The operator of this website collects, processes and uses personal data of a user without further consent only to the extent necessary for the establishment and processing of the contract and for billing purposes.

Personal data is individual information about the personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject).

In this respect, the collection of data means the procurement of data by the data subject themselves. In addition to storage and erasure, processing also includes the modification, blocking and transmission of personal data. Utilisation is any use of personal data that does not involve processing. If necessary, the customer’s inventory and traffic data may be passed on to companies affiliated with the operator of the website. The operator of this website is authorised to provide information to law enforcement authorities and courts for the purpose of criminal prosecution in accordance with the applicable legal provisions. The operator of this website may analyse the customer’s inventory and traffic data for market research purposes or have it analysed by third parties. The customer can object to this by contacting the data protection officer.

Inventory data

Inventory data is personal data that is required to establish or amend the contractual relationship between the operator of this website and the user. This includes the user’s name and address, date of birth, telephone number, e-mail address and payment details.

The operator of this website will only pass on inventory data to third parties if this is necessary for the provision of the service.

The operator of this website will only process and use the inventory data for the purposes of advertising, customer advice or market research if this is necessary and the user has consented to this. The user can revoke their consent in writing at any time.

The provision in §29 BDSG permits the commercial collection, storage or modification of personal data for the purpose of transmission, particularly in connection with the activities of credit agencies. Credit agencies combine personal data from various sources and transmit it to third parties. The operator of this website is obliged to make the necessary data available to such credit agencies.

Traffic data is data that is collected, processed or used when a telecommunications service is provided. The operator of this website or a third party used by the operator of this website to provide the telecommunications services collects traffic data in order to enable the utilisation of these services and to be able to bill the respective user. As a rule, the date and time and time zone of the start and end of use, the volume in bytes, the IP address and the type of teleservice used are recorded. The aforementioned data is stored for up to six months after the invoice is sent, unless longer storage is provided for in the statistics functions activated by the user. The operator of this website may use, store and transmit traffic data to the extent required for billing with other companies or other service providers or in accordance with legal regulations.

Upon request, the operator of this website will inform the user in writing, taking into account the legal requirements, whether and what personal data is stored about him. The data protection officer is available for this and for further questions on data protection.

This website partly uses so-called cookies. These are used to make the website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser and enable your use of the website to be analysed. You can prevent the storage of this and the cookies mentioned below by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses so-called ‘cookies’. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information 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. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The cookies are also used for the remarketing technology of Google Inc. This technology allows users who have already visited this website and are interested in the offer to be targeted again with targeted advertising on the pages of the Google Partner Network. If users have consented to their web and app browsing history being linked by Google to their Google account and information from their Google account being used to personalise ads, the remarketing function is used across devices. To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs of these users. This personal data is temporarily linked to Google Analytics data in order to create target groups. Google users can adjust their ad settings under ‘My Account’ or deactivate personalised ads.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your shortened IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]

Google Analytics also collects reports on performance by demographics and interest.

This website uses various functions of the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google+. By default, no data is transferred to these services when you visit our website. On some pages, after ticking the corresponding plugin or clicking on a corresponding link on the respective platform, data may be transferred in accordance with the following conditions without the function (‘Recommend’, ‘Tweet’, ‘+1’) itself being carried out.

This website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

SoundCloud

Plugins from the social network SoundCloud (SoundCloud Limited, 33 St James Square, London SW1Y 4JS, UK) may be integrated on our pages. You can recognise the SoundCloud plugins by the SoundCloud logo on the relevant pages.

When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the SoundCloud server once the plugin has been activated. SoundCloud then receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the ‘Like button’ or ‘Share button’ while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link and/or share the content of our pages with your SoundCloud profile. This allows SoundCloud to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by SoundCloud. Further information on this can be found in SoundCloud’s privacy policy at: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

If you do not want SoundCloud to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your SoundCloud user account, please log out of your SoundCloud user account before activating the content of the SoundCloud plugin.