Data protection declaration
We assure you that all data given to us by you will be treated with the utmost care and that in the collection, processing and use of your personal data our company acts in accordance with current and valid data protection regulations and other legal requirements. Our data protection policy is in accord with the BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act) and the TMG (German Teleservices Act). We attach maximum importance to protecting your data and safeguarding your privacy. Therefore, we provide information below regarding collection and use of personal data while using our website.
Anonymous data collection
You can visit our website without having to provide any personal details. We do not save any personal data in this connection. In order to improve our offer, we evaluate only the statistical data, which does not allow any inference of your personal details.
Collection, processing and use of personal data
We collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you.
Your personal data are processed and used for completing and processing your order and also for processing your requests.
After the contract is processed completely, all the personal data is first saved taking into account the retention periods under fiscal and commercial law and then deleted after the expiry of the deadline, if you have not approved of the further processing and use.
We make every effort to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, abuse or destruction. We employ SSL (“Secure Socket Layer” transmission), one of the most secure technologies on the market today, as our encoding and safeguarding software. This process is used successfully throughout the whole World Wide Web. The secure pages can be recognized by the symbol “locked padlock” () in the lower task bar of the browser. All personal data such as credit card number, bank code account number, name, address and e-mail address are thus transferred encoded and safeguarded through the internet. While transfer is taking place no unauthorized persons are able to read this information.
Cookies
In order that you can be recognized at your next online visit, we use ‘cookies’. Cookies are small text files that our web server sends to your computer in order to identify you for the length of your online visit. Cookies do not contain any personal data. Most browsers are adjusted to automatically accept cookies. This means that the relevant cookies are stored on your computer. Every time you revisit our internet site, your computer is recognized via the cookies stored on your computer so that you do not have to enter your personal data on the customer data sheet each time. In addition, cookies allow our systems to identify your browser and offer you services.
If you do not want cookies stored on your computer you can obstruct them by changing the adjustments on your browser so that it no longer accepts cookies.
Using the Remarketing or “Similar target groups” function of Google Inc.
The supplier uses the Remarketing or “Similar target groups” function of Google Inc. (“Google”) on the website. The supplier can use this function to specifically approach the visitors of this website with advertisements by running personalized, interest-related advertisements for visitors of the supplier’s website if they visit other websites in the Google Display network. Google uses so-called cookies for analyzing the website usage, which forms the basis for developing the interest-related advertisements. For this, Google saves a small file with a numerical sequence on the browsers of the website’s visitors. This number is used to record the visits to the website as well as anonymized data about the website usage. Personal data of the website’s visitors is not saved. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display network, pop-ups are displayed to you, which are likely to take into account previously accessed product and information fields. You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link given below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party suppliers by calling the deactivating site of the network advertising initiative on http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the additional information for Opt-Out mentioned there. Additional information regarding Google Remarketing as well as the data protection declaration of Google can be viewed on: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
Using Google Adwords conversion tracking
We use the online advertising service “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking within the scope of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”). If you click an advertisement run by Google, a cookie for the conversion tracking is saved on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity, do not contain any personal data and thus do not help in personal identification. If you visit specific webpages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can identify that you have clicked on the advertisement and were forwarded to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Thus, there is no option that cookies can be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information that is obtained with the help of the conversion cookie helps to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have decided on conversion tracking. Here, the customers find out about the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were forwarded to a site provided with a conversion tracking tag. You however do not receive any information which can be used to identify users personally. If you do not wish to take part in the tracking, you can disagree to this use by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software (deactivation option). You are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics. For additional information as well as for the data protection declaration, please visit: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the US and stored there. In the case of activation of IP anonymity on this website, your IP address will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address is transferred to a Google server in the USA and is shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other website activity and internet related services to the website operator. The IP address that was submitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be stored together with other data of Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, we point out that in this case you may not use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading available under the following link browser plugin and install: [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de].
The only disclosure of your personal data to third parties is exclusively within the scope of the services involved in the contract, such as, for instance, the freight and postal services who will be delivering the goods to you and the banks dealing with the payment transactions. In such cases, however, the disclosure of data is kept to the necessary minimum.
By entering your personal data and accepting this Privacy Policy, you consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data in accordance with the above data protection declaration.
You have the right to receive free information about the personal data stored about you. If the data stored by us about your personal data are incorrect, the data will be corrected on a notice from you. You also have the right to revoke your consent to the storage of personal data stored about your person at any time with effect for the future. In the event of a notice your saved personal data will be deleted, unless the relevant data are still needed to fulfill the obligations of the concluded contract or legal regulations preclude deletion.