Privacy Policy

We use your personal data in the way described in this Privacy Policy in order to make our services available, to respond to your enquiries, and to the extent it is legally permissible or required or to assist in legal or criminal investigations. Furthermore, we may anonymize and aggregate data collected via this website for statistical purposes to expand our product portfolio and improve our services.

We may store your personal data or otherwise pass it on to our affiliates or further trustworthy business partners, who perform services in our name, for example, for technical support to evaluate the usefulness of this website for marketing purposes or other types of service provision. We have concluded contracts with these parties to ensure that personal data is processed in accordance with applicable data protection laws, on the basis of our instructions, in compliance with this Privacy Policy, and other suitable measures regarding confidentiality and security.

We may pass on your personal data to these parties and other third parties exclusively to the required extent in order to render the services that you have requested or authorized and to protect your and our rights, property or security or, if we are obligated to do so based on applicable laws, orders by courts or other authorities, or if this disclosure is required in order to assist in legal or criminal investigations or court proceedings.

Please note that the company as well as authorities, customers and suppliers to whom we may pass on your personal data, may be domiciled outside of your home country, and potentially also in countries with data protection laws that may differ from those applicable in the country where you are domiciled. In such cases, we will ensure that suitable measures for the protection of your personal data are taken by introducing suitable legal mechanisms, e.g. EU standard contractual clauses.

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, purchase products, enter a contest or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

• To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.

The personal data of the data subjects will be erased or blocked as soon as the purpose for storage it ceases to apply. Data may also be stored beyond this point in time if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in directives, laws and other regulations under EU law, which apply to the data controller. The data will also be blocked or erased when a storage period expires that is prescribed by said standards, unless there is a necessity for the continued storage of the data for a contract conclusion or contract fulfillment.

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

f we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on August 6, 2015.