PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy and Data Protection
We appreciate your visit to our website and thank you for your interest in our company, our products and our web pages. Protecting your privacy when using our web pages is important to us. Therefore, please take note of the following information:
1) Handling of Personal Data
Basically, you may visit our website without us collecting any personal data from you. Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily disclose such data for the purpose of concluding a contract or opening a customer account. Without your explicit consent, this data is merely used for contract performance and processing your inquiries. Upon complete fulfilment of the contract and complete payment of the purchase price your data will be stored with care for tax and commercial law retention periods, to be deleted upon expiry of these periods.
Furthermore, personal data is collected, if you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter. We use this data for our own advertising purposes in terms of our e-mail newsletter provided you have explicitly consented to it.
You may unsubscribe from our Newsletter at any time using the respective link in the Newsletter or by sending us a message. Your e-mail address will be deleted immediately after unsubscribing.
The dispatch of newsletters is carried out by the service provider The Rocket Science Group, LLC d/b/a MailChimp, 512 Means St., Suite 404 Atlanta, Georgia- 30318, USA (http://www.mailchimp.com/), to whom we transmit your data for the purpose of producing and sending newsletters. The Rocket Science Group has adhered to the so called Safe Harbor Agreement which is meant to guarantee a data protection level according to European standards. The Rocket Science Group’s Safe Harbor certification is made available on the Internet at: https://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=23996. You can object to the future saving and use of your data at any time. If you so wish, please contact us via the e-mail address stated in the Legal Notice.
2) Transfer of Personal Data
2.1 For the purpose of contract fulfillment, personal data collected by us is transferred to the transport company commissioned with the delivery, provided this is required for delivering the goods.
2.2 If paying per PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit per PayPal or, if offered, purchasing on account via PayPal, we transfer your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.a. r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as "PayPal") for the purpose of payment processing. PayPal reserves itself the exclusion of certain payment methods such as credit card via PayPal, direct debit per PayPal or, if offered, purchasing on account, after the result of a credit investigation. PayPal uses the result of the credit check with regard to the statistical probability of failure for the purpose of deciding whether to offer the corresponding payment method. The credit check may contain probability values (so called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the credit report, they are based on scientifically recognized, mathematical-statistical procedures. Among other data, address data are taken into account when calculating the score values. For further information on our privacy policy and the use of credit agencies, please refer to the PayPal data protection information: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
2.3 When choosing the payment methods „payment by credit card via Paymill“ or „payment by direct debit via Paymill“ , payments are handled via the technical service provider Paymill GmbH, St.-Cajetan-Straße 43, 81669 Munich, Germany who transmits the client accounting data (name, address, credit card number, invoice amount, currency and transaction number) , the client has communicated during the ordering process, to Acquirer Lufthansa AirPlus Servicekarten GmbH, Dornhofstr. 10, 63263 Neu-Isenburg Germany or to Wirecard Bank AG, Einsteinring 35, 85609 Aschheim, Germany. Passing on of client data only takes place for the purpose of processing the payment. You can find detailed information about Paymill’s handling of personal data under Paymill’s privacy policy at: https://www.paymill.com/de/datenschutz.
3) Cookies
Among other things this website uses so-called "cookies” serving to make our Internet presence more user-friendly, effective and secure – for instance to accelerate navigation on our platform. Furthermore, cookies allow us to measure the frequency of website visits as well as general navigation. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer system. Please note that some of these cookies are transferred from our server to your computer system, mostly so-called "session cookies”. "Session cookies” are characterized by being automatically deleted from your hard drive upon the end of the browser session. Other cookies remain on your computer system and allow us to recognize your computer system during your next visit (so-called permanent cookies). You may certainly decline these cookies at any time provided your browser permits this. Please note that once your browser is set to decline cookies (from our website) certain features of this website may not be available or restricted.
4) Social Plugins
On our website so called social plug-ins („plugins”) of the online service Instagram are applied which are operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA („Instagram“). The plugins can be recognized by the Instagram logo, for example in form of an Instagram camera. A list of Instagram plugins and their look can be found under: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges.
If you request a page of our website, which contains such a plugin, your browser will build up a direct connection to the servers of Instagram. The content of the plugin will be directly transmitted from Instagram to your browser and integrated into the page of the website. By integrating the plugin, Instagram obtains the information that your browser has accessed on the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or if you are not logged into Instagram. This information (including your IP address) will be directly transferred to and stored on a server operated by Instagram in the USA.
If you are logged in with Instagram, it will be able to assign your visit of our website to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, such as pressing the Instagram camera button, the corresponding information will be sent directly to a server of Instagram and be stored there. The information is also posted on your Instagram account and can be seen by your contacts.
For information on the purpose and extent of data capture and the further processing and use of data by Instagram, as well as your rights in this regard and turn-off options for the protection of your personal privacy, please refer to the Instagram data protection information: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/.
If you do not want Instagram to collect data about you via our internet website and to link this directly with your data stored on your Instagram account, you need to log off from Instagram before going to our website. You can completely prevent the loading of Instagram plugins on your browser by add-ons such as the script blocker “NoScript” (http:// noscript.net/).
5) Information on Customer Rights and Contacts
You are entitled to obtain information on your saved data free of charge and to correct, block or delete this data where applicable. Please contact us with any further inquiries about the collection, processing or use of your personal data. The same shall apply for obtaining information, your requests to block, delete or correct your personal data as well as for withdrawals of granted consents. You can find our contact address in our legal notice.