Privacy

Data protection declaration
 
 We attach maximum importance to protecting your data and safeguarding your privacy. Therefore, we provide information below regarding collection and use of personal data while using our website.
 
 Anonymous data collection
 You can visit our websites without having to provide any personal details. We do not save any personal data in this connection. In order to improve our offer, we evaluate only the statistical data, which does not allow any inference of your personal details.
 
 Collection and processing while using the contact form
 When using the contact form, we collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you. We use your email address only for processing your request. Your data is deleted subsequently if you do not approve of the further processing and use.
 
 Collection, processing and use of personal data
 We collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you.
 Your personal data is processed and used for completing and processing your order and also for processing your requests.
 After the contract is processed completely, all the personal data is first saved taking into account the retention periods under fiscal and commercial law and then deleted after the expiry of the deadline, if you have not approved of the further processing and use.
 
 We additionally refer to the following:
 We use the Käufersiegel rating system. According to your order, we would like to request you to rate your purchase from us and comment on it. For this purpose, we will contact you within the scope of the order processing, whereby we will make use of the technical system of the supplier of the Käufersiegel rating tool, Händlerbund Management AG, Torgauer Straße 233 B, 04347 Leipzig, within the scope of order data processing. Your email address will only be used for this purpose here and not for any further use in particular and will also not be forwarded to other third parties. The personal data saved in this context in the technical system of the Käufersiegel rating system is deleted 3 months after the product delivery recorded for the rating.
 
 Using an email address for sending a direct advertising
 Provided that you have not disagreed, we shall use your email address, which we received as part of selling an item or service, for the electronic transmission of advertising for your own goods and services, which are similar to those that you have already purchased from us. You may object to the use of your email address at any time by sending us a message. You'll find the contact details for exercising your objection in our imprint. You can also use the link provided in the advertising email. This shall not result in any costs other than transmission costs in accordance with your basic rates.
 
 Forwarding personal data
 Your data is not forwarded to third parties without your explicit consent. Only our service partners, which we require for handling the contractual relationship, are excluded from this. In these cases, we strictly adhere to the specifications of the Federal Data Protection Act. The scope of the data transfer is restricted to a minimum.
 
 Data collection and processing in case of the payment method purchase on account via BillSAFE
 In case of a purchase on account transaction that is carried out via BillSAFE (a PayPal service), the seller irrevocably cedes his entire payment claim against you to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. ,22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg ("PayPal").
 In case of the payment method purchase on account via BillSAFE, PayPal conducts an identity and credit assessment. For purposes of processing the purchase on account, you are requested during the ordering process to specify your personal data such as first and last name, address, date of birth, email address and telephone number. PayPal uses the aforementioned data, together with additional data - such as shopping cart details, invoice amount, order history and payment records - to check whether the payment option to be allowed can be ensured with reference to the payment default and/or bad debt risks.
 Within the scope of the legally permissible interests and considering your interests that are worth being protected, PayPal transfers your address data to credit reporting agencies for the identity and credit assessment if necessary. The institutes in Germany are given below:
 
     
 -          SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, D-65201 Wiesbaden, Tel.: +49 (0)611-9278-0, Fax: -109     
 -          Deltavista GmbH, Freisinger Landstraße 74, D-80939 Munich, Tel.: +49 (0)721-25511-777, Fax: -22     
 -          accumio finance services GmbH Customer Care Service Center, PO Box 110254, 30099 Hanover     
 -          infoscore Consumer Data GmbH (arvato), Rheinstraße 99, D-76532 Baden-Baden, Tel.: +49 (0)7221-5040-1000, Fax: -1001     
 -          Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH & Co. KG, Gasstraße 18, D-22761 Hamburg, Tel.: +49 (0)40-89803-0, Fax: -777     
 -          mediafinanz AG, Weiße Breite 5, 49084 Osnabrück Tel.: +49 (0)541- 2029-0, Fax: -101     
 -          CEG Creditreform Consumer GmbH, Hellersbergstraße 11, D-41460 Neuss, Tel.: +49 (0)2131-109-501, Fax: -557  For the purpose of its own credit check, PayPal retrieves credit information on the basis of mathematical and statistical methods (probability and/or score values) from the institutes mentioned above. The evaluation of these score values allows PayPal to take a decision about the substantiation, execution or termination of the contractual relationship. In addition to your address details, information regarding your current payment history as well as the probability values regarding your payment history in the future is included as well.
 Your personal data is transferred to one of the abovementioned credit agencies for purposes of identity assessment as well.
 Here, the credit agency compares the data specified by you with the data saved about you and notifies the degree of compliance in percentage values. In addition, a reference to an ID-based check carried out at the credit agency in the past can also be provided if necessary. PayPal can use the transferred compliance rates to identify whether a person is saved under the address specified by you in the database of the credit agency.
 
 Paypal ensures in this regard that the mentioned institutes process and/or use the data on their part exclusively within the scope of the specific function. For additional information about the data protection regulations of PayPal's BillSAFE, visit: http://www.billsafe.de/privacy-policy/merchant
 
 
 Cookies
 Our websites use so-called cookies at several places. Cookies are small text files, which are stored on your computer and which your browser saves. They help to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and reliable. In addition, cookies allow our systems to identify your browser and offer you services. Cookies do no contain any personal data.
 
 Using the Remarketing or "Similar target groups" function of Google Inc.
 The supplier uses the Remarketing or "Similar target groups" function of Google Inc. ("Google") on the website. The supplier can use this function to specifically approach the visitors of this website with advertisements by running personalised, interest-related advertisements for visitors of the supplier's website if they visit other websites in the Google Display network. Google uses so-called cookies for analysing the website usage, which forms the basis for developing the interest-related advertisements. For this, Google saves a small file with a numerical sequence on the browsers of the website's visitors. This number is used to record the visits to the website as well as anonymised data about the website usage. Personal data of the website's visitors is not saved. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display network, pop-ups are displayed to you, which are likely to take into account previously accessed product and information fields.
 You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link given below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there:
 https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de (https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de)
 
 Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies by third=party suppliers by calling the deactivating site of the network advertising initiative on http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/) and implementing the additional information for Opt-Out mentioned there.
 Additional information regarding Google Remarketing as well as the data protection declaration of Google can be viewed on:
 http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/  (http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/)
 
 Using the Remarketing function of ExactTarget
 We use the Remarketing function of the email service provider ExactTarget, Inc. 20 North Meridian Street Suite 200 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 USA ("ExactTarget"). Cookies are used if you have agreed to receiving our newsletter and visit our site via a newsletter. This allows us to understand the effectiveness of our newsletter, e.g. whether you have opened an email or which part of the newsletter was especially interesting.
 
 In addition, ExactTarget uses so-called Web Beacons in the majority of the emails sent by ExactTarget. Web Beacons (also known as ClearGIFs or web bugs) are small graphics (approx. 1x1 GIF files), which are used on websites or in HTML emails, among other things, to grant the website users a better understanding of the interaction of the users with the website. Web beacons have the same function as the cookies, but the user cannot see them. Web Beacons can be used to particularly obtain information whether the email was obtained and whether the system of the user is capable of receiving HTML emails. No personal data is obtained using the Web Beacon.
 
 If you do not wish to receive any email notifications with Web Beacons, you can also receive your emails in text format (not in the HTML format) optionally. Web Beacons are used together with cookies. You can thus prevent the use of Web Beacons by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software. However, we would like to bring to your attention that you may not be able to use all functions of our website entirely in this case.
 
 You can use the following links to find out how you can manage the cookies in the most important browsers (also deactivate them among other things):
 Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de)
 Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies (http://windows.microsoft.com/de-de/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies)
 Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen (https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen)
 Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042 http://www.apple.com/de/privacy/use-of-cookies/ (http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042 http://www.apple.com/de/privacy/use-of-cookies/)
 
 Using Google Adwords conversion tracking
 We use the online advertising service "Google AdWords" and conversion tracking within the scope of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google").
 If you click an advertisement run by Google, a cookie for the conversion tracking is saved on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity, do not contain any personal data and thus do not help in personal identification.
 If you visit specific webpages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can identify that you have clicked on the advertisement and were forwarded to this page.
 Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Thus, there is no option that cookies can be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers.
 The information that is obtained with the help of the conversion cookie helps to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have decided on conversion tracking. Here, the customers find out about the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were forwarded to a site provided with a conversion tracking tag. You however do not receive any information which can be used to identify users personally.
 If you do not wish to take part in the tracking, you can disagree to this use by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software (deactivation option). You are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics.
 For additional information as well as for the data protection declaration, please visit: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ (http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/)
 
 Use of Google Analytics
 This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files, which are saved on your computer and which allow analysing the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your usage of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in USA and saved there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address is however abbreviated by Google in advance within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. The complete IP address is transferred to a Google server in USA and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. Google shall use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your website use, to compile reports about the website activities and to provide additional services associated with the website use and Internet use as against the website operator. The IP addressed transferred from your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not consolidated with the other data by Google. You can prevent cookies from being saved through a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we would like to bring to your attention that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website entirely in this case. In addition, you can prevent the recording of data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and based on your website use in Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available on the following link and installing it [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de)].
 
 Use of social plugins with "Shariff"
 So that you can maintain control of your data, the privacy protection "Shariff" button is used in order to integrate the social media sharing function. Without your express permission, no connection is made to the social network servers and therefore no data is submitted.
 "Shariff" is a development from specialists of the computer technology magazine c't. It enables more personal privacy in the network and replaces the usual social network "share" buttons. You may find further information on the Shariff project here (http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html).
 If you click on the buttons that appear in a popup window, you can log in with your data with the respective provider. First, after you actively login, a direct connection to the social network takes place.
 By logging in, you give your permission to transfer your data to the respective social media provider. At this time, information such as your IP address and which websites you have visited is transmitted. Should you be connected simultaneously with one or more of your social network accounts, the information collected is also assigned to your corresponding profiles. Therefore, you can only prevent this assignment by logging yourself out before visiting our website and before activating the button for your social media accounts.
 
 Information, correction, blocking and deletion of data
 At all times, you have the right to free information about your saved data as well as the right to correction, deletion and blocking of the same. Please contact us if required. You will find the contact details in our Legal Notice.
 
 last update: 03.12.2015