Privacy
Sect. 1 General
We will process your personal data (e.g. title, name, address, e-mail address, phone number, bank details, credit card number) solely in accordance with the provisions of the German data protection law and the data protection law of the European Union (EU). The following provisions will inform you, besides the information about the processing purposes, recipients, legal bases and storage periods, also about your rights and the controller for your data processing. This privacy policy applies only to our websites. If you are directed to other sites via links on our pages, please familiarise yourself with the respective use of your data there.
Sect. 2 Data processing for the performance of contracts
(1) Purpose of data processing
Your personal data you provide us during the ordering
process are necessary for the conclusion of a contract with us. You are not
obliged to provide your personal data. However, we would not be able to send
you the goods without your address. For some payment methods we ask for the
necessary payment data in order to pass them on to a payment service provider
commissioned by us. Hence, the processing of your data collected during the
ordering process is soley for the purpose of contract performance.
If you send us a request by e-mail or by using the contact
form, etc. before concluding the contract, we process the obtained data to
carry out pre-contractual measures and answer your questions about e.g. our products.
(2) Legal basis
The legal basis for such processing is set out in Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR.
(3) Recipient categories
Payment service provider, shipping service provider, hosting provider, if necessary merchandise management system, suppliers if necessary (drop-shipping).
(4) Duration of Storage
We store the data required for contract execution until the
statutory warranty and, if applicable, contractual warranty periods expire.
We store the data required under commercial and tax law for
the statutory periods, generally ten years (cf. § 257 German Commercial Code
(HGB), § 147 Regulation of Taxation (AO)).
The data processed for the execution of pre-contractual
measures will be deleted as soon as the measures have been carried out and the
contract cannot be concluded.
PayPal-transactions
Please note that all PayPal transactions are subject to the PayPal Privacy Policy:
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Sect. 4 Web analysis with Google Analytics
(1) Purpose of data processing
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service
provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4,
Irland ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, small
text files, which are placed on your computer to analyze how you use the website.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will be
transmitted and saved on server in the United States by Google. If the
anonymizeIP function is activated on this website, Google will shorten your IP
address in advance within the member states of the European Union or in other
states which are parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only
in exceptional cases Google will transmit the full IP address on server in the
United States and will shorten there. Google will use this information for the
purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website
activities and providing other services related to website and internet usage
for the website operators.
(2) Legal basis
The legal basis for such processing is set out in Article 6
(1) (a) of the GDPR.
(3) Recipient categories
Google and its partners.
(4) Transfer to a third country
Google Ireland Limited is an affiliate of Google LLC. Google
LLC is based in the USA (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043).
(5) Duration of Storage
14 months
(6) Right of objection
You can prevent the
installation of the cookies in your browser settings. If you choose to change
your settings you may not be able to use the full functionality of this
website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the
cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and
from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser
plug-in available under the following link: optout
You may also generate
blocking by setting an opt-out cookie. If you want to prevent the future
collection of your data when you visit this website, please click here: Disable Google Analytics
Sect. 5 Information about cookies
(1) Purpose of data processing
This website uses technically necessary cookies. These are
small text files that are stored in or by your Internet browser on your
computer system. These cookies enable, for example, the inserting of several
products in a shopping basket.
(2) Legal basis
The legal basis for such processing is set out in Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR.
(3) Legitimate interest
Our legitimate interest is the functionality of our website.
The user data collected by technically necessary cookies are not used to create
user profiles. This preserves your interest in data protection.
(4) Duration of storage
The technically necessary cookies are usually deleted when
the browser is closed. Persistent cookies have different validity period from a
few minutes to several years.
(5) Right of objection
If you do not wish these cookies to be stored, please deactivate the use of cookies in your
Internet browser. However, this may cause a functional limitation of our
website. You can also delete persistent cookies at any time by changing your
browser settings.
Sect. 6 Newsletter
(1) Purpose of data processing
When registering for the newsletter, your e-mail address
will be used for advertising purposes, i.e. the newsletter will inform you in
particular about products from our product range. For statistical purposes we
may evaluate which links are viewed in the newsletter. However, it is not
recognizable for us, which concrete person has accessed the links. You have
expressly given the following consent separately or, as the case may be, in the
course of the ordering process: If you register for the newsletter, your e-mail
address will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe
from the newsletter. The cancellation is possible at any time. You have given
the following consent separately or, if applicable, explicitly during the
ordering process: Subscribe to the newsletter.
(2) Legal basis
The legal basis for such processing is set out in Article 6 (1) (a) of the GDPR.
(3) Recipient categories
if necessary: newsletter provider
(4) Duration of Storage
Your e-mail address will only be stored for the respective
duration of your registration.
(5) Right of revocation
You may revoke your consent at any time with effect for the
future. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you may unsubscribe as
follows: You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. If
you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe as follows:
Via an unsubscribe link in the newsletter.
Sect. 7 Your rights as a data subject
If your personal data is being processed, you are the ‘data
subject’ in terms of GDPR and you have the following rights towards us, the
controller:
1. Right to information
You may request us to provide information about your personal data processed by us under Article 15 of the GDPR.
2. Right to rectification
If your personal data provided to us is not up to date or
not accurate you have the right to ask for modifications to your personal data
under Article 16 of the GDPR. You also have the right to request us to complete
an incomplete data.
3. Right to erasure
You have the right to have your personal data erased and ask
for deletion of your data under Article 17 of the GDPR.
4. Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to restrict the processing your personal
data under Article 18 of the GDPR.
5. Right to data portability
You have the right referred to in Article 20 of the GDPR to
receive your personal data provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and
machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another
controller.
6. Right to revoke the consent given under data protection law
You have the right referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 7
to withdraw your given consent based on the data protection provisions at any
time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent
before its withdrawal.
7. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
If you consider that the processing of personal data
relating to you infringes the GDPR, you have the right referring to in Article
77 of the GDPR to complain to the supervisory authority against the processing
of your personal data (in particular in the Member State of your habitual
residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement ).
Please also note your right of objection under Article 21 GDPR:
a) In general: reasoned objection required
If the processing of personal data concerning you takes place in order
- to perform our overriding
legitimate interest (legal basis: Article 6 (1f) GDPR)
or
- to safeguard the
public interest (legal basis: Article 6 (1e) GDPR),
you are entitled to
object to the processing at any time for reasons arising from your particular
situation; this also applies to profiling based on the provisions of the GDPR.
In the event of objection, we will no longer process the personal data concerning you unless we can prove compelling grounds for processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
b) Special case of direct marketing: simple objection is sufficient
If the personal data concerning you are processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the
right to object at any time to the processing and without stating reasons; this
includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will
no longer be processed for these purposes.
Responsible for data processing:
Bensussen Deutsch & Associates GmbH
Bahnhofsallee 8
86438 Kissing
Phone: 08233 7920-0
datenschutz@bdainc.de
Contact details of our data protection officer:
SICDATA - Unternehmensberatung
Heiligenstock 34c
42697 Solingen
datenschutz@bdainc.de