The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is all data by which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time a website is accessed, the web server only automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.

This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of the site and improving our offer. According to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

Hosting services by a third party

Within the scope of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the designated forms in the online shop as described below are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place in the context explained here.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

2. Data collection and use for contract processing

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order or when contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases, we need the data for contract processing, or to process your contact, and you cannot complete the order or send the contact without their specification. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR for contract processing and processing your inquiries. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the tax and commercial retention periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

Cookies and web analysis

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products, or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e., after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can see the duration of storage in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of every browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find this for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_DE

Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/allow-and-reject-cookies

Opera™: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html

If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis

Provided that you have given your consent according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics for website analysis, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (www.google.com). Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow the analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address will be shortened before transmission within the 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 transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. After the purpose has ceased and we have stopped using Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. Due to this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. This prevents the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google.

Alternatively to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will be asked to give your consent again. Deactivate Google Analytics.

Use of Google AdWords Conversion Tracking

This website uses the online advertising program „Google AdWords“ and, as part of Google AdWords, the conversion tracking of Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“). We use the Google AdWords offer to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertising means (so-called Google AdWords) on external websites. In relation to the data of the advertising campaigns, we can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are. This serves to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests in an optimal presentation of our offer. The cookies for conversion tracking are set when a user clicks on an advertisement placed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. These cookies usually lose their validity after 30 days and are not intended 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 cannot be tracked through the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers see the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can block this usage by deactivating the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings. They will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. We use Google AdWords based on our predominantly legitimate interest in targeted advertising according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. Due to this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

For more information about Google’s privacy policy, please visit: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

You can permanently deactivate cookies for ad preferences by blocking them via a corresponding setting in your browser software or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Please note that certain functions of this website may not be used, or only to a limited extent, if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

5. Contact Options and Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

• According to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;

• According to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us;

• According to Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored with us, unless further processing is necessary:

  • For exercising the right to freedom of expression and information;

  • For compliance with a legal obligation;

  • For reasons of public interest, or

  • For the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims;

• According to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data, as far as:

  • The accuracy of the data is contested by you;

  • The processing is unlawful, but you oppose its deletion;

  • We no longer need the data, but you require them for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or

  • You have objected to processing according to Art. 21 GDPR;

• According to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another controller;

• According to Art. 77 GDPR, the right to complain to a supervisory authority. Typically, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our company headquarters.

For questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking, or deletion of data, as well as the revocation of consents granted or objection to a particular data use, please contact us directly via the contact details in our imprint.

6. Data Protection Regulations for the Use and Application of Facebook

The controller has integrated components of the company Facebook on this website. Facebook is a social network.

A social network is an online social meeting place, an online community that usually allows users to communicate and interact in virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences or allows the internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Among other things, Facebook allows users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos, and network via friend requests.

The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. The person responsible for the processing of personal data, if a data subject lives outside the US or Canada, is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Every time one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, is called up, the internet browser on the data subject’s information technology system is automatically prompted by the respective Facebook component to download a display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. An overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be accessed at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE. As part of this technical process, Facebook is informed about which specific subpage of our website is visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognizes with every visit to our website by the data subject and during the entire duration of the respective stay on our website, which specific subpage of our website the data subject visits. This information is collected by the Facebook component and associated by Facebook with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example, the „Like“ button, or if the data subject submits a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the data subject’s personal Facebook user account and stores this personal data.

Facebook always receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time as accessing our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Facebook, they can prevent the transmission by logging out of their Facebook account before accessing our website.

The data policy published by Facebook, which is available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains the settings that Facebook offers to protect the data subject’s privacy. Furthermore, various applications are available that make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can be used by the data subject to suppress data transmission to Facebook.

7. Data Protection Regulations for the Use and Application of Google+

The controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component on this website. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is an online social meeting place, an online community that usually allows users to communicate and interact in virtual space. Google+ allows users of the social network, among other things, to create private profiles, upload photos, and network via friendship requests.

The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Each time one of the individual pages of this website operated by the controller, which includes a Google+ button, is accessed, the internet browser on the data subject’s information technology system is automatically triggered by the respective Google+ button to download a display of the corresponding Google+ button from Google. During this technical process, Google is informed about which specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available at https://developers.google.com/+/.

If the data subject is logged into Google+ at the same time, Google recognizes with every visit to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of the respective stay on our website which specific sub-page of our website the data subject visits. This information is collected by the Google+ button and assigned by Google to the data subject’s Google+ account.

If the data subject clicks on the Google+ button integrated on our website and thereby gives a Google+ 1 recommendation, Google assigns this information to the data subject’s personal Google+ user account and stores this personal data. Google stores the data subject’s Google +1 recommendation and makes it publicly available in accordance with the conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. A Google+1 recommendation given by the data subject on this website will subsequently be stored and processed together with other personal data, such as the name of the data subject’s Google+1 account and the photo stored in this, in other Google services, such as the search engine results of the Google search engine, the data subject’s Google account or in other places, for example on websites or in connection with advertisements. Furthermore, Google is able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored by Google. Google further records this personal information with the purpose of improving or optimizing various Google services.

If the data subject does not wish to transmit personal data to Google, they can prevent such transmission by logging out of their Google+ account before accessing our website.

Further information and Google’s current data protection regulations can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Further instructions on the handling of the Google+1 button can be found at https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.

Transmission of data to the credit bureau

The transmission of personal data to credit bureaus serves the legitimate interest in determining the solvency or default risks associated with our contractual relationship. According to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR, we are entitled to transmit personal data required for a credit check to credit agencies. The credit report can contain probability values (score values). If score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical methods. Among other things, the address data is included in the calculation of the score values. Your concerns will be taken into account according to the legal provisions. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

Contact options and your rights

You have the right:

• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;
• In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by us;
• In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
• In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse its deletion and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, current, and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another person responsible;
• In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or our company headquarters for this purpose.

If you have any questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, about information, correction, blocking, or deletion of data as well as the revocation of granted consents or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly via the contact details in our imprint.

Right of objection

If we process personal data as described above in order to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests within the framework of a weighing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for the purposes of direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have a right of objection if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.

After exercising your right of objection, we will not process your personal data further for these purposes, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing, which outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. Then we will not process your personal data for this purpose.