Data protection

The protection of your privacy when using our website is important to us. Therefore, please take note of the following information:

1) Basic information on handling personal data

In principle, you can visit our website without us collecting personal data from you. Personal data is only collected if you provide it to us of your own accord to execute a contract, when opening a customer account or when contacting us. Without your express consent, this data will only be used to process contracts and your inquiries. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be stored with due regard for retention periods under tax and commercial law, but blocked for other purposes and deleted after these periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data.

In addition, personal data is collected when you register for our e-mail newsletter. This data is used by us for our own advertising purposes in the form of our e-mail newsletter, provided you have given your express consent.

2) Forwarding of personal data for order processing

2.1 The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery as part of the contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of the processing of payments.

2.2 When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or – if offered – “purchase on account” via PayPal, we give your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”). PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or – if offered – “purchase on account” via PayPal. PayPal uses the result of the credit check with regard to the statistical probability of default for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report can contain probability values ​​(so-called score values). Insofar as score values ​​are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data is included in the calculation of the score values. For further data protection information, including the credit agencies used, please refer to PayPal’s data protection declaration: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

2.3 If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider GLS (General Logistics Systems Germany GmbH & Co. OHG, GLS Germany-Strasse 1 – 7, 36286 Neuenstein), we will give your email address before the goods are delivered for the purpose of Coordination of a delivery date to GLS.

Otherwise we will only pass on the name of the recipient and the delivery address to GLS. In this case, prior coordination of the delivery date with GLS is not possible.

2.4 If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider DHL (Deutsche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn), we will give your email address to DHL before the goods are delivered for the purpose of agreeing a delivery date further, provided you have expressly consented to this, as follows.

Otherwise we only pass on the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DHL. In this case, prior coordination of the delivery date with DHL is not possible.

The same applies to delivery byÖsterreichische Post AG‎, Corporate Headquarters.

Haidingergasse 1, 1030 Wien, Österreich.

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 device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and individually decide whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

4) Use of social plugins

4.1 Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition “Social plug-in from Facebook” or “Facebook social plugin”. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook 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 into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can immediately assign your visit to our website to your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example press the “Like” button or leave 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 shown to your Facebook friends.

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

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

4.2 Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from the Google+ social network, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The plugins are z. B. by buttons with the sign “+1” on a white or colored background. You can find an overview of the Google plugins and their appearance here: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins

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

If you are logged in to Google+, Google can immediately assign your visit to our website to your Google+ profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example press 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 shown to your contacts there.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Google’s data protection information: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

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

5) web analytics service

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address is only transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. 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 activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser plug-in or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain, delete your cookies in this browser, you have to click this link again):

Deactivate Google Analytics

It should be noted that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp ()” and therefore IP addresses are only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude direct personal reference.

6) Your rights and contact

You have the right to free information about your stored data and, if necessary, the right to correct, block or delete this data. If you have any further questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact us. The same applies to information, blocking, deletion and correction requests with regard to your personal data as well as to the revocation of consent. You can find the contact adress in our imprint.