Data Protection Declaration

We are pleased that you visit our website and would like to thank you for your interest in our company and our products and/or services. Protecting your privacy while you are using our website is very important to us. For that reason we ask that you make note of the following information:

1)  Basic Information about Handling Personal Data

Basically you can use our websites without our collecting personal data from you. Personal data are only collected if you communicate these to us in the framework of making contact. These data will only be used without your expressed consent to process your queries.

2)  Cookies

To make the visit to our website attractive, and to facilitate the use of certain functions we use so-called cookies. These are small text files that are saved on your end-device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again after then end of your browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other Cookies stay on your end-device and make it possible for us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed when cookies are placed and individually decide on whether or not to accept them for certain cases or generally exclude them. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website can be restricted.

3)  Use of Google AdWords Conversion-Tracking

This page uses the online-advertising program "Google AdWords" and Conversion-Tracking in the framework of Google AdWords. The cookie for conversion-tracking is set if a user clicks on an ad activated by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies become invalid after 30 days and do not identify you personally. If the user visits certain pages on this website and the cookie is not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user has clicked on the ad an was redirected to this page.

Every Google AdWords-customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be traced across the websites of other AdWords-customers. The information gathered with the help of Conversion-Cookies only serves to generate conversion statistics for AdWords-customers who have decided to use Conversion-Tracking. The customers learn the total number of users who have clicked on their ads and who have been re-directed to a site equipped with a Conversion-Tracking-Tag. They do not however get any information that could be used to identify users personally. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can refuse this use, by easily deactivating the Cookie for Google Conversion-Tracking using your Internet-Browser under your user settings. Then you will not be included in the

Conversion-Tracking statistics.

At the internet address below, you can get more information about the Google’s data protection provisions : http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

4)  Web Analysis Service

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files that are saved on your computer and enable the analysis of your use of the website. The information about your use of this website generated by the Cookie are as a rule transferred to a server owned by Google in the USA and saved there.

In the event that IP-anonymisation is activated on this web page, your IP-address will be abbreviated by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other contracting States of the Agreement of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a server owned by Google in the USA and abbreviated there. Google will use this information on order of the operator of this website in order to evaluate your use of this website, to generate reports on website activities and to provide other services associated with the use of the website and the internet generally.

The IP address transmitted by your browser in the framework of Google Analytics will not be combined with other data from Google. You can prevent Cookies from saving data by using the matching setting on your browser-software; we remind you however that you in this case will not be able to use all functions of this website in their full scope. You can also prevent the recording and transmission of the data that the cookie generates about your use of the website (incl. your IP-address) to Google as well as the processing of 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

As an alternative to the browser-plug-in or within browsers on mobile devices, your mobile devices please click on the following link, in order to set an opt-out-cookie, which will prevent recording by Google Analytics inside this website in the future (this opt-out-cookie only functions in this browser and only for this domain; to delete your cookies in this browser, you must click on this link again): <a href="javascript:gaOptout()">Google Analytics deaktivieren</a>

Please note that his Website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()" and therefore IP-addresses are only processed in anonymous form in order to exclude any possibility of direct personal identification.

5)  Re-targeting/Re-marketing/Advertising by Recommendation

- This website uses Re-targeting-Technology by Google Inc. ("Google"). This makes it possible for us to address visitors to our websites who have already shown interest in our shop and our products with targeted, personalized, interest-oriented advertising. Advertising is cross-faded in on the basis of a Cookie-driven analysis of your past user behavior, although no personal data is saved. In cases that the Re-targeting-Technology saves a Cookie on your computer or mobile end-device

in order to record anonymized data about your interests and so adapt the advertisements individually to the saved information. These Cookies are small text files that are saved on your mobile end device. You will see advertisements that are highly likely to correspond with you products and information. You can permanently refuse setting Cookies for advertisements permanently by downloading and installing the browser plug-in Browser-Plug-in available here: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

You can find additional information and the data protection provisions with respect to advertising and Google:

http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

6)  Your Rights and Establishing Contact

You have the right to cost-free disclosure of your saved data as well as if needed a right to have the data corrected, blocked or deleted. If you have questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact us.

The same applies to your wishes for disclosure, blocking, deletion and correcting your personal data as well as for revoking any consent that has been issued. You can find our contact address in our publisher’s imprint.