privacy and data protection

Please be aware that any data required in the handling of your order will be processed and saved in an electronic information system. Personal data will, of course, be treated confidentially. We use the data you have given us to fulfill and process your order.

Collecting and processing of personal data/transmission
We only collect personal data insofar as they are necessary to process orders.
We do not pass the data on to third parties. Excluded from this are only our service partners whom we need for the execution of the order. In these cases we strictly follow the guidelines of the German federal data protection act (BDSG). The scope of the data transmission is held to a minimum.

Cookies
Our web pages utilise so-called cookies. Cookies are little text files that are stored on your computer and recorded by your browser. They serve to make our offer more user friendly, more effective and safer. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognise your browser and offer you services.
Cookies will not damage your computer and contain no viruses.

Facebook Social Plugins
This website uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") from the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition "social plug-in from Facebook" or "Facebook social plugin". You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance here: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins
If you request a page of our website which contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter in this website.
The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that your browser used to access the corresponding page of our website even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged-in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) will be transferred by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.
If you are logged-in to Facebook, Facebook can directly assign your visit to our website to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is also directly transmitted to a Facebook server and stored there. This information will also be posted on Facebook and shown to your Facebook friends
Facebook can use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and needs-based design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates profiles regarding usage, interests and relationships, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users on our website and to provide other services related to the use of Facebook.
If you do not want Facebook to assign the data collected by our website to your Facebook account, you must log-out of Facebook before visiting our site.
Please see the Facebook data protection statement regarding the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, to analyze your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted to and stored by a Google server in the USA. In the case of activation of the IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other member states that are party to the Agreement of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server and be truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide further services linked to website and internet use to the site operator. The IP address transmitted from your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be associated with other data held by Google. You may refuse the use cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection and the processing of data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website by Google by using the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en download and install the available browser plug-in.

Information, Correction, Blocking and Deletion of Data
You have at all times the right to information about, correction of, blocking of or deletion of your stored data. Feel free to contact us; you will find our contact details in our site notice.