We appreciate your interest in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information about how we handle your data.

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. We only store access data in so-called server log files, such as the name of the requested file, the date and time of the request, the amount of data transmitted, and the requesting provider. These data are used solely to ensure the smooth operation of the site and to improve our services and do not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person.

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us during your order, when contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), or when creating a customer account. The data collected is visible in the respective input forms. We use the data you provide for contract processing and to handle your inquiries. After the contract has been fully processed or your customer account has been deleted, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after the expiry of the statutory retention periods for tax and commercial law, unless you have explicitly consented to further use of your data or we reserve further use that is legally permitted, about which we will inform you below. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact details provided below or via a designated function in your customer account.

For contract fulfillment, we will transfer your data to the shipping company entrusted with the delivery, to the extent necessary for delivering the goods you have ordered. Depending on which payment service provider you select during the order process, we will forward the payment data collected to the financial institution assigned with the payment or to any payment service providers we have contracted, or to the selected payment service. In some cases, the selected payment service providers may also collect this data themselves if you have an account with them. In this case, you will need to log in with your access details during the order process. The privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies in this regard.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we use the required or separately provided data to send you our email newsletter regularly, in accordance with your consent. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time either by sending a message to the contact details provided below or through a link included in the newsletter.

In addition, we reserve the right to store your first and last name, postal address, and – if we have received these additional details from you during the contractual relationship – your title, academic degree, year of birth, and your professional, industry, or business designation in consolidated lists and to use them for our own advertising purposes, such as sending you interesting offers and information about our products by post. You can object to the storage and use of your data for these purposes at any time by sending a message to the contact details provided below.

To make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e., when you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow you to accept them individually or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (www.google.com). Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow an analysis of how you use the website, such as "cookies", text files stored on your computer. The information generated about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: [http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en](http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en)

Alternatively, you can click this link to prevent future collection by Google Analytics on this website. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be placed on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will need to click the link again.

Our website uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") of the social networks Facebook and Google+ and the microblogging service Twitter. These services are provided by Facebook Inc., Google Inc., and Twitter Inc. ("providers").

- Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). An overview of the plugins of Facebook and their appearance can be found here: [https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/)

- Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). An overview of the plugins of Google and their appearance can be found here: [https://developers.google.com/+/web/](https://developers.google.com/+/web/)

- Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. An overview of the Twitter buttons and their appearance can be found here: [https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons](https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons)

To enhance the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are embedded using a so-called "2-click solution." This integration ensures that when you visit a page of our website containing such plugins, no connection is made to the servers of Facebook, Google, or Twitter. Only when you activate the plugins and thus give your consent to the data transfer, your browser will establish a direct connection to the servers of Google, Facebook, or Twitter. The content of the respective plugin will then be transmitted directly to your browser by the provider and embedded into the page. By embedding the plugins, the providers are informed that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile with the respective provider or are not logged in at the time. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider in the USA and stored there. If you interact with the plugins, for example by pressing the "Like", "Plus 1", or "Tweet" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the providers and stored there. The information is also published on the social network or on your Twitter account and displayed to your contacts there.

For details on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers, as well as your related rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please refer to the privacy policies of the providers.

- Facebook Privacy Policy: [http://www.facebook.com/policy.php](http://www.facebook.com/policy.php)

- Google Privacy Policy: [http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/+1button.html](http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/+1button.html)

- Twitter Privacy Policy: [https://twitter.com/privacy](https://twitter.com/privacy)

You have the right to receive free information about the personal data we hold about you, as well as the right to request correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. If you have any questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, or if you wish to obtain information, correct, block, or delete your data, or withdraw your consent or object to certain uses of your data, please contact us directly using the contact details provided in our imprint.