Privacy policy
Convenience translation – the German version is legally binding. / Dies ist eine Übersetzung zur Information; rechtlich verbindlich ist die deutsche Fassung.
Last updated: September 11, 2026
This privacy policy describes how KFZTeile-Thot (the "Website," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares personal data when you kfzteile-thot.de (the "Website") visit, use our services, make a purchase there, or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Website (together, the "Services"). For purposes of this privacy policy, "you" and "your" mean you as a user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this privacy policy.
Please read this privacy policy carefully.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time, including to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised privacy policy on the Website, update the "Last updated" date, and take any other steps required by applicable law.
How we collect and use your personal information
To provide the Services, we collect, as set out below. The information we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.
In addition to the specific purposes of use listed below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, to provide or improve the Services, to comply with any applicable legal obligations, to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
What personal data do we collect?
The type of personal data we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our website and use our Services. When we use the term “personal information,” we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal data we collect.
Information we collect directly from you
Information you provide to us directly through our Services may include:
- Contact details including your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
- Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, e-mail address, and telephone number.
- Account information including your username, password, security questions, and other information used for account security.
- Customer support information including the information you include in your communications with us, for example, when you send a message through the Services.
Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may choose not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.
Information we collect about your usage
We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”). For this purpose, we may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies (“Cookies”). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our website and account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address, and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.
Information received from third parties
Finally, we may receive information about you from third parties, including vendors and service providers who collect information on our behalf, for example:
- Companies that support our website and Services, such as Shopify.
- Our payment processors, who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment, fulfil your orders, and provide you with the products or services you have requested, in order to fulfil our contract with you.
- When you visit our website, open or click on e-mails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we or third parties we work with may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software development kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.
Any information we receive from third parties is treated in accordance with this privacy policy. Please also see the section below, Third-Party Websites and Links.
How we use your personal data
- Providing products and services. We use your personal data to provide you with the Services and to fulfil our contract with you, including processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, sending you notifications relating to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, arranging shipping, facilitating returns and exchanges, and other features and functionality relating to your account. We may also enhance your shopping experience by allowing Shopify to match your account with other Shopify services you may wish to use. In that case, Shopify processes your data in accordance with its privacy policy and consumer privacy policy.
- Marketing and advertising. We may use your personal data for marketing and advertising purposes, for example to send you marketing and promotional communications by e-mail, SMS, or post, and to display advertising for products or services to you. Where applicable, this includes using your personal data to better tailor the Services and advertising on our website and other websites. If you are located in the EEA, the legal basis for these data processing activities is our legitimate interest in selling our products, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
- Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal data to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with any third party. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately. If you are located in the EEA, the legal basis for these data processing activities is our legitimate interest in ensuring the security of our website for you and other customers, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
- Communicating with you and improving our services. We use your personal data to provide you with customer support and to improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interest to be able to respond to you, to provide you with effective services, and to maintain our business relationship with you, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use cookies on our website. For specific information about the cookies we use in connection with operating our shop via Shopify, please see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use cookies to operate and improve our website and Services (including remembering your actions and preferences), to conduct analytics, and to better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interest to administer, improve, and optimise the Services). We may also allow third parties and service providers to use cookies on our website to better tailor the Services, products, and advertising on our website and other websites.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default. However, you can set your browser to remove or reject cookies through your browser controls. Please note that removing or blocking cookies may affect your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. In addition, blocking cookies does not entirely prevent us from sharing information with third parties, such as our advertising partners.
How we share personal data
In certain circumstances, we may share your personal data with third parties for contract fulfilment purposes, for legitimate purposes, and for other reasons subject to this privacy policy. These circumstances may include:
- with vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, order fulfilment, and shipping).
- with business and marketing partners to provide you with services and to advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners use your data in accordance with their own privacy policies.
- When you direct, ask, or otherwise consent to us disclosing certain information to third parties, for example to have products shipped to you or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, and with your consent.
- with our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interest to run a successful business.
- In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
We disclose the following: the following categories of personal data and sensitive personal data about users for the purposes set out above under „How we collect and use your personal data“ and „How we disclose personal data" are set out:
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We do not use or disclose your personal data without your consent, or for the purpose of drawing inferences about your personal data.
With your consent, we disclose personal data for the purpose of carrying out advertising and marketing activities as follows.
Third-Party Websites and Links
Our website may contain links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to websites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such websites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on those websites. Information you provide in public or semi-public places, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms, without any restriction as to its use by us or third parties. Our inclusion of such links does not automatically constitute an endorsement of the content of such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed in the Services.
Children's Data
The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal data, you may contact us using the contact details set out below and request that this data be deleted.
As of the effective date of this privacy policy, we have no actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” personal data of individuals under 16 years of age (as these terms are defined under applicable law).
Security and Retention of Your Data
Please note that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, the information you send us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use insecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.
How long we retain your personal data depends on a number of factors, such as whether we need the data to maintain your account, to provide the Services, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes, or to enforce other applicable contracts and policies.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal data. However, these rights are not absolute and apply only in certain circumstances. In certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
- Right to access/information: You may have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, including details of how we use and share it.
- Right to deletion: You may have the right to request the deletion of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to correction: You may have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
- Right to portability: You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and, in certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions, to request that it be transferred to a third party.
- Right to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising: You may have the right to direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal data, or to object to the processing of your personal data for purposes considered “targeted advertising” under applicable privacy laws. Please note: if you visit our website with the “Global Privacy Control” opt-out preference signal enabled, we will, depending on your location, automatically treat this as a request to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of information for the device and browser you use to visit the website.
- Restriction of processing: You may have the right to request that we stop or limit the processing of your personal data.
- Withdrawal of consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you may have the right to withdraw that consent.
- Right to appeal: If we refuse to process your request, you may have the right to appeal our decision. You can do this by replying directly to our refusal.
- Manage your communication preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving them at any time by using the unsubscribe option shown in our emails to you. If you unsubscribe, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or your orders.
You may exercise these rights as indicated on our website, or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before we can provide a substantive response to the request. Under applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before we accept such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may also need you to confirm your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner, as required by applicable law.
Complaints
If you have complaints about the way we process your personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details listed below, or to lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority. For the European Economic Area (EEA) you can find here a list of the competent data protection supervisory authorities.
International users
Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal data outside the country in which you live. Your personal data is also processed by staff and by external service providers and partners in those countries.
When we transfer your personal data out of Europe, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or equivalent contracts issued by the relevant United Kingdom authority, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been found to provide an adequate level of protection.
Contact
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this privacy policy, or wish to exercise any of the rights available to you, please call us or send us an email at thot.kfzteile@gmail.com or contact us at Bauhofstraße, 4, 84416 Taufkirchen (Vils), Germany.
For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, and unless otherwise expressly stated, we are the controller (Verantwortlicher) of your personal data.