Privacy Policy

1. Information on the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest.

Below, we inform you about how your personal data is handled when using our website. Personal data means all data by which you can be personally identified.

1.2

The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Marilyn Peers
marilynpeers.co.uk

The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

1.3

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content, such as orders or enquiries sent to the controller, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption.

You can recognise an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the padlock symbol in your browser bar.

2. Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

When you use our website for information purposes only, meaning if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server, known as server log files.

When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

  • The website visited
  • Date and time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source or reference from which you came to the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address used, where applicable in anonymised form

Processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively should concrete indications point to unlawful use.

3. Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device.

Some of the cookies we use are deleted again after the end of the browser session, meaning after you close your browser. These are known as session cookies.

Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies, referred to as third-party cookies, to recognise your browser on your next visit. These are known as persistent cookies.

If cookies are set, they collect and process, to an individual extent, certain user information such as browser and location data as well as IP address values.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a predefined period, which may vary depending on the cookie.

In some cases, cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by storing settings, such as remembering the contents of a virtual shopping basket for a later visit to the website.

If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR either for the performance of the contract or in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and in a customer-friendly and effective design of the website visit.

We may work with advertising partners who help us make our online offering more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies, meaning third-party cookies, may also be stored on your device when you visit our website.

If we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in each case in the sections below.

Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them, or so that the acceptance of cookies is excluded for certain cases or generally.

Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings.

Information for the relevant browsers can be found using the following links:

Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4. Contacting Us

When you contact us, for example by contact form or email, personal data is collected.

Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form.

This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your enquiry or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your enquiry in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted after final processing of your enquiry. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the relevant matter has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

5. Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account and for Contract Processing

In accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide it to us for the performance of a contract or when opening a customer account.

Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms.

Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be carried out by sending a message to the above-mentioned address of the controller.

We store and use the data you provide for contract processing.

After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked with due regard to tax and commercial law retention periods and deleted after these periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or a legally permitted further use of data has been reserved by us, about which we inform you accordingly below.

6. Use of Your Data for Direct Advertising

6.1 Subscription to Our Email Newsletter

If you subscribe to our email newsletter, we will regularly send you information about our offers.

The only mandatory information required for sending the newsletter is your email address. Providing any further data is voluntary and is used to address you personally.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to send the newsletter.

This means that we will only send you an email newsletter once you have expressly confirmed to us that you consent to receiving newsletters.

We will then send you a confirmation email asking you to confirm, by clicking on an appropriate link, that you wish to receive newsletters in the future.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

When you register for the newsletter, we store the IP address entered by your internet service provider as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace any possible misuse of your email address at a later time.

The data collected by us when you register for the newsletter is used exclusively for advertising communication by way of the newsletter.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided for this purpose in the newsletter or by sending an appropriate message to the controller named at the beginning.

After you unsubscribe, your email address will be deleted immediately from our newsletter mailing list unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this in a manner permitted by law and about which we inform you in this declaration.

6.2 Sending the Email Newsletter to Existing Customers

If you have provided us with your email address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to send you regular offers by email for goods or services from our range that are similar to those already purchased.

We do not need to obtain separate consent from you for this.

Data processing in this respect is carried out solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in personalised direct advertising in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

If you initially objected to the use of your email address for this purpose, no email will be sent by us.

You are entitled to object at any time, with effect for the future, to the use of your email address for the aforementioned advertising purpose by notifying the controller named at the beginning.

For this, you will only incur transmission costs according to the basic tariffs.

Upon receipt of your objection, the use of your email address for advertising purposes will be stopped immediately.

7. Data Processing for Order Handling

7.1

The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with delivery as part of contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for delivery of the goods.

We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of payment processing, insofar as this is necessary for payment processing.

If payment service providers are used, we provide explicit information about this below.

The legal basis for the transfer of data is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

7.2 Use of Payment Service Providers

PayPal

When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or, where offered, purchase on account or instalment payment via PayPal, we pass on your payment data as part of payment processing to:

PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.
22-24 Boulevard Royal
L-2449 Luxembourg

Hereinafter referred to as PayPal.

The transfer takes place in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and only insofar as it is 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, where offered, purchase on account or instalment payment via PayPal.

For this purpose, your payment data may be passed on to credit agencies in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of PayPal’s legitimate interest in determining your ability to pay.

PayPal uses the result of the credit check in relation to the statistical probability of payment default for the purpose of deciding whether to provide the respective payment method.

The credit report may contain probability values, known as score values.

Where score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure.

Address data, among other things but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of score values.

Further data protection information, including information about the credit agencies used, can be found in 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, PayPal may remain entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

SOFORT

If you select the payment method SOFORT, payment processing is carried out via the payment service provider:

SOFORT GmbH
Theresienhoehe 12
80339 Munich
Germany

Hereinafter referred to as SOFORT.

We pass on the information you provided during the ordering process together with information about your order in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Sofort GmbH is part of the Klarna Group:

Klarna Bank AB (publ)
Sveavaegen 46
11134 Stockholm
Sweden

Your data is passed on exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider SOFORT and only insofar as it is necessary for this purpose.

Further information about SOFORT’s data protection provisions can be found at:

https://www.klarna.com/sofort/datenschutz

8. Contacting You for Review Reminders

Own Review Reminder, Not Sent by a Customer Review System

We use your email address to send a one-time reminder to submit a review of your order for the review system used by us, provided that you have given us your express consent to do so during or after your order in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending a message to the controller responsible for data processing.

9. Use of Social Media: Social Plugins

9.1 Facebook Plugins with Shariff Solution

Special additional customs clearance costs and/or import duties are not included in the price and are borne by the customer.

Our website uses so-called social plugins, or plugins, from the social network Facebook, operated by:

Facebook Inc.
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Facebook.

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not integrated into the page without restriction as plugins, but only by using an HTML link.

This type of integration ensures that, when you access a page of our website containing such buttons, no connection is yet established with Facebook servers.

If you click the button, a new browser window opens and calls up the Facebook page, on which you can interact with the plugins there, if applicable after entering your login details.

Facebook Inc., based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your related rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Facebook’s privacy notices:

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

9.2 Google+ Plugins as a Shariff Solution

Our website uses so-called social plugins, or plugins, from the Google+ social network operated by:

Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Google.

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not integrated into the page without restriction as plugins, but only by using an HTML link.

This type of integration ensures that, when you access a page of our website containing such buttons, no connection is yet established with Google+ servers.

If you click the button, a new browser window opens and calls up the Google+ page, on which you can interact with the plugins there, if applicable after entering your login details.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Google, as well as your related rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Google’s privacy notices:

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

9.3 Instagram Plugin as a Shariff Solution

Our website uses so-called social plugins, or plugins, from the online service Instagram, operated by:

Instagram LLC
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Instagram.

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not integrated into the page without restriction as plugins, but only by using an HTML link.

This type of integration ensures that, when you access a page of our website containing such buttons, no connection is yet established with Instagram servers.

If you click the button, a new browser window opens and calls up the Instagram page, on which you can interact with the plugins there, if applicable after entering your login details.

Instagram LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Instagram, as well as your related rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Instagram’s privacy notices:

https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

10. Online Marketing

10.1 DoubleClick by Google

This website uses the online marketing tool DoubleClick by Google, operated by:

Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Hereinafter referred to as DoubleClick.

DoubleClick uses cookies to display ads relevant to users, improve campaign performance reports or prevent a user from seeing the same ads multiple times.

Using a cookie ID, Google records which ads are displayed in which browser and can thereby prevent them from being displayed repeatedly.

Processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

In addition, DoubleClick can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions that relate to ad requests.

This is the case, for example, if a user sees a DoubleClick advertisement and later uses the same browser to visit the advertiser’s website and buys something there.

According to Google, DoubleClick cookies do not contain any personal information.

Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Google’s server.

We have no influence over the scope and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this tool and therefore inform you according to our level of knowledge.

By integrating DoubleClick, Google receives the information that you have accessed the relevant part of our website or clicked on one of our advertisements.

If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account.

Even if you are not registered with Google or are not logged in, it is possible that the provider may obtain and store your IP address.

If you wish to object to participation in this tracking process, you can deactivate cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain:

www.googleadservices.com

You can also adjust advertising settings here:

https://www.google.de/settings/ads

This setting will be deleted if you delete your cookies.

Alternatively, you can obtain information about the setting of cookies and make settings in this regard from the Digital Advertising Alliance at:

www.aboutads.info

Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them, or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally.

If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

Further information about the data protection provisions of DoubleClick by Google can be found at:

https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

10.2 Use of Google AdWords Conversion Tracking

This website uses the online advertising programme Google AdWords and, as part of Google AdWords, the conversion tracking of:

Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Google.

We use Google AdWords to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites with the help of advertising materials, known as Google AdWords.

In relation to the data from advertising campaigns, we can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are.

In doing so, we pursue the interest of showing you advertising that is of interest to you, making our website more interesting for you and achieving a fair calculation of advertising costs.

The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an AdWords advertisement placed by Google.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system.

These cookies generally expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification.

If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognise that the user clicked on the advertisement and was redirected to this page.

Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers.

The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking.

Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their advertisement and were redirected to a page provided with a conversion tracking tag.

However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can block this use by deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie via your internet browser under user settings.

You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.

We use Google AdWords on the basis of our legitimate interest in targeted advertising in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

Further information about Google’s data protection provisions can be found at:

https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

You can permanently deactivate cookies for advertising preferences by preventing them through an appropriate setting in your browser software or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Please note that certain functions of this website may not be available or may be available only to a limited extent if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

11. Web Analytics Services

Google Universal Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of:

Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Google.

Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, including the shortened IP address, is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymisation of the IP address by shortening it and excludes direct personal reference.

Through the extension, your IP address is shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

In these exceptional cases, this processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes.

On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about website activity and to provide us with further services connected with website use and internet use.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by making an appropriate setting in your browser software.

However, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website, including your IP address, and from processing this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

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

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, or within browsers on mobile devices, please click on the relevant opt-out link to set an opt-out cookie that prevents collection by Google Analytics within this website in the future.

This opt-out cookie works only in this browser and only for this domain.

If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click the link again:

Deactivate Google Analytics

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

This website also uses Google Analytics for cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID.

When a page is first accessed, the user is assigned a unique, permanent and anonymised ID that is set across devices.

This makes it possible to assign interaction data from different devices and from different sessions to an individual user.

The user ID does not contain personal data and does not transmit such data to Google.

You can object at any time, with effect for the future, to data collection and storage via the user ID.

To do this, you must deactivate Google Analytics on all systems that you use, for example in another browser or on your mobile device.

You can deactivate it using a Google browser plug-in:

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

Further information on Universal Analytics can be found here:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718?hl=de&ref_topic=6010376

12. Retargeting, Remarketing and Recommendation Advertising

Facebook Custom Audience via the Pixel Procedure

This website uses the Facebook Pixel of:

Facebook Inc.
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Facebook.

If express consent is granted, this can be used to track the behaviour of users after they have seen or clicked on a Facebook advertisement.

This procedure serves to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and can help to optimise future advertising measures.

The data collected is anonymous for us and therefore does not allow us to draw conclusions about the identity of users.

However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook data usage policy:

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

You can enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and outside Facebook.

A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.

These processing operations take place exclusively if express consent is given in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Consent to the use of the Facebook Pixel may only be declared by users who are older than 13 years of age.

If you are younger, we ask you to ask your parent or guardian for permission.

Facebook Inc., based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

To deactivate the use of cookies on your computer, you can set your internet browser so that cookies can no longer be stored on your computer in the future or so that cookies already stored are deleted.

However, disabling all cookies may mean that some functions on our websites can no longer be carried out.

You can also deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers such as Facebook on the following Digital Advertising Alliance website:

https://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Google AdWords Remarketing

Our website uses the functions of Google AdWords Remarketing.

We use this to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites.

The provider is:

Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Hereinafter referred to as Google.

For this purpose, Google sets a cookie in the browser of your device, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you have visited.

Processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Further data processing only takes place if you have agreed to Google linking your internet and app browsing history to your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalise ads that you view on the web.

If, in this case, you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google uses your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing.

For this purpose, your personal data is temporarily linked by Google with Google Analytics data in order to form target groups.

You can permanently deactivate the setting of cookies for advertising preferences by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

Alternatively, you can obtain information about the setting of cookies and make settings in this regard from the Digital Advertising Alliance at:

www.aboutads.info

Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them, or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally.

If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the European Union.

Further information and Google’s data protection provisions regarding advertising can be viewed here:

https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

13. Rights of the Data Subject

13.1

The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data subject rights, namely rights of information and intervention, against the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data.

We inform you about these rights below.

Right of Access in Accordance with Article 15 GDPR

You have the right to obtain information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period.

You also have the right to information about the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected from you by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling.

Where applicable, you also have the right to meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and intended consequences of such processing for you, as well as your right to be informed of the safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries.

Right to Rectification in Accordance with Article 16 GDPR

You have the right to immediate rectification of incorrect data concerning you and/or completion of incomplete data stored by us.

Right to Erasure in Accordance with Article 17 GDPR

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if the requirements of Article 17(1) GDPR are met.

However, this right does not exist in particular if processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for fulfilling a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Right to Restriction of Processing in Accordance with Article 18 GDPR

You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data while the accuracy of your data disputed by you is being verified.

You also have this right if you refuse deletion of your data due to unlawful data processing and instead request restriction of processing of your data, if you need your data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims after we no longer need this data once the purpose has been achieved, or if you have objected for reasons relating to your particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate grounds override yours.

Right to Notification in Accordance with Article 19 GDPR

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

You have the right to be informed about these recipients.

Right to Data Portability in Accordance with Article 20 GDPR

You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or to request transmission to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible.

Right to Withdraw Consent in Accordance with Article 7(3) GDPR

You have the right to withdraw consent once given to the processing of data at any time with effect for the future.

In the event of withdrawal, we will delete the affected data immediately unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent.

The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.

Right to Lodge a Complaint in Accordance with Article 77 GDPR

If you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the GDPR, you have the right, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

This applies in particular in the member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

13.2 Right to Object

If, within the framework of a balancing of interests, we process your personal data on the basis of our overriding legitimate interest, you have the right at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object to this processing with effect for the future.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the affected data.

However, further processing remains reserved if we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If your personal data is processed by us for direct advertising purposes, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising.

You may exercise the objection as described above.

If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the affected data for direct advertising purposes.

14. Duration of Storage of Personal Data

The duration of storage of personal data is determined by the respective statutory retention period, for example commercial and tax retention periods.

After expiry of the period, the relevant data is routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfilment or contract initiation and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in continued storage.