1) Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the responsible

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 Responsible for the data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Prominate GmbH, Prinzenstraße 2a, 42697 Solingen, Germany, Tel .: 0212-65830, email: dataprotection-de@prominate.com. The person responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or together with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

1.3 The person responsible has appointed a data protection officer, who can be reached as follows: "sicdata Unternehmensberatung, Tobias Erdmann, Schlachthofstraße 23a, Tel .: +49212659850, erdmann@sicdata.de"

1.4 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the person responsible), this website uses an SSL or. TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https: //" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2) Data collection when visiting our website

When using our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website
• Date and time at the time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source / reference from which you came to the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if necessary: ​​in anonymous form)

Processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are specific indications of illegal use.

3) Cookies

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable your browser to be recognized the next time you visit (so-called persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values ​​to the individual extent. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. The duration of the respective cookie storage can be found in the overview of the cookie settings in your web browser.

In some cases, cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by saving settings (e.g. remembering the content of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website). If personal data is also processed by individual cookies we use, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR either to implement the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of a given consent or according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

Please note that you can set your browser so 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 the 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 browser under the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/12.0/mac/10.14

Opera: https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Please note that the functionality of our website may be restricted if cookies are not accepted.

4) Contacting

When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at the conclusion of a contract, then an additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention requirements.

5) Data processing when opening a customer account and for contract processing

According to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide it to us for the execution of a contract or when opening a customer account. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. It is possible to delete your customer account at any time and can send a message to the above. Address of the person responsible. We store and use the data you provide for contract processing. After completion of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked with due regard to tax and commercial law retention periods and deleted after the expiry of these deadlines, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or a legally permitted further data use on our part is reserved has been.

6) Use of your data for direct advertising

6.1 Subscribe to our email newsletter

If you register for our e-mail newsletter, we will send you regular information about our offers. The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of further data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to send the newsletter. This means that we will only send you an e-mail newsletter if you have expressly confirmed to us that you consent to receiving the newsletter. We will then send you a confirmation e-mail asking you to click the corresponding link to confirm that you want to receive the newsletter in the future.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to the use of your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. When registering for the newsletter, we save your IP address entered by the Internet service provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace a possible misuse of your email address at a later date. The data we collect when you register for the newsletter will only be used for advertising purposes in the form of the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided in the newsletter or by sending a message to the person named above. After unsubscribing, your email address will be deleted from our newsletter mailing list immediately, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

6.2 Sending newsletters via Sendinblue

Our email newsletter is sent via the technical service provider Sendinblue SAS (55 Rue d’Amsterdam, 75008 Paris, France), to whom we pass on the data you provided when you subscribed to the newsletter. This transfer takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR and serves our legitimate interest in using an advertising-effective, safe and user-friendly newsletter system. The data you enter for newsletter subscription (e.g. email address) will be stored on the Sendinblue servers in the EU.

Sendinblue uses this information to send and statistically evaluate the newsletter on our behalf. For the evaluation, the emails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which represent one-pixel image files that are stored on our website. In this way it can be determined whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked on. In addition, technical information is recorded (e.g. time of access, IP address, browser type and operating system). The data is only collected in a pseudonymized form and is not linked to your other personal data; direct personal reference is excluded. This data is used only for statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyzes can be used to better adapt future newsletters to the interests of the recipients. If you want to object to the data analysis for statistical evaluation purposes, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter.

Sendinblue can also process this data in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f Use the GDPR itself based on its own legitimate interest in the needs-based design and optimization of the service and for market research purposes, for example to determine which countries the recipients come from. However, Sendinblue does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them themselves or to pass them on to third parties.

We have concluded an order processing contract with Sendinblue, with which we oblige Sendinblue to protect our customers' data and not to pass them on to third parties.

You can view Sendinblue's data protection regulations here: https://de.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/

7) Data handling for order processing

7.1 In order to process your order, we work with the following service provider (s) who support us in whole or in part in the execution of contracts. Certain personal data is transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery as far as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of the payment processing, if this is necessary for the payment processing. If payment service providers are used, we will inform you explicitly below. The legal basis for the transfer of the data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

7.2 We work with external shipping partners to fulfill our contractual obligations towards our customers. We give your name and your delivery address and, if necessary for the delivery, your telephone number, only for the purposes of the delivery of goods Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR to a shipping partner selected by us.

7.3 Disclosure of personal data to shipping service providers

- DHL

If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider DHL (DHL Paket GmbH, Sträßchensweg 10, 53113 Bonn), we will provide your email address in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO before delivery of the goods to DHL for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date or for delivery notification, provided you have given your express consent in the ordering process. Otherwise we give for the purpose of delivery in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR only forward the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DHL. The data will only be passed on if this is necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, a prior coordination of the delivery date with DHL or the delivery announcement is not possible.

The consent can be withdrawn at any time with future effect to the person responsible above or to the transport service provider DHL.

- DPD

If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider DPD (DPD Deutschland GmbH, Wailandtstrasse 1, 63741 Aschaffenburg), we will give your email address and your telephone number before the goods are delivered in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date or for delivery notification to DPD, provided you have given your express consent for this in the ordering process. Otherwise we give for the purpose of delivery in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR only forward the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DPD. The data will only be passed on if this is necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, prior coordination of the delivery date with DPD or delivery notification is not possible.

The consent can be withdrawn at any time with future effect to the person responsible above or to the transport service provider DPD.

- FedEx

If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider FedEx (FedEx Express Germany GmbH, Langer Kornweg 34 k, 65451 Kelsterbach), we will give your email address and your telephone number before the goods are delivered in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date or for delivery notification to FedEx, provided you have given your express consent in the ordering process. Otherwise we give for the purpose of delivery in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR only forward the name of the recipient and the delivery address to FedEx. The data will only be passed on if this is necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, a prior coordination of the delivery date with FedEx or the delivery announcement is not possible.

The consent can be withdrawn at any time with future effect to the person responsible above or to the transport service provider FedEx.

- UPS

If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider UPS (United Parcel Service Germany Inc. & Co. OHG, Görlitzer Straße 1, 41460 Neuss), we will give your email address before the goods are delivered in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date or for delivery notification to UPS, provided you have given your express consent in the ordering process. Otherwise we give for the purpose of delivery according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR only forward the name of the recipient and the delivery address to UPS. The data will only be passed on if this is necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, a prior coordination of the delivery date with UPS or the transmission of status information of the shipment delivery is not possible.

The consent can be withdrawn at any time with future effect to the person responsible above or to the transport service provider UPS.

7.4 Use of payment service providers (payment services)

- giropay

When paying via "giropay", the payment is processed by giropay GmbH, An der Welle 4, 60322 Frankfurt / Main, to whom we pass on the information you provided during the ordering process and the information about your order. Your data will be passed on in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR exclusively for the purpose of payment processing and only to the extent that it is necessary for this. You can find more information about the data protection regulations of giropay GmbH at the following Internet address: https://www.giropay.de/rechtliches/datenschutzerklaerung

- Paypal

When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" or "installment payment" via PayPal, we pass your payment details on to PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal"). The transfer takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR and only to the extent that this is necessary for payment processing.

PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" or "installment payment" via PayPal. For this purpose, your payment details may be processed in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR passed on to credit agencies on the basis of PayPal's legitimate interest in determining your solvency. PayPal uses the result of the credit check with regard to the statistical probability of default for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report can contain probability values ​​(so-called score values). As far as score values ​​are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data is used, among other things, but not exclusively, to calculate the score values. For more information on data protection law, including information on the credit agencies used, please refer to PayPal's privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be authorized to process your personal data if this is necessary for the contractual payment processing.

- Stripe Inc.

If you choose one of the payment methods offered by the payment service provider Stripe Inc., the payment will be processed by the payment service provider Stripe Inc., Stripe Inc., 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, California, 94080, USA, to whom we will pass on the information you provided during the ordering process, together with information about your order (name, address, IBAN, BIC, invoice amount, currency and transaction number, if applicable). Your data will be passed on in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider Stripe Inc. Your data will only be passed on if this is actually necessary for the processing of the payment.

8) Web analytics services

- Matomo (formerly Piwik)

This website uses the web analysis service software Matomo (www.matomo.org), a service of the provider InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand, ("Matomo") based on our legitimate interest in statistical analysis user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR data collected and stored. Pseudonymized usage profiles can be created and evaluated from this data for the same purpose. Cookies can be used. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. Among other things, the cookies enable the Internet browser to be recognized. The data collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymized IP address) are processed on our servers.

The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymous user profile is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not combined with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

If you do not agree to the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, you can object to the storage and use for the future at any time with a click of the mouse. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, with the result that Matomo does not collect any session data. Please note that the complete deletion of your cookies means that the opt-out cookie will also be deleted and you may have to reactivate it.

As far as legally required, we have given your consent to the processing of your data described above in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR obtained. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect. In order to exercise your revocation, please follow the option described above to make an objection.

9) Tools and other

9.1 Cookie consent tool based on Usercentrics technology

This website uses a cookie consent tool with technology from Usercentrics GmbH, Rosental 4, 80331 Munich (hereinafter "Usercentrics") to obtain effective user consent for cookies that require consent and cookie-based applications.

By integrating a corresponding JavaScript code, users are shown a banner when the page is called up, in which checkmarks can be given for certain cookies and / or cookie-based applications. The tool blocks the setting of all cookies that require consent until the respective user grants the corresponding consent. This ensures that such cookies are only placed on the user's end device if they have given their consent.

So that the cookie consent tool can uniquely assign page views to individual users and individually record, log and save the consent settings made by the user for a session duration, when the website is called up by the cookie consent tool, certain user information (including the IP address) collected, transmitted to the Usercentrics server and stored there.

This data processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies and therefore in a legally compliant design of our website.

Another legal basis for the data processing described is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As the person responsible, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

We have concluded an order processing contract with Usercentrics, with which we oblige Usercentrics to protect the data of visitors to our website and not to pass it on to third parties.

Further information on the use of data by Usercentrics can be found in the Usercentrics data protection declaration at https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/

9.2 - Elasticsearch

This website uses the "Elasticsearch" service of ELASTIC, 800 West El Camino Real, Suite 350, Mountain View, California 94040, USA to provide a search function for articles via the search field and for navigation and filters.

For this purpose, Elasticsearch collects and stores certain user information (such as the user or session ID) in an anonymous form.

If personal data are also processed, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in providing a fault-tolerant search for articles and making it easier to find our products in the shop and therefore in optimally marketing our offer.

Further information on the data protection regulations of Elasticsearch can be found here: https://www.elastic.co/de/legal/privacy-statement

10) Rights of the data subject

10.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data protection rights (information and intervention rights) to the person responsible with regard to the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:

• Right to information in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have a right to information about your personal data processed by us, the processing purposes, the categories of processed personal data, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned Storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if we did not collect it from you, that There is an automated decision-making process including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope that affects you and the intended effects of such processing, as well as your right to be informed about the guarantees according to Art. 46 GDPR for forwarding I their data exists in third countries;
• Right to correction in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR: You have the right to immediate correction of incorrect data concerning you and / or completion of your incomplete data stored by us;
• Right to deletion according to Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if the requirements of Art. 17 Para. 1 GDPR are met. However, this right does not exist in particular if 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;
• Right to restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data as long as the correctness of your data, which you disputed, is checked, if you reject the deletion of your data due to inadmissible data processing and instead the Request restriction of the processing of your data if you need your data for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, after we no longer need this data after the purpose has been achieved or if you have lodged an objection for reasons of your special situation, as long as it is not certain whether our legitimate ones Reasons outweigh;
• Right to information in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR: If you have asserted the right to correction, deletion or restriction of processing against the person responsible, he is obliged to correct or delete the data to all recipients to whom your personal data have been disclosed Notify processing restrictions unless this proves to be impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.
• Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another person responsible, insofar as this is technically feasible;
• Right to revoke consent given in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR: You have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of data at any time with future effect. In the event of revocation, we will delete the data concerned immediately, unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
• Right to lodge a complaint in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy Member State of your whereabouts, your place of work or the place of the alleged violation.

10.2 RIGHT OF OBJECTION

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR PRINCIPLE OF INTERESTED LEGAL INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE AT ALL TIME FOR REASONS FOR YOUR SITUATION IN YOUR SPECIAL SITUATION.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned. PROCESSING IS SUBJECT TO BE PROVIDED IF WE CAN PROVIDE OBLIGATORY PROTECTED REASONS FOR THE PROCESSING, WHICH EXERCISE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES, OR IF THE PROCESSING, PUBLICITY, OR IMPROPRESSED APPLICATION.

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US TO OPERATE DIRECT ADVERTISEMENT, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO PROCESS PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE CONTRADICTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data concerned for direct marketing purposes.

11) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and - if relevant - also on the basis of the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).

When processing personal data based on an express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject withdraws their consent.

Are there legal retention periods for data that is part of legal or similar legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR are processed, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that they are no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and / or if we do not have a legitimate interest in further storage.

When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject exercises his right to object pursuant to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

When processing personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is stored until the data subject exercises his right to object pursuant to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration on specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

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