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Privacy Policy

Which data is collected and used when I visit the website?

You can visit our website without diclosing any personal information. We only store access data without reference to personal information. This data is used solely to improve our offers and does not allow any reference to your person.

Personal data is solely collected in the process of ordering, registration as a customer or registration for the newsletter with your express consent. Personal data without express consent are only processed for the fulfillment and processing of your order. With the completion of processing your order and completion of payment your personal data is blocked from use and will be deleted after the period of time, necessary to fulfill tax and commercial law regulations, if you did not expressly consent with the further use. With the registration for the newsletter you agree to the use of your personal data for our own purpose until you unsubscribe. You are able to unsubscribe at any time.

Use of cookies

In order to make visiting our website appealing and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive at the end of your browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognise your computer again the next time you visit our site (so-called permanent cookies). Our partner companies are not permitted to collect, or use data from cookies that can be linked to directly identifiable information that we may hold about you via our website.

Use of social plugins

Our website uses what are known as social plugins (“plugins”) from the social networks Google+ and the microblogging service Twitter. These services are offered by the companies Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. (“providers”).

Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). You can find an overview of the Google plug-ins and what they look like here: https://developers.google.com/+/web

Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. You can find an overview of the Twitter buttons and what they look like here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons

In order to increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are integrated into the page using what is known as the ‘2-click solution’ from Heise Online (http://heise.de/-1333879). This integration ensures that no connection is made with the servers of Google and Twitter when a page on our website is opened that contains such plugins. Only when you activate the plugins and thus grant your consent to the transfer of data does your browser make a direct connection to the servers of Google, Facebook or Twitter. The content of the respective plugin is then transferred directly from the associated provider to your browser and integrated into the page. The integration of the plugins informs the providers that your browser has opened the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile with the respective provider or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is directly transferred from your browser to a server belonging to the respective provider in the USA, where it is saved.

If you are logged into one of the social networks, the providers can immediately allocate your visit to our website to your profile on Google+. When you interact with the plugins, such as by pressing the ‘+1’ or ‘Tweet’ button, the corresponding information is also transferred directly to a server belonging to the providers, where it is saved. The information is also published on the social network or on your Twitter account, where it is displayed to your contacts.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection by the providers, the further processing and use of your data by them, your corresponding rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please consult the providers’ data protection policies.

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

Twitter data protection policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

If you do not wish for Google or Twitter to directly allocate the data collected via our website to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the respective service before activating the plugins.