Data protection
Privacy policy
1) Introduction and contact details of the person responsible
1.1 We are pleased that you visit our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data here means all data by which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The person responsible for data processing on this website in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Jakob Spering, Mönchsgüterweg 4, 50999 Cologne, Germany, Tel.: 015174586006, Email: jus.kontakt@gmail.com. The entity responsible for processing personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
When using our website for purely informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- Our visited website
- Date and time at the time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/referral from which you accessed the site
- Used browser
- Used operating system
- Used IP address (if applicable: in anonymized form)
The processing is carried out according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. No transfer or other use of the data takes place. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files afterwards if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
Shopify
For hosting our website and displaying the page content, we use the system of the following provider: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd Floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland ("Shopify")
Data is also transmitted to: Shopify Inc., 150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4, Canada
All data collected on our website is processed on the provider's servers. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
In the case of data transfer to Canada, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
4) Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), while others remain on your device longer and allow the storage of page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of your web browser's cookie settings.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of given consent, or according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contact
5.1 Own review reminder
Exclusively based on your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, we use your email address to remind you once to submit a review of your order. You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the person responsible for data processing.
5.2 As part of contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is processed exclusively for the purpose of handling and responding to your request and only to the extent necessary.
The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted if the circumstances indicate that the matter has been conclusively clarified and provided no legal retention obligations oppose.
6) Data processing for order processing
6.1 To the extent necessary for contract processing for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data collected by us will be passed on in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned credit institution.
If we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products based on a corresponding contract, we process the contact data you provide during the order (name, address, email address) to inform you personally about upcoming updates within the legally prescribed period via a suitable communication channel (such as by mail or email) in accordance with our legal information obligations under Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Your contact data will be used strictly for the purpose of notifications about updates owed by us and will only be processed by us to the extent necessary for the respective information.
For the processing of your order, we also cooperate with the following service provider(s) who support us wholly or partly in the execution of concluded contracts. Certain personal data are transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.
6.2 Use of payment service providers (payment services)
- Paypal
One or more online payment methods from the following provider are available on this website: PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg
When selecting a payment method of the provider where you pay in advance, your payment data provided during the order process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order are forwarded to the provider in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The transfer of your data in this case is exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.
When selecting a payment method for which we advance payment, you will also be asked during the ordering process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, if applicable data on an alternative payment method).
In such cases, to protect our legitimate interest in determining your creditworthiness, these data are forwarded by us to the provider for the purpose of a credit check in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The provider checks, based on the personal data you have provided as well as other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experiences), whether the payment option you selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.
The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). As far as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. The calculation of the score values includes, among other things but not exclusively, address data.
You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending us a message or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for proper payment processing under the contract.
- Paypal Checkout
This website uses PayPal Checkout, an online payment system from PayPal, which consists of PayPal's own payment methods and local payment methods from third-party providers.
When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or – if offered – "Pay Later" via PayPal, we forward your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal") as part of the payment processing. The transfer is made pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR and only to the extent necessary for payment processing.
PayPal reserves the right to conduct a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or – if offered – "Pay Later" via PayPal. For this purpose, your payment data may be forwarded to credit agencies in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on PayPal's legitimate interest in determining your creditworthiness. The result of the credit check regarding the statistical probability of payment default is used by PayPal for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). As far as score values are included in the credit report result, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. The calculation of the score values includes, among other things but not exclusively, address data. You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contract-compliant payment processing.
If the PayPal payment method "Invoice Purchase" is available and selected, your payment data is initially transmitted to PayPal to prepare the payment, after which PayPal forwards it to Ratepay GmbH, Franklinstraße 28-29, 10587 Berlin ("Ratepay") to carry out the payment. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. In this case, RatePay conducts an identity and credit check in its own name to determine payment ability according to the principle mentioned above and forwards your payment data to credit agencies based on the legitimate interest in determining payment ability pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. A list of the credit agencies Ratepay may use can be found here: https://www.ratepay.com
When using the payment method of a local third-party provider, your payment data will first be passed on to PayPal for payment preparation in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Depending on your selection of an available local payment method, PayPal will then transmit your payment data to the respective provider for the execution of the payment in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR:
- Apple Pay (Apple Distribution International (Apple), Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland)
- Google Pay (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland)
- iDeal (Currence Holding BV, Beethovenstraat 300 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- bancontact (Bancontact Payconiq Company, Rue d'Arlon 82, 1040 Brussels, Belgium)
- blik (Polski Standard Płatności sp. z o.o., ul. Czerniakowska 87A, 00-718 Warsaw, Poland)
- eps (PSA Payment Services Austria GmbH, Handelskai 92, Gate 2
1200 Vienna, Austria)
- MyBank (PRETA S.A.S, 40 Rue de Courcelles, F-75008 Paris, France)
- Przelewy24 (PayPro SA, Kanclerska 15A, 60-326 Poznań, Poland)
Weitere datenschutzrechtliche Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte der Datenschutzerklärung von PayPal: https://www.paypal.com
- Shopify Payments
One or more online payment methods from the following provider are available on this website: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland
If you select a payment method from the provider where you pay in advance (e.g., credit card payment), your payment data provided during the order process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order are forwarded to the provider in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The transfer of your data in this case is exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.
7) Retargeting/Remarketing and conversion tracking
Meta Pixel with enhanced data matching
Within our online offering, we use the "Meta Pixel" service from the following provider in the mode of enhanced data matching: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Quare, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Meta")
If a user clicks on an advertisement we placed on Facebook or Instagram, the URL of our linked page is extended by a parameter using "Meta Pixel." This URL parameter is then entered into the user's browser via a cookie set by our linked page itself after the redirection. Furthermore, this cookie collects specific customer data such as the email address, which we collect on our website linked to the Facebook or Instagram ad during processes like purchases, account logins, or registrations (enhanced data matching). The cookie is then read and enables the transmission of the data, including the specific customer data, to Meta.
We use "Meta Pixel" with advanced data matching to make our advertisements (so-called "Ads") on Facebook and/or Instagram more effective and to ensure that they correspond to users' interests or have certain characteristics (e.g., interests in specific topics or products determined by the visited websites), which we transmit to Meta (so-called "Custom Audiences").
In addition, we analyze the effectiveness of our advertisements by tracking whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on an ad (conversion). Compared to the standard version of "Meta Pixel", the advanced data matching feature helps us better measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns by capturing more attributed conversions.
All transmitted data is stored and processed by Meta, allowing for assignment to the respective user profile, and Meta uses the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with Meta's data usage policies (https://www.facebook.com
All the processing described above, especially setting cookies to read information on the device used, is only carried out if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your given consent at any time with effect for the future by disabling this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
The information generated by Meta is usually transmitted to a server of Meta and stored there; in this context, it may also be transferred to servers of Meta Platforms Inc. in the USA.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European data protection level based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
8) Page functionalities
8.1 Facebook plugins
On our website, plugins from the social network of the following provider are used: Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland
These plugins enable direct interactions with content on the social network.
To enhance the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are initially integrated in a deactivated state using a so-called "2-click" or "Shariff" solution.
This integration ensures that when accessing a page of our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the provider's servers is established yet.
Only when you activate the plugins and thereby grant your consent to the data transfer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR does your browser establish a direct connection to the provider's servers. In this process, regardless of whether you are logged into an existing user profile, information about your device used (including your IP address), your browser, and your page history is transmitted to the provider and may be further processed there.
If you are logged into an existing user profile on the provider's social network, information about interactions performed via the plugins will also be published there and shown to your contacts.
You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the activated plugin by clicking it again. However, the revocation does not affect the data that has already been transferred to the provider.
Data may also be transferred to: Meta Platforms Inc., USA
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European data protection level based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
8.2 Instagram plugins
Our website uses plugins from the social network of the following provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland
These plugins enable direct interactions with content on the social network.
To enhance the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are initially integrated in a deactivated state using a so-called "2-click" or "Shariff" solution.
This integration ensures that when accessing a page of our website that contains such plugins, no connection to the provider's servers is established yet.
Only when you activate the plugins and thereby grant your consent to the data transfer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR does your browser establish a direct connection to the provider's servers. In this process, regardless of whether you are logged into an existing user profile, information about your device used (including your IP address), your browser, and your page history is transmitted to the provider and may be further processed there.
If you are logged into an existing user profile on the provider's social network, information about interactions performed via the plugins will also be published there and shown to your contacts.
You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the activated plugin by clicking it again. However, the revocation does not affect the data that has already been transferred to the provider.
Data may also be transferred to: Meta Platforms Inc., USA
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European data protection level based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
9) Tools and Others
Cookie Consent Tool
This website uses a so-called "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consents for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users in the form of an interactive user interface when the page is accessed, where consents for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be granted by ticking checkboxes. By using the tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user has given the corresponding consent by ticking the checkboxes. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the user's device if consent has been given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed in this context.
If, in individual cases, the processing of personal data (such as the IP address) occurs for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our internet presence.
Another legal basis for the processing is also Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are legally obliged to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.
If necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of the data of our site visitors and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further information about the operator and the settings options of the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.
10) Rights of the data subject
10.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights to information and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller regarding the processing of your personal data, whereby the respective legal basis for exercising these rights is referred to:
- Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
- Right to deletion pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
- Right to information pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
- Right to withdraw given consents pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.
10.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR LEGITIMATE INTERESTS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF A BALANCE OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING IS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US TO CONDUCT DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR SUCH MARKETING PURPOSES. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
11) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the processing purpose, and – if applicable – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax law retention periods).
When processing personal data based on an explicit consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the affected data will be stored as long as you do not revoke your consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data processed within the framework of contractual or contract-like obligations based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, these data will be routinely deleted after the expiration of the retention periods, provided they are no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.
When processing personal data based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, these data will be stored as long as you do not exercise your right to object under Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct advertising based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, these data will be stored as long as you do not exercise your right to object under Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise specified in the other information of this declaration regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.