Personal data
You can visit our website without submitting any information about yourself. We simply save access data to analyze and improve our offers and do not permit any connection to your person.

Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily provide us with it, while opening a customer account or registering for our newsletter. We use the personal details you’ve shared to complete your order.

As a customer, your information is used for contract-completion and our own advertisement purposes. When you separately sign up for our newsletter, your email will be used for our own advertisement purposes until you opt out of the newsletter. You can opt out at any time without charge (not taking into account internet provision costs) by clicking “unsubscribe” at the end of any newsletter.

Distribution of personal information
Your personal data will be transferred to the relevant delivery organization, as far as this is necessary for the delivery process. In order to complete payments, we pass on your payment details to the relevant banking institution or service provider.

Right to information
You have the right to gratuitous information (per e-mail) regarding your personal and saved data, as well as the right to correct, inhibit, cancel or revoke any granted permissions. Just send us an email via contact form on our website.

Notice about E-mail advertisements
By separate registration for our newsletter, your e-mail address will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link at the end of a newsletter, with no additional charge to the base tariffs of your Internet provider.

As a newsletter subscriber, we will regularly send you carefully selected offers on related products from our online shop by e-mail. Your e-mail will not be given or sold to other organizations. You can object to the use of your e-mail address for advertising purposes at any time by a simple unformatted e-mail, without incurring any additional costs to those of your Internet service provider.

The use of cookies
We use cookies on different sites in order to enhance the attractiveness of our website and enable the use of specific functions. These cookies are simple text files saved to your computer. They help to identify a user’s surf-behavior and thereby allow parts of the website to tailor specific information to the interests of the user. Most of the cookies we use will be deleted from your hard drive after you have ended your browser session (i.e. session cookies).

Other cookies remain on your computer and allow us to recognize your computer when you next visit (i.e. permanent cookies). These cookies remember information so you do not need to re-enter information in forms. Our partner organizations are not authorized to gain, edit or use personal data through the use of cookies on our website.

Product recommendations ads
We might use technologies to collect and save anonymized information about the surfing behaviors of our visitors for marketing purposes. This data is saved by using “Cookie” text files on your computer. These technologies use an algorithms to analyze surfing behaviour in order to provide targeted product recommendations in the form of advertising banners on other websites (i.e. publishers). Under no circumstances can this data be used in order to personally identify any user of this website.

Saved data are strictly used to improve our offer. There is no further use or distribution of this data to third parties.

Facebook Social Plugins
We might use so-called Social Plugins (“Plugins”) by the social network Facebook, which is run by the Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The Plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo or the additional phrase “Social Plugin by Facebook” or “Facebook Social Plugin”.
An overview of the Facebook Plugins and how to recognize them is available here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

When you open up a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser will create a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The contents of the plugin will be transferred directly to your browser and incorporated into the website you are viewing.

By using these plugins, Facebook receives notice that your browser has initiated the relevant page on our website, even if you do not own a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to your Facebook account. This information (including your IP address) is transferred straight from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and saved there.

When you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can directly assign your visit to our website to your Facebook account. When you interact with these plugins, for example by clicking on a “like” button or by submitting a comment, this information is also directly transferred to a Facebook server and saved there. This information is then also automatically published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends.

Facebook can use this information for advertising purposes, market research and to tailor the appearance of Facebook pages to a specific user. To do this, Facebook creates profiles for usage, interests and connections. For example, this could be used to rate the usage of our website on account of Facebook adverts, to notify other Facebook users of your actions on our website and for other services that are associated with the use of Facebook.

If you would not like Facebook to associate the data collected from your visit to our website with your Facebook account, you need to log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

For the purpose and scope of data usage and further processing and use of
information by Facebook, as well as your relevant rights and privacy & security options, please refer to Facebook’s privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a website analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google analytics uses so-called “cookies”, in the form of text files saved to your computer in order to enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is normally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

In the case of the IP-anonymization on this website being activated, your IP address will however be shortened by Google beforehand within the member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the European Economic Area Treaty. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Acting under the authority of this website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about the website activities and to provide further services for the website operator linked to the use of the website and the internet.

The IP address transmitted from your browser within the parameters of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You are able to prevent the storage of the cookies by appropriate adjustment of your browser software. However, we should point out to you that in this case you may be unable to use the full range of functions of this website.

Furthermore you can prevent the collection by Google of the data (including your IP address) created by the cookie and relating to your use of the website, as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in which is available through the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Payments and credit card information
We do not collect and store any information of your credit cards on our servers. Every transaction is processed through secured gateway provided by certificated, verified and authenticated third party partner.

Although it may appear to you that way, when entering your credit card information on our site, you are actually redirected through a secured connection, to another secured webpage, where your payment is processed.

We reserve the right to change our third party payment gateway provider at any time. This should not in any way affect your user experience.