Privacy policy

Protection of your data is important to us.We collect, store and use your data only in accordance with the statutory specifications.Below you will be informed about the way we collect, store and process your data.

I. Person responsible

1) The controller for the processing of your data is:

Meier Logistik GmbH

Zum Geisberg 5a

66740 Saarlouis

Tel. +49 (0) 6831 4876504

Fax: +49 (0) 6831 4876549

E-mail: service@surifrey.com

2) Appointed data protection officer:

Marco Walter

Zum Geisberg 5a

66740 Saarlouis

Tel. +49 (0) 6831 4876543

Fax: +49 (0) 6831 4876549

E-mail: datenschutz@meierlogistik.de

II.Rights of the data subjects

1) You have the right

• pursuant to Article 15 GDPR you are entitled to receive information about your personal data processed by us and to the information listed in Article 15 (1) lit a)-h) GDPR.In particular, you can demand information on the data processing purposes, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data, if this has not been collected from us, and on the existence of automated decision-making process, including profiling, and, where applicable, providing meaningful information on their details (“right to information”);
• pursuant to Article 16 GDPR to immediately require rectification of inaccurate personal data and the completion of incomplete personal data (“right to rectification”); 
• in accordance with Article 17 GDPR to require the erasure of personal data concerning you, unless processing is necessary to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims (“right to erasure”);
• in accordance with Article 18 GDPR to request the restriction of processing of your personal data if the correctness of the data is disputed by you, is unlawful but you oppose its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21 GDPR (“right to restriction of processing”);
• in accordance with Article 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have sent to us in the course of consent or for the execution of the contract in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another controller where this is technically feasible and does not affect the rights and freedoms of other persons (“right to data transmission”);
• in accordance with Article 7 (3) GDPR to revoke the consent you have granted us at any time.In this case, we may no longer continue the data processing that is based on this consent for the future, whereby the legality of the processing carried out based on your consent until the revocation is not affected ("Right to withdraw consent");
• pursuant to Article 22 GDPR not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing - including profiling - that will have legal effect or negatively impact you in a similar manner, unless the decision is necessary for the purpose of concluding or fulfilling a contract between you and us, not permitted by law or not with your express consent.

2) Right to object

If data is processed on the basis of the legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit f) GDPR, you also have the right to object to the processing at any time in accordance with Article 21 GDPR in so far as there are reasons arising from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising or related profiling.In the event of an objection by you, we may no longer process your personal data unless there are verifiably compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing of the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.This exception does not apply if your objection is directed against direct marketing or related profiling.In that case, we may in no case process your personal data for this purpose.To exercise your right of objection, you can, for example, send us a corresponding e-mail.

3) Right of appeal

In accordance with Article 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.In general, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual residence or place of work or our headquarters.

III.Processing your personal data and purpose of processing

1) Your visit to our website

When you visit our website, the browser you use automatically sends information to the server of our website.This information is saved temporarily in a log file.Data collection and processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in accordance with Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit f) GDPR for the purposes of a smooth connection to the website, convenient use of our website, evaluation of the system security and stability as well as for further administrative purposes.

It relates to the following information which is recorded without your assistance and stored until automated deletion:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• The date and time of access,
• Name and URL of the accessed file,
• Website from which access is made (referrer URL),
• The browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

2) Contract processing

a) If you buy products in this online shop, will provide us with your personal data in the ordering process, e.g. by entering your data when opening a customer account.We process your data pursuant to Article 6 (1) lit b) GDPR to fulfil and process the contract concluded with you.For this purpose, your data will be forwarded to the purchasing system (Exit B GmbH, Sickingenstrasse 70, 10553 Berlin) that we have used and for the shipment of goods to you to the transport company commissioned by us (DHL Paket GmbH, Strässchensweg 10, 53113 Bonn, DPD Deutschland GmbH, Waidandtstrasse 1, 63741 Aschaffenburg, Germany), and used for invoicing and communication with you.

b) If you have created a customer account, the data you have stored will be stored permanently until you delete your customer account or object to the processing.Otherwise we store your data in consideration of the legitimate interests for the duration that corresponds to the regular limitation period (3 years starting from the end of the year in which you made the data known to us).Your data will then be deleted unless we are obliged to retain them for longer storage due to legal requirements, e.g. to store invoices (10 years) or business letters (6 years) in accordance with Section 147 AO.In such cases, your data is blocked for use for the duration of further storage and then deleted.

3) Newsletter

You have the option of subscribing to a newsletter.By subscribing to the newsletter, you consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR that we use your e-mail address as well as your name for sending regular advertising e-mails ("newsletter").In this case, your data (name and e-mail address) will be saved 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 e-mail.

4) Use of the contact form

You can send us a message via our contact form.By submitting your message you consent to the processing of your personal data transmitted with your message in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR 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 completion of the request made by you.

5) Payment processing

Depending on which payment method you choose during the order process, you may disclose your data to third parties or you may submit a credit check in accordance with Article 6 (1) a) of the GDPR.You can find the relevant information in the following points.

a) PayPal

If payment method “PayPal” is selected as part of online ordering, the payment is processed via PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. and Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg.You must first register with your PayPal account data or open a PayPal account.When opening the account, you provide PayPal your personal data.Processing of data by PayPal takes place in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR.PayPal uses your PayPal account information to identify you first and then process the payment.

You can find further information on the PayPal data protection provisions here: https://www.paypal.com/va/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

b) Purchase on account (payolution)

In cooperation with payolution GmbH, Am Euro Platz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria, we offer you the method of payment purchase on account.When you select the purchase on account payment type, we assign our payment claims against the customer to Bank Frick & CO AG. Furthermore, we will transfer the personal data you have disclosed to payolution.Using your data payolution performs a credit check at the following companies:

• CRIF GmbH, Diefenbachgasse 35, 1150 Vienna, Austria
• CRIF AG, Riesbachstrasse 61, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
• Deltavista GmbH, Freisinger Landstrasse 74, 80939 Munich, Germany
• SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 5201, Wiesbaden, Germany
• KSV1870 Information GmbH, Wagenseilgasse 7, 1120 Vienna, Austria
• Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH & Co. KG, Gasstrasse 18, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
• Creditreform Boniversity GmbH, Hellersbergstr.11, 41460 Neuss, Germany
• Infoscore Consumer Data GmbH, Rheinstrasse 99, 76532 Baden-Baden, Germany
• Orell Füsli Wirtschaftsinformationen AG, Hagenholzstrasse 81, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland
• ProfileAddress Direct marketing GmbH, Altmannsdorfer Strasse 311, 1230 Vienna
• Deutsche Post Direkt GmbH, Sträßchensweg 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany

With your consent to the disclosure of data and credit check, you authorise us/payolution to perform data processing in accordance with Article 6 (1) a) GDPR.In the event of a negative credit assessment, we reserve the right to refuse to use the payment type “Purchase on invoice” and refer you to the other methods of payment offered.If the "Purchase on account" method of payment is accepted, you can can pay with debt-discharging effect only to the Bank Frick & CO AG account provided to you.However, we always remain your contractual partner and are responsible for handling the contract.

Further information on the data protection regulations of payolution GmbH can be found here: https://payment.payolution.com/payolution-payment/infoport/dataprivacydeclaration?mId=TWVpZXIgTG9naXN0aWsgR21iSA

 c) Amazon Payments

When you select the payment method Amazon Payments, the payment transaction is made directly through the payment service provider Amazon Payments Europe s.c.a., 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg.If “Amazon Payments” is selected as a payment method as part of the online ordering process, you first need to log in to your Amazon account data or create an Amazon account.When opening the account, you provide PayPal your personal data.The processing of data by Amazon takes place in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR.Amazon Payments uses the information on your Amazon account in order to initially identify you and then process your payment.

Further information on the privacy policy of Amazon Payments Europe S.C.A. can be found here: https://pay.amazon.com/

D) Credit card (VISA/MasterCard)

In collaboration with VR Payment GmbH, Saonstrasse 3a, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, we offer you the credit card payment method (VISA or MasterCard) .

By selecting the payment method credit card and entering your credit card details in the course of the payment process, you disclose your personal data to VR Payment.Data processing by VR Payment is thus carried out in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR.VR Payment uses the information to identify you first and then process the payment.Data processing thus also takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit b) GDPR.

Further information on the data protection provisions of VR Payment can be found here: https://www.vr-payment.de/datenschutz-haftung

6) Cookies

On our website, we use cookies that improve the usability of our website and enable the use of certain features.These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device when you visit our site.Most of the cookies we use are for the purpose of recognizing that you have already visited individual pages on our website - so-called session cookies - and will be deleted from your hard drive after the end of the browser session.Other cookies - so-called temporary cookies - remain on your device for a certain period of time and allow us to recognise your device on your next visit.If you visit our website again, it automatically recognises that you have already been with us and what entries and settings you have made, so you do not have to enter them again.We also use cookies in order to statistically record the use of our website and to compile and evaluate user profiles using pseudonyms for the purpose of optimizing our offer, advertising and the design of our website in line with demand (see Note 7 for more for details).

The data processed using the cookies is required to protect our legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 (1) sentence 1 lit f) GDPR.

Note: You can set your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a note always appears before a new cookie is created.As a precaution, we draw your attention to the fact that the full deactivation of cookies may result in the fact that not all functions of our website can be used.

7) Analysis tools

a) Google Analytics

For analysis purposes, we use the tool "Google Analytics", a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter "Google"). The legal basis for the data processing described below is Art. 6 (1) a) DSGVO and thus your consent given via our Consent Manager, which you can revoke at any time.

Google Analytics uses "cookies" (see section III. 3). 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 transmitted to a Google server and stored there. For maximum storage limitation, we have chosen the shortest storage period of 14 months for Google Analytics.

IP anonymisation is also 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 is also not merged with other data from Google, which means that conclusions about your person are excluded.

The information collected is used to evaluate your use of our website in anonymised form, to compile anonymised statistics on website activity and to provide other services associated with website and internet use for the purposes of market research and demand-oriented design of our website.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the use of your data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found, for example, in the Google Analytics help https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

B) Google Adwords conversion tracking

We use “Google AdWords” and conversion tracking in this context, an analysis service from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (in what follows “Google”), to evaluate the use of our website statistically for the purposes of optimisation.Google is certified for the Privacy Shield (EU U.S. Data Protection Convention) that provides a guarantee of compliance with European data protection legislation. 

If you click on an advertisement delivered by Google, a cookie (see Note 6) is stored for conversion tracking on your device.These cookies become invalid after 30 days, do not contain any personal data and thus do not serve personal identification.If you visit certain websites of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognise that you have clicked on the advertisement and have been forwarded to the relevant website.Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie, so no cookies can be tracked through our pages.Using the conversion cookie, we can understand the total number of users who have clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag.However, we do not receive information that personally identifies users.

If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can prevent the setting of cookies by setting your browser accordingly by blocking cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com".You will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

Further information on conversion tracking can be found at the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html

c) intelliAd

We use IntelliAd Media GmbH, Sendlinger Str. 7, 80331 Munich (“Intelliad”) for analysis purposes.In the context of balancing interests this serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing, ongoing optimisation and the design of our offer in line with demand.The processing of your data as described below is therefore performed in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit f) GDPR.

“Cookies” are used for the purposes of IntelliAd tracking (see Note 6).The information generated by the cookie, such as the browser type/version, the operating system used, the referrer URL, IP address and time of the server request are transferred to a IntelliAd server and stored there.However, your IP address is stored anonymously, i.e. your IP address is shortened beforehand so that the identification of your person is excluded.The information obtained is used to analyse your use of our website in anonymised form and to create usage profiles with the use of pseudonyms.

You can prevent your data collection by means of IntelliAd by placing an opt-out cookie that you can activate under the following link:

https://login.intelliad.com/optout.php

For more information about the processing of your data by intelliAd, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, see the intelliAd Privacy Notice:

https://www.intelliad.de/datenschutz/

8) Criteo Remarketing

We use " Criteo Remarketing", an advertising tool from Criteo SA, 32 Rue Blanche, 75009 Paris, France (hereinafter "Criteo"), to present interest-based advertisements to visitors to our website.In the context of balancing interests this serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer.The processing of your data as described below is therefore performed in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit f) GDPR.

Criteo uses cookies when accessing our website (see Note 6).These cookies enable buyers to recognise the visitor again when they leave our website and call up other websites.According to Criteo no personal data of the visitor are collected or otherwise processed.Criteo analyses only the products viewed by the visitor and the search behaviour of the visitor as well as the pages he invokes on our website.You can prevent the cookies from being stored by adjusting your browser accordingly.Furthermore, you can deactivate the remarketing function shown by means of appropriate settings.You can find more information here:

https://www.criteo.com/privacy/

9) Facebook Pixel

We use”Facebook Pixel” an advertising tool from Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook") to present visitor-specific advertisements for our website.In the context of balancing interests this serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer.The processing of your data as described below is therefore performed in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit f) GDPR.

Google is certified for the Privacy Shield (EU U.S. Data Protection Convention) that provides a guarantee of compliance with European data protection legislation.You can find more information on the Privacy Shield here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list

For the "Facebook Pixel" service, a "cookie" (see Note 6) is set to allow an analysis of your user behaviour after you have been redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook ad.The information generated in this way (including your IP address) is sent by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and saved there.If you are also logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly allocate the visit to our website to your Facebook account, link them to yourself and use it for their own advertising purposes.Furthermore, Facebook uses this data about your user behaviour to evaluate and optimise the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook for statistical and market research purposes.

If you do not want this data processing, you can prevent this by setting an opt-out cookie by using the following link:

Facebook Tracking is deactivated: Deactivate Tracking deactivation

For more information about the processing of your data by Facebook, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy see the Facebook Privacy Notice at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

10) Google Maps

We use the Google Maps tool, based on Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as "Google").In the context of balancing interests this serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal design of our website in the customer interest.The processing of your data in this regard is therefore carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit f) GDPR.Google is certified for the Privacy Shield (EU U.S. Data Protection Convention) that provides a guarantee of compliance with European data protection legislation.

Google will store a cookie (see Note 5) on your computer when you call up websites in which the Google Maps tool is involved.Note: You can set your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a note always appears before a new cookie is created.As a precaution, we draw your attention to the fact that the full deactivation of cookies may result in the fact that not all functions of our website can be used.

Further information on the Google cookies in connection with the Google Maps tool can be found at the following links:

• https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en&gl=de
• https://www.google.com/intl/en_en/help/terms_maps/
• https://privacy.google.com/intl/de/businesses/mapscontrollerterms/

11) Social media plug-ins

We use on our website for advertising purposes, and to make the use of our website more personal for you, social media plug-ins of the social networks Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest and the bookmarking service AddThis.The purpose of the underlying advertising is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit f) GDPR.

The integration of these plug-ins by us takes place using the so-called "Shariff solution", i.e. buttons are integrated, which correspond to the plug-ins, but without confirmation of the buttons no connection is established from your browser to the respective networks.Only when the button is actively pressed by you, is data processed according to the following points.

a) Facebook

On our website, we use social plugins (“plugins”) from 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 are recognisable by the Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue background, with the terms “Like”, “Gefällt mir” or a “thumbs up” symbol) or are marked with the addition of “Facebook”.Thelist and appearance of Facebook buttons can be viewed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pluginin/  

Google is certified for the Privacy Shield (EU U.S. Data Protection Convention) that provides a guarantee of compliance with European data protection legislation.

With the Shariff solution, buttons are shown according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when calling our webpages with the buttons shown no connection from your browser with Facebook is made.A script retrieves how many times a page has already been shared or liked.It contacts the Facebook programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers.For this reason, only the server address is transferred to Facebook (not your IP address).Only if you actively press the Facebook button, e.g. to share content, will a connection be established from your browser to the Facebook servers.This gives Facebook the information that you have accessed the corresponding website of our website.This information (including your IP address) is then transmitted from your browser directly to a Facebook server in the US and stored there.If you are also logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly allocate your visit to our website to your Facebook account.Facebook can use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and design of the Facebook pages in line with demand.To this end, Facebook profiles are created to provide additional services associated with 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.

For more information about the processing of your data by Facebook, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy see the Facebook Privacy Notice at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

b) Twitter

Our website includes plug-ins from Twitter Inc. 795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA ("Twitter").You can find an overview of the Twitter buttons in the following link: https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons

Twitter is certified for the so-called "Privacy Shield" (EU-US Data Protection Convention), which guarantees compliance with European data protection law.

With the Shariff solution, buttons are shown according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when calling our webpages with the buttons shown no connection from your browser with Twitter is made.A script retrieves how many times, for example, a page has already been shared.It contacts the Twitter programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers.Therefore, only the server address is transferred to Twitter (not your IP address).Only when you actively press the Twitter button, e.g. to share content, a direct connection between your browser and the Twitter server is established.Then Twitter receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address.If you click on the Twitter button while logged in to your Twitter account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Twitter profile.This allows Twitter to associate your visit to our pages with your user account.Otherwise, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and their exact use by Twitter.If you want to prevent Twitter from assigning visits to our pages, please log out of your Twitter account before using the Twitter button.

For more information about the processing of your data by Twitter, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy see the Twitter Privacy Notice at: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

c) Instagram

Our website uses plug-ins to Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”).These plug-ins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example, in the form of a Instagram camera.

With the Shariff solution, buttons are shown according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when calling our webpages with the buttons shown no connection from your browser with Instagram is made.A script retrieves how many times the Instagram button has been activated on a page.It contacts the Instagram programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers.Therefore, only the server address is transferred to Instagram (not your IP address).Only after you have activated the Instagram button, does your browser establish a direct connection to the Instagram servers.As a result, Instagram receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website and you have clicked the button.This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Instagram server in the USA and saved there.If you are logged into Instagram, Instagram can directly allocate the information to your Instagram account.If you want to prevent Instagram from assigning the data gathered about our website directly to your Instagram account, please log out before using the Instagram button on Instagram.

For more information about the processing of your data by Instagram, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy see the Instagram Privacy Notice as: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

d) Google+

We use plug-ins of the social network Google+ (Google Plus) from Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 USA (“Google”) on our website.Google is certified for the Privacy Shield (EU U.S. Data Protection Convention) that provides a guarantee of compliance with European data protection legislation.

With the Shariff solution, buttons are shown according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when calling our webpages with the buttons shown no connection from your browser with Google is made.A script retrieves how many times, for example, a page has already been shared.It contacts the Google programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers.Therefore, only the server address is transmitted to Google (not your IP address).Only when you actively press the Google button, e.g. to share content, a direct connection between your browser and the Google server is established.As a result, Google is given information that you have visited our website with your IP address.To use the Google button, you need a Google profile.If you click on the Google button while logged in to Google+, Google records browser-related information about your Google profile, e.g. the URL you recommended and your IP address.Your referrals may appear as hints along with your profile name and, if applicable, your photo in Google services (e.g., in search results) and advertisements on the Internet.In addition, the information provided by you is used by Google to optimise the Google services.Google may publish summarised statistics about the +1 activities of the users or pass these on to customers.If you want to prevent Google from assigning the data collected on our website directly to your Google account, please log out from Google before using the Google button.

For more information about the processing of your data by Google and your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy:

https://developers.google.com/+/web/policies

e) Pinterest

We have integrated plug-ins from the social network Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, on our website.

With the Shariff solution, buttons are shown according to the respective social plug-ins, with the difference that when calling our webpages with the buttons shown no connection from your browser with Pinterest is made.A script retrieves how many times, for example, a page has already been shared.It contacts Pinterest through the service 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, will a direct connection be established between your browser and the Pinterest server.As a result Pinterest receives the information that you have visited our site.This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Pinterest server in the USA and saved there.If you are logged into Pinterest, Pinterest can directly allocate the visit to our website to your Pinterest account.If you want to prevent Pinterest from assigning the data collected on our website directly to your Pinterest account, please log out before using the Pinterest button at Pinterest.

For more information about the processing of your data by Pinterest, as well as your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, see the Pinterest’s Privacy Notice: https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy

f) YouTube

Plug-ins (videos) from YouTube (YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA) are integrated on our website.YouTube is a Google LLC company, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.This integration serves the optimisation of our offer by audio-visual presentations, with the aim of making our website more customer-friendly and more informative.This intended purpose is an overriding legitimate interest in the context of a balance of interests.The processing of your data in this regard is therefore carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit f) GDPR.

Google is certified for the Privacy Shield (EU U.S. Data Protection Convention) that provides a guarantee of compliance with European data protection legislation.

Our website has the YouTube plug-ins (videos) with advanced privacy settings enabled.Cookies are only set by clicking on a YouTube plug-in when a connection to the YouTube servers is created and the contents of the plug-in are displayed.Data is collected and transmitted, e.g. which of our web pages were accessed.However, when you visit websites that include a YouTube video, they connect to the DoubleClick Google Network.If you're logged in to your YouTube account and / or Google Account when you watch a YouTube video, or if you visit a website that includes a YouTube video, YouTube or Google can associate that information with your account.To prevent this association, you must log out of your YouTube and / or Google Account before activating a YouTube video or viewing such an embedded YouTube video webpage.

You can find more information about data processing and data protection information by YouTube or Google here:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=de

g) AddThis

We use “AddThis”, a service from Clearspring Technologies Inc., 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210, USA ("AddThis") on our website.

With the Shariff solution, buttons are shown according to the respective plug-ins, with the difference that when calling our webpages with the buttons shown no connection from your browser with AddThis is made.A script retrieves how many times, for example, a page has already been shared.It contacts AddThis through the service programming interfaces (APIs) and retrieves the numbers.For this reason, only the server address is transferred to AddThis (not your IP address).A direct connection between your browser and the AddThis server is made only after you have activated the AddThis button, e.g. to share content.This gives AddThis the information that you have called up the corresponding website of our website and pressed the button.This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a server of AddThis in the USA and saved there.AddThis uses this information to create anonymised user profiles for the purpose of personalised and interest-based advertising of visitors to websites using AddThis plug-ins.Furthermore, AddThis sets cookies (see Note 6). This allows the user behaviour on our website to be analysed.

You can prevent the collection of data from AddThis by setting an opt-out cookie that you can download under the following link:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=de

For more information about AddThis' processing of your data, as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy, see the AddThis Privacy Notice:

http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

12) Matomo