Privacy policy
The protection of your data is important to us. Of course, we only collect, save and use your data in accordance with legal requirements. In the following you will be informed about how we collect, store and process your data.
Responsible person
1) The person responsible for processing your data is:
Schnittzwerk
Kirchstrasse 23
65321 Heidenrod / Germany
Tel .: + 49- (0) 6775-96 88 88 4
Fax .: + 49- (0) 6775-96 88 88 3
email: [email protected]
Affected Rights
You have the right,
- in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR for information about the personal data concerning you processed by us and for the information listed in Art. 15 Para. 1 lit. a) -h) GDPR. In particular, you can obtain information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a Right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data, if we have not collected it, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details ("right to information");
- in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect personal data concerning you and the completion of incomplete personal data ("right to correction");
- to request the deletion of your personal data in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims is required ("right to erasure");
- to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR if you dispute the correctness of the data, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert it, Need to exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR ("right to restriction of processing");
- In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data, which you have transmitted to us in the course of consent or for the execution of the contract, in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transmission to another person responsible, insofar as this is technically feasible and the rights and freedoms of other persons are not impaired ("right to data transfer");
- to revoke your consent to us at any time in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR. In this case, we are no longer allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent in the future, whereby the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent up to the point of withdrawal is not affected ("right to withdraw consent");
- According to Art. 22 GDPR, not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing - including profiling - which has legal effect on you or similarly significantly affects you, unless the decision is for the conclusion or performance of a contract between Is necessary for you and us, is not permitted by law or is not carried out with your express consent.
2) right of objection
If data processing takes place on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.f) GDPR, you also have the right to object to processing at any time in accordance with Art Situation arise or the objection is directed against direct mail or a related profiling. If you object, we are no longer allowed to process your personal data, unless there are demonstrably compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. This exception does not exist if your objection is directed against direct advertising or related profiling. In that case, we are no longer allowed to process your personal data for this purpose. To exercise your right of objection, you can, for example, send us a corresponding email.
3) Right to complain
You have the option of subscribing to a newsletter. We use the “MailChimp” tool from The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA (hereinafter “MailChimp”) to send our newsletters. This is certified for the so-called "Privacy Shield" (EU-US data protection agreement), which guarantees compliance with European data protection law. You can find more information about the "Privacy Shield" here:
https://www.privacyshield.gov/list
To send our newsletters via MailChimp, it is necessary that we transmit your data (name and email address) to a MailChimp server, which is stored there exclusively for the purpose of sending the newsletter. By registering for the newsletter, you consent to this data transfer to MailChimp in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. ("Newsletter"). In this case, your data (name and email address) will be stored until you unsubscribe from the newsletter or otherwise revoke your consent to us. You can unsubscribe at any time, e.g. via a link at the end of each newsletter, or by sending us your unsubscribe request by email.
4) Use of the contact form
You can send us a message using our contact form. By sending your message, you consent, in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 a) GDPR, to the processing of your personal data transmitted with your message in such a way that we may use it for the purpose of answering or processing your request and for communicating with you . The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after your request has been dealt with.
5) Payment processing
a) paypal
If the payment method "PayPal" is selected as part of the online ordering process, payment is processed via PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. You must then first log in with your PayPal account data or open a PayPal account. When you open the account, you provide PayPal with your personal data. The data processing by PayPal is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. PayPal uses the information in your PayPal account to first identify you and then to process the payment.
Further information on PayPal's data protection provisions can be found here:
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full?locale.x=de_DE
b) Purchase on account (PayPal invoice)
If a purchase on account has been agreed, we assign our payment claims against the customer to PayPal. For this purpose, we transmit the personal data you have made known to PayPal. Before accepting the declaration of assignment, PayPal will carry out a credit check using the data you have provided. With your consent to the data transfer and credit check, you authorize us or PayPal in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR to process the aforementioned data. In the event of a negative credit check, we reserve the right to refuse to use the "PayPal invoice" payment method and to refer you to the other payment methods offered. If the payment method "PayPal invoice" is accepted, you can only pay to PayPal with a debt-discharging effect. However, we always remain your contractual partner and are responsible for processing the contract.
You can find more information on the "PayPal invoice" payment method under the following links:
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pui-terms
https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full?locale.x=de_DE#6a
c) Financing through abcfinance
You can arrange financing for your purchases from us through our partner, abcfinance GmbH, Kamekestraße 2 - 8, 50672 Cologne. If you send us your request in this regard, we will forward your request with your personal data to our partner. By submitting the request, you consent to this data being passed on in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
6) cookies
We use cookies on our website, which serve to optimize the user-friendliness of our website and enable the use of certain functions. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device when you visit our website. Most of the cookies we use are used to recognize that you have already visited individual pages on our website - so-called session cookies - and are deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session. Other cookies - so-called temporary cookies - remain on your end device for a specific period of time and enable us to recognize your end device on your next visit. If you visit our website again, it is automatically recognized that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to re-enter them. We also use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to create and evaluate usage profiles using pseudonyms for the purpose of optimizing our offer, advertising and the needs-based design of our website (see section 7 for details).
The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit.f) GDPR.
Note: You can set your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. As a precaution, we would like to point out that the complete deactivation of cookies may mean that not all functions of our website can be used.
7) Analysis tools
a) Google Analytics
For analysis purposes, we use the “Google Analytics” tool, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”). This serves to safeguard our predominantly legitimate interests in optimal marketing, continuous optimization and needs-based design of our offer. The processing of your data described below is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR.
Google Analytics uses "cookies" (see section 6). The information generated by the cookie, such as browser type / version, operating system used, the previously visited page (so-called referrer URL), IP address (host name of the accessing computer) and time of the server request are sent to a Google server transferred to the USA and stored there. IP anonymization is activated on our website, i.e. your IP address is shortened by Google beforehand. The shortened IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data, which means that conclusions about your person are excluded.
The information obtained is used to evaluate your use of our website in an anonymous form, to create anonymized statistics on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and the needs-based design of our website. You can prevent the storage of Google Analytics cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website. You can also prevent Google from using your data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics Help Center https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
b) Google Adwords Conversion Tracking
We use “Google AdWords” and, in this context, Conversion Tracking, an analysis service from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”), to statistically optimize the use of our website to evaluate. If you click on an advertisement placed by Google, a cookie (see Section 6) for conversion tracking will be placed on your device. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days, contain no personal data and are therefore not used for personal identification. If you visit certain Internet pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that you clicked on the ad and were forwarded to the respective website. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie so that no cookies can be tracked via our website. With the help of the conversion cookie, we can track the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, we do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.
If you do not want to take part in tracking, you can prevent cookies from being set by setting your browser accordingly by blocking cookies from the “www.googleadservices.com” domain. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
Further information on conversion tracking can be found under the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html
8) Social media plug-ins
We use social media plug-ins from the social networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing, Pinterest, WhatsApp and Google+ on our website for advertising purposes and to make the use of our website more personal. The underlying advertising purpose is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit.f) GDPR.
We integrate these plug-ins using the so-called "Shariff solution", i.e. buttons that correspond to the plug-ins are integrated, but without pressing the buttons, your browser will not connect to the respective networks. Only when you actively press the button will data be processed in accordance with the following points.
a) Facebook
On our website we use social plugins ("plugins") from the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, in order to make the use of our website more personal for you . The buttons can be recognized by the Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue background, provided with the terms “Like” or a “thumbs up” sign) or are marked with the addition “Facebook”. The list and the appearance of the Facebook button can be viewed here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
With the Shariff solution, we display buttons according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when you visit our website with the buttons shown, your browser does not connect to Facebook. A script calls up how often a page has already been shared or liked. It contacts Facebook via the services' programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers. Therefore, only the server address is transmitted to Facebook (not your IP address). Only when you actively press the Facebook button, e.g. to share content, will a connection be established between the browser you are using and the Facebook servers. As a result, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding website on our website. This information (including your IP address) is then transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you are also logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. Facebook can use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and the needs-based design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook profiles are created in order to provide other services related to the use of Facebook. To prevent Facebook from receiving data about you via our website that can be assigned to your Facebook account, log out of Facebook before using the Facebook button.
Further information on the processing of your data by Facebook, as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Facebook's data protection information:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
We use social media plug-ins from the social networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing, Pinterest, WhatsApp and Google+ on our website for advertising purposes and to make the use of our website more personal. The underlying advertising purpose is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit.f) GDPR.
We integrate these plug-ins using the so-called "Shariff solution", i.e. buttons that correspond to the plug-ins are integrated, but without pressing the buttons, your browser will not connect to the respective networks. Only when you actively press the button will data be processed in accordance with the following points.
a) Facebook
On our website we use social plugins ("plugins") from the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, in order to make the use of our website more personal for you . The buttons can be recognized by the Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue background, provided with the terms “Like” or a “thumbs up” sign) or are marked with the addition “Facebook”. The list and the appearance of the Facebook button can be viewed here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
With the Shariff solution, we display buttons according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when you visit our website with the buttons shown, your browser does not connect to Facebook. A script calls up how often a page has already been shared or liked. It contacts Facebook via the services' programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers. Therefore, only the server address is transmitted to Facebook (not your IP address). Only when you actively press the Facebook button, e.g. to share content, will a connection be established between the browser you are using and the Facebook servers. As a result, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding website on our website. This information (including your IP address) is then transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there. If you are also logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. Facebook can use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and the needs-based design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook profiles are created in order to provide other services related to the use of Facebook. To prevent Facebook from receiving data about you via our website that can be assigned to your Facebook account, log out of Facebook before using the Facebook button.
Further information on the processing of your data by Facebook, as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Facebook's data protection information:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
e) Pinterest
Plug-ins from the social network Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, are integrated on our website.
With the Shariff solution, we display buttons according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when you visit our website with the buttons shown, your browser does not connect to Pinterest. A script calls up how often, for example, a page has already been shared. It contacts Pinterest via the services' programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers. Therefore, only the server address is transmitted to Pinterest (not your IP address). Only when you actively press the Pinterest button, e.g. to share content, is a direct connection established between your browser and the Pinterest server. Pinterest receives the information that you have visited our site. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Pinterest server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Pinterest, Pinterest can immediately assign your visit to our website to your Pinterest account. If you want to prevent Pinterest from directly assigning the data collected via our website to your Pinterest account, please log out of Pinterest before using the Pinterest button.
Further information on the processing of your data by Pinterest, as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Pinterest's data protection information:
http://pinterest.com/about/privacy/
f) Xing
We use buttons from the social network Xing (XING SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg - hereinafter "Xing") on our website in order to make the use of our website more personal for you. The advertising purpose behind this is a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit.f) GDPR.
When you visit our websites that contain such a button, no personal data is transmitted to Xing. A connection to the Xing servers is only established when you press the button. According to Xing, however, no separate personal data is collected about this event; in particular, Xing does not save your IP address. By activating the button, your browser calls up a specific server cluster on your device in a data center used by XING. All functions of the XING share button are provided and processed via this server cluster. Xing does not use cookies for this. There is also no analysis of your usage behavior by Xing. However, Xing can later see from the server logs how often pages of a domain were accessed with the XING Share button. In our case, however, only if the button has been activated from our website.
You can find more detailed data protection information on the "XING Share Button" and additional information here:
https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection
g) WhatsApp
We use buttons from the "WhatsApp" service on our website (WhatsApp Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA - hereinafter "WhatsApp") to make the use of our website more personal for you The purpose is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f) GDPR.
The buttons are only embedded in our website as hyperlinks. When you visit our websites that contain such a button, no personal data is transmitted to WhatsApp. A connection to the WhatsApp servers is only established when you press the button. This means that WhatsApp learns the origin of the website. However, no personal data is collected, the transmitted data is merely referrer information that is created each time a link is called up.
You can find more detailed data protection information on WhatsApp's services here:
https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/