We are pleased that you chose to visit our store and thank you for your interest in our company, our products and our website. Protecting your privacy when using our website is important to us. Therefore, please note the following information:

 

1. Collection, processing and use of personal data

Generally, you may visit our website without our collection of personal information from you. We receive and store personal data that you enter as part of executing a contract, opening a customer account or when interacting with us. In each case, this data is used without your express consent solely for processing contracts and responding to your requests. After completion of the contract and full payment, your data will be stored with respect to tax- and commercial retention periods and will be deleted thereafter.

 

In addition, personal information is collected when you register for our e-mail newsletter. These data will be used for advertising purposes in the form of our e-mail newsletter, if you have expressly consented as follows:

 

"I would like to receive interesting offers by e-mail on a regular basis."

 

You can unsubscribe at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by emailing us. After the cancellation, your e-mail address is deleted immediately.

 

2. Disclosure of personal data
a) Order handling

The order is processed via the service provider “eFulfilment” (eFulfilment Transaction Services GmbH Martin-Luther-Strasse 57-59, D- 71636 Ludwigsburg). Your personal data will be transmitted to eFulfilment for the purpose of processing the online order. Details on eFulfiment’s data protection and Privacy Statement may be viewed at “www.efulfilment.de”.

 

We will transmit the collected personal information to the contracted third party carriers responsible for delivery, to the extent necessary to deliver the merchandise. We will provide your payment information to the authorized credit institute during the processing of payment.

 

b) Newsletter creation, -management and -dispatch via Optivo

For the purpose of the newsletter creation, -management and dispatch, we will transmit your data (first and last name and e-mail address) to our online e-mail marketing service provider, the company Optivo GmbH, Wallstr. 16, D-10179 Berlin.

 

3. Cookies

Among other uses, our online store utilizes "cookies", which serve to make our website generally more user-friendly, effective and safer - for example when it comes to speeding up navigation on our platform. Cookies also enable us to measure the frequency of page views and general navigation, for instance. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system by our server. We point out to you that some of these cookies are transferred from our server to your computer system; these are usually called "session-cookies". "Session-cookies" are characterized by the fact that they are automatically deleted from your hard disk after the browser session. Other cookies will remain on your computer system and allow us to recognize your computer system during your next visit (so-called “persistent cookies”). Of course you can reject cookies at any time if your browser permits. Please note that if your browser is set to disallow cookies (of our website) this may result in partial or complete lack of access to certain features of this website.

 

4. Use of econda

This website uses technologies of econda GmbH (www.econda.de) to collect and store data for marketing and optimization purposes. These data are stored using anonymous user profiles. For this, cookies may be used. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the visitor’s web browser. Cookies enable us to recognize the visitor's browser. Without the explicit consent of the person concerned, the data collected by means of econda technology will not be used to identify a visitor personally and are not aggregated with personal information about the bearer of the pseudonym. The data collection and storage may be refused at any time with effect for the future. To refuse data collection and storage of your visitor data for the future, you can utilize the following link to receive an “opt-out cookie” from econda, which will effect that in the future econda will not collect and store visitor data from your browser:
http://www.econda.de/econda/datenschutz/widerruf-datenspeicherung.html

 

The opt-out cookie bears the name "econdaNoTrack" and is set by www.econda.de. Please do not delete this opt-out cookie for as long as you want to uphold your refusal. For more information about the data protection provisions of econda, please go to:
http://www.econda.de/econda/datenschutz/datenschutzerklaerung.html

 

5. Use of Facebook Plugins

We have integrated into our web site so-called “plugins” of the social network facebook.com (hereinafter "Facebook"). Facebook is a member company of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. A listing and the appearance of these Facebook plugins can be viewed at the following Internet address: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

 

Each time a web page, which is provided with such a plugin, is accessed on our website, the plugin causes that the browser you are using to load and present the visual representation of the plugin from the Facebook server. By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the relevant page on our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the U.S. and stored there.

 

If you are a member of Facebook, and are logged into Facebook while visiting our website, Facebook recognizes by means of the information sent by the plugin, which particular web page on our website you are currently visiting and assigns this to your personal account on Facebook, regardless of whether you make use of the plugin button. If you subsequently press one of the plugins, for example by clicking on the "Like" button or by submitting a comment, this information is sent to your personal account on Facebook and stored there. To prevent that Facebook assigns the collected data to your user account on Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. In order to block the data collection and dissemination of your visitor’s data by Facebook plug-ins in the future, you can receive a browser-add-on from "Facebook Blocker" for some Internet browsers at the following link:
http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/.
Please do not delete the browser add-on as long as you want to block the Facebook plugins.

 

At the following Internet address you can find the privacy policy of Facebook with more detailed information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your respective rights as well as ways of protecting your privacy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

 

6. Information on the rights of clients and contacts

You have a right to free information about your stored data, and, if applicable, the right to correct, block or delete such data. If you have further questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal information, please contact us. The same applies to information, blocking, deletion and correction requests concerning your personal data and for revocation of consents granted. The contact address is in our legal notice.

 

Gilching, January 2012