Privacy Policy

1. General

1.1 What are personal data
Personal data is information that discloses or can disclose the identity of the user. We adhere to the principle of data avoidance. As far as possible, we refrain from collecting personal data.

1.2 Handling personal data
Personal data is used exclusively for the purpose of establishing the contract, defining its content, implementing or processing the contractual relationship (Art. 6 I b DSGVO). Beyond that, personal data will only be processed if we have received your consent to do so (Art. 6 I a DSGVO). As a matter of principle, they will not be passed on to third parties. Only for the fulfillment of the contract, the data will be passed on to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. For the processing of payments, the payment data required for this will be passed on to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to the commissioned and selected payment service provider. The processing of your personal data takes place exclusively within the EU.

1.3 Usage data
When visiting the website, general technical information is collected. This is the IP address used, time, duration of the visit, browser type and, if applicable, the page of origin. This usage data is registered in a log file for technical reasons and can be used and stored for the purpose of statistical evaluation of this website. A linkage of these usage data with your further personal data does not take place.

1.4 Registration data
Registration is required for the comprehensive use of the functions of our website. The registration data is collected through your corresponding entries and used for the specifically stated purpose in accordance with your consent (Art. 6 I a DSGVO).

1.5 Duration of storage
We store your personal data after the termination of the purpose for which the data was collected only as long as this is required by law (especially tax law).

2. Your rights

2.1 Information
You can request information from us as to whether we process personal data about you and, if this is the case, you have a right to information about this personal data and to the further information specified in Art. 15 DSGVO.

2.2 Right to rectification
You have the right to have inaccurate personal data concerning you corrected and may request that incomplete personal data be completed in accordance with Article 16 of the DSGVO.

2.3 Right to deletion
You have the right to demand that we delete the personal data concerning you without delay. We are obliged to delete them immediately, in particular if one of the following reasons applies:

Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
You withdraw your consent on which the processing of your data was based and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
Your data has been processed unlawfully.

The right to deletion does not exist insofar as your personal data is required for the assertion, exercise or defense of our legal claims.

2.4 Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal data if

You dispute the accuracy of the data and we therefore verify the accuracy,
the processing is unlawful and you refuse the erasure and request the restriction of use instead,
we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims,
you have objected to the processing of your data and it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate grounds outweigh your grounds.

2.5 Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format and you have the right to transfer this data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided that the processing is based on consent or a contract and the processing is carried out by us with the help of automated processes.

2.6 Right of withdrawal
If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time.

2.7 General and right of appeal
The exercise of your above rights is free of charge for you. In the event of complaints, you have the right to directly contact the supervisory authority responsible for us, the state data protection commissioner.

3. Data security

3.1 Data security
All data on our website is secured by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification and distribution.

3.2 Sessions and cookies
To operate the website, we may use cookies or server-side sessions in which data can be stored. Cookies are files that are stored on your hard drive by a website in order to automatically recognize this computer the next time you visit the website and thus adapt the use of the website to you. Some of the cookies used are deleted after the end of the browser session. These are so-called session cookies. Other cookies remain on your terminal device and allow the browser to be recognized when you visit our website at a later time (persistent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Please note that you may not be able to use some functions of this website if cookies are disabled. We ensure that no personal data is taken from sessions or through cookies and that cookies are only used if this is necessary for the website. Thus, the balance shows that there are no overriding interests on your part (Art. 6 I f DSGVO).

4. Contact form

When you contact us via our contact form, the data you provide (your name, the name of your company, your email address, your telephone number and your message) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are legal retention obligations.

5. Third party services

5.1 Google Analytics

Nature and scope of processing
We use Google Analytics from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, as an analysis service for the statistical evaluation of our online offer. This includes, for example, the number of views of our online offer, visited subpages and the length of stay of visitors.

Google Analytics uses cookies and other browser technologies to evaluate user behavior and recognize users.

This information is used, among other things, to compile reports on website activity.

Purpose and legal basis
We process data with the help of Google Analytics for the purpose of optimizing our website and for marketing purposes based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. a. DSGVO.

Storage duration
The concrete storage period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us, but is determined by Google Ireland Limited. Further information can be found in the privacy policy for Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

5.2 Google Fonts

Nature and scope of processing
We use Google Fonts from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, as a service to provide fonts for our online offer. To obtain these fonts, you connect to servers of Google Ireland Limited, whereby your IP address is transmitted.

Purpose and legal basis
The use of Google Fonts is based on our legitimate interests, i.e. interest in a uniform provision as well as the optimization of our online offer according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO.

5.3 Google Tag Manager

Nature and scope of processing
We use the Google Tag Manager of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Tag Manager is used to manage website tags through one interface and allows us to control the exact integration of services on our website.

This allows us to flexibly integrate additional services to evaluate user access to our website.

Purpose and legal basis
The use of Google Tag Manager is based on our legitimate interests, i.e. interest in optimizing our services according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO.

5.4 WordPress CDN Manager

Nature and scope of processing
We use WordPress CDN to properly deliver the content of our website. WordPress CDN is a service provided by Automattic Inc. which acts as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) on our website.

A CDN helps to provide content of our online offer, especially files such as graphics or scripts, faster with the help of regionally or internationally distributed servers. When you access this content, you establish a connection to servers of Automattic Inc., San Francisco, California, US, whereby your IP address and possibly browser data such as your user agent are transmitted. This data is processed solely for the above purposes and to maintain the security and functionality of WordPress CDN.

Purpose and legal basis
The use of the Content Delivery Network is based on our legitimate interests, i.e. interest in a secure and efficient provision and optimization of our online offer pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO.

Storage duration
The concrete storage period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us, but is determined by Automattic Inc. Further information can be found in the privacy policy for WordPress CDN: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

5.5 Social-Media-Links und Social-Sharing

We have our own social media pages with the third-party providers that can be reached via links from this website. By using the links, you can access the respective websites of the third-party providers (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google+) and also share our content. Here, no data transfer takes place by calling up our website. As soon as you have accessed the page of the third-party provider, you are in the area of responsibility of the respective third-party provider, so that their privacy policy or their statements on data use also apply. We have no influence on this, but we recommend logging out of the respective third-party provider before using a corresponding link in order to avoid unnecessary data transfer, so that usage profiles cannot be created by the third-party provider simply by using the link.

6. Responsibilities

Responsible for the processing of personal data within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO):

Thomas Gießel
Samoastraße 22
13353 Berlin