Privacy statement
To us, the protection and security of your data as well as safeguarding your privacy are a top priority. In the following we are pleased to inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website.
Anonymous data collection
You can visit our site without providing personal details. No personal data of the user will be stored. This data is assessed exclusively for the purpose of improving our services and cannot be traced back to you.
Collection and processing of data in case of completion of a contact form
When using the contact form, your personal data (specific personal or material details relating to identified or identifiable individuals) will only be collected to the extent that it has been provided by you. We will use your e-mail address only to process your inquiries. Your data will then be deleted unless you have consented to the transfer and contractual processing or use of this data.
Collection, processing and use of personal data
Your personal data (specific personal or material details relating to identified or identifiable individuals) will only be collected to the extent that it has been provided by you.
We will process and use your personal data to fulfil and process your order and to deal with your inquiries.
Once your order has been processed, all personal data will initially be stored in accordance with the retention periods required under tax and business law and when such periods expire, will then be deleted, unless you have agreed to its further processing and use.
Use of your e-mail address to send e-mail newsletters
Apart from order processing, we will use your e-mail address to send direct advertising for our own promotional purposes only, if you have submitted your express agreement.
The declaration of consent that has to be made should read as follows:
“Yes, please inform me free of charge
about new products, tips and offers.” .
You can cancel your order for the newsletter at any time by using the appropriate link or sending us a message. You will find the contact address in our company details.
Your e-mail address will then be deleted.
Disclosure of personal data
Your data will not be disclosed to third parties without your express consent. The only exception to this are the service partners that we rely on to fulfil our contractual agreements. In these cases, we strictly adhere to the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act. The amount of data transmitted is limited to the minimum necessary.
Cookies
Our web pages use so-called cookies in several places. Cookies are small text files which are copied on your computer and stored by your browser. They help to make our website more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to identify your browser in order to offer you services. Cookies do not contain any personal data.
Use of Google AdWords conversion tracking
We use the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and the conversion tracking function of Google AdWords. Google conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).
When you click on an ad delivered by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is placed on your computer. These cookies are valid only for a limited period of time, do not contain any personal data and therefore cannot be used to identify you personally.
If you visit certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can tell that you clicked on the ad and were directed to that page. Each Google AdWords customer has a different cookie, so it is not possible to track cookies via websites of other AdWords customers. The information collected by means of the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers can see the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were directed to a page containing a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive information that enables them to identify users personally.
If you do not want to participate in conversion tracking, you can opt out of this use and prevent cookies from being installed by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software (deactivation option). Thus, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
Further information and Google’s Privacy Policy are available at: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of the website to be analysed.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, Google will first truncate your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other countries that are signatories to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by Google Analytics via your browser will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by selecting the relevant settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do so, you may not be able to utilise the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available from the following link: [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de].
Use of PHP Web Stat
Data for marketing and optimisation purposes is collected and saved on these web pages using the PHP Web Stat software (http://www.php-web-statistik.de/). User profiles can be created from this data under a pseudonym. Cookies can be used here.
Cookies involve small text files, which are stored locally in the cache of the Internet browser of the user visiting the web pages. Cookies allow the identification of the Internet browser. Without an explicit approval by the relevant person, the data collected with the PHP Web Stat Technologies is not used to personally identify the visitors of this website and is not merged with the personal data of the carrier of the pseudonym. The data collection and saving can always be objected to with future effect.
Use of Facebook plug-ins
Plug-ins of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”), are used on these web pages.
If you open web pages of our Internet presence, which are provided with such a plug-in, a connection with the Facebook servers will be established and the plug-in will be shown through the website on your browser.
The Facebook server will automatically receive the information which of our websites you have visited. If you are logged in on Facebook, Facebook allocates this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plug-in functions (e.g. clicking the “Like” button, entering a comment), even this information is allocated to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plug-in.
If you do not want Facebook to assign all acquired information to your Facebook profile immediately, you must either log out of your account before visiting our site or must use the add-on provided by Facebook for your browser http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/. Thus, you can block the loading of Facebook plug-ins. Further information about the collection and usage of the data by Facebook, about your relevant rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Data Protection information of Facebook.
Using the Google “+1” button
On these webpages, the “+1” button of the social network Google Plus of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereafter referred to as “Google”) is used. If you invoke a webpage of our Internet presence, which is provided with the “+1” button, a link is established with the Google servers in the USA, and the button is displayed on the Internet page through a notification to your browser. Here, your IP address as well as the information, as to which of our Internet sites you have visited, is forwarded to the Google server. This is independent of whether you have registered with or are logged in on Google Plus. Data is transferred even in case of users who are not registered or logged in on these sites. The “+1” button is not used to record your visits on the Internet. When displaying a “+1” button, Google does not permanently log your browser history and also does not analyse your visit to a page with “+1” button in another manner. Google saves the data of your visit for about two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. However, this data is not structured as per the individual profiles, user names or URLs, and is also not forwarded to us.
Moreover, if you are a member of Google Plus, and if your are logged in on Google Plus during the period in which you use the plug-in, the information collected about your website visit is linked to your Google Plus Account and disclosed to other users. Even in case of interactions, which are possible with various Google plug-ins, the corresponding information about you is collected and transmitted to Google and stored there. For an overview of the different types of Google plug-ins, log on to:
https://developers.google.com/+/plugins
If you have made your profile publically accessible in the Google Plus settings, your “+1” can be superimposed by Google as information together with your profile names and your photo in Google services, e.g. in search results or in your Google profile, or at other places on websites and advertisements on the Internet. If you do not want Google to allocate the collected information directly to your Google Plus profile, you must first log out of Google Plus before visiting our site.
Further information about the collection and usage of the data by Google, about your relevant rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Data Protection information of Google: www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.
You have the possibility to prevent downloading Google plug-ins by installing corresponding add-ons in your browser.
Information, correction, blocking and deletion of data
At all times, you have the right to free information about your stored data as well as the right to correction, deletion and blocking of the same. On request, please contact us. You will find our contact data in our imprint.