data protection

Privacy and Cookie Policy

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. In the following we will inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

1. COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND USE
You can visit our website without having to provide any personal information. We only store access data for the analysis and improvement of our offers and do not allow any reference to your person.
Personal data is only recorded if you voluntarily provide it to us when opening a customer account or registering for our newsletter. This information is used exclusively to fulfill the contract and for advertising purposes.
All personal data is processed and used in accordance with Austrian law (§ 96 TKG and § 8 DSG).

2. DISTRIBUTION
Your personal data will only be passed on to the respective shipping company if this is necessary for the delivery of ordered products. As part of the payment process, we pass on the payment details you provide to the responsible bank (e.g. credit card details).

3. PRIVACY
Your personal data will be encrypted during the ordering process using "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) and transmitted over the Internet (with the exception of address transmission as part of newsletter subscriptions).
Credit card details are not stored, but are received and processed directly by our payment provider. We secure our website and systems against data loss, destruction, access or manipulation by unauthorized persons using technical and organizational measures. Access to your customer account is only possible after entering your personal password. Please always treat your access data confidentially and always close your browser window when you have finished communicating with us, especially if you are using a shared computer.

4. EMAIL MARKETING NOTICE
If you register for our newsletter separately, your e-mail address will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time via the "Unsubscribe" link at the end of each newsletter. If you have registered for our newsletter, we will regularly send you carefully selected offers for our products. Your email address will not be shared with other organizations.

5. USE OF COOKIES
We use cookies on various pages to increase the attractiveness of our website and to enable the use of certain functions. These cookies are simple text files that are stored on your computer. They help to recognize the surfing behavior of a user and thus enable parts of the website to align specific information to the interests of the user. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive after the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer on your next visit (so-called permanent cookies). These cookies remember information so you don't have to re-enter information on forms. Our partner organizations are not authorized to collect, process or use personal data through the use of cookies on our website.

i. Product recommendations from Google
This website uses Google Inc. technologies to collect and store anonymous information about the surfing behavior of our visitors for marketing purposes. This data is stored on your computer through the use of "cookie" text files. Under no circumstances can this data be used to personally identify a user of this website. The stored data will only be used to improve our offer. There is no further use or disclosure of this data to third parties.

ii. Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a website analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer to enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within 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 sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Acting under the authority of this website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

iii. Disabling cookies
You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. The "help function" of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether Possibility to use them some of our webshops
essential functions, we recommend leaving them switched on. For example, if you block or otherwise decline our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your shopping cart, checkout, or use services that require you to log in. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de