Privacy policy

 

Privacy policy

The controller responsible for data processing is:
Michael Thot
Widdersdorf 36
84079 Bruckberg

Email: thot.kfzteile@gmail.com

We are pleased about your interest in our online shop. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we inform you in detail about how we handle your data.

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time a web page is accessed, the web server automatically stores only a so-called server log file containing, e.g., the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of the request, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data), and documenting the request. This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offering. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, in the correct presentation of our offering pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

 Hosting

The hosting and website display services are provided in part by our service providers as processing carried out on our behalf. Unless otherwise explained in this privacy policy, all access data and all data collected in forms provided for this purpose on this website are processed on their servers. If you have questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please use the contact option described in this privacy policy.

Our service providers are based in and/or use servers in the following countries, for which the European Commission has determined by decision that an adequate level of data protection exists: United Kingdom, Canada, USA.

There is a decision of the European Commission on an adequate level of data protection for the USA as the basis for a third-country transfer, insofar as the respective service provider is certified. Until our service providers are certified, the data transfer continues to rely on this basis: Standard data protection clauses of the European Commission

Our service providers are based in and/or use servers in these countries: Australia.
There is no adequacy decision of the European Commission for these countries. Our cooperation with them relies on these safeguards: Standard data protection clauses of the European Commission.  

2. Data processing for contract performance and for contacting you

2.1 Data processing for contract performance

For the purpose of contract performance (incl. inquiries about and handling of any existing statutory warranty and breach-of-contract claims as well as any statutory updating obligations) pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, we collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order. Mandatory fields are marked as such, since in these cases we absolutely need the data for contract performance and cannot ship the order without it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms.

Further information on the processing of your data, in particular on the disclosure to our service providers for the purpose of order, payment and shipping processing, can be found in the following sections of this privacy policy. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after expiry of the tax and commercial law retention periods pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

2.2 Customer account

Insofar as you have given your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR by opting to open a customer account, we use your data for the purpose of opening the customer account and for storing your data for future orders on our website. You can delete your customer account at any time, either by sending a message to the contact option described in this privacy policy or via a function provided for this purpose in the customer account. After your customer account is deleted, your data will be deleted, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

2.3 Contacting us

As part of customer communication, we collect personal data to process your inquiries pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b GDPR if you voluntarily provide it to us when contacting us (e.g. via contact form, live chat tool or e-mail). Mandatory fields are marked as such, since in these cases we absolutely need the data to process your contact request. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. After your inquiry has been fully processed, your data will be deleted, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

3. Data processing for the purpose of shipping processing

For contract performance pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b GDPR, we pass your data on to the shipping service provider commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. If you have questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please use the contact option described in this privacy policy.

4. Data processing for payment processing

When processing payments in our online shop, we work with these partners: technical service providers, credit institutions, payment service providers.

4.1 Data processing for transaction processing

Depending on the payment method selected, we pass on the data necessary for processing the payment transaction to our technical service providers who act for us as processors, or to the commissioned credit institutions or to the selected payment service provider, insofar as this is necessary for processing the payment. This serves contract performance pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. In some cases, the payment service providers collect the data required for processing the payment themselves, e.g. on their own website or via a technical integration in the order process. In this respect, the privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies.
If you have questions about our partners for payment processing and the basis of our cooperation with them, please use the contact option described in this privacy policy.

4.2 Data processing for the purpose of fraud prevention and optimizing our payment processes

Where applicable, we provide our service providers with further data, which they use, together with the data necessary for processing the payment, as our processors for the purpose of fraud prevention and optimizing our payment processes (e.g. invoicing, handling of disputed payments, accounting support). Pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, in protecting ourselves against fraud and/or in efficient payment management.

5. Advertising by e-mail

 E-mail newsletter with registration

If you sign up for our newsletter, we use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to send you our e-mail newsletter on a regular basis based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we delete your e-mail address from the recipient list, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

6. Cookies and other technologies

 General information

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use technologies, including so-called cookies, on various pages. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again after 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 on your next visit (persistent cookies).

Protection of privacy on end devices
When you use our online offering, we use technologies that are strictly necessary in order to provide the telemedia service you have expressly requested. The storage of information in your end device or access to information already stored in your end device does not require consent in this respect.

For functions that are not strictly necessary, the storage of information in your end device or access to information already stored in your end device requires your consent. Please note that if you do not give consent, parts of the website may not be fully usable. Any consents you have given remain valid until you adjust or reset the respective settings in your end device.

Any downstream data processing by cookies and other technologies

We use technologies that are absolutely necessary for using certain functions of our website (e.g. shopping cart function). These technologies collect and process the IP address, time of the visit, device and browser information, and information about your use of our website (e.g. information about the contents of the shopping cart). This serves, in the context of a balancing of interests, prevailing legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offering pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

In addition, we use technologies to fulfill the legal obligations to which we are subject (e.g. to be able to prove consents to the processing of your personal data) as well as for web analytics and online marketing. Further information on this, including the respective legal basis for data processing, can be found in the following sections of this privacy policy.

Cookie settings

You can find the cookie settings for your browser at the following links: Microsoft Edge™ / Safari™ / Chrome™ / Firefox™ / Opera™

Insofar as you have consented to the use of the technologies pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, you can withdraw your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact option described in the privacy policy.

7. Use of cookies and other technologies

On our website, we use the following cookies and other technologies from third-party providers. Unless stated otherwise for the individual technologies, this is done on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Once the purpose has ceased and we have stopped using the respective technology, the data collected in this connection will be deleted. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. Further information on your options for withdrawal can be found in the section “Cookies and other technologies”. Further information, including the basis of our cooperation with the individual providers, can be found under the individual technologies. If you have questions about the providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please use the contact option described in this privacy policy.

 Use of Google services

We use the technologies described below of Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). The information automatically collected by the Google technologies about your use of our website is generally transferred to a server of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, and stored there. Unless stated otherwise for the individual technologies, the data processing is based on an agreement between joint controllers pursuant to Art. 26 GDPR concluded for the respective technology. Further information on data processing by Google can be found in the Google privacy notices.

Our service providers are based in and/or use servers in countries outside the EU and the EEA for which the European Commission has determined by decision that an adequate level of data protection exists.

Our service providers are based in and/or use servers in countries outside the EU and the EEA. There is no adequacy decision of the European Commission for these countries. Our cooperation with them relies on standard data protection clauses of the European Commission. 

 Google Analytics

For the purpose of website analysis, Google Analytics automatically collects and stores data (IP address, time of the visit, device and browser information, and information about your use of our website), from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. Cookies may be used for this purpose. If you visit our website from the EU, your IP address is stored on a server located in the EU to derive location data and then immediately deleted before the traffic is forwarded to other Google servers for processing. The data processing is based on a data processing agreement with Google.

For the purpose of optimized marketing of our website, we have the data sharing settings for “Google products and services” activated. This allows Google to access the data collected and processed by Google Analytics and subsequently use it to improve Google services. The data sharing with Google under these data sharing settings is based on an additional agreement between controllers. We have no influence on the subsequent data processing by Google.

For the purpose of optimized marketing of our website, we use the so-called User ID function. Using this function, we can assign a unique, permanent ID to your interaction data from one or more sessions on our online presences and thus analyze your user behavior across devices and sessions.

If you give us no consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR to the use of Google Analytics, no cookies will be stored on or read from your device. The data processing described in the previous paragraphs does not take place. To close gaps in web analytics through behavioral and conversion modeling, pings with data (user agent, information about your consent behavior, screen resolution, IP address) are sent to Google. 

 Google Ads

For website analysis and event tracking, we use the Google Ads Conversion Tracking to measure your subsequent usage behavior if you reached our website via an ad from Google Ads. For this purpose, cookies may be used and data (IP address, time of the visit, device and browser information, and information about your use of our website based on events specified by us, such as visiting a web page or signing up for the newsletter) may be recorded, from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms.

8. Social media

 Social buttons from Facebook (by Meta)

Social buttons from social networks are used on our website. They are integrated into the page merely as HTML links, so that no connection to the servers of the respective provider is established when our website is accessed. If you click one of the buttons, the website of the respective social network opens in a new window of your browser. There you can, e.g., click the Like or Share button.

9. Contact options and your rights

9.1 Your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

  • pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;
  • pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, the right to demand without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data or the completion of your personal data stored by us;
  • pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, the right to demand the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing is necessary
    • to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information;
    • to comply with a legal obligation;
    • for reasons of public interest or
    • for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
  • pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, the right to demand restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
    • you contest the accuracy of the data;
    • the processing is unlawful, but you refuse its erasure;
    • we no longer need the data, but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or
    • you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
  • pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to demand its transmission to another controller;
  • pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your habitual residence or place of work or of our registered office for this purpose.

Right to object

Insofar as we process personal data as explained above to safeguard our legitimate interests, which prevail 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 direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. Insofar as the processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have a right to object if there are grounds relating to your particular situation.

After you exercise your right to object, we will not process your personal data further for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. In that case, we will not process your personal data further for this purpose.

9.2 Contact options

If you have questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, about information, rectification, restriction or erasure of data, or about withdrawal of consents given or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice (Impressum).