Privacy policy

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company and our products. 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 In principle, you can visit our website without us collecting any personal data from you. Personal data is only collected if you provide it to us voluntarily in order to execute a contract, when opening a customer account or when contacting us. This data is used without your express consent in each case for the execution of the contract and processing of your enquiries. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be stored with regard to tax and commercial law retention periods, but deleted after these periods have expired. 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 expressly consented to this as follows: "register or subscribe to newsletter". You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter or by sending us a corresponding message. After unsubscribing, your e-mail address will be deleted immediately. 2) Passing on personal data 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 in the context of processing payments. 3) Cookies This website uses so-called "cookies", which serve to make our Internet presence more user-friendly, effective and secure overall - for example, when it comes to speeding up navigation on our website. Cookies also enable us to measure the frequency of page views and general navigation. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. We would like to point out that some of these cookies are transferred from our server to your computer system, whereby these are mostly so-called "session cookies". "Session cookies" are characterised by the fact that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session. Other cookies remain on your computer system and enable us to recognise your computer system on your next visit (so-called permanent cookies). Of course, you can reject cookies at any time, provided your browser allows this. Please note that certain functions of this website may not be available or may only be available to a limited extent if your browser is set to not accept cookies (from our website). 4) Use of Google AdWords conversion tracking This website uses the online advertising programme "Google AdWords" and, within the framework of Google AdWords, conversion tracking. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies lose their validity after 30 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 will be able to recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across AdWords customers' websites. The information obtained using 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 tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in the 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 data protection policy at the following Internet address: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ 5) Web analytics service This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. 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. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to 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 for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Please note 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 references. 6) Use of Facebook plugins We have integrated so-called plugins of the social network facebook.com (hereinafter "Facebook") into our Internet presence. Facebook is a company of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. A list and the appearance of these plugins from Facebook can be viewed at the following Internet address: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins. Each time you call up a web page on our website that is provided with such a plugin, the plugin causes the browser you are using to load and display the visual representation of the plugin from the Facebook server. By integrating the plugins, Facebook receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook user account 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 a member of Facebook and are logged in to Facebook while visiting our website, Facebook recognises through the information sent by the plugin which particular website of our website you are currently visiting and assigns this to your personal user account on Facebook, regardless of whether you activate one of the plugins. If you now activate one of the plugins, for example by clicking the "Like" button or by submitting a comment, this will be sent to your personal user account on Facebook and stored there. To prevent Facebook from assigning the collected data to your user account on Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. In order to block the collection and forwarding of your visitor data by Facebook plugins for the future, you can obtain a browser add-on from "Facebook Blocker" for some internet browsers at the following link, please do not delete the browser add-on as long as you wish to block the Facebook plugins: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ At the following Internet address you will find Facebook's data protection information with more detailed information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this respect and the settings options for protecting your privacy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php 7) Use of the Google "+1" button We use the "+1" button of the social network Google+ (Google Plus) of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereinafter "Google") on our website. ` Each time you call up a web page on our website that is provided with a "+1" button, the "+1" button causes the browser you are using to load and display the visual representation of the "+1" button from the Google server. In doing so, the Google server is informed which particular website of our internet presence you are currently visiting. Google logs your browsing history when displaying a "+1" button for a period of up to two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. No further evaluation of your visit to a website of our Internet presence with a "+1" button will be carried out. If you click the "+1" button while logged in to Google+ (Google Plus), Google will collect information about your recommended URL, your IP address and other browser-related information via your Google profile so that your "+1" recommendation can be saved and made publicly available. Your "+1" recommendations can be displayed as references together with your profile name and your photo in Google services, such as search results or in your Google profile (as a "+1" tab in your Google profile), or in other places on websites and ads on the internet. If you log out of your Google+ profile, the assignment of the data to your Google+ profile will be prevented. At the following Internet address, you will find Google's data protection information on the "+1" button with more detailed information on the collection, transfer and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard and your profile setting options: https://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html 12) Information on the rights of the customer and contacts You have a right to free information about your stored data and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of 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 regarding your personal data as well as to revocations of given consents. You will find the contact address in our imprint.