Privacy policy

Data Protection

Privacy Statement

Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. The following informs you if how we handle your personal data.

Storage of Access Data in Server Log-Files

You may visit our website without giving any personal information. We only save the access data of the so-called server log-file, f.e. the name of the file, the date and time of your visit, the amount of data that was transmitted, and the requesting provider. This information is exclusively used to ensure the undisturbed function of the page and to improve our offers without being capable of connecting the data with your person.

Data Collection and Use for Agreement Purposes and Opening of a Customer Account

We collect personal data, when you provide your contact information of your own volition when ordering, contacting us (f.e. through our contact form or e-mail), or when opening a customer account. What data is collected can be seen in the respective input forms. We use the data you share with us to process your orders and answer your questions. After an agreement has been concluded or your customer account is deleted your data is locked and deleted after the tax and lawful retention period is over, as long as you have not agreed to the further use of your data, or we have lawful permission to use certain data, over which you are to be informed. Deleting your customer account is possible at any time and can be done through a message directed to the contact information provided below, or through the function provided in your customer account settings.

Data Sharing and Contract Performance

To perform your contract your data is shared with the delivery service that was chosen, as long as this is necessary for the shipment of your ordered products. To process payment we share the payment data provided by you with the credit institute commissioned for payment, and if necessary with the payment service you have chosen during the order process.

Data Use with Newsletter Subscription

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the necessary data provided by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time through a message or the contact form provided through a link included in each newsletter.

Data Use for Postal Advertising and Your Right to Object

Additionally, we hold the right to save your first and last names and address – as long as it was shared by you in the order process – your title, academic standing, birth year, and job, branch, or company name in a summarized list and to use this data for personal advertising purposes, f.e. the sending of special offers or informational brochures about our products through the mail. You have the right to object to the storage and use of your data for this purpose at any time, by way of a message directed to the contact address below.

Use of Cookies

In order to make your visit to our website attractive, and to enable certain functions, we employ the use of cookies on some of our pages. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Some of these cookies are deleted upon exiting the browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies are stored on your computer and enable us to recognize you when you return to our website (persistent cookies). You can change your browser settings to be informed when cookies are being used, which allows you to decide when to accept the individual storage of cookies in specific situations, or you can prohibit the use of cookies all together. If you chose not to accept the use of cookies, you may find the functionality of our website to be restricted.

Use of Google Analytics for Web Analysis

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (www.google.de). Google Analytics uses cookies, or text files, that are stored locally on your computer and used for analysis when using our website. The information gathered by these cookies about the use of our website are generally transmitted to and saved in Google servers located in the USA. If you have activated the use of an anonymous IP-address, then it is stored by Google, but in an abbreviated form for countries within the European Union and in other countries that hold this agreement. The IP-address is only transmitted whole in exceptional cases, and is then shortened once it is transmitted to the US Google server. Anonymous IP-addresses are active on our website. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use gathered information in order to analyze the website and report about its activity in order to promote the use of the website and its internet related services. The IP-address that is collected in the use of Google Analytics cannot be connected with other data collected by Google. You can disable cookies in your browser settings, however, we would like to point out that this may cause a disturbance in some of our website functions.

Additionally, you can also block the data collected with regard to your use of our website through cookies (including your IP-address) by Google by downloading and installing the plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

An alternative to the browser plugin can be found at this link, which also hinders the collection of data by Google Analytics on our website. The second link installs a so-called opt-out cookie on your computer. If you delete your cookies, then the link must be followed again.

Use of Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Instagram Plugins

Our website uses so-called social plugins, specifically those of Facebook and Google+, and the micro blogging services of Twitter and Instagram. These services are offered by Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Twitter Inc., and Instagram LLC (providers).

Facebook is run by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). An overview of the plugins used by Facebook and what they look like can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Google+ is run by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google“). An overview of the plugins used by Google and what they look like can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/

Twitter is run by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. An overview of the plugins used by Twitter and what they look like can be found here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons

Instagram is run by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram“). An overview of the plugins used by Instagram and what they look like can be found here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges.

When you bring up one of our web page that contains a plugin, then your browser creates a direct link 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 is integrated into the page. The integration of the plugin transfers information to the provider, that your browser has accessed our website, even if you do not have a profile with the provider or are not logged in. This information (including your IP-address) is transmitted directly from your browser and then saved on a server of the corresponding provider in the. If you are logged into one of these services, then the provider can directly link this visit with your profile on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or Instagram. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “like” button, “+1,” or by re-tweeting or using the “Instagram“ button, then the corresponding information is also sent directly to a server, where it is saved. The data is also published in your social network, f.e. on your Twitter or Instagram account, where your contacts can see it.

Purpose and extent of data collection and its further processing and use through providers, as well as your pertaining rights and protection options concerning your privacy can be found at the following data protection notices of the providers.

Data protection notice of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Data protection notice of Google: http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

Data protection notice of Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy

Data protection notice of Instagram https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

If you do not want Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to link the data collected when visiting our website to your profile of that service, then you need to log out of your account before visiting our website. The plugins can also be entirely prevented with add-ons for your browser, f.e. by using „NoScript“ (http://noscript.net/).

Right to Information and Contact Opportunity

You have the right to request free information about your stored personal data, as well as the right to be informed when the data is being locked or deleted. If you have any questions in regard to the collection, processing, and use of your personal data, and the notification, authorization, locking, and deleting of your data, as well as the recall of given consent or objection to a specific data use, please contact us directly through our contact information indicated under "Impressum"