Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy

1. An overview of data pro­tec­tion

Gen­er­al infor­ma­tion

The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion will pro­vide you with an easy to nav­i­gate overview of what will hap­pen with your per­son­al data when you vis­it this web­site. The term “per­son­al data” com­pris­es all data that can be used to per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fy you. For detailed infor­ma­tion about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion, which we have includ­ed beneath this copy.

Data record­ing on this web­site

Who is the respon­si­ble par­ty for the record­ing of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­troller”)?

The data on this web­site is processed by the oper­a­tor of the web­site, whose con­tact infor­ma­tion is avail­able under sec­tion “Infor­ma­tion about the respon­si­ble par­ty (referred to as the “con­troller” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy.

How do we record your data?

We col­lect your data as a result of your shar­ing of your data with us. This may, for instance be infor­ma­tion you enter into our con­tact form.

Oth­er data shall be record­ed by our IT sys­tems auto­mat­i­cal­ly or after you con­sent to its record­ing dur­ing your web­site vis­it. This data com­pris­es pri­mar­i­ly tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion (e.g., web brows­er, oper­at­ing sys­tem, or time the site was accessed). This infor­ma­tion is record­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly when you access this web­site.

What are the pur­pos­es we use your data for?

A por­tion of the infor­ma­tion is gen­er­at­ed to guar­an­tee the error free pro­vi­sion of the web­site. Oth­er data may be used to ana­lyze your user pat­terns.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­tion is con­cerned?

You have the right to receive infor­ma­tion about the source, recip­i­ents, and pur­pos­es of your archived per­son­al data at any time with­out hav­ing to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied or erad­i­cat­ed. If you have con­sent­ed to data pro­cess­ing, you have the option to revoke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future data pro­cess­ing. More­over, you have the right to demand that the pro­cess­ing of your data be restrict­ed under cer­tain cir­cum­stances. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vis­ing agency.

Please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us at any time if you have ques­tions about this or any oth­er data pro­tec­tion relat­ed issues.

Analy­sis tools and tools pro­vid­ed by third par­ties

There is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that your brows­ing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­lyzed when your vis­it this web­site. Such analy­ses are per­formed pri­mar­i­ly with what we refer to as analy­sis pro­grams.

For detailed infor­ma­tion about these analy­sis pro­grams please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion below.

2. Host­ing

We are host­ing the con­tent of our web­site at the fol­low­ing provider:

Het­zn­er

The provider is the Het­zn­er Online GmbH, Indus­triestr. 25, 91710 Gun­zen­hausen, Ger­many (here­inafter referred to as Het­zn­er).

For details, please view the data pri­va­cy pol­i­cy of Het­zn­er: https://www.hetzner.com/de/rechtliches/datenschutz.

We use Het­zn­er on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legit­i­mate inter­est in the most reli­able depic­tion of our web­site pos­si­ble. If appro­pri­ate con­sent has been obtained, the pro­cess­ing is car­ried out exclu­sive­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the stor­age of cook­ies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Data pro­cess­ing

We have con­clud­ed a data pro­cess­ing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-men­tioned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­dat­ed by data pri­va­cy laws that guar­an­tees that they process per­son­al data of our web­site vis­i­tors only based on our instruc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

3. Gen­er­al infor­ma­tion and manda­to­ry infor­ma­tion

Data pro­tec­tion

The oper­a­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very seri­ous­ly. Hence, we han­dle your per­son­al data as con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion and in com­pli­ance with the statu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion.

When­ev­er you use this web­site, a vari­ety of per­son­al infor­ma­tion will be col­lect­ed. Per­son­al data com­pris­es data that can be used to per­son­al­ly iden­ti­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Dec­la­ra­tion explains which data we col­lect as well as the pur­pos­es we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­pose the infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed.

We here­with advise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the Inter­net (i.e., through e‑mail com­mu­ni­ca­tions) may be prone to secu­ri­ty gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­plete­ly pro­tect data against third-par­ty access.

Infor­ma­tion about the respon­si­ble par­ty (referred to as the “con­troller” in the GDPR)

The data pro­cess­ing con­troller on this web­site is:

Sebas­t­ian Zwick­er
Guten­bergstrasse 42
24118 Kiel

Phone: +49 431 90893119
E‑mail: hello@wattsandgrams.de

The con­troller is the nat­ur­al per­son or legal enti­ty that sin­gle-hand­ed­ly or joint­ly with oth­ers makes deci­sions as to the pur­pos­es of and resources for the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data (e.g., names, e‑mail address­es, etc.).

Stor­age dura­tion

Unless a more spe­cif­ic stor­age peri­od has been spec­i­fied in this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy, your per­son­al data will remain with us until the pur­pose for which it was col­lect­ed no longer applies. If you assert a jus­ti­fied request for dele­tion or revoke your con­sent to data pro­cess­ing, your data will be delet­ed, unless we have oth­er legal­ly per­mis­si­ble rea­sons for stor­ing your per­son­al data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law reten­tion peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the dele­tion will take place after these rea­sons cease to apply.

Gen­er­al infor­ma­tion on the legal basis for the data pro­cess­ing on this web­site

If you have con­sent­ed to data pro­cess­ing, we process your per­son­al data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if spe­cial cat­e­gories of data are processed accord­ing to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of explic­it con­sent to the trans­fer of per­son­al data to third coun­tries, the data pro­cess­ing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have con­sent­ed to the stor­age of cook­ies or to the access to infor­ma­tion in your end device (e.g., via device fin­ger­print­ing), the data pro­cess­ing is addi­tion­al­ly based on § 25 (1) TDDDG. The con­sent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­sures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Fur­ther­more, if your data is required for the ful­fill­ment of a legal oblig­a­tion, we process it on the basis of Art. 6(1)© GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the data pro­cess­ing may be car­ried out on the basis of our legit­i­mate inter­est accord­ing to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Infor­ma­tion on the rel­e­vant legal basis in each indi­vid­ual case is pro­vid­ed in the fol­low­ing para­graphs of this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

Recip­i­ents of per­son­al data

In the scope of our busi­ness activ­i­ties, we coop­er­ate with var­i­ous exter­nal par­ties. In some cas­es, this also requires the trans­fer of per­son­al data to these exter­nal par­ties. We only dis­close per­son­al data to exter­nal par­ties if this is required as part of the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract, if we are legal­ly oblig­at­ed to do so (e.g., dis­clo­sure of data to tax author­i­ties), if we have a legit­i­mate inter­est in the dis­clo­sure pur­suant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, or if anoth­er legal basis per­mits the dis­clo­sure of this data. When using proces­sors, we only dis­close per­son­al data of our cus­tomers on the basis of a valid con­tract on data pro­cess­ing. In the case of joint pro­cess­ing, a joint pro­cess­ing agree­ment is con­clud­ed.

Revo­ca­tion of your con­sent to the pro­cess­ing of data

A wide range of data pro­cess­ing trans­ac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revoke at any time any con­sent you have already giv­en us. This shall be with­out prej­u­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data col­lec­tion that occurred pri­or to your revo­ca­tion.

Right to object to the col­lec­tion of data in spe­cial cas­es; right to object to direct adver­tis­ing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PROCESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR UNIQUE SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. TO DETERMINE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PROCESSING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CONSULT THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSITION TO PRESENT COMPELLING PROTECTION WORTHY GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING IS THE CLAIMING, EXERCISING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING PROCESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS AFFILIATED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry agency

In the event of vio­la­tions of the GDPR, data sub­jects are enti­tled to log a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry agency, in par­tic­u­lar in the mem­ber state where they usu­al­ly main­tain their domi­cile, place of work or at the place where the alleged vio­la­tion occurred. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any oth­er admin­is­tra­tive or court pro­ceed­ings avail­able as legal recours­es.

Right to data porta­bil­i­ty

You have the right to have data that we process auto­mat­i­cal­ly on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract hand­ed over to you or to a third par­ty in a com­mon, machine-read­able for­mat. If you should demand the direct trans­fer of the data to anoth­er con­troller, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cal­ly fea­si­ble.

Infor­ma­tion about, rec­ti­fi­ca­tion and erad­i­ca­tion of data

With­in the scope of the applic­a­ble statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions, you have the right to demand infor­ma­tion about your archived per­son­al data, their source and recip­i­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­cess­ing of your data at any time. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or erad­i­cat­ed. If you have ques­tions about this sub­ject mat­ter or any oth­er ques­tions about per­son­al data, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us at any time.

Right to demand pro­cess­ing restric­tions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­tion of restric­tions as far as the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data is con­cerned. To do so, you may con­tact us at any time. The right to demand restric­tion of pro­cess­ing applies in the fol­low­ing cas­es:

• In the event that you should dis­pute the cor­rect­ness of your data archived by us, we will usu­al­ly need some time to ver­i­fy this claim. Dur­ing the time that this inves­ti­ga­tion is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data.
• If the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data was/is con­duct­ed in an unlaw­ful man­ner, you have the option to demand the restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your data instead of demand­ing the erad­i­ca­tion of this data.
• If we do not need your per­son­al data any longer and you need it to exer­cise, defend or claim legal enti­tle­ments, you have the right to demand the restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data instead of its erad­i­ca­tion.
• If you have raised an objec­tion pur­suant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each oth­er. As long as it has not been deter­mined whose inter­ests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a restric­tion of the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data.

If you have restrict­ed the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data, these data – with the excep­tion of their archiv­ing – may be processed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to claim, exer­cise or defend legal enti­tle­ments or to pro­tect the rights of oth­er nat­ur­al per­sons or legal enti­ties or for impor­tant pub­lic inter­est rea­sons cit­ed by the Euro­pean Union or a mem­ber state of the EU.

SSL and/or TLS encryp­tion

For secu­ri­ty rea­sons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as pur­chase orders or inquiries you sub­mit to us as the web­site oper­a­tor, this web­site uses either an SSL or a TLS encryp­tion pro­gram. You can rec­og­nize an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by check­ing whether the address line of the brows­er switch­es from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appear­ance of the lock icon in the brows­er line.

If the SSL or TLS encryp­tion is acti­vat­ed, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third par­ties.

Encrypt­ed pay­ment trans­ac­tions on this web­site

If you are under an oblig­a­tion to share your pay­ment infor­ma­tion (e.g. account num­ber if you give us the author­i­ty to deb­it your bank account) with us after you have entered into a fee-based con­tract with us, this infor­ma­tion is required to process pay­ments.

Pay­ment trans­ac­tions using com­mon modes of pay­ing (Visa/MasterCard, deb­it to your bank account) are processed exclu­sive­ly via encrypt­ed SSL or TLS con­nec­tions. You can rec­og­nize an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by check­ing whether the address line of the brows­er switch­es from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appear­ance of the lock icon in the brows­er line.

If the com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us is encrypt­ed, third par­ties will not be able to read the pay­ment infor­ma­tion you share with us.

4. Record­ing of data on this web­site

Serv­er log files

The provider of this web­site and its pages auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­lects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-called serv­er log files, which your brows­er com­mu­ni­cates to us auto­mat­i­cal­ly. The infor­ma­tion com­pris­es:

• The type and ver­sion of brows­er used
• The used oper­at­ing sys­tem
• Refer­rer URL
• The host­name of the access­ing com­put­er
• The time of the serv­er inquiry
• The IP address

This data is not merged with oth­er data sources.

This data is record­ed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The oper­a­tor of the web­site has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the tech­ni­cal­ly error free depic­tion and the opti­miza­tion of the operator’s web­site. In order to achieve this, serv­er log files must be record­ed.

Request by e‑mail, tele­phone, or fax

If you con­tact us by e‑mail, tele­phone or fax, your request, includ­ing all result­ing per­son­al data (name, request) will be stored and processed by us for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing your request. We do not pass these data on with­out your con­sent.

These data are processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is relat­ed to the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or is required for the per­for­mance of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­sures. In all oth­er cas­es, the data are processed on the basis of our legit­i­mate inter­est in the effec­tive han­dling of inquiries sub­mit­ted to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if it has been obtained; the con­sent can be revoked at any time.

The data sent by you to us via con­tact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your con­sent to the stor­age or the pur­pose for the data stor­age laps­es (e.g. after com­ple­tion of your request). Manda­to­ry statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions – in par­tic­u­lar statu­to­ry reten­tion peri­ods – remain unaf­fect­ed.

5. Analy­sis tools and adver­tis­ing

Mato­mo

This web­site uses the open-source web analy­sis ser­vice Mato­mo.

Through Mato­mo, we are able to col­lect and ana­lyze data on the use of our web­site-by-web­site vis­i­tors. This enables us to find out, for instance, when which page views occurred and from which region they came. In addi­tion, we col­lect var­i­ous log files (e.g. IP address, refer­rer, brows­er, and oper­at­ing sys­tem used) and can mea­sure whether our web­site vis­i­tors per­form cer­tain actions (e.g. clicks, pur­chas­es, etc.).

The use of this analy­sis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site oper­a­tor has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the analy­sis of user pat­terns, in order to opti­mize the operator’s web offer­ings and adver­tis­ing. If appro­pri­ate con­sent has been obtained, the pro­cess­ing is car­ried out exclu­sive­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the stor­age of cook­ies or the access to infor­ma­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymiza­tion

For analy­sis with Mato­mo we use IP anonymiza­tion. Your IP address is short­ened before the analy­sis, so that it is no longer clear­ly assign­a­ble to you.

Analy­sis with­out cook­ies

We have con­fig­ured Mato­mo in such a way that Mato­mo will not store cook­ies in your brows­er.

Host­ing

We host Mato­mo exclu­sive­ly on our own servers so that all analy­sis data remains with us and is not passed on.

Mato­mo Opt-Out

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6. Plug-ins and Tools

Google Fonts (local embed­ding)

This web­site uses so-called Google Fonts pro­vid­ed by Google to ensure the uni­form use of fonts on this site. These Google fonts are local­ly installed so that a con­nec­tion to Google’s servers will not be estab­lished in con­junc­tion with this appli­ca­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion on Google Fonts, please fol­low this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Dec­la­ra­tion under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

7. eCom­merce and pay­ment ser­vice providers

Pro­cess­ing of Cus­tomer and Con­tract Data

We col­lect, process, and use per­son­al cus­tomer and con­tract data for the estab­lish­ment, con­tent arrange­ment and mod­i­fi­ca­tion of our con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ships. Data with per­son­al ref­er­ences to the use of this web­site (usage data) will be col­lect­ed, processed, and used only if this is nec­es­sary to enable the user to use our ser­vices or required for billing pur­pos­es. The legal basis for these process­es is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

The col­lect­ed cus­tomer data shall be delet­ed upon com­ple­tion of the order or ter­mi­na­tion of the busi­ness rela­tion­ship and upon expi­ra­tion of any exist­ing statu­to­ry archiv­ing peri­ods. This shall be with­out prej­u­dice to any statu­to­ry archiv­ing peri­ods.

Data trans­fer upon clos­ing of con­tracts for online stores, retail­ers, and the ship­ment of mer­chan­dise

When­ev­er you order mer­chan­dise from us, we will share your per­son­al data with the trans­porta­tion com­pa­ny entrust­ed with the deliv­ery as well as the pay­ment ser­vice com­mis­sioned to han­dle the pay­ment trans­ac­tions. Only the data these respec­tive ser­vice providers require to meet their oblig­a­tions will be shared. The legal basis for this shar­ing is Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR, which per­mits the pro­cess­ing of data for the ful­fill­ment of con­trac­tu­al or pre-con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions. If you give us your respec­tive con­sent pur­suant to Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR, we will share your email address with the trans­porta­tion com­pa­ny entrust­ed with the deliv­ery so that this com­pa­ny can noti­fy you on the ship­ping sta­tus for your order via email. You have the option to revoke your con­sent at any time.

Pay­ment ser­vices

We inte­grate pay­ment ser­vices of third-par­ty com­pa­nies on our web­site. When you make a pur­chase from us, your pay­ment data (e.g. name, pay­ment amount, bank account details, cred­it card num­ber) are processed by the pay­ment ser­vice provider for the pur­pose of pay­ment pro­cess­ing. For these trans­ac­tions, the respec­tive con­trac­tu­al and data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions of the respec­tive providers apply. The use of the pay­ment ser­vice providers is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (con­tract pro­cess­ing) and in the inter­est of a smooth, con­ve­nient, and secure pay­ment trans­ac­tion (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Inso­far as your con­sent is request­ed for cer­tain actions, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR is the legal basis for data pro­cess­ing; con­sent may be revoked at any time for the future.

We use the fol­low­ing pay­ment ser­vices / pay­ment ser­vice providers with­in the scope of this web­site:

Pay­Pal

The provider of this pay­ment ser­vice is Pay­Pal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22–24 Boule­vard Roy­al, L‑2449 Lux­em­bourg (here­inafter “Pay­Pal”).

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Claus­es (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pocpsa-full.

Details can be found in PayPal’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

Apple Pay

The pay­ment ser­vice provider is Apple Inc, Infi­nite Loop, Cuper­ti­no, CA 95014, USA. The Apple pri­va­cy pol­i­cy can be found at: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/de-ww/.

Mol­lie

The provider of this pay­ment ser­vice is Mol­lie B.V, Keiz­ers­gracht 126, 1015CW Ams­ter­dam, Nether­lands (here­inafter “Mol­lie”). With the help of Mol­lie, we can inte­grate var­i­ous pay­ment meth­ods on our web­site. Details can be found in Mol­lie’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy: https://www.mollie.com/de/privacy.