Privacy Policy

 

  1. Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

    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 is any data with which you can be personally identified.

    1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Jan Ritterbeck, Solid E.U., Johannes-Prassel-Str. 7, 50765 Cologne, Germany, Tel.: +49 174 1866306, Email: kontakt@thesolid.shop. The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

  2. Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

    2.1 When you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to the site server (so-called “server log files”). When you access 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/referrer from which you reached the site; browser used; operating system used; IP address used (where applicable, in anonymized form). Processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be disclosed or otherwise used. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.

    2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

  3. Hosting & Content Delivery Network

    Shopify

    For hosting our website and displaying the page content, we use the system of the following provider: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd Floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland (“Shopify”)

    Data is also transmitted to: Shopify Inc., 150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4, Canada

    All data collected on our website is processed on the provider’s servers. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

    In the case of a data transfer to Canada, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

  4. Cookies

    To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period and enable the saving of site settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage period in the overview of your web browser’s cookie settings.

    If personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for the performance of a contract, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in the case of consent given, or pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.

    You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to decide individually about their acceptance or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.

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

  5. Contacting Us

    5.1 WhatsApp Business

    You have the option to contact us via the WhatsApp messaging service of WhatsApp Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. For this purpose, we use the “business version” of WhatsApp.

    If you contact us via WhatsApp in connection with a specific transaction (for example, an order placed), we store and use the mobile phone number you use on WhatsApp and—if provided—your first and last name pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR to process and respond to your inquiry. On the same legal basis, we may ask you via WhatsApp to provide additional data (order number, customer number, address or email address) to assign your inquiry to a specific case.

    If you use our WhatsApp contact for general inquiries (e.g. about our range of services, availability or our website), we store and use the mobile phone number you use on WhatsApp and—if provided—your first and last name pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing the requested information efficiently and promptly.

    Your data will always be used solely to respond to your inquiry via WhatsApp. It will not be passed on to third parties.

    Please note that WhatsApp Business gains access to the address book of the mobile device we use for this purpose and automatically transfers stored phone numbers to a server of the parent company Meta Platforms Inc. in the USA. For operating our WhatsApp Business account, we use a mobile device whose address book contains only the WhatsApp contact details of users who have also contacted us via WhatsApp.

    This ensures that any person whose WhatsApp contact details are stored in our address book has already consented, when first using the app on their device, by accepting the WhatsApp Terms of Use, to the transmission of their WhatsApp phone number from the address books of their chat contacts pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. The transfer of data of users who do not use WhatsApp and/or have not contacted us via WhatsApp is thereby excluded.

    For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by WhatsApp, as well as your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy, please refer to WhatsApp’s privacy policy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/?eea=1#privacy-policy

    We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider which protects our website visitors’ data and prohibits disclosure to third parties.

    As part of the processing operations mentioned above, data may be transferred to servers of Meta Platforms Inc. in the USA.

    For data transfers to the USA, the provider participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

    5.2 When contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is processed—exclusively for the purpose of processing and responding to your request and only to the extent necessary.

    The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted when the circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

  6. Comment Function

    Within the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment, information about the time the comment was created and the commentator name chosen by you is stored and published on this website. Your IP address is also logged and stored. This storage of the IP address is for security reasons and in the event that the person concerned violates the rights of third parties by posting a comment or posts unlawful content. We require your email address in order to contact you if a third party objects to your published content as unlawful.

    The legal bases for storing your data are Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are objected to by third parties as unlawful.

  7. Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account

    Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed to the extent necessary if you provide it to us when opening a customer account. Which data is required for opening the account can be seen from the input mask of the respective form on our website.

    You can delete your customer account at any time by sending a message to the controller’s address mentioned above. After deletion of your customer account, your data will be deleted provided that all contracts concluded via it have been fully processed, there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary, and there is no legitimate interest on our part in continuing storage.

  8. Use of Customer Data for Direct Advertising

    8.1 Subscription to our email newsletter

    If you subscribe to our email newsletter, we will regularly send you 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. For sending the newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure, which ensures that you only receive newsletters after you have expressly confirmed your consent to receive newsletters by activating a verification link sent to the email address provided.

    By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. We store the IP address entered by your 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 time. The data collected by us during newsletter registration is used strictly for the intended purpose.

    You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter or by sending a corresponding message to the controller named at the beginning. After successful unsubscription, your email address will be immediately deleted from our newsletter distribution list, 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 policy.

    8.2 Sending the email newsletter to existing customers

    If you have provided us with your email address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to regularly send you offers for similar goods or services from our range by email. For this we do not need to obtain separate consent from you pursuant to Section 7(3) of the German Unfair Competition Act (UWG). Data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in personalized direct advertising pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If you initially objected to the use of your email address for this purpose, we will not send emails.

    You are entitled to object to the use of your email address for the aforementioned advertising purpose at any time with effect for the future by notifying the controller named at the beginning. For this purpose, you will only incur transmission costs according to the basic rates. After receiving your objection, the use of your email address for advertising purposes will be stopped immediately.

    8.3 Klaviyo

    The sending of our email newsletters is carried out via the following provider: Klaviyo, Inc., 125 Summer St., Ste 600, Boston, MA 02110, USA

    On the basis of our legitimate interest in effective and user-friendly newsletter marketing, we pass on the data you provided during newsletter registration to this provider pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR so that it can handle newsletter dispatch on our behalf.

    Subject to your express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the provider also performs statistical success analysis of newsletter campaigns using web beacons or tracking pixels in the emails sent, which can measure open rates and specific interactions with the newsletter content. In doing so, device information (e.g. time of access, IP address, browser type and operating system) is collected and evaluated, but not combined with other data sets.

    You can revoke your consent to newsletter tracking at any time with effect for the future.

    We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that protects our website visitors’ data and prohibits disclosure to third parties.

    For data transfers to the USA, the provider participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

    8.4 SMS Marketing

    On our website, you have the option to subscribe to SMS notifications about current offers, promotions, and information regarding orders placed.

    The mandatory information for sending SMS notifications is your mobile phone number. The provision of further data is voluntary and is used to address you personally.

    For sending SMS messages, the so-called double opt-in procedure is used, which ensures that promotional SMS messages are only sent to you after you have expressly confirmed your consent to receive SMS by activating a verification link sent to the mobile phone number provided.

    By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. When registering for SMS delivery, the date and time of registration are also stored in order to trace any possible misuse of your mobile phone number at a later date. The data collected during registration is used exclusively for the purpose of promotional contact by means of SMS messages.

    You can unsubscribe from SMS delivery at any time by sending a corresponding message to the controller named at the beginning and thus revoke your consent with effect for the future. After successful unsubscription, your mobile phone number will be immediately deleted from the distribution list, 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 policy.

  9. Data Processing for Order Handling

    9.1 Transmission of image files for order processing via email

    On our website, we offer customers the option to commission the personalization of products by transmitting image files via email. The submitted image motif is used as a template for personalizing the selected product.

    Using the email address provided on the website, the customer can transmit one or more image files from the storage of the device used to us. We collect, store, and use the files transmitted in this way exclusively for the production of the personalized product within the meaning of the respective service description on our website. If the transmitted image files are passed on to specialized service providers for the production and processing of the order, you will be explicitly informed in the following paragraphs. No further disclosure takes place. If the transmitted files or digital motifs contain personal data (in particular images of identifiable persons), all processing operations just mentioned are carried out exclusively for the purpose of processing your online order pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

    After final processing of the order, the transmitted image files are automatically and completely deleted.

    9.2 Transmission of image files for order processing via messaging function

    If the customer has the option to commission the personalization of products by transmitting image files via the messaging function, the submitted image motif is used as a template for personalizing the selected product.

    Via the available messaging function, the customer can transmit one or more image files from the storage of the device used to us. We collect, store, and use the files transmitted in this way exclusively for the production of the personalized product within the meaning of the respective description of our services.

    If the transmitted image files are passed on to specialized service providers for the production and processing of the order, you will be explicitly informed in the following paragraphs. No further disclosure takes place. If the transmitted files or digital motifs contain personal data (in particular images of identifiable persons), all processing operations just mentioned are carried out exclusively for the purpose of processing your online order pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

    After final processing of the order, the transmitted image files are automatically and completely deleted.

    9.3 Transmission of image files for order processing via upload function

    On our website, we offer customers the option to commission the personalization of products by transmitting image files via an upload function. The submitted image motif is used as a template for personalizing the selected product.

    Via the upload form on the website, the customer can transmit one or more image files from the storage of the device used directly to us by means of automated, encrypted data transmission. We collect, store, and use the files transmitted in this way exclusively for the production of the personalized product within the meaning of the respective service description on our website. If the transmitted image files are passed on to specialized service providers for the production and processing of the order, you will be explicitly informed in the following paragraphs. No further disclosure takes place. If the transmitted files or digital motifs contain personal data (in particular images of identifiable persons), all processing operations just mentioned are carried out exclusively for the purpose of processing your online order pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

    After final processing of the order, the transmitted image files are automatically and completely deleted.

    9.4 Insofar as necessary for contract performance for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data collected by us will be passed on to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned financial institution pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

    If, on the basis of a corresponding contract, we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products, we process the contact data you provided when placing the order to inform you personally within the scope of our statutory information obligations pursuant to Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Your contact details are used strictly for the purpose of notifications about updates owed by us and are processed by us only to the extent necessary for the respective information.

    For processing your order, we also work with the following service provider(s) who support us in whole or in part in the execution of concluded contracts. Certain personal data will be transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

    9.5 Disclosure of personal data to shipping service providers

    – DHL

    We use the following provider as a transport service provider: DHL Paket GmbH, Sträßchensweg 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany

    We pass on your email address and/or telephone number to the provider prior to delivery of the goods for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date or delivery notification pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, provided that you have given your express consent for this during the ordering process. Otherwise, for the purpose of delivery pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, we only pass on the recipient’s name and the delivery address to the provider. The data will only be passed on to the extent necessary for the delivery of the goods. In this case, prior coordination of the delivery date with the provider or the delivery notification is not possible.

    Consent may be revoked at any time with effect for the future vis-à-vis the controller named above or vis-à-vis the provider.

    9.6 Use of payment service providers (payment services)

    – Amazon Pay

    This website offers one or more online payment methods from the following provider: Amazon Payments Europe s.c.a., 38 avenue J.F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg

    If you select a payment method from the provider under which you make an advance payment (such as credit card payment), the payment data you provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be disclosed to the provider pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The disclosure of your data in this case is solely for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

    – Apple Pay

    If you choose the “Apple Pay” payment method of Apple Distribution International (Apple), Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland, payment is processed via the “Apple Pay” function of your device operating with iOS, watchOS or macOS by charging a payment card stored with Apple Pay. Apple Pay uses security features integrated into your device’s hardware and software to protect your transactions. To authorize a payment, you must therefore enter a code previously set by you and verify using the “Face ID” or “Touch ID” function of your device.

    For payment processing, the information you provided during the ordering process together with information about your order is transmitted to Apple in encrypted form. Apple then re-encrypts this data with a developer-specific key before the data is transmitted for payment execution to the payment service provider of the payment card stored in Apple Pay. Encryption ensures that only the website through which the purchase was made can access the payment data. After the payment is made, Apple sends your device account number and a transaction-specific, dynamic security code to the originating website to confirm payment success.

    Insofar as personal data is processed in the transmissions described, processing is carried out exclusively for the purpose of payment processing pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

    Apple stores anonymized transaction data, including approximate purchase amount, approximate date and time, and indication of whether the transaction was successfully completed. Due to anonymization, a personal reference is completely excluded. Apple uses the anonymized data to improve Apple Pay and other Apple products and services.

    If you use Apple Pay on the iPhone or Apple Watch to complete a purchase that you made via Safari on the Mac, the Mac and the authorization device communicate over an encrypted channel on Apple’s servers. Apple does not process or store any of this information in a form that can identify you. You can disable the possibility to use Apple Pay on your Mac in the settings of your iPhone. Go to “Wallet & Apple Pay” and disable “Allow Payments on Mac”.

    Further privacy information about Apple Pay can be found at: https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT203027

    – giropay

    This website offers one or more online payment methods from the following provider: paydirekt GmbH, Stephanstr. 14-16, 60313 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    If you select a payment method from the provider under which you make an advance payment (such as credit card payment), the payment data you provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be disclosed to the provider pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The disclosure of your data in this case is solely for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

    – PayPal

    This website offers one or more online payment methods from the following provider: PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg

    If you select a payment method from the provider under which you make an advance payment, the payment data you provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be disclosed to the provider pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The disclosure of your data in this case is solely for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

    If you select a payment method under which we make an advance performance, you will also be asked during the order process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, and if applicable data on an alternative means of payment).

    To safeguard our legitimate interest in determining your ability to pay, this data will be forwarded by us to the provider for the purpose of a credit check pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Based on the personal data you provide and other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experiences), the provider checks whether the payment option you have selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.

    The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of the score values.

    You may object to the processing of your data at any time by notifying us or the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

    – Stripe

    This website offers one or more online payment methods from the following provider: Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland

    If you select a payment method from the provider under which you make an advance payment (such as credit card payment), the payment data you provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be disclosed to the provider pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The disclosure of your data in this case is solely for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

    If you select a payment method under which the provider makes an advance performance (such as purchase on account, installment purchase or direct debit), you will also be asked during the order process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, and if applicable data on an alternative means of payment).

    To safeguard our legitimate interest in determining our customers’ ability to pay, this data will be forwarded by us to the provider for the purpose of a credit check pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Based on the personal data you provide and other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experiences), the provider checks whether the payment option you have selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.

    The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of the score values.

    You may object to the processing of your data at any time by notifying us or the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

    – VR Payment

    This website offers one or more online payment methods from the following provider: VR Payment GmbH, Saonestraße 3a, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    If you select a payment method from the provider under which you make an advance payment (such as credit card payment), the payment data you provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be disclosed to the provider pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The disclosure of your data in this case is solely for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

    If you select a payment method under which the provider makes an advance performance (such as purchase on account, installment purchase or direct debit), you will also be asked during the order process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, and if applicable data on an alternative means of payment).

    To safeguard our legitimate interest in determining our customers’ ability to pay, this data will be forwarded by us to the provider for the purpose of a credit check pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Based on the personal data you provide and other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experiences), the provider checks whether the payment option you have selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.

    The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of the score values.

    You may object to the processing of your data at any time by notifying us or the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

  10. Tools and Miscellaneous

    Cookie consent tool

    This website uses a so-called “cookie consent tool” to obtain valid user consents for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The “cookie consent tool” is displayed to users as an interactive user interface upon page access, where consents for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be granted by ticking checkboxes. In this context, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded when the respective user has given the corresponding consents by ticking the boxes. This ensures that such cookies are placed on the respective user’s device only in the event of consent given.

    The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not processed in this context.

    If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in lawful, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a lawful design of our online presence.

    Another legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. As controllers, we are legally obliged to make the use of non-technically necessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

    Where required, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

    Further information on the operator and the setting options of the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the respective user interface on our website.

  11. Rights of the Data Subject

    11.1 Applicable data protection law grants you the following rights against the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data (rights to information and intervention), whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the respective conditions for exercising these rights:

    Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR; right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR; right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR; right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR; right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR; right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR; right to withdraw consent given pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR; right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.

    11.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

    WHEN WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

    IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING IS RESERVED IF 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 DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

    IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

    IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

  12. Duration of Storage of Personal Data

    The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and—if applicable—additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax law retention periods).

    In the case of processing of personal data on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you revoke your consent.

    If there are statutory retention periods for data that is processed within the framework of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the performance of a contract or the initiation of a contract and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in further storage.

    In the case of processing of personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.

    In the case of processing of personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

    Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this policy regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

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