Privacy Policy

1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data refers to any data by which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Anne Geldermann, Anne Geldermann Art, Krahhöhe 13, 96476 Bad Rodach, Germany, Tel.: 0152/52360847, E-Mail: anne.geldermann2612@gmail.com. The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When you use our website for purely informational purposes — i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information — we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

  • The page visited
  • Date and time of access
  • Amount of data sent in bytes
  • Source/referral from which you reached the page
  • Browser used
  • Operating system used
  • IP address used (where applicable: in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not passed on or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the "https://" prefix and the padlock symbol in your browser bar.

3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network

3.1 Shopify

For hosting our website and displaying its content, we use the system of the following provider: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd Floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland ("Shopify").

Data is also transferred to: Shopify Inc., 150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4, Canada.

All data collected on our website is processed on the provider's servers. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to Canada, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

3.2 Shopify

We use a content delivery network provided by: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd Floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland ("Shopify").

Data may also be transferred to:

  • Shopify Inc., 150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4, Canada
  • Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

This service enables us to deliver large media files such as graphics, page content, or scripts more quickly via a network of regionally distributed servers. Processing is carried out to safeguard our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to Canada, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

For data transfers to the USA, the data recipient has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

4) Contact

When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is processed solely for the purpose of handling and responding to your inquiry, and only to the extent necessary for that purpose.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your inquiry relates to a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted once it can be determined from the circumstances that the matter in question has been fully resolved, provided there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.

5) Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account

In accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed to the extent necessary when you provide it to us when opening a customer account. The data required to open an account can be found in the input mask of the relevant form on our website.

You may delete your customer account at any time by contacting us at the address of the controller stated above. Once your account is deleted, your data will be erased provided that all contracts concluded through it have been fully processed, no statutory retention periods apply, and we have no legitimate interest in continued storage.

6) Data Processing for Order Fulfillment

6.1 Where necessary for the processing of contracts for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data we collect will be passed on to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned financial institution in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Where we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products on the basis of a corresponding contract, we process the contact details you provided when placing your order in order to inform you personally within the scope of our statutory information obligations in accordance with Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Your contact details will be used strictly for the purpose of communicating updates we are obliged to provide and will only be processed by us to the extent necessary for the respective notification.

For the processing of your order, we also work with the service provider(s) listed below, who support us in whole or in part in the fulfillment of concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transferred to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

6.2 Disclosure of Personal Data to Shipping Service Providers

- Deutsche Post As our shipping service provider, we use: Deutsche Post AG, Charles-de-Gaulle-Straße 20, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

We will pass on your email address and/or telephone number to the provider prior to delivery for the purpose of arranging a delivery date or notifying you of delivery, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, provided you have given your express consent during the ordering process. Otherwise, we will only pass on the recipient's name and delivery address to the provider for delivery purposes in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Data is only disclosed to the extent necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, prior arrangement of a delivery date or delivery notification with the provider is not possible.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future, either from the controller named above or directly from the provider.

- DHL As our shipping service provider, we use: DHL Paket GmbH, Sträßchensweg 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

We will pass on your email address and/or telephone number to the provider prior to delivery for the purpose of arranging a delivery date or notifying you of delivery, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, provided you have given your express consent during the ordering process. Otherwise, we will only pass on the recipient's name and delivery address to the provider for delivery purposes in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Data is only disclosed to the extent necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, prior arrangement of a delivery date or delivery notification with the provider is not possible.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future, either from the controller named above or directly from the provider.

- DHL Express As our shipping service provider, we use: DHL Express Germany GmbH, Heinrich-Brüning-Str. 5, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

We will pass on your email address and/or telephone number to the provider prior to delivery for the purpose of arranging a delivery date or notifying you of delivery, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, provided you have given your express consent during the ordering process. Otherwise, we will only pass on the recipient's name and delivery address to the provider for delivery purposes in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Data is only disclosed to the extent necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, prior arrangement of a delivery date or delivery notification with the provider is not possible.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future, either from the controller named above or directly from the provider.

- DHL Express Austria As our shipping service provider, we use: DHL Express (Austria) GmbH, Am Europlatz 2 (Objekt G), 1120 Vienna.

We will pass on your email address and/or telephone number to the provider prior to delivery for the purpose of arranging a delivery date or notifying you of delivery, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, provided you have given your express consent during the ordering process. Otherwise, we will only pass on the recipient's name and delivery address to the provider for delivery purposes in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Data is only disclosed to the extent necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, prior arrangement of a delivery date or delivery notification with the provider is not possible.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future, either from the controller named above or directly from the provider.

- DHL Austria As our shipping service provider, we use: DHL Paket (Austria) GmbH, Campus 21, Liebermannstrasse F08/401, 2345 Brunn am Gebirge, Austria.

We will pass on your email address and/or telephone number to the provider prior to delivery for the purpose of arranging a delivery date or notifying you of delivery, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, provided you have given your express consent during the ordering process. Otherwise, we will only pass on the recipient's name and delivery address to the provider for delivery purposes in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Data is only disclosed to the extent necessary for the delivery of goods. In this case, prior arrangement of a delivery date or delivery notification with the provider is not possible.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future, either from the controller named above or directly from the provider.

6.3 Use of Payment Service Providers

- Shopify Payments One or more online payment methods provided by the following provider are available on this website: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland.

If you select a payment method offered by the provider for which you pay in advance (such as credit card payment), your payment data provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card details, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be passed on to the provider in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data is disclosed solely for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.

7) Site Functionality

Google reCAPTCHA

This website uses the CAPTCHA service of the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

Data may also be transferred to: Google LLC, USA.

The provider uses "Google Fonts" — fonts loaded from the internet by Google — for the visual design of the CAPTCHA window. No processing of information beyond what is already transmitted to Google through the reCAPTCHA functionality takes place in this context.

The service checks whether input is made by a natural person or abusively by automated processing, and blocks spam, DDoS attacks, and similar automated malicious access. To verify that an action is performed by a human rather than an automated bot, the provider collects the IP address of the device used, identification data of the browser and operating system type used, as well as the date and duration of the visit, and transmits these to the provider's servers for evaluation. Cookies may be used in this process — small text files stored in the browser of the device.

Where the processing described above takes place on the basis of cookies, these will only be set if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service in the Cookie Consent Tool provided on the website.

Where the processing described above is carried out without the use of cookies, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in establishing individual accountability on the internet and preventing misuse and spam, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Further information on Google's privacy policy can be found here: https://business.safety.google/intl/de/privacy/

8) Tools and Miscellaneous

Cookie Consent Tool

This website uses a so-called "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The Cookie Consent Tool is displayed to users when they visit the site in the form of an interactive interface, through which consent can be given for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking the relevant boxes. By using the tool, all cookies and services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user has given their consent by checking the appropriate box. This ensures that cookies of this kind are only placed on the user's device if consent has been granted.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. As a rule, no personal user data is processed in this context.

In individual cases where personal data (such as an IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies, and thus in the legally compliant design of our website.

A further legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. As controller, we are subject to a legal obligation to make the use of technically non-essential cookies dependent on the respective user's consent.

Where required, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

Further information about the operator and the settings options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding interface on our website.

9) Rights of the Data Subject

9.1 Applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) with regard to the processing of your personal data by the controller. For the respective conditions of exercise, please refer to the legal basis cited:

  • Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR
  • Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR
  • Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR
  • Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR
  • Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR
  • Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR
  • Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR
  • Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR

9.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

WHERE WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF A BALANCE OF INTERESTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING AT ANY TIME WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED WHERE WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS, AND FREEDOMS, OR WHERE THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE, OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

10) Retention Period for Personal Data

The retention period for personal data is determined by the applicable legal basis, the purpose of processing, and — where relevant — any applicable statutory retention periods (e.g. commercial and tax law retention requirements).

Where personal data is processed on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned will be retained until you withdraw your consent.

Where statutory retention periods apply to data processed in the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, such data will be routinely deleted after the retention period has expired, provided it is no longer required for the performance or initiation of a contract and we have no legitimate interest in continued storage.

Where personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, it will be retained until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, it will be retained until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise indicated by the specific processing situations described elsewhere in this policy, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.