Privacy

Data protection declaration 

We attach maximum importance to protecting your data and safeguarding your privacy. Therefore, we provide information below regarding collection and use of personal data while using our website. 

Anonymous data collection

You can visit our websites without having to provide any personal details. We do not save any personal data in this connection. In order to improve our offer, we evaluate only the statistical data, which does not allow any inference of your personal details. 

Collection and processing while using the contact form

When using the contact form, we collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you. We use your email address only for processing your request. Your data is deleted subsequently if you do not approve of the further processing and use. 

Collection, processing and use of personal data

We collect personal data (particulars of personal or objective relationships of a particular or definable natural person) only within the scope provided by you.

Your personal data is processed and used for completing and processing your order and also for processing your requests.

After the contract is processed completely, all the personal data is first saved taking into account the retention periods under fiscal and commercial law and then deleted after the expiry of the deadline, if you have not approved of the further processing and use. 

We additionally refer to the following:

We use the Käufersiegel rating system. According to your order, we would like to request you to rate your purchase from us and comment on it. For this purpose, we will contact you within the scope of the order processing, whereby we will make use of the technical system of the supplier of the Käufersiegel rating tool, Händlerbund Management AG, Torgauer Straße 233 B, 04347 Leipzig, within the scope of order data processing. Your email address will only be used for this purpose here and not for any further use in particular and will also not be forwarded to other third parties. The personal data saved in this context in the technical system of the Käufersiegel rating system is deleted 3 months after the product delivery recorded for the rating. 

Forwarding personal data

Your data is not forwarded to third parties without your explicit consent. Only our service partners, which we require for handling the contractual relationship, are excluded from this. In these cases, we strictly adhere to the specifications of the Federal Data Protection Act. The scope of the data transfer is restricted to a minimum.

Data collection and processing while logging in to purchase on account via Paymorrow

For estimating the liability risk and for the credit assessment, Paymorrow or partner companies authorised by Paymorrow transfer your address data to credit reporting agencies if necessary for the credit assessment within the scope of the legally permissible interests and considering your respective interests that are worthy of being protected with the exclusion of the transfer or use while logging in to the purchase on account. We get information regarding your current payment history from the following credit reporting agencies,

which save data for giving information:

 -   Bürgel, Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH & Co. KG, Gasstraße 18, D-22761 Hamburg, Tel.: +49 (0) 40 - 89 80 3 - 0, Fax: -777;

 -   CEG, Creditreform Consumer GmbH, Hellersbergstr. 11, D-41460 Neuss, Tel.:+49(0)2131-109-501, Fax: -557;

 -   Deltavista. Deltavista GmbH, Freisinger Landstr. 74, D-80939 Munich, Tel.: +49 (0)89 - 7244880, Fax: - 22.  For the purpose of its own credit check, Paymorrow or partner companies authorised by Paymorrow retrieve credit information if necessary on the basis of the mathematical and statistical methods of the institutes mentioned above. For such cases, you need to approve of the notification of your first and last name, street, house number, postal code, place as well as your date of birth and telephone number to the mentioned institutes. In this connection, Paymorrow ensures that the authorised partner companies as well as the mentioned institutes shall process and/or use the data on their part exclusively within the scope of the specific function. All the credit assessments are carried out to eliminate problems in the payment transactions. The data exchange between Paymorrow, partner companies authorised by Paymorrow and other business information services protects the online trade from damages, which have long-term effects on the sales prices. Thus, even you as an end customer, profit from an assessment of the customer data for this purpose. 

Approval for identity assessment

While purchasing on account via Paymorrow GmbH, your personal data is transferred to SCHUFA (SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65201 Wiesbaden) for purposes of the identity assessment and SCHUFA will thereupon transfer the degree of compliance of the particulars saved with it with the particulars specified by you in percentage values as well as, if necessary, a reference to an

ID-based identification check carried out in the past at SCHUFA or another contractual partner to Paymorrow GmbH. Paymorrow GmbH can thus use the transferred compliance rates to identify whether a person is saved under the address specified by you in the database of SCHUFA. A further data exchange or transfer of deviating addresses as well as storage of your data in the SCHUFA database does not take place. The details of the address check are saved with SCHUFA only for reasons of proof.

Cookies

Our websites use so-called cookies at several places. Cookies are small text files, which are stored on your computer and which your browser saves. They help to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and reliable. In addition, cookies allow our systems to identify your browser and offer you services. Cookies do no contain any personal data. 

Using Google Adwords conversion tracking

We use the online advertising service "Google AdWords" and conversion tracking within the scope of Google AdWords. Google Conversion Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; "Google").

If you click an advertisement run by Google, a cookie for the conversion tracking is saved on your computer. These cookies have a limited validity, do not contain any personal data and thus do not help in personal identification.

If you visit specific webpages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can identify that you have clicked on the advertisement and were forwarded to this page.

Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Thus, there is no option that cookies can be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers.

The information that is obtained with the help of the conversion cookie helps to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers, who have decided on conversion tracking. Here, the customers find out about the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were forwarded to a site provided with a conversion tracking tag. You however do not receive any information which can be used to identify users personally.

If you do not wish to take part in the tracking, you can disagree to this use by not installing the cookies through a corresponding setting of your browser software (deactivation option). You are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics.

For additional information as well as for the data protection declaration, please visit: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/ (http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/)

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files, which are saved on your computer and which allow analysing the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your usage of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in USA and saved there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address is however abbreviated by Google in advance within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. The complete IP address is transferred to a Google server in USA and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. Google shall use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your website use, to compile reports about the website activities and to provide additional services associated with the website use and Internet use as against the website operator. The IP addressed transferred from your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not consolidated with the other data by Google. You can prevent cookies from being saved through a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we would like to bring to your attention that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website entirely in this case. In addition, you can prevent the recording of data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and based on your website use in Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available on the following link and installing it [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de)].

Using Facebook plugins

Plugins of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"), are used on these webpages.

If you invoke webpages of our Internet presence, which are provided with such a plugin, a link is established with the Facebook servers and the plugin is displayed on the webpage through a notification to your browser. Which of our webpages you have visited is transmitted to the Facebook server. If you are logged in on Facebook, Facebook allocates this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plugin functions (e.g. clicking the "Like" button, entering a comment), even this information is allocated to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before using the plugin. If you do not want Facebook to assign all acquired information to your Facebook profile immediately, you must either log out of your account before visiting our site or must use add-on provided by Facebook for your browser http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/). In this manner, you can block the loading of Facebook plugins. Other information about the collection and usage of the data by Facebook, about your relevant rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Data Protection information of Facebook. 

Information, correction, blocking and deletion of data

At all times, you have the right to free information about your saved data as well as the right to correction, deletion and blocking of the same. Please contact us if required. You will find the contact details in our Legal Notice.

last update: 03.12.2015