Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are stored on the device you use. Cookies primarily serve to exchange information between your device and our website. This includes, among other things, language settings on a website, login status, or the point at which a video was watched.

Two types of cookies are used when visiting our websites:

Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, which allows various requests from your browser to be assigned to the same session. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after closing the browser. This allows our website to recognize your computer when you return. These cookies can store information about language settings or login details. Additionally, your browsing behavior can be documented and stored with these cookies. This data can be used for statistical, marketing, and personalization purposes.
In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be distinguished based on their purpose:

Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are essential for the operation of our website, such as storing logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session or cookies set for security reasons.
Statistics, marketing, and personalization cookies: These are cookies used for analytical purposes or audience measurement. Tracking cookies, in particular, can store information about entered search terms or the frequency of page views. Additionally, the surfing behavior of an individual user (e.g., viewing specific content, using features, etc.) can be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to display content to users that matches their potential interests. If we use services that store cookies on your device for statistical, marketing, and personalization purposes, we will inform you separately in the following sections of our privacy policy or as part of obtaining your consent.

Affected Data:

Usage data (e.g., access times, clicked pages)
Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address)
Affected Persons: Users of our online offerings

Processing Purpose: Presentation of our website, ensuring the operation of our website, improvement of our online offerings, communication, and marketing

Legal Basis:

Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO
If we do not obtain your consent to set cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, especially its content and features. You have the option to object to the use of cookies set by us as part of our legitimate interest through the security settings of your browser. There, you can specify whether you want to accept cookies at all or only on request, or whether cookies should be deleted after closing your browser. If cookies for our website are disabled, not all functions of the website may be fully available.

Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) DSGVO
If we ask you before your visit to our website to allow the setting of certain cookies on your device and you consent to this, the legal basis is seen in the consent you have given. We will inform you as part of the consent about which cookies we set in detail. If you do not give this consent, only so-called technically necessary cookies, which are necessary for the proper operation of our websites and their display in your browser, will be set. If you have consented to the setting of cookies, you have the option to revoke the consent granted to us at any time.

Contact

If you contact us via email, social media, phone, fax, mail, our contact form, or any other means and provide us with personal data such as your name, phone number, or email address, or other information about yourself or your concerns, we process this data to respond to your inquiry within the framework of our existing pre-contractual or contractual relationships.

Affected Data:

Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses)
Contact data (e.g., email address, phone number, postal address)
Content data (texts, photos, videos)
Contract data (e.g., contract subject, contract duration)
Affected Persons: Prospects, customers, business and contract partners

Processing Purpose: Communication and answering contact inquiries, office and organizational procedures

Legal Basis: Contractual fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6(1)(b) DSGVO legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO

Registration, Login, and User Account

You have the option to register on our online platform to create a user account. To do this, the provision of personal data is necessary, as indicated in the input mask. The data requested in the mask includes, in particular, your name, email address, possibly a username, and password. We store and process this data to set up a user account for you and to enable (repeated) login. The data can be changed or deleted by you at any time. The data will not be disclosed to third parties unless this is necessary for the technical and organizational processing of the usage contract between us. To protect against abusive registrations, we store the IP address assigned to you at the time of registration, as well as the date and time of registration.

Affected Data:

Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses)
Contact data (e.g., email address, phone number, postal address)
Contract data (e.g., contract subject, contract duration)
Payment data (e.g., bank account details, invoices)
Content data (e.g., posts, photos, videos)
Usage data (e.g., access times, clicked pages)
Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address)
Affected Persons: Customers, prospects, business and contract partners

Processing Purpose: Execution of contractual services, communication, answering inquiries, security measures

Legal Basis: Contractual fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6(1)(b)  DSGVO, legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR, legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO

Deletion: See the section: "When do we delete your data?". Additionally, we would like to point out that we will delete the data collected during registration and the content data stored in the account after you delete your account, subject to conflicting legal retention obligations. Therefore, we ask you to secure the data stored in your account before deleting it if you want or need to access the content data in your account after its deletion.

Your Comments or Ratings

You have the option to comment on our posts, express your opinion, or post content in designated areas of our website. Since we may be held liable for infringing content in your comment (insult, defamation, incitement of hatred, prohibited depiction of violence, etc.), we store your IP address for a duration of 7 days to potentially identify your identity.

Legal Basis: Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO

Affected Data:

Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses)
Content data (e.g., posts, photos, videos)
Usage data (e.g., access times, clicked pages)
Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address)
Processing Purpose: Fulfillment of contractual obligations, communication and processing of inquiries, obtaining feedback, security measures.

Subscribe to Comments

You have the option to subscribe to comments following your post. You will be notified when others comment on the same post. To do this, you must activate a checkbox provided for this purpose and provide your email address when submitting your comment. To ensure that your email address is not misused

Legal basis:

Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO)
Revocation: You can revoke the subscription at any time. We will inform you upon subscription about the ways in which you can declare the revocation, usually by email to an email address provided by us for this purpose. Even after revocation, we may store your email address for up to three years based on our legitimate interests before deleting it, in order to be able to prove that you have subscribed. We only store your email address after your revocation for this purpose. We will delete your email address prematurely if you confirm to us that you previously gave consent to the subscription.

 

Processing of your data when placing an order in our online shop
If you place orders through our online shop, we process the information provided by you in the order process to handle your order. This includes, in particular, your name, address and electronic contact details, information for processing the payment process, and details of your specific order. We will inform you during the order process about the specific data we require.

If it is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract between us, the protection of your vital interests, or due to legal requirements, we may transmit your data, respecting your rights, to third parties, such as the logistics company responsible for delivery, payment service providers for payment processing, and our tax advisor. When using third-party providers to provide our services, the privacy policies of the respective third-party providers apply.

User accounts: You can voluntarily create a user account where you can view and manage your orders. If you cancel your account, your data will be deleted. It is your responsibility to secure your data before cancellation. We use transient cookies (see definition under Cookies) for storing the contents of the shopping cart and persistent cookies (see definition under Cookies) for storing the login status. When placing an order, registering for a user account, or logging in again, we store your IP address and the timestamp of the respective user action. The purpose of storage is our legitimate interests in protecting against misuse and other unauthorized use, as well as your legitimate interests.

Affected data:

Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses)
Payment data (e.g., bank account details, invoices)
Contact data (e.g., email address, telephone number, postal address)
Contract data (e.g., subject of the contract, contract duration)
Usage data (e.g., access times, clicked websites)
Communication data (e.g., information about the device used, IP address)
Affected individuals: Customers, prospects, business and contractual partners

Processing purpose: Order processing, communication and possibly marketing, answering inquiries, data security, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. b DSGVO, legal obligation, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. c DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO

 

This privacy policy was created with the help of the privacy policy generator from SOS Recht. SOS Recht is offered by Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft based in Berlin.