Privacy policy

Many thanks for visiting our website. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to inform you about data protection at our company. Naturally, we are in compliance with the legal requirements of the Data Protection Act (BDSG), the German Teleservices Act (TMG) and other legal provisions relating to data protection.

Your personal data is safe with us. It is encrypted and transmitted to us using digital security systems. Technical measures have been put in place to protect our websites from damage, destruction and unauthorised access.

The subject of data protection is personal data. Section 3, paragraph 1 of the Data Protection Act (BDSG) defines personal data as individual details  about the personal or material situation of a specific or specifically identifiable natural person. This data includes details such as your name, postal address, e-mail address or telephone number and may also include user data such as your IP address.

In general, it is not necessary for you to provide personal data in order to use our website. We may however require your personal data in order to provide our services. This is the case both with regard to sending you information material or items you have ordered, and so that we can answer your queries.

If you instruct us to provide a service or ship items to you, we only collect and store your personal data where this is necessary to provide the service or fulfil the contract. In this case, we may need to share your personal data with the companies we use to provide the service or to fulfil the contract. These may be transport companies or other service providers. Where we undertake any of the activities described below or other activities, we would like to collect and store your personal data and will request your express consent in a corresponding area of our website:

• Sending you our newsletter
• Competition entry; credit or age check so that we can provide our services or  
• Payment methods

Once the contract has been fulfilled in full, your data is blocked. After the period for which we are legally required to retain them for fiscal and commercial purposes, they are deleted, provided that you have not expressly consented to their continued use.

Use of data for a specific purpose
We observe the principle that data is used for a specific purpose and we gather, process and store your personal data only for the purposes for which you shared it with us. Your personal data will not be shared with third parties without your express consent where this is not necessary for the provision of our services or contract fulfilment. Equally, your personal data is only shared with state institutions and authorities who are entitled to receive such information within the scope of statutory obligations to provide information or where a legal ruling requires us to provide such information.
We also take data protection within the company very seriously. We require our employees and the service providers with whom we work to observe confidentiality and to comply with legal data protection provisions.

Right to information and withdrawal
You may obtain details of any of your personal data that we have stored, free of charge at any time and without specifying any reason. You may block, correct or delete the data we have about you at any time. You may also withdraw your consent to data collection and use at any time without specifying any reason. To do so, please contact us using the address shown in the Legal Information. We are at your disposal if you have any questions about our data protection notes or the processing of your personal data.


Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Where IP anonymization is activated on this website, within the member states of the European Union or in other countries which are signatories to the European Economic Area Agreement, your IP address will be abbreviated beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Your IP address transmitted from your browser in connection with Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You should however note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You may furthermore prevent the collection and processing of cookie and website usage data (incl. your IP address) by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available through the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
For further information please refer to tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and/or www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information about Google Analytics and data protection). We would advise you that on this website a code “gat._anonymizelp()” has been added to Google Analytics to guarantee the anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).