Privacy Policy

This website is operated by RetrogeR Furniture Art. Protecting your personal data is of utmost importance to us. In our following privacy policy, we describe how we collect, use, process, and disclose your data in connection with your use of the website www.RetrogeR.de and payment services. Your personal data (e.g., name, address, email, phone number, etc.) is processed by us only in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data is considered personal if it can be clearly assigned to a specific natural person. The legal basis for data protection can be found in the GDPR. The following regulations inform you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the collection, use, and processing of personal data by the responsible party:

RetrogeR Furniture Art
Zoltan Kozma
D-37671 Höxter
Michaelstr.10.
Email: info@retroger.de

Our site uses SSL/TLS encryption for security and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or contact inquiries to the responsible party). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser bar. However, please note that internet-based data transmission may have security vulnerabilities, and complete protection against third-party access may be nearly impossible.

Collection of Access Data

For technical reasons, the following data, which your internet browser transmits to us or our web space provider, is collected (server log files): the name of the accessed website, file, date, and time of access, transferred data volume, message about the successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address, and the requesting provider. These data are evaluated for statistical purposes to optimize our website and offerings. The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check server log files should concrete indications point to unlawful use.

Cookies

To make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use 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 closing your browser (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and decide on their acceptance individually, or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. The functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

Collection, Processing, and Use of Personal Data

We collect and process personal data (e.g., name, address, email) only if you provide it to us within the framework of registration, ordering products and services, or inquiries, and only to the extent necessary for the establishment and content design or modification of the legal relationship. After complete contract processing, your data will be deleted, taking into account any legal retention obligations, unless you have expressly consented to further use. Your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties by us or persons commissioned by us without your consent or a corresponding official order.

Newsletter

We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter on our website, even without registering for a customer account. To receive our newsletter, you need a valid email address. We use the double opt-in procedure for sending the newsletter. This means that we will only send you an email newsletter if you have expressly confirmed that you consent to receiving newsletters. We will then send you a confirmation email asking you to confirm that you wish to receive future newsletters by clicking on a corresponding link. By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. With your registration for our newsletter, we will store your IP address as well as the date and time of your registration. This serves as a safeguard on our part in case a third party misuses your email address and subscribes to our newsletter without your knowledge. No further data will be collected by us. The data collected in this way will be used exclusively for subscribing to our newsletter. It will not be passed on to third parties. You can cancel the subscription to this newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by sending a corresponding message to the responsible party mentioned above. After unsubscribing, your email address will be immediately deleted from our newsletter distribution list, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes that are legally permitted and about which we inform you in this declaration.

Contact Option

We offer you the opportunity to contact us by email and/or via a contact form on our website. In this case, the user’s details regarding personal data will be stored for the purpose of processing his contact. The data collected in the case of a contact form is evident from the respective contact form. This data will be stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your inquiry; 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 legal retention obligations to the contrary. No data will be disclosed to third parties.

Comment Function

You have the opportunity to leave comments on our blog posts on our site. In this case, the user’s details regarding personal data will be stored for the purpose of displaying his comment. The data collected in the case of a written comment is evident from the respective comment form. You can revoke your consent to display the comment at any time by sending a message to the data controller responsible for processing. Your comment will appear on our website after the content has been reviewed for illegal or inappropriate content.

Data Transfer When Ordering and Credit Check

All data that you provide to us when placing an order is stored by us and will be passed on to our contractual partners as part of the order processing, to the extent necessary for the fulfillment of the contract, for example, to the shipping company or the postal service that delivers our shipments. Our contractual partners may only use the transmitted data for order processing.

For credit checks, we exchange address and creditworthiness data with credit service companies in justified cases (e.g., direct debit procedures). The service providers only have access to personal information that is necessary to fulfill their respective tasks. We also pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of the payment process, if this is necessary for the payment process. 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 GDPR.

Transfer of Personal Data to Shipping Service Providers – DHL

If the delivery of goods is carried out by the transport service provider DHL (Deutsche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn), we will pass on your email address according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR before the delivery of the goods for the purpose of coordinating a delivery date or for delivery notification to DHL. Otherwise, we will only pass on the name of the recipient and the delivery address to DHL for the purpose of delivery according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The transfer is only carried out to the extent necessary for the delivery of the goods. Without sufficient contact details (e.g., email address, phone number), prior coordination of the delivery date with DHL or delivery notification is not possible. The consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future vis-à-vis the responsible party mentioned above or vis-à-vis the transport service provider DHL.

Use of Social Plugins

Our website uses so-called social plugins (e.g., a direct link to our Facebook profile) of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition “Social Plugin from Facebook” or “Facebook Social Plugin.” An overview of Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook’s servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly assign the visit to our website to your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or leaving a comment, this information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information will also be published on your Facebook profile and displayed to your Facebook friends.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy, can be found in Facebook’s data protection information: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/

If you do not want Facebook to directly associate the data collected via our website with your Facebook profile, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Facebook plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g., with a “Facebook Blocker.”

Use of Google AdWords Conversion Tracking

Our website uses the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and, as part of Google AdWords, the conversion tracking of Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). We use Google Adwords to draw attention to our attractive offers with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google Adwords) on external websites. We can determine how successful individual advertising measures are in relation to the data of the advertising campaigns. We are thus pursuing the interest 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 a Google AdWords ad. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies usually lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked through AdWords customers’ websites. The information obtained with the help of 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 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 disabling the Google conversion tracking cookie in your internet browser 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 Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield,” which guarantees compliance with the data protection level applicable in the EU. Further information on Google’s data protection regulations can be found at the following Internet address: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update?gl=de. Please note that certain functions of this website may not be available or only to a limited extent if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Usage of Google (Universal) Analytics – Google Analytics:

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your truncated IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”, which ensures anonymization of the IP address by truncation and excludes direct personal reference. The extension causes your IP address to be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. In these exceptional cases, this processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of user behavior for optimization and marketing purposes. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide us with other services related to website usage and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You can prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the link. An opt-out cookie is set that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Deactivate Google Analytics. Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield,” which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU. The retention of user and event data is 14 months and is deleted thereafter. More information about handling user data with Google Analytics can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Changes to these data protection provisions:

We reserve the right to change these data protection provisions at any time with effect for the future. The most current version is always available on the website.

Information/Revocation/Deletion:

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, you can contact us free of charge with questions about the collection, processing, or use of your personal data and their correction, blocking, deletion, or revocation of consent. We would like to point out that you have the right to correct incorrect data or delete personal data if there is no legal obligation to retain it.

Duration of storage of personal data:

The duration of the storage of personal data is based on the respective legal retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods). After the deadline, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continuing storage.