Data Protection and Privacy Information

Name and contact details of the person responsible

Thank you for being so interested in our online shop. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

Responsible within the meaning of Art. 13 para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO

strictly selective GmbH
Street address:
Strandallee 89
23669 Timmendorfer Strand

Email: mjanke@strictly-selective.com

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without giving any personal information. Each time a web page is called up, the web server merely automatically stores a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of retrieval, transferred data volume and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the retrieval.

These access data are evaluated exclusively to ensure a trouble-free operation of the site and improve our offer. By Article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. F DSGVO is the preservation of our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a weighing up of interests in a correct presentation of our offer. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your page visit.

Hosting services by a third-party

A third-party provider provides the services for hosting and displaying the website within the processing framework on our behalf. This safeguards our legitimate interests, which are predominantly justified in weighing up our interests to present our offer correctly. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in designated forms in the online shop as described below will be processed on its servers. Processing on other servers takes place only in the frame explained here.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area. The service provider we use as a webhost is Timme Hosting GmbH & Co. KG Ovelgönner Weg 43 21335 Lüneburg, Germany.

2. Data collection and use for contract processing and when opening a customer account

We collect personal data if you voluntarily provide us with this information as part of your order, when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail) or when opening a customer account. Obligatory fields are marked as such since, in these cases, we need the data for contract execution to process your contact or open the customer account. You can not complete the order and/or open the account without their information or cannot send the contact. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data communicated by you in Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO for contract handling and processing of your inquiries. After completion of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the expiry of the tax and commercial retention periods unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to other data use, this is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this statement. Deleting your customer account is possible at any time. It can be done by a message to the contact option described below or via a designated function in the customer account. Unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data, or we reserve the right to use the data beyond that permitted by law and which we inform you in this statement.

3. Data transfer

Transfer of data to payment providers

For fulfilment of the contract under Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO, we pass on your data to the shipping company responsible for the delivery, as far as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the order process, we will forward payment data collected to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and any payment service providers authorised by us to process the payments or to the selected payment service. In part, the selected payment service providers also collect this data, provided you create an account there. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during ordering. In this respect, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.

Data collection and processing for payments via PayPal

When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or – if offered – “purchase on account” or “instalment payment” via PayPal, we pass your payment details on to PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”). The transfer takes place by Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and only to the extent necessary for payment processing.

PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or – if offered – “purchase on account” or “instalment payment” via PayPal. For this purpose, your payment details may be processed by Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO passed on to credit agencies based on PayPal’s legitimate interest in determining your solvency. PayPal uses the result of the credit check about the statistical probability of default to decide on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report can contain probability values ​​(so-called score values). As far as score values ​​are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data is used, among other things, but not exclusively, to calculate the score values. For more information on data protection law, including information on the credit agencies used, please refer to PayPal’s privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, if this is necessary for the contractual payment processing, PayPal may still be authorized to process your data.

The transfer takes place under Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and only to the extent necessary for payment processing. For more information on data protection law, please refer to PayPal’s data protection declaration:

https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Transfer of data to the shipping service provider

If you have given us your explicit consent during or after your order, we will provide your consent under Article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO forward your e-mail address and telephone number to the selected shipping service provider so they can contact you before delivery for delivery notification or reconciliation. The consent can be withdrawn anytime by sending a message to the contact option described below or directly to the shipping service provider at the contact address listed below. After a revocation, we will delete your data provided for this purpose unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further data use, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.

DHL Paket GmbH, Sträßchensweg, 1053113 Bonn

or

DHL Express Germany GmbH, Heinrich Brüning-Str. 5, 53113 Bonn

4. E-mail Newsletter

E-mail advertising with registration for the newsletter

If you register for our newsletter, we use the data required for this or separately provided by you to regularly send you our email newsletter based on your consent by Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time either by sending a message to the contact option described below or by using the link provided in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address from the recipient list unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data beyond that, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

E-mail advertising without registering for the newsletter and your right to object

If we receive your email address concerning the sale of a product or service and you have not objected to it, we reserve the right to regularly offer you products similar to those already purchased based on Section 7 (3) UWG to be sent from our range by email. This protects our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of balancing interests, in addressing our customers in advertising. You can object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided in the advertising email without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.

The newsletter is sent as part of a processing on our behalf by the service provider to whom we pass on your email address. This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area. The provider is Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin, Germany.

5. Cookies and web analytics

To make the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This safeguards our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a weighing up of interests, to optimize the presentation of our offer by article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, ie after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device, allowing us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). The duration of the 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 individually decide on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific 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 to change your cookie settings. These can be found for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer ™: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookiesSafari ™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_USChrome ™: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=en&answer=95647Firefox ™ https://support.mozilla.org/en/kb/cookies-allow-and-disposeOpera ™: https://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.htmlBy not accepting cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analytics

For website analysis, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (www.google.com). This safeguards our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a weighing up of interests, to optimize the presentation of our offer by article 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that allow you to analyze the 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 will be shortened before transmission within the European Union member states or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened only in exceptional cases. The anonymized IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will generally not be merged with other data provided by Google. After the purpose and end of using Google Analytics by us, the data collected in this context will be deleted. The anonymized IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will generally not be merged with other data provided by Google.

Google LLC is headquartered in the US and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Under the agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an appropriate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield. You can prevent the collection of the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website from Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=deAlternatively to the browser plugin you can use this link to prevent Google Analytics tracking on this site in the future. An opt-out cookie is stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.

6. Online Marketing

Google Ads remarketing

We use Google Ads to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, the so-called remarketing cookie from Google is set when you visit our website, which automatically enables interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous CookieID and based on the pages you visit. This safeguards our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our website, which predominate in the context of a balance of interests, by Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO. After we have ceased to use Google Ads Remarketing and have ended its use, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any further data processing will only take place if you have agreed with Google that Google will link your web and app browser history to your Google account, and information from your Google account will be used to personalize the advertisements that you place on the web see. If you are logged in to Google in this case, while visiting our website, Google uses your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing. To do this, Google temporarily links your personal data to Google Analytics data in order to form target groups.

Google Ads is an offer from Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de).

Insofar as information is transferred to Google servers in the USA and stored there, the American company Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. Due to this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an appropriate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can deactivate the remarketing cookie via this link. You can also find out about the setting of cookies from the Digital Advertising Alliance and make settings for this.

7. Social media

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers on their pages as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the providers’ data protection information:

Our online presence on Facebook and Instagram

Our presence on social networks and platforms enables better, active communication with our customers and prospects. We provide information about our products and ongoing special promotions.

When you visit our online presence in social media, your data can be automatically collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes. So-called usage profiles are created from this data using pseudonyms. These can be used to e.g. Place advertisements inside and outside of the platforms that presumably correspond to your interests. For this purpose, cookies are generally used on your end device. The visitor behaviour and the users’ interests are stored in these cookies. According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balance of interests, in an optimized presentation of our offer and effective communication with customers and interested parties. If you are asked for your consent (consent) to data processing by the respective social media platform operators, e.g. with the help of a checkbox, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. As far as the aforementioned social media platforms are headquartered in the USA, the following applies: For the USA, the European Commission has passed an adequacy decision. This goes back to the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate for the respective company can be viewed here. Detailed information on the processing and use of the data by the providers on their pages as well as a contact option and your rights and settings options to protect your privacy, in particular options for objection (opt-out), can be found in the privacy policy of the providers linked below. If you still need help with this, you can contact us.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

The data processing is based on an agreement between jointly responsible persons by Art. 26 DSGVO, which you can see here. Further information on data processing when visiting a Facebook fan page (information on Insights data) can be found here.

Google / YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Opposition option (opt-out):

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads

Google / YouTube: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=de

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

8. Contact options and your right

As a victim, you have the following rights:

according to article 15 DSGVO, the right to demand information on the personal data processed by us in the scope specified therein;
By article 16 DSGVO the right to demand without delay the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored with us;
by article 17 DSGVO, the right to request the deletion of your data stored with us, as far as the further processing- to the exercise of the right to free speech and information;- to fulfil a legal obligation;- is necessary for reasons of public interest or- to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
according to article 18 DSGVO the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your data, as far as- the accuracy of the data is disputed by you;- the processing is unlawful, but you reject its deletion;- we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or- you have objected to the processing per article 21 DSGVO;
according to article 20 DSGVO the right to receive your data, which you have provided us, in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another person responsible;
according to article 77 DSGVO the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual residence, work, or our company headquarters.
For questions about the collection, processing or use of your data, information, correction, blocking or deletion of data and revocation of granted consent or objection to a particular use of data, please contact us directly via the contact details in our imprint.

Right of withdrawal

The extent we use to protect our predominant part of a balancing of interests legitimate interests of personal data as explained above, you can object to the processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time, as described above. Insofar as the processing takes place for other purposes, you are only entitled to a right of objection if reasons arise from your particular situation.

After exercising your right to object, we will not further process your personal data for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing of the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims serves.This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. Then we will not process your personal data for this purpose.