Privacy policy

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company and our products or services. The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us. Therefore, please take note of the following information:

1) Collection, processing and use of personal data

You can generally visit our websites without us collecting personal data from you. Personal data is only collected if you provide it to us voluntarily for the performance of a contract, when opening a customer account or within the scope of contacting us. These data are used without your express consent solely for contract processing and handling your inquiries. After complete processing of the contract, your data will be blocked with regard to tax and commercial law retention periods and deleted after expiry of these periods.

2) Disclosure of personal data

2.1 The personal data collected by us are passed on, within the scope of contract processing, to the transport company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods.

2.2 When paying by credit card via PayPal or by direct debit via PayPal, we pass on your payment data within the scope of payment processing to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. Further information on data protection at PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. can be found here: https://cms.paypal.com/de/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/Privacy_full&locale.x=de_DE

3) Cookies

In order to make visiting 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 used by us are deleted again 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 about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

4) Use of Twitter plugins

So-called social plugins ("plugins") of the microblogging service Twitter, operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA ("Twitter"), are used on our website. The plugins are marked with a Twitter logo, for example in the form of a blue "Twitter bird". An overview of the Twitter plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons

If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Twitter. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Twitter directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through the integration, Twitter receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile on Twitter or are not currently logged in to Twitter. This information, including your IP address, is transmitted by your browser directly to a Twitter server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Twitter, Twitter can directly assign your visit to our website to your Twitter account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by pressing the "Tweet" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Twitter server and stored there. The information is also published on your Twitter account and displayed there to your contacts.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Twitter as well as your related rights and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Twitter's privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

If you do not want Twitter to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Twitter account, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Twitter plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/).

5) Use of Google AdWords conversion tracking

This website uses the online advertising program "Google AdWords" and, within the scope of Google AdWords, conversion tracking. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an advertisement placed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies lose their validity after 90 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained with the help of the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page provided with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

You can obtain further information about Google's privacy policy at the following internet address: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

6) Web analysis service

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and 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.
If IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will first be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of 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 activities and to provide further services related to website use and internet use to the website operator.
The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate setting in your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website, including your IP address, to Google as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
It is pointed out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()" and therefore IP addresses are only processed further in shortened form in order to exclude direct personal reference.

7) Use of Facebook plugins

So-called social plugins ("plugins") of the social network Facebook, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"), are used on our website. The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition "Social plug-in from Facebook" or "Facebook Social Plugin". An overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information, including your IP address, is transmitted by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly assign your visit to our website to your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example by pressing the "Like" button or submitting a comment, this information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on your Facebook profile and displayed to your Facebook friends.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your related rights and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook's privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want Facebook to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook profile, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Facebook plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the "Facebook Blocker" (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/).

8) Use of the Google "+1" button

So-called social plugins ("plugins") of the social network Google+, operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"), are used on our website. The plugins can be recognized, for example, by buttons with the sign "+1" on a white or colored background. An overview of the Google plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins

If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Google. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Google directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through the integration, Google receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile on Google+ or are not currently logged in to Google+. This information, including your IP address, is transmitted by your browser directly to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Google+, Google can directly assign your visit to our website to your Google+ profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example by pressing the "+1" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Google server and stored there. The information is also published on Google+ and displayed there to your contacts.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your related rights and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Google's privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

If you do not want Google to directly assign the data collected via our website to your profile on Google+, you must log out of Google+ before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Google plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/).

9) Use of AddThis plugins

So-called social plugins ("plugins") of the bookmarking service AddThis, operated by AddThis LLC, Inc. 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210, USA ("AddThis"), are used on our website. The plugins are usually marked with an AddThis logo, for example in the form of a white plus sign on an orange background. An overview of the AddThis plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing

If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of AddThis. The content of the plugin is transmitted by AddThis directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through the integration, AddThis receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website and stores a cookie on your end device to identify your browser. This information, including your IP address, is transmitted by your browser directly to an AddThis server in the USA and stored there. AddThis uses the data to create anonymized user profiles, which serve as the basis for personalized and interest-based advertising addressing visitors to websites with AddThis plugins.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by AddThis can be found in AddThis' privacy policy: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

If you would like to object to data collection by AddThis for the future, you can set a so-called opt-out cookie, which you can download under the following link: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out

You can also completely prevent the loading of AddThis plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/).

10) Your rights and contacting us

You have a right to free information about your stored data and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of these data. If you have further questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact us. The same applies to requests for information, blocking, deletion and correction regarding your personal data as well as to revocations of consents granted. You will find the contact address in our legal notice.