Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. All your personal data are treated confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and the following privacy policy.
We will not process your personal information if:

  • you have not previously expressed any consent about it;
  • data processing is required to complete or conclude a contract where you are involved;
  • a legal obligation imposed on us to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another person requires data processing;
  • processing of your data is required to protect overwhelming, legitimate interests of us or another.

Usually, you can use our website without providing any personal information. We always tend to raise personal data (e.g.: name, address, e-mail address) on a voluntary basis. We will not disclose your information to third parties without your explicit consent.
Please note that data transmission over the Internet (for instance, when communicating by e-mail) may be vulnerable to security settings. As a general rule, the whole protection of information from third parties is not possible. All employees are committed to data secrecy.

Server-Log-Files

Our website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. They are:

  • browser type / version
  • used operating system
  • referrer URL (the page you visited before)
  • host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
  • time of the server request

These data will not be merged with other data sources. In case we are informed of any illegal use, we may check all these data retrospectively.

Cookies

We use cookies in order to simplify and speed up the supervision of your visit to our website. You can allow or disable cookies in the settings of most browsers.

Google Web Fonts

Our website uses Google provided web fonts, which allow a consistent representation of fonts. Every time you open a webpage, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. In order to do this, the browser you use connects to Google’s servers, therefore Google is informed that you accessed our website via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts provides a coherent and appealing presentation of our online services. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font will be used by your computer. For more information about Google Web Fonts, please check https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Instagram

We integrated Instagram functions on our website. These functions are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can connect the contents of our pages to your Instagram profile by clicking on the Instagram button that you can see on our website. This allows Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. Regarding this, we highlight that as the provider of the webpage, we are not informed about the content of the transmitted data and their use by Instagram. For more information, please check Instagram privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

Facebook-Plugins (Like-Button)

Our website includes plugins from the social network Facebook (1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA) in the form of the Facebook logo or the “Like” button. You can check http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins for a complete overview of all Facebook plugins.

Every time you visit our website, the Facebook plugin establishes a direct connection between your Internet browser and Facebook servers, so that Facebook records that you visited our website using your IP address. In case you are logged on Facebook, you can use the “Like” button to link to the corresponding content from our website to your Facebook profile. This way, Facebook can link your visit to our website with your Facebook account. Kindly note that we do not receive any information from Facebook about the content of the transmitted data or the use of these data. For further information, you can check http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
If you are a member of Facebook but do not wish that our website transmits data related to you to Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before accessing our website.

SSL-encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of sensitive content, such as requests you may send to us as the site operators. You can recognise an encrypted connection by changing the address line of the browser from “http: //” to “https: //” and the lock symbol in your browser line. When SSL encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us cannot generally be read by third parties.

Processing data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only as long as they are necessary for the establishment, content or modification of a contract or legal relationship (inventory data). When we process personal data, we will store them just to the extent of the purpose of the data processing. We cannot predict the exact storage duration, as the time it takes to implement and fulfil a contract or legal relationship may vary. In case of claims (for instance for possible defects of a product) arising after the draft of a contract, we will store your data until all possible follow-up claims have become statute-barred.
We collect, process and use personal data regarding the use of our website (usage data) only to enable or charge the user for the use of the service.

Data transfer at the conclusion of the contract for services and digital content

We only transfer personal data to third parties when this is required by the terms of the contract. For instance, we may communicate them to the bank that is in charge of processing the payment.
A further transmission of the data only happens if you have expressed your consent to it. We will not pass your information onto third parties without your explicit consent.

Your rights
You can ask us:

  • Comprehensive information about your stored data and the purposes of processing your data,
  • correcting inaccurate or supplementing incomplete data,
  • the complete deletion of your personal data if their storage no longer serves a material purpose or if you have revoked your consent to their processing if there is no legal basis for the further storage of your data (for instance, the execution of a contract already concluded);
  • the restriction of the processing of your data, if the data are incorrect, the processing of your data were illegal, you need your data for the assertion of legal claims or an objection to your data processing is checked;
  • To transfer your data to another person you have designated as far as technically feasible.

The above-mentioned rights are only available to the person whose data is affected. In order to prevent misuse of the aforementioned rights, we reserve the right to demand reliable proof of your identity.

Further information
Your trust is important to us. Therefore, we would like to be your answer at any time regarding the processing of your personal data. If you have any questions that this privacy policy does not answer to you, or if you would like more in-depth information, please contact us at any time.

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies, that is to say text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the your use of our website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Browser plugin

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting this preference on your Internet browser. Nonetheless, if you choose this option, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the maximum extent possible. Furthermore, you may prevent Google to collect cookie-generated data related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as to process these data by downloading the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Opposition to data collection

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the link above. An opt-out cookie will be set. This will prevent the collection of your data on future visits to our website. If you wish to gather further information on how to handle user data on Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Order processing

We have entered an agreement with Google for order data processing and implement the strict requirements of the French data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.