Your Privacy, Simply Explained
Your privacy matters to us.
When you visit this website, we only collect the data that is technically necessary to make the site work properly and securely. This includes basic information like your browser, device, and anonymized IP address.
If you contact us or make a purchase, we only use your information to respond to your request or to process your order.
We do not sell your data.
We do not use your information for unnecessary tracking.
Your data is handled with care, transparency, and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You always have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data.
For full details, please read the complete Privacy Policy below.
Privacy Policy (International)
1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller
1.1
We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest.
In the following, we inform you about how your personal data is handled when using our website.
Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified.
1.2
The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
Vanessa Wolfarth
Im Espchen 18A
35619 Braunfels
Germany
Phone: +49 176 80860728
Email: vanessa.wolfarth@web.de
The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
2.1
When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”).
When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- Our visited website
- Date and time at the moment of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/reference from which you accessed the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.
3) Hosting
Our website is hosted by an external service provider. Personal data collected on this website is stored on the host’s servers.
This may include, in particular, IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access data, and other data generated via a website.
The hosting provider is used for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
4) Cookies
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies.
These are small text files that are stored on your end device.
Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies).
Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies).
If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values to an individual extent.
Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR either for the performance of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
You can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contacting Us
When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is collected.
Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form.
This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.
The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Your data will be deleted after final processing of your inquiry. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the relevant facts have been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.
6) Data Processing for Order Handling
6.1
To process your order, we work together with the following service providers, who support us in whole or in part in the execution of concluded contracts.
Certain personal data is transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.
6.2
The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with delivery as part of the contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods.
We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of the payment processing, insofar as this is necessary for the payment processing.
If payment service providers are used, we explicitly inform you of this below.
The legal basis for the transfer of data is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
7) Rights of the Data Subject
7.1
Applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights as a data subject (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:
- Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR
- Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR
- Right to withdraw consent granted pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR
7.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED.
HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ESTABLISH, EXERCISE OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS.
8) Duration of Storage of Personal Data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if applicable – additionally by the respective statutory retention period.
If personal data is processed on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject revokes their consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data that is processed within the framework of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.