Person responsible

The person responsible within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Heike Perioli

Your rights

You can use the contact details provided to exercise the following rights at any time in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

• Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
• correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
• erasure of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
• restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
• objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
• data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can contact a supervisory authority at any time with a complaint, e.g. to the responsible supervisory authority of the federal state in which you reside or to the authority responsible for us.

A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: .

Processing activities

Collection of general information when you visit our website

Type and purpose of processing

When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address and similar information.

They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

• for technically error-free presentation and optimisation of the website

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you as a person. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

Legal basis and legitimate interest

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) point f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website and ensuring system security and detection of misuse.

Recipients

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who work for us as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period

Data is stored in server log files in a form that allows the identification of data subjects for a maximum of [please add information] unless a security-related event occurs (e.g. a DDoS attack).

In the event of such an incident, server log files are stored until the security incident has been resolved and fully investigated.

Provision mandatory or required

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or may be restricted.

Objection

Please read the information below about your right to object under Article 21 of the GDPR.

Our website includes a contact form that can be used to contact us electronically. If a user makes use of this option, the data entered in the input mask will be transmitted to us and stored.

At the time the message is sent, the following data is also stored:

• URL from which the request was made

It is possible to contact us via the e-mail addresses provided. In this case, the user’s personal data transmitted by e-mail will be stored. This includes the date and time of the e-mail dispatch, e-mail address, IP addresses and information about the servers involved in the e-mail communication.

You can contact us using the telephone numbers provided. In doing so, we collect protocol data that includes your telephone number and the duration of the call.

Regardless of the method of communication chosen, we collect the content of your enquiry. Your data is stored for the purpose of communicating with you individually.

Legal basis

The processing of the data is carried out on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Our legitimate interest in processing your data is to enable us to contact you easily.

If you contact us to request an offer, the data will be processed for the purpose of implementing pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

Recipient

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who work for us as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage period

Data will be deleted at the latest [please add information] after the contact has been processed.

If a contractual relationship is established, we are subject to the statutory retention periods. These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax law requirements.

Provision mandatory or required

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with the necessary data and the reason for the request.

Objection

Please read the information below about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

Newsletter

Type and purpose of processing

We collect personal data that is transmitted to us via an input mask for the delivery of our newsletter or comparable information.

We require a valid email address for an effective registration. We use the double opt-in procedure to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an email address. For this purpose, we log the registration for the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email and the receipt of the requested reply. Further data is not collected.

At the time of sending the registration form, the following data is also stored:

Legal basis

On the basis of your expressly granted consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR), we will regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by email to the email address you have provided.

Recipient

We use a service provider to send the newsletter, who acts as our processor.

Storage period

The data will only be processed in this context for as long as the corresponding consent is present.

Provision mandatory or required

The provision of your personal data is voluntary and based solely on your consent. Without your consent, we cannot send you our newsletter.

Revocation of consent

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. You can request to unsubscribe via the link contained in every email or using the contact information provided in this data protection declaration.

Provision of chargeable services

Type and purpose of processing

We process the data you provide when placing your order in order to carry out and process your order. This also includes the return or exchange and the complaint of items.

Your personal data will only be used to the extent necessary for processing this order and delivering the requested products and services.

Legal basis

The processing of data required for the conclusion of the contract is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

Recipient

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who work for the operation and maintenance of our website as processors.

In order to fulfil the contract, we will pass on your name and address to the shipping company responsible for the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the ordered goods.

Depending on which payment service provider you select during the ordering process, we will forward 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 to process payments.

Storage period

We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired. These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax law requirements.

Provision mandatory or required

The provision of your personal data is contractually required. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot execute the order.

Social Plugin (Shariff)

We use a social plugin on our website to simplify sharing on the social media platforms or with the providers listed below. You can recognise the functionality by the fact that it is marked with the corresponding logo.

By default, these buttons are disabled and thus do not contact the servers of the respective provider. Only when the website visitor activates the buttons and thus declares his consent to communicate with the respective provider, the buttons become active and establish the connection (but only for the selected provider). With a second click, the website visitor can then submit his recommendation to the social media offering.

We have integrated the social media buttons of the following companies on our website:

• https://www.xing.com
  https://www.linkedin.com
  https://www.facebook.com
  https://x.com

Use of the tracking tool Google Analytics

Type and purpose of processing

Insofar as you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland).

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information collected is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics automatically anonymises IP addresses by default. Due to the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the area of member states of the EU or the EEA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

During your visit to our website, your user behaviour is recorded in the form of so-called events, such as:

• Page views
• Starting a session
• Dwell time
• User engagement
• First visit to a website
• Scrolls (when a visitor scrolls 90% of the way to the bottom of the page)
• Clicks on external links
• Seen or clicked on ads
• Internal searches
• Interaction with video content
• Downloads
• Language settings

In addition, the following information is collected:

• Your approximate location (region)
• Your IP address (in abbreviated form)
• Technical information such as browser, internet service provider, end device and screen resolution
• Source of your visit (referrer URL), i.e. which website or advertising medium referred you to us

You can find more information about the terms and conditions of use and data protection at and .

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage for the website operator.

Legal basis

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR.

Recipient

We use technical service providers who act as our processors for the operation and maintenance of our website and for the evaluation of cookies.

Another recipient of the data is Google Ireland Limited (Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland). Google Ireland Limited uses Google LLC in the United States (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) as a service provider.

Storage duration

The data sent by us and linked to cookies is automatically deleted after: 6 weeks.

The maximum lifespan of Google Analytics cookies is two years. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

Third country transfer

Since Google’s headquarters are in the United States, it cannot be ruled out that the data will be processed on Google’s servers in the United States. This means that there is a risk that your data may be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes, without you having any legal recourse. To ensure an adequate level of data protection, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with Google, which can be viewed here:

Revocation of consent

You can revoke your consent at any time in the cookie settings for the future.

You can also prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking this link. This installs an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On zur Deaktivierung von Google Analytics.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data set that is created when you visit a website and stored on the website visitor’s system. If the user of the website accesses the server of this website again, the browser of the user of the website sends the previously received cookie back to the server. The server can evaluate the information obtained by this procedure. In particular, cookies can make it easier to navigate a website.

Detailed information about cookies and which cookies are used on this website for which purpose can be found in the cookie settings.

Deleting cookies

You can delete individual cookies or all cookies. You can also find information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block them from being stored in the first place. Depending on your browser provider, you can find the necessary information at the following links:

• Mozilla Firefox:
• Microsoft Edge:
• Google Chrome:
• Opera:
• Safari:

In addition, you can prevent the loading of so-called scripts by default. NoScript allows the execution of JavaScript, Java and other plug-ins only for trusted domains of your choice.

Information and instructions on how to edit this function can be obtained from your browser provider (e.g. for Mozilla Firefox: ).

Technically necessary cookies

Type and purpose of processing

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to make it easier for users to use websites. Some of our website’s features would not be possible without the use of cookies. These features require that the browser be recognised even after a page change.

We need cookies for the following applications:

You can find an overview of the cookies used in our cookie consent tool.

Legal basis and legitimate interest

In this respect, data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website and in the documentation of consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) point f GDPR in conjunction with a consideration pursuant to §25 (2) TDDDG.

Recipient

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who work for us as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage duration

Please refer to the cookie consent tool for the respective storage duration of the cookies.

Third country transfer

The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries:

USA

The following data protection guarantees are in place:

Provision prescribed or required

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may be unavailable or restricted.

Objection

Please read the information below about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

Provision prescribed or required

The provision of your data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

Revocation of consent

You can revoke your consent for the future in the cookie consent tool.

Profiling

With the help of technically unnecessary cookies, the behaviour of website visitors can be evaluated and their interests analysed. For this purpose, we create a pseudonymous user profile.

Information about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR

Right to object in individual cases

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing based on a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Article 4(4) GDPR.

If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can prove compelling reasons for the processing worthy of protection, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Recipient of an objection

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Amendments to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Questions about data protection

If you have any questions about data protection, please email the controller named above.

Copyright

This privacy statement was created with the help of activeMind AG – the experts for external data protection officers (version #2024-08-06).