General information
Definitions of the terms used (e.g. “personal data” or “processing”) can be found in Art. 4 GDPR.
Thank you for your interest in our website. This
privacy policy is intended to inform users of this website about the type,
scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data
by us.
The protection of your privacy is very important to us.
It goes without saying that we treat your personal data
confidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions. Below
we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.
Last updated on: 31.10.2018.
Access data and hosting
You can visit our website without providing any personal data at
. Each time a website is accessed, the web server
merely automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name
of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of access,
source page, amount of data transferred and the requesting provider
(access data) and documents the access.
This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring the trouble-free operation of
and improving our
website. This serves to safeguard
our legitimate
interests in the correct presentation of our information and
our offer, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than four weeks after
the end of your visit to the site.
Data may also be stored for
security reasons, e.g. to investigate cases of misuse.
If data must be retained for evidentiary reasons, it is exempt from deletion until the incident has been finally clarified.
Data collection and use for contract processing and when opening a customer account
We collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us in the context of
your order, when contacting us (e.g. via
contact form or email) or when opening a customer account
. Mandatory fields are marked as such, as
in these cases we need the data to process the contract or
to process your contact or 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 provided by you to process the contract and your inquiries. 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,
unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data
or we reserve the right to use
data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we
inform you in this declaration. Deletion 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 the
function provided for this purpose in the customer account.
Data transfer
In order to fulfill the contract, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery
and to our group companies
, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods or for the processing
of inquiries. Depending on which
payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we will 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 selected payment service for
the processing of payments.
In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves
if you create an account there. In this case, you must
log in to the
payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the
privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.
E-mail advertising with newsletter registration
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required by
or provided separately by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter
on the basis of your consent
.
Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either at
by sending a message to the contact option described below or at
via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After you unsubscribe from
, we will delete your email address unless you have expressly consented to
to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use
data beyond this, which is permitted by law
and about which we inform you in this declaration.
The newsletter is sent as part of processing on our behalf
by a service provider to whom we pass on your email address
for this purpose.
This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
Postal advertising and your right to object
In addition, we reserve the right to use your first and last name and
your postal address for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to send
interesting offers and information about our products by
letter post. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a
balancing of interests, in an
advertising approach to our customers.
The advertising mailings are provided by a service provider as part of processing on our behalf
, to whom we pass on your data for this purpose
.
You can object to the storage and use of your data for these purposes
at any time by sending a message to the
contact option described below.
Cookies
In order to make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of
certain functions, to display suitable products
or for market research purposes, we use so-called cookies on various pages of
. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an
optimized presentation of our offer, which predominate in the context of a
balancing of interests. Cookies are small
text files that are automatically stored on your end device.
Some of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the
browser session, i.e. after you close your browser
(so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device
and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit
(persistent cookies). The duration of storage can be found in the
overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You
can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies
and decide individually about their acceptance or 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.
These can be found 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=de&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 cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.
Web analysis
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC
(www.google.de), for website analysis.
This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in an optimized presentation
of our offer as part of a balancing of interests
. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable
to analyze your use of the website, such as
cookies. The automatically collected information about your
use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server
in the USA and stored there. By activating
IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before
transmission 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
anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics
is not merged with other data from
Google.
Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under
the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here
. On the basis of this agreement between the USA and the European
Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for
companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your
use of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: .
your IP address) to Google
and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing
the browser plug-in available at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click on
this link
to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future
. An opt-out cookie will be placed on your computer. This will place an opt-out cookie on your device.
If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.
Google Fonts
We use Google Fonts from Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre
Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on our website. The
use of Google Fonts takes place without authentication and no cookies are sent to the Google Fonts API
. If you have an account
with Google, none of your Google account data will be transmitted to Google during
the use of Google Fonts. Google only records the
use of CSS and the fonts used and stores this data
securely. You can find out more about these and other questions at
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq.
You can find out what data is collected by Google and what this data is used for at
https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Contact details
If you contact us as the website operator via the
contact options offered, your details will be stored,
so that they can be used to process and respond to your inquiry
. This data
will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.
Your rights
You have a right to free information about the data we have stored about you at
and, if applicable, a right to rectification,
restriction of processing, data portability or erasure
of this data.
If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your
personal data, for information, correction, blocking or
deletion of data as well as revocation of consents granted or
objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly at
using the contact details provided.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority (DPA).
Right of objection
Insofar as we process personal data as explained above
in order to safeguard our legitimate interests, which are overriding in the context of a balancing of interests
, you can object to this processing with effect for
the future. If the processing is carried out for the purposes of
direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above
. Where processing is carried out for other purposes,
you have the right to object only on grounds relating to
your particular situation.
After exercising your right to object in whole or in part,
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 establishment, exercise or
defense of legal claims
This does not apply if the processing is carried out for the purposes of direct marketing
. We will then no longer process your personal data for
this purpose.
Person responsible
The controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) GDPR is PBS Austria GmbH, Vogelweiderstraße 37, 4600 Wels, Austria.
To contact us please see our imprint:
https://www.pbs-austria.at/service/impressum/
