Unless otherwise stated below, the provision of your personal information is not required by law, contract or contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to do so will have no consequences. This only applies insofar as no other information is given in the subsequent processing procedures.

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Server Logfiles
You can visit our websites without providing any personal information.

Each time you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host / IT service provider via your Internet browser and stored in log data (so-called server log files). These stored data include, for example, the name of the page accessed, the date and time of access, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. The processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of our overwhelming legitimate interest in ensuring the trouble-free operation of our website and to improve our services.

Orders
Collection, processing and forwarding of personal data for orders

When ordering, we collect and process your personal data only to the extent necessary to fulfill and process your order and to process your inquiries. The provision of the data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to do so will mean that no contract can be concluded. Processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and is necessary for the fulfilment of a contract with you.

A passing on of your data takes place thereby for example to the dispatch enterprises and Dropshipping offerers selected by you, payment service providers, service offerers for the order winding up and IT-Dienstleister. In all cases we strictly observe the legal requirements. The scope of data transmission is limited to a minimum.

Contact – Reviews
Collection and processing of contact data

When using the contact form, we collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, message text) only to the extent provided by you. Data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact. By sending your message, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent.

You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation. We will only use your e-mail address to process your enquiry. Your data will then be deleted if you have not consented to further processing and use.

Data collection when a comment is written
When commenting on an article or a contribution, we collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, comment text) only to the extent provided by you. The processing serves the purpose of enabling comments and displaying comments. By sending the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. Processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation. Your personal data will then be deleted.

In addition, your IP address will be stored when you submit a comment for the purpose of preventing misuse of the comment function and ensuring the security of our information technology systems. By sending the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation. Your IP address will then be deleted.

Buyer’s seal customer evaluation
On our website we use the buyer’s seal customer evaluation tool of the Händlerbund Management AG (Torgauer Straße 233 B, 04347 Leipzig). After your order we would like to ask you to rate and comment your purchase with us.

For this purpose you will be contacted by us by e-mail, whereby we use the technical system of the supplier of the buyer’s seal evaluation tool within the scope of order processing.

Your data will be processed either with your consent or on the basis of our legitimate interest.

The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO with your consent, provided that you have expressly agreed to receive the request for evaluation. You can revoke your consent at any time by using the corresponding link in the e-mail without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent until revocation. Your e-mail address will then be removed from the distribution list.

Processing without express consent is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO for the legitimate interest in truthful, verified evaluations of our services within the framework of direct advertising. For this purpose, we will send you an electronic request for evaluation of your own goods or services that you have already purchased from us. The request will be sent to the e-mail address that we have received from you in connection with the sale of goods or services. The sending of the request for evaluation is subject to the proviso that you have not objected to this use of your e-mail address.

Objection is possible at any time by notifying us. You will find the contact details for exercising the objection in the imprint. You can also use the link provided for this purpose in the request for evaluation. For this no other than the transmission costs arise according to the basic tariffs.

The personal data stored in this connection in the technical system of the buyer’s seal evaluation tool will be deleted 3 months after the delivery of the goods recorded for evaluation.

Payment Service Provider
Using PayPal
All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal Privacy Policy. You can find it at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev?locale.x=en_DE.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on a user’s computer system. When a user visits a website, a cookie may be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again.

We use these cookies for the purpose of making our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these it is necessary that the browser is recognized also after a page change.

The processing is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of our predominantly legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of our offer.

Cookies are stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your Internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them and prevent the cookies from being saved and the data they contain from being transmitted. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

Under the following links you can find out how you can manage (among other things also deactivate) the cookies in the most important browsers:
Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Analysis – Advertising
The data processing operations described below in this section, in particular the setting of cookies, are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO out of our overwhelming legitimate interest:

the needs-based and targeted design of the website, e.g. analysis and statistics tools
to address website visitors in a targeted manner with interest-related advertising, e.g. with conversion tracking
For reasons arising from your particular situation, you have the right at any time to object to this processing of your personal data based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Rights of data subjects and storage period
Duration of storage
After complete processing of the contract, the data will initially be stored for the duration of the warranty period, then under consideration of statutory, in particular tax and commercial retention periods and then deleted after expiry of the period if you have not agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the person concerned
If the legal requirements are met, you are entitled to the following rights pursuant to Art. 15 to 20 DSGVO: right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to data transferability.

Furthermore, according to Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO and to processing for the purpose of direct advertising.

Please contact us if you wish. You will find the contact details in our imprint.

Right of appeal to the supervisory authority
Pursuant to Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data is not lawful.

Right of objection
If the personal data processing operations listed here are based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, you have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to such processing operations with effect for the future.
After objection has been made, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated unless we can prove compelling grounds for processing worthy of protection which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you may object to such processing at any time by notifying us. After objection has been made, we will terminate the processing of the data concerned for the purpose of direct advertising.

Last update: 03.05.2019