PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY

We are pleased that you visit our website and thank you for your interest! The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us, so please get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Information and data:

 

1) Basic principles for the handling of personal data

 

You can visit our website without disclosing your personal information. When accessing our website, usage data are transmitted through the respective Internet browser and stored in log files, the so-called server log files, such as date and time of the retrieval, page accessed, the amount of data transferred and the requestingprovider. This data can not be attributed to a specific person and are used exclusively to ensure a trouble-free operation of our website and to improve our services.

 

Personal data is collected when you voluntarily inform us of the execution of a contract or when opening a customer account. Which data are collected can be seen in the respective input forms. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done by a message to the contact option described below. We store and use your personal data for the contract management. After completion of the contract or cancellation of your account, your data with respect to tax and commercial storage periods, are blocked and deleted after expiry of these periods, unless you expressly consent to the further use of your data or a legally permitted of more use of data from our side was reserved, , which we will inform you accordingly.

 

In order to contact us (e.g. via the contact form or e-mail), personal data are collected, any data collected in the case of a contact form, can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for answering your request or for contacting you and for the related technical administration. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request, if you so wish and the cancellation does not imply any statutory storage obligations.

 

2) Transfer of personal data for order processing

 

2.1 The personal data collected by us are passed within the framework of the contract to the transport company responsible for delivery, as far as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We also share your payment information in the context of the processing of payments to the appointed credit institute.

 

2.2 In the event of a payment via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or – if available - the "Purchase on account" via PayPal, we will send your payment data within the scope of payment processing to the PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, P.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L- 2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as the "PayPal"). PayPal reserves the right to charge the credit card, direct debit payments via PayPal or - if available - "Purchase on account" via PayPal. PayPal uses the results of the creditworthiness check with regard to the statistical probability of payment default for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit information can contain probability values (so-called score values). As far as score values in the result of the credit are included, they have their basis in a scientifically recognized mathematical and statistical procedures. Among other things, address data included in the calculation of the score values. For further information on the protection of your personal data, including information on the credit bureaus, please refer to the privacy policy of PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

 

2.3 If you choose a payment method from the Stripe payment service provider, the payment processing takes place via the payment service provider: Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Harcourt Center, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2, Ireland, to which we share your information provided during the ordering process in addition to the information about your order (name, address, account number, bank code, credit card number, invoice amount, currency and transaction number). The transfer of your data is exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider – Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. For more information on Stripe's privacy policy, please visit https://stripe.com/us/terms

 

3) Cookies

 

In order to make the visit of our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies on several 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 (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our partner companies, to recognize your browser when you next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and individually decide about its adoption or acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally ruled out. For the non-acceptance of cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

 

4) Use of social plugins

 

On our website uses social plugins ("Plugins") of the Instagram online service, which is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example, in the form of an "Instagram camera". An overview of the Instagram plugins and their appearance can be found here: Http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges.

 

When you view a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser connects directly to the Instagram servers. The contents of the plugin are from Instagram directly to your browser and are integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram gets the information that your browser has accessed on the relevant page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or have just logged into Instagram. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to an Instagram server in the United States and stored therein.

 

If you are logged into Instagram, Instagram can directly assign the visit of our website to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, you press the "Instagram Camera" button, this information is also sent directly to an Instagram server and stored there. The information is also published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts.

 

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of data by Instagram, as well as their rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the Instagram Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/.

 

If you do not want Instagram to map the data collected through our website directly to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before you visit our website. You can also completely prevent Instagram plugin by downloading script blocker add-ons for your browser, for example, the "NoScript" via (http://noscript.net/).

 

5) Your Rights and contact

 

You have a right to free information about your stored data, as well as a right to correction, blocking or deletion of these 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, cancellation and correction requests regarding your personal data,  as well as for cancellations granted consent.The contact address can be found in our imprint.