data protection

I. Protection of personal data

The protection of your data is very important to us. We therefore observe the following data protection regulations. You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Personal data (e.g. name, address, telephone number, e-mail address) are only collected via our websites if you voluntarily provide them to us in connection with your order. Without your express consent, we will use the data you provide exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling and processing your order. Insofar as this is necessary and necessary for the processing of the order, data will also be transmitted to third parties (e.g. to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery and the bank commissioned with the handling of payments). However, the scope of the data transmitted is limited to the minimum required for the purpose of processing the contract. The collected data will not be forwarded to third parties for advertising purposes. With complete completion of the contract and complete payment, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after expiry of tax and commercial retention periods, unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data.

II. minors

Persons under the age of 18 are not allowed to use our websites or transmit personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. We therefore do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If we recognize that minors enter personal data via our websites without consent or are entered via this personal data, we will delete this data immediately.

III. use of cookies

On our websites we use so-called session cookies for statistical purposes and to be able to optimise our websites for you on the basis of your user behaviour. Cookies are small data sets that are sent from our web server to your web browser and partly stored there for later retrieval; however, most of the cookies are deleted again after your visit. You can determine whether cookies are collected by you yourself by setting your browser in such a way that you are informed before a cookie is saved and that it is only saved if you expressly agree to it. With the exception of login cookies, our cookies contain no personal information. A combination of your data determined by cookies with any personal data provided by you with your order does not take place.

IV. 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 will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. By the IP anonymization on this web page, your IP address is shortened by Google however within member states of the European union or in other contracting states of the agreement over the European economic area before. 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 to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide 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 is not combined 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 prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link - http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

V. Right to information

You have a right to free information about your stored data and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. We kindly ask you to contact the address given in the imprint. If the personal data stored by us about your person is incorrect, the data will of course be corrected upon your notice. You also have the right to revoke your consent to the storage of personal data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of a corresponding notification, the personal data stored on your persons will be deleted, unless the data concerned is still required for the fulfilment of our obligations from the contractual relationship or statutory regulations prevent deletion. In this case, the deletion will be replaced by a blocking of the relevant personal data.

VI. links to websites of third parties

The links published by us are carefully researched and compiled. On our web pages contained links to other web pages, whose contents cannot be administered and/or influenced by us, we do not make ourselves own. The links are merely references to other providers who are responsible for their own Internet presence. We are neither liable for the correctness and the contents of these web pages nor for the contents, which can be referred over these web pages. The linked page of the respective website was checked for possible violations of the law at the time of linking. However, a permanent control of the contents of the linked pages is not possible or reasonable without concrete evidence of a violation of the law. We are only responsible for external content if we have positive knowledge of it and it is technically possible and reasonable to prevent its use.

VII Note on the responsible body (data protection officer)

With all data protection inquiries we may ask you to contact us at

Axel Dederichs
E-mail: datenschutz@g-a-a.de
Phone: +49 (0) 4542 8278 0

VIII. Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of data protection law, the data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The responsible supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of the data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

IX. SSL or TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

X. Server log files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
Browser type and browser version
used operating system
Referrer URL
Hostname of the accessing computer Time of the server request
IP address
This data will not be merged with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

XI. Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form including the contact data you provided there will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. These data will not be passed on without your consent. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal e-mail notification to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. The data entered by you in the contact form will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

XII. Google Maps

This page uses the Google Maps map service via an API. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy retrievability of the places indicated by us on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. You will find more information on the handling of user data in Google's data protection declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.