Privacy Policy

The controller responsible for data processing is:

Ann-Christin Brune

Stefanstr. 65

68753 Waghäusel

We are pleased that you are interested in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we provide you with detailed information about how we handle your data.

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**1. Access Data and Hosting**

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time a page is accessed, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of the request, data volume transferred, and the requesting provider (access data), and documents the retrieval. This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of the site and improving our offering. This serves to protect our legitimate interests, which prevail in a balancing of interests, in the correct presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR. All access data is processed only for as long as necessary to achieve the above-mentioned processing purposes.

The services for hosting and displaying the website are partly provided by our service providers within the scope of processing on our behalf. Unless otherwise explained in this privacy policy, all access data and all data collected in the forms provided on this website are processed on their servers. If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact details described in this privacy policy.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection by decision: Israel, United Kingdom, USA.

The adequacy decision for the USA serves as the basis for third-country transfers, provided the respective service provider is certified. Certification is in place.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in the following countries: Brazil, Mexico, India, Ukraine.

No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation with them is based on the following guarantees: Standard contractual clauses of the European Union.

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**2. Data Processing for Contract Fulfillment and Contact**

**2.1 Data Processing for Contract Fulfillment**

For the purpose of contract fulfillment (including inquiries regarding and processing of any existing warranty and performance claims, as well as any statutory update obligations) in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR, we collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order. Mandatory fields are marked as such, as we require the data in these cases to process the contract and cannot send the order without it. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms.

Further information about the processing of your data, in particular its transfer to our service providers for the purpose of order, payment, and shipping processing, can be found in the following sections of this privacy policy. After full completion of the contract, your data will be restricted from further processing and deleted after the expiry of the statutory retention periods under tax and commercial law in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(c) GDPR, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this in ways that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

**2.2 Customer Account**

Where you have given your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR by choosing to open a customer account, we use your data for the purpose of opening the customer account and storing your data for future orders on our website. You may delete your customer account at any time, either by contacting us via the contact details described in this privacy policy or via a dedicated function in the customer account. After deletion of your customer account, your data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this in ways that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

**2.3 Contact**

In the context of customer communication, we collect personal data to process your inquiries in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR when you voluntarily provide it to us when contacting us (e.g. via contact form, live chat tool, or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such, as we require the data in these cases to process your inquiry. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms. After your inquiry has been fully processed, your data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this in ways that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

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**3. Data Processing for Shipping**

For the fulfillment of the contract in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR, we pass your data to the shipping service provider commissioned for delivery, to the extent necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact details described in this privacy policy.

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**4. Data Processing for Payment**

When processing payments in our online shop, we work with the following partners: technical service providers, credit institutions, payment service providers.

**4.1 Data Processing for Transaction Processing**

Depending on the payment method selected, we pass the data required for processing the payment transaction to our technical service providers acting as processors on our behalf, or to the commissioned credit institutions, or to the selected payment service provider, to the extent necessary for processing the payment. This serves the fulfillment of the contract in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR. In some cases, payment service providers collect the data required for processing the payment themselves, e.g. on their own website or via a technical integration in the ordering process. In this respect, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.

If you have any questions about our payment processing partners and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact details described in this privacy policy.

**4.2 Data Processing for Fraud Prevention and Optimization of Payment Processes**

Where applicable, we provide our service providers with additional data which they use together with the data necessary for processing the payment as our processors for the purpose of fraud prevention and optimization of our payment processes (e.g. invoicing, processing of disputed payments, accounting support). This serves, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, to protect our legitimate interests, which prevail in a balancing of interests, in protecting ourselves against fraud and in efficient payment management.

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**5. Cookies and Other Technologies**

**5.1 General Information**

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable certain features, we use technologies including so-called cookies on various pages. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the browser session ends, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies).

**Privacy Protection on End Devices**

When you use our online offering, we use strictly necessary technologies to provide the telemedia service you have explicitly requested. In this respect, storing information on your device or accessing information already stored on your device does not require your consent.

For non-essential functions, storing information on your device or accessing information already stored on your device requires your consent. We draw your attention to the fact that if consent is not given, parts of the website may not be fully usable. Any consent you have given remains valid until you adjust or reset the relevant settings on your device.

**Subsequent Data Processing via Cookies and Other Technologies**

We use such technologies that are strictly necessary for the use of certain features of our website (e.g. shopping cart function). These technologies collect and process IP address, time of visit, device and browser information, and information about your use of our website (e.g. information about the contents of the shopping cart). This serves, within the scope of a balancing of interests, our legitimate interests, which prevail, in an optimized presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

We also use technologies to fulfill the legal obligations to which we are subject (e.g. to be able to demonstrate consent to the processing of your personal data) and for web analysis and online marketing. Further information, including the respective legal basis for data processing, can be found in the following sections of this privacy policy.

**Cookie Settings**

You can find cookie settings for your browser at the following links: Microsoft Edge / Safari / Chrome / Firefox / Opera

To the extent you have consented to the use of technologies pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us via the contact details described in this privacy policy. Alternatively, you can also use the cookie settings button.

**5.2 Use of the Wix Consent Manager Tool for Managing Consent**

On our website, we use the Wix Consent Manager Tool to inform you about the cookies and other technologies we use on our website, and to obtain, manage, and document your consent, where required, to the processing of your personal data through these technologies. This is required pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(c) GDPR to fulfill our legal obligation under Art. 7(1) GDPR to be able to demonstrate your consent to the processing of your personal data. The Wix Consent Manager Tool is offered by Wix.com Ltd., 40 Nemal St., Tel Aviv 6350671, Israel ("Wix"). After you submit your cookie declaration on our website, Wix's web server stores your IP address, date and time of your declaration, browser information, language, the URL from which the declaration was sent, and information about your consent behavior. A cookie is also set that contains information about your consent behavior. Your data will be deleted after 365 days, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this in ways that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

The adequacy decision for the USA serves as the basis for third-country transfers, provided the respective service provider is certified. Certification is in place.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in the following countries: Brazil, Mexico, India, Ukraine. No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation with them is based on the following guarantees: Standard contractual clauses of the European Union.

**5.3 Information on Third-Country Transfers**

We use technologies from service providers on our website whose registered offices and/or server locations may be in third countries outside the EU or EEA. If no adequacy decision by the EU Commission exists for such a country, an adequate level of data protection must be ensured by other appropriate safeguards.

Appropriate safeguards in the form of contractually agreed standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission or binding corporate rules are generally possible, but require prior verification by the contracting parties as to whether an adequate level of protection can be guaranteed. According to the case law of the ECJ, it may be necessary to take additional protective measures in this regard.

We have generally agreed the standard data protection clauses issued by the EU Commission with the technology providers we use who process personal data in a third country. Where possible, we also agree on additional guarantees intended to ensure that adequate data protection is guaranteed in third countries without an adequacy decision.

Notwithstanding this, it may occur that despite all contractual and technical measures, the level of data protection in the third country does not correspond to that of the EU. In such cases, where necessary, we ask for your consent pursuant to Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR to the transfer of your personal data to a third country as part of the cookie consent process.

There is in particular a risk that local authorities in the third country may obtain access rights to your personal data that are not sufficiently restricted from a European data protection perspective, that we as the data exporter or you as the data subject may not be aware of this, and/or that you may not have sufficient legal remedies available to prevent or take action against such access.

The following countries in particular are currently among the third countries without an adequacy decision by the EU Commission (non-exhaustive list):

- China

- Russia

- Taiwan

You can find out which third countries data is transferred to by us in the privacy notices for the respective tool used and/or the consent management service we use.

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**6. Use of Cookies and Other Technologies**

We use the following cookies and other third-party technologies on our website. Unless otherwise stated for the individual technologies, this is done on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR. After the purpose has ceased and we have stopped using the respective technology, the data collected in this context will be deleted. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. Further information about your right to withdraw consent can be found in the section "Cookies and Other Technologies." Further information including the basis of our cooperation with the individual providers can be found under the respective technologies. If you have any questions about the providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us using the contact details described in this privacy policy.

**6.1 Use of Google Services**

We use the technologies of Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google") described below. The information automatically collected by Google technologies about your use of our website is generally transferred to and stored on a server of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Unless otherwise stated for the individual technologies, data processing is carried out on the basis of an agreement between joint controllers concluded for the respective technology pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy notices.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in countries outside the EU and EEA for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection by decision.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in countries outside the EU and EEA. No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation with them is based on standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.

**Google Analytics**

For the purpose of website analysis, Google Analytics automatically collects and stores data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information, and information about your use of our website), from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. Cookies may be used for this purpose. When you visit our website from within the EU, your IP address is stored on a server located in the EU to derive location data and is then immediately deleted before the traffic is forwarded for processing on other Google servers. Data processing is carried out on the basis of a data processing agreement with Google.

If you do not give us your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR to the use of Google Analytics, no cookies will be stored on or read from your device. The data processing described in the preceding paragraphs will not take place. To close gaps in web analysis through behavioral and conversion modeling, pings containing data (user agent, information about your consent behavior, screen resolution, IP address) are sent to Google.

**6.2 Use of Facebook Services**

**Use of Facebook Pixel**

We use the Facebook Pixel within the scope of the technologies of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Block J, Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Facebook (by Meta)" or "Meta Platforms Ireland") described below. The Facebook Pixel automatically collects and stores data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information, and information about your use of our website based on events specified by us, such as visiting a website or signing up for a newsletter), from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. For this purpose, a cookie is automatically set by the Facebook Pixel when you visit our website, which automatically enables recognition of your browser when visiting other websites via a pseudonymous cookie ID. Facebook (by Meta) will combine this information with other data from your Facebook account and use it to compile reports on website activities and to provide further services related to website usage, in particular personalized and group-based advertising.

The information automatically collected by Facebook (by Meta) technologies about your use of our website is generally transferred to and stored on a server of Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Further information about data processing by Facebook can be found in Facebook's (by Meta) privacy notices.

The adequacy decision for the USA serves as the basis for third-country transfers, provided the respective service provider is certified. Certification is in place.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in the following countries: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico. No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation with them is based on the following guarantees: Standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.

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**7. Social Media**

**Our online presence on Facebook (by Meta), Instagram (by Meta), Pinterest**

Where you have given your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR to the respective social media operator, when you visit our online presences on the social media platforms mentioned above, your data is automatically collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes, from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. These may be used, for example, to place advertisements within and outside the platforms that presumably correspond to your interests. Cookies are generally used for this purpose. For detailed information about the processing and use of data by the respective social media operator, as well as contact options and your related rights and settings to protect your privacy, please refer to the privacy notices of the providers linked below. Should you nevertheless need assistance in this regard, you are welcome to contact us.

Facebook (by Meta) is a service of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Block J, Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Meta Platforms Ireland"). The information automatically collected by Meta Platforms Ireland about your use of our online presence on Facebook (by Meta) is generally transferred to and stored on a server of Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Data processing in the context of visiting a Facebook (by Meta) fan page is carried out on the basis of an agreement between joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. Further information (information on Insights data) can be found here.

The adequacy decision for the USA serves as the basis for third-country transfers, provided the respective service provider is certified. Certification is in place.

Instagram (by Meta) is a service of Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Block J, Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Meta Platforms Ireland"). The information automatically collected by Meta Platforms Ireland about your use of our online presence on Instagram is generally transferred to and stored on a server of Meta Platforms, Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Data processing in the context of visiting an Instagram (by Meta) fan page is carried out on the basis of an agreement between joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR. Further information (information on Insights data) can be found here.

The adequacy decision for the USA serves as the basis for third-country transfers, provided the respective service provider is certified. Certification is in place.

Pinterest is a service of Pinterest Europe Ltd., Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Pinterest"). The information automatically collected by Pinterest about your use of our online presence on Pinterest is generally transferred to and stored on a server of Pinterest, Inc., 505 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

Our service providers are located in and/or use servers in countries outside the EU and EEA for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection by decision.

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**8. Contact Options and Your Rights**

**8.1 Your Rights**

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

- Pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;

- Pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to demand immediate correction of inaccurate or completion of your personal data stored with us;

- Pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request deletion of your personal data stored with us, unless further processing is required:

- to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;

- to fulfill a legal obligation;

- for reasons of public interest; or

- for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims;

- Pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data where:

- the accuracy of the data is contested by you;

- the processing is unlawful but you refuse its deletion;

- we no longer need the data but you require it for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or

- you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;

- Pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to request its transfer to another controller;

- Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, workplace, or our registered office.

**Right to Object**

To the extent that we process personal data as described above to protect our legitimate interests, which prevail in a balancing of interests, you may object to such processing with effect for the future. If processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes, you may exercise this right at any time as described above. If processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are grounds arising from your particular situation.

After you have exercised your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. In that case, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

**8.2 Contact Options**

For questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, for information, correction, restriction, or deletion of data, as well as withdrawal of given consent or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.

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