Cookies

We use so-called cookies on our site to recognize multiple uses of our offer by the same user/internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser places and saves on your computer. They serve to optimize our website and our offers. These are usually so-called “session cookies” which are deleted after the end of your visit.
However, some of these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. This recognition is based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offers and to give you easier access to our site.
You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully use all of the functions of our website.

Server data

For technical reasons, the following data, which your Internet browser transmits to us or to our web space provider, is recorded (so-called server log files):

– Browser type and version
– operating system used
– Website from which you visit us (referrer URL)
– Website you visit
– Date and time of your access
– Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and therefore does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about a specific person. They are evaluated for statistical purposes in order to optimize our website and our offers.

Contact option

On our site we offer you the opportunity to contact us by email and/or using a contact form. In this case, the information provided by the user will be stored for the purpose of processing their contact. It will not be passed on to third parties. The data collected in this way is also not compared with data that may be collected by other components of our site.

Use of Google Analytics with anonymization function

On our site we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and thereby enable your use of the website to be analyzed.

The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, location and frequency of your website visits, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there.

We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization function on our website. In this case, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thereby anonymized.

Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

According to its own statements, Google will under no circumstances associate your IP address with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully use all of the functions of our website.

Google also offers a deactivation option for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over which data is collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information about your website visit will be sent to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may use. Further information about the deactivation option provided by Google and how to activate this option can be found via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Use of Google+ recommendation components

On our site we use the “+1” button from the provider Google+ from Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”.
Every time you access our website, which is equipped with such a “+1” component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Google. Through this process, Google is informed which specific page of our website is currently being visited.
According to Google’s information, your visit will not be further evaluated if you are not logged into your Google account.

If you access our site and are logged in to Google, Google can collect information about your Google account, the website you recommended, your IP address and other browser-related information when you confirm the “+1” button.

This way, your “+1” recommendation can be saved and made publicly available. Your Google “+1” recommendation can then be displayed as a reference together with your account name and, if applicable, your photo stored with Google in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google account or in other places, such as on websites and advertisements on the Internet. Furthermore, Google can link your visit to our site with your data stored on Google. Google also records this information to further improve Google services.
If you want to prevent the above-mentioned collection by Google as best as possible, you must log out of your Google account before visiting our website.

You can access Google’s data protection information on the “+1” button with all further information on the collection, transfer and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard and your profile setting options here: https://developers.google.com/+ /web/buttons-policy

Use of Google Maps with recommendation components

We use the “Google Maps” component on our site in combination with the so-called “share function”. “Google Maps” is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”.

Every time this component is accessed, Google sets a cookie in order to process user settings and data when the page on which the “Google Maps” component is integrated is displayed. This cookie is usually not deleted when you close the browser, but expires after a certain period of time unless you delete it manually beforehand.

If you do not agree to this processing of your data, you have the option of deactivating the “Google Maps” service and thereby preventing the transmission of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Java Script function in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use “Google Maps” or will only be able to use it to a limited extent.

The use of “Google Maps” and the information obtained via “Google Maps” occurs in accordance with the Google Terms of Use
http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html

and the additional terms and conditions for “Google Maps”
https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html

The Google Maps function also contains the following recommendation buttons:

“Google+ button” from Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA;
“facebook button” from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA;
“Twitter button” from Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

When you access the “Google Maps” page, these “recommendation components” cause the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from the respective provider. This informs the respective provider mentioned above which specific page of our website you are currently visiting.

If you are logged into your personal account with the above-mentioned providers at the time you access the “Google Maps” page, they can collect the information obtained in this way about the website you recommended as well as your IP address and other browser-related information and share it with yours link the respective account.

If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by the respective provider, you must log out of these providers before you visit our site.

You can find out more about the data collection of the respective providers via the following links:

Twitter privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=de
Facebook privacy policy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy
Data protection declaration Google+: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy

Use of Google Maps

On our site we use the “Google Maps” component from Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”.

Every time the “Google Maps” component is accessed, Google sets a cookie in order to process user settings and data when the page on which the “Google Maps” component is integrated is displayed. This cookie is usually not deleted when you close the browser, but expires after a certain period of time unless you delete it manually beforehand.

If you do not agree to this processing of your data, you have the option of deactivating the “Google Maps” service and thereby preventing the transmission of data to Google. To do this, you must deactivate the Java Script function in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use “Google Maps” or will only be able to use it to a limited extent.

The use of “Google Maps” and the information obtained via “Google Maps” occurs in accordance with the Google Terms of Use

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html

and the additional terms and conditions for “Google Maps”

https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Use of Facebook components

We use components from the provider facebook.com on our site. Facebook is a service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Every time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Facebook. This process informs Facebook which specific page of our website you are currently visiting.
If you access our site and are logged in to Facebook, Facebook uses the information collected by the component to recognize which specific page you are visiting and assigns this information to your personal account on Facebook. For example, if you click the “Like” button or make comments, this information will be transmitted to your personal user account on Facebook and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site is passed on to Facebook. This happens regardless of whether you click the component or not.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our site. Facebook’s data protection information provides further information on this, in particular on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard and the setting options to protect your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/
You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Use of Twitter recommendation components

We use components from the provider Twitter on our site. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Every time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Twitter. Through this process, Twitter is informed which specific page of our website is currently being visited.
We have no influence on the data that Twitter collects through this, nor on the extent of this data collected by Twitter. To the best of our knowledge, Twitter collects the URL of the respective website accessed and the user’s IP address, but does not use it for purposes other than displaying the Twitter component. Further information can be found in Twitter’s privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your privacy settings in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Use of the Xing recommendation components

We use components of the XING.com network on our site. These components are a service of XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
Every time you access our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from XING.

To the best of our knowledge, XING does not store any of the user’s personal data when they access our website. XING also does not store IP addresses. In addition, there is no evaluation of usage behavior via the use of cookies in connection with the “XING Share button”. Further information can be found in the data protection information for the XING Share button at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

Use of LinkedIn recommendation components

We use components of the LinkedIn network on our site. LinkedIn is a service of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Every time you access our website, which is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from LinkedIn.

Through this process, LinkedIn is informed which specific page of our website is currently being visited. If you click the LinkedIn “Recommend button” while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of our pages to your LinkedIn profile. This enables LinkedIn to assign your visit to our pages to your LinkedIn user account.

We have no influence on the data that LinkedIn collects, nor on the extent of this data collected by LinkedIn. We also have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to LinkedIn. Details on data collection by LinkedIn as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn’s data protection information. You can find this information at http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Use of YouTube components with extended data protection mode

On our website we use components (videos) from YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company of Google Inc., AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Here we use the “-extended data protection mode” option provided by YouTube.

When you access a page that has an embedded video, a connection is established to the YouTube servers and the content is displayed on the website by notifying your browser.

According to YouTube, in “-extended data protection mode” only data is transmitted to the YouTube server, in particular which of our websites you have visited when you watch the video. If you are logged in to YouTube at the same time, this information will be assigned to your YouTube member account. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.

Further information about YouTube’s data protection is provided by Google at the following link:

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Use of Vimeo components

We use components from the provider Vimeo on our site. Vimeo is a service of Vimeo LCC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. Each time you access our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Vimeo. If you access our site and are logged in to Vimeo, Vimeo uses the information collected by the component to recognize which specific page you are visiting and assigns this information to your personal Vimeo account. For example, if you click the “Play” button or make comments, this information will be sent to your personal Vimeo user account and stored there. In addition, the information that you have visited our site is passed on to Vimeo. This happens regardless of whether you click on the component/make comments or not.

If you want to prevent Vimeo from transmitting and storing data about you and your behavior on our website, you must log out of Vimeo before you visit our website. Vimeo’s data protection information provides more information on this, in particular on how Vimeo collects and uses data: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Use of Tumblr

We use components from the provider Tumblr on our site. These components are a service of Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. Every time you access our website, which is equipped with such a “Tumblr” component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from tumblr.com. Through this process, Tumblr is informed which specific page of our website is currently being visited by which IP address. We have no influence on the scope of the data or the data itself that Tumblr collects through this component. As far as we know, the component is not used for any purpose other than displaying the button. Further information can be found in Tumblr’s privacy policy at https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy. To prevent Tumblr from associating your visit to our site with your Tumblr account, you must log out of your Tumblr account before visiting our site.

Use of PayPal as a payment method

If you decide to pay with the online payment service provider PayPal as part of your ordering process, your contact details will be transmitted to PayPal as part of the order placed in this way. PayPal is an offer from PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. PayPal takes on the function of an online payment service provider as well as a trustee and offers buyer protection services.

The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, telephone number, IP address, email address, or other data that is necessary for order processing, as well as data in connection with the order such as number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent, invoice information, etc.

This transmission is necessary to process your order with the payment method you selected, in particular to confirm your identity, to administer your payment and the customer relationship.

Please note, however, that PayPal may also pass on personal data to service providers, subcontractors or other affiliated companies to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill the contractual obligations arising from your order or the personal data is to be processed in the order.

Depending on the payment method selected via PayPal, e.g. invoice or direct debit, the personal data transmitted to PayPal will be transmitted by PayPal to credit reporting agencies. This transmission serves to check your identity and creditworthiness in relation to the order you have placed. You can find out which credit agencies these are and which data is generally collected, processed, stored and passed on by PayPal in PayPal’s data protection declaration at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Use of instant transfer as a payment method

If you decide to pay with the online payment service provider Sofortüberweisung as part of your ordering process, your contact details will be sent to Sofortüberweisung as part of the order placed in this way. Sofortüberweisung is an offer from SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany. Sofortüberweisung takes on the function of an online payment service provider that enables cashless payment of products and services on the Internet.

The personal data transmitted to Sofortüberweisung is mostly first name, last name, address, telephone number, IP address, email address, or other data that is necessary for order processing, as well as data in connection with the order such as number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent, invoice information, etc.

This transmission is necessary to process your order with the payment method you selected, in particular to confirm your identity, to administer your payment and the customer relationship.

However, please note: Personal data can also be passed on by Sofortüberweisung to service providers, subcontractors or other affiliated companies to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill the contractual obligations arising from your order or the personal data is to be processed in the order.

Under certain circumstances, the personal data transmitted to Sofortüberweisung will be transmitted by Sofortüberweisung to credit reporting agencies. This transmission serves to check your identity and creditworthiness in relation to the order you have placed.

You can find out which data protection principles Sofortüberweisung applies when processing your data in the data protection information that is displayed to you during the Sofortüberweisung payment process.

If you have any further questions about the use of your personal data, you can contact Sofortüberweisung by email (datenschutz@sofort.com) or in writing (SOFORT GmbH, Data Protection, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich).

Use of Klarna as a payment method

If you choose Klarna invoice and Klarna installment purchase from Klarna AB, registered office Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden, as a payment option with us during the ordering process, you agree that we will use the information required to process the invoice purchase and an identity and Collect the personal data necessary for the credit check and send it to Klarna AB.

These are in particular first and last name, title, address, date of birth, gender, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, as well as data that are necessary for processing the purchase on account and data that are related to the order, such as Number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent, invoice information, bank details, card number, expiry date, CCV code, information about goods/services, historical information, information about your previous purchases, payment history, possible rejections, financial information, information about possible credit obligations and payment notes, information about the interaction between you and Klarna Checkout, page loading times, download errors and methods used to leave the displayed page, electronic communications information, receipt confirmations, device information, geographical information.

This transmission is necessary to process your purchase with the invoice processing you request, in particular to confirm your identity, to administer your payment and the customer relationship, for customer analysis, to administer Klarna’s services and for internal processes, including troubleshooting, data analysis, internal Testing, development, statistical purposes, to improve Klarna’s services, to ensure that the necessary information for you and your device is displayed as effectively as possible, to prevent misuse or inappropriate use of Klarna’s services, as part of Klarna’s commitment, to make the Services as safe as possible, to assess which payment methods we can make available to you through Klarna, to carry out internal credit assessments, to carry out risk analysis and risk management, for business development and to comply with applicable law. Klarna has a legitimate interest in transmitting the customer’s personal data and needs this in order to obtain information from credit agencies for the purpose of identity and creditworthiness checks. In Germany, the aforementioned data can be passed on to the following credit reporting agencies:

• Arvato Infoscore Consumer Data GmbH and Infoscore Consumer Data GmbH, Rheinstraße 99, 76532 Baden-Baden
  Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformation GmbH & Co. KG, PO Box 5001 66, 22701 Hamburg
  Creditreform Boniversum GmbH, Hellersbergstraße 11, 41460 Neuss
  Deltavista GmbH, Freisinger Landstr. 74 80939 Munich
  SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65201 Wiesbaden

  In addition, Klarna may make your personal data available to other companies within the Klarna Group, service providers and subcontractors, to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill the contractual relationships with you or with them.

  As part of the decision on the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship, Klarna collects and uses information about the buyer’s previous payment behavior as well as probability values about this behavior in the future. Klarna calculates this scoring based on scientifically recognized mathematical and statistical methods.

  It is possible to revoke your consent to Klarna’s use of personal data at any time. However, even in this case, Klarna may still be entitled to process, use and transmit the personal data to the extent that this is necessary for contractual payment processing through Klarna’s services, is legally required, or is required by a court or authority.

  You can also obtain further information on data protection directly from Klarna:

  Klarna AB’s privacy policy

  You can obtain information about the personal data stored by Klarna at any time by contacting Datenschutz@klarna.de.

  Use of Google Adwords

We also use the Google advertising tool “Google Adwords” to promote our website. As part of this, we use the “Conversion Tracking” analysis service on our website from Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google”. If you have reached our website via a Google ad, a cookie will be stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser places and saves on your computer. These so-called “conversion cookies” lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve to identify you personally. If you visit certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that you as a user clicked on one of our ads placed on Google and were redirected to our site.

The information collected using “conversion cookies” is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. Through these statistics we find out the total number of users who clicked on our ad and also which pages of our website were subsequently accessed by the respective user. However, we or other advertisers via “Google Adwords” do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

You can prevent the installation of “conversion cookies” by setting your browser accordingly, for example using a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or specifically only blocks cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com”.

You can find Google’s relevant data protection declaration at the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html

Use of Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense on our website. Google AdSense is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 AmphitheaterParkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, for integrating advertisements. Google AdSense uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and enable the use of our website to be analyzed. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons. These web beacons enable Google to evaluate information such as the flow of visitors to our site. In addition to your IP address and the recording of the advertising formats displayed, this information is transmitted to Google in the USA, stored there and can be passed on by Google to contractual partners. However, Google does not combine your IP address with other data stored about you. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully use all of the functions of our website. By using our website, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above.

Information/revocation/deletion

Due to the GDPR, you can contact us free of charge if you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data and their correction, blocking, deletion or revocation of your consent. We would like to point out that you have the right to correct incorrect data or delete personal data if this right does not conflict with a legal retention obligation.

Data protection declaration of the law firm Weiß & PartnerQA