Privacy Policy
1. Anonymous Data Collection
We are excited about your visist to our page and want to thank you for
your interest in our company, products and website. The protection of
your privacy during the visit to our website is very important to us.
Therefore, please take note of the following information:
2. Collection, Processing and Use of Personal Data
You can generally visit our website, without having any of your personal
data collected by us. Personal data is only collected when you choose
to execute a contract of purchase with us, open a client account, or if
you submit personal data by contacting us. Without your explicit
consent, this data will only be used to execute an agreement or to
handle your inquiries. After the complete execution of your contract,
and the completion of the payment, your data will be saved for
safekeeping periods, as specified by tax and commercial law, and will be
erased thereafter.
Apart from that, personal data will be collected when you subscribe for
our email newsletter. This data will only be used for our promotional
email newsletter and only if you chose to receive it by agreeing to the
following:
“Sign Up to Newsletter”
You can always unsubscribe from the email newsletter, by clicking on a
link in the email or by getting in touch with us. After unsubscribing,
your email will be deleted immediately.
3. Transfer of personal data.
Within the execution of the contract, personal data will be handed over
to the transportation service provider, if it should be necessary for
the delivery of the merchandise. For the execution of payments, personal
data will be passed to instructed financial institutions.
4. Cookies
This website is using so-called “cookies”, which are used to make our
website more user friendly, more effective and more secure. Cookies also
help us to measure the number of hits for each site and the navigation.
Cookies are small text files that are being saved on your computer. We
are pointing out, that some of these cookies are transferred from our
server to your computer: the so-called “session-cookies”.
Session-cookies are characterized by the fact that they are
automatically deleted after you end your browser session.
Other cookies will remain on your computer and allow us to identify your
computer upon your next visit. Of course, you can always deny cookies
at all times, if your browser supports that option. Please be aware,
that certain features of this website will not be functional or only
partly functional without cookies.
5. Use of Google Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service by Google
Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files
saved on your computer and allow an analysis of the website through you.
The information about the use of the website that is generated by the
cookie is usually sent to a Google Server in the USA and saved.
In case of activated IP-anonymity on this website, your IP-address will
be shortened within the European Union or European Economic Area prior
to that. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP-address will be
transferred to the Google Server in the USA and shortened there. By
order of this website’s operator, Google will use this data to analyze
your use of this website, to generate reports on website activity and to
offer further services around website and internet use to the website’s
operator.
The IP-address transmitted through Google Analytics will not be combined
with other data collected by Google. You can disable the saving of
cookies on your computer through the configurations of your browser.
Please be aware, that certain features of this website will not be
functional or only partly functional without cookies. Additionally, you
can avoid the collection and processing of the data about your use of
this website through Google Analytics by downloading and installing this
browser-plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
6. Use of Facebook Plugins
Our website is using plugins for the social network Facebook. Facebook
is an enterprise of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA
94304, USA. A list of Facebook plugins and the look of these Facebook
plugins can be found at: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins
For every visit on a page within our website, that is connected with
such a plugin, the plugin is making your browser load and display the
content of the from the Facebook server. Due to the implemented plugin,
Facebook receives the information that your browser accessed the
according page within our website, even if you are not a registered
Facebook user or not logged in to Facebook. This Information (including
your IP-address) is transferred directly to Facebook’s server in the USA
and is saved there.
If you are logged into Facebook while visiting our Website, Facebook
will identify which particular page within our Website you are visiting
and associate this information to your personal Facebook account,
regardless if you actively used the plugin or not. If you then actively
use the plugin, for example by clicking on the “Like” button or by
submitting a comment, this action will automatically be associated with
your personal Facebook account. To permit Facebook from associating
these actions with your account, you have to make sure that you are not
logged in to your Facebook account before visiting this Website. If you
generally want to keep Facebook plugins from collecting data from your
browser, some internet browsers can use the the add-on “Facebook
Blocker”: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/
You can find further information on data collection by Facebook in the company’s privacy policy:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
7. Further Information and Contact
You have the right to ask for information about saved personal data and
if applicable the right to request correction, blocking or deletion of
your personal data. If you have further questions on collection
processing and use of your data, please contact us. Please also contact
us if you want to request information, correction, blocking or deletion
of your personal data and also for compliance revocations. You will find
our contact information in the imprint.
