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Data protection declaration (GDPR)

Thank you for your interest in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We have provided detailed information below about how we handle your data.

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time a website is accessed, the web server merely automatically stores a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of the request, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the request.

This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of the site and improving our services. Pursuant to Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the proper presentation of our services, which are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

Hosting services by a third-party provider

As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with hosting and website display services. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our offer, which are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. All data collected as described below when using this website or in the forms provided in the online shop are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the scope explained here.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

2. Data collection and use for contract processing

We collect personal data that you provide to us as part of your order or when you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such because we need the data in these cases to process the contract or to process your contact request, and you cannot complete the order or send the contact request without providing the information. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO for contract processing and processing your requests. After complete fulfillment of the contract, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after any tax and commercial retention periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

3. data transfer

In order to fulfill the contract in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO, we will pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select during the ordering process, we will forward the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to the payment service provider commissioned by us or to the selected payment service. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. The privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies in this respect.

4. E-mail newsletter and postal advertising

Postal advertising and your right to object

In addition, we reserve the right to use your first and last name as well as your postal address for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to send you interesting offers and information about our products by letter post. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in advertising to our customers in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

5. Cookies and web analysis

We use cookies on various pages to make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which are overriding in the process of balancing of interests, in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can see how long the cookies are stored in the overview in your web browser's cookie settings. You can set your browser so that you are informed when cookies are set and can decide whether to accept them on a case-by-case basis, or to accept cookies in certain cases or to exclude them in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in each browser's help menu, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers at the following links:

Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE

Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis

If you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (www.google.de), for the purpose of website analysis. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods such as cookies that make it possible to analyze your use of the website. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. Due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. The anonymized IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. After the purpose and end of our use of Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Google LLC is headquartered in the United States and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. This will prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google.

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. This stores an opt-out cookie on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will be asked to give your consent again.

6. Social media plug-ins

Use of social plug-ins from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram

Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks.

When you visit a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can immediately assign your visit to our website to your profile in the respective social network. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” or “Share” buttons, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to one of the providers' servers and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers, as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, can be found in the providers' data protection information.

http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

https://twitter.com/privacy

http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

If you do not want social networks to associate the information collected through our website directly with your profile on the respective service, you must log out of the corresponding service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

Youtube Video Plugins

This website integrates content from third-party providers. This content is provided by Google LLC (“Provider”).

YouTube is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

The advanced privacy setting is activated for YouTube videos embedded on our site. This means that no information about website visitors is collected and stored by YouTube unless they play the video. The integration of the videos serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which are overriding in the process of balancing of interests, in the optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 (1) 1 lit. f GDPR.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Google's data protection information http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.

7. Contact options and 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 described therein;

pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to request the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;

pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing

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

- to fulfill a legal obligation;

- for reasons of public interest or

- to assert, exercise or defend legal claims

is required;

pursuant to Art. 18 DSGVO, the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as

- the accuracy of the data is contested by you;

- the processing is unlawful, but you oppose the erasure;

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

- you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 GDPR;

In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller.

In accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, you have 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 or workplace or our company headquarters.

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or if you wish to request information, correct, block or delete data, or revoke consent given or object to a particular use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details provided in our imprint.

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Right of objection

If we process personal data as described above in order to protect our legitimate interests, which are overriding in the process of balancing of interests, you may object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for the purposes of direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is carried out for other purposes, you have the right to object only on grounds relating to your particular situation.

After you have exercised your right of objection, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can prove compelling reasons for the processing worthy of protection that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

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

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Data protection declaration created with the Trusted Shops legal texter in cooperation with Wilde Beuger Solmecke Rechtsanwälte.

Collection, storage and processing of usage data

Every access to this website and every retrieval of a file stored on this site is logged. We store data such as the date and time of the page view, the amount of data transferred, the web browser, the IP address and similar information. The storage is for internal system-related and statistical purposes and to optimize this website. Further personal data is only collected if the user/customer of the website voluntarily provides this data, for example when making an enquiry or registering.

The data collected is not used for commercial purposes. The collection and storage is carried out exclusively in anonymized or pseudonymized form, without personally identifying the user of this site. No conclusions can be drawn about you as a natural person.

The data is analyzed solely for statistical purposes and to improve this website. After the data has been used, it is deleted and not stored permanently. You can object to this data collection, storage and processing at any time.

Cookies for data collection and storage

This website uses cookies. This is a text file that is sent when you visit a website and stored on the end device. Cookies do no harm, as they do not contain viruses and do not allow us to spy on you. There are two types of cookies: temporary cookies are deleted when you close your browser (session cookies), while permanent cookies have a longer lifespan. If the corresponding server is accessed again by the user, our website will recognize you. The browser sends the previously received cookie back, which evaluates the information obtained in various ways. This makes it possible for us, for example, to control the display of advertisements or to make it easier to navigate a website. We collect the data in anonymized or pseudonymized form. You can set your internet browser to prevent the use of cookies or to delete cookies that have already been stored.

Use and disclosure of personal data

When users provide us with personal data, we use it solely to respond to the request and we use it exclusively; it is not passed on to third parties. This only happens if it is necessary for the purpose of implementing the contract or for billing, or if the user has given his or her prior consent. The user has the right at any time to revoke his or her consent with effect for the future.

The data will be deleted if the user of this website revokes the consent to storage, the purpose is no longer required or if the storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons. If you request the deletion of your personal data, data for billing and accounting purposes will not be affected.

We offer you the opportunity to contact us by email, telephone and using a contact form. If you do so, the information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of processing the contact. It is not passed on to third parties. Likewise, there is no comparison of the collected data with data that may already have been collected on our site.

If you wish to receive information about the stored data, you are entitled to do so at any time. You can request the information from us without stating a reason and receive it at the address given below in the imprint. If you wish to delete, correct or block your data, please contact us immediately. You can also revoke your consent to the collection and use of data at any time without stating a reason.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance within member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link. This sets an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website:

Disable Google Analytics

For more information about Terms of Use and Privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics has been extended by the code “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords and the DoubleClick cookie for statistical purposes. If you do not want this, you can disable it via the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=de).

Use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps to display a site plan. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use by Google, one of its agents, or third parties, of the data collected and entered by you.

The terms of use for Google Maps can be found at Google Maps Terms of Service. You can find extensive details in the Google.de Privacy Center: Transparency and Choice and Privacy Policy.

Copyright / License and Usage Rights

We have put together our website for you with great care and effort. However, we cannot guarantee that all the information on this website is accurate and free of errors. We do not accept liability for any damages arising from the use of our website, unless caused by negligence or intent. We do not accept responsibility for the pages to which we refer on our website and do not accept liability for their content. We reserve the right to make changes, deletions or additions without notice. We have taken the image material from the database of the pixabay portal, taking into account the free CCO license. CC0 is a disclaimer in which the authors waive all rights to their works and transfer them to the public domain.

Disclaimer

All information on this website has been carefully checked and is regularly updated. However, we cannot guarantee that the information provided is correct, complete and up to date. This also applies to all links to other websites that we refer to directly or indirectly. The information can be changed, removed or added to without prior notice.

Imprint

Information in accordance with § 5 TMG:

Sowa Content GmbH

Marie-Curie-Straße 8

50321 Brühl

Represented by:

HerrJurij König

Contact:

Telephone: +49(0)2232/30798-10

Fax:+49(0)2232/30798-20

Email: info@sowa-content.de

Entry in the commercial register.

VAT:

VAT registration number in accordance with §27 a of the VAT law:

DE311027598

Tax number: 224/5740/2517

Responsible for the content according to § 55 Abs. 2 RStV:

Mr. Jurij König

Balthasar-Neumann-Platz 24 H

50321 Brühl

Dispute resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS): http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr

Our e-mail address can be found above in the imprint.

We are not willing or obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Liability for content

As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with general law pursuant to Section 7 (1) of the German Telemedia Act (TMG). However, according to §§ 8 to 10 TMG, we as a service provider are not obliged to monitor or, under certain circumstances, to research transmitted or stored third-party information that indicates illegal activity.

Obligations to remove or block the use of information under the general laws remain unaffected. However, a relevant liability is only possible from the date of knowledge of a specific infringement. Upon notification of such violations, we will remove this content immediately.

Liability for links

Our site contains links to third-party websites. We have no influence on the contents of those websites, therefore we cannot guarantee for those contents. Providers or administrators of linked websites are always responsible for their own contents. The linked websites had been checked for possible violations of law at the time of the establishment of the link. Illegal contents were not detected at the time of the linking.

However, permanent content control of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of a violation of the law. If we become aware of any violations of the law, we will remove such links immediately.

The content and works created by the site operators and presented on these pages are subject to German copyright law. The reproduction, adaptation, distribution or any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright require the written consent of its respective author or creator. Downloads and copies are permitted only for private, non-commercial use.

Insofar as the content on this site was not created by the operator, the copyrights of third parties have been observed. In particular, content from third parties is marked as such. If, despite this, you notice a copyright infringement, please notify us. If we become aware of any infringements, we will remove the content in question immediately.

Source: https://www.e-recht24.de

Data protection

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google in advance within member states of the European Union or in other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link to set an opt-out cookie. The cookie prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics

For more information about Google's terms of use and privacy policy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).