We are delighted that you are interested in our online shop. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we will provide you with detailed information about how we handle your data.

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time you access a website, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.

This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offering. In accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

Hosting services provided by a third party
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests. 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 their servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework explained here.

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

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order or when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases we absolutely need the data to process the contract or to process your contact and you cannot send the order or contact without providing it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b of GDPR to process the contract and process your enquiries. If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR by deciding to open a customer account, we will use your data for the purpose of opening a customer account. After the contract has been fully processed or your customer account has been deleted, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the tax and commercial retention periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration. Your customer account can be deleted at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.

In order to fulfil the contract in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b of GDPR, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to payment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service in order to process payments. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the data protection declaration of the respective payment service provider applies.

The same applies to the transfer of data to our manufacturers or wholesalers in cases where they handle shipping for us (drop shipment).

We use payment service providers based in a country outside the European Union. Personal data is only transferred to this company if it is necessary to fulfill the contract.

E-mail advertising with newsletter registration
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration.

The newsletter will be sent as part of processing on our behalf by a service provider to whom we pass on your email address for this purpose.

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

Identity and credit check when selecting Klarna payment services
If you decide to use Klarna's payment services, we ask for your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR that we may transmit the data necessary for processing the payment and for an identity and credit check to Klarna. In Germany, the credit agencies named in Klarna's privacy policy can be used for the identity and credit check.
Klarna uses the information received on the statistical probability of a payment default to make a balanced decision about the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship.
You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact details below. This may mean that we can no longer offer you certain payment options. You can also revoke your consent to this use of personal data to Klarna at any time.

The Trusted Shops Trustbadge is integrated into this website to display our Trusted Shops seal of approval and any reviews collected, as well as to offer Trusted Shops products to buyers after an order has been placed.

This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in optimal marketing by enabling secure shopping in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests. The Trustbadge and the services advertised with it are an offer from Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15C, 50823 Cologne. The Trustbadge is made available as part of order processing by a CDN provider (content delivery network). Trusted Shops GmbH also uses service providers from the USA. An appropriate level of data protection is ensured. Further information on data protection at Trusted Shops GmbH can be found here.

When you access the Trustbadge, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which also contains your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access. Individual access data is saved in a security database for the analysis of security irregularities. The log files are automatically deleted no later than 90 days after they are created.

Further personal data will be transferred to Trusted Shops GmbH if you decide to use Trusted Shops products after completing an order or if you have already registered to use them. The contractual agreement between you and Trusted Shops applies. Personal data is automatically collected from the order data for this purpose. Whether you as a buyer are already registered to use a product is automatically checked using a neutral parameter, the email address hashed using a cryptographic one-way function. Before transmission, the email address is converted into this hash value, which Trusted Shops cannot decrypt. After checking for a match, the parameter is automatically deleted.

This is necessary to fulfill our and Trusted Shops' overriding legitimate interests in providing buyer protection linked to the specific order and transactional evaluation services in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. Further details, including on objection, can be found in the Trusted Shops privacy policy linked above and in the Trustbadge.

In order to make visiting our website more 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, provided that you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR.

Cookies are small text files that are automatically saved on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can find out how long cookies are saved in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited. Each browser differs in the way 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 these for the respective browsers under the following links:
Microsoft Edge™: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/4027947/microsoft-edge-delete-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/12.0/mac/10.14
Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/products/firefox/protect-your-privacy/cookies
Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

In addition, you can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact option described in the privacy policy.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics to analyze its websites. The web analysis service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de). This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offering, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred 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 to 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 not merged with other data held by Google. Once the purpose no longer applies and we no longer use Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

To the extent that information is transferred to Google servers in the USA and stored there, the American company Google LLC 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 Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will have to click the link again.

Google Ads Remarketing
We use Google Ads to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. When you visit our website, Google sets a so-called remarketing cookie, which automatically enables interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you visit. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our website, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. Once the purpose no longer applies and we no longer use Google Ads Remarketing, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any further data processing will only take place if you have given Google your consent to link your web and app browsing history to your Google account and to use information from your Google account to personalize ads that you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. To do this, Google will temporarily link your personal data to Google Analytics data to create target groups.

Google Ads is offered by Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de).
To the extent that information is transferred to and stored on Google servers in the USA, the American company Google LLC 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 adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can deactivate the remarketing cookie using this link . You can also find out more about the use of cookies and make settings for this at the Digital Advertising Alliance .

Use of social plugins from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest
Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks.
If you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plug-in, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page on our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile in the respective social network. If you interact with the plug-ins, for example by pressing the "Like" or "Share" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our offer, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR.
The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as a contact option and your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers.
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://twitter.com/privacy
https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

If you do not want the social networks to assign the data collected via our website directly to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the respective service before visiting our website. You can also prevent the loading of the plugins with add-ons for Completely prevent your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript” (https://noscript.net/).

Review reminder by Trusted Shops
If you have given us your express consent to do so during or after your order in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR, we will transmit your email address to Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15c, 50823 Cologne (www.trustedshops.de) so that they can send you a review reminder by email.

This consent can be revoked at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or directly to Trusted Shops.

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

• pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;
• pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the rectification of inaccurate or completion of your personal data stored by us;
• pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing
  - 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
  is required;
• pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
  - you dispute the accuracy of the data;
  - the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure;
  - we no longer need the data, but you require it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
  - you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
• pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
• pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or of our company headquarters.

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, restriction or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consent granted or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.