provided in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for contract processing and handling your inquiries.
After full processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be restricted for further processing and will be deleted after the expiration of tax and commercial retention periods, provided you have not expressly consented to further use of your data, or we reserve the right to data usage beyond that, which is legally permissible and which we inform you about in this statement.
Deleting your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or through a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.
3. Data transfer
To fulfill the contract in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, we pass your data on to the shipping company assigned with the delivery, as far as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods.
Depending on which payment service provider you select during the ordering process, we will forward the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution tasked with the payment and, if necessary, to the payment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service.
Partially, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves, as far as you create an account there. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process.
The privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies in this respect.
Data transfer to shipping service providers
If you have granted us your express consent during or after your order, we will pass on your telephone number to the selected shipping service provider based on this consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, so that this can contact you for the purpose of delivery notification or coordination before delivery.
The consent can be revoked at any time by a message to the contact option described below or directly to the shipping service provider at the contact address provided below.
After revocation, we will delete your data you provided for this purpose, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve a data usage beyond that, which is legally permissible and which we inform you about in this statement.
Deutsche Post AG
Data Protection Officer
Gabriela Krader, LL.M.
53250 Bonn
Germany
4. E-mail newsletters and postal advertising
Email advertising with newsletter registration
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the necessary or separately provided data by you to regularly send you our email newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, 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 email address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve a data usage beyond that, which is legally permissible and which we inform you about in this statement.
Email advertising without newsletter registration 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, such as those already purchased, from our range via email based on § 7 para. 3 UWG. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in a commercial approach to our customers as part of a balancing of interests.
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 link provided for this purpose in the promotional email without incurring other costs than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.
The newsletter is sent on our behalf by Infusion Software, Inc. (www.infusionsoft.com), to which we will pass on your email address for this purpose.
Infusion Software, Inc. is based in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Due to 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
Furthermore, we reserve the right to use your first and last name as well as your postal address for our own promotional purposes, e.g. for sending interesting offers and information about our products by mail. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in marketing our offerings as part of a balancing of interests according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
5. Cookies and web analysis
In order to make our website attractive for visitors and to enable the use of certain features, display suitable products, or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimizing the presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
Cookies are small text files that are automatically 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 during your next visit (persistent cookies). The duration of storage can be found in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. 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 this for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/cookies-allow-and-reject
If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
As far as you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR (cookie consent functionality active on our website from 25.05.2018), this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service of Google LLC (www.google.com). Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is generally transferred to a server of Google in the USA and stored there.
By activating IP anonymity on this website, the IP address is truncated before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a server of Google in the USA and truncated there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other data from Google. After the purpose has been fulfilled and the use of Google Analytics by us ends, 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 viewed here. Due to 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 withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
This prevents the collection of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google.
Alternatively to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be placed on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will be asked again to provide your consent.
6. Advertising via marketing networks
Google AdWords Remarketing
We advertise on Google AdWords for this website in the Google search results as well as on third-party websites. As far as you have granted us your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR (cookie consent functionality active on our website from 25.05.2018), when visiting our website, the so-called remarketing cookie from Google is set, which automatically enables interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you visited. After the purpose has been fulfilled and the use of Google AdWords Remarketing by us ends, the data collected in this context will be deleted.
Further data processing only takes place if you have consented to Google linking your web and app browsing history with your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalize advertisements that you see on the web.
If you are logged into Google during your visit to our website in this case, Google uses your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define audience lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, your personal data is temporarily linked with Google Analytics data by Google to form target groups.
Google AdWords Remarketing is an offering of Google LLC (www.google.com). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Due to 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 withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating the remarketing cookie via this link. In addition, you can inform yourself about cookie settings at the Digital Advertising Alliance and make settings for this.
7. Social media plugins
Use of social plugins from Facebook, Instagram
Our website uses so-called social plugins (
