Privacy

Privacy Policy

We are pleased that you are interested in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We collect, use, and store your personal data exclusively within the limits of the provisions of the Federal Republic of Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act. In the following, we inform you about the kind, extent, and purpose of our data collection and use. By using our website, you declare that you consent to the guidelines and terms that are set forth here.

Collection, Processing, and Use of your Data

You can visit our web page without providing personal information. We merely store non-personal access data such as the name of your internet service provider, the web page you have come from to visit our website, or the name of the requested file. These data are evaluated for the sole purpose of improving our range of products and cannot be traced back to you. 

Personal data are only collected, if you voluntarily share them with us as part of your order for goods or when you open a Customer account. We use the data that you shared with us without your express consent exclusively to accomplish and process your orders. When the Contract is completely processed and the purchase price is completely paid, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after the retention periods required by tax or trade law have expired unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data.

Newsletter

If you have signed up for our newsletter separately, your e-mail address and as the case may be other personal data that you voluntarily shared with us during your registration will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. In the case that you would like to not receive the newsletter anymore, you can object to the continued use of your data for this purpose at any time.

We use what is called the double-opt-in process to send our newsletter, i.e. we will only send you a newsletter by e-mail, if you have previously expressly confirmed that we should activate your newsletter service. Then we will send you a notification e-mail and ask you to confirm that you would like to receive our newsletter by clicking on a link contained in this e-mail. If at a later date you do not want to receive our newsletter, you can object to it being sent to you at any time without incurring costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. A notice in writing to: GERMAN STIL VAPOR KG, Salvatore Amato, Pfarrer-Schwahn-Str. 16, 63179 Obertshausen, Germany, e-mail: info(at)german-stil-vapor(dot)com (by e-mail or by letter) is sufficient for this purpose. Of course you can find a link to unsubscribe in each newsletter.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your data is transferred to the shipping company that is entrusted with the delivery, provided that it is necessary to do so to deliver the goods. To process payments, we transfer your data to the bank that is entrusted with the payment.

Right to Information and Right to Cancellation

According to the German Federal Data Protection Act, you have a right to free information about your stored data as well as a right to correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. Upon request you can receive free information about your data stored by us at any time without stating reasons and can have data that we collected and possess blocked, corrected, or deleted at any time. You can also withdraw your consent to data collection and use that was granted to us at any time without stating reasons. In the case that you signed up to have the newsletter sent to you and would like to not receive the newsletter anymore, you can likewise object to the continued use of your data for this purpose at any time.

To do so, please contact: GERMAN STIL VAPOR KG, Salvatore Amato, Pfarrer-Schwahn-Str. 16, 63179 Obertshausen, Germany, e-mail: info(at)german-stil-vapor(dot)com.

Contact for Privacy Issues

For questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your personal data or for information about your data and for correction, blocking, or deletion of your data as well as withdrawing consent that was granted, please contact: GERMAN STIL VAPOR KG, Salvatore Amato, Pfarrer-Schwahn-Str. 16, 63179 Obertshausen, Germany, e-mail: info(at)german-stil-vapor(dot)com .

Data Security

We secure our website and other systems by technical and organizational measures against loss of, destruction of, access to, change to, or dissemination of your data by unauthorized persons. It is only possible to access your Customer account by entering your personal password. You should always treat your login information confidentially and close the browser window when you have ended your communication with us, especially if you share the use of the computer with others.

Use of Cookies

1. We use cookies on various web pages in order to make our website more attractive to visitors and to enable the use of certain functions. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies that we use are deleted from your hard drive after you have ended your browser session (known as session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer when you visit us again (known as persistent cookies). These cookies are used to welcome you by your username and make it unnecessary for you to enter your password again or fill out forms with your data for subsequent orders. Our partner companies are not allowed to collect, to process, or to use personal data by means of cookies using our website. 

2. This website uses etracker technology (www.etracker.com) to collect data on visitor behavior. The data is collected anonymously for use in marketing and optimization. All visitor data is saved using an anonymous user ID and can be used to aggregate a usage profile. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the visitor’s local browser cache. It is possible to use these cookies to recognize a visitor’s browser. The data collected by the etracker technology will not be used to determine the personal identity of a website visitor, and will not be compiled with personal data relating to the person referred to by the pseudonym, unless agreed to separately by the person concerned. The collection and storage of data may be revoked  at any time with respect to future services.’

To do so, please contact: GERMAN STIL VAPOR KG, Salvatore Amato, Pfarrer-Schwahn-Str. 16, 63179 Obertshausen, Germany, e-mail: info(at)german-stil-vapor(dot)com.

Privacy Policy for using Facebook-Plugins (Like-Button)

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please seehttp://developers.facebook.com/plugins. When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge: The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook. For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy:http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker“. -

Source: http://rechtsanwalt-schwenke.de 

Using of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). 
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. 
In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. 
Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. 
On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. 
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 
Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB .