Privacy policy

**Privacy Policy**

The responsible party for data processing is:

Alexander Kerl

Einsiedelstr. 8a

23554 Lübeck

Germany

Tel: +49 451 480 63030

We are pleased that you are interested in our online shop. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information on how we handle your data.

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### 1. Access Data and Hosting

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. When you visit a website, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file, which includes, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider (access data) to document the access.

This access data is used exclusively for ensuring the smooth operation of the site and improving our services. This is in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO, which serves the protection of our legitimate interests in the proper presentation of our offer through a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted within seven days after your visit to the site.

**Hosting Services by a Third-Party Provider**

As part of a processing agreement, a third-party service provider performs hosting and the display of the website for us. All data collected through the use of this website or via forms on the online shop, as described below, are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only occurs within the scope described here.

This service provider is located in a country for which there is no adequacy decision by the European Union. Therefore, the cooperation is based on the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.

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### 2. Data Collection and Use for Contract Execution, Contacting Us, and Creating a Customer Account

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us in the course of placing an order or contacting us (e.g., via the contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such, as we need these data to process your order or contact request, and you will not be able to proceed without providing them. The data collected can be found in the respective input forms. We use the data you provide according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO for contract execution and processing your inquiries.

If you have given your consent according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO by choosing to open a customer account, we will use your data to create the customer account.

After the full completion of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the expiration of the tax and commercial retention periods, unless you have explicitly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further use the data as permitted by law, which we will inform you about in this statement. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a feature in the customer account.

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### 3. Data Transfer

To fulfill the contract according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO, we transfer your data to the shipping company commissioned with delivery, as far as this is necessary for delivering the goods you ordered. Depending on the payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we forward the payment data collected for processing the payment to the bank or payment service provider commissioned by us or to the selected payment service. In some cases, the payment service providers also collect this data directly if you set up an account with them. In such cases, you must log in during the ordering process with your payment service provider account. In this respect, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.

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### 4. Email Newsletter

**Email Advertising with Newsletter Subscription**

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the required or separately provided data to regularly send you our email newsletter based on your consent according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a designated link in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address from the recipient list, unless you have explicitly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further data use that is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this statement.

The newsletter is sent through a service provider processing on our behalf, to whom we pass on your email address for this purpose. This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

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### 5. Cookies

To make our website more attractive and to enable certain functions, to display suitable products, or for market research purposes, we use cookies on various pages. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your device. Some cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., after closing 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). You can find the duration of the storage in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser to be informed about the placement of cookies and accept them individually, or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. Each browser differs in how it manages cookie settings. You can find instructions for changing cookie settings in the help menu of each browser.

In the case of non-acceptance of cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

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### 6. Online Marketing

**Google reCAPTCHA**

For protection against misuse of our web forms and spam, we use the Google reCAPTCHA service within some forms on this website. Google reCAPTCHA is a service of Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and operated under Irish law, located at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

By verifying a manual entry, this service prevents automated software (so-called bots) from performing malicious activities on the website. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in safeguarding our website from misuse and ensuring the smooth presentation of our online presence in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.

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### 7. Social Media

**Use of Social Plugins from Facebook, Instagram, Using the Shariff Solution**

On our website, social buttons from social networks are used. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in optimally marketing our offerings according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO. To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not fully integrated as plugins but are incorporated into the site using an HTML link. This ensures that when you visit a page of our website containing such buttons, no connection to the servers of the respective social network provider is made.

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### 8. Contact Options and Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

- According to Art. 15 DSGVO, the right to request information about the personal data we process about you, within the scope defined there.

- According to Art. 16 DSGVO, the right to request the immediate correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored with us.

- According to Art. 17 DSGVO, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored with us, unless the further processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, fulfilling a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

- According to Art. 18 DSGVO, the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, where the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful, but you oppose their deletion, we no longer need the data, but you need it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or you have objected to processing in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO.

- According to Art. 20 DSGVO, the right to receive your personal data provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to request its transfer to another controller.

- According to Art. 77 DSGVO, the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.

For questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, for information, correction, restriction, or deletion of data, or for withdrawing consents or objections to certain data uses, please contact us directly using the contact details in our imprint.

**Right to Object**

If we process personal data based on our legitimate interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing serves other purposes, you can object only if there are reasons related to your particular situation.