Privacy Policy

1) Information about the data controller collecting personal data and contact details

1.1 Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our company. Below we provide information about how we deal with your personal data when using our website. Personal data refers to all data that can identify you personally.

1.2 The person responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Bruncken & Gebhardt GmbH, Gartenstr. 14, 41569 Rommerskirchen, Germany, Tel .: 0176 30740451, E-Mail: service@bruncken-gebhardt.com. 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 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential information (e.g. orders or enquiries to the data controller), this website uses SSL and TSL encryption. An encrypted connection can be identified by the character sequence “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser title.

2) Data collection when visiting our website

If you use our website purely for information, i.e. you do not register or transmit information in any other way, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server logfiles”). When you call up our website we will collect the following data that we require from a technical point of view to display our website to you:

The website visited

Date and time of accessing the website

Volume of data transmitted in bytes

Source/reference from where you accessed the website

Browser used

Operating system used

IP address used (anonymous if applicable)

The data is processed 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 is not disseminated or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server logfiles retrospectively if there is concrete evidence of unlawful use.

3) Cookies

In order to make the visit to our website 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, ie after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our affiliate (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser the next time you visit it (so-called persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process specific user information, such as browser and location data as well as IP address values, to an individual extent. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie.

In some cases, the cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by storing settings (eg remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website). Insofar as personal data used by us are also processed by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO either for the execution of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO for safeguarding our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website as well as a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

We may work together with advertising partners that help us to make our internet offering more interesting for you. For this purpose and in this case, cookies from partner companies (third party cookies) will also be stored on your hard drive when you visit our website. Where we work together with the above-mentioned advertising partners, you will be informed in the subsequent paragraphs individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the extent of the information collected.

Please note that you can set your browser such that you will be informed about cookie settings and can decide individually which cookies to accept or can reject the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. Each browser manages cookie settings in different ways. This is described in the Help menu of each browser,which also provides an explanation how you can change your cookie settings. You can find this information for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

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

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

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Please note that the functionality of our website may be restricted if you reject cookies.

4) Contacting us

When contacting us (eg via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data are collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used solely for the purpose of answering your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. If your contact aims to conclude a contract, then additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your request. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been finally clarified and provided that no statutory storage requirements are in conflict.

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

According to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide them to us for the execution of a contract or when opening a customer account. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. A deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done by sending a message to the above address of the person responsible. We save and use the data you have provided to process the contract. After the contract has been fully processed or your customer account has been deleted, your data will be blocked with due regard to tax and commercial retention periods and deleted after these deadlines, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to further use of your data as permitted by law which we will inform you about below.

6) Data processing for order processing

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

The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery within the scope of the contract, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We will pass on your payment details to the commissioned bank as part of the processing of payments, if this is necessary for the processing of payments. If payment service providers are used, we will inform you explicitly below. The legal basis for the transfer of data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO.

6.2 Forwarding of personal data to shipping service providers

- DHL

If the goods are delivered by DHL (Deutsche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaulle-Strasse 20, 53113 Bonn), we will provide your e-mail address in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO before the delivery of the goods for the purpose of adjusting a delivery date or delivery notice to DHL, if you have given your explicit consent in the ordering process. Otherwise, for the purpose of service in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO only the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DHL. Passing on is only to the extent necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, a prior agreement of the delivery date with DHL or the delivery announcement is not possible.

The consent can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future against the person named above or against the transport service provider DHL.

-DPD

If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider DPD (DPD Deutschland GmbH, Wailandtstraße 1, 63741 Aschaffenburg), we will give your email address and telephone number before the goods are delivered in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR for the purpose of agreeing a delivery date or to announce the delivery to DPD, provided that you have given your express consent in the ordering process. Otherwise, for the purpose of delivery in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO only forwards the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DPD. It will only be passed on if this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. In this case, prior coordination of the delivery date with DPD or the delivery notification is not possible.

The consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future vis-à-vis the person responsible or the transport service provider DPD.

- GLS

If the goods are delivered by the transport service provider GLS (General Logistics Systems Germany GmbH & Co. OHG, GLS Germany-Strasse 1 - 7, 36286 Neuenstein), we will give your email address in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR to GLS before the delivery of the goods for the purpose of agreeing a delivery date or to announce the delivery, provided that you have given your express consent for this in the ordering process. Otherwise, we will provide for the purpose of delivery in accordance with Art. 6 Para. b GDPR only forward the name of the recipient and the delivery address to GLS. It will only be passed on if this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. In this case, prior coordination of the delivery date with GLS or the transmission of status information of the shipment delivery is not possible.

The consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future vis-à-vis the person responsible or vis-à-vis the transport service provider GLS.

6.3 Use of payment service providers (payment services)

- Paypal

When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" or "installment payment" via PayPal, we will transfer your payment data in the course of payment to PayPal (Europe) Sarl et Cie, SCA, 22- 24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal"), continue. The transfer takes place in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and only insofar as this is necessary for the payment process.

PayPal reserves itself for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal or - if offered - "purchase on account" or "installment" via PayPal the execution of a credit check. If necessary, your payment data will be processed in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of the legitimate interest of PayPal in the determination of their solvency to credit bureaus passed. The result of the credit check for statistical probability of default is used by PayPal for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit information can contain probability values (so-called score values). As far as score values are included in the results of the credit rating, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. The calculation of score values includes, but is not limited to, address data. Further data protection information, among other things to the used credit reference agencies, please refer to the privacy policy of PayPal: 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 continue to be entitled to process your personal data, if this is necessary for the contractual payment.

- IMMEDIATELY

If you choose the payment method "IMMEDIATELY", payment will be processed via the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany (hereinafter "IMMEDIATELY"), to which we will provide your information communicated during the ordering process and the information about your order according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b Pass on DSGVO. Sofort GmbH is part of the Klarna Group (Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 11134 Stockholm, Sweden). The transfer of your data is exclusively for the purpose of processing payments with the payment service provider SOFORT and only insofar as it is necessary for this. Further information on the privacy policy of SOFORT can be found at the following Internet address: https://www.klarna.com/sofort/datenschutz.

7) Use of rating and seal graphics

Store Vote Graphics

To display our ShopVote seal and any collected and / or aggregated ratings, we have included ShopVote graphics on this website.

This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a weighing up of interests, in the optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The ShopVote graphics and the advertised services are an offer of Blickreif GmbH, Alter Messeplatz 2, 80339 Munich.

When the ShopVote graphics are called, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, your IP address, date and time of the call, amount of data transferred and the source of the call (access data) and documents the call. These access data will not be evaluated and automatically overwritten within seven days after the end of your page visit. Other personal data will not be collected or stored by the ShopVote graphics.

8) Online Marketing

8.1 Use Google Ads Conversion Tracking

This website uses the online advertising program "Google Ads" and, as part of Google Ads, conversion tracking from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). We use the offer of Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google Adwords) on external websites. In relation to the data from the advertising campaigns, we can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are. We are interested in 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 conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an Ads advert placed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies generally lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. This means that cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of Google Ads customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Google Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can block this usage by deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie in your internet browser under user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. We use Google Ads based on our legitimate interest in targeted advertising in accordance with. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. When using Google Ads, personal data may also be transmitted to the servers of Google LLC. come in the US.

In the case of transfer of personal data to the Google LLC. Based in the US, Google LLC has become. is certified for the us European Data Protection Convention "Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the data protection standard in force in the EU. A current certificate can be viewed here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list

For more information about Google's privacy policy, visit the following Internet address: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

You can permanently deactivate cookie cookies by blocking them by setting your browser software accordingly or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:

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

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

8.2 Use of affiliate programs

- Amazon Affiliate Program (AmazonPartnerNet)

We participate in the partner program "AmazonPartnerNet" of Amazon EU Sarl, 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg (hereinafter "Amazon"). In this context, we have placed advertisements on our website as links that lead to offers on various Amazon websites. Amazon uses cookies, these are small text files that are stored on your end device in order to be able to trace the origin of orders that were generated via such links. Among other things, Amazon can recognize that you have clicked on the partner link on our website. This information is required for payment processing between us and Amazon. If the information also contains personal data, the processing described is carried out on the basis of our legitimate financial interest in processing commission payments with Amazon in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information on data usage by Amazon can be found in the Amazon.de privacy policy at https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_privacy?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3312401

If you want to block the evaluation of user behavior via cookies, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. You can also disable interest-based ads on Amazon using the link https://www.amazon.de/gp/dra/info.

9) web analytics services

Google (Universal) Analytics

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including the abbreviated IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server and stored there; it can also be transferred to the Google LLC server. come in the US.

This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()", which ensures anonymization of the IP address by curtailment and excludes a direct personal reference. The extension will truncate your IP address beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a server of Google LLC.in the USA and shortened there. In these exceptional cases, this processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO based on our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes.

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services related to website activity and internet usage. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install:

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

As an alternative to the browser plug-in or within browsers on mobile devices, please click the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent the Google Analytics collection within this site in the future (this opt-out cookie only works In this browser and only for this domain, delete your cookies in this browser, you have to click this link again): Disable Google Analytics

In the case of transfer of personal data to the Google LLC. Based in the US, Google LLC has become. is certified for the us European Data Protection Convention "Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the data protection standard in force in the EU. A current certificate can be viewed here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list

Further information on Google (Universal) Analytics can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718?hl=de&ref_topic=6010376

10) Retargeting / Remarketing / Referral Advertising

Facebook Custom Audience using the pixel process

This website uses the “Facebook pixel” from Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Facebook”). In the event that express consent has been given, the behavior of users can be tracked after they have seen or clicked on a Facebook advertisement. This procedure is used to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and can help to optimize future advertising measures.

The data collected is anonymous to us, so it does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. 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 guidelines (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). You can enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and outside of Facebook. A cookie can also be stored on your computer for these purposes. These processing operations are only carried out when express consent is given in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

A consent in the use of the Facebook pixel may only be declared by users who are older than 13 years old. If you are younger, we ask that you ask your guardians for permission.

Based in the US, Facebook Inc. is certified to the US Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection in the EU.

In order 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 cookies that have already been stored are deleted. Switching off all cookies can, however, mean that some functions on our website can no longer be carried out. You can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers such as Facebook on the following Digital Advertising Alliance website: https://www.aboutads.info/choices/

11) Rights of the data subject

11.1 The effective data privacy law gives you comprehensive rights of the data subject (rights to access and intervention) towards the data controller with regard to the processing of your personal data. These are dealt with below:

Right to access by the data subject in accordance with Article 15 GDPR: You have, in particular, the right to obtain information about the personal data processed by us, the purposes of the processing, the categories of the personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been disclosed, the envisaged storage period or the criteria used for determining the storage period, the right to request rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, the right to object against the processing, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, the source of your personal data if these were not collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you, and your right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR where personal data are transferred to a third country;

Right to rectification in accordance with Article 16 GDPR: You have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and/or to have incomplete personal data stored about you by us completed;

Right to erasure in accordance with Article 17 GDPR: You have the right to obtain the erasure of your personal data if the conditions of Article 17(1) GDPR apply. This right shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with 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 obtain restriction of processing your personal data so long as the accuracy of the personal data contested by you is verified, the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal data and request the restriction of their use instead, if you require your data for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims once we no longer need this data for the purposes of the processing, or if you have objected for reasons of your specific situation as long as the verification whether our legitimate grounds are overriding has not been established;

Right to notification in accordance with Article 19 GDPR: If you have exercised the right of rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing towards the data controller they are obliged to inform each recipient to whom your personal data have been disclosed of the rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about those recipients.

Right to data portability in accordance with Article 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format or request the transmission to another data controller as long as this is technically feasible;

Right to withdraw your consent in accordance with Article 7(3) GDPR: You have the right to withdraw the consent you gave once to the processing of data at any time with future effect. In the event of a withdrawal of consent we will erase the affected data immediately as long as further processing cannot be supported by a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;

Right to complain under Art. 77 DSGVO: If you consider that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the case of an administrative or judicial remedy Member State of your whereabouts, place of work or place of alleged infringement.

11.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITHIN A BALANCING OF INTERESTS AND BASED ON OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIAMTE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME WITH FUTURE EFFECT FOR REASONS EMANATING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT WE WILL TERMINATE PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO FURTHER PROCESSING IF WE CAN PROVE COMPELLING PRIVILEGED REASONS FOR 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 ARE PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH ADVERTISING PURPOSES AT ANY TIME. YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT WE WILL TERMINATE PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA FOR DIRECT ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

12) Storage period of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax retention periods). After the period has expired, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted if they are no longer required to fulfill or initiate a contract and/or we have no legitimate interest in further storage.