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DATA PROTECTION

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The person responsible for data processing is:

Claudia, Diana Eichler

Börsenstraße 148, 42657 Solingen, Germany

Telephone: 0212-2215112
 

We are pleased that you are interested in our offer. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below we will inform you in detail about how your data is handled.

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Every time a website is accessed, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the retrieval. This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offering. This serves to protect our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in a correct presentation of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR. All access data will be deleted no later than thirty days after the end of your visit to the site.

1.1 Hosting

The services for hosting and displaying the website are partly provided by our service providers as part of processing on our behalf. Unless otherwise explained in this data protection declaration, all access data and all data collected in the forms provided on this website are processed on its servers. If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact option described in this data protection declaration.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection: Canada

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the USA and other countries outside the EU and the EEA. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for these countries. Our cooperation with you is based on standard data protection clauses from the European Commission. 

1.2 Content Delivery Network

In order to shorten loading times, we use a so-called Content Delivery Network (“CDN”) for some offers. With this service, content, e.g. large media files, is delivered via regionally distributed servers of external CDN service providers. Access data is therefore processed on the servers of the service providers. Our service providers work for us as part of order processing. Our service providers are located and/or use servers in countries outside the EU and the EEA. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for these countries. Our cooperation with you is based on standard data protection clauses from the European Commission.  If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact option described in this data protection declaration.

2. Data processing for contract processing and contact

2.1 Data processing for contract processing

For the purpose of contract processing (including inquiries about and processing of any existing warranty and service disruption claims as well as any legal update obligations) in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b GDPR, we collect personal data if you provide it to us as part of your Submit your order voluntarily. Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases we absolutely need the data to process the contract and we cannot send the order without providing it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms.

Further information on the processing of your data, in particular on the transfer to our service providers for the purposes of order, payment and shipping processing, can be found in the following sections of this data protection declaration. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the expiry of the tax and commercial law retention periods in accordance with Art 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a GDPR or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

2.2 Customer account

If you have given your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a of the GDPR by deciding to open a customer account, we will use your data for the purpose of opening a customer account and to store your data for further future orders our website. Deleting your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described in this data protection declaration or using a function provided for this purpose in the customer account. After your customer account is deleted, your data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data in accordance with Art which we inform you in this statement.

2.3 Contacting us

As part of customer communication, we collect personal data in order to process your inquiries in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b GDPR if you voluntarily provide this to us when you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases we absolutely need the data to process your contact. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. Once your request has been fully processed, your data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data in accordance with Art about which we inform you in this statement.

 Live chat tool WhatsApp

For the purpose of customer communication, we use the live chat tool from WhatsApp Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“WhatsApp”). This serves to protect our legitimate interests in effective and improved customer communication in accordance with Art. WhatsApp works for us on our behalf. The telephone numbers we store on our mobile device are automatically processed on servers at Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Only telephone numbers of customers who have previously contacted us via WhatsApp and who have therefore already accepted WhatsApp's terms of use and data protection are stored. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for the USA. Our cooperation is based on standard data protection clauses from the European Commission.

3. Data processing for the purpose of shipping processing

In order to fulfill the contract in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b GDPR, we pass on your data to the shipping service provider commissioned with the delivery, to the extent that this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods.

The same applies to the transfer of data to our manufacturers or wholesalers in cases where they take over the shipping for us (drop shipping). These are considered shipping service providers within the meaning of this data protection declaration.

4. Data processing for payment processing

When processing payments in our online shop, we work with these partners: technical service providers, credit institutions, payment service providers.

4.1 Data processing for transaction processing

Depending on the payment method selected, we pass on the data necessary to process the payment transaction to our technical service providers who work for us as part of order processing, or to the commissioned credit institutions or to the selected payment service provider, to the extent that this is necessary to process the payment. This serves to fulfill the contract in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b GDPR. In some cases, the payment service providers collect the data required to process the payment themselves, e.g. on their own website or via a technical integration in the ordering process. The data protection declaration of the respective payment service provider applies.
If you have any questions about our payment processing partners and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact option described in this data protection declaration.

4.2 Data processing for the purpose of preventing fraud and optimizing our payment processes

If necessary, we provide our service providers with additional data, which they use together with the data necessary to process the payment as our processors for the purposes of fraud prevention and optimizing our payment processes (e.g. invoicing, processing disputed payments, accounting support). In accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR, this serves to protect our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, in our protection against fraud and in efficient payment management.

5. Advertising via email

5.1 Email newsletter with registration and newsletter tracking

If you register for our newsletter, we will use the data required for this or provided separately by you to regularly send you our email newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a GDPR. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and can do so either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address from the recipient list unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a of the GDPR or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.

We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behavior when we send the newsletter. To do this, we also analyze your use of our newsletter by measuring, storing and evaluating opening rates and click rates for the purpose of designing future newsletter campaigns (“newsletter tracking”).

For this evaluation, the emails sent contain single-pixel technologies (e.g. so-called web beacons, tracking pixels) that are stored on our website. For the evaluations, we link the following “newsletter data” in particular:

  • the page from which the page was requested (so-called referrer URL),

  • the date and time of the call,

  • the description of the type of web browser used,

  • the IP address of the requesting computer,

  • the E-Mail adress,

  • the date and time of registration and confirmation

and the one-pixel technologies with your email address or your IP address and, if applicable, an individual ID. Links contained in the newsletter may also contain this ID.

If you do not want newsletter tracking, it is possible to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time - as described above.

The information will be stored for as long as you have subscribed to the newsletter.

5.2 Newsletter dispatch

The newsletter and the newsletter tracking presented above may also be sent by our service providers as part of processing on our behalf. If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact option described in this data protection declaration.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in these countries: USA
There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for these countries. Our cooperation with you is based on these guarantees: European Commission Standard Data Protection Clauses

6. Cookies and other technologies

6.1 General information

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use technologies including so-called cookies on various pages. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your 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 device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies).

Protection of privacy on end devices
When using our online offering, we use absolutely necessary technologies in order to be able to provide the expressly requested telemedia service. The storage of information in your device or access to information that is already stored in your device does not require your consent.

For functions that are not absolutely necessary, the storage of information in your device or access to information that is already stored in your device requires your consent. We would like to point out that if you do not give your consent, parts of the website may not be usable without restrictions. Any consent you may have given will remain in effect until you adjust or reset the respective settings on your device.

Any downstream data processing through cookies and other technologies
We use technologies that are absolutely necessary for the use of certain functions of our website (e.g. shopping cart function). These technologies collect and process IP address, time of visit, device and browser information as well as information about your use of our website (e.g. information about the contents of the shopping cart). As part of a balancing of interests, this serves overriding legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR.

We also use technologies to fulfill the legal obligations to which we are subject (e.g. to be able to demonstrate consent to the processing of your personal data) as well as for web analysis and online marketing. Further information on this, including the respective legal basis for data processing, can be found in the following sections of this data protection declaration.

You can find the cookie settings for your browser at the following links: Microsoft Edge™ / Safari™ / Chrome™ / Firefox™ / Opera™

If you have consented to the use of the technologies in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a GDPR, you can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact option described in the data protection declaration. Alternatively, you can also access the following link: https://597a5a-2.myshopify.com/policies/privacy-policy. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

 

7. Use of cookies and other technologies

If you have given your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a GDPR, we use the following cookies and other third-party technologies on our website. Once the purpose has ceased to exist and we have stopped using the respective technology, the data collected in this context will be deleted. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect. Further information about your revocation options can be found in the section “Cookies and other technologies”. Further information, including the basis of our cooperation with each provider, can be found under the individual technologies. If you have any questions about the providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact option described in this data protection declaration.

 Use of Google services

We use the technologies presented below from Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). The information automatically collected by Google technologies about your use of our website is usually transmitted to a server at Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA and stored there. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for the USA. Our cooperation with you is based on standard data protection clauses from the European Commission.  If your IP address is collected via Google technologies, it will be shortened by activating IP anonymization before it is stored on Google's servers. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server and shortened there. Unless otherwise stated for the individual technologies, data processing is carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded for the respective technology between those jointly responsible in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in the Google’s privacy policy.

 Google Analytics

For the purpose of website analysis, Google Analytics automatically collects and stores data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information as well as information about your use of our website), from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. Cookies can be used. Your IP address will generally not be combined with other data from Google. The data processing takes place on the basis of an agreement on order processing by Google.

For the purpose of optimized marketing of our website, we have activated the data sharing settings for “Google products and services”. This allows Google to access the data collected and processed by Google Analytics and then use it to improve Google services. The data release to Google as part of these data release settings is based on an additional agreement between those responsible. We have no influence on the subsequent data processing by Google.

We also use the Google Analytics Google Optimize extension function to create and carry out tests.

For the purpose of optimized marketing of our website, we use the so-called user ID function. Using this function, we can assign a unique, permanent ID to your interaction data from one or more sessions on our online presence and thus analyze your user behavior across devices and sessions.

For web analysis, the extension function of Google Analytics Google Signals enables so-called “cross-device tracking”. If your internet-enabled devices are linked to your Google account and you have activated the “personalized advertising” setting in your Google account, Google can create reports about your usage behavior (in particular cross-device user numbers), even if you change your device. We do not process personal data in this respect; we only receive statistics created on the basis of Google Signals.

For web analysis and advertising purposes, the so-called DoubleClick cookie enables your browser to be recognized when you visit other websites through the extension function of Google Analytics. Google will use this information to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity.

 Google reCAPTCHA

For the purpose of protecting against misuse of our web forms and against spam by automated software (so-called bots), Google reCAPTCHA collects data (IP address, time of visit, browser information and information about your use of our website) and uses a so-called JavaScript and cookies analyze your use of our website. In addition, other cookies stored in your browser by Google services are evaluated. Personal data is not read or saved from the input fields of the respective form.

8. Social media

 Our online presence on Instagram (by Meta), YouTube

If you have given your consent to the respective social media operator in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter a of the GDPR, your data will be automatically collected for market research and advertising purposes when you visit our online presence on the social media mentioned above and stored, from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. These can be used, for example, to display advertisements within and outside the platforms that presumably match your interests. Cookies are usually used for this purpose. For detailed information on the processing and use of data by the respective social media operator as well as a contact option and your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to the provider's data protection information linked below. If you still need help with this, you can contact us.

Instagram (by Meta) is an offer from Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Meta Platforms Ireland”) The information automatically collected by Meta Platforms Ireland about your use of our online presence on Instagram is usually sent to transferred to a server of Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA and stored there. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for the USA. Our cooperation with you is based on standard data protection clauses from the European Commission.  Data processing when visiting an Instagram (by Meta) fan page is based on an agreement between jointly responsible parties in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. For more information (information about Insights data), see here.

YouTube is an offer from Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). The information automatically collected by Google about your use of our online presence on YouTube is usually transmitted to a server at Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA and stored there. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for the USA. Our cooperation with you is based on standard data protection clauses from the European Commission. 
 

9. Data processing for order processing

9.1 Data processing

To the extent necessary for contract processing for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data we collect will be passed on to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned credit institution in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b of the GDPR.

If we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products on the basis of a corresponding contract, we will process the contact details you provided when ordering (name, address, email address) in order to provide you with our legal information obligations in accordance with Art. 6 Para 1 lit. Your contact details will be used strictly for the purpose of communicating updates owed by us and will only be processed by us for this purpose to the extent that this is necessary for the respective information.

To process your order, we also work with the following service provider(s), who support us in whole or in part in the implementation of concluded contracts. Certain personal data will be transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

 

10. Contact options and your rights

10.1 Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

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

  • in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by us;

  • In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing is required

    • to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;

    • to fulfill a legal obligation;

    • for reasons of public interest or

    • is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;

  • in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, to the extent that

    • you dispute the accuracy of the data;

    • the processing is unlawful but you object to its deletion;

    • we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or

    • you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;

  • in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another person responsible;

  • in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or work or at our company headquarters.

Right to object

To the extent that we process personal data as explained above to protect our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are reasons that arise from your particular situation.

After exercising your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of serves legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. We will then no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

10.2 Contact options

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, restriction or deletion of data as well as revocation of consent given or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.

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