Data protection
Unless otherwise specified below, the provision of your personal data is not required by law or contract, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the data. Failure to provide has no consequences. This only applies if no other information is given in the subsequent processing operations.
"Personal data" is all information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Server-Logfiles
You can visit our website without providing any information about yourself.
Every time our website is accessed, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host / IT service provider via your Internet browser and stored in log data (so-called server log files). These stored data include, for example, the name of the page called up, the date and time of the call, the IP address, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider. The processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR out of our predominant legitimate interest in ensuring the trouble-free operation of our website and improving our offer.
Customer account orders
Customer account
When you open a customer account, we collect your personal data to the extent specified there. The data processing serves the purpose of improving your shopping experience and simplifying order processing. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation. Your customer account will then be deleted.
Collection, processing and transfer of personal data for orders
When you place an order, we only collect and process your personal data insofar as this is necessary to fulfill and process your order and to process your inquiries. The provision of the data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide it has the consequence that no contract can be concluded. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR and is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract with you.
Your data will be passed on, for example, to the shipping companies and dropshipping providers, payment service providers, service providers for order processing and IT service providers selected by you. In all cases, we strictly observe the legal requirements. The amount of data transmission is limited to a minimum.
Contact reviews newsletter
Collection and processing when using the contact form
When you use the contact form, we only collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) to the extent that you have provided. The data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact. By sending your message, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent.
You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation. We only use your email address to process your request. Your data will then be deleted unless you have consented to further processing and use.
Data collection when writing a comment
When you comment on an article or a contribution, we collect your personal data (name, e-mail address, comment text) only to the extent that you have made available. The processing serves the purpose of enabling comments and displaying comments. By sending the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation. Your personal data will then be deleted.
When you publish your comment, only the name you have given will be published.
In addition, when you submit the comment, your IP address is stored for the purpose of preventing misuse of the comment function and ensuring the security of our information technology systems. By sending the comment, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation. Your IP address will then be deleted.
Use of the email address for sending newsletters
We use your e-mail address, regardless of the contract processing, exclusively for our own advertising purposes for sending the newsletter, provided you have expressly consented to this. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the point of revocation. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by notifying us. Your e-mail address will then be removed from the mailing list.
Use of the email address for sending direct mail
We use your e-mail address, which we received in connection with the sale of a product or service, for the electronic sending of advertising for our own goods or services that are similar to those that you have already purchased from us, if you have these Have not objected to use. The provision of the email address is required for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide it has the consequence that no contract can be concluded. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. You can object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by notifying us. The contact details for exercising your objection can be found in the imprint. You can also use the link provided in the promotional email. There are no other costs than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.
Shipping service provider merchandise management
Passing on the e-mail address to shipping companies for information about the shipping status
We pass on your e-mail address to the transport company as part of the contract processing, provided you have expressly consented to this in the order process. The purpose of the transfer is to inform you about the dispatch status by email. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us or the transport company without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.
Use of an external inventory control system
We use a merchandise management system for contract processing as part of order processing. For this purpose, your personal data collected as part of the order will be sent to
ViA-Online GmbH, Kimplerstraße 296, 47807 Krefeld
transmitted.
Payment service provider
Use of PayPal
All PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal privacy policy. You can find this at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Use of the Klarna checkout
The checkout solution is provided by Klarna AB (Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden) and uses cookies to provide you with an ideal, customized online experience when using the checkout. The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate technical settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
A detailed list of cookies and an explanation of their respective purpose can be found here https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/cookie/de_at/checkout.pdf.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on a user's computer system. When a user calls up a website, a cookie can be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be clearly identified when the website is accessed again.
We use these cookies for the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after changing pages and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For this it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after changing pages.
The processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR out of our predominant legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our offer.
Cookies are saved on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and individually decide whether to accept them and prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
Under the following links you can find out how you can manage cookies in the most important browsers (including deactivating them):
Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Analysis
The data processing described below in this section, in particular the setting of cookies, is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit.
- on the needs-based and targeted design of the website, e.g. for analysis and statistics tools
For reasons that arise from your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to this processing of personal data relating to you based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Use of Google Analytics
We use the web analysis service Google Analytics from Google LLC on our website. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google").
If you have your habitual residence in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the person responsible for your data. Google Ireland Limited is therefore the company affiliated with Google, which is responsible for the processing of your data and compliance with the applicable data protection laws.
The data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this website and its visitors. For this purpose, Google will use the information obtained on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Google Analytics uses cookies, which allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymization is activated on this website. This means that your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address is only transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases.
Google has certified itself according to the US-EU data protection agreement “Privacy Shield” and is thus obliged to comply with European data protection guidelines.
You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de].
You can set an opt-out cookie to prevent data collection and storage by Google Analytics across all devices. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. You must perform the opt-out on all systems and devices used for this to have a comprehensive effect. If you delete the opt-out cookie, requests will be sent to Google again. If you click here, the opt-out cookie will be set: Deactivate Google Analytics.
You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.
Plug-ins
Use of social plug-ins via "Shariff"
We use plug-ins from social networks on our website. We use the data protection-safe "Shariff" buttons so that you retain control over your data.
Without your express consent, no links will be made to the servers of the social networks and consequently no data will be transmitted.
"Shariff" is a development by the specialists at the computer magazine c't. It enables more privacy on the net and replaces the usual “Share” buttons on social networks. You can find more information about the Shariff project here https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html.
When you click the buttons, a pop-up window appears in which you can log in to the respective provider with your data. A direct connection to the social networks is only established after you have actively logged in.
By logging in, you give your consent to the transfer of your data to the respective social media provider. Among other things, both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited are transmitted. If you are connected to one or more of your social network accounts at the same time, the information collected will also be assigned to your corresponding profiles. You can only prevent this assignment by logging out of your social media accounts before visiting our website and before activating the buttons. The social networks named below are integrated using the "Shariff" function.
You can find more detailed information on the scope and purpose of the collection and use of the data as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy in the linked data protection information of the provider.
Google der Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, Kalifornien, 94043 USA) https://www.google.com/intl/de/ /policy/ 1button.html
Facebook der Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA) https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Twitter der Twitter Inc. (1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) https://twitter.com/privacy
Pinterest der Pinterest Inc. (635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA) https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Use of Facebook plug-ins
This website uses the plug-in of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). If you call up pages on our website with such a plug-in, a connection to the Facebook servers is established and the plug-in is displayed on the page by a message to your browser. This tells the Facebook server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in as a member of Facebook, Facebook will assign this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plug-in functions (eg clicking the "Like" button, submitting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plug-in.
If you do not want Facebook to assign the collected information directly to your Facebook profile, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our website or block the loading of the Facebook plug-ins on our pages by using a “Facebook blocker” .
You can find more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy in Facebook's data protection information: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Use of the Google " 1" button
This website uses the “ 1” button from the Google Plus social network operated by Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA, (hereinafter “Google”). If you call up a page on our website with the " 1" button, a connection to the Google servers in the USA is established and the button is displayed on the page by a message to your browser. Both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited are transmitted to the Google server. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in to Google Plus. A transmission takes place even with unregistered or not logged in users. The " 1" button is not used to record your visits to the Internet. When a " 1" button is displayed, Google does not permanently log your browser history and does not evaluate your visit to a page with a " 1" button in any other way. Google stores data about your visit for about two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. However, these data are not structured according to individual profiles, user names or URLs and are not forwarded to us. If you are also a member of Google Plus and are logged in to Google Plus while you are using the plug-in, the information collected about your visit to the website is linked to your Google Plus account and made known to other users. In the case of interactions that are possible with the various Google plug-ins, the corresponding information about you is collected, transmitted to Google and stored. You can see an overview of the different types of Google plug-ins here: https://developers.google.com/ /web/
If you have made your profile publicly accessible in the Google Plus settings, your " 1" from Google can be used as a reference along with your profile name and photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or to displayed in other places on websites and advertisements on the Internet. If you do not want Google to directly assign the information collected to your Google Plus profile, you must log out of Google Plus before visiting our website.
You can find more information on the collection and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy in Google's data protection information: www.google.com/intl/de/ /policy/ 1button.html.
You also have the option of installing the appropriate add-ons in your browser to prevent the Google plug-ins from loading.
Use of Twitter plug-ins
The functions of the Twitter service are integrated into our website. Twitter is a social media portal from Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, (USA).
We use Twitter plug-ins. If you call up a corresponding page that contains such a plug-in, the data will be exchanged with the Twitter servers located in the USA. In the event of interactions that are possible with the various Twitter plug-ins, the relevant information about you is collected and transmitted to Twitter and stored. If you are also a member of Twitter and are logged in to Twitter while you are using the plug-in, the information collected about your website visit will be linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users.
If you do not want Twitter to link and merge the information with the data in your Twitter account, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website.
Further information on the collection and use of data by Twitter is available at https://twitter.com/privacy.
Use of Pinterest plug-ins
This website uses plug-ins from the social network Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA ("Pinterest").
The different logos that contain the plug-in (e.g. “Pin-it-Button” or the “P” button) can be viewed at the following link: https://business.pinterest.com/pin-it-button /
If you call up a corresponding page on our website that contains such a plug-in, a link is established between your computer and the Pinterest servers and the plug-in is displayed on the page by a message to your browser. Both your IP address and the information about which of our pages you have visited are transmitted to the Pinterest server in the USA. This applies regardless of whether you are registered or logged in to Pinterest. A transmission takes place even with unregistered or not logged in users.
If you are also a member of Pinterest and are logged in to Pinterest while you are using the plug-in, the information collected about your visit to the website is linked to your Pinterest account and made known to other users. In the case of interactions that are possible with the various Pinterest plug-ins, the corresponding information about you is collected and transmitted to Pinterest and stored.
If you do not want Pinterest to link and merge the information with the data in your Pinterest account, you must log out of Pinterest before visiting our website. Further information on the collection and use of data by Pinterest is available at https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy
Use of YouTube
We use the function for embedding YouTube videos from Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; "YouTube") on our website. YouTube is a partnership with Google LLC (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA. 94043, USA; “Google”) affiliated company.
The function shows videos stored on YouTube in an iFrame on the website. The option "Extended data protection mode" is activated. As a result, YouTube does not store any information about website visitors. Only when you watch a video is information about it transmitted to YouTube and stored there. Your data may be transmitted to the USA. Google has certified itself according to the US-EU data protection agreement “Privacy Shield” and is thus obliged to comply with European data protection guidelines.
You can find more information on the collection and use of data by YouTube and Google, your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy in YouTube's data protection information (https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy).
Affected rights and storage duration
Duration of storage
After the contract has been fully processed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then taking into account statutory, in particular tax and commercial retention periods, and then deleted after the deadline, unless you have consented to further processing and use.
Rights of the data subject
If the legal requirements are met, you have the following rights according to Art. 15 to 20 GDPR on: Right to information, to correction, to deletion, to restriction of processing, to data portability.
In addition, according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 Para. 1 f GDPR, as well as against processing for the purpose of direct mail.
Contact us if you wish. The contact details can be found in our imprint.
Right of appeal to the supervisory authority
According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that your personal data is not being processed lawfully.
Right to object
If the personal data processing listed here is based on our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, you have the right to object to this processing at any time with effect for the future for reasons that arise from your particular situation.
After the objection has been made, the processing of the data concerned will be terminated, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
If the personal data processing is carried out for the purposes of direct advertising, you can object to this processing at any time by notifying us. After the objection has been made, we will stop processing the data concerned for the purpose of direct advertising.
last update: 19.11.2018