DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT
1. Data privacy at a glance
General information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is all data which allows you to be personally identified. You can find detailed information on the subject of data privacy in our data privacy statement below this text.
Data recording on our website
Who is responsible for the recording of data on our website?
The data processing on this website is performed by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice for this website.
How do we record your data?
Your data is collected when you give it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.
Other data is automatically recorded by our IT systems when your visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of accessing the page). This data is recorded automatically as soon as you access our website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to guarantee an error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.
What rights do you have with regard to your data?
You have the right to access the origin, recipients and purpose of the personal data stored about you at any time, free of charge. You also have the right to demand that this data be corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time under the address provided in the legal notice if you have further questions on the subject of data privacy. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
Analysis tools and tools of third party providers
When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour can be analysed statistically. This is primarily performed by cookies and so-called analysis programs. Your surfing behaviour is generally analysed anonymously; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following data privacy statement.
You can object to this analysis. We will inform you of the options for raising objections in this data privacy statement.
2. General information and mandatory information
Data privacy
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We handle your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations as well as this data privacy statement.
When you use this website, various items of personal data will be collected. Personal data is data which allows you to be personally identified. This data privacy statement explains which data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.
Please be advised that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data from third party access is not possible.
Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke consent that has been granted at any time. An informal communication by email is sufficient for this. The lawfulness of the data processing which took place before the revocation shall remain unaffected by the revocation.
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of infringements of data protection law, the data subject has a right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in issues of data protection law is the data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company has its registered place of business. A list of the data protection commissioners and their contact details can be found under the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Right to data portability
You have the right to have data which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you demand the direct transfer of the data to another data controller, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transfer of confidential contents, for example orders or enquiries that you send to us as the website operator, our website uses an SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted link by the address line of the browser changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser line.
If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data which you submit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Access, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of the statutory provisions, you have the right to access your saved personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing, free of charge, and, if applicable, a right to correct, block or delete this data. You can contact us at any time under the address provided in the legal notice if you have further questions on the subject of personal data.
Objection to advertising emails
We hereby expressly object to the use of contact details which have been published in the context of our legal obligation to provide publication details for the purpose of sending advertising and information materials which have not expressly been requested. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal steps in the event of the unsolicited mailing of advertising information, for example through spam emails.
3. Data recording on our website
Cookies
The web pages make use of so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help to make our website more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies used by us are “session cookies”. They are deleted automatically after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set and thus only allow cookies on a case-by-case basis, reject cookies for specific cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. When cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
Cookies which are required for the performance of the electronic communication process or for the provision of certain functions which are desired by you (e.g. the shopping basket function) shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically perfect and optimised provision of its services. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your surfing behaviour) are stored, these shall be handled separately in this data privacy statement.
Server log files
The provider of the web pages collects information and automatically saves it in so-called server log files, which your browser transmits to us automatically. The information saved in these server log files includes:
- The browser type and browser version
- The operating system used
- The referrer URL
- The host name of the accessing computer
- The type of the server request
- The IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources.
The basis for the data processing is Art. 6 (1) b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or precontractual measures.
Contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your enquiries from the enquiry form, including the contact details provided there, will be saved for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions (Art. 6 (1) b GDPR).
We shall retain the data entered by you in the contact form until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to the storage of the data or the purpose for the data storage lapses (e.g. after the processing of your enquiry is completed). Mandatory statutory provisions – especially storage periods – shall remain unaffected.
Data transmission upon conclusion of a contract for services and digital content
We shall only pass on personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of the performance of the contract, for example to the bank commissioned with processing the payments.
A further transmission of data shall not take place or shall only take place if consent has expressly been granted to the data transmission. Your data shall not be passed on to third parties, for example for advertising purposes, without your express consent.
The basis for the data processing is Art. 6 (1) b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or precontractual measures.
4. Analysis tools and advertising
Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are stored on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analysed. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored.
Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of the user behaviour, in order to optimise its website and its advertising.
IP anonymisation
We have activated the IP anonymisation function on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website, in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide other services associated with the website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted from your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Browser plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by making a corresponding setting in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of this website. You can also prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) and its transmission to Google as well as processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Objection to the recording of your data
You can prevent the recording of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set, which prevents the recording of your data during future visits to this website.
You can find more information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics in the Google data privacy statement: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
5. Plugins and tools
Font Awesome
This website uses web fonts which are provided by Fonticons, Inc. for the uniform presentation of fonts. When a page is accessed, your browser loads the required web fonts in its browser cache in order to show texts and fonts correctly.
To this end, the browser used by you must establish a connection with the servers of Fonticons, Inc. This informs Fonticons, Inc. that our website is accessed via your IP address. Web fonts are used in the interests of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This is a legitimate interest in terms of Art. 6 (1) f GDPR.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
You can find further information on Font Awesome at https://fontawesome.com/help and in the data privacy statement of Fonticons, Inc.: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.