In connection with the purely informational use of our website, it is not necessary for you to provide personal data.

We collect and use only those of your data that your Internet browser automatically transmits, such as pages viewed, type and version of the Internet browser you are using, operating system and its interface, IP address of the requesting computer, date and time of the visit to our website, access status, amount of data transmitted, pages viewed.

We collect and use this data during an informational visit exclusively in anonymized form to enable you to visit our website, for statistical purposes and to improve our Internet offering. Your IP address is shortened by the last octet (partial segment). A linkage of these data with personal data of a certain natural person does not take place.

b) Use of offers

If you would like to make use of the services offered on our website, such as ordering a newsletter or participating in a competition, it is necessary that you provide us with your personal data for this purpose. In detail, this involves the following purposes for which we collect and use your personal data.

Customer account: When you set up your personal customer account, various data (such as name, address, e-mail address) and data voluntarily provided in this context (such as your telephone number) are requested via the form provided and used to manage your customer account and provide the associated functions, such as changing your password or editing your customer data.

Online registrations: We only process the personal data that is required for the fulfillment, processing and, if necessary, reversal of your order in our online store. Therefore, the processing of the required information (name, postal address, e-mail address; payment information) takes place during the ordering process.

Contact: If you contact us, for example to ask questions or provide feedback, the processing of your voluntarily provided contact data (such as name, e-mail address, telephone) will be done to respond to your inquiries and/or suggestions made via the contact form, by e-mail or in any other way.

Newsletter:  If you subscribe to our newsletter, we require at least your e-mail address to which the newsletter is to be sent, in addition to your declaration of consent, which you provide by clicking on the “Subscribe to newsletter” button.

Any further information is voluntary and will be used to address you personally and to personalize the content of the newsletter as well as to clarify queries regarding the e-mail address. We will only send you the newsletter if you first confirm your registration via a confirmation e-mail sent to you for this purpose via the link contained therein. In this way, we would like to ensure that only you, as the owner of the e-mail address provided, can register for the newsletter. Your confirmation in this regard must be made promptly after receipt of the confirmation e-mail, otherwise your newsletter registration will be automatically deleted from our database. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by entering your e-mail address in the “Newsletter” field on our website and clicking on “unsubscribe”. You will also find the link at the end of each newsletter. The personal data collected for the aforementioned purposes will be used exclusively within the scope of its intended purpose or to the extent necessary to protect our own legitimate business interests. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties. Furthermore, your personal data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent, unless we are obliged to do so by court or official orders.

3. Cookies

We use cookies for our website. Cookies are small text files that are sent to your browser by our web server when you visit our website and are stored on your computer for later retrieval. We use cookies, for example, to improve the functionality of our website for you.

We do not process personal data in cookies in this context. We also do not use any techniques that link information generated by cookies with user data.

You can determine yourself whether cookies can be set and retrieved by means of the settings in your browser. You can, for example, completely deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, limit it to certain websites or configure your browser so that it automatically notifies you as soon as a cookie is to be set and asks you for feedback on this.

4. Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, 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 to the website operator.

The IP address transmitted by your internet browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.