Privacy policy

We are pleased about your interest in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

1. Access data and hosting
You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time a website is accessed, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of the retrieval, the 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 the trouble-free operation of the site as well as improving our offer. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. All access data will be deleted at the latest seven days after the end of your site visit.

Hosting services by a third-party provider
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides services for hosting and displaying the website for us. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the forms provided for this purpose in the online shop as described below are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the scope explained here.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

2. Cookies and web analysis
In order to make our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can find out the duration of storage in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in how it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find them for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_GB
Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
Opera™: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html

If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (www.google.com), for website analysis. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other Google data. After the purpose and end of the use of Google Analytics by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an appropriate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Alternatively to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent the collection by Google Analytics on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be placed on your device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.

3. Contact options and your rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
According to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent described therein;
According to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to request the correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us without delay;
According to Art. 17 GDPR, 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 - to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
According to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as - the accuracy of the data is disputed by you;
- the processing is unlawful, but you refuse 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;
According to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller;
According to Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters for this purpose.

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking 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 imprint.

Right to object
Insofar as we process personal data as explained above to protect our legitimate interests, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is for other purposes, you have the right to object only if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.

After exercising your right to object, we will not further process your personal data for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. Then we will not further process your personal data for this purpose.