Privacy and Data Protection
Thank you very much for your interest in our online presence. The protection of your personal data is a matter of great concern to us. Therefore, we would like to inform you about data protection in our company as practiced in our company. Of course, we comply with the legal provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BundesDatenSchutzGesetz), the Telemedia Act (TeleMedienGesetz) and other privacy and data protection legislation.
You can trust us in giving us your personal data! They are encrypted by digital security systems and transmitted to us. Our Websites are protected against damage, destruction or unauthorized access by suitable technical measures.
Subject Matter of Data Protection
The subject matter of data protection is personal data. According to § 3, al. 1 of the German Federal Data Protection Act, personal data are detailed information on personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable physical person. For instance, they include information on the name, postal address, E-mail address or telephone number, but also user data such as your IP address.
Scope of Data Protection and Storage
Generally, it is not necessary for you to provide personal data for the use of our website. But to be able to deliver our services in fact, we might need your personal data. This is applicable to the supply of information material or to goods ordered and to the response to individual enquiries.
If you send us an order for the delivery of goods, we will categorically register and store your personal data only to the extent as this is necessary for the execution of the contract. For this purpose, it might be necessary to forward your personal data to companies which we engage for the execution of the contract, such as transport agencies and other service companies.
Once the contract management has been completed, your data will be blocked and deleted upon expiry of tax and commercial legislation rules, unless you have given your express consent to a further use of the data going beyond this.
If you have registered for our Newsletter with your E-Mail address, we will use your E-Mail address also beyond the performance of the contract for own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the Newsletter.
Data Collection through the Use of Google Analytics
Our Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. Google-Analytics which uses so-called “Cookies”. These are text files which are stored on your computer and facilitate an analysis of the use of the Website. It registers for instance information on the operating system, on the browser, on your IP address, the previously accessed website (Referrer-URL) and the date and time of your access to our website. The information produced by this text file on the use of our website will be transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on the website activity for website operators and to provide further services related to the use of the website and of the Internet. If so required by law or to the extent as any third parties should process this data by order of Google, Google will also forward the data to said third parties. This use will be anonymous or pseudonymous. More detailed information on this is available directly at:
http://www.google.com/intl/de/privacypolicy.html#information.
Google uses the DoubleClick DART-Cookie
Users may disable the use of DART Cookies by acceding to the privacy and data protection policy of the Advertising Network and of the Content Advertising Network of Google. When acceding to this policy no direct personal data of the User will be stored, only the Internet protocol address. This information will help to recognize you automatically on the occasion of your next visit to our Websites and to make navigation easier for you. Cookies will for instance help us to adapt a website to your interests and to save your password so that you do not have to enter it again each time.
Of course, you may also view our websites without any Cookies. If you do not want us to recognize your computer, you can prevent Cookies from being stored on your hard disk simply by selecting “No Cookies accepted” in your browser adjustments. To see how this works in detail, please refer to the instructions of your browser producer. If you do not accept any Cookies, this might however lead to restrictions in the proper function of our offers. You may prevent the installation of the Cookies by a suitable adjustment of your Internet use programme (browser). For this purpose, you have to switch off the storage of Cookies in your Internet browser. You will obtain more detailed information on this from the user information provided by your Internet browser.
Collection and Storage of User Data
To optimize our website we collect and store data, such as the date and time of the accession to our website, the website which you have started from to visit our website, and similar data, unless you object to this data collection and storage. This is done anonymously, without identifying the user of the site personally. If necessary, user profiles are created using a pseudonym. Also in this case, no connection is made between the natural person behind the pseudonym and the user data collected. For the collection and storage of the user data we also employ Cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your computer and that are used for the storage of statistical information such as the operating system your internet use programme (browser), the IP address, the previously acceded website (Referrer URL) and the time. These data are collected by us exclusively for statistical purposes to improve our website further and to make our Internet offers even more attractive. The collection and storage is effected in an anonymised or pseudomised manner exclusively and allows no conclusion on you as being the natural person.
Appropriate Use of Data
We adhere to the principle of the appropriate use of data and we collect, process and store your personal data only for the purposes for which you have communicated them to us. Any such transfer of your personal data to third parties will not be made without your prior explicit consent, unless this is necessary for the execution of the Contract. Even the transmission of the data to state institutions and authorities entitled to receive information will be made only within the bounds of the applicable legal disclosure provisions or if we are committed to provide information by a judicial order ruled by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Right of Information and Right of Revocation
You will at any time and without giving any reasons receive information on your data stored by us. You may at any time have the data which have been collected by us blocked, corrected or deleted and you may always object to the storage of data which have been collected and stored in an anonymised or pseudomised way in view of the optimization of our website. You may also at any time and without giving any reason revoke the consent you have given us to collect and use the data. For this purpose, please contact the address mentioned in the imprint. If you have any further questions on our information and notices on privacy, data protection and the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.
