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EXPRESSO Privacy Policy

You can visit the pages of EXPRESSO Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG without disclosing who you are. We only learn the name of your Internet service provider, the website from which you are visiting us, and the web pages you visit on our site. This information is not evaluated and you remain anonymous as an individual user. We automatically collect and store in our server log files information that your browser transmits to us. These are:

Browser type/version,
technical specifications of the requesting computer (operating system, screen resolution, Javascript settings, etc.),
Referrer URL (the previously visited page),
Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
time of the page visit,
the address (i.e. the full URL) of the pages you visit on our site.

We cannot assign this data to you personally.

Responsible body

The responsible body is

EXPRESSO Germany GmbH & Co. KG
Antonius-Raab-Straße 19
34123 Kassel / Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 561 95 91-0
Fax: +49 (0) 561 95 91-2198
E-Mail: info@expresso.de

Management
Sebastian Loh, Dr. Alexander Bünz

Collection, processing and use of personal data

You can visit our site without disclosing any personal information. We only store access data without personal reference via the statistics service “Google Analytics” (see below). This data is evaluated exclusively for the improvement of our offer and does not allow any conclusion to your person. Personal data is only collected if you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order for goods or when opening a customer account or registering for our newsletter. We use the data provided by you without your separate consent exclusively for the fulfillment and processing of your order. With complete execution of the contract and full payment of the purchase price, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after expiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law, unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data. When registering for the newsletter, your e-mail address or your address (when ordering the newsletter by mail) will be used for our own advertising purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Unsubscribing is possible at any time.

Use of cookies

On various pages, we use cookies in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) to render the visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer on your next visit (so-called permanent cookies). Our partner companies are not permitted to collect, process or use personal data via our website using cookies.

Use 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 this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from 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. 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 (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

For more information, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information on Google Analytics and data protection). We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).”

Use of Hotjar

To improve the user experience on our websites, we use the software Hotjar (http://www.hotjar.com, 3 Lyons Range, 20 Bisazza Street, Sliema SLM 1640, Malta, Europe). Using Hotjar, we can measure and evaluate user behavior (mouse movements, clicks, scroll height, etc.) on our websites. For this purpose, Hotjar sets cookies on users’ end devices and can store user data such as browser information, operating system, time spent on the page, etc. in anonymized form. You can prevent this data processing by Hotjar by deactivating the use of cookies in your web browser settings and deleting cookies that are already active. You can find out more about data processing by Hotjar here: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy.

Passing on of personal data

Your data will be passed on to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. For the processing of payments, we transmit your payment data to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and to the payment service selected in the ordering process, e.g. PayPal.

Data subject rights

In accordance with Art. 21 of the DSGVO, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data that is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) of the DSGVO (data processing based on your consent) and Art. 6(1)(b) of the DSGVO (data processing for the fulfillment of contractual obligations). You can send the objection form free to datenschutz@jlu.de.

You have the right to information according to Art. 15 DSGVO, the right to correction according to Art. 16 DS-GVO, the right to deletion according to Art. 17 DSGVO, the right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 DSGVO and the right to data portability from Art. 20 DS-GVO. With regard to the right to information and the right to erasure, the restrictions pursuant to Sections 34 and 35 BDSG-neu apply. In addition, there is a right of appeal to a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 DSGVO in conjunction with § 19 BDSG).

Data security

Your personal data is encrypted during the ordering process and transmitted via the Internet using SSL (Secure Socket Layer). Credit card data or account information is not stored, but collected and processed directly by our payment service provider DNWS or (if selected as a payment method) PayPal or sofortueberweisung.de. We secure our website and other systems by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorized persons. Access to your customer account is only possible after entering your personal password. You should always keep your access information confidential and close the browser window when you have finished communicating with us, especially if you share the computer with others.

Inventory data

Insofar as a contractual relationship is to be established between you and us, or its content is to be developed or changed, we collect and use personal data from you insofar as this is necessary for these purposes.

By order of the competent authorities, we may provide information about this data (inventory data) in individual cases, insofar as this is necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, to avert danger, to fulfill the statutory tasks of the constitution protection authorities or the Military Counter-Intelligence Service or to enforce intellectual property rights.

Data Protection Officer

The contact details of our external data protection officer are:

GDPC Gbr
Mr. Stephan Blazy
Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 12
34131 Kassel
+49 (0) 179 932 70 55
stephan.blazy@gdpc.de