Privacy policy

1) Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the person responsible

1.1 In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The person responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Design 61 GmbH, Am Tönniesberg 4a, 30453 Hannover, Germany, Tel.: 0511 26225613 , Fax: 0511 26225608 , E-Mail: info@design61.de . The person responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.

1.3 The responsible party has appointed a data protection officer for this website, who can be contacted as follows: Ekrem Özyurt, Erdem Özyurt, Am Tönniesberg 4a, 30453 Hannover, Germany, Tel.: 0511 26225613, Fax: 0511 26225608, Email: info@design61.de

1.4 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the responsible party), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2) Data collection when visiting our website

If you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "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 you visited

Date and time of access

Amount of data sent in bytes

Source/reference from which you accessed the site

Browser used

Operating system used

IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. 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 subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

3) Cookies

In order to make visiting our website more attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted 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 enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information on an individual basis, such as browser and location data as well as IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which can vary depending on the cookie.

In some cases, the cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by saving settings (e.g. remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website). If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR either to execute the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

We may work with advertising partners who help us to make our internet offering more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies are also stored on your hard disk when you visit our website (third-party cookies). 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 within the following paragraphs.

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 exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is in the help menu of each browser.rs, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE

Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4) Contacting us

Personal data is collected when you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email). The data collected when you use a contact form can be seen in the respective contact form. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention periods to the contrary.

5) Data processing when opening a customer account and for contract processing

In accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b of GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide it to us for the purpose of executing a contract or when opening a customer account. The data collected can be seen from the respective input forms. Your customer account can be deleted at any time and can be done by sending a message to the above-mentioned address of the person responsible. We store and use the data you provide to process the contract. After the contract has been fully processed or your customer account has been deleted, your data will be blocked with regard to tax and commercial retention periods and deleted after these periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we have reserved the right to use the data in a legally permitted manner, about which we will inform you accordingly below.

6) Data processing for order processing

6.1 To process your order, we work with the following service provider(s), who support us in whole or in part in the implementation of concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

The personal data we collect is passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery as part of the contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment details to the commissioned credit institution as part of the payment processing, insofar as this is necessary for the payment processing. If payment service providers are used, we will inform you explicitly about this below. The legal basis for the transfer of data is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

6.2 To fulfill our contractual obligations to our customers, we work with external shipping partners. We pass on your name and delivery address to a shipping partner selected by us exclusively for the purposes of delivering goods (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

6.3 Use of special service providers for order processing and order handling

- Afterbuy
Order processing is carried out by the service provider "Afterbuy" (VIA Online GmbH in Krefeld). Name, address and any other personal data will be passed on to "Afterbuy" in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b of GDPR exclusively for the purpose of processing the online order. Your data will only be passed on if this is actually necessary for processing the order. Details on data protection at Afterbuy and the data protection declaration of VIA Online GmbH can be viewed at the following link: http://www.afterbuy.de/Datenschutz.htm.

- Amazon
Order processing is carried out by the service provider "Amazon" (Amazon EU S.à r.l., 5, Rue Plaetis 2338, Luxembourg) as part of "Fulfilment by Amazon". Your personal data will be passed on to Amazon exclusively for the purpose of processing the online order. The data will be passed on in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR and only to the extent that this is necessary for the order processing.