Privacy policy

Privacy policy

The controller responsible for data processing is:
Michael Thot
Bauhofstraße, 4
Taufkirchen Vils 84416

Email: thot.kfzteile@gmail.com

We are delighted that you are interested in our online shop. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information about how we handle your data.

1. Access data and hosting

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time a webpage is accessed, the web server automatically stores what is known as a server log file, which documents the access and contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data). This access data is evaluated solely to ensure smooth operation of the site and to improve our offering. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate within the context of a balancing of interests, in the correct presentation of our offering pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Hosting

The services for hosting and displaying the website are provided in part by our service providers as part of processing on our behalf. Unless otherwise explained in this privacy policy, all access data as well as all data collected in forms provided for this purpose on this website are processed on their servers. If you have any 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 located and/or use servers in the following countries, for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection by decision: United Kingdom, Canada, USA.

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

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in these countries: Australia.
No adequacy decision by the European Commission exists for these countries. Our cooperation is based on these safeguards: standard contractual clauses of the European Commission.

2. Data processing for contract execution and for contacting us

2.1 Data processing for contract execution

For the purpose of contract execution (including inquiries about and handling of any existing warranty and performance-failure claims as well as any statutory update obligations) pursuant to Art. 6(1)(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 to execute the contract and cannot ship the order without it. Which data is collected is evident from the respective input forms.

Further information on the processing of your data, in particular on 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. Once the contract has been fully executed, your data will be restricted from further processing and deleted after the tax and commercial retention periods have expired pursuant to Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, or we reserve the right to further use permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

2.2 Customer account

Provided you have given your consent to this pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR by choosing to open a customer account, we use your data for the purpose of opening the customer account and storing your data for further future orders on our website. Your customer account can be deleted at any time, either by 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)(a) GDPR, or we reserve the right to further use 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)(b) GDPR, if you voluntarily provide it to us when contacting us (e.g. via contact form, live chat tool or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such, since in these cases we absolutely need the data to process your inquiry. Which data is collected is evident from the respective input forms. Once 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)(a) GDPR, or we reserve the right to further use permitted by law and about which we inform you in this policy.

3. Data processing for the purpose of shipping

For the purpose of contract fulfillment pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, we pass your data on to the shipping service provider commissioned with delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. If you have any 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 handling

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 within the framework of data processing on our behalf, or to the commissioned credit institutions or to the selected payment service provider, insofar as this is necessary for processing the payment. This serves to fulfil the contract in accordance with 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 technical integration in the order process. The privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies in this regard.
If you have any questions about our partners for payment processing and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us via the contact option described in this privacy policy.

4.2 Data processing for the purpose of fraud prevention and optimising 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 optimising our payment processes (e.g. invoicing, handling of disputed payments, accounting support). This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which, following a balancing of interests, prevail in protecting against fraud and ensuring efficient payment management, in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

5. Advertising by e-mail

E-mail newsletter with sign-up

If you sign up for our newsletter, we use the data required for this purpose, or data separately provided by you, to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. You may 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 in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, or we reserve the right to a further use of data that is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this declaration.

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 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 device and allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies).

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

For functions that are not strictly necessary, the storage of information on your device, or access to information already stored on your device, requires your consent. We would like to point out that if consent is not given, parts of the website may not be usable without restriction. Any consent you have given remains valid until you adjust or reset the relevant settings on your device.

Any subsequent data processing through cookies and other technologies

We use such technologies that are strictly necessary for the use of certain functions of our website (e.g. shopping cart function). These technologies collect and process IP address, time of visit, device and browser information as well as information on your use of our website (e.g. information on the contents of the shopping cart). This serves the legitimate interests, which prevail following a balancing of interests, in an optimised presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

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

Cookie settings

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

Insofar as you have consented to the use of the technologies in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, you can revoke 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

We use the following cookies and other third-party technologies on our website. Unless otherwise stated for the individual technologies, this is done on the basis of your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Once the purpose no longer applies and our use of the respective technology ends, the data collected in this context is deleted. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. Further information on your options for revocation 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 any questions about the providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact us via the contact option described in this privacy policy.

Use of Google services

We use the technologies of Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”) described below. The information automatically collected about your use of our website through Google's technologies is generally transmitted to a server of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, and stored there. Unless otherwise stated for the individual technologies, the data processing is carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded for the respective technology between joint controllers in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. 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, an adequate level of data protection.

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

Google Analytics

For the purpose of website analysis, Google Analytics automatically collects and stores data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information as well as information on 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 in order to derive location data and is then immediately deleted before the traffic is forwarded to other Google servers for processing. The data processing is carried out on the basis of an agreement on data processing on behalf of the controller with Google.

For the purpose of optimised 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's services. The sharing of data 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 optimised marketing of our website, we use the so-called User ID function. With the help of this function, we can assign a unique, permanent ID to your interaction data from one or more sessions on our online presences, and thus analyse your user behaviour across devices and sessions.

If you do not grant us consent in accordance with 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. In order to close gaps in web analysis through behavioural and conversion modelling, pings with data (user agent, information on your consent behaviour, screen resolution, IP address) are sent to Google.

Google Ads

For website analysis and event tracking, we measure, via Google Ads conversion tracking your subsequent usage behaviour if you reached our website via a Google Ads advertisement. Cookies may be used for this purpose, and data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information as well as information on your use of our website based on events we specify, such as visiting a website or signing up for the newsletter) is collected, 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. These are only integrated into the page as HTML links, so that no connection is established with the servers of the respective provider when our website is accessed. If you click on one of the buttons, the website of the respective social network opens in a new window of your browser. There you can, for example, 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:

  • under Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information, to the extent specified therein, about your personal data processed by us;
  • under Art. 16 GDPR, the right to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate or completion of your personal data stored by us;
  • under Art. 17 GDPR, the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing
    • is necessary for exercising the right to freedom of expression and information;
    • for compliance with a legal obligation;
    • for reasons of public interest, or
    • is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims;
  • under Art. 18 GDPR, the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
    • the accuracy of the data is contested by you;
    • the processing is unlawful, but you refuse its deletion;
    • we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or
    • you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
  • under 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 request its transfer to another controller;
  • under Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work, or of our company's registered office.

Right to object

Insofar as we process personal data as described above in order to safeguard our legitimate interests, which prevail following a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for the purposes of direct marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. Insofar as the processing is for other purposes, you have a right to object only if there are grounds arising from your particular situation.

After you exercise your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is for the purposes of direct marketing. In that case, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

9.2 Contact options

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