privacy

Notes on data protection

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company and our products. Due to legal regulations, we are obliged to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data. Therefore, please note the following information:

Responsible body

The information on the responsible body for data protection issues according to Section 3, Paragraph 7 of the Federal Data Protection Act can be found in the mandatory information in the imprint.

Personal Data

If you only visit our website, we do not collect any personal data from you.

If you use the opportunity to contact us via the forms provided or any chat functions, for example for inquiries about our services, catalog orders, advice or to participate in campaigns or competitions, we will collect and process the personal data necessary to process your inquiry and save. The necessary data includes your name and your e-mail address. This also includes the data that you provide to us voluntarily.

If you use the opportunity to place an order with us and to open a customer account for this purpose, we will collect, process and store the necessary personal data for the purpose of managing the customer account and for the purpose of fulfilling and processing your order . The necessary data includes your name, your address and your e-mail address. This also includes the data that you give us voluntarily when opening a customer account or placing an order.

data sharing

For fast and uncomplicated delivery of your order, we transmit your personal data to our logistics partner, who we commission with the delivery of the order.

For items that are delivered directly to you by the manufacturer or a sub-supplier, we will pass on your address data to the manufacturer or sub-supplier for delivery of the goods ordered.

In the case of payment by direct debit, we pass on the payment transaction information required to collect the direct debit to our bank. For all other forms of payment, we do not record or store any payment transaction information. You only disclose this directly to the respective payment service provider.

Credit Check and Scoring

If we make advance payments, e.g. B. in the case of a purchase on account, we may obtain creditworthiness information based on mathematical-statistical processes from Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformation GmbH & Co. KG, PO Box 500 166, 22701 Hamburg to protect our legitimate interests. For this purpose, we transmit the personal data required for a credit check to Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformation GmbH & Co. KG and use the information received about the statistical probability of non-payment for a balanced decision on the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship.

The credit report can contain probability values (score values), which are calculated on the basis of scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical methods and which, among other things, include address data in their calculation. Your interests worthy of protection are acc. the legal provisions into account.

Newsletter

If you have registered separately for our newsletter, your e-mail address will be saved and used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs of your access provider.

advertising

Due to legal regulations, we are entitled to process or use data collected from you for advertising purposes for our own offers. On this basis, we are entitled to send you advertising by post even without separate consent. You can object to this processing or use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time by contacting the responsible body.

In addition, legal regulations allow us to send you information about our own, similar goods and services to the e-mail address you provided when making a purchase without your consent. You can object to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose at any time without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.

right of providing information

You have the right at any time to information about the data stored about you, its origin and recipients as well as the purpose of storage and, if necessary, a right to correction or deletion of this data as well as blocking it for specific purposes, such as advertising or market and marketing purposes polling. The responsible office will provide you with information about the stored data.

revocation

You have the right to revoke any consent you have given us at any time with effect for the future. An informal message to the responsible body is sufficient for this.

If you revoke your consent, we will delete your personal data.

Data that we have to store due to legal, statutory or contractual storage obligations will be blocked instead of being deleted in order to prevent use for other purposes.

Notes on cookies

Cookies are text files that are stored on the user's computer when visiting a website.

We use so-called session cookies, which are immediately deleted when the browser is closed. This allows you, for example, to conveniently enjoy the cross-page shopping cart display, in which you can see how many items are currently in your shopping cart and how high your current purchase value is.

In addition, we also use cookies that are used beyond the session ("cross-session cookies"). These cookies in particular serve to make our offer user-friendly, more effective and safer. Thanks to these files, it is possible, for example, to display information on the site that is specially tailored to your interests. The sole purpose is therefore to adapt our offer to your customer requirements as best as possible and to make surfing with us as comfortable as possible.

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 an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by clicking on the following link (http:// tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) and install the available browser plugin.

You can find more information on the terms of use and data protection under

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html

or under http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" was expanded to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, please click this link to prevent future detection by Google Analytics within this website (the opt-out only works in the browser and only for this domain) . An opt-out cookie is stored on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again.

Use of Facebook Social Plugins

This website offers visitors the opportunity to share pages on the Facebook social network, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 in the USA.

We would like to point out that no data is forwarded to the Facebook server when you visit our site. This only happens when you use the button in question and thus call up the Facebook website yourself.

For more information regarding the use of data by Facebook, please refer to the data protection regulations on Facebook at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

Use of Twitter plugins

This website offers visitors the opportunity to share pages on the microblogging service Twitter, which is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 in the USA.

We would like to point out that no data is forwarded to the Twitter servers when our site is accessed. This only happens when you use the button in question and thus call up the Twitter website yourself.

For more information regarding the use of data by Twitter, please refer to the data protection regulations on Twitter at https://twitter.com/privacy.

Use of LinkedIn plugins

This website offers visitors the opportunity to share pages on the Facebook social network, which is operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043 in the USA.

We point out that when you visit our site, no data is forwarded to the LinkedIn server. This only happens when you use the button in question and thus call up the LinkedIn website yourself.

For more information regarding the use of data by LinkedIn, please refer to the data protection regulations on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.