Privacy at a glance

1. General information

The following information provides an overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. For complete information concerning data protection, please refer to our Privacy Statement following this text.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

On the one hand, your data is collected by you providing it to us. This can be, for example, data that you enter in a contact form.

How do we collect your data?

Your data are collected when you communicate them to us. Such data can, for example, be data that you enter into a contact form.

Our IT systems record other data automatically during the visit to the website. Those are mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or the time of day when the page was accessed). They are collected automatically as soon as you access our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data are collected to ensure error-free website provision. Other data can be used to analyze your usage activity.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You are entitled at all times to receive free-of-charge information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. Furthermore, you are entitled to demand the rectification, blocking or deletion of those data. For further information about this or any other data protection-related questions, please feel free to contact us at any time under the address listed in the legal notice. Moreover, you are entitled to file a complaint with the responsible regulatory authorities.

Analytical tools and tools of third-party providers

When visiting our website, your surfing activity can be statistically evaluated. This is done mainly by means of cookies and with so-called analysis programs. As a rule, your surfing activity is analyzed anonymously; that surfing activity cannot be traced back to you. You can refuse that analysis or prevent it by disabling the use of certain tools. For more detailed information about this, please refer to the Privacy Statement below.

You can refuse that analysis. This Privacy Statement informs you about the refusal options.

2. General notes and mandatory information

Privacy

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in compliance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Statement.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. The present Privacy Statement explains which data we collect and what we use them for. It also explains how this happens and for what purpose.

Note that security gaps can occur in connection with the transmission of data in the internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail). Seamless protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information about the responsible body

The responsible body for data processing on this website is:

Praum & Sommer GmbH
Rudolf-Diesel-Str. 5
61267 Neu-Anspach

Tel: 0049 – (0)6081 – 58288 – 50
Fax: 0049 – (0)6081 – 58288 – 69
eMail: info@praum-sommer.de

Contact: Denis Bergmann and Helge Reinhardt

Responsible body is the natural or legal person who, alone or together with others, decides about the purpose and means of processing the personal data (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing procedures are impossible without your explicit consent. You can revoke a previously granted consent at any time. An informal notification to us by e-mail suffices for this purpose. The legality of the data processing performed prior to revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to file complaints with the responsible regulatory authorities

In case of violation of data protection laws, the person affected is entitled to file a complaint with the responsible regulatory authorities. The responsible regulatory agency for data protection matters is the State Data Protection Officer of the German Federal State in which the company has its registered office. For a list of Data Protection Officers and their contact data, please refer to the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

With regard to the data that we automatically process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, you are entitled to have such data provided to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you demand the direct transmission of the data to another responsible party, this will be carried out only insofar is technically feasible.

SSL / TLS encryption

For reasons of security and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or queries that you send to us as the website operators, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the change in the address bar of your browser from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Encrypted payment transactions on this website

If, upon conclusion of a chargeable contract, there is an obligation to transmit your payment data to us (e.g. account number in the case of a collection authority), those data are needed in order to process the payment.

Payment transactions using standard payment systems (Visa/MasterCard, direct debit) are handled exclusively via an encrypted SSL or TLS connection. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the change in the address bar of your browser from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser bar.

With encrypted communication, your payment data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you are entitled at all times to free-of-charge information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing. You are also entitled to, if necessary, rectify, block or delete those data. For further information about this or any other personal data-related questions, please feel free to contact us at any time under the address listed in the legal notice.

Objection to advertising e-mails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published in the context of the mandatory legal notice for the purposes of sending advertising and information materials that have not been explicitly requested. The website operators explicitly reserve the right to take legal action in case of unsolicited transmission of advertising information, by spam e-mails for example.

3. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some of the internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and contain not viruses. Cookies serve to make our presentation more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files which are added to your computer and stored in your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. Those cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit the website.

You can set your browser to inform you whenever cookies are received and to accept cookies only on a case by case basis or to reject cookies in specific cases or in general, and also to delete cookies automatically whenever you close your browser. The deactivation of cookies can limit the functionality of this website.

Cookies required in order to execute electronic communication processes or provide certain functions that you request (e.g. Shopping Basket function) are stored on the basis of art. 6, para. 1, letter f of the German General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). The website operator has a justifiable interest in cookie storage to ensure the technically error-free and optimized provision of his services. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your surfing activities) are stored, they are treated separately in this Privacy Statement.

Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. That information comprises:

Browser type and version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer
Time of day of server request
IP address

These data are not combined with other data sources.

The basis for the data processing is art. 6, para. 1, letter f of the German General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), which authorizes the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact form

When you submit requests to us using a contact form, we store your information from the request form – including the contact data you entered there – for the purposes of processing your request and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass those data along to others without your consent.

This means that the data entered into the contact form are processed only on the basis of your consent (DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter a). You can revoke that consent at any time. An informal notification to us by e-mail suffices for this purpose. The legality of the data processing procedures performed prior to revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data that you enter in the contact form will remain in our possession until you tell us to delete them or you revoke your consent to their storage or there is no longer any reason to store the data (e.g. once your request has been completely processed). Mandatory statutory regulations – in particular, records retention periods – remain unaffected.

You can register on our website to use additional functions on the site. Any registration data entered is used solely for the purpose of the respective offer or service for which you registered. All required information requested in connection with the registration process must be entered in full. Otherwise, we will reject the registration.

In case of important changes, such as changes in the scope of the offer or changes required for technical reasons, we use the e-mail address provided during registration, in order to inform you by that medium.

The data entered during registration are processed on the basis of your consent (DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter a). You can, at any time, revoke a consent that you have granted. An informal notification to us by e-mail suffices for this purpose. The legality of the previously performed data processing remains unaffected by the revocation.

We will store the data collected during registration as long as you remain registered on our website and we will delete them when you are no longer registered. Statutory records retention periods remain unaffected.

Registration on this website

The data entered during registration are processed on the basis of your consent (DSGVO Art. 6, Para. 1, Letter a). You can, at any time, revoke a consent that you have granted. An informal notification to us by e-mail suffices for this purpose. The legality of the previously performed data processing remains unaffected by the revocation.

Comment function on this website

Along with your comments, the comment function on this site also stores the date and time when the comment is created, your e-mail address and, if you do not post anonymously, the user name you selected.

Storage of the IP address

Our comment function stores the IP address of users who write comments. Because we do not check comments before publishing them on our site, we need those data, in order to be able to take legal action against the author in case of infringements such as libel or propaganda.

Subscribing to comments

As a user of the site, you can subscribe to comments once you have registered. You will receive a confirmation e-mail, in order to verify that you are owner of the email-address provided. You can use a link in the info e-mail to cancel this function at any time. In that case, the data entered in the context of subscribing to comments will be deleted; if you provided those data to us for other purposes and at other points (e.g. newsletter subscription), we will retain them, however.

Retention period of comments

The comments and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our website until the commented content has been completely deleted or until the comments must be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. libelous comments).

Legal basis

Your comments are stored on the basis of your consent (DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter a). You can, at any time, revoke a consent that you have granted. An informal notification to us by e-mail suffices for this purpose. The legality of previously completed data processing procedures remains unaffected by the revocation.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent required for the justification, content design or modification of the legal relationship (personal data). These operations are based on art. 6, para. 1, letter b of the German General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), which authorizes the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data regarding the utilization of our internet pages (usage data) only to the extent necessary to provide or bill the service to the user.

Any customer data collected will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Statutory records retention periods remain unaffected.

Data transmittal upon contract conclusion for online ships, dealers and dispatch of goods

We transmit personal data to third parties only when required in connection with the processing of the contract, such as to the company commissioned to deliver the goods or the credit institution tasked with payment processing. No further transmittal of the data occurs without your explicit authorization. Your data will not be passed along to any third parties without your explicit consent, such as for advertising purposes.

The basis for the data processing is art. 6, para. 1, letter b of the German General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), which authorizes the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

4. Social media

Facebook plugins (Like & Share button)

Our web pages use integrated plugins from the social network Facebook supplied by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button on our site. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our web pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This notifies Facebook that you visited our site using your IP address. When you click on the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged onto your Facebook account, you can link the content of our web pages to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to assign our website visit to your user account. Please note that as provider of the website, we receive no notification about the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. For further information, please refer to Facebook’s Privacy Statement under: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not wish to enable Facebook to assign our website visit to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

5. Analysis tools and advertising

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The supplier is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files which are stored on your computer and enable the analysis of your use of the website. As a rule, the information which the cookie generates concerning your use of this website is transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics cookies are stored on the basis of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter f. The website operator has a justified interest in analyzing user behavior, in order to optimize both its web offer and its advertising.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. As a result, before transmitting your IP address to the USA, Google truncates it within Member States of the European Union or in other States that are parties to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and truncated there. Under contract for the operator of this website, Google will use that information in order to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports on website activities, and in order to furnish additional services to the website operator in connection with the use of the website and with the use of the internet. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics will be combined with other data of Google.

Browser plugin

You can use the relevant setting in your browser software to prevent the storage of the cookies; be advised, however, that not all of the functions of this website can be used in their entirety in that case. Furthermore, in order to prevent Google from recording the cookie-generated data relative to your use of the website (including your IP address) and to prevent Google from processing those data, you can download and install the browser plug-in from the following link:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objection to data collection

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. It will set an opt-out cookie, which will prevent the collection of your data during future visits to this website: Deactivate Google Analytics.

For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, please refer to Google’s Privacy Statement: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Order data processing

We have concluded a contract with Google for order data processing and fully comply with the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities in the use of Google Analytics.

Demographics in Google Analytics

This website uses the “Demographics” function of Google Analytics. It can be used to generate reports providing information on the age, gender and interests of website visitors. These data come from Google’s interest-based advertising as well as third-party providers’ visitor data. These data cannot be attributed to specific individuals. You can deactivate this function at any time via the advertising settings in your Google account or prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics in general as indicated in the section “Objection to data collection”.

WordPress Stats

This website uses the WordPress tool Stats to statistically evaluate visitor access. The supplier is Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA.

WordPress Stats uses cookies, which are stored on your computer and enable the analysis of website use. The information about the use of our website that the cookies generate is stored on servers in the USA. Your IP address will be anonymized after processing and prior to storage.

“WordPress Stats” cookies remain on your end device until you delete them.

“WordPress Stats” cookies are stored on the basis of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter f. The website operator has a justified interest in the anonymized analysis of user behavior, in order to optimize both its web offer and its advertising.

To oppose the collection and use of your data in the future, click on this link to set an opt-out cookie in your browser: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/.

If you delete the cookies from your computer, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The supplier is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

reCAPTCHA is designed to verify whether input submitted to our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is entered by a person or by an automated program. To do so, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor according to various characteristics. That analysis begins automatically as soon as the visitor accesses the website. For analysis purposes, reCAPTCHA assesses various types of information (e.g. IP address, duration of website visit, or the user’s mouse movements). The data collected during the analysis are forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses operated entirely in the background. Website visitors are not notified that an analysis is taking place.

The data are processed on the basis of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter f. The website operator has a justified interest in protecting his web offering from improper automated surveillance and SPAM.

For further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s Privacy Statement, please refer to the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

6. Plugins and tools

YouTube

Our website uses plugins of the Google-operated site YouTube. The operator of the site is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our web pages that has a YouTube plugin, a connection is established with YouTube’s servers. This informs the YouTube server which of our pages you visited.

When you are logged in to your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing activity directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used for the purpose of making our online presentation more attractive. This represents a justified interest in the sense of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter f.

For further information about how user data are handled, please refer to YouTube’s Privacy Statement under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.

7. Payment services providers

Paypal

Our website facilitates the use of various payment services, including PayPal. The provider of this payment service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as “PayPal”).

When you select to pay by PayPal, the payment data you enter will be transmitted to PayPal.

Your data are transmitted to PayPal on the basis of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter a (consent) and DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter b (processing for the fulfillment of a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. Revocation has no effect on the validity of previously completed data processing procedures.

Klarna

Our website facilitates the use of various payment services, including those of Klarna. The provider is Klarna AB, Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter referred to as “Klarna”).

Klarna offers various payment options (e.g. installment plan / hire purchase). If you choose to pay with Klarna (Klarna Checkout solution), Klarna will collect various personal data from you. For details, please refer to Klarna’s Privacy Policy under the following link: https://www.klarna.com/uk/privacy-policy/.

Klarna uses cookies to optimize the use of the Klarna Checkout solution. The optimization of the Checkout solution represents a justified interest in the sense of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter f. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device and cause no damage. They remain on your end device until you delete them. For details concerning the use of Klarna cookies, please refer to the following link: https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/cookie/de_de/checkout.pdf.

Your data are transmitted to Klarna on the basis of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter a (consent) and DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter b (processing for the fulfillment of a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. Revocation has no effect on the validity of previously completed data processing procedures.

Sofortüberweisung immediate bank transfer

Our website facilitates the use of various payment services, including “Sofortüberweisung” immediate bank transfer. This payment service is provided by Sofort GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany (hereinafter referred to as “Sofort GmbH”).

Through the “Sofortüberweisung” process, we receive a real-time payment confirmation from Sofort GmbH and can start to fulfill our obligations without delay.

When you select “Sofortüberweisung” as your method of payment, you transmit the PIN and a valid TAN to Sofort GmbH, which enables you to log onto your online banking account. After login, Sofort GmbH automatically verifies your account balance and executes the bank transfer to us using the TAN you transmitted. Immediately thereafter, it sends us a transaction confirmation. After logging in, the system also automatically checks your account activity, overdraft credit line, and the existence of other accounts along with their balance.

Along with the PIN and TAN, the payment data you enter as well as personal data about you will be transmitted to Sofort GmbH. In this case, your personal data includes your first and last name, address, telephone number(s), e-mail address, IP address, and possibly other data required for processing the payment. The transmittal of these data is necessary in order to unequivocally determine your identity and prevent fraud.

Your data are transmitted to Sofort GmbH on the basis of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter a (consent) and DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter b (processing for the fulfillment of a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. Revocation has no effect on the validity of previously completed data processing procedures.

For details about payment with Sofortüberweisung, please refer to the following links: https://www.sofort.de/datenschutz.html and https://www.klarna.com/sofort/.

Google Web Fonts

To standardize the display of font types, this website uses so-called “web fonts” (Google Fonts) provided by Google. When accessing a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache, in order to display text and fonts correctly.

For that purpose, the browser you use must establish a connection with Google’s servers. In so doing, Google learns that our website was accessed from your IP address. Google Fonts are used for the purpose of making our online presentation more attractive. This represents a justified interest in the sense of DSGVO art. 6, para. 1, letter f.

If your browser does not support Google Fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

For further information about Google Fonts, please refer to: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.