Privacy policy


Data protection declaration

We are pleased about your interest in our online shop. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.


1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time you access a website, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.

This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our services. In accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO, this serves to protect our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our offer, which are overriding in the context of a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted at the latest seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

Hosting services by a third party provider
As part of processing on our behalf, a third party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in the correct presentation of our offer, which are overriding in the context of a balance of interests. All data collected in the context of the use of this website or in forms provided for this purpose in the online shop as described below are processed on its servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework described here.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.


2. Data collection and use for contract processing and opening of a customer account

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us in the context of your order, when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail) or when opening a customer account. Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases we need the data to process the contract or to process your contact or to open the customer account and you cannot complete the order and/or open the account or send the contact without providing it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO to process the contract and your enquiries. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after expiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law; We will delete your data after expiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration. The cancellation of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.


3. data transfer

In order to fulfil the contract in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to payment service providers commissioned by us or to the payment service selected. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must register with the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the data protection declaration of the respective payment service provider applies.

Data transfer to shipping service providers
If you have given us your express consent to this during or after your order, we will pass on your e-mail address to the selected shipping service provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO, so that they can contact you before delivery for the purpose of delivery notification or coordination.

You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or directly to the shipping service provider at the contact address listed below. After revocation, we will delete your data provided for this purpose, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for purposes other than those permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.

GLS Germany
GLS Germany-Straße 1 - 7
36286
Neuenstein

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4. E-mail Newsletter

E-mail advertising with registration for the newsletter
If you register for our newsletter, we will use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you in order to send you our e-mail newsletter on a regular basis based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your e-mail address unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.


5. Use of Data for Payment Processing

Identity and creditworthiness check when choosing Klarna payment services
If you choose Klarna's payment services, we ask for your consent according to Art. If you choose to use Klarna's payment services, we ask you for your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO that we may transfer the data necessary for processing the payment and for an identity and credit check to Klarna. In Germany, the credit agencies named in Klarna's data protection declaration can be used for the identity and credit check.
Klarna uses the information received about the statistical probability of a payment default for a weighed decision about the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship.
You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact details below. This may result in us no longer being able to offer you certain payment options. You can also revoke your consent to this use of personal data at any time by contacting Klarna.


6. Integration of the Trusted Shops Trustbadge
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The Trusted Shops Trustbadge is integrated on this website to display our Trusted Shops seal of approval and the collected ratings, as well as to offer Trusted Shops products to customers after they have placed an order.

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This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The Trustbadge and the services advertised with it are an offer of Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15C, 50823 Cologne.
When the Trustbadge is called up, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, your IP address, the date and time of the call-up, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the call-up. This access data is not analysed and is automatically deleted at the latest seven days after the end of your visit to the site.
Further personal data is only transferred to Trusted Shops if you have consented to this, have decided to use Trusted Shops products after completing an order or have already registered to use them. In this case, the contractual agreement made between you and Trusted Shops applies.


7. Cookies and web analysis

To make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your terminal device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your terminal device and enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can find out how long they are stored in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer. py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (www.google.de), for website analysis. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offer in the context of a balancing of interests in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The information automatically collected about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymisation on this website, the IP address will be truncated before being transmitted within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of 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 anonymised IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google Analytics by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Google LLC has its headquarters in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google as well as the collection of your personal data. Your IP address) generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Click here

As an alternative to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. This will place an opt-out cookie on your terminal device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.


8. advertising via marketing networks
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Google AdWords Remarketing
&Uml;ber Google Adwords we advertise for this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, the so-called remarketing cookie is set by Google when you visit our website, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you have visited. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our website in the context of a balancing of interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO. After the end of the purpose and the end of the use of Google AdWords Remarketing by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any further data processing will only take place if you have consented to Google linking your web and app browsing history to your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalise the ads you see on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-generational remarketing. To this end, Google will temporarily link your personal data with Google Analytics data in order to create target groups.

Google AdWords Remarketing is a service provided by Google LLC (www.google.de). Google LLC has its headquarters in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can disable the remarketing cookie via disable this link. You can also find out more about the setting of cookies and make settings for this at the Digital Advertising Alliance.


9. Contact options and your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

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  • In accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO, you have the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein.
  • In accordance with Art. 16 DSGVO, you have the right to demand the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us without delay.
  • In accordance with Art. 17 DSGVO the right to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing is necessary
    - to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
    - to comply with a legal obligation;
    - for reasons of public interest or
    - to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
    is required;
  • In accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
    - the accuracy of the data is disputed by you;
    - the processing is unlawful, but you object to it; the processing is unlawful, but you object to its deletion;
    - we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
    - you object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 DSGVO against the processing;
  • In accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO, you have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, valid and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller;
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  • In accordance with Article 77 of the GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters.


If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or if you would like to request information, correct, block or delete data, or revoke your consent or object to the use of certain data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our imprint.

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Right of objection
Insofar as we process personal data as described above in order to protect our legitimate interests within the framework of a balance of interests, you may object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes, you may exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.

After exercising your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. Then we will not further process your personal data for this purpose. ********************************************************************


Privacy Policy created with the Trusted Shops legal text in cooperation with Wilde Beuger Solmecke Rechtsanwälte.