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Privacy policy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors post comments on the website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address and the user agent string (which identifies the browser) to help detect spam.

An anonymized string of characters (also known as a hash) can be created from your email address and passed to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

Contact forms Cookies

If you write a comment on our website, this may be a consent to store your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that you don’t have to re-enter all this data when you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.

When you sign up, we will set up some cookies to store your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and cookies for display options after one year. If you select “Stay logged in” when you log in, your login will be maintained for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you have just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. e.g. videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.

Analysis services

Who we share your data with

How long we store your data

When you post a comment, it is saved indefinitely, including metadata. This way, we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the user name cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and change this information.

What rights you have to your data

If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including any data you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have stored about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments could be analyzed by an automated spam detection service.

What we collect and store

We collect information about you during the ordering process in our store.

We record while you visit our website:

Viewed products: Here we show you products that you have recently viewed.
Location, IP address and browser type: We use this for purposes such as estimating taxes and shipping costs
Shipping address: We will ask you to provide this so that we can, for example, determine the shipping costs before you place an order and send the order to you.

We also use cookies to keep track of the contents of your shopping cart while you visit our website.

When you shop with us, we will ask you to provide information such as your name, billing and shipping address, e-mail address and phone number, credit card/payment details, and optional account information such as username and password. We use this information for the following purposes:

Sending information about your account and order
Response to your requests, including refunds and complaints
Processing of payment transactions and prevention of fraud
Set up your account for our store
Compliance with all legal obligations, for example tax calculation
Improvement of our store offers
Sending marketing messages if you wish to receive them

When you create an account with us, we store your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. This information will be used to fill in the payment information for future orders.

We typically store information about you for as long as we need and are required to store it for the purpose for which it was collected and used. For example, we store order information for XXX years for tax and billing purposes. This includes your name, your e-mail address and your billing and shipping address.

We also save comments or ratings if you decide to leave them.

Who in our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide to us. For example, both administrators and store managers can access the following:

Order information such as products purchased, the time of purchase and the shipping address and
Customer information such as your name, e-mail address, billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to process orders, make refunds and support you.

Payments

We accept payments with PayPal. During payment processing, some of your data will be passed on to PayPal. Only information necessary for the processing or execution of the payment will be passed on, such as the total purchase price and payment information.

Here you can view the PayPal privacy policy

WPML

WPML uses cookies to determine the current language of the visitor, the last language visited and the language of users who have logged in.

While you are using the plugin, WPML will share the data relating to the page via the installer. No data is shared by the user themselves.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.